OIC Day 20
Balance: $71.41 (
Ranking: 37/173
Level: 1/2
The nice thing about my poker the last few days has that it’s been consistent. The downside is that it is consistently down. I was going through a run of very cold cards last night. I got KK once only to run into AA. Nice. There was much betting and raising and I dropped a lot on that hand. *sigh* Should I have put him on rockets? Maybe, but he was a typical “play any Ace, raise with any pair” type of guy. By the time the river came, I thought he may have had them, but by then I had to call his bet.
I played in one Party SNG last night and placed second including a nice 25 hand HU match which wasn’t just an all-in fest. I felt back at home there. I played well which made me feel better because I haven’t felt good about things over the last few that I played. It wasn’t just that I hadn’t got in the money, it was that I didn’t feel I played well. Granted, some of it was due to other distractions and such, but there was also the fact that I didn’t feel I played well.
Spreadsheets
Does anybody have a decent balance tracking spreadsheet that they’d be willing to share? My “problem” is that I have money spread across about 6 different sites plus a decent amount at Neteller. Basically I lose track of my amounts and I have no way of tracking bonuses and such. I have PokerTracker and use that to track winnings (and losses), but it doesn’t have the concept of a balance. I know I should probably just dump everything back to Neteller, but I don’t always do that. I keep the majority there in order to quickly react to bonuses (such as a quick $500 dump/cashout to Paradise last week to get the Turkey bonus), but I sometimes have $150 here, $200 there. I also lose track of bonus amounts and I’d like to know how much of my BR is due to bonuses.
I found one here and it appears that it will work for me, but thought I’d throw out the question to you all.
So if you have one you could share, I’d appreciate it, otherwise I’ll try to make one up myself or try the one from above.
New Laptop!
I got a new work laptop yesterday! After spending the better part of the day getting it setup (that’s right, I do it myself and don’t let our support people touch it), I was able to play poker last night. I work at a pretty laid back company and I use my work laptop to play poker 
This one rocks, it’s a Dell D800 w/ 1900×1200 resolution plus a DVD burner, 1GB RAM, blah, blah, blah. I’m in heaven computer wise now.
My old laptop had started to get very, very slow over the last few months. I am now convinced that the online casinos and maybe even the poker sites slow things down considerably. As I started to uninstall the casinos things started getting faster. Has anybody else experienced this? I think from now on that if I casino whore (*hehe*, yeah, if) I’ll be installing/uninstalling/reinstalling the software as I get done with it or restart a whoring. This may apply to the Crypto sites too, but I haven’t been able to determine that yet as I haven’t installed those yet. Party and Gaming Club seem to be fine. I hate to think that I bitched a lot at work about how slow my laptop was when it may have really been due to my casino installs We just won’t mention that to the support guys (Kent, keep your mouth shut!).