Well, Tuesday fell through. No big deal. I had minimal interest from players until I decided to cancel and that opened a floodgate of maybes. Such is the life of trying to get a game together.

Yesterday I took my kid to the swimming pool. One of the guy’s that works at the pool, Al, is a poker player, so I shot the shit with him for a while. It turns Al is tight with the kid who was dealing at Roger’s the other night. So we talked about that, underground games in general, et cetera. Then Al tells me he’s been playing on Bovada. A lot of people have been telling me they’ve been playing on Bovada lately, and they’ve all assured me they’ve been able to cash out when they wanted to, which to me is the biggest thing when it comes to playing online.

I gave it some thought, and temptation got the best of me last night. I got myself a $50 roll and started playing pretty quickly. The first thing I played was something called Zone poker, I think, where you see a hand, and if you fold it, you are whooshed away to another table for a new hand. I played this for about 5 minutes, but didn’t like it because it was impossible get a read on anybody.

Then I signed up for a $5 + .50 Pot Limit Omaha Hi Lo Sit-n-Go. I’m used to playing SNGs on Zynga poker, where the longest a game can last is about twenty minutes. This game was interminable. First complaint I have may be more with my computer which got hung up after the first hand in the SNG. I closed the program and relogged in. Then had to do that again, before I finally got seated again. Again, most likely my computer’s fault, but something to consider if you have a crappy computer and a gambling addiction. Complaint number two: some of the players take forever to make a decision. The game gives you 30 seconds I think. I can see 30 seconds for a big decision on the river, but these players were just maxing out preflop constantly. I get it, they probably think they are Randy Lew, and can play 16 tables at once, but the game was painfully slow. Anyhow, I don’t have a lot of experience playing PLO8, but I ran decent enough, and after like an hour and a half or so, was way in front and heads up. I think I had a 12 to 1 chip advantage. This is when I hear the dog jump off of the bed upstairs, followed by my wife. They are both on me in a minute. What are you doing, it’s late, hurry, I need to go to the bathroom. I just start blowing up every pot, I have no choice at this point. And wouldn’t you know, I blow it and end up in second place.

I fired it up again this morning before leaving for work and hopped on a .02/.05 PLO table for a twenty minute session. That was a little better, but still slow. I was definitely surfing the web while playing. Maybe I should start multitabling too. Well, what I should do is cash out my $9 of winnings so far and call it a day, but most likely this will be a new bad habit of mine.