Poker

I'm playing poker online at Full Tilt. I'm up a little. I play Hold Em and Omaha. I played a $10+$1 Omaha Hi-Lo tournament yesterday and came in 23rd. I lost because I see the kind of crap that people are turning over and winning with so I decided to play better crap then what all those guys play and the person I'm playing against actually has the nuts.

Party at the beach

Saturday in the park, I think it was the ninth of August. Ok, so not quite as catchy as Chicago's tune, but that was the date of Keiko's party this weekend. It was a combo birthday/baby shower party, but without the stupid games and other shower stuff. I didn't even know it was Keiko's birthday too. I'm thinking I should read invitations when I get them.

It was good times, good food, and good people. I haven't seen some of them in a long time, half a year or more since I last saw Leigh, Joc, Dan, and a few others. But it was a long day. Hot day. My face is sunburned and my skin is peeling. I actually used lotion today so I'm smooth and supple. Someone touch me!

I crushed my fingers carrying AJ's cooler. She needs to invest in a cooler with wheels or at least a cooler with longer handles. Kristin has great coolers!

I'm looking forward to this upcoming weekend. Golf with the club. 311 concert with Joc and Kelly. Gonna meet up with Leigh at the concert for a drink or two. Fun times!

<3 Omaha

I logged on at 2:30am to play some cards. I decided (against my best judgement) to listen to Keith and play 3 table 6-player hold em. I was getting fkn confused, I swear as soon as I put in a bet on one table the other 2 tables were beeping at me. Anyway I dumped some money because I was making bad plays and bad judgement. I felt rushed the entire time and I think it threw me off my game. I was pretty pissed (well as pissed as you can be for losing about $10)! I wasn't mad that I got drawn out on or that my cards weren't connecting, I was mad because I played in a situation that I wasn't comfortable playing and that in turn fucked up my judgement. So I decided to dump hold em for the night and play some Omaha! I love Omaha!


I raised half the pot because I only had the nut flush draw. When the guy reraised all-in I figured I was up against the set and not a full house. Since I had 2 shots at making the nut flush, two chances to hit an Ace on the turn or river to give me a full house, or I could backdoor the nut straight or the highly unlikely bull of runner runner Kings to give me a higher full house I decided to call. As you can see I hit none of the above.


After the other loss I built the stack back up a bit and came up with this hand. I raised half the pot on the flop because I had the nut flush draw and top and bottom pair. I was really in good shape when the Q hit to give me top 2 pair with the nut flush draw. When the 6d hit I thought I had it won and nearly shot my load when he pushed in. When the cards flipped over I got limp quick.

Looking back I should have raised pre-flop. I'm pretty sure everyone would still have called, but since I was in late position and I had a good hand, the odds were in my favor and I should have gotten as much money into the pot as possible.

Other than that, I think I would play both hands the same. Even if the cards were dealt face up. That's just how the game goes.

being the Champ

I must think very highly of myself to call myself the "Champ" right? Wrong... I don't call myself that, a lot of dumb people do. What is this "Champ" thing about? Well one night nearly 4 years ago I got lucky and won a pool tournament at Hawaiian Brians and since that time dumb people at the pool hall have been calling me the "Champ." I must have a lot of dumb friends because some of them started calling me the "Champ" too. It's definitely not a name I want to be called and it's definitely not justified. Yes, I won the tournament, but "Lucky Piece of Shit" is a much more appropriate name.

Winning that tournament has been a curse on my pool playing! I was playing really well for a couple years leading up to that Aloha Open. That year I won the Aloha Open I must have made $5,000+ playing tournament nine-ball. $3,500 for the Open, $500 for the Monday final, plus a lot of weekly and C class tournaments that I won or cashed in. Since then I've probably won $20! No joke! My game went to crap. I'm the David Duval of pool. And god damn I used to love watching that guy play golf.

I have this unnamed friend that I play pool with. We play sets race to 12 for 5 Starbucks. Prior to my winning the Aloha Open I used to spot 7 & 8 and win consistently. We increased the spot to 6 & 8 and I still won. Anyway, so I won the Open, and ever since then I can't beat this person. At one point in time, I owed this person almost 60 Starbucks!

This friend and I gave up pool for a while, but now they want to play again. So we've been playing. And I've been losing. What else is new right? Although I've been losing, I do see a marked improvement in my play. Although I still find ways to screw up, I run out more and screw up less. I can see myself winning again in the near future. It better be soon before I break my stick.

Since 2 of my readers also blog about poker so it inspires them to play better and rid themselves of mistakes, I shall do that for pool.

Mistakes

1. missing the shot - I have a bad ball pocketing eye
2. having a bad stroke - my stroke sucks, I have at best an ok poke stroke
3. bad positioning - I can move the ball around table ok, but I either leave it straight in or behind another ball. Both of those are not good if you're trying to run the table.
4. staying focued - I have a hard time concentrating on playing pool. I think a lot about how much I suck. And I find myself distracted.
5. luck - I've been having bad luck. Very bad.
6. skill of my opponent - my opponent has a lot of game. They can make shots I could only dream about making and makes them like they were hanging in the pocket. It's ridiculous how easy those shots seem when I know how fkn hard they are.

Good things I've been doing

1. breaking the balls - I've been hitting the breaks really solid. Don't make a lot of balls, but I spread em good for my opponent to run out.

New Posting

Hello my 2 readers! I don't have anything new to tell you, but I'm making this post because the public demanded I write a new entry. So here it is!

I'm tired. I dunno if it's cause I just ate lunch and it's a kanak attack or it's because I woke up early for a seminar I went to this morning. I wasn't too tired before lunch so I'm guessing kanak attack! But now that I'm talking about sleep, I'd like to say that the prescription antihistamine I'm taking works great at making me sleepy. It doesn't do a great job of making me sleep, it only makes me sleepy.

Reminder... order HD sports package. TV looks shitty right now when not watching dvds.

I feel sorry for Cathy and Hmone. I think they got thrown under the bus when they were assigned our account. I'm glad I'm not them.

"Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil; For You are with me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me." Please go to the store and buy a bigger rod and staff, they're not comforting enough :( I need to go... soon. I've been stuck on the one box on the form for a long time. I can't think of an answer that doesn't sound negative.

Babies

Today is Kaitlyn's first birthday party :) That got me thinking about babies. I love babies! They're so cute and innocent. They've yet to be corrupted by parents, teachers, and society. They don't judge you by appearance, color, ethnicity... well maybe by appearance if you're a big, scary, gorg looking mofo. They've yet to be hurt by loved ones and life. They're just innocent.

Thinking about Kaitlyn got me to think about Shaelyn(sp?), Damian, and other friend's kids. The filipino will be having his first child in a couple months. Ryan and Edie are trying, God bless them. And Rat and Jae, who unfortunately are not trying cause Rat doesn't want kids :(

After talking with my co-worker, I began to think about other babies. Not little children, but adults that act like immature, bratty, pieces of shit.

A former co-worker of mine epitomizes the kind of baby I'm talking about. This person only worked... uhh... half of half ass, so quarter ass work. But unfortunately for him, the position he was in needed his full attention and couldn't be done quarter assed. But he continued to do it quarter assed and we got more and more complaints and had so many problems that he was removed from the position. Of course he threw his normal temper tantrum, slammed stuff around, and destroyed stuff that he claimed was his even though it belongs to the company.

When they took away some of the responsibility, although they could have, they didn't take away on of the pay. So he was getting paid the same amount for doing way less then he was doing before, which already wasn't that much since he only did it quarter assed. WTF is up with that! I wish they would take away some of my responsibilities but still pay me the same!

Well this co-worker decided that his time with the company had come to an end and gave his two week notice. Prior to even giving his notice, he told the people under him that he planned to destroy documents and other things that are company property but he claims is his because his people contacted the customers and that he created the documents. Actually, I created the documents, he just taped his phone number onto it and made xerox copies. He said that my boss and I never shared information with him so some of their materials were wrong. Well, I did share, he just didn't listen, and I have email proof to back me up. He would be really nice to your face (which by the way was very obviously phony) and talk major smack about you behind your back.

Anyway, our Director got wind of this co-worker's desire to destroy documents and files and decided to cut him loose a week early. Of course, the co-worker got pissed and started his normal tantrum of slamming things, yelling, and generally being an ass. It's a lot quieter now that he's gone. I don't have to listen to his talk radio, lying to customers, and his shit talking about anyone no more. Although I think it could have been handled better, it's a much better environment here now that he's gone.

I'm gonna really enjoy this weekend. Tonight we get to celebrate Kaitlyn's first birthday. Tomorrow we're off to Maui to play Wailea and Sunday we play the Plantation course at Kapalua OMG!!! I'm so excited although looking at me you wouldn't think so.

MY FIRST BLOG!!

Hi!

Welcome to my blog. This blog is about nothing, something, everything. It'll be filled with random stuff that I'm thinking or doing... so it'll be rather quiet here since my mind is usually blank and I'm a boring person.

Enjoy!
RL