One thing I love about playing online

[lunchmeat]

2/4 @ Empire

In my first orbit I'm dealt ATs. A player I know is a rock raises, another player I know is a fish cold calls, I cold call with ATs, everyone else folds. Flop comes T, 9, 4 rainbow. Tight player bets, fish raises, I reraise, both call. Turn (T, 9, 4) 9 completes rainbow. Tight checks, fish bets, I raise, they both call. River is a brick. It's checked to me I check. The tight player turns over KK, the fish wins with 98s. I read both hands, but dumped $18 anyway.

So I play extrememly tight until the big blind comes around to me and I leave. I know I played that hand terribly so I regain my composure, get a snack, read some 2+2 posts, and then go back to Empire a couple hours later. In an hour session I make 22 bucks, erasing my loss.

Now this is why I love online poker. You can get up and leave and play at your own convenience. If I was at a card room, or even a home game, I would have stayed at the table and steamed away a lot of money. Right now I'd probably be pouting about all my "bad beats" instead of typing this post on how much I love playing online.

[ZeeJustin]

NJ lunchmeat. Even when playing online, a lot of people don't have the discipline you do to realize when they are playing poorly. The other day I looked at my recent 5/10 stats on pokertracker, and I was disgusted by how loose I had been playing. I hadn't even noticed it since I've somehow been making money this way (by getting very lucky I'm sure). It can definately be hard to notice exactly what's going wrong with your poker game, and it's always a huge step forward when you can fix that problem.