Quest of a Closet Poker Player

There are few poker scenarios worse than this one.

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Nice read, sir…

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Somewhere in the midst of another premium hand getting outdrawn for the seventeenth time, I headed away from my comfort zone and sat with the big boys:  $5/10 NLHE on PokerStars.

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I had an eventful last day in Vegas, but mainly for all the wrong reasons.

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$1/3 NLHE at Caesar’s, and just a horrific hand sends me from a winning session to down $400 for the day.

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Online poker is rigged.  It has become an inside joke for all of us every time we have a bad beat.  But now with the firestorm around TheV0id (PokerStars WCOOP winner) and the Absolute Poker mess.  In case you’re just waking up, it involves IP addresses within Absolute, hole cards, and an incredible breach of security to allow any of us to find out, an emailed Excel spreadsheet showing all hands and hole cards for a big portion of said tourney.

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I’ve never stayed at Caesar’s Palace before, but my sweet mini-suite is a great way to start.

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I rushed down to hit the Mook when Sweetie decided to hit the bed early.  One of the frustrating things about FullTilt is they don’t allow any late registration for tourneys, not even one second.  As I reached the table, my computer said 9:59 but the table said Seating.  Seating means no registration, and I was out.  I decided to head to PokerStars for a session that became a very, very late one.  I had many tough tables, going down a buy-in here or there.  Table Philocetes was a different matter altogether.  When I signed off early this morning, I had $1,414.20 sitting in front of me at this $1/2 NLH 6-max table.

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Up over $1k playing $1/2 NLH 6-max on PokerStars!  I think that the past week I’ve been subconsciously playing bad so that it would help my meta-game.  For those new to poker, meta-game is when you do something really stupid in poker.  You then convince yourself that this will tell people that you are horrible, and they will then factor in whatever you did in their future decisions.

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Down then up then down then up was how I ran until a brutal thirty minutes last night knocked me down $500 or so.  Back into the hole as I try to get my bankroll back above $4k again on PokerStars.

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