Turbos

    This has been a frustrating week. I'm in Minneapolis visiting family and friends and don't have a proper poker computer set up. I'm working with a 6 year old PPC based Mac which can only acquire the PokerStars client. The cash games on Stars have the least value of any site, in my humble opinion, so I will only be playing various forms of tournament poker this week.

    There is nothing inherently wrong with playing tournaments on Stars. That is, mind you, how I got my start in professional poker. My current problem is one that I've been dealing with off and on for the last few months. The problem can only be described as game-selection purgatory.

    I don't have the financial cushion I had previous to my staking transition so I am trying to mitigate the variance in my schedule as much as possible. Since I'm not playing cash this week that means high-volume turbo sessions. I am beginning to understand why the turbos are popular but I'm stuck in tiny, tiny stakes until I have posted positive results over 1,000 games (the number my backer set as reasonable sample size).

    My problems are further compounded by the fact that I can't transfer Holdem Manager or Table Ninja to this ancient Mac. Without these programs it's fairly difficult to put in the volume needed to negate the variance of any one turbo tournament. Futile endeavors are kind of my thing so I guess I'm just going to keep 12-tabling turbos.

    Now that the $11 and $22 non-turbos 180-mans aren't running I just don't know what do with myself. I don't know, maybe I'll move to Korea and start working on my StarCraft skills. Glgl.