tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79745783972275023302011-04-21T20:27:49.494-07:00poker sports guitar music writing lifedigshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17056973087830462835noreply@blogger.comBlogger191100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7974578397227502330.post-16672466627688635652009-05-01T15:28:00.000-07:002009-05-01T15:35:23.076-07:00

-Hands Played: 35456-Winnings: 830-Gold Star status achieved-laptop bought with profitNot too bad. I could have won more but I had a rough 15k breakeven period when I was 24 tabling. I cut down to 4-6 tables and results have been much better. May Goals:$1200 in winningsPlatinum Star statusbuild my roll and be ready to shot take 100nlManaged to make it to NL50, and play has been much nittier.

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Well I made it through the first 7 days of March with poker updates. Gonna try to do better in April.Had a rough month in poker. I started by winning ~$200 in cash games, then going on a roughly 200 dollar losing streak. I think I was roughly break even for SnG as well. Either way, wasn't a good month, but I did hit over 10k hands and silverstar status.I'm hoping to net $300 this month. I

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Took a few days off from the grind, but back at it today. I've been coolered a few times, and I've been pushing the action a bit much against call stations. So all in all I've dug myself a deep hole every day and climb back to about break even.Poker Stars $0.10/$0.25 Pot Limit Hold'em - 8 players - View hand 58269The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History ConverterBTN: $27.75SB: $24.15Hero (BB

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layers - View hand 58269The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History ConverterBTN: $27.75SB: $24.15Hero (BB): $24.65UTG: $10.10UTG+1: $15.45MP1: $25.70MP2: $24.50CO: $24.65Pre Flop: ($0.35) Hero is BB with 4 46 folds, SB calls $0.15, Hero checksFlop: ($0.50) 7 2 5 (2 players)SB checks, Hero bets $0.50, SB calls $0.50Turn: ($1.50) J (2 players)SB checks, Hero bets $0.75, SB calls $0.75River: ($3.00

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Last night I made an attempt to play a LAG style. I had 2 key hands of the night.1st handI raise preflop as a semi bluff. I really only want to pick up the blinds here, but J7s is not a hopeless hand. On the flop I pickup a gutshot, so I call the smallish looking C-bet. If he checks the turn, I will bet out and try to steal the pot. Of course I hit the turn, and manage to stack him.Poker

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Poker goals March 09:1) Show 800 dollars profit (bring the roll up to $1,200 allowing myself room to play NL50 in April)2) Play 10k hands3) Show 6.5bb/1004) Take a few shots at NL505) Try to review a few hands here after each session.I ran well the first 2 days, up 154 dollars. Obviously with only 1k hands played this is not an example of how I'll run for the whole month but it's a great

digshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17056973087830462835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7974578397227502330.post-75277364249338661742008-11-20T00:14:00.000-08:002008-11-20T01:33:15.395-08:00

another 3 months, another Vegas trip.Sin City is a cruel mistress. The one mile stretch between the Stratosphere and the Luxor has prison raped me the last few times. Fun times were unavoidable, but I couldn't shake off that feeling that I stayed in Vegas one day too long. I have a good feeling about this trip though. In these changing times, I feel it is my destiny to clean up the poker

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a) My cousin E says she has a cough, and grandma asks what she uses for cough medicine "Maker's Mark" she says, and goes on to talk about her mother telling her the dresses she brought for the funeral were inappropriate. "They'd be appropriate once you lost some weight E, but you'll have to get something new". E just lost an uncle and a grandmother. My mom asks her "how do you do it?"

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1) having to attend the funeral of a friend, and 4 days later an uncle, and wrecking a car in 1 week. Who the hell does that happen to?2) my Mom told me last time she was in Illinois, she went to a head shop with her mom (my grandma is well into her 80s) and they bought a pipe. I would pay to be the cashier.

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-I wish Steve Nash would grow his hair out again, so we would have a shot at a championship-I wish I was sleeping right now-I wish ASU would offer more core English classes a semester-I wish I wasn't in such a bad poker downswing-I wish I was a little bit taller-I wish I was a baller-I wish I had a girl who looked good (I would call her)-I wish I had a rabbit in a hat with a bat and a '64 impala

digshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17056973087830462835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7974578397227502330.post-76402760094293794802008-04-23T22:24:00.000-07:002008-07-14T15:10:53.640-07:00

We had to write something to read to the class, so I did this. I like it.Won't You Take Me DownBert made his way through the familiar streets of Chicago after work. It was late, and he smelled like coffee. The closing Starbucks shift was not nearly as glorious as his last job, but these were rough times and he was just happy to be earning a living. He pulled his long coat tight, hoping no one

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Lesson learned:If I pull my super stretch gym shorts past my nipples, it looks like I'm wearing a strapless dress. Instant sexytime feelings.It kind of reminds me of the time I went to a party in a skirt and bra a few years ago. Except this time a whole room full of people didn't see my testicals because I was sitting unlady like. [English girl enters from stage left.] "excuse me sir, but

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This weekend, I discovered that roller skating is about as fun as reading a blog. If you combine it with drinking alcohol, it turns into a whole other beast. Imagine how shaky I was on skates without drinking anything. It'd been a good 11 years since I've had any kind of wheels attached to my feet. By the 3rd or 4th beer, it took quite a bit of concentration to stay up. By the time I had 6,

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Today I was discussing my fears of signing a new lease with my parents. I commented on the fact that I was terrified of having someone on the lease who would make my life Hell. I don't want to be stuck paying someone else's room and board. My Mom said "that is why you should get a girlfriend. Then you could split the rent and it'd be really cheap." As if I didn't find the idea of living with

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We've got the bathroom almost put back together now. Don't have a shower yet, but maybe in the next month or 6 weeks. Only thing functionality thing left to do is tile the walls. The toilet is clutch. No more peeing outside after 10pm. Also huge is the fact that I have a mirror for shaving again. Simply amazing.Continued the downswing in poker. Bubbled out of another SnG. I played decent, though

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Hey there. It's a pleasure meeting you. I don't often try to meet people in these kind of places. Hardly anyone is worth talking to, which is why they play the music so loud. Funny how that works huh? Yeah I agree. The drinks are overpriced, and it's too crowded to move. Who wants to pay extra to wait in line?Oh you like reading too? I usually have to pretend like I'm in to the newest Dan

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Are You Serious?"WITH ONE SUPER-MASSIVE FISTMANKIND WILL BE CRUSHEDMANKIND IS DOOMED"Enough said. Dead To Fall was one of the most respectable bands, in an unrespectable genre. How can you take yourself seriously when you play death metal-core? Regardless, they were always technically tight, even if the songs were pretty ridiculous. It seems the members of Dead To Fall have become aware of

digshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17056973087830462835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7974578397227502330.post-31736712092374416202008-04-07T02:22:00.000-07:002008-04-07T03:22:47.402-07:00

I braved another trip to First Friday this week. It was the first time in about 2 years that I hit that monthly downtown art show. It reminded me of how terrible downtown Phoenix is. Lesson of the week: Phoenix has no cultural identity. There is no sense of an artistic community. Instead there are about 20 different showings of wildly different styles (ranging from overexaggerated, bright,

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The new In Flames cd A Sense of Purpose has arrived.Chorus lyrics include "I feel like shit / but atleast I feel something" and "Don't tell me / tell my ghost / cause I blame him / for all I don't want to know". This is the kind of thing I listen to In Flames for. It's not their sometimes thrash, sometimes nu-metal sound. It's not for their goofy (or in the case of a song like cloud connected,

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