I was writing this email to some friends, bitching about a freaky beat when it took a different direction.
Funny thing, momets before, I had meantioned to a friend that my beats were taking on a wrath of God quality.
> Ok, I'm tilting hard.
>
> I had just started a tournament with deep stacks and had a
> pocket pair of Qs, I reraised over someone for about 3X his
> bet, flopped top set, bet 3/4 pot, bet pot on the turn, and
> he sucks out a straight on the river with KTo. That's
> not what tilts me. My luck has been running this bad for
> some time and I just expect it. Still, I know I can comeback
> despite taking a 40% hit to my stack.
>
> Then 10 minutes later, I have Q3 and hit the fold button
> after a raise. Thinking nothing of it, I select another file
> and suddenly my computer starts beeping like crazy and
> typing out
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------...
> and piling up errors on my spreadsheet asking if I wanted it
> to fix my formula?!
>
> I immediately start yanking cords but too late. I look
> over just in time to see myself go all-in for about 100 BBs.
> This all took place in the space of about 7 seconds.
>
> It turns out a button on a keypad that I had programmed a
> RAISE macro into only 10 MINUTES! before got stuck. I had
> been using it for about 10 hours before that with no
> incident and that stuck key had been programmed as a
> harmless "Alt" key (which I had used many times)
> before I changed it. For some reason my profile in the
> software tool got overwritten and I had to reprogram it with
> a couple of changes.
>
> I pressed it a second before with a "shift" which
> made it a different macro. Once I let go of the shift it
> reverted back to a raise command.
>
> With the table not active it could do nothing but silently
> buffer raise commands until I unwittingly activated the
> table a second later by hitting the FOLD button. Of course
> the timing had to be perfect, given that it only takes a
> few seconds for a stuck key to start beeping. I guess the
> buffer was way ahead of my click.
>
> Odds:
> 10 minutes into 10 hours of use before = 1:60 (I
> wouldn't have programmed it that way if it got stuck
> before)
> 20 programmable keys on the pad = 1:20
> Running into a hand strong enough to get 100 BBs in preflop
> ~1:15
> Chance I activate the table in the s[ace of a few seconds
> and not some of the many other files I had been working on
> at the same time ~1:15.
> Odds I use that key a couple of seconds before ~1:20
> Odds I don't suck out 12:1
>
> =.000015% chance or 1 in 66666.6666667.
>
> ummm... that's scary. No kidding, it just happened to
> come out that way.
>
> Well, I knew that this bad run I've been having was
> mathematically next to impossible, or should I say
> UNNATURAL?
>
> It also explains why HP servicing it a only a month ago
> taking about a month to try and fix it. Finally replacing
> the HD and motherboard. And it still has the same problems.
>
> It all becomes clear. My computer is possessed by the devil.
>
> Anyone know any good exorcist utilities? Norton
> Anti-Anti-Christ?
>
> XXXX
> *********** # 1 **************
> PokerStars Game #21412043742: Tournament #114746260, $20+$2
> Hold'em No Limit - Level II (15/30) - 2008/10/22
> 18:46:59 ET
> Table '114746260 21' 9-max Seat #2 is the button
> Seat 1: Good Paw (6300 in chips)
> Seat 2: barzoom (7365 in chips)
> Seat 3: judahpest (5520 in chips)
> Seat 4: TakenItEasy2 (2850 in chips)
> Seat 5: MO GREEN 23 (4910 in chips) is sitting out
> Seat 6: bull459 (5005 in chips)
> Seat 7: Punisher321 (4715 in chips)
> Seat 9: WillWinWSOP (8335 in chips)
> judahpest: posts small blind 15
> TakenItEasy2: posts big blind 30
> *** HOLE CARDS ***
> Dealt to TakenItEasy2 [3d Qd]
> MO GREEN 23: folds
> bull459: folds
> Punisher321: folds
> WillWinWSOP: raises 90 to 120
> Good Paw: folds barzoom: folds
> judahpest: folds
> TakenItEasy2: raises 90 to 210
> WillWinWSOP: raises 8125 to 8335 and is all-in
> TakenItEasy2: calls 2640 and is all-in
> Uncalled bet (5485) returned to WillWinWSOP
> *** FLOP *** [4h 9c Ks]
> MO GREEN 23 has returned
> *** TURN *** [4h 9c Ks] [3s]
> *** RIVER *** [4h 9c Ks 3s] [Ad]
> *** SHOW DOWN ***
> TakenItEasy2: shows [3d Qd] (a pair of Threes)
> WillWinWSOP: shows [Kd Kh] (three of a kind, Kings)
> WillWinWSOP collected 5715 from pot
>
