My right eye has been twitching. Now normally this wouldn't bug me much (or at all) but it has been twitching randomly all week. To make matters worse, I woke up this morning and started playing poker and something in my right shoulder has started twitching as well. WTF. I wiki'd this shit and all it says that twitching symptoms are caused by stress. But wtf am I stressed about? I've just recovered from a -8k downswing and now I'm in the green for the month, I'm on fucking winter vacation, and this entire week I've been chilling. How the fuck can I be stressed?
As some of you might already have known, my grandma passed away on Jan 1st at 5am after a month of treatment for her lung cancer. I spent most of New Years Eve with her and she just looked like she was suffering so much, so in a way I'm relieved she found her peace. On a side note --> Some of you might not have known, but smoking 40 years of your life increases your chances for lung cancer. So don't smoke. Anyways, that's the main reason I'm not in the Bahamas right now since my grandma's funeral service is on the 7th.
The plan for the weekend was to drive back down to San Diego to where I can get some decent internet, since the internet home just totally sucks. Plus my family isn't the most enjoyable to be around. So last night I stayed up all night and had the pleasure to sit with the European donks in the early morning hours. Plus I saw heads-up table between two of my favorite regulars to play against: Poly_Baller and xorbie. I'm starting to think Poly_Baller has a basic idea of how to play a good game of poker. xorbie on the other hand just might be the worst regular at NL400 & NL600. This guy is just bad lol...
Was up $1500, all was going good... then I got cold decked pretty hardcore for an hour. It all started off with this bluff I ran that was snapped off by the most ridiculous hero call ever: http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/351988 / I pretty much felt super gross after that last hand then this happened: http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/351978 <-- The post-hand chat on this hand was pretty funny. He says to me: "Sorry, I've been run over all day by you, gotta make a stand sometime!" Yup sir, gotta make them stands! That's good pokah obv! Finally, Poly_Baller demonstrates to me why he is one of the biggest winners at NL400 right now: http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/351998 Pretty standard stuff.
Overall I only lost $800 so I can't really complain too much. Going to be playing a ton before school starts back up on the 16th, will keep my blog updated!
So I finally got a youtube account for myself today, mainly because I have a bunch of short video clips I took with my camera this past year. Here are a couple of them... nothing too interesting.
TwistedEcho Can Juggle! - This was in Vegas, Echo was demonstrating his gosu juggling skills. Then Mango runs into him and ruins it.
Bellagio Fountain Show - Taken from the back of Shintaro during the WPT Championships.
San Diego Labor Day Riot - This is the reason why we have an alcohol ban on our beaches now... there were thousands of drunks college kids throwing shit at the cops. Not so smart
Its Me! - My best friend was fucking around with my camera and decided to take this dumb video clip of me. I'm drunk at it's 4am... obv I'm not going to be doing much.
Play good. Run bad. Fail. Tried to squeeze in as many hands as possible this morning before I had to go see my grandma at the hospital (she isn't doing very good at all). Anyways, was up a fair amount and then my roommate sat down at my tables and pretty much decimated my stacks in the most retarded ways...
I don't really make goals for myself... not a very goal oriented / driven kind of guy, so that is something I want to change for the New Year. There are a few things un-poker related that I want to get out there and achieve:
Staying Single! (With very rare exceptions) No I'm not gay. I'm all about getting some ass when I can get it, but ever since my last relationship (which lasted almost 3 years) I've been on a mission to not get into a relationship. Basically, for a poker player, it can never be good. Relationships are very -EV for the obvious reasons that they are time consuming to keep up, and very costly to your wallet (no matter how much you want to admit it). The exception to this rule would be if I could nail someone has hot as Jessica Alba (which would be worth all the time / money in the world) and she tells me something absurd like "You won't get laid unless we are dating." Either that or I find someone that truly understands and accepts the fact that I really don't have time for her. Besides, living the single life is so... FREE!!!
Improving My Blog - When I went to Vegas in December I told Zimba how many hits I get on my blog, and he told me he got more. Obv this put me on sick tilt. Totally unacceptable that a manager from Cardrunners somehow gets more hits on his blog than me. He doesn't even play that much poker! How can his life be more interesting to read than mine! Oh the injustice! So this upcoming year I'm going to dedicate a little more time in keeping my blog somewhat more updated, in an effort to get more hits than Zimba's blog. Btw, for those of you who read Zimba's blog, stop it!
Staying In Shape - I was 1st team All-American in high school for swimming my junior and senior year. If I got into a pool right now to swim more than 8 laps I'm going to be breathing hard. When my best friend came down to San Diego to visit a couple weeks ago, we worked out in the gym and rode the bike for 30 mins. 30 minute bike ride = CosMo Cardio Death. What's wrong with me? I use to be so into working out, but recently I've totally fallen out of it. With that said, I'm probably more fit than 95% of poker players in general anyways but that really isn't saying too much. I use to think I'd get my exercise by going to the beach, but when I went to the beach this semester all I did was... tan and sleep. Not really active eh? My apartment complex even has it's own private gym and 25 yard lap pool which is a 1 min walk away from my room. I need to start taking advantage of this. So, keeping with my tradition of setting the bar low: I'm going to work out a whopping 3 times a week minimum, for at least an hour each time.
Being More Organized - Holy shit I'm the most unorganized person in the world. Marshall28 can attest to this. I basically don't realize I have to do things until the last minute. This carries over to a lot of my school work and makes studying a lot harder than it needs to be. Not really sure how to improve on this, but it's definitely something I want to improve.
Learning to Cook - This was inspired by [vital]Myth. For those of you who don't know, not only is [vital]Myth our resident super genius at hand discussions, he's also a 5-star chef. This kid can fucking cook. While helping him move in, at least half the boxes we put into his new apartment were cooking supplies / kitchen appliances. And since Myth and FrinkX live no more than a 3 minute drive away, I try and make it over for dinner as much as possible because Myth seriously cooks some of the most fantastic food ever. This past semester I've been pretty much living off of a combination of Quizno's, Rubio's, Panda Express, Subway, Sombrero's, Oggi's Pizza, and Pat & Oscar's for the most part since I cannot cook shit. I'm pretty much sick of all the food I get from around my area... time to start cooking for myself! A couple of my good friends back home have given me a few simple starter recipes that I'm going to try out when I get back to SD. Who knows... I'm asian... I might be the next Iron Chef. Sup?
Traveling - Maybe not during the semester, but definitely over the summer I want to travel to somewhere interesting. I'm not exactly sure where or what I'm going to do, but I have the time and money and I heard that I need to travel so... let's go! I'm going to Hawaii for my friend's graduation. Other places could be Europe? Japan? I heard you can get a 10 cent hooker in Thailand, maybe I should go there?
As for poker related goals... I don't really know yet. Haven't thought of anything creative. I find that it's hard to make realistic goals in poker since there is just so much variance. I guess I can set a goal to play more... I don't know yet. I'll make another post when I figure that out
Definitely not playing enough poker. I blame my friends who think what I do for a living is "lame" and "unproductive". I swear if I had the skills for a job that pays as good as this, I'd be doing that. But I don't have those kind of skills, so for the time being, this will have to do. This month has been pretty smooth for the most part, was kind of a grind in the middle of it, then out of nowhere I had a pretty killer 1.5 hour session just now. Here are some of the hands from it:
Here are the PT stats (because Windows Vista is gay on my computer):
Winning 56% of my showdowns made me feel like god for once. Hands were holding, draws were getting there, I was winning half my coinflips! Shit was working like it was suppose to! Don't know how much I'm going to be playing for the rest of the month, might just take a break til next year. So here is december's PT:
Will someone explain to me how $440 an hour is unproductive?
Ship it ez. I hope next year I can win more than 45% of my showdowns. That would be nice...
So this semester was pretty much awesome from start to finish. I got by with satisfactory grades for the most part (personally I thought I fucking ape smashed excellence into SDSU's grading system considering I didn't go to like 75% of my classes), and now I'm back home in Northern California just chillin with my old friends like the good ol' times. Decided to upload photos from my camera from the past week, kind of disappointed that I got no good photos from Vegas other than these:
Lyric doing his laptop thing at the Wynn
Mango showing off the fashion in the PokerStars sweat shirt
Yea, thats about all the ones I could get from Vegas since they didnt allow flash photos in the Bellagio around the tournament area so all my pics of the tourney came out super blurry. So after coming back from Vegas I decided to chill in San Diego for a week with my friends, and my best friend from Hawaii flew down to visit since his school was finished as well.
My best friend Kaz
Meet Kaz, he's like the chillest kid I've ever known. I've known him since freshman year of high school. He loves reggae music, smoking pot, and long walks on the beach obv. Anyways, he came on tuesday and we chilled around San Diego until my other friends finished their finals. Thursday night a bunch of us went to eat sushi, along with my boy Mike King (the guy I dressed up as for Halloween), which is a really rare thing since he barely leaves his house caz he's the laziest kid ever.
Sushi at Mizu's!
And then after we went to Sandbar on Mission Beach...
And then I don't really remember the rest, but I have pictures!
On Friday, Kaz cooked some awesome stir fried shit w/ white rice and we had a family style dinner. We headed to Typhoon Saloon in PB later in the night, and it was fucking freezing outside so we didn't really stay very long. We came back to my friend's house early, and that wasn't much better since they have no heater in their baller ass pad (what baller pad has no heater! No heater = No justice!) So they use a bunch of these portable heaters to warm up the house. Needless to say, they don't work so well...
Sup punk? Something for byrnesam to photoshop obv.
One of my best friend who has a problem staying warm
Going to be in Norcal til the 3rd of January, then I'm not really sure what I'm doing after that. My grandma was diagnosed with lung cancer earlier this month and she hasn't been doing so well in the hospital. Because of this, I am kind of up in the air on whether or not I'm going to the Bahamas this year. My parents think this might be the last Christmas we have together with her so the mood around the family house is kind of down. Doing my best to stay optimistic about it all, I'm not really religious or anything, but I think I might go to church on Christmas for the first time in a few years. For those of you who are religious, please keep Grandma CosMo in your prayers!
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