The Chat Box

My assortment of games has changed a little bit, for the past couple of days in addition to the $5 45 mans, I've added $10 45s, $6 90s, and $12 90s. I've added in the 90s to keep my number of tables up (I can comfortabley do 9 tables now for short to medium periods of time). The 90s are really going to test my mental toughness because from my experience so far, they are far more prone to variance (more players, turbo blind structure, knockout bounties, only 9 get paid) and I've had some epic beats against fellow chip leaders that seem to have disgustingly huge pots because there are 4 times as many chips in play compared to the 45s. I'm still running very well in the 45s, and some of my luck has started to transfer over to the $10 level (I won two today).

I wanted to just say a little something about the chat box feature on online poker sites. I think most people know this already, but if you use the chat box, you are a donkey. End of story, there is no good that comes from chatting on a poker site, it is impossible to win an argument, sound smart, make a "friend", get useful information, literally nothing good comes from it. I thought about turning it off today, but I came to the conclusion that the chat box is actually useful for one purpose: to see the people that use it so you can properly label them as fish. At a final table today the guy to my left was getting so tilted by my blind vs. blind shoves he was spending almost all of his energy berating me in the chat box. The shoves I made were all standard, he ended up knocking me out at the final table before the money when I shoved 69o for 8 big blinds and he snap called with 33. The tilt he was experiencing actually allowed him to make a good call in this case, but this guy could not have given away his lack of poker ability any more.

Will try to continue playing a decent amount the rest of this week, it's been difficult, next blog will be a pretty heavy one about living at home, my future, and current state of unemployment.