Ok, my slump ended on the super-turbos tonight. Now my stats might suggest I actually broke even for the night but they don't factor in the 'Apple' factor. What's that, I hear you ask? Well approximately half-way through my profitable session (2 hours and about 200 bucks), I started feeling frisky... poker-frisky that is. While I am usually extremely self-disciplined, I felt that these games afford you no real highs as they are such a grind and I might treat myself to a big one. So I registered for a $160 Super-Turbo and incorporated into my already full screen.
It was going well - an early steal or two. A call all-in with 77 from the BB to a short-stack that held. I had 620 chippies 4-handed. The blinds went through me and I was left with 530 - still plenty with an M of almost 6. I picked up Ace-Jack UTG and shoved. The BB called with A9. Sweet! I flopped a Jack. Sweeter! He turn-rivered a backdoor flush. I punched the keyboard. The computer shuts down, making a squeeling sound. I had to reboot - it seemed to take hours. By the time I got back to my other 7 games, I was either eliminated or my stacks depleted horribly.
In summary, I am a tool.
As far as the experiment with the Super-Turbos, the Ecstasy-tab of the poker world, I moved up to the $42 games for a substantial portion of tonight. I did so because the $28 game was getting cluttered by other good players and bizarrely the $42 game was playing softer. It worked out well (I think I had a 40% ROI in them for the night) until I dabbled in the $70 ones and lost a bit back. In total, I put about $4K on the tables to make a teeny-tiny profit but I'm gonna persevere with them for another little while - my Rakeback for the week is gonna be almost $400 which is rather tasty and I did probably blow about $300 tonight through sheer stupidity.
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