3/6 and a Programming Note

Thus conscience does make cowards of us all.
--Hamlet, Act III, Scene I

First of all, today was the first day at a new job for me. (Yay.) While that's good for my bank account, it looks like it will be bad for my blogging. Unlike some people I know, I'm going to make a conscious effort not to blog from work. My new job appears to be not nearly as heavy on the hours as my last job (though, seeing how my last job ended over a year ago, it's a wonder I even remember it), and I'm going to reward that by staying focused at work. What that means is that my blogging will probably become more erratic than it is now. Unfortunate, but not much to be done about it.

Never let it be said that the content (esp. the poker content) will dry up altogether, however. I'm burning through Sklansky on Poker -- thoughts in a day or two -- and tonight I fired up Party Poker for the first time in a week. My game of choice? 3-6 limit holdem! Limit holdem? Yes, limit! I think I'm a little burned out on playing no-limit. A steady diet of the same game all the time makes asphnxma a dull poker player. In addition, Felicia has often commented that the best players are well-rounded and can play more than one game. Perhaps I'm taking that slightly to heart (as evidenced by my new-found interest in razz).

Long story short, I found some time for about 50 minutes of 3-6 limit holdem tonight. The first table I landed on was especially juicy, and 50 hands later I had added $53 to my bankroll without even breaking a sweat or getting all that tricky. I could have stayed for more, (and if I had called one or two more preflop raises could have easily taken down twice as much as I did) but my attention was captured by other things, so playing "by the book" worked just fine for me. It was an especially passive table; raising on the flop almost always got me the pot on the turn, whether I had anything or not. Yummy.

I'll probably stick around the 3/6 and 5/10 tables for a while until I either get bored and go back to the NL tables, or get more sucked into razz and other forms of stud poker. Wouldn't it be great if we could get Sam's Town to spread a low-limit razz table after the WPBT Holiday Classic? Then Pauly and I could have our "TJ-Bubs" moment:

Pauly: I think we have the same hand, asphnxma.
asphnxma: I know we do, Pauly!

Less than four weeks til the WPBT Holiday Classic. Be there, or miss out on me making Pauly cry. Again.