My White Whale: The Sunday Million
I think most tournament players can probably identify one or two online tournaments they regularly participate in and yet have had virtually no success. For me, it would probably be a tie between the PokerStars Sunday Million and the Full Tilt $750k. At least those aren’t the two most important tournaments of the week or anything, right? Oh wait…
Yesterday, I almost got the monkey off my back in the Sunday Million. With 140 players left, I got Ace-King suited all-in against Ace-Ten suited for a 20 big blind pot. It wouldn’t have given me a huge stack or anything, but gotta start somewhere, right? The flop was Jack-Nine-Eight with two spades giving my opponent a flush draw. The flop might as well have been Ten-Ten-Ten.
I estimate I’ve played this event about 80 times before and I’ve never cracked the top 100! Compare this to my Uncle, who only started playing poker about a year ago, but still seems to cash in the Sunday Million every week including a 90th-something finish a month or so ago. Whatever. It’s all chump change unless you final table, right?
As for the Full Tilt $750k, I’ve all but given up on it. I didn’t even bother playing it yesterday. I think I’ve cashed in it once or maybe twice in easily over 50 tries. It’s not like I’ll never play it again or anything, but when you’re cutting back a little on buy-ins, it sure is easy to skip a $216 that you’re like 1/60 in!
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I pretty much had a complete life malfunction this past Friday. First, my car completely died. After having it for 20,000 miles without the slightest hint of a problem, it just had a total meltdown and refused to turn on. Had to get it towed to the Infiniti dealership. They initially said that the battery just needed to be replaced and that it would only be $70 but today they came back with a few more problems they conveniently found that will add a zero to that price. I think most guys are pretty big conspiracy theorists when it comes to the service department at car dealerships and I’m no exception.
But all of this paled in comparison to what happened Friday night when our server malfunctioned. PokerTips and all of our other sites were down for several hours. The long and short of it all is that in trying to fix the problem, the server company amputated the wrong leg so to speak and made the problem much worse than it ever was in the first place. We had to revert to a backup copy of all of our sites from a week ago. Thankfully this fiasco was resolved and is very unlikely to ever happen again as a result of the lessons we learned this time around.
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I’m going to go see the new Tarantino movie Inglorious Basterds tonight. Everyone I know who has seen it says it’s great so I feel like I’ve already made up my mind that I like it. It’s the type of movie that is pretty much targeted directly to my demographic, kind of like Coke Zero and Buffalo Wild Wings. I’ve been viewing commerce through different lens lately after working my way through most of Season 1 of Mad Men, an Emmy-award winning drama about NYC ad executives from the 1960s. The show is a fantastic production. I love how cynical it is. The protagonist has these lines like, “people like to be told what to like,” that just make me chuckle everytime I see Coke Zero on a restaurant’s fountain machine and I’m like, “oooh! Coke Zero!!”
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