Chip porn!

That sounds fun, but don't limit to diet, or even sodas. Might be interesting to see if old-fashioned stuff gets traction, or healthier (?) options like sports drinks move forward.

The porn that's almost always SFW.

I've given this an amount of thought that may be surprising and/or boring. Can something be surprising and boring? Yes! Tax audits come to mind.

In a fair taste test, I would always pick the regular stuff over the diet. My taste buds prefer sugar and, failing that, high-fructose corn syrup, over the low-calorie sweeteners. Also, 60-something cups of corn syrup in the first round of the tournament would be a ****-ton to drink in a short time, so the non-diet drinks are out. Not that 60-something cups of artificial sweetener would be much better.

After I took the picture, the table went south as several decent to very good $2/$5 regs came on. From what I can glean by playing against regs from those games when they've been slumming at the $1/$2 tables, the $2/$5 and $5/$10 games at Springfield are reg-infested and tougher than they should be.

Quite often, the floor will have enough players on the list to open a new $2/$5 table, but when they call the list, nobody shows up at the table, because they all know each other and have assessed that there won't be enough donators at it. Instead, they hang on at the $1/$2 tables and make my games worse.

Typically, when I find several good players at my table, I transfer, but yesterday, our table consistently only had 5 or 6 players at it, while the others had 8 to 9, and the floor frowns on transfers from emptier tables to fuller ones.

All this to say that I left early. And to avoid admitting that I left early because I wanted to book a solid win for the first time in a while, which is not the professional way to go about playing poker. It was, however, a psychological boost. I'll be back at it tomorrow, Undesignated Higher Power willing.

MGM Springfield $1/$2 poker: 4 hours
+$771.00
MGM Springfield Slots: 1 hour
+$2.50

2024 Running Poker Total: 242.5 hours, +$2328.00
2024 Running Slot Total: 129.5 hours, +$5597.53

2024 Grand Total: 342 hours, +$7925.53

Oh, I wasn't thinking you do the 64-drink playoff. I was thinking of it as a thing like we've done in OOT (maybe Lounge?) occasionally, where the people vote and we play it down that way.

Glad to see you've recaptured some motivation and are back at work.