Working to be Solid

That was until my doh for the day had a dohhhh factor that was almost off the charts. See I thought I had done really well today when I didn’t tilt after I misclicked my way out of a freeroll. A tournament that I had been looking forward to playing in, I was even happier when I saw that the structure was better than I anticipated and greatly better than the other tournaments I have played in on Merge thus far.

The truth of why I wasn’t tilting had nothing to do with getting past petty anger or misplaced focus on something that is both minor and un-reversible, instead it had more, and likely everything, to do with my subconscious mind sending a faint, “LMFAO, you mega retardedo”. 

Yes, I have been punked… By myself (or would it be: By myselve).

Several days, and several thousand hands ago I installed a program called “Merge Keys” and I have loved it I have instantly gone from being able to maybe on a good day play 8 tables to easily doubling that number; which is not optimal for me but you get the point of how helpful this software is. With this software I have full access to all of the Merge skin buttons, auto-time bank, easy table management, and all in all it works a lot like Table Ninja. So I set it up similar to how I have had TN in the past, except one thing...

So today, I setup to play and I have worked it out so that I can do a simple task of screwing some nuts on bolts and use these hotkeys to 1 table, which is great if I am able to keep up on the output of the nut’ed bolts and I quickly find this is no problem and I have plenty of attention left to focus on other things. Instead of turning on Netflix I think it will be a good idea to change the table view so I can see the chat and keep track of who is sitting out and any other useful information that sometimes comes through. 
The guy on my left is making some very suspect moves and I want to play a pot with him when this hand comes along (I was hoping the chat would be there but I have had to add it back in):

Merge Network $500 VIP Freeroll No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t75.00/t150.00 Blinds - 8 players
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[b]Hero (BB): t3099.00         20.66 BBs[/b]
UTG: t48307.00         322.05 BBs
UTG+1: t775.00         5.17 BBs
MP1: t7509.00         50.06 BBs
MP2: t1095.00         7.30 BBs
CO: t5882.00         39.21 BBs
BTN: t1458.00         9.72 BBs
SB: t4465.00         29.77 BBs

[b]Pre Flop:[/b] (t225) Hero is BB with 2 :spade: 5 :spade:
UTG calls t150, [i]3 folds[/i], CO calls t150, [i]1 fold[/i], SB calls t75, Hero checks
[b]Flop:[/b] (t600) 2 :diamond: Q :spade: 4 :spade: [color=#336633](4 players)[/color]SB checks, [color=red]Hero bets t450.00[/color], UTG calls t450, CO folds, SB folds

[b]Turn:[/b] (t1500) 3 :heart: [color=#336633](2 players)[/color]
[color=red]Hero bets t1125.00[/color], [color=red]UTG raises to t2250.00[/color], [color=red]Hero raises to t2649 all in[/color], UTG calls t399

[b]River:[/b] (t6798) K :spade: [color=#336633](2 players - 1 is all in)[/color]

[b]Final Pot:[/b] t6798

Hero shows 2 :spade: 5 :spade: (Flush King High)

UTG shows T :heart: Q :heart:

Hero wins t6798.00

Villain: You lucky little retarded @#$%

Hero (presses key to turn off hotkeys): N o(hero turns on hotkeys) t(allin)
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Hero (SB): t6723.00         44.82 BBs
BB: t44908.00         299.39 BBs
UTG: t775.00         5.17 BBs
[b]UTG+1: t7509.00         50.06 BBs[/b]
MP1: t1095.00         7.30 BBs
MP2: t5732.00         38.21 BBs
CO: t1458.00         9.72 BBs
BTN: t4390.00         29.27 BBs

[b]Pre Flop:[/b] (t225) Hero is SB with 6 :spade: A :diamond:
[i]1 fold[/i], [color=red]UTG+1 raises to t450.00[/color], [i]4 folds[/i], [color=red]Hero raises to t6798 all in[/color], [i]1 fold[/i], UTG+1 calls t6348
Hero (to self): Oh, shit!
[b]Flop:[/b] (t13746) 4 :diamond: T :club: 6 :diamond: [color=#336633](2 players - 1 is all in)[/color]

[b]Turn:[/b] (t13746) T :heart: [color=#336633](2 players - 1 is all in)[/color]

[b]River:[/b] (t13746) 8 :club: [color=#336633](2 players - 1 is all in)[/color]

[b]Final Pot:[/b] t13746
Hero shows 6 :spade: A :diamond:
UTG+1 shows K :spade: K :diamond: (Two Pair Kings and Tens)
UTG+1 wins t13746.00

If it is not obvious or you can’t stand long versions, I had created over several days the perfect storm of stupidity to KO me from the freeroll. Setting the on/off toggle to a letter does no good if you ever plan to use that same letter when you chat, it didn’t help that I had to hit the right combination at the exact right time for an allin that would not have happened had it been a second before or after because I would have either seen that my letters were not entering the chat box or I would have seen I had action. It also didn't help that it had to be a combination of letters, and that I rarely if ever use chatting at a poker table, or that I had even turned the chat on at all because I find that table view distracting and cluttered.  Somehow though it all came together and for a bit I felt like I had actually done well because I was not tilting after I did that, my thoughts were not the typical, self hate but was rather a subtle hey that was silly. Only later when I made the drive home did I have to laugh out loud at the absurdity, and realize that I was actually lol’ing myself already on the inside and that it was just a funny situation that doesn't happen offten.