I am a ping pong ball the 20k loves paddling...aka truth is hotter than fiction...aka biting the helping hands

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This is teh shit. Don gets ALL the credit, but with his permission I am using ye olde blog to pimp his brainchild: The Blogger Big Game.

October 22nd. Sunday. 9:30pm EST. Full Tilt (yes, the Full Tilt of the Brilliant Fuck You Frist Reload Offer). NLHE naturally (FYI: real card games have only two cards in the hand - any more and you resemble Aunt Edna while you play)

Deep Stacks...aka Room to Play...aka this MTT is the solution to the "blogger MTTs are a joke" debate.

$75 Buy In. Yes, you can use a token (they are dreadfully unlucky, but feel free to do so). Don is considering creating a token race specifically for it, perhaps following WWdN - check with him for details. Don't mention me - he has a volatile temper when put upon.

Am I wrong in betting Hoy, Smokkee, Wes, Fuel, and Surf will regularly show for this? Who else? Don expects it to hit 30, which would be pretty fucking mind blowing. Let's see.

Someone (Trip? Mookie? Duggles?) please make a banner for this biotch.

Okay now back to one of the most uninspired posts I have ever put up. On rereading it just now I had to fight the desire to delete it. Ah well, it can't all be pulp for the Pulitzer.

Let me be brief. I have nothing meaningful to add about the current situation. Nothing at all. The mark of a good specialist is that they have a clear understanding of the limits of their expertise and a healthy respect for their ignorance. As I said, I have nothing to add. Except that I will keep playing and posting until I absolutely can't for legal or time management reasons.

Hmmmmm? That didn't strike you as brief?

Welcome to your first visit here at Flights of Iakaris. I am your host, Iak, and I hope you enjoy your stay.

Evidence of a strange week? My Muse is back in charge of her blog again - J's imminent demise turns out to be a fabrication of his own making. There's some unintentional humour in that the bloggers and J actually shared a moment enjoying the tale of his maiming. Anyway, as far as I'm concerned Mel is in the clear on this one. Besides, you guys are my boyz and have to be nice to my virtual goomah: all part of this thing of ours, no?

Tough 2 weeks MTTing. Taken 7 very hard to stomach MTT exits (3 while I was deeper than midway) within five days. Even the grissled amongst you would have to admit thats a little painful. You'd think online poker would try to be nicer to me, given we may be parting ways for a variety of reasons in the near future. Still, I allow it's just the price of doing business if you multi-table: you will see more of the universe's beguiling indifference, and every once in a while she will put knee to throat just to see what you can tolerate.

Can't deny I have made some tilt induced moves after a few of those soulsuckers - but on the whole, the process is relatively sound, so I press on. I admit I am possessed with the conviction I will go very deep at least once more before I head back to work. I don't know where that certainty is coming from, but it will be interesting to see whether that voice in my head is right or wrong. Is it quantum mechanics that suggests an observer-created reality? The game should be so simple.

Also on the note of this run of hurts, I now believe players who tilt easily and heavily at an unkind exit or a rewarded bad play should play more MTTs, not less. For me, it's been painful repetition that's made getting fucked over in series and in parallel understandable, if not altogether acceptable.

To put a good spin on things when there's nothing more than a few tokens to show for it [and I fully agree counting tokens as earnings is like placing your lottery tickets in the asset column], I have still managed to run patient when short and made 2/4 blogger final tables last week: The Mookie and The (K)Not. Nope, no cash in either. Speaker recently commented on slb's gently worded missive regarding the quality of blogger MTT play and it struck a chord. He noted that he is getting back to playing them because he plays better in other MTTs when he is doing well in the blogger events. Although my experience and results make for a smaller sample size, I concur. If nothing else, they are a good bellweather as to the health of your thought process. Yes, I promise that's my last word on the subject. It's been a slow week - what do you people want? Blood? [oblique in-joke at Noel and Liam Gallagher's expense]

And lastly, a note on helpful feedback I've read dispersed across the web. Bloody P objects to my stylized (ridiculous?) signoff. Waffles is concerned my vocab fetish may interrupt the narrative I may or may not be trying to craft. Duggles is convinced I have poor reading comprehension. At least I think that's what he wrote...

In other words, just another day in this highly dysfunctional neighbourhood.

Laytah.