Friday, April 13, 2007

Witches' Sabbath?


I was walking to my car from my apartment and heard a noise. Passing the tennis courts, I looked inside. I saw a man in street clothes, not tennis clothes, and wearing a bright blue-and-yellow rubber mask. If he'd had the jumpsuit to go with it he'd have passed for an overweight superhero. It was the kind of mask you saw a lot of in late '80s pro wrestling. He was unlocking the tennis courts for two guys in white shirts and black slacks. I recognized them. They're evangelists and I often see them bicycling around my neighborhood with their huge backpacks and always wearing the same slacks and white shirts.

When you see something like this, you just keep walking. You do not pass Go, you do not collect $200. I got in my car and drove off.

If any of you are skilled in interpreting signs and portents or just otherwise have excellent insight into things, what the hell do you think this means? Mind you, this was broad daylight and I'm sure of what I saw.

In the meantime I'll get my mind off it by reviewing raw data, specifically my PokerTracker Omaha stats for April.

Okay, for the month I've made a profit of about 120,000 Yen on UltimateBet, not counting bonuses and rakeback. The rough equivalent of $1,000.

I'm running at +10BB/100 hands.

I thought I was losing money playing heads-up and shorthanded. I find I'm actually slightly ahead playing heads-up but down like $400 playing 3-handed and 4-handed. Hmm. I feel like I've been getting run over shorthanded and/or choosing bad spots to play back. Strangely the numbers are better on 6-max tables overall than on full nine-handed ring games. My highest profit is when there are specifically five players at a table: I'm up about $750 there. I think my technical challenges right now for PLO are learning to manage hands as the aggressor, since I've been doing more preflop raising, and adjusting my play shorthanded.

That's it for now. And again for any of you with interpretive powers, help us out here.

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