Vegas baby, fucking vegas!

Been in vegas for the first time ever for about 20 hours now, and I gotta say its fucking surreal. Got pretty shitty last night. Barry spencer and I went casino hopping, playing random table games and watching our one sports bet (VA tech FTW). Broke about even, down playing blackjack and up from craps....weird i know.

Today looks like tournament poker day, and Im amped on it. Going to play in a 70 buyin at Ceasars in less than an hour. 2500 chips and not blooooody likely that it has a good structure, but whatever. Ceasers does have a 10k deepstack at noon. Its a 330 buyin, 10k starting chips, and 40 minute levels...seems to be the exact same as the Venetian tournament except that they run it daily. Also a 330 tourney seems much more up my alley/bankroll, and even though I have some action from backers, Im thinking that Ill be able to play two 330s as opposed to one 550, which obviously 2>1. So well see how this first tourney goes, and based on my play/how far I last, I may hop in the noon 330.

When I rule the world...

Everyone will be forced to take happy pills, regardless of if they need them or not.

Maybe it's time to move...

From Norml.com, regarding the state of California:

Possession of 28.5 grams or less of marijuana is not an arrestable offense. As long as the offender can provide sufficient identification and promises to appear in court, the officer will not arrest the offender. Upon conviction of the misdemeanor charge the offender is subject to a fine of $100. Possession of greater than 28.5 grams is punishable by up to six months in jail and a fine of up to $500.

I want that!

Ship an Asian Girl with a Motorcycle Now!

(Disclaimer - I don't actually mean "Ship", just in case you the reader are a very generous member of Yakuza)

raping sattys

won a seat to the warm up yesterday and a seat to the million just now. Also finished like 5th with 2 seats paying to the 630 qualy for PCA. I dont think ive cashed in anything but sattys, but thats cool. Just looking to get back in that groove two weeks ago where I was destroying mtts. Barring a little bad luck I think I should be there in no time.

On the personal front, I had a cramp in my upper left leg for I shit you not, like 5 hours last night. It was unreal agonizing pain. On top of that at the same exact time I started to get really sick, like breaking into sweats and my body feeling like 200 degrees. But feeling better after like 3 hours of fucked up dreams, and a healthy dosage of dayquill.

Back to the grind...

After nearly 14 days of no poker playing really...well no poker grinding. Halo 3 officially fucked my life up and any semblance of a schedule, but whatever. I'm real amped on playing even though I have little herb and had little sleep and am calling min raises out of position with A2 suited. Looks like im just anxious to get a stack going...and officially the best way to get rid of that anxiety is to add new ones by smoking the herb....sooooo....gg motivation.

Halo 3 = gg life

havent played any poker at all since the last ft on the 5r. got my xbox modded and halo 3 early so been enjoying that new addiction instead. About out the door on the way to tampa to watch the yanks lock up the wild card. Games going to be a blast and really looking forward to it...well that and sleep.

...

Final tabled another small rebuy last night, this time it being the 5r. I finished 8th after I flatted the chip leaders 4x raise from EP with AA. The flop came KQ8, he obviously flops top two, gg me. So frustrating. Sososososososo frustrating.

Tonight is bars, and then tomorrow joelbird and I head down to Tampa to meet up with Danewfdonk and kick off the week of Drunken Degenerate Debauchery.

Its the little things...

that make poker so enjoyable, such as rivering a straight to make someone the official bubble boy.

PokerStars Game #12155780821: Tournament #61173094, $5.00+$0.50 Hold'em No Limit - Level XI (500/1000) - 2007/09/19 - 20:53:08 (ET)
Table '61173094 247' 9-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 1: TexasOilMaan (11191 in chips)
Seat 2: The Sarge1 (15413 in chips)
Seat 3: kami205 (42049 in chips)
Seat 4: MrNiphty (78550 in chips)
Seat 5: Floofy (22520 in chips)
Seat 6: pity777 (15845 in chips)
Seat 7: larry737 (83562 in chips)
Seat 8: FisherGod52 (13005 in chips)
Seat 9: Noodlehoser (22800 in chips)
TexasOilMaan: posts the ante 100
The Sarge1: posts the ante 100
kami205: posts the ante 100
MrNiphty: posts the ante 100
Floofy: posts the ante 100
pity777: posts the ante 100
larry737: posts the ante 100
FisherGod52: posts the ante 100
Noodlehoser: posts the ante 100
kami205: posts small blind 500
MrNiphty: posts big blind 1000
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to MrNiphty [Tc 8d]
Floofy: folds
pity777: folds
larry737: folds
FisherGod52: folds
Noodlehoser: folds
TexasOilMaan: folds
The Sarge1: raises 3000 to 4000
kami205: folds
MrNiphty: calls 3000
*** FLOP *** [7s Ad 9d] (Obviously going to push any flop, but its nice when you get a draw or hand to boot)
MrNiphty: bets 74450 and is all-in
The Sarge1: calls 11313 and is all-in
*** TURN *** [7s Ad 9d] [Ts]
*** RIVER *** [7s Ad 9d Ts] [Jh]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
MrNiphty: shows [Tc 8d] (a straight, Seven to Jack)
The Sarge1: shows [Ac Qd] (a pair of Aces)
MrNiphty collected 32026 from pot

Last night I played the 20 rebuy for the first time ever. Its a very solid field with lots of known players. I held my own though well, was in for only 60 and had like 14k after addon. I ended up cashing with 45 left, and made it down to the final 3 tables, when I got it in with 66<77.

Two nights ago also ran deep to like the final 4 tables of both the 5r and 10r, losing a huge pot when Q10dd pushed into my KK on a K78 rainbow board. 9,6 were the obvious runners. In the 10r I lost a monster pot for sizeable cl with 55 in a race against aq when we got in a shoving match. River Q nh. At least I was the shover in the pot.

All things aside things are good right now though. Got a stack with about 100 left in the 5r, LETS DO IT!1! One time for the kids plzzzzzzz.

In a perfect world...

I'd never forget to addon
I'd never pack cigs on the incorrect side, and on that note
I'd never smoke another cig again
Shitty pot wouldn't exist...nor the people who sold it
The river wouldn't exist...neither would perfect running cards
JETPACKS OBVIOUSLY

I can't see any way possible to end it better than with jetpacks, so...yeah.

Oh and let me run good tonight please one time for the kids!

I run bad (literally)

Today I took my first run in what feels like forever. The initial plan was to join the brand new YMCA that opened up just yesterday RIGHT near our house. However I left my credit card at a friends house who inconviently locked his doors today for the first time ever, and so I just decided to jog around the neighborhood.

I leashed Oscar and off we went. Unfortunately, Oscar just recently learned to mark territory, and found it necessary to attempt and pee on every mailbox we passed. The worst was when we passed two dogs his size, and he wanted nothing more than to play with them.

All I have to say is running with music is worlds better than running without. Today was the first time I ever ran with music and it was so solid that I will never run again without it.

Im also looking to add pushups and crunches to my sessions...well poker sessions. I plan on alternating between 10 pushups and 10 crunches every time I make a mistake playing poker. Hopefully this will be mutually beneficial to both poker and working out, as long as I am consistent with things.


One last note, Yankees take 2 out of 3 games from Boston in Boston. The Tigers are mad hot in the Wild Card, winning their last 5 games and being only 2.5 games out of the wild card lead. Man I love September baseball...but not as much as I love the Yankees...and even moreso, not as much as I hate the Red Sox :)

Making plans

Currently working on making a travel iternary for the upcoming week. On thursday I head down with my buddy joel to tampa to pick up Danewfdonk, as well as spend some time in tampa. Im sure this will include trips to bars and the Hard Rock, as well as a definative baseball game on the 21st to see the Devil Rays play the Red Sox. Surely, we will be drunk, and be rooting against the red sox.

Really looking forward to the trip, hopefully I can get everything taken care of ASAP.

Out in event 1

Lasted until level 4. I never really picked up any big hands and chipped up about 33% to my stack by playing alot of smallball poker. However I guess people began to pick up on my strategy and I had a float that got picked off pretty bad, and then I really misplayed JJ against a new player to the table who had opened about 80% of his hands thusfar.

Pretty dissapointed with my result but still got 25% of my action left in the field with danewfdonk, who currently is sitting on 12k in chips i believe. So GL HIM!

Drunk Dreams are the best...

Had a dream right before I woke up that I had just joined Reel Big Fish and that we were about to play for a ton of college kids in some sort of auditorium.

Now, I like RBF as much as the next guy, and this band definately paved the way for every single song that I know today, but I thought it was pretty funny that the one band my subconscious chose for me to be in was RBF.

Anyhow so now Im buzzin still from last night and listening to Reel Big Fishs live album, Our live album is better than your live album. In their defense, its probably the best live album Ive ever heard. Everything about it makes it just superb. And its 30 songs deep. Pretttty sick. So if you like ska feel good music, check it out.

T minus 3 hours, 10 minutes until the wcoop officially starts, and I can't wait.

Last night I started to get my buzz on, and was about to go to some empty seats at the bar to get another drink/shot (they go hand in hand.) There was a midget starting to get into one of the seats, and quite innocently (but come on I knew..) I asked (If you have ever met me, then you know....very loudly) who let the child in the bar. Good Game Alcohol removing any censorship my mouth my have.


OHHH I totally forgot some Dbag got thrown out of the bar and I guess was throwing punches, and our bartender went at the motherfucker with a chair! Even though belligerant, I knew this wasnt a good idea and grabbed the chair and made him put it on the ground. He later thanked me and comped me a round of shots. Fucking solid!

Away Messages of Truth...

I honestly play better drunk than these people play sober. Thanks for paying for my bar tab you jamokes.

Finally closed something!

Just won a 530 seat to WCOOP (World championship of Online Poker). It was a 5 rebuy and paid 4 seats. I already went ahead and unregistered the 530, then registered for Event #1, the 215 6 max. The structure for the tournament is great, with 3k starting chips and 30 minute levels. Event #1 starts tomorrow at 3pm, about the time I plan on my hangover clearing up.

As for the remaining 315 W dollars, I went ahead and sold them for 87 cents on the dollar. I would have rather played another 215 dollar WCOOP event, however none of them really appealed to me. So Im either gonna take the 275 I get back and just pocket it, or use it to play in the sunday warmup. The decision is probably pending my outcome tomorrow, and if I feel comfortable and pleased with my play.

Bars Tonight! Can't Wait!

Random, I know

Sometimes I like to pretend that Julia Louis-Dreyfuss' TV show "New adventures of Old Christine" is actually a continuation of her character of Elaine from Seinfeld. Also, that the new show is basically about how sleeping with half the men in New York City will often result in being unwed with a bastard child. Also, she has the HIV.

VICTORY!!!

Fucking Johnny Drama style babbby!

I wish this was referring to a tournament, but I'll take what I can get.

I took my external hard drive (a 160gb WD) to the geek squad at best buy today. I got two pieces of bad news right off the bat: This was the 4th time someone returned this hard drive as apparantly it was a very bad batch. Also, I purchased it on 7/30, meaning its been over 30 days which means no return.

So he ran some tests, and I got the good news that he could save all the info on the drive. Also, he hooked me up and got the HD comped. Better yet, I thought I picked out the same model, but really it was a 320 GB HD. The difference between the 2 was 8 dollars somehow. Nice.

Also, Im getting my first Ipod ever. Im pretty sure Im the last person in the modern world to get one. Its gonna be a 30 GB video ipod, and im very amped on it.

Only one tourney today, the 50$ 50k. Got to pick up the HD later so figured Ill limit my volume and just completely focus on one tourney. GL me, hopefully it goes better than this blog I just wrote did :)

Wise words in punk songs

Twenty one, feeling down
I tell you nothing with a thousand words
and I weaker get, with every step
I waste my money on compact disc's and staly fish
I can't remember the last time I did something that made
me feel alright longer than a few hours
if I only had the strength to make some muffins then I
swear that I would share them with you now.

-Bullion, Millencolin, Life on a Plate. Although some words are lost in translation from Swedish to English, these lyrics and songs are a great listen on a downer day.

Same shit different day

I told you I wouldn't talk about poker unless I made a final table, and I did.

I final tabled the 3r once again, doing it now on back to back days with both fields being 2500+ people.

I fucking finished 5th.

NH WP GG ETC ETC.