Floppy Nuts

It’s been a hectic few weeks.  I think I’m going to have to just stop pretending that I’m going to come back and update regularly.  Simple as it is to write stuff here, I seem to be able to put it off forever.

To continue where I left off…

I ended up having to delete a good portion of my PokerTracker database because it had grown too large and I couldn’t get the software to update everything. I also had to cut off my previous database and start a new one, which screwed up what would have been my next graph, because data was split between two databases. I wasn’t really happy about it, but now I know not to let it get too big in the future.

At the end of April I took a couple weeks off to make a trip home to the US and visit with some family.  When I returned, I discovered that I had somehow left some of my new poker knowledge behind, and went through a terrible losing streak for the month of May and beginning of June. There was also some delay between my coaching sessions because my coach went to Las Vegas to play in some of the World Series Of Poker events.

Once I finally got back together with El Nino, things began to turn around again. I’m still a little shaky in some areas, but I’m doing much better than I was before. My game is completely different from what I was doing a couple months ago. I’m now starting to grind out a steady profit and looking ahead to moving up through stakes, with my goal being 50NL.

Since the buy-in changes on PokerStars, the games seem to be better, even if not as good as I’d hoped. At the very least, I don’t have to deal with the shortstackers anymore, and I really like that.

I guess that’s about it for now. Hopefully the next time I update I’ll be writing about crushing 10NL and finally moving back to 25NL. Got my fingers crossed…

May the fish be with you…

A few days, or weeks, late as usual, I return with my head hanging kind of low to post a graph I’d rather keep to myself. Let’s get that out of the way first. Here’s my March results at 25NL.

As you can see, the month started out in a stellar downswing. Downswing being a euphemism for  really bad horrible play. I managed to recover,  only to fall back into the negative again, and then barely pull myself up to a positive finish for the month. I had my first coaching session during the last week of the month, so I suppose that at least shows the coaching had helped some.

The first week of April I had my second session with Coach Nino, which was followed fairly quickly by a third “emergency” session.

During the second session, El Nino 1 suggested that I stay at 10NL for now so that my costly mistakes won’t cost me quite so much as I’m getting used to my new style of play.  If there was any one golden piece of advice he gave me, that was it. After our second session, when I began to really increase the ranges of hands I played, I swiftly dropped about 12 buy-ins at 10NL over about a 5 day period. That was what prompted our emergency 3rd coaching session.

I sent him an email, desperate and crazy, explaining how badly I’d been doing and he suggested that we get together (virtually) and I watch him play a few hands to demonstrate more visually what he had been trying to explain to me. Whenever I try to change something in my play I have this tendency to think “I know more now…so I should win more now.”  That inevitably leads to me spewing out money all over the place thinking that I’m outplaying the fish when, in fact, I am making myself the new king fish at the table.

After watching him play for a while I realized I was allowing myself to get far too aggressive where it was not warranted, and I finally started to get it. I needed to reel myself back in, and think more.

April started out looking about the same as the beginning of March, but over the last few days I’ve been able to get back to winning and have a much better understanding of what I’m doing, and what I expect to be doing in the future as the coaching and my growth within the game continues.

On a slightly different subject, PokerStars changed the minimum/maximum buy-ins for their cash game tables today, which I was thrilled about. My face lit up in a smile when I logged in today to see that they were finally doing something about the rampant shortstack problem that has plagued the games there since Full Tilt raised their minimums a few months back.

My smile soon faded as I realized that with the new software update, my version of PokerTracker stopped working. I quickly went to the PokerTracker site and found the update to make everything peachy again, only to run into more problems.

With the new update, I needed to run all kinds of maintenance operations on my database before the new version will run. Unfortunately, I tried to run the maintenace routines twice, only to have them run for roughly 90 minutes before PostgreSQL (the database engine behind PokerTracker) crashed. So that was 3 hours of wasted time. I then tried to run the maintenance directly from PG, which seemed to work, but then PokerTracker still wanted to update it’s cache before it will do anything else.  I started the process of “rebuilding” the cache, only to have it run for another 90 minutes and crash again. So again, I restarted everything and went back to have it “update” the cache instead of rebuild.  As I write this, that process has been running for 2 1/2 hours so far. I have something like a 5 gigabyte database, so everything takes forever. Luckily, so far, it has not crashed, but it’s looking like there isn’t going to be any poker for me today. Even if this thing finished up in the next few minutes, I’m so frustrated by the process taking all day that I’m really in no mood to play anymore.

So here I sit, sipping some wine, trying to figure out what to do with myself for the next few hours since I can’t really use the computer for much else while the database stuff is running. Hopefully tomorrow will be a smoother day and I can really enjoy the “new” games on PokerStars. I’m absolutely dying to see how the buy-in changes affect the games. And, of course, I’m hoping my winning streak will continue, and that my win rate might even increase without having to deal with the shortstacks anymore.

I guess that’s it for me for now…

May the fish be with you…

I had my first session with El Nino yesterday. It begand with about 80-90 minutes of him watching me play on 4 tables, asking me why I did what I did, and making a few comments about ways I’d need to adjust. After that, I think we had about 40-50 minutes of pure discussion and planning. The 2 hour session ended up being closer to 2 1/2 hours. He didn’t charge me anything extra, or cut anything short because time had expired.

I was really amazed with how he looked at things. Within a few minutes of getting myself seated at 4 tables, he had already picked up on several traits among my opponents that I hadn’t even thought about. He was extremely clear and easy to understand as he was giving me advice. I was particularly impressed as we played through a hand that I normally would have folded, when he said, “He’s probably got something like King Jack.”  I ended up winning the hand at showdown, and a moment later, Poker Tracker revealed that my opponent was holding King/Jack offsuit.

During the discussion at the end of the session, he explained some of the comments he made and questions he asked during the play time. He also made a few suggestions to get me started on breaking out of the ultra-nit image. He went through a few things on Poker Stove and suggested some ranges of hands that I could add to my current range in various positions. He pointed out a few stats in Poker Tracker and showed me what my stats should look like if I’m applying everything correctly. Everything he said made perfect sense, and nothing seemed like it would be difficult to implement.

At El Nino’s suggestion, I played my first session today at 10NL instead of 25NL so as not to lose a lot of money if I completely screwed up. I also dropped down from my normal 10 tables to 6 tables, and then eventually went up to 8 tables. I had prepared earlier a new chart for myself with my new ranges, and I was ready to give it a shot.

I ended up playing about 1300 hands, which is a small sample, but I did extremely well. I ended up 3 1/2 buy-ins ahead, with a win rate of 13.45 BB/100 hands.  That’s about 3 times my normal win rate at 10NL. It’ll be interesting to see how it holds up over the next few days. I’m still not sure if I’m going to do 10NL for another day or two, or give it a shot at 25NL. I can see very clearly from my stats though, that most of the money I made throughout the sessions came from doing what I was advised to do.

I’m super excited and anxious to see what happens as I’m able to learn more, and add more to my game over the next few sessions. I’m thinking the graph for March is going to look really good.

May the fish be with you…

So far I´ve been doing good, but not great with 25NL.  I´m winning, but not by much. Over about 40k hands I´m only hitting a win rate of about 1 BB/100 hands.

I understand that most of the trouble I´m having with the win rate is because I´m stuck in my nitty ways which worked so well at 5 and 10NL. At 25NL, it keeps me from getting paid. It´s too easy to tell when I´ve got the nuts, because I´ve always got the nuts.

In an effort to break myself out of my nit shell, I have signed on for at least a few coaching sessions with El Nino 1.  I ¨discovered¨ El Nino through his ¨well¨post at twoplustwo.com. I had never heard of him before, but after reading through the thread, I became very interested in figuring out how he does what he does…which is earning a good living playing 50NL full time.

I asked a few questions, and got a few good answers.  Slowly I read the entire thread and found that I really liked a lot of the answers he gave to the poker related questions he received. I could see that we share a lot of the same thoughts about the game of poker, and what it means to make a living out of it without trying to prove you´re some kind of superstar. He came off as very smart, and very humble.  I liked both of those qualities.

Lucky for me, he also announced in that thread that he was willing to take on some coaching students for a very good price. I sent him a private message on twoplustwo with a few questions and a little info about me to see if he thought I was the type of player he could help. A little while later I had a response with more answers that I liked, and his name on AIM. A couple of hours ago I spoke with him for a while through skype, and in the end we agreed on setting up a few coaching and sweat sessions. I´ll have my first two hour session with him tomorrow afternoon.

I was amazed with how observant he was about everything I was telling him. He was basically able to tell me exactly how I play just by hearing 2 or 3 of my stats. He even guessed some of my other stats within 1% accuracy, based on what he´d assume I´d do because of my more primary stats. I was impressed.  The conversation went well, and I think we got along well and will have a good working relationship together.  I´m both excited to see what he can teach me, and afraid of embarrassing myself as he watches me play for the first time tomorrow.

I´m  looking forward to hopefully posting some really sexy graphs, and some really good reviews of my coaching experience. I feel like I´m sitting right on the edge of everything. Behind me is what I know, what I was. In front of me is the unknown, what I want to become. I´m hoping El Nino 1 can give me the last little push I need to finally discover what it´s like on the other side.

At the least, I´ll be back at the end of March to post my monthly graph, but I´ll probably try to post one or more updates before then as the coaching progesses. I really think it´s going to be an interesting experience.

May the fish be with you…

A couple of days late, but here are my results for February, not including bonuses.

I started out the month trying to do a bit too much. I was 16-tabling 5NL and 10NL, which mostly turned out to be 5NL since it was nearly impossible to table select and avoid shortstacks at 10NL.

I played about 30,000 hands of 5NL with a horrible win rate. At least it was a win rate though, and not a loss rate. When I moved myself back to 10 tables and stuck to 10NL, as I mentioned in an earlier post, my win rate was better.  I ended up playing about 16,000 hands of 10NL during the month. Towards the end of the month I started making my moves towards 25NL and played about 7000 hands there, with a fair win rate over the small sample.  All in all, across the 3 levels, I played 53,562 hands of poker in February.

I’m still struggling a bit with 25NL. I think I’m improving though. I seem to find myself getting a little more bored though because there seem to be a lot more regs and tables seem to get ultra-tight or just break up very quickly. I find I’m rarely at any table more than 50 hands before I have to replace it with a new one. I guess I have to either get used to it, or learn how to abuse some of the regs.

Anyway, here’s the graph for February, not spectacular, but still going up, and not bad for a short month I suppose.

May the fish be with you…

So far this month has gone pretty well. II´m still winning at a good rate, and decided to try to maximize my earnings.

I started February playing 16 tables of 10NL as much as I could. After a few days I decided I had to mix mostly 10NL tables with some 5NL because it was just too difficult to keep 16 tables going at the $10 dollar tables without them either becoming too tight to be profitable, or filling with short stacks after a few minutes. I can play 16 tables fine as long as I can keep them open and play, but having to constantly jump from one table to another on top of it was really getting on my nerves.

So after a few days of that, I decided it would be easier overall, and most likely more profitable, if I cut my tables down to 10 and played all 10NL and just concentrated more on the game. After playing 16 tables for a couple weeks and then dropping back to 10, I was amazed at how slow and easy everything felt. Although I get a litle  bored sometimes with just the 10 games going, I feel like I have forever to think about what I´m doing and I really get a lot more reads on the people I´m playing against. Not to mention, I take a lot more notes, which eventually helps even more later. I was right…my win rate improved a bit from what I was maintaining with 16 tables.  Less hands over time, but higher win rate for hands played, so everything evens out.

I´ll wait for the end of the month to get into any profit numbers, since I´m trying very hard to look at monthly income, and not daily, in order to keep myself in the right state of mind to play well. However, with the ¨Stellar Rewards¨ that Poker Stars is issuing now, plus the bonus they offered for their ¨F40¨ promo (I wasn´t lucky enough to hit any milestone hands.), plus normal bonus money from my FPP´s, I´ll end up making something like $120 in just bonuses this month.

With the extra from those bonuses I find myself rolled for 25NL. I started taking shots at the twenty-fives yesterday. First I mixed a few $25 tables into my normal session of $10´s. That lasted about an hour. I got lucky fairly quickly and stacked someone in my first 500 or so hands of 25NL. That pretty much squashed all my doubts and nervousness. When I saw that $25 jump forward, I instantly wanted more. I wasn´t going to settle for $10 at a time now. So I started closing all the $10 tables and replacing them with 25NL until I had all 10 running at the new level.

I played about 1000 hands of 25NL in that first session and shut down for the night with a respectable win rate of about 3.5 BB/100. I played another 2100 hands today and came out ahead again. My win rate was not quite as high today, but I know exactly why. I made 1 terrible mistake that I realized as soon as I hit the call button, and that cost me 1 buy-in. Then I had 2 all-in hands where I had the nuts and it turned out that my opponent had the same hand, so two split pots instead of 1 or 2 buy-ins ahead. If I´d have realized I was making a mistake 1 second sooner, and 1 of those  split pots went my way I would have finished 2 1/2 buy-ins up instead of the half buy-in that I actually ended up with.

I´m feeling 10 times more confident than I did on my previous attempt several months ago with 25NL. So hopefully the graph for the end of this month will be a happy one. I´m actually kind of anxious to get back into it tomorrow and see if I can keep it up.  I´m already thinking about 50NL. I suppose that´s good…I´m thinking that I can´t wait to get there, not thinking it´s at all scary. I´m amazed with how my outlook has changed over the last few months.

I should be back in a few days with a (hopefully) positive graph for February.

May the fish be with you…

Poker is a strange game. Every part of the game is filled with deception and misdirection. It’s not just the players trying to mess with your mind though. The game itself can get you lost behind smoke and mirrors if you don’t stop and try to see through the illusions.

Poker is not a card game, and one does not win at poker by playing the best sets of cards. Poker is a game of mental challenges and strategies that just happens to use cards as the vehicle for setting up the situations that a player must navigate. We do not play poker against the cards, we play against the other players. We do not always win when we have the best hand, and we do not always lose when we have the worst hand. A good player must learn both how the cards work, and how his opponents work.  Someone who only understands one or the other is severely handicapped when playing against someone who understands both.

“Winning” at the game of poker is not about having the best hand when all the cards are on the table. Someone can win several hands of poker by showing down the best cards in a short period of time, but still be an overall loser because they continue to lose money over longer periods of play.

Making money in poker is not necessarily based on winning hands.  I, for example, average a fairly good win rate in terms of money made for hands played, but when I examine my stats I see that I normally only win in about 5% to 6% of the hands that are dealt to me.  I “lose” roughly 95% of the time that I play, but I make money.

A poker player does not earn money by winning large amounts when he wins.  Everyone at the table is going to get the same number of top hands eventually if they play long enough.  Everyone eventually will win a big all-in hand and maybe even get stacks from 2 or 3 players all at once. The difference between making money and losing money though, is that a losing player will continue to play and eventually lose it all back to another player or players. A winning player, while still losing plenty of hands, will lose less money as he continues to play, then when he wins again he will show a net profit after his series of losses.  A good player does not make money by winning more, he makes money by losing less.

These are just some of the things that go through my mind as I sit with my fist under my chin, humming along to songs I’ve heard 1000 times, waiting for the next 2 cards to fly across my screen and add a few more cents to my bankroll.

May the fish be with you…

As usual, it´s been too long since I wrote any kind of update here. Over the last month I´ve told myself I was going to write up an entry at least 4 or 5 times, but I never got to it. I didn´t get to it because I was playing a lot of poker, so I guess that´s a good enough excuse.

My last entry was at the end of November, and as I´m sure anyone could tell from that post, I wasn´t exactly super excited or super confident about playing too much. During December I played a fair amount, but nothing on any type of schedule. I was trying more to get some enjoyment out of the game rather than trying to push things and go crazy again. It was some quiet time with myself to try to relax, not try to become a poker champion.

I discovered something pretty enlightening during my off and on play throughout December. I discovered that when I didn´t care so much, and when I stopped trying so hard, I actually played some pretty good poker. As soon as I decided that I just wanted to have some fun, and let all the chatter from the ¨pros¨ at twoplustwo slip out of my head, my win rate began to rise. It is absolutely amazing what can happen when you just sit back and relax a little.  I don´t mean to imply that there is anything wrong with the twoplustwo forums…but there is certainly a very wrong way to go about using all the information you find there. When you get advice from someone else, you need to look at things very carefully, and then be even more careful when you try to use it in a real money game. It´s VERY easy to think you totally understand, when, in fact, you´ve completely missed the point.

Towards the end of December my win rate started to hit levels I had never achieved before. I was quite happy to say the least. But, more importantly, I had finally figured out why I was winning, and what allowed me to play a winning game. I didn´t learn any new tricks, or solve any crazy math. All I did was finally sit back, relax, and listen to myself. That was it. The hardest part of the game was simply following my own advice time after time. The ¨time after time¨is the key part of that sentence. I realized that every time I ended a session 1 or 2 buy-ins down, I could remember losing 1 or 2 all-in hands where I went against my own judgement and made a call I knew I should not have made. I didn´t bleed off blinds or big bets in slow trickling leaks, I lopped off big portions of my bank roll all at one time with the speed and precision of an axe murderer. I realized I was allowing myself to tilt, and if I could just stop doing that 1 or 2 times during a session, I´d have a lot more sessions that were 1 buy-in winners instead of 2 buy-in losers. Simple enough, right? It´s harder to do than it sounds.

Proving my point above, about understanding advice, I finally understood a concept that I thought I had understood all along. Tommy Angelo speaks of ¨tiltlessness¨ in his book Elements Of Poker. We try to tilt less in an effort to become tiltless. I don´t know exactly how I got myself to this point, but I am here, and it feels very good. I don´t think I´ve achieved full tiltlessness, but I am certain I tilt less, and I´m probably somewhere around 90-95% tiltless overall. Thank you again Tommy!

So anyway, I decided to get back into things full swing with my new attitude for the new year. I started playing a bit more on a schedule with daily goals, and tracking my play in January. I did just slightly less than double my bank roll on Poker Stars during the month.

Here is my PokerTracker graph for the month. I think I´m going to try to post one every month to help motivate myself. Click it for full size.

I started the month playing 6 tables of 5nl and finished the month playing 14 tables of 5nl and 10nl mixed. I´d say I switched up to 10 tables around the middle of the month and played the last 4 or 5 days at 14 tables. Time varied from about 2 or 3 hours in the beginning of the month, to a more solid 4 hours every day towards the end. I played just about every day. I don´t think I could have missed more than 1 or 2 days.

I´m hoping that by playing 14 tables from the beginning of February, and moving to all 10nl tables, I´ll be able to bump that income up to somewhere around $500 for February. We´ll see how that goes.

May the fish be with you…

There is something to be said for setting goals for yourself. There is also something to be said for accepting a failure to reach those goals.

It’s been quite a while since I wrote anything here. I have thought a lot about giving up poker. I also thought about just letting this blog become one of the thousands of poker blogs out there that suddenly stop short one day when the author apparently  gave up, walked away, and vanished into cyberspace.

I decided I don’t want to be one of those guys that starts off all excited, writes about all the good things, leaves out all the bad things, and then just disappears one day when the unmentioned bad things get too bad. I started this thing with the intention to tell a story, a whole story. I would have liked for it to be a glorious story of triumph, happiness and riches…but it hasn’t worked out that way.

Somewhere along the way I broke myself. What had once been a clear plan and a disciplined style of play, learning and review became a convoluted stream of mistakes, confusion and disappointment. I lost my ability to focus, my trust in my own judgement, and my faith in my strategies. I was convinced that I was smarter than everyone I played against, and that I deserved to win, no matter how many bad moves I made or how many stacks I handed over to my opponents.

Shortly after my last post regarding Full Tilt, things went bad in a very straight down to hell sort of way. I was able to clear a lot of bonus money on Full Tilt and rack up Iron Man Points like a madman. Unfortunately, all that happened was that I ended up giving my bonuses away to other players. I was able to keep myself pretty much even, but I didn’t make a dime. If I take out the bonuses I was awarded, I lost a ton of money. I started changing everything I was doing, every time I sat down for another session. I tried regular tables, deepstack tables, loose strategies, tight strategies, shortstack strategies, and maybe even an Indian rain dance mixed with some Voodoo ritual.

To make a long story short, I crashed and I crashed hard. Shortly after that last post I gave up on Full Tilt, and shortly after that I pretty much gave up on poker alltogether. I spent several weeks basicly scared to play any poker at all, because I just couldn’t control my state of mind anymore, and I was afraid of losing everything I was able to make so far. For several months after that I would only allow myself to play occasionally for a few hours on weekend evenings. They were usually very short sessions, leaving when I hit either my first big win or big loss for the session.

I decided recently that I don’t want to give up. I realize I still have a lot of work to do, and that my goals from the beginning were probably a little bit unrealistic. Perhaps the goals weren’t unrealistic as much as the time frame in which I tried to achieve them. I still have the same dreams, even if maybe a little less drive.

I need to find the fun in everything again. That’s true for much of my life at this point, not just the poker part. I haven’t read any blogs or participated on any forums for at least 6 months.

I’m planning to try to get myself back into twoplustwo and hopefully play a bit more on a regular schedule, something like 1-3 hours a day, 3 or 4 days a week and see how that goes. I’ll be sticking to Pokerstars since I’ve always been most comfortable with their software, and in my absence they seem to have kept on growing. There are always a ton of players on and plenty of good tables running.

Luckily, even through all the trouble, I still haven’t had to redeposit. My current bankroll on Pokerstars leaves me a bit over-rolled for the $10 tables, so that’s where I’ll be.  Hopefully I’ll also be able to make more regular updates here and pull this thing back from the dead.

May the fish be with you…

When I decided to move up to 25NL, I also decided to try to move over to Full Tilt Poker to take advantage of rakeback and their $600 first-time deposit bonus. I did not like what I found at all.

My first experience with Full Tilt was absolutely horrible. I was incredibly used to the PokerStars software, and found Full Tilt’s client program to be slow and lacking in many features. Aside from the basic software itself, I was not used to the look and layout of Full Tilt. I found myself confused and making stupid mistakes, like not spotting players in the hand because I didn’t realize their 2 little cards were still active. PokerStars shows live cards on the table, Full Tilt shows the cards above the player’s name. I kept looking around the empty table and thinking I was heads-up with someone when there was really a 3rd or 4th player still in the hand. I also kept confusing who was on the button because the two sites place the button slightly differently in relation to the player avatars. In the end, I ended up losing slightly over $100 in slightly over an hour. I was not a happy camper.

Incredibly angry over the loss and disappointment with their software, I immediately went back to PokerStars (and kept right on losing). The amount of money I’d lost, and how quickly I lost it, really set me off. As I mentioned in my last post here, that’s where I started changing things in my game. I lost somewhere around another $100 in the $25 games on PokerStars.

After a couple weeks of convincing myself that I do indeed know how to play poker, I’m giving 25NL at Full Tilt another shot. The first few sessions have been promising. I can’t yet handle the 8 tables I normally play on PokerStars, but I seem to be doing well with 5 tables running. I’ve come out a winner the first few sessions, and got the first $20 of my $600 bonus. I’m also earning rakeback which should end up padding my earnings by something like $400 per month.

I’m getting more and more accustomed to the Full Tilt software now and not having nearly as much trouble figuring out what’s going on at multiple tables. It’s taken a couple days, but I’ve figured out how to use their software a bit better and get myself up and running quicker in the games I want to be in.

I do still, however, feel that their software is terrible. With multiple tables open, it starts to slow down my computer much more than the PokerStars client. (I have a dual core Pentium D system with graphics card and a ton of RAM, I’m not trying to run it on some outdated junker.) The sorting options in the lobby (at least for cash games) are just a hair above useless. PokerStars allows you to use multiple criteria for sorting table lists. I can get into the games I want without thinking about it. Full Tilt doesn’t even let me filter out stakes I don’t want to play. So I have to find my stakes, watch out for pot-limit or no-limit, then I can only sort by 1 of the listed criteria, and everything else I have to manually scroll up and down and find the tables I want. I’m getting better at doing it, but it drives me nuts. It’s such an incredible waste of time and effort when all I want to do is play cards.

As far as poker itself, I’m still sticking to my little hand chart, and so far it’s working great. I’m also concentrating very hard on keeping myself in the right state of mind, and avoiding emotional play. My wife even said that she finds it a little disturbing that I’m showing so little emotion as I play now. She says she doesn’t like it that she can’t tell if I’m winning or losing because I’ve always got the same calm look on my face. She says I’ve become “Poker Buddha”.  I think that’s a pretty good thing. I’m not feeling nervous, or scared, or outnumbered, or outsmarted, or any of the other things I was feeling when I took my first shot at the $25 games. Things are going well so far, and I’m feeling pretty confident. I think I’m going to stick with both Full Tilt, and the $25 cash games.

I’m not sure what I’m going to do once I’ve cleared the full $600 bonus. I may just go back to PokerStars and try to get higher VIP and bonus levels with them. I suppose it all depends on how accustomed I get to the rakeback…

May the fish be with you…