Random "Comedy"

I watch too much TV. Mostly, it's Sportscenter, so I have to be forgiven for that. I watch a lot of comedy as well. Some good, some crap.

It might be the cheap scotch talking (seriously, can you avoid the allure of something called Old Smuggler Scotch? Makes you wanna say "Yarr!!"), but the Andy Milonakis Show on MTV is worth a look. He's a kid, but he manages to combine the stupid and amusing, and you've got to give him points for being a white kid that tries to rap. He got his start on the Jimmy Kimmel Show, and Kimmel probably paved his way for this show. I've seen much worse. I hope they keep him around for a while.

I can't say the same for Stella, the new "comedy" on Comedy Central. "Dumb comedy, dressed up in a suit". No. Wrong, wrong, wrong. Retarded (and not in the good way, like a slow kid eating a popsicle, but in the bad way like waiting for the bus or standing in line at the DMV), useless, and annoying. I pray to the TV gods to have them cancel this show as soon as possible. I'd rather watch Bob Saget and Pat Sajak armwrestle.

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Another entry under "comedy" is me thinking I'm a great poker player. I've started to turn around my results at the $10 SnG's, and I've had two recent ok-but-not-great visits to the $100 NL tables at Commerce, but I think I've got to come to grips with the fact that I can beat bad players regularly. I'm not so sure about being able to beat a collection of moderately good players. Without a couple of overly tight guys, and a few maniacs and loose fish... what's a chump like me to do? Perhaps it IS that hard to beat the rake at the Commerce games I play.

Something I can deduce is that my homegame cashgame and tourney are easier to beat than online games at UB. I appreciate that my homegame can continue running as it does, with folks jumping in and out at their whim.

I just finished Brunson's NL section of SuperSystem 2, and I've managed to draw blood where I wouldn't before. Flopping a set is a goldmine. I haven't gotten much into using suited connectors to flop big, then put my opponent to the test. At my homegame, anybody can do well enough just by waiting for big hands and exploiting them. I could take more risks, but it's easy enough to sit back, drink beer, and wait for big hands.

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I am psyched at the upcoming Sunday tourney I'll be hosting. I'm a sucker for tourneys, and this one should be fun.. everybody's got Monday off, so a lot of the folks that normally can't make my Sunday night tourney are down. I have chairs for 14 and tablespace for 17... my tourney might be full. Might be the biggest, drunkest, richest tourney I've hosted. Some of my soccer buddies are coming, and one of my good friends, who enjoys 40-ounces and classifies himself as a fish, is in already.

It's on like a pot o' neckbones.

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Being the analytical (and nosy) person I am, I took this guy's idea and started making my own PokerTracker database chronicling everybody's performance at my Thursday night cashgames and Sunday night tourneys. I'm that asshole that wants to pat himself on the back for being the most profitable player in the group.... After I input all the data, we'll see where I rank. I think most players in my game know that I take out more money than I put in, but I am the host, and I'm usually fun to be around. My goal with this is to user PokerTracker to keep track of all my poker activity, year-to-date.

Writeups on cash games, tourneys, and Commerce visits to follow.