Fucking poker gods/charter and I have a new nemesis

Ok so it has been a little bit since I have posted a blog. I have been dabbling in donkaments as of late and have been getting deep but then getting FUCKED at the end.

On Saturday I play a tourney where first place is $3k and I am getting pretty deep when I made a semi bad play and lost my stack. I was disappointed but I think his play is worse than mine is. Whatever, no big deal. Traditional wisdom says that limping is bad but there were lots of limped pots so I decided to take a shot. I think my line here is super strong and I think his call with the non-nut flush draw is bad.

Sunday I am sitting here with Melissa and I decide to see if any tourneys are going on. I login and there is a $10 with Rebuys and add-ons going on and I decide to jump in, since there is an $80k guarantee. I spend about $50 total and start to do really well picking up chips and running super hot. At about the second break I am in the top 20 in chips. We are on break. I go to take a leak and come back and my internet is not working. No big deal the breaks are 5 minutes long so I can restart my modem and my router and that fixes it (piece of shit Charter internet). I do this about 4 or 5 times and nothing is working and I am freaking out now, the tourney has by now started back and I am being blinded off.

This tourney is a huge deal $12k for first and second place is $9k, so I am walking around pacing, thinking. I try the desktop and it doesn't work. I look down at the modem and the lights are flashing, (I know I paid the bill). I start calling anyone and everyone I know who might have Pokerstars installed on their computer, they are all playing poker at a home game and not answering my calls at first, I finally get a hold of one and his internet is out as well.. My iphone is lagging a little bit as I am furiously dialing trying to get to anyone, I am so pissed and I almost chunk it against the wall, but I stop myself barely.

I am using my wireless to look for any other network, thank god I live in an older community where the people don't know how to lock their networks. Unfortunately they all have Charter as well, people really should have a little fucking choice in their provider, and I can't connect. Melissa is just watching me pace, I am anticipating how mad my neighbors will be when I start hitting the walls. I am trying to think of some place I can go to to use Wi-fi and then Melissa brings up Bakerstreet pub. It is this bar that we go to and its super close, I decide that its my only chance.

I run to the bedroom slap on some shoes and grab the laptop and dash out the door like a fat kid when the lunch lady announces they have enough to give seconds. I open the laptop up on my passenger seat and drive to the bar trying to pick up networks along the way. Not paying attention, running stop signs, no seatbelt, fuck it the cop can have a cut of $12k.

I get to the bar and sign in and half of my fucking chips are gone. I try to calm down the roar in my ears it sounds like am in a conch shell. I pick up a few hands that I can steal, then I get KK in the big blind and it folds around to the small blind and I am cussing and pissed because I know he will fold and I win the blinds, fucking great. I look away for a minute and then hear the attention beep and I look down semi interested. Not only has this fucking chump called, he open shoved for a ridicalously large amount. I gleefully call and expect to see aces, yes that is my luck, but no he has a premium hand of 78 off suit.

My kings hold up and the guy is pissed cussing in chat and someone calls the moderator. "we understand that this is an adult site, but everyone is here to have fun, please watch the language." Kiss my ass cock smoke, I am trying to play here. So now I am back up to what I was before the poker gods/fucking charter decided to fuck with me. I steal a few more hands, and am doing well, I raise a hand and miss and have to fold. I win a huge pot where I raise 79s on the button and the cheap leader calls and the flop is 987 and I get a call when he checks and I bet. The turn is a 9 giving me a full house, I shove for less than the pot and he snap calls with Ace nine. The river is a blank and all of the sudden I am second in chips.

I am feeling pretty good and am talking to my friend on the phone and he makes an interesting statement. "Do you know if the bar turns off their Wi-fi after 2?" Suddenly I am back in the conch shell my head is roaring, my balls are in my intestines. I get off the phone with the intention to go ask the bouncer as he is telling the drunk tcu trust fund bitches that the bar is closing in 5 minutes. Then I decide I cant leave and will look up the number and call. I find the number and put it in my phone and hit call. I wait for a second and then FUCK, its an automated system. Piece of shit, I guess I will have to go ask.

I hear the ding for attention, I look down on the button with aces. Holy shit this is it, a guy in middle position raises. I think, 'maybe just call because a rereaise looks so strong', the tricky part of my brain thinks, 'FUCK that,' the analytical side chimes in, 'raise that shit up'. I repop it and the small blind calls which is random and odd, but whatever the original raiser calls and we see the flop of 678 with two diamonds. The small blind who is second in chips overall (i lost some chips due to huge antes and blinds, damn turbo structure) bets the minimum and the original raiser folds and its my action. I am thinking about how much to bet when I look up and see the pot is more than my stack, I shove hoping to see him fold.

I am chanting to myself "Please no set, please no set...just fold, or call with Ace 7." He calls and shows 44. He has an underpair and a gut shot for the majority of his stack. He has 6 outs to win this hand. My head is spinning as I am looking at the board and his hand wondering if I am missing something. Then it dawns on me, wow this guy just crippled himself with only 6 outs. The turn is a 7, my tribal chant has changed to the rendition of, "NO 5, NO 5..." River.....5. I drop my phone as the automated system is still giving me the bar's hours and my guts wrench up. I am out in 37th place for $150.

I stare at the screen with my mouth hanging open, you have got to be fucking kidding me, come here moderator I have some choice words for you now. I dodge 6 outs and I have like $2.8 million in chips and can coast to the final table. Disheartening to say the least, play two tournies two nights in a row and cash but get fucked both times. I close the laptop and drive back home to the apartment in a much safer white knuckled manner than the previous drive.

Drk confidant my new nemesis, I loathe you with force that will never be rivaled, I hope you die in a grease fire. I would do terrible things to your belongings. Before I close the laptop I see him dump off around 700k in chips. I dont know if he even made it to the final table. I will check tomorrow once my internet is working and I call Charter and tell them I want a free month of service for all this bullshit.

The Hand is here if you want it
http://weaktight.com/455204

Grammer and punctuation are not important when I am pissed, that is why this is so bad lol.

Could I really be a 2-7 prodigy?

I decided on a whim tonight to play a 2-7 tourney and played pretty well and actually won that fucking thing. Hell yes, that is 6 buy ins at my current level. Screen shot provided. Anyway, off to bed, until later.

kind of a large update

A lot has been going on with work and poker and Kung Fu so I haven't been posting much. I am going to put a lot in here I think.

I almost got a new car the yesterday, I had been talking to a car guy about getting a 2003 Nissan Altima 3.5 SER. It is a very sweet car and I really want it. I decided to not get it, the rate is really high and the bank said that they were going to charge me an extra $2k. I am going to wait and try to find a better deal I think. I am getting a decently large commission check at the end of this month I might just hoard that and try to get a better deal.

The other day these two customers almost got into a fight inside the store, I was hoping it would have happened but it didn't. One was a big guy and the other guys was just a big mouth who didn't even have any reason to jump into the conversation. I was really hoping to see the big mouth guy get crushed.

Work has been going well but I am really tired of being the floater. I don't really ever know where I am going to be or what I am going to be working. I really cant wait for my year to be up I will then take a hard look and see what I want to do. What avenue I want to take with the company or possibly going some place else.

I got the word from Sifu today during the test that I was helping out at that I will be testing on November 15th. I am really pumped and cant wait, I have been at this level for awhile and I think I am ready to move up and learn some new stuff. I am have been thinking about certain things and really trying to work on the small stuff. It is the small stuff in Kung Fu that will really make you better.

Poker this month has been decent. I have played a lot of hands and am winning for the month over a semi large sample of hands at least for me. Last night I decided to play and got stuck early when my AA got cracked by QJ on a QJ4 flop. I wound up like 9 buy ins stuck, but I buckled down tightened up and made it all the way back up to win a buy in. My win rate went way down after the session last night but I am still up almost 5 buy ins for the month.

I think that is pretty much it. Until later.

Birthday post and other stuff.

I have really been slacking off on this thing, my last post was August 30th. Today was my birthday, I am now 28 years old. I am very close to 30 and I am not quite sure how I feel about that. I have given a lot of shit to other people who turned 30, I know that it will be a pretty vicious turn around.

I luckily had the day off today and tomorrow for my birthday. Melissa was also off so this morning she made me an awesome breakfast skillet smorgasbord. Eggs, sausage, potatoes, and all other stuff, it was AMAZING. I slept in till about noon got up and had my bad ass breakfast, we had a bunch of stuff to do today so we were kind of rushing around all day. We have tomorrow off together as well so we can just relax and take it easy.

We went to the Apple store to get some stuff for our Iphones, that is right I said it, Iphones. I got Melissa and I both one on Monday. I took my number from T-mobile and it was still under contract so I had to start a new number to finish out my contract. I am going to let Kate pay the bill so that way she can have a decent service instead of shitty MetroPCS.

Myra's birthday is next week so we went ahead and got her present today and gave it to her when I gave Kate my old phone. We got her one of those small bikes, it has all the Disney princesses on it. She loved it. I have photos on my phone and I will post them later. She is such an awesome little girl and Kate is doing such an amazing job.



The Apple store in this area is pretty new and today was my first time to go to it. I would love to have a mac but they are overpriced and I just can't justify the money spent on it. I am still very happy with my thinkpad, it will be awhile before I have to buy a new laptop.

Tonight the Avett Brothers played a show at the Granada Theater and it was amazing. I brought some friends to the show and they loved it. Honestly it wasn't as good this time as it was last time. The sound was a little off but we were off to the side as opposed to being dead on so that might have something to do with it. Also the one of the brothers Seth was having some issued with his voice. It was still amazing and was over much to soon. They are hands down my favorite band right now and it is weird because they don't really seem like something I would like.

Poker update: Nothing much has been ging on I have been putting in a lot of hands and I think I am making up a lot of ground. Hopefully soon I will be able to move up to the next level. It is too early to tell though.

That is it for now, I will work on being more consistent.

Until later.

round and round it goes...

Poker is the same as usual, I still can't win on the weekends. I am not sure what I need to do to fix this. I guess more coaching is needed. I got coolered about 5 times tonight in less than 700 hands.

Work is still going well, wearing me out but its going well. I got my commission check the other day and I really can't complain about that.

I am going to watch the roast of Bob Saget, until later.

long time no see

It has been a little bit since I have posted. Not much has been going on just working a lot. It seems like I am constantly working, I am not really working that many more hours. It is weird, maybe because I am actually having to work as opposed to sitting on my ass all day. With AT&T things are going well, it has been very busy since the new I-phone came out. You pretty much don't even have to sell it, it is the best phone around and so versatile.

Poker has been going better, I did a coaching session and since then things have been going better. It is still too early to say anything else. I will post some graphs soon.

I downloaded Team Fortress 2 and it is a really fun game to play. WOW has kind of taken a backseat and I might turn it off again soon.

That is really all for now.

Until later.

What is the fucking deal

Why is it that whenever I play poker online on the weekends i run like total fucking shit? Every big hand gets ran down, I miss every fucking draw. Every fucking donkey on the internet gets to run good against me. FUCKING LAME. I bust my ass to play good and I still lose. Fuck it.