Rules? No. Not exactly rules. More like good advices.

1. Play on Party and its affiliates.

2. Use PokerTracker

3. Get the PokerTracker Guide

I thought about writing a little something about each of these three things, but really, why bother? I’m pretty certain all of you already have an account at Party and at least two or three of its affiliates. I’m also pretty sure you have PokerTracker and that you’ll agree with me that it’s the best $55 you ever spent. Odds are also pretty high that you already know about Hank and Iggy’s Excellent PokerTracker Guide. No, wait, it’s just called PokerTracker Guide. My bad.

However, you may not necessarily have read it. So I’m here to say that if you follow good advices 1 and 2, and you play limit hold’em, you should send the good folks at PokerTracker Guide $20 for their book. Here are the first two things that come to mind when I think of reasons to buy the Guide:
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I got some of my work done and decided to play an hour on Party to try out 3-tabling on my new LCD and clear some bonus hands.

I haven’t recorded the monitor on my bankroll spreadsheet yet, but once I do, conventional wisdom dictates that I stick to .50/1 while multi-tabling. Something about 300BB/table or something. Not to mention the fact that I’m actually pretty bad at this Texas Hold’Em thingy and am probably better off playing against people like myself who look at the turn and river as bonus rounds where you get a chance to make a hand after missing the flop.

After playing on some tables that broke up after I won a pot or two (those cowards), I finally got myself on three stable tables when this happened:

When you get the same hand on two tables in the same position at the same time, you might get confused.

“Have I 3-bet? Or have I yet to 3-bet?”

Won one, lost one.

I love having a second monitor. I love 1600×1200. I love it for reasons other than poker. I was working all day with Photoshop and FormZ, and it was great being able to maximize my work window, shove the palettes off to the side, and keep a browser in view at all times. I was uberproductive and even managed to read part 9 of the loser story.

That’s not Spaulding. I don’t know who it is, but you should check out Numa Numa. Thanks to Film Geek for the link.