Got some clay chips out of my closet and put 30 of them on my desk. The plan is to use them to keep track of the number of tournaments I've played in a session. Evertime, I register for a tourney I take a chip from the pile and put it in a new pile. When all the chips are in the new pile, I'm almost done for the sesh. I only need to finish the tournaments I've started, then can proceed to busy myself with some other pursuit for a wee while, before getting back to buisness.
I ploughed through two such 30 tournament batches before having a cheeky snooze and then playing another. After managing 90, I thought it rude to not push for 100. So, just for good measure, I squeezed in another 10 before bed.
Playing 100 tournaments within 24 hours is great, I feel like Jack Bauer or something.
Day 49 Results : +$28 (+$5,379.8 total)
ROI : 11.1% (after 808 tournaments played)
Ok so not much to show for it, but the day didn't start too well. At one point I was down around $800 so I'm happy to finish up even-steven.
Actually, I'm on a bit of a high. In the last tournament of the day, I was heads up against The Venetian (one of the strongest players of the $55+5's) and I needed a win to save getting the red pen out on this report. The heads-up confrontations really are crapshoots if your opponent knows what they're doing. This guy wasn't about to start folding too many hands.
Crapshoot or not, doesn't really matter. I won, so I'm telling myself I'm the champ, ra-ra-ra. 
Day 50 - I played a more modest 44 tournaments today.
I know what you're thinking, "If you're playing these things in batches of 30 Tank, how come you only played 44?"
Well, if you're sitting comfortably, I'll tell you.
I had just completed a bizarre tournament. One of my opponents, was giving me abuse of the type "You can't play poker you moron" and "You just go all-in all the time, you dumb %*#@!"
This in itself wasn't the strange thing. It was more that, when the bubble burst at the end of the 100/200 antes 25 level, I had 1,800 chips. Ten minutes later I had 10,200 chips. I had pinched them all without a single showdown and only having seen 2 flops.
The whole time I was on my blatant pot stealing campaign, matey boy launched his best counter attack. This consisted of a full scale verbal assualt while folding constantly. Of course I've seen his type of foul language before, (anyone who's played online for 15 minutes has) and it usually never bothers me. For some reason, perhaps it was because I'd practically stolen the tournament uncontested from being the short stack, I felt the need to step in and defend my play.
I know there is absolutely no purpose served in sparring with him, explaining how well I'd done to nick all his chips and that he was the silly sausage for letting me. Was I trying to encourage him to play more aggressively? Surely not.
If nothing else, it was daft because it monopolised my attention that could have been put to better use on other open tournament tables. There is a time and place for witty retorts and 6-tabling on Pokerstars is not it.
It was to my severe annoyance that, when heads up with a 3-1 chip lead, the villain of the tale found himself a big pair and then AQs. They both held, and he took the tournament down. These things shouldn't be personal but it needled me somewhat to lose this one against him.
This is why I stopped one of my batches short of the mark. I needed to step away from the PC and give myself a stern talking to. I dish out the odd bit of advice on this forum. One of these nuggets is "The only person at the table who needs to know you can play poker is yourself". It seems I don't always practise what I preach.
Day 50 Results : +$320 (+$5,699.8 total)
ROI : 11.1% (after 854 tournaments played)
One of the questions I like to ask myself at times like this is, would I have recognized that I was doing something pointless if I had instead won the tournament? Or would I just have just continued palying with a smug grin on my face?
Hopefully I can cut this sort of thing from my game. I'll strive to keep my opinions to myself (and the Blonde forum)
Day 51 - Usually I don't post hands that I find interesting or amusing as I don't want to give too much away about my style or play. (I'm saving them all for the paperback .)
Small break in protocol though, as I found this one too funny. It's for all you Brian Wilson fans...
PokerStars Game #4046694530: Tournament #20109501, Hold'em No Limit - Level V (75/150) - 2006/02/21 - 01:07:36 (ET)
Table '20109501 1' Seat #3 is the button
Seat 1: Supersetoy (1780 in chips)
Seat 3: mensrea59 (2700 in chips)
Seat 5: keeneland ki (1380 in chips)
Seat 7: AceKing2000 (2570 in chips)
Seat 9: tigmong (5070 in chips)
keeneland ki: posts small blind 75
AceKing2000: posts big blind 150
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to tigmong [
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tigmong: raises 300 to 450
Supersetoy: raises 1330 to 1780 and is all-in
mensrea59: folds
keeneland ki: calls 1305 and is all-in
AceKing2000: folds
tigmong: calls 1330
*** FLOP *** [ 
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*** TURN *** [ ] [
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*** RIVER *** [ ] [
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*** SHOW DOWN ***
tigmong: shows [ ] (three of a kind, Sevens 
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Supersetoy: shows [
]
keeneland ki: shows [
]
*** SUMMARY ***
Seat 9: tigmong showed [ ] and won (5090) with three of a kind, Sevens
Day 51 Results : +$855 (+$6,554.8 total)
ROI : 12.0% (after 914 tournaments played)
Playing 5 handed and bursting the bubble in one hand with the Royal Wilson will surely put a bounce in your step.
It got bouncier, as I went onto win the tournament holding, guess what? ..............
. (Coz both hands were in the same game, I deemed it postable)
