You know the problem, you’re registered for a tournament on your favourite poker site, you’ve done all the necessary time conversions (using both your fingers AND toes to count) then you log on to the site at the time you thought the tournament started only to find it started an hour ago or it doesn’t start until tomorrow or something equally annoying/embarrassing.

Well even if it doesn’t happen to you it’s happened to me so I decided to do something about it:

http://timecalc.simonspoker.com

Is a little utility I’ve written to easily convert between the time zone of popular on-line poker rooms to your local timezone. I’m still testing it so go take a look and let me know if you like/hate it or if you have any suggestions for improvements.

Also, I’m planning on adding a regular tournament listing to it to that will list things like blogger tournaments, podcast leagues etc. if you have a tournament you’d like on there drop me an e-mail or a comment.

As I reported earlier I’m currently playing in the lower limit ring games and tournies after I cashed out my bankroll for a holiday over new years. Unfortunately this drop down in limits hasn’t been going so well and I consistently find myself struggling to get motivated at levels I feel I’ve already “conquered” in the past. A typical session for me is something along the lines of:

1. Start patiently win a small pot or two.
2. Go card dead, fold patiently.
3. Hit a big hand, raise preflop and overplay it stupidly.
4. Curse my opponent for playing so “badly”. “How could he call with A7o after I haven’t raised a hand in the past two orbits?” – That kind of thing.
5. Finish the session down 10 to 20 big bets.
6. Repeat.

Not the attitude I know and I’m annoyed with myself for playing like this but for some reason or another it’s a routine I seem to have fallen into.

It’s hurting my already lower than usual bankroll which isn’t helping my low limit tilting.

Not really sure what to do at this stage, maybe it’s time to go back to basics, back to what brought me success at these levels a year or two ago… Problem is that I’m just not sure if I remember how!