Hanging in There
After a couple nights of writing about the differences between multi-tasking and multi-threading and writing some quick little multi-threaded GUI apps for class, I decided to fire up ‘ol Empire and see how it goes.
Tonight was up and down. Like MeanGene, I fired up two tables. I agree with him, I think playing keeps my focus on the poker itself. Yes, it’s split between two tables, but I’m actually paying attention to the games. While playing one table I find myself wandering: watching TV, surfing the web, etc. Playing two tables makes that much more difficult. Had the ‘ol “up on one table, down on the other” syndrome tonight. Ended up down $3. Bad beat this, bad beat that. Just kidding. Got rivered a couple of times, but they did not get free cards. I was able to buy a couple of pots and worked the jam a bit but I need to go and re-read Izmet. I’ll have to look back at the stats, but I was very conscience about my starting hands and only played good ones, even some suited connectors this time! I also concentrated on getting out if the board told me to. Called one hand to a bet on the river when there were a couple of overcards (I had four to a flush on the flop), but just didn’t think the guy had the cards when he bet. I was right that time, but of course got sucked out a couple other times.
The upside is that I cleared my latest Empire bonus, so that helps. Got a long way to go to become a VIP member though 
I’d just like to say a big “Thanks” to 
). He’s right, it is tough to do this every day and have it be anything close to entertaining. Well, of course, this is probably not all that entertaining, but hopefully it’s semi-useful for others. Plus, if you can hang in here until April there’ll be a Vegas bachelor party trip report to read