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#317 – Twilight Metamorphosis Baby, Part III – “You’re like the Britney Spears of Online Poker

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In bringing you up to date on my home-bound activities of late, I should also mention that I’m playing a little poker. And by “a little,” I mean that I don’t play when I’m asleep. I do, however, dream about the game.

I’ve been on a roller coaster on Full Tilt the last couple months. When I went “off circuit” after returning from WSOP-Europe, I played my best and most consistent two months of online tournament poker. I won tournaments, made a bunch of final tables, and actually felt I underperformed because I busted from a number of big tournaments in bizarre ways. But I had reason to feel good about my game coming into FTOPS VI in November.

I came up a big goose-egg in FTOPS VI and went into a funk where I went the entire month of December with, I think, 3 cashes in 50 tournaments. I actually cut back a lot on tournaments, playing single-table SnGs (which I did well at for a couple weeks then poorly) and heads-up SnGs (which I did well at and then poorly). In late December, I started playing Omaha Eight-or-Better cash games. Once again, I’ve done well, and I’ve also struggled some. I’ve continued playing some tournaments – and I thought playing well – but my results have been abysmal. It got so bad I started skipping the Turbo Hundo, which I had final-tabled seven times and won twice in Summer-Fall 2007.

Good thing I didn’t completely give up the Turbo Hundo. Early morning Wednesday, I made the final table for the eighth time, finishing seventh (getting called all-in preflop with KK by AQ and seeing a flop of AQQ). Two days later, I won the tournament for the third time.

It was especially gratifying that there was a nasty rail in this tournament, and a few guys I busted chose to vent their anger before departing. If you’ve watched me play tournaments, you know I’m happy to mix it up with other players and the rail, even the occasional critic. But a couple guys got their chats banned as a result of their comments, at one time I had to mute all observer comments, and for awhile I had to mute all the player comments as well.

It was 3:30 AM when I finally came to bed. I woke up Jo Anne and told her that I won, so she woke up and we talked about the tournament. I told her about some of the bizarre comments I received and how they continued all the way to the end.

Of course, because Jo Anne isn’t part of the poker community, she’s horrified by this kind of behavior. (I suppose I ought to be horrified by it too.) But she tries to be cool about it when I describe how vicious some of these people can be.

She told me, “You’re like the Britney Spears of online poker.”

Yeah, but I have a better complexion and I remember to wear underwear in public.

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