I’m playing really good genius type poker lately. I played last night and ended up taking $100 off of people at a 2-4 game as they busted out of the multi-table tourney. Those tables are soft. I have no qualms at saying that I’m probably one of the best limit players in the area. That’s not me bragging, that’s me saying that I win more at $2-4 limit, probably the hardest game to win at, then anyone else around. I saw one guy last night, dip into his wallet 3 times. He blew like $140 in over an hour.  I might loose in a given night, but I’m not dipping into my wallet over and over.

This was the guy that I won a $50 pot against. He raised in middle position with queens and I called from the big blind with 8-6 offsuit. The flop came 8-8-6. I flopped the nuts. And I checked the nuts. Guy to my left bets, Dad (who had busted out of the tourney) calls, orginal raiser raises, couple of calls, then I drop the hammer on ‘em. Long story short, I won a big pot and this dude, who obviously doesn’t know how to play limit, looked like I had punted his dog or something.

Speaking of hard shots, I am convinced that after watching the Mixed Texas Hold ‘em event from the World Series on ESPN, I could clean up that table up. Why? Because no body knows how to play limit. Of the 9 players at the final table, one of them knew how to play limit. Only problem is, is that the buying for that event is $5000, which I currently don’t have, and doubt I’ll have the self control to have by next June. That being said, I’m really tempted to sell pieces of my action in exchange for pwning some noobs.  Also, Bracelet.

On my way to work this morning, I passed by Oliver T’s, the one fancy grocery store in Grand Blanc and their sign said “Jarlsberg Cheese on sale” and my first reaction was “I wonder if I could zap some regular cheese to get that”. I need to lay off the Kingdom of Loathing.

That’s all I got for now. At least it’s a post, yeah.

Work and school have been okay, no real big surprises there.  The Food Library is dicking me out of hours, but then again, that’s pretty par for the course. I had a job interview at last week for a company, but it appears to have fallen through. I mean, the interview was before the Fourth and I haven’t heard anything back from them. Kinda sucks because it would have been a really great opportunity. I need to seriously start buckling down and working on getting certs and such. The problem is just sitting down and doing it instead of kinda vegging out on the internet.

I am, in an always present attempt to become more organized, cleaning up my room and organize everything. I’m continuing to throw stuff out, so if there’s anything I’m going to get rid of, I’ll let you guys know. See if I can’t sell it to someone for a few bucks instead of just pitching it.

Last night was the MLB All-Star game, and it was pretty boring. I’m not even gonna lie. It was a sleeper and so was the Home Run Derby. Best part about it was watching Steve get pissed because Ichiro is in his 30s and doesn’t speak English very well.

I can feel myself falling into some of my old habits. Staying up late, waking up late, getting iratable and the smallest little thing. I’m starting to wonder if I should go see therapy again. I’m really considering it but the problem is finding time to do it. Between two jobs and school, I’ll have to make time for it.

Poker has been really good the last couple of weeks. Last week at the home game, I finished in the money all three games, coming in twice second, and chopping the other two games.  The Boyd’s aren’t here all summer so the home game is a bit more relaxed, and I think that that benefits my play style, actually. Tom and Will tend to be hyperaggressive before the flop, and the relaxed flop play means that I can see more flops with rags.

The most interesting thing to come out of Saturday’s game (besides Josh loosing with the best hand like five times) was Sopha’s play. For no apparent reason, he started to play hyper aggressive, especially if I was in a pot. I must have done something to him to upset him, but I can’t remember me putting a bad beat on him and I’m never openly rude to other players. So either he saw something that wasn’t there or he felt that being super aggressive against me was the only way to counteract that fact that I’m a better player than he is. Regardless his play returned to normal after I trapped him with trip aces.

Also, Dad and I found a new charity room to play in around here. And they do Friday night tourneys. Dad prefers tourneys so he plays in those (and came in 8th this last Friday). Me, however, love the cash games. I also love taking money from players have busted out of the tourney and are on tilt. I’ve made atleast $40 the last two weeks I’ve played there, and two weeks ago I finished up $120 for the night. Not bad for 2-4 limit.

Which leads me to a hand analysis. I was Under the Gun and I was going to raise with any two cards, for the sole reason that it was, at the time, going to be my last hand for the night. Dad had busted out of the tourney and since we rode together, I didn’t want to keep him waiting any more. I wake up with King Queen of clubs, so I could think of worse hands to raise with. There’s like 5 of use to the flop which is KQ5, rainbow. Probably the best possible flop for me. The Big Blind checks to me and I lead out. The guy to my left raises, which I find interesting. At this point, there are only three hands that I’m worried about kings, queens or fives. This guy had been raising every pot with garbage, so I didn’t think he had kings or queens. He might have 5s, but I’d doubt it. So he’s probably got a king or a queen with a good kicker. Action folds to me so I reraise, confident that I’ve got the best hand now. He calls and we’re heads up, the turn and the river are both blanks, so I continue to beat he calls me. Now I’m positive that he’s got top pair with a good kicker. I show my hand and announce that I had kings up. He mutters something under his breath and shows pocket rockets. The guy smooth called my raise before the flop with aces. If you guys ever learn anything from my blog learn this, Never slow play Aces before the flop in low limit cash games. It worked out for him, because he ended up saving himself 2 dollars, but it was still the incorrect play. You should always raise with Aces in limit because you want to make it as expensive as possible for the limpers.

Well, that’s all I got right now. I’ll try to get these updates on a more regular basis

Working at the Food Library after Work Study wasn’t bad. I mean, my feet were killing me, but it’s not like I’m doing anything really difficult at either job. Only bad thing about working the two jobs is that Sunday is probably gonna be the only day of the week that I do absolutely nothing, which is fine by me.

I’ve already started to compile a list in my head of “Things to buy” once I starting getting paid for the other job. Top of the list is to pay off a year of hosting, with getting a new laptop towards the top as well. I mean, I like this one, but I’d like to get a new one that is a bit more powerful, has internal wireless and doesn’t have random bits popping off the back.

Spencer is a trapping son of a bitch. Last game of poker came up to me and him heads up, and my two pair ran into his straight. I mean, he played it right and he even said that he feels he can’t outplay me, so I guess that’s some sort of weird ass compliment.  I need to get better and recognizing traps, but to be fair, it was like 4am at the time.

Last night while I was waiting for Mike to fix his MacBook so we could play Exalted with John (lol broken mac), I drew my character for that campaign. It came out better than I could have hoped, considering I haven’t picked up a pencil for that reason since Christmas. I do need to see if I can find a .3mm drafting pencil somewhere because these el cheapo .7mm throwaways I use for school are shit for drawing. Seriously. Also, Mike and I are talking about maybe doing an Exalted comic which I think would be a lot of fun. Even tho I’m kinda medicore, I do enjoy drawing and I think that a comic would force me to be a better artist, because I’d actually have to draw action poses (and hands)

NS13 was rolled out in Kingdom of Loathing, and it’s slightly weird. I’ll post more on that later. Now? I’m gonna burn turns until class starts

I love the barter system. Will gave me that powersupply today, and I’m going to give him a working harddrive in exchange. I got what I wanted and he’ll get what he wants and it’s not gonna cost either of us a dime.

Work was kinda weird yesterday. The old people were out in force for no apparent, more so than usually for a day that was the 1st or 15th day of month. Sometimes I think that the old people have a forum somewhere where they plot to irate me at work with asinine questions like where is the catfood when they’re standing right next a display of it.

I had my best session of poker in a while Tuesday night. Sat down with 60, walked away with close to 200. It was sick. I’d stay in with hands and they’d hit. I’m not talking like two pair or a straight. I’m talking like full houses and quads once. It was sick.

I watch way to much Metalocalypse too. Or maybe not enough. Whatever

Poker was last night and I played really well. Brad apparently was the only person who noticed that I’m adjusted my game to match that of the guys at the home game. I mean, those guys are pretty loose, so I’ve become more agressive with my raises and such. I don’t want to say too much, don’t want to give away all of tricks. But I doubt anyone reads this anyway.

My life has been pretty dull the last few days, but hey, that’s how I like it.

It was Poker at Eric’s and I played extremely well. I won the first game, I was the chip leader when I broke the Omaha game, 2nd in the second game and third in the last game. I played really well, with hands and without hands. Like I made a move against Will with 67d, and got him to lay down top pair after the flop. I was really impressed with my play and the extra 20 bucks I made will help, too.

Today’s been a lazy day. Some cleaning, the Wings kicking some Calgary ass, and Office Space. So yeah, lazy day.

Sorry about not posting this weekend, but I was at the Food Library all weekend. Friday and Saturday were busier than shit and Sunday was dead. I worked Diary the entire weekend. My back was dead. Beyond that, I hope everyone’s Easter was nice. I was pushing Moo Juice all weekend.

I had some plans for yesteday, since I didn’t work or have school, but I ended up sleeping for 13 hours instead. I didn’t mean to, but I did feel a lot better physically. I did go and play some poker yesterday, and won a little bit. First day in a while that I actually got some hands to play.

And that’s that. More later, maybe I’ll have a wii then

Today after Class, me and some of the guys hung out at Mark’s house. We had some adventures with the wireless router, but it was good times.  Me? I burned 150 KoL turns there.

Speaking of Hard shots, I’m acsended today for the 3 time. Which is pretty cool. With Brad’s help, things are getting alot easier. It also helps that the RNG didn’t bone me during the NS fights.

Played poker today, I won 50, but I felt bad for dad. I dunno if he’s getting on the wrong tables or if the deck’s just cold for him, but I feel bad for him. I did have quad kings tho, which was pretty sweet.

I think I’m gonna start using my camera and my Flickr account. Stay tuned

Dotcha just hate it when you’re like “I’m gonna blog!” and then forget halfway through what the hell you were gonna blog about? Yeah, just happened with me.

I’ve been playing real good poker lately. I walked away up yesterday after 2 and a half hours of playing, with $70 more than what I started with. And for the most part, all of that came on one hand. I had pocket rockets, another guy had kings and another guy had Ace-Jack, and the aces held up. Funny thing was I pushed a guy out of the pot preflop and he would have had a set of dueces. And that’s why I raised.

The Bismarck is in the shop right now, with a rusty fuel line, warped brake rotors and rusted tie rods.  I love that car, but man, when it rains it pours.

Also, I have nothing else to say. Wee.

This weekend I played so much poker. Holy shit. Cash game at Motorcity (played okay), the bingo hall (started off okay, then started to donk chips off), and the home game (came in second after having being very short stack).

Will and I tonight record the first of the new Hoobajoob Report, which I’m in the process of setting up a blog for. I’ll try to post the old reports, too.

I got an email from Todd, of UMF anime club fame, wonder what the hell happened to me. I’m a bad friend (also, forgetful)

There’s a con in April in Troy. It’s a scifi/computer/anime/gaming con, which fits perfectly into my ADD. I want to go so bad. I haven’t been to a con since Acen 2005

Oh well, that’s all I got right now