I’ve always had tilt odds in the back of my mind, but it wasn’t until I started playing NL that I learned how much I can benefit from tilt odds. I’ve never been much of a chatter at tables and I used to never respond when people told me how bad a player I was. But on Titan it seems that there are some great tilt odds just from chatting with people. In my favorite recent incident, I called a jackass that was continually overbetting with A-junk with my A4o, hit an inside straight draw on the flop, called his marginal flop bet (taking into account the tilt odds of winning the hand) turned an open ended straight and nut flush draw and rivered the flush to bust him out. He immediately re-bought in for table max and started in about how terrible my play was and how he was going to bust me out if I keep playing terrible like that. His first hand in he once again overbets the pot. I think about it for a second and he starts in on the chat with “CALL! CALL! RAISE! CALL!”. I respond with “Wait until I get a good hand first.” He goes nuts. He starts dumping chips to everyone at the table, finally when he has $50 left, I get AA in first position when he’s on the button. I call and say “Hey, I’ve got a good drawing hand go ahead and go all-in. He raises my $2 call to $30. I put him all in. His K2o doesn’t improve. I’m going to miss that guy.

I have no attention span, I can admit it. For some reason when I play poker I need to be playing four different poker games (three if I’m attempting to chat with people or watch tv at the same time). I can’t help myself. I make stupid plays when I just have one table going (stupider than some of the mistakes I make when playing too many games at the same time). So I stick to the 6-max NL games. They’ve treated me well so far and I’m liking it, but I know I need to get myself used to 10-person NL games because that’s what I’m going to be playing live.

But these 6 person s’n'g tournaments? That’s the ultimate r0x0r. It’s the k-r0x0r even. Now if I can win a jackpot, I’ll be crazy excited.