PlatKat.com: Bittersweet Sunday

Bittersweet Sunday

Since I've been on tilt for the last 6400 years, I decided to play a freeroll tournament last night. The thing about freerolls, at least on Party Poker, is that they attract a shit-ton of people and the payout is tiny. But that's my punishment for being on tilt.

I still wanted to get some good practice, and since I wasn't completely "together" yesterday, it had to be some good cheap practice. I figured I'd bust out in the top 25% like I do in most large tournaments when I don't place in the money.

But in this particular tournament, to make a long story short:

2200 players + 5 hours = 2nd place = $25

I can attribute part of the win to some people playing like jackasses because it was a freeroll, but those players are usually eliminated within the first hour unless they're extremely lucky. Everyone I ran into in the second half of the tournament was surely making a decent effort. I can attribute another part of the win to actually paying attention to my opponents' betting habits and judging my own hands better.

But who the hell cares? I only won $25. It almost makes me wish I had busted out early.

I said "almost." I'm still going to use my "winnings" to enter a $20 multitable... which will probably rip me a new asshole when I bust out prematurely.

I hate poker, but I love Robot Chicken! Lack of proper influence has kept Adult Swim on the sidelines for me lately. I shall not want for quality tv if this continues to be true.

posted by platkat @ 1:28 PM

Comments:

robot chicken sucks and so do you if you like robot chicken.

but congrats on making $5/hour playing poker.

# posted by

Hollywood Phony : 2:38 PM

congrats on making $0/hour bitching about robot chicken.

# posted by

platkat : 2:59 PM

The interesting thing is you could make $5/hr at McDonald's, but my guess playing poker is far more fun and exciting. I'm done with PP for a while (tilt-a-whirl here too). I switched to Bodog.com for a while, not too shabby. They have cheap qualifiers towards a WSOP or WPT event. I'm talking $1.50 or $5! Even better, in the $1.50, 1 in 10 get a quarterfinal seat and the $5, 1 in 6. Not bad considering only 40 to 50 people in a tourney. And they have heads up tables, winner takes all. It is very refreshing from the pounding I've been taking at PP.

# posted by

masman21 : 3:17 PM

I came across your site through Fark... it's a nice read.

I dabble in online poker myself and have been on tilt so long I am thinking of cashing out and quitting for good. I tend to stick with sit-and-go 9 or 18 seaters, but I enjoy the larger tournaments.

What is your strategy, if you don't mind me asking? I can usually make the money in 1000+ trounaments, but I've only made one final table. I tend to start out playing uber-conservative and get more agressive later on.

# posted by

Elyas : 3:20 PM

RObot chicken RULZ i liked the one where black michael jackson, fights white michael. Thats my fav episode thus far

# posted by

Victor : 5:00 PM

Robot Chicken is great.
Robot Chicken is great.
Robot Chicken is great.

# posted by

charr : 8:02 PM

Robot Chicken is great.
Robot Chicken is great.
Robot Chicken is great.

# posted by

charr : 8:02 PM

I do not know your chicken friend, but I may have to inform TiVo of his presence.

# posted by

mrshife : 8:14 AM

Monday, September 26, 2005

Bittersweet Sunday