[19] Day 64 - 66

Submitted by: snoopy on Fri, 24/03/2006 - 1:26pm

Day 64 - I'm writing this quite early. Usually I push through till much later on. Not so much into the wee small hours, but right past into the rather big ones too.

Not this evening though.
Having notched just the 45 on the clock, I feel it's time for Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz as it's been a long, not entirely incident free, day. (The mad woman earlier this morning, brrrrrrrrr)

A good nights rest and I'll be back to kick the bottom of at least 60 tournaments tomorrow. 

Day 64 Results : +$517.5 (+$10,184.5 total)
ROI : 10.6% (after 1,428 tournaments)

We seem to have arrived at another milestone children. I shant mention what it is, because it's one that I only wish to reach once, if you know what I mean. (That and it's a little obvious)

No reason to tempt fate.

Not that I believe in such a thing of course. Fate is as inconcievable a concept to me as that abstract some people refer to as "luck".

Days 65 and 66 - I'm again beset with monitor problems! ARRRGGHHH, Clair is being testy.

Whilst in the middle of playing 6 tournaments, four on Clair and two on her little sister, Clair suddenly went all black! I paniced, turning her off and on, randomly clicking about and pressing buttons trying to restore visual contact with my precious tournaments.

I grabbed the laptop and fired her up, tried to log into Pokerstars but it wouldn't let me, I was still logged in on the friggin' desktop.
Couldn't switch the desktop off (the screen was black!) so I turned the whole damn thing off at the wall. 

By the time things were up and running on the laptop, I had been knocked out of two tournaments and was not looking healthy in the others. Pokerstars give you plenty time to reconnect if there's a problem. However, as far as their software was concerned, there was no problem. The internet connection was still tip-top, just the minor fact that I couldn't see the screen. Still being logged in, my hand would be folded after timing out and then it would sit me out. When sitting out while still logged in, your hands are folded immediately. Not blaming Pokerstars, the problem was on my end.

Some consolation was that in one of the tournaments, I'd finished 2nd. There were 5 left when the screen went black. They must have all eliminated each other squabbling over the absentee's blinds.  Cheesy

It happened again the next day, but I was ready. First thing I did was jank the usb modem out of the back of the computer thus breaking the connection to the internet. This way I didn't miss out on any more than one hand per table while I got thing running on the conviently located laptop. If you lose connection at a critical stage of a tournament, their software gives you 120 seconds to make it back on the first hand and 60 seconds to make it back on the 2nd. Plenty time. I should have pulled the connection the first time aswell, but I was paniced and ill-prepared for such a contingency.
I managed to cash in 5 of those 6 so it's not all bad news.

Haven't played since, I need to sort out this problem big styl-e. On the phone with the Dell-boys just now.

Days 65 and 66 Results : -$387 (+$9,797.5 total)
ROI : 9.7% (after 1510 tournaments played)

Plenty to sort today then, monitor shennanigans, single figure ROI and a measely 4 figured grand total.

Also, only playing 82 tournaments in two days when I should have done 120! A couple of 90 tournament days will be needed twice this week to catch up. I might forego Cincinnatis on Thursday to make up the ground. This is all assuming I actually manage to fix the monitor problem.

I'll get it done one way or another.  thumbs up
Still,  is certainly my over-riding emotion at the moment.