In a drunken stupor, I lost the rest of my stars money donking around with Sean at .50/1. Bummer. Decided to reload with echecks to take advantage of their modest deposit bonus and have been 4 tabling .50/1 to try and clear the bonus. Splashing around with 1/2 as well. About halfway there right now, not moving very quickly, but up ~$30, which is fantastic considering I've pissed about $60 on random tournaments I have no chance of cashing in. Except for that PLO8, which I rocked, then tanked with about 30 people left. Went from 2nd to out in like 5 hands.

I've learned that I need to call down with random A high hands a hell of a lot more. I'm sure it's just the level I'm playing at, but jebus people are tossing money at these pots with nothing. I never really made these types of calls before, and yeah you're wrong now and again, but meh, you get to learn a little more about your opponent and what they're betting with. You also pick off a ton of people firing arbitrarily with J8 on a 29K board when it's been checked to them. Not like this is anything new to anybody reading it, duh, but nonetheless it remains another mini-breakthrough in the world of Ham. See Ham win. Win Ham, win.

In other news, home is ridiculously boring, so I'm flying down to DC later today to visit a friend and hang out there for a few days. See some cool stuff hopefully, play some tennis, get out of the bitter cold into...less bitter cold. Play live poker too, and probably get my ass handed to me, because this guy luckboxes against me like no other. I also play stupid against him due to said luckboxing, because I'm never convinced he has it EVERY time when he raises me, so I push back with less than quality holdings to "make my stand." Sure enough though, he does, and he never fails to raise me, and never fails to bust me. Asshole...

Later days.