trying to get back to normal

Date: Wed, Jul 23, 2008 Tournament Internet Professional

lol The last few days have been rough. Katy and I have been spending basically 100% of our time setting up the condo here in Florida. I guess ill give a little summary of what has happened. We flew out of Vegas around 1am, like we normally do. For some reason, neither of us got too much sleep. We got to Florida around 8 am and went to get breakfast at Chic Fil A, which is one of our fav places to eat. For those who didnt know, one of the reasons for spending some time here is because of the great food. Anyways, we went to Target and I bought one of the highest rated tvs according to consumerrsports. We also noticed they had a deal where if you got a target card, they would give you 10% off your whole purchase. So, we loaded up $2500 worth of stuff and went to check out. They obv would only give me a $200 credit limit, as the only credit I have is paying off a small loan, a car loan, and a house loan, along with having like 20 bank accounts. They said that if I paid the rest in cash or check though, I would still get the 10% off, so I whipped out my wallet to find that I had $2000ish cash, which I paid toward the bill and I got a nice $200 off. We also shopped for some clothes and other things, as we left most of our clothes and random cheapish stuff in Vegas, as it will be easier to not have to carry all of our clothes back and forth every few months. After that, both of our parents came over to help us put stuff together/mount the tv on the wall. Apparently my house if framed super weird, which made us put about 20 little holes in the wall behind the tv, trying to find the studs in the wall. After we finally got it hung up, we noticed that the fireplace mantel wasnt straight. One end is about 3 inches below the other end, making the tv look super crooked, even though it was perfectly straight. We decided the only play was to make the tv hang slanted on the wall, which turned out looking great. Katys dad also broke the glass on our sliding glass door, which we got fixed early the next morning. Yesterday, we woke up around 11 am and spend most of the time straightening up the house before going to walmart. We bought $1000ish worth of food/stuff before going to my parents for a fish fry. It was the nuts. My dad makes some goot blackened fish. After that, we came back home and got Katys car from the delivery guy. I have heard horror stories from my friends about how the car shipping people take forever, but our guy took 5 days. Holla. Today, we took my parents car back to them and went to bed bath and beyond to buy more stuff. We also ate at this great place called shrimp basket. They make good everything, so we will prob be going there lots. Katy hates seafood, but she likes corn fritters and they have some delicious ones there. We are now getting ready to go to one of my parents friends weddings. Who knows what we will do after that. I think we are basically done shopping, so thats good. I hate spending money with a passion. I guess ill conclude with a list of things necessary to buy just in case anyone else is thinking of having 2 houses... $3000 bed $2000 tv $2000 target bill (cointing online shopping) $1000 walmart bill $1000 plane tickets $1000 car shipping $1000 random repair bills There is more, but i just realized I have to go get ready for a wedding. Ill post again when something happens.

Correction

Date: Tue, Jul 22, 2008 Tournament Internet Professional

Dark Knight not the Black Knight oops

August Prop bet; 55's, games played

Date: Mon, Jul 21, 2008 Tournament Internet Professional

prop bet time. looking to do games played for RB purposes. So far Imcastleman has been the only one interested. Anyone else interested please check out this thread: http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showthread.php?t=255594 I think I would cap it at a 3 player max since after that the games would get to hard.

The Black Knight

Date: Mon, Jul 21, 2008 Tournament Internet Professional

One of the best movies ever I don't say this kind of stuff often but the new Batman movie was absolutely awesome, when I walked out I told my brother that I thought it was the best movie I had ever seen. It is definately in the top five, vying with Braveheart for my favorite of all time. I will have to see it a few more times before deciding for certain. Sadly I didn't get to see it in IMAX, but I plan to soon. Heath Ledger's performance as the Joker was almost perfect, and I can't imagine him not winning an Oscar for best supporting actor. The movie has set basically all the records for highest gross in the first day/week etc, and it deserves it. I haven't blogged in awhile, no particular reason, just nothing too exciting going on. I've been playing the mixed games on PokerStars and been doing pretty well.

leaving vegas

Date: Sat, Jul 19, 2008 Tournament Internet Professional

only for a while I am thinking im that im going to like the idea of the whole vacation house thing. I also like the idea of being away from Vegas/live mtts and having a lot of time to focus and work. I was convinced by durrrr to study plo, so a lot of time has been spent on that. Ive played a little at $1/2 plo and am up like 5 buyins over 1000 hands or something, which is irrelevant, but nice. I plan on basically watching every good plo video online and hopefully being able to put in lots of hands. I am unsure what is happening on the live mtt trail. The Niagara Falls wpt may or may not be going to happen, so that is making it hard to book flights. Also, the UB tournament in Aruba claims to have a 4 mil guarentee. Last year they had 550 people. I have no clue how they expect to get another 250 people, especially with the things that have went down recently. If I determine they are only going to get 400 people, I will for sure be going, otherwise, paying $2000 for hotel and $1000 for flights for a $5000 tournament is usually a bad idea. So, right now, all I have booked is the bike for their wpt and borgata for their wpt. Hopefully everything goes well between now and then and they will provide a nice break from the standard grind.

Won the nightly 100 grand tonight for 22k

Date: Sat, Jul 19, 2008 Tournament Internet Professional

holla Took down another major mtt tonight after negotiating headsup to give myself $21,800 which was worth way more than my chip equity and my opponent agreed. Thanks to everyone who sweat me from the rail, really appreciate the support!

I bought a new monitor and a n00b pwner

Date: Thu, Jul 17, 2008 Tournament Internet Professional

The CRT is finally gone.

Last week I got a 24" widescreen LCD. It works pretty well for grinding.

I also bought a new controller to play with. Basquiatcase calls it a n00b pwner, a name inspired by Athene's videos on youtube. I can control all my actions with my n00b pwner except for typing bet amounts. It's so much more baller than using a mouse.

Last month I ran about half my expectation which was kinda annoying. But this month I'm back on track and on pace for a 5k month. At the end of the month, I'm gonna take a week off and go to KY and maybe a few other random places.