Tilt is ESPN’s next scripted show. They say:
“Tilt” will take place in Las Vegas in the days leading up to the World Series of Poker. The viewer will get an inside look at this sometimes glamorous and sometimes dangerous world through the eyes of the players. In addition to the competition in cards, the central characters will battle for control, money and fame.
Is this another sign of poker jumping the shark?
Well, while it is easy to bash them for something like what happened on Sunday night, it appears that they made good. They gave all registered people $25 and added $500 to the pot. That’s actually above and beyond what I was hoping for. I’m not sure what I was hoping for, but it was sure frustrating. Just think, this comes to $1875 in extra bonuses plus $500 to the prize pool for a total of $2375 out of their own pocket. That’s actually awfully generous I think.
Their software still sucks though 
‘Nuff said. They totally messed up tonight’s tourney that 75 freaking people signed up for and offer no explanation. Screw ‘em.
Nothing too exciting happening this week. I’ve been doing my homework early since I’m going to be busy the rest of the week. I have, however, been playing quite a bit. Well, by “quite a bit” I mean time wise as the site is super slow. It’s like a requirement that at least 2 people at any given table must take 90% of their time to act. It’s just unreal. The upside is that they still don’t make good decisions. Things went pretty good, I miscounted the bonus hands, but I cleared it tonight exactly even (ie. my ending balance was my starting plus the bonus). Ug. I did well earlier in the night, but then got caught on the river a couple of times in a later session. But as TJ says, “That’s poker”.
No worries, things are still going well. I feel I am playing well. I cannot load the hand histories into Poker Tracker yet (not yet supported), so I can’t say for sure, but I feel like things are holding OK. I played this round about half 1/2 and half 2/4. Things were fine at both. I haven’t played on Party in about a month and I miss their software. I am, however, still surrounded by terrible players. Despite playing well (at least most of the time), I didn’t end up as well as I had hoped.
To help my game out I picked up Small Stakes Hold ‘Em. I’ve only read about 30 pages and it’s already making me think. I’ve read a lot of Ed Miller on 2+2, so I was already more or less aware of his high level concepts, which basically boils down to “be aggressive and don’t fold to one bet”, but his explanations and examples are great. I can’t wait to dig into this more. I still am too weak. The sad thing is that I know it, and I’ll hover over “Raise”, sigh, then move it to “Call” because I’m not sure. Then at other times, I’ll lead out betting when I’m pretty sure I’m beat and then call down the river. Miller has info on that too saying in general that’s not the worst thing you can do. I just need to get more consistent. If you’re aggressive at these low levels you can make a ton. The maniacs are there and will call you down with anything. Yes, you’ll get sucked out on, but you’ll win so much more that it won’t matter. So when am I going to remember this when I’m playing and actually do it? *sigh*
Going to be a busy rest of the week with no poker involved. Thursday night I am heading to watch the Twins play the Yankees. I’m not a big baseball fan, but I know that the Twins are in first. I also like the Yankees, so it should be fun. Even better is that we’ll be in a suite. The Metrodome sucks in terms of atmosphere, so a suite is actually something to look forward to. It’s not a great suite for baseball (it’s on the 45 yard line for football though, the owner of the suite used to be an owner of the Vikings), but hey, it’s all free and it’s for my brother’s wedding.
Friday has me at the rehearsal and groom’s dinner. Fun, fun, fun.
Saturday is the big day. I’m in the wedding so I’ll be busy all day and then drunk all night. Mrs. H is already rolling her eyes.
Sunday is recovery day. Watch some NASCAR (that’s right, just deal with it) and then play at the WPBT IV tourney. I had to reinstall Pacific and make a deposit to make sure I could actually play. Don’t forget the bounty on my head. Hopefully I won’t have to pay up
Oh, I found my copy of the Big Lebowski (my brother had it), so life is complete again.
No more updates until at least Sunday. Have a good weekend.
Don’t forget, the WPBT IV tourney is this coming Sunday. Email Iggy ASAP to sign up and don’t be left out. Go see 
As an added incentive, whoever knocks me out will receive a set of DVDs of Fox Sports Net’s “Championship Poker at the Plaza”. These have been burned by me from my TiVO recordings. This is a 3 DVD set of 8 episodes of high quality poker. In order to round out the packaging (I have those DVD cases that hold 2 discs), I’ll throw in a DVD of the “American Poker Championship” from Turning Stone, FSN’s live show.
Knocking me out should not be all that hard (although remember I did get 2nd in the True tourney), especially considering that my brother’s wedding is the night before and I have promised him that I will drink at least as much as he drank at mine. That is an
I also never play NL, and since the last tourney it seems that NL has taken the blogging world by storm. No worries though.
So there it is, let’s get some people signed up. What more could you ask for? You can try to figure out if all these guys are just lying in their blogs! Plus, if you take me out you get about 11 hours of quality poker shows, commercials edited out and everything.