Sept 27th: I play poker?

The last several days have been fun. I downloaded Warhammer and played 60of the 96 hours I had the game. I then decided to uninstall because the game is way to fucking good. It is better than WoW, EQ, etc combined. The PVE is awesome and the PVP is out of this world. I ended up getting to level 21 which, at the time, was the top 10-20 highest charecter on the server. I also uninstalled CoD4 which took over my life for a good week. As I’ve said before, I’m not good at moderation.

BUT! With no games to play I’ve actually been putting in hands and (SURPRISE! SURPRISE!) winning some money. For the first time in 2 months my FTP account is finally going in the right direction. I’m running super-God-hot right now; like, I’m winning 80/20’s, hitting 2^nd and 3^rd pair on the flop and whatnot…it’s an absolutely amazing feeling.

As for life, the preschool is still going. The kids seemed to have settled into a routine of sorts and aren’t as wild as when I first started. I’m also getting more involved in planning lesson plans and thinking of new ideas. I challenge anybody to sing more nursery rhymes than me.

I’m also considering a bet with a buddy…smoke an ounce in 24 hours with a ¼ having to be smoked every 5 hours. We’re nailing out the details now but are thinking of putting an ounce on the side to the winner. It’d be an expensive bet to lose but my friend is going to get backed by some friends, lol. I just want to do it for the challenge and to see her pass out into oblivion.

This is really supposed to be a poker blog....

But turns out I don't play all that much poker anymore. I've played two WCOOP events- the $320 HU event and $320 6max event. The HU event I got to round 5 or something where I played really well against a huge nit until, of course, I made one of the worst calls of my life and then tilted away my remaining $20k chips at 100/200 (where I had plenty of room to comeback if I didn't tilt). So there goes a $100k first place. In the 6max event I actually played the best poker of my life. I was playing like 60/50 but making moves at all the right times, just owning everybody. I got my stack up to like 20th place (35k at 150/300, HUGEE) when this hand goes down.

MP 750
LP calls.
Hero raises to 2.5k with 66.

MP folds and LP calls.
Flop comes 2h8h6h- SET BABY!
LP checks and I bet 5k into about 6.2k. LP almost instajams and I insta-snap-fist-pump call. He shows AhKd and naturally catches a heart on the turn and I don't boat up. BALL SACK MCGEE.

So the real suckie part is that he was like 22nd in chips and naturallly was chip leader with like 600 left after that huge hand. SUCH A HUGE DONK. 1st place was like 150k.

Ok, so poker sucks...we've got that much covered for the past 12 or so blog posts.

Life, on the other hand, is going pretty well. I'm doing the whole teach at preschool thing which is fun. The kids are wild and it can get pretty intense when kids come in with huge bruises and say their parents hit them but overall, its a good experience. I'm doing Bikram Yoga too. The kind where they turn the heat up to 120 and you contort your body in odd posistions for an hour and a half. I'm also downloading Warhammher Online right now which has a 96% chance of ruining my life. Woot woot!

Well....

As always, poker can be a brutal thing. And its shown that in full glory the past month and a half. I can't complain too much but I've been cashing out a lot and so losing just feels worse and worse as my poker account slowly droppppppppppppppps. I still just can't seem to get hands in. I got my new computer set up (which is super baller, go 4 processors!) and new speakers (also siiiiick) but still can't sit down and churn out hands. I think I need to switch to 6max or something to get some variety, maybe I'm just bored of playing HU for so long (like 4 months now and probably 100k hands?)

So that was a good little rant about nothing. I've played 500 hands so far in September. Thats like 80 hands a day. alksdfjlasdkfjlsdf. and of course I'm down like -1239123 dollars but that spretty typical so I'm not worried.

Maybe Nora Jones will inspire me.

BOW DOWN TO ME SEPTEMBER!

So I haven't been playing much (obv) but am ready to turn things around and really dominate sept. I'm not quite sure how I did in August but I just checked and dropped about $2k in tournies on FT and another $1k on PS. Oh well, tournies are not for me. I think I lost about $3k HU but I have no clue...I think I won $4k one day so maybe its not so much. Anyway, I don't have record of any of it so it didn't even happen! So who cares!

Now I've got PT back online and will post some sweet screen shots when I rape somebody. err...in poker, of course. I decided I need some other life goals and whatnot to keep motivated not to be a slug. So! Here are six that I've come up with so far.

Sept 2008-April 2009 Goals (8 months)

1. $70k in poker monies.
2. Get fit. Drop back to 160.
3. Get real estate liscence. Look into/buy a house.
4. Volunteer 40 hours a month. (already got 20 done!)
5. Read 20 books. (1 read!)
6. Brew 10 batches of beer. (1 completed!)


I'll add more as I think of them. I'm also going to start making video's and posting them here and 2+2 for some critque of how bad I play. In fact, maybe I'll make one now. I like my apartment a lot too. Maybe I'll post some pictures sometime.