OMG!  Mrs. Fly's cheating on me!  And in the tenth year of our marriage.  I had a few signs here and there - like she's been working out more (running on the treadmill, taking pilates classes, etc), eating healthier and dressing better.  But I didn't put it all together until it was too late.  I actually caught her red handed!  IN MY HOME! IN MY KITCHEN! Where my wife used to cook... and my children play with their toys.

Okay, maybe I'm overreacting a *little* to the veggie burgers in the house.  It's probably not like getting shot at - that quote is from Godfather II... sort of.  But I've never been shot at so I wouldn't know.  To be honest, it tasted okay.  Not sure if it was just psychological, but it wasn't as filling.  And I suppose it's not that much worse than 95% lean turkey burgers.  But poultry is basically vegetable so I suppose the point is moot.

POKER

In my quest to be a better poker play, I'm losing more money than ever.  While the last few weeks have been a lot of bad breaks after another, I feel like I'm just constantly losing money and only picking up money on huge stupid plays by my opponents.  I'm guilty of the occasional stupid play myself - just not as often as my opponents.  I guess the reason I'm a little concerned is that as time goes on, you expect the number of huge stupid mistakes by opponents to decrease.  The reasons for this is that players will continue to get better and the players that don't won't be playing that much longer. I suppose I could pray that the stream of fish never ends, but I would prefer to have a more solid poker plan.  I've identified some of my huge areas for development so it'll be a work in progress for a while.

Lately, I've been noticing a huge surge in the number of shallow tables at FT, especially in the afternoons.  Some days shallow and cap tables comprises of over 40% of all mid stakes cash tables (more in 6max and almost none in FR).  The number of shallow tables falls off in the evenings.  I'm not sure what is causing this - not sure if there's a second wave of European short stackers who are playing during the day.  Since I pretty much go where the the poker trend is (i.e. the games with the most number of tables), I'm going to have to start learning to play the shallow tables (again).  As much as I think shallow stack poker is retarded, as a poker pro I can't ignore the fact that almost half of all players want to play these games.  The only thing I've figured out so far is that betting 3.5x preflop is retarded for this game (2-2.5x is better), and people don't 3bet AA preflop because the stacks are so shallow.  For the novices out there, something seemingly as small as going from 100bb to 40bb stacks has a bunch of strategic ramifications.