Fuck!

Those are my chips.....just one bad day so far. I either win this shit
back or lose some more and go to eat and pass out and start again
tomorrow. We will see.

My game is shit!

This dude just sat down and obviously don't want to be the guy that
buys in for the minimum so he splurged and threw down $60 instead of
$40. He ha said brother 3 times in 5 minutes. I'm not your brother and
I prolly wouldn't even want to be your friend. I have 4 of these short
stack fucks on my table and I'm trying to change tables.

Seriously...

Buy some more dam chips. This may be the nit of all nits. He's buying
in for $40 with $50 bill. I mean why can't you gamble that other $10.
Must suck to sit down with $40 and lose with pockets aces your first
hand. Why do I always have to have the guys with $40 on my left so
they can shove on me when I call a raise or finally do so myself.

Hot

This cup of coffee hasn't cooled down a bit after like 90 minutes.
Down like $50 after 2 hours. I haven't played more than a handful of
hands, just carddead.

Spewy!!

I put in about 4300 hands throughout the day. It was a pretty boring
session as I never seemed to win a big hand without losing a big hand
at the same time. I think I ended up down $190 and it was just me
trying to do to much. I'm at the MGM right now and hopefully I can win
some stacks here from the drunks in town for the superbowl.

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February Goals

I really need to quit being lazy and start putting in the hours I'm capable of. I feel like I haven't really done much since I went back to WI for Christmas. I haven't really laid out goals in a long time and it's about time I do since it usually keeps me on track. So...

1. 2k hands minimum a day online or +$300.
2. Move up to 1/2 online
2. 4 hours minimum live or +$300.
3. $10k month.
4. Lay off the sauce.
5. Work Out?!?
6. Find a new place.

2k hands a day online is easy for me while playing 18 tables. The thing is I may have a good day online/live and then I take some time off. January is the first month I haven't made my necessary 10k points on Pokerstars in like a year (I can still do this if I bust ass today/tomorrow). I figure if I get up $300 there's really no reason to force myself to keep playing unless I'm playing good and actually feel like playing.

I plan to move up to 1/2 as soon as I'm up $1k online starting today. I've had this thought for awhile and I just haven't gotten to it due to being back home and having people in town throughout January. I just never got on a good roll and I figured a clean slate starting February would make this ideal. I don't think I'll immediately 18 table 1/2 but I may do half and half to reduce the variance for a bit and to get used to the larger swings.

There's really no excuse not to play live at least a few hours a day. 4 hours really isn't anything but I think it's a good minimum so I don't get burned out. I really don't think a minimum dollar amount for live is necessary but I guess it helps if I'm feeling miserable sitting there and I'm already up. If the games good and I'm feeling good I'll sit as long as I feel its profitable. Another thing I'm going to focus on doing is not sitting in a game that goes bad no matter how much I have in front of me. I've found myself sitting in mediocre games just cause I have a larger stack. It's just as easy to go somewhere else and find a good game and start from scratch.

$10k month--I haven't had one of these in a really long time and it's mostly due to not putting in the time necessary to do this. As long as I run close to normal and put in the hours I think this shouldn't be much of a problem since this goal is to not allow me to sit around when I get to say +$6k and feel comfortable knowing I'm ahead and have myself covered for the next month or two.

I won't be able to do all of this if I get drunk and wake up hungover every day. I actually offered a bet to stay sober for all of February but its just to hard to prove so the bet didn't go off.

I should start working out and probably cut down on smoking again. I'm going to make sure my new place has some type of gym as I don't need to become a fatass just because I sit around and click buttons all day.

I need to find a new place prolly next week since we need to move out at end of February.

I'm starting all of this today the 30th. Hopefully clearing the $10k month will be easy since its Super Bowl weekend and I'll be playing live as much as possible this weekend. Last year I made like $3800 off one rich guy who just wanted to go all-in every hand for $500. I believe its the most I won live to this day. It also is almost the same as my biggest losing day live so whatever...bad memories.

Dinner

Down $175 after 2k hands, at least I can still afford a good ribeye.

Weekend Recap

Thursday night Ace, Brian and I headed to the Yardhouse for happy hour. I had 2-3 beers and some crab cakes. Ace needed to be back by 5pm because Jackie, Ace's wife, organized a Las Vegas Beer&Blog chapter and the first meetup was that night. Well, being the nice guys we are we headed over to the Freakin Frog with Ace to keep him company and what not. I think between 30-40 people showed up which I guess was good but I had no idea what to expect when walking into the bar. It's safe to say the 3 of us handled more of the Beer part of the evening then the blog part.

On the way to the Freakin Frog Brian was telling me how he got pulled over the previous Sunday night leaving a bar with his buddy that had flew in for a few nights. Well...He was finally getting to the climax when we were turning left off Flamingo on Maryland. We gave it some gas as the light changed to yellow and there's no way he could stop in time w/o going into the intersection. As luck would have it there was a cop conveniently located on Maryland waiting to turn left onto Flamingo that graciously hit his lights on his motorcycle and ended up pulling us over. Now when we turned left we were in the left lane of 3-4 traffic lanes so we pulled over into a parking lot to the left instead of crossing traffic and making a mess. This does not sit well w/ the officer I guess. Brian ended up getting a citation D&E for failure to stop on red and not pulling to the right with an emergency vehicle behind you. Quick $1k down the pooper....I think they're both bullshit as we made it through the whole light basically in yellow and the pulling to left was just Brian recognizing it'd be easier with the traffic to our side. The Sunday night he got pulled over for failing at UTurns and got a citation C. Then if that wasn't enough Ace got pulled over last night 100 yards from the Hard Rock parking garage. He had a beer or two when we ate dinner and was given a field sobriety test which he passed. He did get a ticket for no registration sticker.....that he got pulled over 2-3 times already for so I guess you suck that one up and go get a sticker already. There's some operation pullover going on I guess to stimulate the economy I suppose so I'll be taking it easy. I've been pulled over more in 3 months with people than I have in my whole life.

After Thursdays debacle I crotched it on the couch all day Friday and watched DeathRace and RockNRolla which I wish I had that time back in my life. At about 2am I decided to fire up Stars on my laptop and made like 400 quickly and decided to pass out. I woke up and got some shit at Walmart and some Starbucks and came back and played again and I made another 500. It felt pretty good and I was sick of sitting around so thats when I headed to the Hard Rock yesterday. I forgot to track how long I played but it had to be like 11-12 hours as I left just before 3AM. I ended up winning about $575. At around midnight a nice fight broke out between 2 truckers. I think its the first legitimate fight I've ever seen. Supposedly there was some trucking convention and the head guy organized a 2 table tournament for the guys. Someone said that one of the fighters was the head guy and the other was a guy that worked for him. I had my back towards it but it just got real loud. By time I turned around they almost had a table flipped over which would've been sweet to see, but it stayed upright. The one got'em on the ground and just pounded on'em a few times until people around it were grabbing him off. Of course security came and the first 2 on the scene were ridiculous. One was like 70 and the other was a 52 inch woman coming in at 275lbs. I'm not sure where the big UFC guys that I always see walking around are when this shit happens.

I'm going to probably sit around for most of the day I really need to get a bunch of hands in on Stars by end of the month but if I run good I definitely wouldn't mind and going playing live and getting my cash roll built up a little more.

Getting Rowdy

This guy got called a pipesqueak by a heavier set local. He came back
with a look at yourself your 250 pounds now shits getting wild.

Running Good

Up like 500 at hard rock so far.mike came and joined the festivities
and is up almost 700. I haven't eaten a dam thin yet today but don't
wanna leave the table because I have Jesus seat on 2 bad players.

Grown Man??

This dude will not shutup about Lee Watkinson. I mean the dudes a
professional gambler, nothing very special. For some reason this 40
something year old man can't stop yapping and trying to get pictures
of him. At some point I was worried about a certain something poking
me under the table.

Vince Neil

Is hosting a charity tournament. Place is packed. Prolly other rockers
that I don't know walking around. A few poker pros running around. I'm
in a good game but can't catch cards for shit.

All Mine

We will keep these chips like this so I look as drunk as I may or not
be at the moment. One big bluff I will discuss later and an extra
supreme lucky card made me up for the night. Gotta focus at 1am
discuss it later.

Just Kidding

Now he's drunk.

Ace is Drunk

At blog convention Jackie organized. Jackie left so Ace had to get
drunk.

Sushi Pickup

Won $200 at Bellagio and re game got dry and I'm kind of tired so I
liked in a win. Picked up 2 spicy crab rolls on way back. I'm not sure
if I should tip when pickin up or not. My total is usually like $13,
I've pocketed and left the $2 2 times apiece so who knows.

Bellagio

Ace gave a ring and said he was up here playing. I put in almost 3k
hands in already online today and figures I'd leave the house. I
haven't played here in forever. This was probably the place I plate at
most when I lived out here the last time. I'll hve to see how re games
are but I'm pretty sure you'll usually find more action elsewhere.
Anoter thing is they don't even comp you $1/hr like most other places
I play at do. It doesn't sound like a lot but once you get playing
it's pretty hard to not get a free meal everytime you play. I guess I
should start paying attention.

Crotchin It

I decided to stay home Friday/Saturday and take it easy. I've been busy eating, watching movies/football, and figured I'd get started on January online. I put in a lot more than usual and things were looking pretty good.....for awhile. Maybe things turned bad because I requested a cashout or maybe it's just because there's a bunch of morons playing poker on the internet....gotta be one of the two. Here's my graph from pretty much last 24 hours.

Recap

So yeah....New Years Eve went pretty well. We ended up going to Playboy Club instead of Rain which I learned about 2 minutes before I got there. Jim was running late so Brian and I met up w/ Jim's host to get our wristbands early to take full advantage of the open bar. We accomplished this very well and also had more than our fair share of the food they were walking around with. I have no idea what half of it was because it was far to classy for me but it was delicious. Umm....Jim got there and we got our table which was like as close as you can get to the DJ booth where Kid Rock came at some point in the night. I could barely see'em because everyone rushed up there and shit got packed and ridiculous. I managed to miss the fireworks on the strip even though we were surrounded by windows. I managed to leave Playboy Club for some reason...I found our buddy Steve in the poker room and I guess I was going to play or at least bum a cigarette but I drunkenly tripped on the small foot and the guy said no way I was going to play tonight so...he can fuck off haha. After that I went to Mcdonalds to get some food and obviously shit was packed ridiculously in the food court. I paid for one mcchicken w/o lettuce and a large fry and they got super swamped and instaclosed the gate shit and said no more food. Now..I was drunk and hungry and wasn't about to pay and not get my shit. Blah Blah.....I kinda grabbed the cage thing and demanded money or food ASAP. Security dude thought it was a perfect time to ask for my receipt. Obviously I'm drunk and instathrow that shit away because who needs a receipt for $3 of food. So now I'm the idiot with no receipt so I see the little trash can on counter filled with them and grabbed a few and asked for my fillet o fish and mcflurry...I finally got some cold ass fries and some chicken patty on a bun w/o anything on it. Brian found me right around the time security asked for my receipt and after all of it we walked to the bar across the street and each finished half of our beer before we realized we should go back to The Palms and take a cab home. I'll be taking it easy for a few days and prolly stay around the house. I just took back the computer I bought the other day because it wasn't what I needed and Ace rushed me into buying it.....umm....here's some pictures from the crazy night....

PS I forgot that John Elways kid and all of his friends had the table next to ours. John made an appearance and I thought I didn't get a picture taken because Jim was trying to and I'm not sure why but I don't think John liked Jim for some reason...but I guess someone got one before he left.

Me, John Elway, Brian

Ummm

Jail or an applepie hmm....