Faffing around

I seem to have stopped playing my normal game. For the last couple of months I've been grinding $25nl on Party but I think I just got bored and the games got a little nittier. The few times I've checked there seems to be a couple of OK 20/15 style players, a couple of 11/7 nits and a 45/15 fish (but with only $4 left!) on almost every table.

So I've been faffing about with some different games: I played Limit 5 card draw on Stars. I actually enjoyed this as the players are so fishy, and started 4-tabling! Its so hard to multi table a draw game though, as you are frantically trying to click which cards to chuck away, didn't make any money but at least it was a laugh. I also played a bit of HORSE. Then I wondered how many tables of 6-max NLHE I could play, so I sat at a load of 1/2 cent tables on stars and layered the tables on top of each other. I got up to 14 at 1 point, which was fun - table pops up, you scan the table/cards/players/pot and make a quick descision, next table pops up etc. over and over again, it was fun in a weird "I'm turning in to a robot" kind of way and I made about $10!. I spotted a comment in the chat box from 1 player "RacingFerret is 12-tabling! He must be amazing!" LOL.

I used the same technique to play some sit-n-gos, opening 10 and putting the windows on top of each other. It would have worked great if I hadn't run like shite. Can JJ beat AJ? Can AQ beat A9? Can I win ANY coinflips? The answer to all of these questions is NO. I played about 60 games and finished DOWN $8 ugh.

So then, a bit tilted, I played $10NL on Pacific to try and build my $100 roll on there. I lost a few pots and got frustrated, I guess playing those smaller games I didn't care about the money. In my tilted state I shoved JJ pre flop (folded to my in cut-off) SB calls and shows QQ...AAARG. So at this point I'm $50 down and tilted so I do the obvious thing and quit...LOL not really I sat at a $25NL HU table...wise move Betts, good thinking! Surprisingly this doesn't end with me busting my Pacific roll as I played well HU, only won $10, but made some good bluffs and some correct hero calls and had quite a good long battle to end up in profit after I lost almost a buy-in in the first few hands.

Away from the tables I just took delivery of a parcel from the postie of 1.5KG of gourmet coffee beans. I love espresso (or anything Italian...cars, food, climate, history) and I found his place on the web that do a roast & post service where they roast the beans just before they post them so they are fresh. So yeah I basically ended up donking off 38 quid on enough coffee beans to last me 3 months! I've just tried the Monsoon Malabar dark roast and its pretty nice, subtle and deep, quite rich with no acidity and the grounds smell amazing, really smokey. Its given me quite a kick too judging by the length of this post and the speed of my typing! Anyway that's enough poncyness from me for now, don't worry though, I'll be back soon with more coffee bean reviews.

Cheers

Simon

Bankroll $987 :-(