The Poker

Yo. It's 11:29am monday morning and I'm in an unlikely Starbucks. Who knows how I actually found myself here, but I am here, and I like it. I'm having today's first taste of the life that coffee breathes into me on a daily basis. I love it, but yesterday I got a little shaky and I'm beginning to wonder if I'm overdoing it. Then again, I could have been shaky for a number of reasons I wouldn't know about since I haven't seen a doctor in about 18 years. Perhaps soon I will go get checkd out. "That won't be neccessary Doc, I assure you my prostate is fine..."

I'll tell you what I need. Poker. I need about 4 days sitting around a poker table with a dimepiece (money, not a hot chic), preferably in Vegas, but anywhere I can find an above ground game. I just feel the need to multiply said dimepiece. I worry that my brain has been turned to mush during the last 3 months, but there's only one way to find out. I'm gonna work on it and get back to you.

For the time being, while I search for a job and what not, I'm grinding away at small stakes 18 man SNGs on Stars. It's definately a +EV situation, but I have no idea what my long term ROI would be. The thing is, even if it was a soaring 10%, then my expected value from each $6.50 SNG would only be $0.65. And therein lies the problem with low stakes SNGs, for me at least. I generally 4 table, and the average time to win one seems to be around the 45 minute range. Of course, my profit would come from every one that I play, not just the winners, so including the ones from which I bust out early, I'm not sure of the average time spent in each SNG. Anyway, if we were to estimate the time at 20 minutes per tourny and I keep 4 tables going, then I would be making $7.80 per hour. Hmmm, now that I think about it, that's not so bad for $6.50 SNGs. The real problem is that I'm estimating a lot here and I don't have nearly enough of these behind me to figure a reliable ROI figure. Whatever.

I'm not really being disciplined about grinding online. My mind is consumed by other things. But hopefully, soon I'll be a bit more settled and I can I'll be able to focus just a little more on bettering my game and my position in the world of poker. I've invested way to much time and effort to just cast it aside completely. I'm ok with the way it is now, I just feel like I want to hit a room and do work for a few days. Maybe I'll look into the newer West Virginia rooms. Could you imagine the dummies that must be waiting there for me?

Tonight I'm off to deal the Oreo game. I may end up at the Gemini after that, we'll just see. The night will be devoted to grinding out some money from somewhere, hopefully I won't have to knock over a liquor store on the way home. On second thought, I may do that anyway, fuck 'em.