Went back to Commerce Saturday night for more 20/40. Missed a couple draws, missed a few flops, only took the blinds with AA, went card dead off and on, and ended up trickling away 10BB, for an hourly of -2BB/hr. Not great, but then again, I’d been stuck 20BB until a mini-rush in one orbit cut that in half. The nature of these games is that you can often hover around being two good pots away from even, and that keeps me in the game.

That is, until I call the s.o. on the cell phone three times, don’t reach her, and then go wandering around the Crowne Ballroom looking for her among the 2/4 tables. She was down 38BB or so and looking a little worn out. We waited out her orbit, cashed in her chips, then went to collect mine.

I felt okay about the loss and had intended to head back Sunday to whack away at the 9/18 game, but ultimately decided that the Superbowl was going to put a damper on a lot of the action and stayed home instead.

There’s something about losing a buy-in in online poker that’s more demoralizing than losing a larger dollar value in a live game. Maybe it’s the pace of the action or something, but yeah, if I were really tiltable I’d be sitting in that Party BBJ 15/30 game right now. I won’t, but I almost feel bad enough to make some grand declarations to my reading public about how I’m going to do this or that and swear off online limit games and only play WPBT tourneys, but that’d be pretty silly. I should just be a better player.