I was busy with other things much of the day yesterday, so I didn't get to play a lot. I did play a SNG that took over 1.5 hours to play, then I got busy with other things. I wasn't worried about it because starting iearly in the evening I was free, and I was rested enough to play well into the morning..
When I tried to start playing last night, Americas Cardroom was down again. I hit the REGISTER button to get in a SNG. Nothing happened. I decided to try something else, so I hit the CASHIER button to see how much money I had on the site. Again, nothing happened. Everything was down. I tried again a couple hours later. Still down.
As usual, I found things to do to keep busy. I watched TV and goofed off for a while, but I also watched some poker videos. I just finished watching a video on how to play speculative hands. That was useful, because I don't play suited aces often enough and I need to be reminded of that from time to time. It's not a huge leak, but it's a leak.
That's what happened online. The live poker situation is equally ridiculous.
I went down to my local poker room (which I have begun calling the Information Black Hole) to find out what was happening over the July 4th holiday weekend. They didn't know. Yes, you read that correctly. I visited them on Saturday (it's Sunday Morning now) and they don't know if they will be open less than a week from now. How is that possible? How can the players, the employees, or anyone else operate in a situation like that?
My answer is that I can't and I won't. The local poker room is 1.8 miles from my house, but I almost always drive 30 miles to a poker room in another city.
It would be really nice if I could just play without having to fight so many battles to do so. I'm trying hard not to come across as a whiner, but the truth is that sometimes it's very hard just to cut through the crap so that I can play poker. To give you an honest picture of what my days are like I have to tell you the good, the bad and the ugly.
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