The Air In My Neighborhood Must Be Defective
I will never understand the vagaries of WiFi. The physical stuff never changes. I have my laptop in the same position. I'm about 80 feet - or less - from the company's closest antenna. And yet I never know what my connection is going to be like. Is it going to be the good one that stays stable for hours? Is it going to be the super-crappy one where I get disconnected every twenty seconds? Will I be able to connect at all?
Once I move, I'm done with this.
Again last night it cost me "money". I didn't feel like doing a thing, so I played poker for a while. A couple hours of PLO followed by a couple hours of NLHE. Just one tabling. Nano-stakes. Play chips as far as you know. My connection started out decent, but degraded badly by the end.
This was the last straw - I have 66 and flop top set. The turn gives me an open ended straight flush draw as well. One opponent who has shown no strength. The river bricks. I get disconnected. My opponent notices and min-bets. I don't reconnect in time and he's shipped a 50BB pot courtesy of my ^&*!^%@ing ISP.
I'm not convinced that Full Tilt's software is entirely blameless either - there are times when I can reconnect to the 'net but don't get reconnected to the game server. This happened a couple times yesterday. Of course as soon as I restart the software I'm connected.
Argh.
So, anyway, what I really wanted to do last night was to go play live. Unfortunately, the local charity games don't run on Mondays (or Tuesdays) as a general rule. I'm a little concerned actually that their run may be over - I pulled up the website and it had the schedule from a couple weeks ago with a note of "no poker this week". I can't remember a time when that happened. It would really suck to lose that option, since the nearest casino card rooms are 90 minutes away.
90 minutes. You thought the rake was bad - try winning enough to pay for gas too. Yeesh.
It sounds like the folks that were in Las Vegas last weekend had a good time. I'm enjoying reading the reports and am looking forward to another batch after Mulligan Weekend. There's been a bunch of good stuff from people who are there for the summer ... and in a couple weeks there'll be Okie-Vegas reports. Man, I guess I better clean out my Bloglines folder in anticipation!
Until next time, I piss and moan about my internet connection.
Like you'd expect anything else. Except bad beat stories (LDO).
Once I move, I'm done with this.
Again last night it cost me "money". I didn't feel like doing a thing, so I played poker for a while. A couple hours of PLO followed by a couple hours of NLHE. Just one tabling. Nano-stakes. Play chips as far as you know. My connection started out decent, but degraded badly by the end.
This was the last straw - I have 66 and flop top set. The turn gives me an open ended straight flush draw as well. One opponent who has shown no strength. The river bricks. I get disconnected. My opponent notices and min-bets. I don't reconnect in time and he's shipped a 50BB pot courtesy of my ^&*!^%@ing ISP.
I'm not convinced that Full Tilt's software is entirely blameless either - there are times when I can reconnect to the 'net but don't get reconnected to the game server. This happened a couple times yesterday. Of course as soon as I restart the software I'm connected.
Argh.
So, anyway, what I really wanted to do last night was to go play live. Unfortunately, the local charity games don't run on Mondays (or Tuesdays) as a general rule. I'm a little concerned actually that their run may be over - I pulled up the website and it had the schedule from a couple weeks ago with a note of "no poker this week". I can't remember a time when that happened. It would really suck to lose that option, since the nearest casino card rooms are 90 minutes away.
90 minutes. You thought the rake was bad - try winning enough to pay for gas too. Yeesh.
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It sounds like the folks that were in Las Vegas last weekend had a good time. I'm enjoying reading the reports and am looking forward to another batch after Mulligan Weekend. There's been a bunch of good stuff from people who are there for the summer ... and in a couple weeks there'll be Okie-Vegas reports. Man, I guess I better clean out my Bloglines folder in anticipation!
Until next time, I piss and moan about my internet connection.
Like you'd expect anything else. Except bad beat stories (LDO).
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