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k2o4 United States. Apr 07 2008 16:32. Posts 4803 | | |
I've promised myself that I'm avoiding alcohol for a week and this weekend is gonna be about being active outdoors and overall healthy living, cause that was the plan for this weekend and alcohol killed it!
Anyway, Friday was standard and Saturday in the morning I did my free lesson with rnbsalsa which went pretty well. Despite his horrible rep here on LP I found him to be a nice and helpful guy and agreed with him on a lot of philosophies about poker. I'm not convinced he's a super gosu leet pwnerer or anything like that, but he seemed competent and I always like talking poker with that type of person. He made a vid so you can watch that if you're interested (dl it here... oddly it's pretty embarassing cause I'm yapping away about my poker history and ideas and I feel totally unqualified to be listened to by anyone).
I'll write a bit more about the lesson at the bottom, but for now let's ramble about other stuff. Like what happened this weekend...
After the lesson I took my GF to the mall cause she got her tax return and was eager to go shopping. Luckily the store of choice was Victoria's Secret, so it was win-win for both of us. She gets sexy lingerie, I get to walk around the store and not look like a total perv. Since I'm here with a GF I'm now a nice boyfriend instead of a horny bastard. This was my first time ever being in a victoria's secret, although I have stopped and stared at the pictures of the models in the front windows many times in my life.
We left the mall and met up with a friend of mine for dinner and beer at this great brewery in downtown Boulder on Pearl St. I grew up drinking 40's of MGD, Bud and Coors which we stole from the grocery store or gas station, just trying to get drunk, and because of that I never really cared for beer. I got old enough to drink legally and suddenly I found myself tasting real beer in local breweries with FLAVOR to it rather than just yellow piss water with just enough alcohol content to get you drunk if you pounded 2 40's down in 20 minutes. I love good beer now and anytime I get a chance to go out and have a burger and a beer, I'm in heaven.
2 other friends showed up and we started the pub crawl which is the standard Saturday night event in downtown boulder. The weird thing is that it turns into a high school reunion cause there's always SOMEONE from school in town and they hit the same bars we do. So we played pool with HS friends and my GF got to meet a bunch of people - the guy that my HS sweetheart cheated on me with, who eventually cheated on him and we became good friends over the bond of our mutual hatred for her; an ex-girlfriend from 8th grade who became a best friend for a while. The night ended in the usual stupidity of "let's go to bobby's house for the after party" and only 1/3 of the people actually coming over.... we ended up dropping off 2 of the 4 people riding in our car at their own houses instead of the party house. There was plenty of female drama and bitching at each other about why people weren't staying out to party. Such fun.... this is why I rarely go out.
We were planning to go to yoga with some friends Sunday morning, but being up till 4am with plenty of alcohol in the system didn't vibe well with a 9:30am yoga class. I woke up at 9 the next day and said "fuck this", went back to bed and woke up at noon. My GF and I went out to Subway for the 5 dollar foot long deal and then drove up to the mountains to have a picnic. Again, the plan was to go hiking, but the hangover killed that. At the same time I didn't want to miss my chance to get outdoors since I spend all week behind a computer. Here are a few pics:
View from our picnic spot
My GF as we sit down to eat
Me looking hungoverrrr
View of Boulder
Another Boulder View - the red roofs are the CU Campus
Came home from the picnic and passed out around 3pm and woke up @ 9pm. Realized that I was scheduled to play a Bo7 Random Vs Random match for the title of "most leet pimp evar". So I hunted down my friend and lost while putting up a good fight. I WILL GET YOU LUEIGI, IF IT'S THE LAST THING I DO! I had to make a post about how awesome he was since I lost, which you can see here. Then I watched "The Outsiders" with my GF, which was a pretty good flick. I loved the book as a kid and it was fun to see it as a movie. Diane Lane was young and hot, and Tom Cruise was a fucking dirty greeseball weirdo. It was amazing how many famous faces were in that flick - hell it even had the Karate Kid! Flashback to my youth for sure!
Man, I'm rambling like crazy right now. Anyway, that was my weekend. But I wanted to say a bit more about that lesson I had. Overall I think the best part about it was that he had a bit of a plan on how to approach it. I don't get very much out of sweat sessions, especially if I'm 4 tabling. If you start talking too much about a concept or a hand, you get distracted. So I like how he set it up to spend time just talking overall poker background/ideas first, then a 1 table sweat session (though I think 2 would be better) and then time to just ask Q's and discuss hands and shit afterwards. I think that's definitely a good formula, at least for me. I learn well that way. I am the type of guy who needs to ask a million questions.
As far as rnbsalsa goes as a person, I went into the lesson with very low expectations due to all the posts around the forums. I personally thought that he was overly advertising his site and found it to be pretty annoying. I didn't think his articles were anything special. And I think that if he's gonna be posting on LP he should be doing it as an LP member, not a pokerzion member trying to get more traffic. At the same time I get where he's coming from and that he wants to have a successful site and all that jazz. My overall impression of him right now is that he is a nice guy who took a shitty approach to getting involved in the LP community. I think if he just quit all forms of advertising PZ and just participated in the community as a regular guy he'd do pretty well here. But of course now he's in a serious hole cause of how he introduced himself to LP, and people don't give second chances easily and first impressions last a long time, all that shit. So he'll probably have a hard time in the LP community for a while. But I personally am not gonna be part of his hater crowd as long as he stops advertising PZ, which he pretty much has. Yeah this lesson thing and the video of it are pretty much advertising for him, but hell it's also not so bad for new players since they can probably learn a thing or two for free from the vid.
God I'm on such a rambling rant today - my head is not on straight at all. I need to blog more often so it all doesn't build up on me.
Anyway, there was more stuff I wanted to talk about but I need to eat and play more poker. I'm gonna start posting more often now that the secret is out - yes, if you watch the vid you will learn how I was able to go on a horrible downswing that started as variance and turned into tilt, and go from 30 buyins for NL200 to 20 buyins for NL50. The pain. I've been pretty embarrassed about it and ashamed to post in here about results I've had since going back down to the microstakes. I was planning to get back to NL100 and then start posting in the blog again. Lol, pretty sad eh?
So it's time to own up...
Hello everybody. My name is k2o4 and I'm a spewaholic... I spewed my BR due to tilt and didn't move down fast enough, putting myself in a huge hole. I'm playing NL50 again with some NL25 for confidence boosts / BR boosts when I do poorly. I'm recovering and back to playing with nice large BR requirements and now understand that moving down quickly is about more than just protecting the BR, but it also helps you get your head on straight sooner cause of the easier competition and the fact that the losses don't hurt so much. I'll be posting a lot more in the near future now that the truth is out!
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acdawg712 United States. Apr 07 2008 16:41. Posts 2639 | | | |
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SeanBam . Apr 07 2008 16:50. Posts 953 | | |
Do you live in Boulder???? I'm actually living in Nederland. I'm working with the National Forest Service being a Wildland Firefighter. I go to Boulder basically every weekend to chill and go to bars and stuff. |
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k2o4 United States. Apr 07 2008 17:56. Posts 4803 | | |
| | On April 07 2008 15:50 SeanBam wrote:
Do you live in Boulder???? I'm actually living in Nederland. I'm working with the National Forest Service being a Wildland Firefighter. I go to Boulder basically every weekend to chill and go to bars and stuff. |
Really? I live in Arvada but grew up in Boulder and like to hang there for fun. Arvada just has better prices =)
Let's keep in touch and maybe we can organize to meet up on pearl some weekend. Always glad to find poker buddies to hang with IRL.
| | On April 07 2008 15:53 ChoboPokeR_r wrote:
hey dude, i read ur ENTIRE blog post! i think thats pretty impressive in itself, no?
nice blog entry btw. |
I DON'T BELIEVE IT!!! Seriously, I don't - it was a long rambling rant and I figured it would get many insta "fuck this, too long" reactions, ^^ But thanks for reading. I am impressed if you tell the truth ^^
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BigRed0000  United States. Apr 07 2008 18:50. Posts 3554 | | |
awesome pics, great view. A+ blog! |
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RS_II United States. Apr 08 2008 00:18. Posts 748 | | |
rnbsalsa is a cool dude, gl on the recovery. |
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failsafe United States. Apr 08 2008 10:59. Posts 1043 | | |
hahahahaha brett you've got a picture of a boulder and you've titled it view of boulder but really boulder is hiding in the background |
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k2o4 United States. Apr 08 2008 16:20. Posts 4803 | | |
lol jeff, it was a view of boulder the city - I really didn't think people would think of it the way you did, hahaha |
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