Not a fun week one

It wasn't the play at the tables that made for a less than stellar first week. Me and my two kids came down with the flu on Tuesday and then on Friday afternoon, my computer died.

So I frantically ran around all Saturday morning and afternoon trying to get my laptop fixed. It was a power issue so I went to the Best Buy I bought it from and they said they couldn't do anything because then power connection inside is soldered. I tried a new power cord.. no luck. I replaced the inside connection and had my brother sodder it.. nope. So apparently it was something fried on the motherboard.

So there I was on a Saturday afternoon, missing the best times of the week to play poker, with the flu, and suddenly in the market for a new laptop. Blech.

My budget for a new machine was $750 so I ended up settling on this. http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Asus+-+Laptop+/+AMD+Turion%26%23153%3B+II+Processor+/+15.6%22+Display+/+6GB+Memory+/+500GB+Hard+Drive+-+Dark+Gray/1572108.p?id=1218270199430&skuId=1572108

I bought my wife an Asus last year and she has been very happy with it. The things that attracted me most to it was the base ram and the nice video card. I finally got it completely setup last night and fired up 24 tables of 25NL. Without tweaking anything performance wise, everything was smooth and seamless. It was the least amount of lag I had ever had while 24 tabling. I am used to about a half second delay whenever I click a button before the next table pops up.. now its instant. Bring on 40 tables! :)

I am a bit disappointed that I missed all of the prime time hours last week, but overall I am fine with how the week went. After rakeback, I did increase the bankroll some and hopefully am gaining my sea legs at 100NL. I ran like complete ass in my early Friday session or I would have had a near break even week.. more than I ever could have asked for.

It sucks that I have now had to take 3 of my 18 "sick days" already. One for being sick and two for not having a computer. So already I am a bit behind for the year. All I can do is keep plugging along. Here is the graph from week 1:

As you can see, until my Thursday night double doomswitch (I ended up recovering it all by nights end but dropped $500 two separate times) I pretty much held my own.

I ran -.26 and my goal was better than -.5. So far so good.