The main difference between Pokerstars and BTP is that if we get our chat revoked for swearing here, there isn't much else we can do.

Monk
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PS I like to point out that I neither condone nor approve of the swearing found anywhere in Tightwad's journal. The swearing found in my journal, on the other hand, is almost entirely artistically justified, to the point, and very big and clever. I guess it's probably mostly because Tightwad is a shit-raping goat fucker, but it's kinda hard to know.

Happy birthday it's my turn to add another year to my CV this week. On a positive note, I proposed to someone last night whilst drunk. Even more bizarrely, she said yes. Thankfully, we were just messing about. More thankfully, I didn't play poker when I returned home with a skinfull. My foot hurts for some unknown reason.

Before this thread descends into "Tightwad and Monk's drunken ramblings" I should suggest that to alleviate your current funk you should do something worthwhile and charitable, like giving money to bums or having sex with really ugly girls or something. Assuming of course that you don't do that already, which might be a bit of a leap of logic.

Anyway, enjoy being 22. I remember when I was 22, ahhhh... long endless summers, getting up at 3 in the afternoon, got my first real 6-string, sex with really ugly girls.... Damn that's becoming a bit of a recurring theme. Also, when I was 22 I wasn't regularly subjected to the road traffic accident of depressingly poor acting and storylines that was the OC. Happy days, happy times...

Anyway, cheers Tightwad! Your job might be a joke, you might be broke, and your love life might be DOA but look on the bright side - you might be about to star in 10 sesons of a highly successful prime time comedy show. And there is all that sex with really ugly girls to look forwrd to...

Monk
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Another rough day, and I'm down about 500 for the week. Argh. Seems like just about everybody's going through/coming out of a slump. I liked it a lot more when I could just laugh at them all, rather than have to...ugh...sympathize.

I figure tomorrow I'll really try to tighten the reins; hopefully reverting to rock-mode will help me break out of this downer. If nothing else, it should ensure that I lose money more slowly!

-TW

Hey, hey!

Finally had a decent day this week. I played for about 4 hours today, and finally booked a good win; $213.50. Still down for the week, but I'll take it! I also realized a really stupid leak I have. Other than playing too many hands (I've already accepted that this is an inevitable result of my flawed character, and I'll just have to make the best of it)

Since I play a lot of hands, I'm often in a lot of tricky, marginal situations. Thus, I do a lot of betting/raising/check-raising on the flop for information purposes. The theory is, I do my best to figure out whether or not I'm likely ahead as soon as possible, so I can therefore play (or fold) accordingly. Problem is, I often get that information, but choose to disregard it and keep playing even though it appears I'm beaten. Pretty idiotic, huh? Well, yeah, but there's really no need to hurt my feelings with words like idiotic. I mean, jesus, you insensitive prick, show a little tact! Fucker.

I very often find myself playing the likes of middle pairs and top-pair-pukey-kicker, which can often be tricky; but when I'm focused and disciplined, I feel I play these marginal hands well; I'm able to extract good value when I'm ahead, and get away when I'm not. Granted, sometimes I'll play KT, flop a king, and get called all the way down by a passive KQ; but if he's given me no reason to worry about my kicker, I'm not gonna lose sleep over losing the pot. What DOES make me lose sleep are those days where I can't manage to drop these marginal hands when I know I'm beaten. These last few days, there's been too much of that.

I guess it really just boils down to focus. Whether your rock-tight or a bit more looseish, you can still win as long as you make good decisions after the flop. And lately, it definitely looks like I need to do a much better job bringing my A game. Or honestly, at least my C+ game.

-TW

I HAVE MADE...

AN

Decision.

I'm gonna take 600 American dollars out of my Empire account, dump it into Stars, and start mixing in some $20 SNG's with my limit cash-games.

I guess that wasn't too , was it.

-TW