I finally got around to picking up a new computer last night. So far I’m pretty happy with it. Its using the Intel Core i7 920 2.66Ghz processor, an ATI Radeon HD4870 video card and 9GB of DDR3 Ram. My old system was pretty sluggish when running Holdem Manager and more than 12 tables so this should be a big improvement.
My only complaint so far has been with my auto hot key scripts not working properly. The exact same scripts worked perfectly on my old system running windows xp sp2 and my laptop running a 32bit Vista but won’t run on my new system which is Vista 64bit. I spent some time playing around with wickks scripts which allow you to control poker stars with a joystick or gamepad but eventually settled on using a program called table ninja which seems pretty sick so far.
Now that I’ve got a new system I’m planning on picking up a few PC games in the next bit for much needed breaks from poker. I’ll probably get WarCraft 3 + expansion as I played it quite a bit when it was originally released. I’m mostly looking forward to Starcraft 2 but who knows when that will come out.
I wish there were more techno songs about playing video games and talking to friends over ventrilo. Bass Hunter - Dota
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Poker Content:
Poker has been going ok for the first half of month. I haven’t been putting in nearly enough volume but have continued to run fairly hot. The 2+2 Team Tournament Leaderboard Challenge #6 is starting in a week. Hopefully this will be just what I need to get motivated to put in more volume.
Small Brag: I’m currently in the top 10 of the sharkscope leaderboard for average profit over last 500 games for my usual stakes which is kind of cool. I guess I’m not nearly as bad as my opponents think 
Despite just making a small brag about my irrelevent results over a small sample size, I highly recommend this article about not tracking your results.
Random Content:
Mike Doughty has announced another west coast tour this spring and will be playing in Vancouver, BC May 14th. I’ve never had the chance to see him perform live so I’m definately going to attend. If you’ve never heard of him I’d highly recommend downloading/purchasing his albums “Haughy Melodic” and “Golden Delicious”.
Here are Youtube Links to 2 of his songs off of Golden Delicious:
Fort Hood
27 Jennifers
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I wasn’t able to put in as much volume in february as I did in january but still managed to find time for 360 sit and goes and another 68 regular tournaments. I never really managed any deep runs in regular tournaments but ran very well in sit and goes. Mixing in $27s, $38s and $60 45 man sit and goes has worked out well so far, I only wish that they would fill up faster so I could fit more of them in.
My regular set would generally be:
4x $12 / 45 Man
4x $12 / 180 Man
1x $27 / 45 Man
1x $38 / 45 Man
1x $60 / 45 Man
Here is a screen shot of my results.
I once again finished in the top 1000 players on pokerstars for the monthly tournament leaderboard which earned me another shot at a $20,000 free roll next Sunday.
March Goals:
1) Continue grinding Sit & Goes (300 minimum)
2) Play online sattelites to both SCOOP (Spring Championship of Online Poker) and The World Series of Poker (once they begin).
3) Profit??
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