One, Two, Three... JUMP!

Will tonight's premiere of TILT be the point where mainstream poker has jumped the shark??? Nah, it can't be any worse than the WPT's American Chopper vs. Trading Spaces. I'm sooooo sad I missed that.

Thursday night has always been a good night for TV. Survivor, Apprentice, CSI, ER, and now TILT. Dammit, why haven't I gotten a TiVo yet?

So here I sit in this office: pushing papers, answering emails, using barely an iota of my technical skills and getting way underpaid... and I sneak off to the casino at lunch time and double my daily net income. Ain't life grand?

Monday, Silver Dollar had too many people and I couldn't get a seat before my lunch hour was up. Tuesday, there was no one there! Wednesday, sat down for about 40 minutes and left with an extra $180! I was up the entire time too... I won the first hand I was involved in, and I never dipped back down into my original buy-in.

I just got back today with an extra $110. It didn't go as well as yesterday as I did lose about a stack and a half before it began to pile back up again. But I was smarter today, as I asked for a comp and got some lunch as soon as I got there so I wouldn't come back hungry. :)

As I was racking up to leave today, the guy next to me said, "Wow, you won every hand you played!" I smiled and told him, "That's cause I only play the winners." I think that image was helped due to the fact that I only stayed in to the Turn and mucked if I didn't have it by then. No lucky River wins (of which I would have had a few), but that meant not having to show a loser either.

The Silver Dollar has been nothing but a freakin' bank for me! I didn't try any fancy plays or try to be overly aggressive. Just played good cards, and milked every made hand I had for as much as possible. I got a beautiful BB full-house flop, and I checked-called it until after the River to draw in as many flush and straight chasers as possible.

There's just something sadistic about checking the nut flush, and having someone with an 84s for the baby flush bet into you. Or holding pocket 10s and flopping Tens full of Deuces, then letting the two holding K2o and J2o get into a raising war... when the smoke clears, they're in shock at where the chips are headed. What's that look on their faces? Oh yeah... TILT! (premieres tonight, only on ESPN!)

Well, back to work, which of course includes catching up on the latest comments on The Hammer deb(acle/ate).