Animals and Destruction

I've now had, literally, 4 separate headset/ microphones destroyed by the two animals that live in my office. The first two both lost their lives in the same incident, a savage attack featuring teeth and claws by this thing:



I went and got another, no sweat.

Then weeks later, carelessly, I left it lying on top of my poker table. I hadn't reckoned on my Dog's newfound climbing skills, and after apparently jumping from chair to table to poker table another Logitech USB All-In-One-Mike-&-Headset bit the dust.

The other animal that shares my workspace is a rabbit, as you can see, she shares her house with the afformentioned doog, (and yes, I lock him in there most of the time)*



Today, I logged onto skype to do my group coaching with Rob. Strange, can't hear anything. I look down, and neatly laid by my feet in 3 pieces lays the cable that formerly stretched from my standalone mike down to my computer. Not ONLY this, she'd chewed through the cable connecting the computer to the speakers, and through the ethernet connecting my internet. I had a spare ethernet, but I couldn't get anything else at short notice and had to miss the session.

I actually didn't tell Rob this at the time, for the same reason I didn't tell Vitas the last time it happened and he wanted a video. Namely, that the rabbit ate my homework isn't going to wash.

Poker

Meh, January was no fun after having a decent enough December. February was going fine until the other day, when I had my biannual fit of "I want to be like Nano and GuiGui and play 16 tables and still 3bet every hand and still checkraise every flop and still triple barrel every 2 tone board and make $750k every year". $8.5k up in smoke, over just 6 hours of 9-12 tabling 400NL, has made me remember where my strengths lie.

For virtually all of last year, I played 3-4 tables and concentrated intently all the time (inspired by BoyWonder btw). This allowed me to play a super aggro/ super high variance style and profit immensely. To be honest, I just don't know how Nano plays this style over that many tables and crushes, because for me, to play a style like that well you have to be a master of so many variables.........
Literally every tiny thing is important, every scrap of gameflow, every slight timing tell etc. When I play even as few as 6 tables, I just can't keep up with everything I need to keep up with, and thus when it comes down to a close decision between say shipping 200bbs as a bluff, or not, I'm invariably making the wrong one.

I am going to sound like a very broken record, this has been repeated endlessly, but if you're struggling with your game then try dropping to even 2 tables and concentrating on EVERYTHING. If you find yourself bored, then you should be paying more attention! Then, having done this, increase your number of tables slowly.

Anyway, the above has really helped me after that $8.5k day, and I'm still pretty confident of posting a $20k month.

Videos

This leads me onto videos. I've not done a midstakes one for a while, just because I've been struggling for momentum myself. There was a request to do one on Ongame, so I downloaded and stuck $2k on there. Oh, my, god, the software is bad. Like, uber uber uber tilting. So, if anyone else requests an Ongame vid then I'll try to battle through it, but otherwise I'll just do it on Party or somewhere. Any requests for stakes? Maybe a happy medium of 100NL for now?

Vegas House

I need to book a house in Vegas....... like, for a month, something like 4 bedrooms and a pool. Is there any particular reputable company I should go through, any particular area a lot of you people are going to be staying, etc? Any help or links really appreciated.

*obviously I don't ever lock him in there

dan