Those ribs I made really sucked ass.  Since I'm trying to be a Southern dude with the ribs, I guess I should have said "sucked ass, y'all."  Regardless of the accent, it just sucked.  Man!  I wish I wasn't such a BBQ scrub.

But I know what I want to do differently next time!  Eye of the Tiger, baby!

I felt a little wired yesterday and decided to play for a "few" hours.  Normally, I'm not a supersitious guy, and keep playing regardless of how much I make or lose.  Because as a winning player, the longer you play, the more money you should expect to make.  Period.  The only exception is when I have a day like yesterday and I climb back from a big hole.  The first hour was just the most painful wanging after wanging I had experienced in a "while."  Um... no...  in weeks - because that's just how I roll.

TIP

My HEM was super sluggish for weeks.  I've been pretty good about purging unnecessary hand histories and vacuuming the database, but I did not realize there was other stuff I needed to do from time to time to maintain the database.  In particular, I'm talking about optimization.  I had never even heard of it before, but apparently you're supposed to do it every 20-75K hands, which for me is almost every week.  Below are the instructions from Fozzy:

"If you perform regular maintenance, from your very first import, your DB is much more likely to be stable.
http://faq.holdemmanager.com/questio...s+Optimization
1 - Options > Database Management... > Connect > Optimize
2 - Select the Database from the Optimization window
3 - I recommend you use the [x] Quick option once a week, or every 10k - 30k hands
4 - Optimize > Yes
Wait for it to finish and change the greyed out Exit button back to a selectable option.
Once a month, or every 50 - 100k hands, you should run a [x] Standard or [x] Full option, instead of the Quick Optimization."

My HEM runs so much more smoothly now.  Click here for a full list of HEM performance improvement tips.