Catch Up
Well, the prerelease went great. Money was good and the event went well. And sometimes things just work out to your advantage.
I've been having computer problems for a while now, so I was hoping, if things go well, I could just screw it and buy a new computer. But I figured that asking the wife would be a challenge for this one.
On Saturday, however, amidst the chaos of the event, my wife turns to me and says "This is ridiculous. We really need to buy another portable so we can have two to run things at the same time for these events!"
Well, uh, ok. If we have to.
I got one today, 1.8 Centurion, 15.4 in Screen with a really nice graphics card, 80 gig drive, express bus, etc. World of Warcaft looks amazing on it. We upgraded the memory from 512K. I bought a one gig, but it turns out they had two 256's in their, so they left a 256 in and plugged a one gig in the other slot, so plenty of memory.
That being said, WoW was laggy last night. Did anyone else have this problem? It felt like it was a network issue more than an issue with my computer... The wife and I sat on the couch, portable next to portable, playing. It was damn fun.
Played some poker last night too. In a limit holdem ring game playing $.10/$.20 I went from $4.95 to $9.77 in an hour or two, even after losing a HUGE pot when my full house lost to a bigger full house. OUCH. Then I played in a tournament, missed some big flops, was down to half stack with the blinds advancing, and saw KK in my hand. I really needed a double up, so I just pushed all in and prayed I would get a call. I did, by Jd8d. Flop was J98. Turn was a 10, but I could not get the Queen or King I needed and our I went to two pair. Bleh.
I really feel so much more comfortable in a limit ring game. I think I can perform in a ring game correctly almost every single time. In a no limit game I don't feel nearly as confident, but I think its mainly because my no limit experience is mainly multi table tournaments. I need to work on that.
Tonight is pub poker time, which should be fun. I've had a big urge to write lately, so I may start doing that again. We'll see how it goes.
I've been having computer problems for a while now, so I was hoping, if things go well, I could just screw it and buy a new computer. But I figured that asking the wife would be a challenge for this one.
On Saturday, however, amidst the chaos of the event, my wife turns to me and says "This is ridiculous. We really need to buy another portable so we can have two to run things at the same time for these events!"
Well, uh, ok. If we have to.
I got one today, 1.8 Centurion, 15.4 in Screen with a really nice graphics card, 80 gig drive, express bus, etc. World of Warcaft looks amazing on it. We upgraded the memory from 512K. I bought a one gig, but it turns out they had two 256's in their, so they left a 256 in and plugged a one gig in the other slot, so plenty of memory.
That being said, WoW was laggy last night. Did anyone else have this problem? It felt like it was a network issue more than an issue with my computer... The wife and I sat on the couch, portable next to portable, playing. It was damn fun.
Played some poker last night too. In a limit holdem ring game playing $.10/$.20 I went from $4.95 to $9.77 in an hour or two, even after losing a HUGE pot when my full house lost to a bigger full house. OUCH. Then I played in a tournament, missed some big flops, was down to half stack with the blinds advancing, and saw KK in my hand. I really needed a double up, so I just pushed all in and prayed I would get a call. I did, by Jd8d. Flop was J98. Turn was a 10, but I could not get the Queen or King I needed and our I went to two pair. Bleh.
I really feel so much more comfortable in a limit ring game. I think I can perform in a ring game correctly almost every single time. In a no limit game I don't feel nearly as confident, but I think its mainly because my no limit experience is mainly multi table tournaments. I need to work on that.
Tonight is pub poker time, which should be fun. I've had a big urge to write lately, so I may start doing that again. We'll see how it goes.
posted by Ray | 8:26 AM
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