Life and Times of a Poker Addict

Well, I thought JJprodigy was going to be a front runner for donkey of the year, that is until I read about ZeeJustin's recent bust on PartyPoker for multi-accounting. I've been ceaselessly entertained by the threads over on PocketFives about these multi-accounters but reading about ZeeJ getting busted vaulted him to the top of the donkey heap.

Let us imagine for a moment that we are a person who has used multiple accounts in several of the same online tournaments. We participate on a poker discussion forum which over the last two weeks has been dominated by the issue of JJprodigy and his eventual loss of accounts at multiple online sites fro doing this exact same thing. Would good sense tell you to (a) stop doing it, (b) take your money off the site or, (c) both a and b. Perhaps at this point there should be a (d), as in (d) don't fucking blog about the fact that you did it.

How incredibly watermelon brained do you have to be to watch someone get busted for doing something that you are doing, and then go out and record for posterity that you in fact are doing it?

This multi-accounting issue doesn't fall into a gray area for me. It's obviously against the rules and it does give some, however limited, advantage to someone who is doing it. Some people want to argue about how minimal an advantage it actually provides, but rules are rules, and just because you can get away with something doesn't necessarily mean it should be done. Hopefully any other knuckleheads that have been doing this are getting their money offline as quickly as possible before they also lose a hundred grand because they apparently don't think that they'll get caught.

So from multi-accounting to the Big Game and Phil Ivey absolutely dominating Andy Beal. A lot is being made from all sides of the discussion on this about how good one player is versus the other. Essentially Ivey beat Beal for 177 BB over the course of three days, which is certainly impressive, but not out of the realm of variance for heads up poker. I think the only disappointing things to come out of this are that the general public never gets to see poker like this get played and that Beal has apparently quit poker. How long that "retirement" will last, who knows, but it certainly has brought great attention to the game overall, and for that Beal's contribution should be recognized.

I think the biggest thing that it showed is the importance of bankroll management. Beal is certainly a very intelligent man, and with a lot of practice he acquired a great amount of skill, but he also was able to play good poker because he wasn't playing with scared money. Obviously his is an extreme example but one that I think still illustrates the point effectively.

On the local front, games have been shut down due to an ongoing police investigation into whether or not they are legal. It's really unfortunate, I hate to see these people going through this, but local poker is basically at a standstill at the moment. So all that's been going on are weekly NL hold'em tournaments and and a random HORSE tourney here and there. Suffice to say, my poker habit turns more and more towards limit poker every day that I get to play it more. My NL game is just off lately, I think because I'm just not concentrating enough, which I can chalk up to having lost some interest in NL hold'em for the moment.

Well, I've definitely been slacking on keeping up here but hopefully I can spit out some more regularly timed posts over the next few weeks.

Tip of the Day: If you are breaking the rules, don't publicly record that you are doing so.