At least it does if you don’t mind sitting for hours at live 2/5 NL cash games. I went down to Crown last night with my friend Joel and we sat in what started out as the most loose passive game alive (I’d say six or seven players limped to the flop was standard) and became the most spewtastic insanely aggressive game ever (7 way all in pre flop for 180 dollars and top set insta jamming the flop when he hits.) Certainly there is no way two online players can lose playing in this game for six hours. WRONG.

What ensued was one of the most frustrating nights of poker of my life. Zero draws got there as in literally not one. I flopped one set over god knows how many attempts and the table nit who bets into 3 players on 974 rainbow actually folds to my raise. I only saw two premiums in six hours, AK which ran into KK (I actually sucked out) and TT which ran into AA (the last of the night.) By the time the TT hand came up the game had gone completey psycho and I was stuck in the area of $1100. There’s two limpers to LP who makes it 30 and with TT in the BB I make it 130 with about 280 in my stack. It folds back to him, he goes into the tank then makes some speech about “why did you make it so much? You made it to much” then shoves on me. If anyone ever gives you this speech in live poker you are always about to run into the nuts, though it didn’t matter at that point since I had nearly half my stack in and was getting 3 to 1 on the crying call. Joel and I got involved in two major hands (his pot over $1200 mine over $1500) both of which we got mega rivered on. Joel managed to stage a late game come back and leave down only $200, but I got crushed for a massive $1400.

Anyway, I sent out my pitch for the ‘Around the World in 90 Days’ idea to the various marketing departments of poker sites. I decided to pitch it as writing content instead of video since video is a financial and logistical nightmare for this kind of thing. I have no idea what the probability that it gets picked up is, and I wasn’t even sure what to ask for as far as compensation goes. A friend who works as the marketing director for 888.com said depending on where I can get the article put if they paid me a flat fee for 90 days worth of poker heavy content it’d be worth $30,000, though that’s highly dependant on a number of factors.

I’m feeling a bit tired lately. I actually took Monday (which is the big Sunday in the states) off, slept until nearly 3pm, went mini golfing all day, then lied around watching the Oscars at night. I ended up winning a couple hundred gambling on them, so it’s not like the day was a total waste.

Meanwhile, Sirwatts is crushing over at the LAPC. I’ve always thought Watts was that perfect kind of TAG player who never spews, gets maximum value, picks his spots really well to make a move, and makes just about zero mistakes. Even with Ivey, Hellmuth, and Nam Le still in with a bunch of chips, I kind of want to call Watts the favorite at this point, which most would think is an absurd statement but given Watts skill and the fact that he’s a total unknown I think his potential is enormous. So best of luck to him.

Anonymous says

Tough session. I agree with you about Watts, GL to him.

02/27/08

harlem (Anonymous) says

Who cares as long as you keep writing so well!!

02/27/08

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