This is rapidly turning into one of those days where I could have saved a lot of time and effort if I'd immediately gotten out of bed, grabbed a fork, and started jabbing it in my eye.

Busyness Abounds

Quick plug:

What: Omaha 8 Limit Tournament (Event #2 of 8)
When: Friday, April 29 9:00 PM C.S.T
Where: Noble Poker
Cost: $5
Tournament Name: TPTK.com Omaha
Tournament Password: hammer

I'm going to have to be AWOL yet again this week, due to the fact that my wife and I are going out on the town to celebrate our 6 month anniversary. Which is pretty crazy, in all sorts of ways, not the least of which is that she's still putting up with my monkey shenanigans and hasn't (yet) run screaming.

I like staying busy but, man, sometimes it gets to be a bit much. These days I can't help but look at my poor computer with an odd mixture of love and hate. Yes, you're very cool, and allow me to do many fun and profitable things. You're also always freaking there, reminding me constantly that there's yet another thing that needs doing. Such is life, I suppose.

It Just Gets Better and Better

I just got out of a "coaching" session. Apparently at a meeting today I acted "negatively and in a destructive fashion" towards my fellow team members, deeply offending one of our team leads while he was trying to make a point.

I did all of this by slightly shaking my head from side to side.

Didn't realize that I had that much power, that a little head shake could carry so much clout.

I'm not sure how I can top this one, flexing my enormous, involuntary negative and destructive powers. I've stopped talking. Now I'll have to stop moving any of my extremeties in any fashion. I suppose I can shoot out eye beams of negativity, bombarding the unlucky soul sitting directly in front of me.

Focus, Daniel-San, Focus...

Poker-wise, I've been all over the damn place lately. It's partly my own fault, as I haven't had as much time for the cards and the chips and the poker lately, so I end up running around willy and/or nilly, clearing a chunk of a bonus here, playing a MTT over there, mindlessly grinding out a Party reload, etc. It also doesn't help that I'm still doing the slightly schizophrenic split schedule, where 25% of my play is at 10/20 and the remaining 75% is grinding out bonuses at lower limits.

For some reason I enjoy causing myself pain, so I've been playing 2-7 Triple Draw on UB to clear my bonus there. Sweet merciful Jebus. That game is more frustrating than Razz at times, and I didn't think that was possible. I got my monkey arse handed to me playing 2/4 last night, at a short table where two of the monkeys would cap every hand pre-flop, and then both draw 4 cards the first round. That should be a recipe for a profitable session but I kept getting stuck with second best hands and they kept getting there, leaving me about -$200 for the session when I finally threw in the towel. Sweet...

I also played the Stud Bracelet Race satellite on Futile Bonus Tilt last night, which was a complete waste of $24. I got kneecapped pretty early when my straight went down in flames to a runner runner flush, and then the rapidly escalating blinds ate me up. Finished 80th or so. Sweet...

I did, though, manage to make it to Step 4 at Party in the WSOP Step SnGs. After toiling for forever in Step 1 I managed to run the table in three straight, winning to go to Step 2, winning the next one to go to Step 3, then winning that one to go to Step 4. I wish I could say it was due to my mad skillz but good lord, I was laying some monstrous suckout wood on people. Especially in the last one, as I was outchipped about 10-1 when it was heads-up and just started pushing with any two cards. Five hands in a row I had no better than 10 high and I won four, splitting one. Umm, sure, okay, I'll take it.

Many thanks to everyone who've stopped by to kick the tires at BonusBug.com. 'Tis very much a work in progress but I'll be fleshing it out a bit every day, especially on the forum side.