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Sep. 23rd, 2006 12:08 amHaving gone 5 for 5 on poker sites yesterday, today it looked very much as if I would go minus five for minus five.
It being the end of the week, tiredness was beginning to take hold and tilt might have been a factor, but I just went "stuff this for a lark" and shifted up to 5-10 on Ultimate, while simultaneously playing 2-4. I hate Ultimate at the best of times, but I'm going to clear the last $64 of that deposit bonus if it kills me. Then I'll just run off whatever UB points I have in those $5 tournaments that last forever, and goodbye UB!
However, after Paradise decided that the CPU would explode every time I booted it up, Ultimate decided that it wouldn't work with Pokertracker. I looked on the PT web site and there was no mention of any problem, but I spent ages trying to get it to work. Hell, without PT, I might as well be playing on Virgin.
As it happens, I recovered from a $150 minus at UB to be slightly up, at which point the game broke. It was nice to play 5-10 again, no feeling of being outclased, although there were moments of "oh for god's sake, you're having a laugh".
After I'd crashed PT a couple of times, frozen Ultimate History, locked up the hand histories (did I mention that the fact that Game Time doesn't work properly with UB and that its hand history system is designed to drive grown men to tears was a factor in me looking forward to the day that I can uninstall it? Well, I'm mentioning it now) I opened up the text files and spotted the difference. Yes, UB no longer puts "Powered by UltimateBet" at the top of the game history. This was obviously how PT recognized it as a UB hand history, hence the inability to read any of the hand files.
A quick find and replace in Word, save as a text file, and everything imported fine. However, there's no easy way to do this in real time, so until the PT "fix" comes in, UB is even worse than normal.
End of day, down $187, all in dribs and drabs, really. Looks like it could be a losing week. Bleeah.
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It being the end of the week, tiredness was beginning to take hold and tilt might have been a factor, but I just went "stuff this for a lark" and shifted up to 5-10 on Ultimate, while simultaneously playing 2-4. I hate Ultimate at the best of times, but I'm going to clear the last $64 of that deposit bonus if it kills me. Then I'll just run off whatever UB points I have in those $5 tournaments that last forever, and goodbye UB!
However, after Paradise decided that the CPU would explode every time I booted it up, Ultimate decided that it wouldn't work with Pokertracker. I looked on the PT web site and there was no mention of any problem, but I spent ages trying to get it to work. Hell, without PT, I might as well be playing on Virgin.
As it happens, I recovered from a $150 minus at UB to be slightly up, at which point the game broke. It was nice to play 5-10 again, no feeling of being outclased, although there were moments of "oh for god's sake, you're having a laugh".
After I'd crashed PT a couple of times, frozen Ultimate History, locked up the hand histories (did I mention that the fact that Game Time doesn't work properly with UB and that its hand history system is designed to drive grown men to tears was a factor in me looking forward to the day that I can uninstall it? Well, I'm mentioning it now) I opened up the text files and spotted the difference. Yes, UB no longer puts "Powered by UltimateBet" at the top of the game history. This was obviously how PT recognized it as a UB hand history, hence the inability to read any of the hand files.
A quick find and replace in Word, save as a text file, and everything imported fine. However, there's no easy way to do this in real time, so until the PT "fix" comes in, UB is even worse than normal.
End of day, down $187, all in dribs and drabs, really. Looks like it could be a losing week. Bleeah.
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