this is fun, right?

lots of work multitabling today. Purchased Full Tilt Shortcuts today and learned how to use it on both the play money and matrix tables. 4 tables is tough for me right now - will continue to play the very low levels until the game slows down for me.

The problem with multitabling is that I can't take my notes regarding bet sizes and hands. I still have PokerTracker3, but I learn a great deal studying bet sizes and when people vary them, it usually means something. I may have to write a piece of software that pulls this info out of the pokertracker DB...

The poker itself has not been great to me. 2-outers (KK vs. 55), sets getting beat by turned flushes (they go all in on semibluff against my set, then hit). I turned 4th place overall in both a $2 and a $5 matrix tourney. Won a little money in each one, but not enough to cover the buyin.

Ended the night single tabling a $30 - 9-man - cards were dreadful. Took two shots at the blinds, got reraised both times. Ok, that's out. With 5 left, I got AKs and and aggressive player 2 to my right raised it up. I was ready to shove over him when the player in between went all in before I could. He was a tight player so I thought I might be dead to call here, but things had been so bad I ended up convincing myself to call anyway. Original raiser folded and we were off - he had JJ. Best I could have hoped for, especially with the dead money in the pot from the original raise.

My mood improved considerably when I hit my Ace on the turn, but then a jack on the river two-outed me and sent me to poker tiltville. That was my cue to call it a night.

Tomorrow morning we bury my last grandparent - 93 years old. She had a great run....