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I’m continuing to run well. I won same $109/$15k turbo again last night after sucking out on APerfectGent three or four times three-handed and heads up (Q5 > AJ, A9 > JJ, A6 > QQ). It was fairly ridiculous. A few other runs elsewhere yesterday, but nothing substantial. Random Cake tourneys, mostly. I like Cake, but I always seem to time out more on every site when I’m playing there. I tried a weird set-up yesterday where I stacked tables by site to try to fix that, and it worked pretty well.

Outside of poker, I’ve started playing this video game a little bit more:

I play as the Suns and did a fantasy draft where, after a few trades, I nabbed Steve Nash, Leandro Barbosa, Kevin Durant, Jorge Garbajosa, and Brendan Wright. I pretty much ride my starters all the time, with Mike Conley, Jason Williams, and the late Eddie Griffin available if anyone fouls out. There are a number of things that make this game absolutely ridiculous:

1. You get assists when you definitely shouldn’t. For example, Jorge Garbajosa is leading the fast break. He passes the ball to Mike Conley under the basket, and Conely blows the lay-up. Garbajosa gets the rebound and dunks it in. For whatever reason, the game credits Garbajosa with not only the rebound and the points, but also with the assist. So somehow he got an assist from himself.

2. My best players are almost certainly Brendan Wright and Jorge Garbajosa. I don’t have an explanation for it. When I used to play NBA Live way back in the day (in the days of NBA Live ’95 for the computer), I used to try to score all my points with my created player. I’d also set it for 12 minute quarters, which is ridiculous given the pace almost everyone plays in video games. But nowadays I spread the ball around, and it just so happens that Brendan Wright gets a ton of easy baskets.

3. The random players who get love. The easiest example is that the cover athlete is Gilbert Arenas. It gets much worse, though. If you play the team with Jamaal Magloire, you get a speech from Steve Kerr (one of the announcers) about the need to stop Jamaal Magloire in the post. Jamaal Magloire ended up averaging under 2 points a game in 2008. I don’t think anyone needed to worry about his presence in the post.

In short, I need to find more productive ways to spend my time. I’m going to try to get a regular schedule going once graduation/finals are completely over so I don’t end up spending a ton of time playing a nearly three year old basketball video game against the CPU.

By the way, if you’ve never played NBA Live ’95, you missed out:

Good luck,

David

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