I figured I would just post this instead of deleting it or starting over. I don't think I could finish this post 10 months later lol... I hope to do a new update entry soon. New stuff is cyan
Ha, I almost forgot I even had a blog! I'm still doing my thing though with decent results. After Black Friday, I was really discouraged and unmotivated to grind online for a few months. It was just such a step back and at the time seemed pretty daunting. I think the fact that Full Tilt Poker had yet to pay me all the money I had stuck on their site was starting to wear on me as more and more as discouraging news kept pouring in month after month. 9(edit 12) months later, they still owe the world over 350 million dollars. Such a joke
(^^ Great News that Poker Stars was able to bail out the scum bags at FTP and get the site running again. Now, Just waiting on the DOJ to pay back Americans. )
Anyway, Back to were I was at before the FTP derail. At some point in late 2011, I just had to except the fact that black friday was a reality and that I needed to be happy that I was somewhat prepared for it financially. Many Professional "Online" players were nowhere near as prepared as I was lucky enough to be. Having said that, much of all the money I had in the bank has been spent on living expenses. A kid is expensive! My wife and I decided a few weeks before black friday that she should quit her job, watch our little man and concentrate on finishing up her masters degree. I also sent a decent chunk of money into my retirement fund. Opps, not the best timing, but whatcha gonna do huh? She recently did get her masters degree in Early Childhood Development which is soemthing she should be very proud of. Hopefully next fall she gets a full time teaching job.
Other huge news is that we are having another little boy! He is expected to come in early April so it won't be long. We are still working on the name for him The 2 boys will be about 19/20 months apart. Noah is a handful himself so I can only imagine what 2 of them is going to be like. We didn't plan on the second baby but I'm happy he is coming. Watching Noah grow up the past 16 months has been the best times of my life. It's really amazing watching him pick up on things and learning how to communicate with us every week.
I really enjoyed this summer meeting and staying with a bunch of 2+2ers in Vegas. I stayed in a really sick house with a bunch of people I had only spoken with online etc and man they were a good group of guys. Most of them were from Canada and were staying in Vegas for the whole series. It's just nice to finally put some faces to some names and make some real life contacts with quality people. I had a couple deep runs in the Venetian Deep Stack Series and ended up getting a 9th place finish when my pocket tens lost to A9 on the river. So basically I broke evenish for the first 9 days I was in Vegas In early June. I did do well in the 1/2 cash games though, and besides that I had a blast hanging out with my housemates for the trip.
I flew back to Vegas to play the WSOP Main Event in early July and Wow is all I can say. I am not one to really want to play $10k buy-in type events at this point in my career but I don't EVER want to miss the WSOP Main Event. Obviously the field is going to be huge and it is going to be tough to get through 5k+ people but there just won't be any $10k buy-in even remotely as soft as the main. You can just feel the electricity in the air, it is an amazing atmosphere. I can only imagine playing this event 4-8 years ago as it has certainly got a little tougher.
snip... will try to do a recent update sometime soon.
until next time :)
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Friday, November 9, 2012
Wednesday, June 1, 2011
Summer 2011
Just a quick update. I planned on doing a trip report of Masters/Peru and everything else but have been lazy and Black Friday threw me off a good bit. They both were amazing experiences though and I would recommended anyone to go to both. RE: Black Friday:I think it is joke how the DOJ went about doing this knowing it would be harmful to many Americans who were breaking no laws. I think it's only a matter of time before we have regulated poker in the United States.
I really didn't play too much more in April after getting home from Peru, I wanted to wait and see how things played out and also had to get accounts set up and funded on Bodog/Carbon and Cake. It was really nice for PokerStars to Pay out Americans so quickly. They are the premiere site in the World AINEC. The Full Tilt Poker situation is disgusting and reflects very very poorly on how their company is/was run. Since black Friday, I was never optimistic at all about receiving the money I had on UB/AP, That was a risk I knowing took in order to make more money for myself and my family. I was very lucky to only have $3,000 on the site, the lowest amount I ever had on the site.
I spent the past two weekends out of town on mini vacations. We went to Louisville, KY for some friends 30 birthday party which was awesome. We went to Churchill Downs which was really cool, betting on horses was great fun. This past weekend we went to Hilton Head Island for 3 days which was fun. My son Noah loved the beach, I took some videos and stuff but haven't uploaded them or anything but may add them when I get back from Vegas.
I am heading to Vegas on the Friday the 3rd of June and staying for 9 days. I plan on playing 6 tournaments. I got lucky to be able to stay in a sick house for most of my stay with some really cool ppl. After that, one of my good friends and my dad is coming out for the weekend which I will spend relaxing and parting. Hopefully I will get some good pics to for my next post.
I am also planning on playing the WSOP Main Event f I can sell enough action. I have 27% reserved and put up a thread today in order to sell the rest. Check my thread to reserve action.
http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/184/staking-selling-shares-live/wsop-main-event-shares-1-25-mark-up-1046281/
I will be updating my tournament progress on twitter often in Vegas. until next time.
I really didn't play too much more in April after getting home from Peru, I wanted to wait and see how things played out and also had to get accounts set up and funded on Bodog/Carbon and Cake. It was really nice for PokerStars to Pay out Americans so quickly. They are the premiere site in the World AINEC. The Full Tilt Poker situation is disgusting and reflects very very poorly on how their company is/was run. Since black Friday, I was never optimistic at all about receiving the money I had on UB/AP, That was a risk I knowing took in order to make more money for myself and my family. I was very lucky to only have $3,000 on the site, the lowest amount I ever had on the site.
I spent the past two weekends out of town on mini vacations. We went to Louisville, KY for some friends 30 birthday party which was awesome. We went to Churchill Downs which was really cool, betting on horses was great fun. This past weekend we went to Hilton Head Island for 3 days which was fun. My son Noah loved the beach, I took some videos and stuff but haven't uploaded them or anything but may add them when I get back from Vegas.
I am heading to Vegas on the Friday the 3rd of June and staying for 9 days. I plan on playing 6 tournaments. I got lucky to be able to stay in a sick house for most of my stay with some really cool ppl. After that, one of my good friends and my dad is coming out for the weekend which I will spend relaxing and parting. Hopefully I will get some good pics to for my next post.
I am also planning on playing the WSOP Main Event f I can sell enough action. I have 27% reserved and put up a thread today in order to sell the rest. Check my thread to reserve action.
http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/184/staking-selling-shares-live/wsop-main-event-shares-1-25-mark-up-1046281/
I will be updating my tournament progress on twitter often in Vegas. until next time.
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
Masters and Peru!!
Just a quick update since it has been a while. Well the title says it all, Usually this time of the year I am super pumped about The Masters and golfing myself. This year is no different except I am getting a chance to go the Masters on Friday! I am excited to say the least, it should be a great experience. A friend of my dads has been waiting for tickets for years and finally got them for all 4 rounds. He was nice enough to give my dad 2 tickets for round 2.
I also shipped a seat to The Latin American Poker Tour Main Event in Peru last month! I won it off a satty on PokerStars that cost me 20,000 fpp. My wife and I are leaving next Wednesday and returning home on the following Monday. It should be another great experience.
anyway, I'm off to the course to enjoy a day off! until next time...
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
ummmm yeahhh ok...................
I Haven't posted in a while so thought I would type my thoughts. This year hasn't gone that great really. I have depended on MTTs for income way to much mainly because I was/am in a situation where I can do that. The past month and a half have just been brutal. No idea how many 6ths - 20th place finishes I have but it is pretty absurd. It is stretches just like I am going through that make wining players go through the stupidest downswings in MTTs. It is also the reason that most MTT grinders aren't properly rolled for the stakes that they play and so many are backed.
Here is the damage since Feb 1st, Keep in mind that on Sundays the tourneys have bigger fields and the stakes are higher so a good chunk of this damage is from Sundays. Red Line is overall (click to see it)
I have been studying more than ever to try to break the trend. I have actually have had more chances at great scores than ever while going through this downswing but you cant win money when you fail to get top 3's in tourneys. I do sell a good chunk of my action so its not like I lost 25k or anything. I also play cash games and SNGs and do well in those formats.
I think I am going to keep playing the tourneys as long as my investors continue to have confidence in me. I definitely think I give them a fair price but I have just ran horrendous and unfortunately I have lost a good chunk of their money(and my own!). I think many of them have watched me play enough and have seen so many of the coolers and beats for tons of equity that they still think I am a good investment( and I agree). I am hoping to sell some action for some WSOP events and have also decided that I want to play the main event as well, so hopefully this downswing doesnt affect Investors who buy Live action. It definaetly won't help for the ones who rely primarly on online MTT stats when making their decision :( . Hopefully it won't be an issue anyway after this heater I am going to catch soon.
I have decided to make it a point to reach Supernova on Stars and possibly go for 200k VPPs this year. Stars is the best site imo and I would love the opportunity to represent them someday. First, I got to give them reason to want me to represent them lol. I will probably just mass table SNGs in order to reach my VPP goal but who knows. If I knew being Supernova Elite would lead to some sort of sponsorship I would probably do that.
My little boy is doing great. He makes me so happy no matter what happens in poker.
Anyway I sick of writing, Until next time...
MAY THE BOOMSWITCH COMMENCE!!!!!!!!!!!!
Here is the damage since Feb 1st, Keep in mind that on Sundays the tourneys have bigger fields and the stakes are higher so a good chunk of this damage is from Sundays. Red Line is overall (click to see it)
I have been studying more than ever to try to break the trend. I have actually have had more chances at great scores than ever while going through this downswing but you cant win money when you fail to get top 3's in tourneys. I do sell a good chunk of my action so its not like I lost 25k or anything. I also play cash games and SNGs and do well in those formats.
I think I am going to keep playing the tourneys as long as my investors continue to have confidence in me. I definitely think I give them a fair price but I have just ran horrendous and unfortunately I have lost a good chunk of their money(and my own!). I think many of them have watched me play enough and have seen so many of the coolers and beats for tons of equity that they still think I am a good investment( and I agree). I am hoping to sell some action for some WSOP events and have also decided that I want to play the main event as well, so hopefully this downswing doesnt affect Investors who buy Live action. It definaetly won't help for the ones who rely primarly on online MTT stats when making their decision :( . Hopefully it won't be an issue anyway after this heater I am going to catch soon.
I have decided to make it a point to reach Supernova on Stars and possibly go for 200k VPPs this year. Stars is the best site imo and I would love the opportunity to represent them someday. First, I got to give them reason to want me to represent them lol. I will probably just mass table SNGs in order to reach my VPP goal but who knows. If I knew being Supernova Elite would lead to some sort of sponsorship I would probably do that.
My little boy is doing great. He makes me so happy no matter what happens in poker.
Anyway I sick of writing, Until next time...
MAY THE BOOMSWITCH COMMENCE!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wednesday, December 29, 2010
Happy New Year!! (almost)
I really don't know where to even start with this entry. This year has been amazing to say the least. Probably the best year of my life for many reasons. Its official, I am Dad and it is the most rewarding thing in the world. He came 3 weeks early so was born a tiny 5 lbs 7 ozs. He is now 4 months old and 15 lbs, growing like a weed! No matter what kinda of poker day I have, It is trivial and spending time with Noah always makes me happy.
Some Pics:
First 2 are from the hospital
His is such a blessing.
Poker:
It has been very good to me this year. I beat Cash games, SNGs and MTTs this year and made way more than I expected. I feel like I am much more comfortable with the swings that are involved and I feel very comfortable with were I am at. My bankroll has grown significantly and I usually play very over rolled in everything I play which makes the swings easy to handle. I am going on a little live poker trip in January to the Southern Poker Championships In Biloxi, MS next month which I am kinda excited for. The only thing is I am going be away from Noah and my wife for 6 days which will suck some. I think a few live poker trips a year will be good for Tax reasons and a nice break from grinding online all the time.
Here is what I am playing for sure, Should be fun!
Event 24 - No-Limit Hold'em Jan 18 $1,000 + $70
Event 26 - No-Limit Hold'em Jan 19 $1,500 + $80
Event 29 - Six Handed No-Limit Hold'em Knockout Bounty Jan 20 $600 + $60
Event 30 - No-Limit Hold'em Jan 21 $2,500 + $100
Just wanted to post an update since it was wayyyyyyyyy overdue, hopefully I will put up some sort of goals or something 2011 soon. Until next time....
Some Pics:
First 2 are from the hospital
His is such a blessing.Poker:
It has been very good to me this year. I beat Cash games, SNGs and MTTs this year and made way more than I expected. I feel like I am much more comfortable with the swings that are involved and I feel very comfortable with were I am at. My bankroll has grown significantly and I usually play very over rolled in everything I play which makes the swings easy to handle. I am going on a little live poker trip in January to the Southern Poker Championships In Biloxi, MS next month which I am kinda excited for. The only thing is I am going be away from Noah and my wife for 6 days which will suck some. I think a few live poker trips a year will be good for Tax reasons and a nice break from grinding online all the time.
Here is what I am playing for sure, Should be fun!
Event 24 - No-Limit Hold'em Jan 18 $1,000 + $70
Event 26 - No-Limit Hold'em Jan 19 $1,500 + $80
Event 29 - Six Handed No-Limit Hold'em Knockout Bounty Jan 20 $600 + $60
Event 30 - No-Limit Hold'em Jan 21 $2,500 + $100
Just wanted to post an update since it was wayyyyyyyyy overdue, hopefully I will put up some sort of goals or something 2011 soon. Until next time....
Sunday, July 18, 2010
Summer/Vegas Trip Report
Hi all,
Sorry for the lack of updates. This summer has been great so far. I had 3 weeks Vacation, My baby in my wife's belly is healthy and growing, and Poker has been going great! I am getting excited about the baby, I know when he comes my life will change forever. I just hope to make him proud. I have a handful of pictures so I'm just going to post all those and comment on most of them.
This picture is from my Aunt and Uncles condo in Islamorada. It is really beautiful down there and the people are really cool and laid back. My Uncle warned me that the locals personality's are a bit different. It didn't take long to see what he was talking about. They basically tell you like it is. I found it amusing and have always respected people who say whats on there mind. The town/area is a drinking town with a fishing problem! A great place for retirement.
Their new boat! This thing is a dream. I should have gotten some better pics of it
Uncle Dana
Aunt Betty & Sadie
We went out to a reef to do some snorkeling which was really cool. After that we headed to a huge sand bar where everybody stands/floats in the water and drinks to stay cool. I love the clear water down there.
My wife and I took one day and drove down to Key West and explored everything. That was really cool because I haven't been there since I was a kid and had forgotten all the details of it.
Southernmost point: been there , done that, got an ice cream.
A sunset before dinner in Key West. I wanna say thanks again to my Aunt/Uncle. They were great host and the trip was one of the best trips I have ever been on.
About 2 days after getting home from the Keys, I was off to Vegas. My affiliate and Doyles Room ran a promotion which I ended up luck boxing for a free trip. My wife had to work after the Keys and was 6 months pregnant so obviously didn't go to Vegas with me so I took my dad. I was glad he went with me because he is always a good time to hang out with and he is my dad, lol. We flew out Friday morning and Checked into the Aria complements of poker-strategy.org and Doyles Room. This hotel was very nice. When I opened the guest room all the curtains and lights automatically opened/operated.The TV had all my room information on them and you could control anything in the rooms with the alarm clock or remote. We had a few hours to get some drinks and check the hotel out before the Limo for Dinner with Doyle was set to come. I told my dad that I wasn't sure where the dinner was going to be at but I thought he should just try to catch a ride in the limo and hang out in the casino where the restaurant I was eating at until I was finished. When The Limo pulled up, we were greeted by a man named Will who is the president of Doylesroom and was very cool. I told him my dad would just ride along but he insisted that he come to dinner with us, ship!.
We arrived at N9ne steakhouse at the Palms and I started seeing the people who I would be eating dinner with. Hoyt Corkins, Pam Brunson, Zachary Clark(CrazyZach), Amit Makhija(Amak316), and Dani Stern(Ansky) were all there. Doyle and Todd were not there yet, I think they were still at the Rio busy. It was pretty unreal, everybody at the table was very talkative and friendly. I wasn't really sure who all would be at the dinner but there was probably about 14 people total at the table[I sat in the middle :)]. I think there were 3 people like myself who had won the dinner. The food and service was amazing, the Brunsons knew the cooks so they just started bringing out a surplus of appetizers.
Shortly after Doyle arrived and I got to say hi and shake his hand which was cool. The diner wasn't rushed or anything at all, we probably sat there, talked, and drank/ate for close to 3 hours. We all had many drinks and some great cuts of meat. Todd showed up kinda after we started eating. He was playing a WSOP event and had actually just busted, the cooks rushed him out some fresh appetizers and a huge steak. All in all, the Dinner with Doyle was a once in a lifetime opportunity and I was honored to be there.
Zach, Todd, and Pam
Me and Big Papa
Jimbo and Big Poppa
I played in a $1000 WSOP event on Sunday and busted after about 7 hours. I was on 2 different tables during the 7 hours and they both were pretty tough tables for a 1k event. Notable hand, Very aggro player opens late position and I reshipped about 24 big blinds with AQs from SB. The only fish at my table was in BB and called putting himself allin. I figured he had me crushed or something and was shocked when turned over 66. I guess he had been card dead and wanted to gamble, definitely and awful spot for him though. I bricked and was left with 400 chips at 75/150. I think I won my next 4/5 allins and ended up lasting a couple more hours somehow.
The next day(Monday) I played a Venetian $350 tourney with 860 runners in it. I played for around 11 hours before getting in QQ vs AA to money bubble. So that kinda sucked but I knew I played very well. I decided that was it for me and live mtt tourneys on my Vegas trip. I would just rather grind the WSOP satellites or play the juicy cash games instead.
I was also able to meet a few online friends in Vegas which was huge. It was nice putting some faces to some names. They were all really cool and I hope to see them all again someday.
I am pretty sure this is my longest blog post ever so if you read all of it, congrats!
Until next time....
Sorry for the lack of updates. This summer has been great so far. I had 3 weeks Vacation, My baby in my wife's belly is healthy and growing, and Poker has been going great! I am getting excited about the baby, I know when he comes my life will change forever. I just hope to make him proud. I have a handful of pictures so I'm just going to post all those and comment on most of them.
This picture is from my Aunt and Uncles condo in Islamorada. It is really beautiful down there and the people are really cool and laid back. My Uncle warned me that the locals personality's are a bit different. It didn't take long to see what he was talking about. They basically tell you like it is. I found it amusing and have always respected people who say whats on there mind. The town/area is a drinking town with a fishing problem! A great place for retirement.
Their new boat! This thing is a dream. I should have gotten some better pics of it
Uncle Dana
Aunt Betty & Sadie
We went out to a reef to do some snorkeling which was really cool. After that we headed to a huge sand bar where everybody stands/floats in the water and drinks to stay cool. I love the clear water down there.
My wife and I took one day and drove down to Key West and explored everything. That was really cool because I haven't been there since I was a kid and had forgotten all the details of it.
Southernmost point: been there , done that, got an ice cream.
A sunset before dinner in Key West. I wanna say thanks again to my Aunt/Uncle. They were great host and the trip was one of the best trips I have ever been on.
Vegas Trip Report
About 2 days after getting home from the Keys, I was off to Vegas. My affiliate and Doyles Room ran a promotion which I ended up luck boxing for a free trip. My wife had to work after the Keys and was 6 months pregnant so obviously didn't go to Vegas with me so I took my dad. I was glad he went with me because he is always a good time to hang out with and he is my dad, lol. We flew out Friday morning and Checked into the Aria complements of poker-strategy.org and Doyles Room. This hotel was very nice. When I opened the guest room all the curtains and lights automatically opened/operated.The TV had all my room information on them and you could control anything in the rooms with the alarm clock or remote. We had a few hours to get some drinks and check the hotel out before the Limo for Dinner with Doyle was set to come. I told my dad that I wasn't sure where the dinner was going to be at but I thought he should just try to catch a ride in the limo and hang out in the casino where the restaurant I was eating at until I was finished. When The Limo pulled up, we were greeted by a man named Will who is the president of Doylesroom and was very cool. I told him my dad would just ride along but he insisted that he come to dinner with us, ship!.
We arrived at N9ne steakhouse at the Palms and I started seeing the people who I would be eating dinner with. Hoyt Corkins, Pam Brunson, Zachary Clark(CrazyZach), Amit Makhija(Amak316), and Dani Stern(Ansky) were all there. Doyle and Todd were not there yet, I think they were still at the Rio busy. It was pretty unreal, everybody at the table was very talkative and friendly. I wasn't really sure who all would be at the dinner but there was probably about 14 people total at the table[I sat in the middle :)]. I think there were 3 people like myself who had won the dinner. The food and service was amazing, the Brunsons knew the cooks so they just started bringing out a surplus of appetizers.
Shortly after Doyle arrived and I got to say hi and shake his hand which was cool. The diner wasn't rushed or anything at all, we probably sat there, talked, and drank/ate for close to 3 hours. We all had many drinks and some great cuts of meat. Todd showed up kinda after we started eating. He was playing a WSOP event and had actually just busted, the cooks rushed him out some fresh appetizers and a huge steak. All in all, the Dinner with Doyle was a once in a lifetime opportunity and I was honored to be there.
Zach, Todd, and Pam
Me and Big Papa
Jimbo and Big Poppa
I played in a $1000 WSOP event on Sunday and busted after about 7 hours. I was on 2 different tables during the 7 hours and they both were pretty tough tables for a 1k event. Notable hand, Very aggro player opens late position and I reshipped about 24 big blinds with AQs from SB. The only fish at my table was in BB and called putting himself allin. I figured he had me crushed or something and was shocked when turned over 66. I guess he had been card dead and wanted to gamble, definitely and awful spot for him though. I bricked and was left with 400 chips at 75/150. I think I won my next 4/5 allins and ended up lasting a couple more hours somehow.
The next day(Monday) I played a Venetian $350 tourney with 860 runners in it. I played for around 11 hours before getting in QQ vs AA to money bubble. So that kinda sucked but I knew I played very well. I decided that was it for me and live mtt tourneys on my Vegas trip. I would just rather grind the WSOP satellites or play the juicy cash games instead.
I was also able to meet a few online friends in Vegas which was huge. It was nice putting some faces to some names. They were all really cool and I hope to see them all again someday.
I am pretty sure this is my longest blog post ever so if you read all of it, congrats!
Until next time....
Friday, July 16, 2010
I'm on there. It seems way easier than blogging for me. I am still going to blog monthly or so but I should be tweeting a few times a week. I am going to be putting together a blog in the next day or two about my trip to Vegas and other things.
I am also thinking about getting a couple players to stake. I have decided that when I do stake players they will have references and be willing to learn/listen.
http://twitter.com/MJCACE
until next time(soon!)
I am also thinking about getting a couple players to stake. I have decided that when I do stake players they will have references and be willing to learn/listen.
http://twitter.com/MJCACE
until next time(soon!)
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Travel
Yup Yup Yup..my life for the next 2/3 weeks
Sorry for lack of updates. April was a great month but May hasn't been to kind to me. I won a small mtt this month for $2100, Even though it was the smallest cash I ever had for a mtt win, it probably felt better than any because I was able to own the final table due to my chip stack and table position. I played mostly sngs all month, I ran bad overall but am really happy about the way I played. I think I have improved a bit in the past couple months from studying and watching videos. Thanks to the guys who make videos, :).
I am taking a few weeks off for vacations. I am going on an annual fishing trip to my Dad's spot in Mexico Beach, FL tomorrow. I better not see any f'n oil. That is really frustrating that something like that could happen and it is going to take months(hopefully) to fix the huge Oil leak that is killing animals and damaging the earth. After I get back from the gulf, My wife and I are going to the Florida Keys for a week with my aunt and uncle, I am really looking forward to this trip. It will probably be mostly relaxing and enjoying the time off. Hopefully I will catch some fish(will post pics brag pics if worthy). I just found out yesterday that my trip to Vegas to meet Doyle will be the weekend of June 11-13th. I got kinda short notice but luckily that weekend is open since we should get back from the Keys a day or two before. I am not sure if I am taking a friend, my wife, dad, brother or just going by myself and meeting up with 2+2ers out there. I will probably stay an extra 2 days or so and play a smaller WSOP event and maybe another tourney or something.
sick or typing, Until next time
Sorry for lack of updates. April was a great month but May hasn't been to kind to me. I won a small mtt this month for $2100, Even though it was the smallest cash I ever had for a mtt win, it probably felt better than any because I was able to own the final table due to my chip stack and table position. I played mostly sngs all month, I ran bad overall but am really happy about the way I played. I think I have improved a bit in the past couple months from studying and watching videos. Thanks to the guys who make videos, :).
I am taking a few weeks off for vacations. I am going on an annual fishing trip to my Dad's spot in Mexico Beach, FL tomorrow. I better not see any f'n oil. That is really frustrating that something like that could happen and it is going to take months(hopefully) to fix the huge Oil leak that is killing animals and damaging the earth. After I get back from the gulf, My wife and I are going to the Florida Keys for a week with my aunt and uncle, I am really looking forward to this trip. It will probably be mostly relaxing and enjoying the time off. Hopefully I will catch some fish(will post pics brag pics if worthy). I just found out yesterday that my trip to Vegas to meet Doyle will be the weekend of June 11-13th. I got kinda short notice but luckily that weekend is open since we should get back from the Keys a day or two before. I am not sure if I am taking a friend, my wife, dad, brother or just going by myself and meeting up with 2+2ers out there. I will probably stay an extra 2 days or so and play a smaller WSOP event and maybe another tourney or something.
sick or typing, Until next time
Monday, April 5, 2010
Ship the Nickels
Poker has been great lately. I ended up having a very solid month in March despite having a 5k downswing in sngs. I planned on paying more rake than I ever have in a month. I'm not really sure if I did but it had to be close. I played 1402 sngs and 44k hands of cash. I am still learning cash but feel like I'm improving.
Here are the graphs:
I haven't played that much in April but have started out very good. My affiliate Poker-strategy.org did a promotion with Doyle's Room which ended with a 20 man sng with the winner getting a trip to Vegas and Dinner with Doyle Brunson himself. It ran Saturday night and I shipped it! I am pretty excited to get to meet Doyle this summer. Shortly after the 2003 WSOP(moneymaker/ESPN), is when I started getting interested in poker and also when I first started playing some online. I got Super System and after reading it,I instantly had and tremendous amount of respect for Doyle. He is a Legend. If you are planning on going to Vegas this summer leave me a message, I'd like to meet some of the people I know from online while I am out there. I think I am going to be out there from June 24th - June 29th probably and am thinking about playing Event 45 on the 25th($1500 nlhe), I might also play another smaller tourney and will def play some cash games.
I'm really excited about baseball starting. The Braves are my favorite team and they are no doubt much better than they have been in years. They loaded up since it is Bobby Cox last year managing. Jason Heyward is probably the most talked about rookie that I have heard of in years. It was pretty sick how he started his career. I should have went that day but all my friends were working. I think the division is going to be close between the Braves and the Phillies this year, The wild card will most likely be won by one of them.
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holla..
Here are the graphs:
I haven't played that much in April but have started out very good. My affiliate Poker-strategy.org did a promotion with Doyle's Room which ended with a 20 man sng with the winner getting a trip to Vegas and Dinner with Doyle Brunson himself. It ran Saturday night and I shipped it! I am pretty excited to get to meet Doyle this summer. Shortly after the 2003 WSOP(moneymaker/ESPN), is when I started getting interested in poker and also when I first started playing some online. I got Super System and after reading it,I instantly had and tremendous amount of respect for Doyle. He is a Legend. If you are planning on going to Vegas this summer leave me a message, I'd like to meet some of the people I know from online while I am out there. I think I am going to be out there from June 24th - June 29th probably and am thinking about playing Event 45 on the 25th($1500 nlhe), I might also play another smaller tourney and will def play some cash games.
I'm really excited about baseball starting. The Braves are my favorite team and they are no doubt much better than they have been in years. They loaded up since it is Bobby Cox last year managing. Jason Heyward is probably the most talked about rookie that I have heard of in years. It was pretty sick how he started his career. I should have went that day but all my friends were working. I think the division is going to be close between the Braves and the Phillies this year, The wild card will most likely be won by one of them.
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Friday, March 26, 2010
Big News..
I am going to a father! The due date is Sept 19th. I have known for a couple months but wanted to wait a little while before telling everybody to make sure everything was good. I am looking forward to fatherhood but also don't know what I am getting into to. I think having a kid is pretty amazing and will be very life changing. It is a bit intimidating, but I know we will be just fine. We have been into the doctor for 2 ultrasounds. It is pretty surreal to hear your baby's heart beat for the first time. We will find out the sex of the baby in about 5 weeks when we go back for the last ultrasound.
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I sold my 03 Suburban finally on Monday and have been looking for cars all week. I found a pretty good deal on a sick car and I am going to get it today! It is a 2007 Infiniti G35 Sport 4 door(obv). I went to testdrive it Tuesday night and was blown away. This car is going to be a blast to drive. It is costing me about 3k more than I planned on spending but I think the upgrades between this car and the 05/06 G35 will be worth the extra dough.
couple pics:
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I had a rough week of poker. Everyone ran hot vs me which is going to happen from time to time. I lost about $2700 this week. Hopefully I can get half of that back this weekend in some soft games. I am still having a good month and should make at least 10k if I quit getting crushed constantly.
Until next time....
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I sold my 03 Suburban finally on Monday and have been looking for cars all week. I found a pretty good deal on a sick car and I am going to get it today! It is a 2007 Infiniti G35 Sport 4 door(obv). I went to testdrive it Tuesday night and was blown away. This car is going to be a blast to drive. It is costing me about 3k more than I planned on spending but I think the upgrades between this car and the 05/06 G35 will be worth the extra dough.
couple pics:
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I had a rough week of poker. Everyone ran hot vs me which is going to happen from time to time. I lost about $2700 this week. Hopefully I can get half of that back this weekend in some soft games. I am still having a good month and should make at least 10k if I quit getting crushed constantly.
Until next time....
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