Poker Journal Day 2
Day 2, February 24th: Thought I had gotten to bed early last night but apparently not early enough. I forgot to set an alarm and came downstairs to be informed by Jarred that it was 1:30pm. Then I got on my recently set up desktop and found out that although UB allows me to connect, Full Tilt and Stars do not for reasons I am incapable of correcting. Luckily Jarred soon vacated his computer and allowed me to use it, so I got a brief session in without any serious results. There were no particularly interesting hands, though I recall running a horrid bluff moderately deep in the Tilt $109 6 max. No more of those please.
I got feedback on the previous days interesting hand, the 22 rebuys hand with 99 on the raggy flop. Pretty much the whole forum agreed that once he does the tiny reraise we can safely fold the flop. I think that's a good fold vs a random who isn't going to balance his range by making that raise with draws, and I'm always happy when people back up my instinct to make a nity looking fold.
Lucky for me a recent friend named Issac came over and checked out the desktop in the evening. He realized that because it had been in storage for so long the internal battery that stores the date and time had switched off, meaning that when the computer attempted to log in to Tilt and Stars they recognized it as some form of illegitimate computer and potentially a bot, and therefore blocked entry. Very reassuring to know UB makes the same effort that they do. Now all I need to do is thoroughly clean up the desk and set up both monitors that I'll be using, then get in the habit of firing up hold'em manager with every session. Additionally, I'll need to fix my sleep schedule to the point I'm up at 9am every day, meaning I need to pull it back about 4 1/2 hours, which will likely take me a week or two knowing myself and my internal clock. They've recently released the SCOOP schedule, and having gotten a look at that I've decided I might as well fuck the whole month of May up and get up at 3am every day and grind 10 hour sessions for the month and work out twice a day six days a week, since any attempt at living an normal life with that thing looming on the horizon is pointless.