CARDRUNNERS

I've been through hell and back with my computer this past week.  I upgraded to Vista and had a ton of problems.  Next, I downgraded back to XP, which went worse.  Basically, the computer cleaned out everything except the Windows application.  I lost all my drivers, icons, programs, etc.  Thankfully, CR has Rodeo who took the time to help me for a few hours over the last few days while I work on getting everything back into place.  I've had to manually download drivers onto a USB from another computer just to install on my computer to have a internet connection.  I've up and running again, but I have no audio, no audio options, etc.  The computer is really bare right now and I'm basically only using it for CR work at the moment.  It's really halting a lot of CR work I wanted to get accomplished.  It's a pain right now because I get random ass errors all the time now and it'll shut down, etc.  Hopefully Rodeo will be able to continue to help me get everything I needed installed so that I get get my system up and running again.  It's really tough on his end since he doens't see my errors, etc and has to go from my feedback of telling him whats happening.  Overall, I think it's time for a new computer. 

I'm really debating getting a new computer, although I probably should get one.  I hate dishing out money on computers for some od reason.  I know mine know works really well when everything is properly installed in it.  It's givin me pains before, but I've grown with it.  The big dilema is if I want to get another laptop of go with a desktop.  Desktops seem so outdated now days and are slowly making their way out of the market.  One advantage that I like of the laptop is it's portable.   A desktop would offer me more options though such as multiple bigger monitors rather than my 1 external monitor now.  A desktop also allows more storage area.   I've though about building my own desktop from buying parts, etc as Rodeo has suggested.  The main downfall to this is that I'm not great with installing stuff on them, and I'm sure I'd miss a ton of drivers or something stupid and be in the same situation I'm in now.  Right now I'm leaning on a desktop and I'll use my current laptop for travel, etc.  I think I can get enough stuff installed on my laptop to the point where it'll be fully functional again.  

Anyways, I promised Rodeo I'd show appreciation for his hard work.  He's been putting in a ton of hours outside of CR and I'm finally thankful for his abilities, as if I wasn't before.  Everyone should probably worship Rodeo.  You never know when you'll need his help.

  If time is money, then my computer is costing me thousands.  I hate how every computer starts out running really fast, but as you add applications, it bogs down and eventually just crawls along until you feel like throwing something out the window.  I have never been pissed at a bad beat the way I get pissed at my computer for running so slow.  The funny thing is, I ask alot for the computer.  But can't someone build me a system where I have Mozilla, Windows Media Player, Itunes, Poker Tracker, Poker Ace hud, AutoHotKeys, 12 tables of Pokerstars, and trillian, all running in harmony with no lag.  Is that so much to ask?  It takes my computer 3 minutes to shut down.  From the log in screen until the time where I can load a poker table it takes over 4 minutes.  I am writing this blog post on my laptop while my computer is being restarted...  Moving along.

I had an alright day yesterday.  I played great and won money, but lost 3 big allins as 80/20, which offset my winrate.  Still ended at 3 ptbb/100 over 4k hands, I played 2 2k hand sessions, and am now pretty close to completing the 300k VPP bonus on Stars.  This bonus is essentially a free $2500 ($3000 - the cost of 50k FPPs which is about $500).  Its awesome stars is so good to their main players.  While I have been working on this and not playing on cake, I am thinking of taking a decent portion of my cake roll and moving it back over.  It would just be a safer play.  Cake is great, but without 16 tabling and PAHUD, its just hard to say its better.

Well, my computer is ready to go.  I will post in a few hours some hands from yesterday that I recorded.

April was a pretty good month for me.  Im not sure of the exact ammt i won because im on the wrong computer, but i played about 40k hands of mostly 160 deep w/ some 200nl and 200plo. I was up over 9k but the last 3 days have been pretty horrible for me. I hit a big downswing at 200nl.  I dont feel like boring everyone w/ bad beat stories so instead ill just talk about May.

Goals for may:

1)10k hands of 100nl 4 tabling-I dont think im playing as optimally as i shold be at 1/2 so im going to play 10k hands of 100nl and if i get a winrate of 5ptbb/100 or better ill move up.  If not ill repeat untill i get it. 

2) play 40k hands of 200nl 6m/hu 4 tabling. dont care about my winrate or anything im just going to try to play as good as i can every session.

3)Play as many FTOPS events as i can. 

4)Post more hands/think about the game more.

Well school is almost over. I have like 5 class periods left and im done for the semester thank God.  After school gets out im moving into my friend Derek's hosue because living at home sucks.  Its only 300/month+food and stuff.  Also im looking to buy a new compter with a really big monitor so i can comfortably fit 12 tables.  If anyone knows a good computer to get let me know, or is getting a computer custom built a better deal?

I just logged onto fulltilt and apparently they made deep stack games at every level now which is freakin awesome. im so pumped im gonna go play right now.

gl, TJ