I’ll tell you up front that I hate flying AirTran. The flights are late, the seats are cramped, and the snacks suck. However, they offer wicked cheap flights even at the last minute, so I find myself flying with them from time to time. Since hearing that they now have wireless internet on all their flights, I’ve been curious to try it out. Yesterday, I got the chance.
It was just a short hop from Baltimore to Boston, but I gladly dropped $5 to get access to the WiFi for the duration of the flight. If it was actually reliable enough to play poker, it would be well worth the investment and could make future flights a lot more palatable (and profitable).
I found it to be quite quick, far better than the WiFi provided at most hotels. I had no trouble connecting to Full Tilt Poker and playing several tables of Rush Poker, and none of the flight attendants hassled me about it or anything. Not that there’s actually anything illegal about playing anyway, but I was prepared to tell a fretful attendant that I wasn’t playing for real money just to avoid some overly paranoid reaction.
Of course, sometimes it pays to be suspicious:
Full Tilt No-Limit Hold’em, $2.00 BB (6 handed) – Full-Tilt Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com
UTG ($111.80)
MP ($283.95)
Hero (CO) ($201)
Button ($246.65)
SB ($681.95)
BB ($200)
Preflop: Hero is CO with A
, Q
2 folds, Hero bets $6, Button calls $6, 2 folds
Flop: ($15) 2, 6, J
(2 players)
Hero bets $9, Button calls $9
Turn: ($33) 6
(2 players)
Hero checks, Button bets $33, Hero calls $33
River: ($99) 7 (2 players)
Hero checks, Button checks
Total pot: $99 | Rake: $3
Results:
Button had Q, K (one pair, sixes).
Hero had A, Q (one pair, sixes).
Outcome: Hero won $96
I was calling river too, obviously.
Looks like you play a lot and whenever you get a chance to do so. Is it easy for you to keep A-game level day by day?
I ask becouse it is my the biggest leaks. I think that downswing happenns when you play your B (or lower) game and aren’t aware of that.
Or maybe you are half men and half robot 🙂
Actually, my work ethic kinda sucks compared to that of most serious online pros. I’ve got enough other stuff going on that I have to sneak hours in when I can just to hit my goal of 15 hours/week. I actually knowingly play my B-game sometimes just because it’s enough of a struggle to get hours in when I can. I’d never play enough hours if I only played under perfect conditions. I figure even my B game is more profitable than nothing at all, though of course the danger of slipping into unprofitable C territory is magnified.