Hey Where Did These Extra Play Chips Come From
Friday nights are strange.
I had some computer issues yesterday. I downloaded the trial copy of Pokertracker 3 -- I used to use PT2 but it's been quite a while since I cared enough to actually utilize it. I had installed version 3 the other day but hadn't imported any hands. So I set it up to do that, using the 70,000 odd hands I've played over the last couple months.
Big mistake.
It took an hour and a half to import the hands. Fine. I wasn't surprised by that.
But then there are other "housekeeping" operations which take place. The first one is "clustering", whatever the f*** that is. That took two and a half hours, during which the machine was unusable for anything else. And you can't cancel the process (at least within PT3) -- I had to wait for it to finish. I was able to opt out of the other steps at least, who knows how long that would have needed to run.
Yeesh.
What a cluster. You know, I had planned on using the computer for other things.
For one, I had managed about a third of my daily point total before PT3 made things totally unusable, so when the clustering finally finished I had about a half hour to get in the rest. To speed the process I set a new personal record and popped up four tables of Rush, two of the fifty and two of the hundred.
My lord.
It was like everybody had taken a dozen caffeine pills. I've never seen so much aggrotarding. Every hand I raised got 3-bet huge by the button (or close to it). People went absolutely nuts overplaying hands postflop. I had idiots ship in their stacks on the river with stuff like an unimproved KQo and with pocket 8s.
Since I actually made some hands, it was like free money. I mean I NEVER get paid on sets like that. I got paid by TPTK. I got paid by a guy who turned two pair with K6o. I got paid.
It was glorious.
I didn't make a ton, but it was a good day. I'm now back within sight of the high water mark set in January before I dusted off more than 1/3 of the roll. Good times.
If I could have a few more days like that I might tempt fate and try and cash out a chunk of the imaginary roll to fund a new computer. I'm really sick of dealing with this one and I'm sure you're equally sick of reading me complain about it.
By the way, four tables of Rush is doable, but it's a lot of button mashing. Two is infinitely more comfortable - and you can still get in six hundred plus hands an hour if you abuse the quick fold button like I do.
And there was more poker.
Earlier in the day I decided to spend lunch dinking around on Stars. The 40 kajillionth hand went off a little after 12:30 and I had a few tables up for the big milestone and the one before it. I didn't hit (obviously) - the closest I came was 106 away - but I managed to make back on one hand everything that I'd lost the day before. Jc5c for the win.
Those billionth hand promos are a lot of fun and they seem to be good for business - I didn't check the exact number, but Stars had between 250,000 and 300,000 people logged on when the big one hit.
I have more to say on other stuff but I'm out of time at the moment. I will probably throw up a post on why Rush Poker is real poker but no promises. For now, you can check the comments to my previous post for a brief reply by Hoy and then go read Waffles' response.
I had some computer issues yesterday. I downloaded the trial copy of Pokertracker 3 -- I used to use PT2 but it's been quite a while since I cared enough to actually utilize it. I had installed version 3 the other day but hadn't imported any hands. So I set it up to do that, using the 70,000 odd hands I've played over the last couple months.
Big mistake.
It took an hour and a half to import the hands. Fine. I wasn't surprised by that.
But then there are other "housekeeping" operations which take place. The first one is "clustering", whatever the f*** that is. That took two and a half hours, during which the machine was unusable for anything else. And you can't cancel the process (at least within PT3) -- I had to wait for it to finish. I was able to opt out of the other steps at least, who knows how long that would have needed to run.
Yeesh.
What a cluster. You know, I had planned on using the computer for other things.
For one, I had managed about a third of my daily point total before PT3 made things totally unusable, so when the clustering finally finished I had about a half hour to get in the rest. To speed the process I set a new personal record and popped up four tables of Rush, two of the fifty and two of the hundred.
My lord.
It was like everybody had taken a dozen caffeine pills. I've never seen so much aggrotarding. Every hand I raised got 3-bet huge by the button (or close to it). People went absolutely nuts overplaying hands postflop. I had idiots ship in their stacks on the river with stuff like an unimproved KQo and with pocket 8s.
Since I actually made some hands, it was like free money. I mean I NEVER get paid on sets like that. I got paid by TPTK. I got paid by a guy who turned two pair with K6o. I got paid.
It was glorious.
I didn't make a ton, but it was a good day. I'm now back within sight of the high water mark set in January before I dusted off more than 1/3 of the roll. Good times.
If I could have a few more days like that I might tempt fate and try and cash out a chunk of the imaginary roll to fund a new computer. I'm really sick of dealing with this one and I'm sure you're equally sick of reading me complain about it.
By the way, four tables of Rush is doable, but it's a lot of button mashing. Two is infinitely more comfortable - and you can still get in six hundred plus hands an hour if you abuse the quick fold button like I do.
***
And there was more poker.
Earlier in the day I decided to spend lunch dinking around on Stars. The 40 kajillionth hand went off a little after 12:30 and I had a few tables up for the big milestone and the one before it. I didn't hit (obviously) - the closest I came was 106 away - but I managed to make back on one hand everything that I'd lost the day before. Jc5c for the win.
Those billionth hand promos are a lot of fun and they seem to be good for business - I didn't check the exact number, but Stars had between 250,000 and 300,000 people logged on when the big one hit.
***
I have more to say on other stuff but I'm out of time at the moment. I will probably throw up a post on why Rush Poker is real poker but no promises. For now, you can check the comments to my previous post for a brief reply by Hoy and then go read Waffles' response.
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