It was good fun playing with the Mob bunch as always. The field was small and with only three paid I was out eighth. As is normal for me in F/O, I had to look at the hand history to figure out what happened.
At the same time as playing the tournament I was playing Mob cash, also PLO h/l. I sat with £10 and ended up with about £1.50 profit* after a couple of hours. This makes me hate Omaha games about 1% less. (yeah, yeah, I know, we hate what we don't understand. ... F/O)
The part that got my blood racing was when CaptainGee (GQRxxx) asked me 'Are you competitive?' ...
The Cap'n is a mobmate of mine. He's a talented player (I have notes on him from pre-friendly chat days) He's very amiable - not even close to being a TILTminer. But what he doesn't know, of course, is that this is a spin question for me. From earliest childhood I would cry when I won any game because it meant the game was over. I've had a quite a battle training myself to love winning at least as much as the game in poker. And then there's all the stuff with my older sister.
My sister is the sweetest, most loving, generous and honorable sister in the world. Unless you're beating her at backgammon, cards, pool, checkers, golf... you get the picture. Competition between us turned me unhappy and fast. So I found a happy balance early on in weighing my greater love for continued gaming and her greater love of winning. I found I could enjoy losing to my happy winning sister. I am grateful every day that she directed her energies away from poker.
Over the years, my sis has focused her seismic competitiveness into challenging herself. The small sample is: She climbed and summited Mount Hood last month and only recently stopped running full marathons in favour of 10k runs and under. This from a woman who's had a steel pin holding her femur (thigh bone) together since shattering it in a car accident as a teen. I walk to work every day. Takes about 4 minutes if I stop in Sheehy's for a take-away coffee. I also walk Beanie-the-dog every evening. Usually while reading my post.
So, in answer to CaptainGee's 'Are you competitive?' I answered 'Only really in poker... ?'
He told me to check out a website called http://playerscope.com/ . I was still in the tournament at this point so it took me a while to chat and play at both tables and search the site. I searched myself first obviously. I was pleased that my 2012 is looking better than my 2011. He then said '459 vs. 469'. Ok, so then I searched his name. Yep, with playing half the number of games I have played in 2012, he was rated exactly 10 players higher than I in tournament buy-ins of $5 to $10 (both our normal ranges). He proposed a £10 bet: Who would be the leader by the end of June? I said, 'Done.'
You can check out my rating in the above link. We're using the rating under the second block- Buy-In 2012. As of this minute, I am rated 469 of 179,621 players. (pause for internal applause) The Cap'n however finished higher in the tournament tonight than I did I think so I will now see if his better rating of 459 as changed...
Tick tock. Well that took a few minutes of site freeze time. He's still 459 but the records do not include the Hendon Mob Bounty tournament results yet so this could change.
Please note that 1) I am not shilling for this site and 2) It says it's an Alpha site so be patient and 3) I'm now going to post relevant SharkScope.com results as a baseline comparison, even though it won't affect my bet with the Cap'n.
As of now, our sharkscopes look like this on iPoker (Genting's network).
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Okay yeah NOW I'm tilt status LOL.
Anway, the best bit about this bet with the Cap'n is that unlike my wonderful sister and her personal best challenges, in poker at least, I play best when in clear competition with other players. I played far better during the January MTT challenge on the Hendon Mob forum than I have been recently. It's as if there's a poker engine regulator that kicks in for me and I am much more attuned to plugging my leaks. Okay, I know this is only £10. But I want to WIN more than I want to just keep on playing. And that's the key for me to do my best. It's on.
* This does not include the added ev I get from this being a Hendon Mob cash table where the rake I pay counts towards me possibly owning a % of all three Mobsters in the big Grand Final Genting tournament in December. (My maths calculations aren't great, but I have finally worked out that 'earning' rake and still leaving the table with a profit is the way to go here really.)
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