Chris Halverson’s Blog

Charlie

I didn’t know him and only became aware of him lately, but my condolences go out to Spaceman on the loss of his friend. The poker community has really turned out in support and that’s great. StB probably said it best:

Go tell the people you love and care about (family, friends, your bartender) how much you love and care about them. You have all of your life to do so. Don’t let the time pass away.

Life is too short to drink cheap booze. Life is also too short to forget to tell someone you care about them.

Pauly

Well, my dreams of dropping some cash on something fun went by the wayside when Pauly busted out of the money yesterday. All I know is that he did better than I would have done. He got his money in with the best hand and was rivered. That’s poker, and he played it right IMHO. It was money well spent.

My Poker

I played a bit again last night and had another good night. I did something I don’t normally pay attention to: I excercised table selection.

Whoa.

See I tend to sit down at the first table I can get onto. I pull up Party and hit “join waitlist”, select “First 200NL table with 8 players” and wait. Sometimes it’s immediate, sometimes I have to wait. Either way, I take what I can get. Last night my table was terribly tight. After a couple of orbits I decided that it sucked and got on another one. Now, if I had been smart, I would have left the first one as I went on a tear on table #2, but lost $100 on table #1. I was still up a good amount for the night, so that’s really what’s important.

This is the first time in a long time that I actually decided that a table was “bad” and switched (well, pulled up another one). Maybe it’s because the tables at Party are not usually too bad, but most likely it’s because I suck and don’t worry about it too much.

I’ve also started to “play” more. I’m not playing such simple ABC poker as much. The big thing I’m doing is raising and re-raising more to find out where I stand. I know I should do that, and I did at the 100NL, but when I moved up I slowed down because suddenly I’m looking at $100 bets on the turn or something. That’s like real money! I know I need to think in terms of chips, percentages and such. I’m getting back there now at this level, but I took some time off and am not playing as much so I have to get back to that way of thinking.

Overall I feel I’m playing better, so that helps.

Empire Bonus

Where’s the outrage people?

Their newest bonus is 100% to $100, but with a 15x work rate. What’s up with that? People about boycotted InterPoker when they raised their WR a couple months ago and it’s still half as much as this Empire one.

Is it because people just say, “Well, I’d be playing at a Party skin anyway…”? Bah.

I may still do it, although I may have trouble clearing it in time, just to see if they label me a bonus chaser. I don’t play there unless I get a bonus and have dodged the bullet so far and now it’s kind of a perverse pleasure to take their money and not give any play any other time.

Classes

I just got my grade update for Spring Quarter: I got an A. That continues my 4.0 GPA for my Master’s program. Yeah baby! Two more classes…

Heat

It’s in the 90s here and I’m dying. My AC is working overtime and I just hate to even go outside to the car. I don’t do well in the heat. Make it stop!

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