A Post About Nothing

I've been struggling with two competing impulses.  One is to post something every day, because that's what one is supposed do to remain relevant in the blogosphere.  The other is not to post every day, because most of the time nothing very dramatic happens.

There is another consideration.  Those of us who are MTT (multitable tournament) specialists train ourselves to think only in the long term.  I care about my monthly results, but I know that all that matters is how much I've won or lost at the end of the year.  Anything less isn't a statistically valid sample size, therefore what happens in a day or a week means nothing.

I had a $350 live tournament cash a few months ago and I haven't had one since since.  That's how tournament poker works.  It's very high-variance, income is very irregular, and just three or four very large cashes can make a player profitable during a calendar year.

After thinking about this for a while, I decided that I need to post a lot more often.  If there are stretches where not much happens, I should get on every day and say that.  You can join me and feel my pain.  There are certainly things to talk about besides wins and losses.  I can talk about what I'm studying, or how I'm feeling, or future plans.

So, here is the subject of today's less-than-exciting post:

I tired to play and nothing happened.

I signed on to America's Cardroom to register for a couple SNGs and nothing happened.  I hit the REGISTER button for both a $1.50 and a $3 SNG and my name did not appear on the list of players for either SNG.  I did some checking online and others were reporting the same problem.

After two posts comparing online and live poker, live tournaments definitely win this round.  I have never seen a live tournament fail to start when there were enough interested players.