It really was a great table. The average flop percentage was 43%, with one player seeing flops in the high fifties, four in the forties, and two in the thirties. Mostly passive before and after the flop, with the exception of one guy who liked to raise a third of the hands he played. Lots of bad cards being played by all–any ace, any king, low suited 3 and 4 gappers, etc. With an environment like that, surely there was money to be made by a guy who had read a couple books, raised his good cards, folded the junk, and limped with speculative hands in good position. Surely.

Yeah, right.

I dropped 20BB and then another 10 (money to be made, right?) until I had 10BB left in my account. Great cards failed to connect, junk hands flopped the goddamn nuts, runner-runner and gutshot draws materialized on the river, etc. Every story is the same, isn’t it?

Well, after a rocking performance like that, I decided to play a string of $10 SNG’s until the money ran out. It did.

What I had left over I threw away at a PL table. The thing that sucks about that one is that I’d been doing well until I tried to muscle out the BB with my flopped two pair. I didn’t ease off when the 3-flush and 4-flush appeared. I think some switch in my head was stuck. That hand didn’t clean me out completely, but it brought me back to where I started. The rest I squandered in a classic AQ vs. AK confrontation.

That was that. I knew what I was doing. I just didn’t care. I suppose that should worry me, being able to lose 20-25% of my bankroll without really feeling too worried about it. I think I’m actually more irritated that I spent most of my Saturday not doing my schoolwork and apps.

Anyway, with my Party bankroll out of the way, I put another $200 into Paradise and swept up 32BB in just under 2 hours/100 hands. Maybe I’m a crack smoker for extrapolating too much from my 1100 hands there, but I really do feel like I do better there than on Party (6800 hands in the last six months).

So for the time being, you’re not likely to see me at your favorite Party skin; StudioGlyphic’s going to Paradise.