Poker is whipping my ass

So things in poker have drastically turned around. I am down 10 buy ins for the month and have to move down. I am very beaten down about it right now. There is no reason why I shouldn’t be able to beat 10NL with as long as I have been playing and as hard as I work on my game. I took some sick beats yesterday. I had AA and the flop is Axx (x = cards that don’t really matter to the hands involved) I bet and he calls the turn is a Q I bet again and he calls and the river is a 10 I bet and he min raises me. I call and he has KJ for a straight. The fucking idiot called me on the flop to pick up a gut shot on the turn. Then I have QQ and raise the flop is 10xx and he leads out. I raise him and he shoves all in for the rest of his stack. I of course call and he has A10 and hits the ace on the river. I am really frustrated about having to move down and really pissed that all these fucking morons run so well against me. Sure thing, call my raise with A4 against my KK and hit the ace every fucking time. Please call me down with your gut shot straight draw you have a whopping 4 outs and hit it on the river. You are only like an 85% underdog. I know that in the long run I want people to make those calls, but lets be honest people only want those calls when they miss.

I went to Olive Garden on Saturday night and it was a pretty bad experience. We were waiting and the little pager goes off and the host takes us over to one side of the restaurant and says, “Oopps wrong table.” He takes us back to the entrance and hands me the pager and just expecting us to wait. The manager thankfully saw this and led us to another table. I think that our tables wasn’t actually in an active section, I think that she just asked someone to pick us up. I remember what that was like, the manager comes up and asks you to pick up a table, you are already expecting them to be pissed off and not happy. I hated tables like that when I was a waiter. Our server was a black girl and there are not usually a lot of black people in the serving industry, she did an okay job not great. Melissa ordered a seafood pasta dish and they gave her chicken pasta. Melissa didn’t want me to bring is up but I hate eating food that I did not order. I had them remake it and it didn’t take very long at all.

The thing that was most interesting about the dinner was the server herself. I am not sure if it was because she thought that we were pissed of if this was naturally the way that she acted. She called me sir constantly and was so overly obsequious. I felt very uncomfortable and told her multiple times to just call me John and not sir. I was thinking that this feels very weird and not comfortable but I didn’t want to say anything out loud and then Melissa said the same thing. As soon as she said it I was like thank God it is not just me.

Sunday night Melissa, Kevin and I went to see Vantage Point. The commercials looked really good and I was pumped to see it. It was not as good as I was expecting. It was kind of transparent I think it could have been done better. It was just too easy to figure out “who done it.” I think the next movie I will try to see will be Semi-Pro; I am not sure where to set my sights with this movie at all. I well blog about it after I see it.

We had some bad weather yesterday and I called Sifu to make sure that we were going to have class and he said yes. The weather was worse than people were expecting and they shut the water off due to a freeze warning so he cancelled class. I showed up and there was no one there so I talked with him for a bit about my knee issues and then went home. The weather wasn’t that bad even in my little pick-up truck, no sliding or anything. So I have to wait until tomorrow to do some Kung-Fu. Matt will be back in town on Sunday night and will be here for 2 weeks and that is going to be good. He motivates me to get my ass in class and work. Sparring is starting on the 22nd of this month I am super motivated for that. It will be a true test of how much I have learned.

Oliver Future is going to have a show on Saturday and I am pumped for that as well. I have not seen them since October I think. It has been awhile. They are playing with a band called The Burning Hotels. I don’t know anything about them but we will see if they are good. I think that is pretty much it. I will move down to rebuild and will keep updating.

Until later.