My Adoring Public

Blimey, a comment, and not one that says 'Please check out my site about Peruvian wine trading'. It seems somebody is still reading after all. Heaven knows why.

Well, I remain convinced that I am one of the unluckiest people on earth when it comes to poker or anything similar, such as rolling dice. But I'm pretty lucky in life in general, so I try to soldier on. Besides, all my last whingeing post did was curse my cash play, since I made the idiotic fate-tempting mistake of saying that I was running okay in money games.

With a horrid week of cash play in the books (losing with top set is my new speciality), I'm playing quite low at the moment at Eurobet and just focussing on working off my 100% bonus there and chugging up the rakeback. They're a PokerRoom skin now, as if you didn't know. I've grown reasonably enamoured of the site; the software has irritations, but the customer base seems to be simply packed with appalling players, and they put on a decent number of PLO and PLO8 tournaments.

I've completely sacked Ladbrokes, at long last. I'm not sure why I didn't do that long ago. A relatively small core of players, including plenty of competent ones in my games of choice, and absolutely zero in the way of player incentives (the yearly pocket diary was never terribly useful to me).

Besides that, I'm diversifying... I've begun to spend some time getting to grips with exchange betting and trading. I still have a bit to learn about trading purely 'by the numbers', but in sports where I know something - soccer, snooker, american football - I've made some nice profits. The Superbowl and Probowl proved particularly easy to trade into profit regardless of the outcome.

I'm now suffering horrible, horrible NFL withdrawal symptoms. It's particularly bad because the season ended so disappointingly, with the mighty Patriots getting mugged in Denver and then the Superbowl being officiated in such a fishy manner. I'm not an outright conspiracy theorist, like an increasing number of NFL fans, but I do think that the officials called such a one-sided game due to subconsciously buying into the general vibe that the Steelers were 'supposed' to win.

Anyway, it sucks when the most important current NFL news is about the collective bargaining agreement. I really hope they can settle something, because the demise of the salary cap would be a sad day, in my eyes.