Poker and other random stuff

After the world series I didn't play much poker at all in July partially because I some things to do in different places, and partially because I wanted to take a little break. I thought to myself that maybe I had gotten a bit burned out for the first time, but then I realized that it's pretty natural to not be as enthused to play after playing in the WSOP. Analogy: After the Rockies finish playing in the World Series (of baseball), they probably wouldn't play as well a week later in an exhibition game. It doesn't mean that they don't love playing baseball, they just don't need to get their work in the week after playing at the pinnacle of their profession. (I'm glad I could get that Rockies analogy in because I probably won't be able to use it after this season.) Anyways, I also knew I'd be running around the country for a couple of weddings and to go back to Denver for a while. My brother got married in Cincinnati and one of my best friends got married in the twin cities area. They were both unbelievably amazing weddings as everything went perfectly in both and all guests, family, and brides/grooms had great weekends. I was the best man at my bro's, so I gave a toast at the reception which I thought I wasn't nervous for until I couldn't eat the meal they brought out because my stomach was full of butterflies.

Between the weddings I went to Denver for a couple weeks and played golf a ton and just relaxed. I played in the member/guest golf tournament at my dad's golf club and obviously won it out of 72 teams. It was really fun to win it with him for a lot of reasons with the most prevalent being that he LOVED watching me compete in anything, especially baseball, but I had never really competed on the same team as him.

I guess I also moved after my bro's wedding and before I went to Denver. I really like my new place compared to the old place, and I like the location better too. Since getting back here about two weeks ago I've really been in "health mode." This pretty much just means getting good stuff from whole foods and eating a lot of healthy food and smaller portions when at home. I've also been working out almost everyday including doing cardio everyday which I've never done before. Needless to say, this is a good thing to be doing, especially after a summer full of eating, drinking, traveling and thing of that nature that probably weren't the healthiest. I've also been playing poker a lot.

It really took me a long time in this post to start talking about poker which is kind of unusual for a blog about poker, but I'm not a good blogger (we went over that a couple posts ago) so I'll give myself a pass. I've only been to Commerce once in the past couple weeks, but I've really been getting after it online with quite a bit of success. Two sundays ago I decided to play tournaments for the first time since the big score in the Full Tilt tournament. I played about 8, and cashed two while winning one of them. I actually didn't win the whole thing, I chopped it with the guy when we got heads-up because I had played with him before and knew he was a good player. I was pretty proud of doing so well in this tourney because it was a heads-up tourney where you play one guy heads-up and then the winner goes on to play someone else. It's kind of like the NCAA basketball tournament except we were playing poker instead of basketball and it wasn't run by the NCAA. there were like 350 players, so I had to win 8 matches to get to the final match where we chopped. The reason I was proud of this one is that the field was stacked with top online pros and guys that usually play huge buy-in heads up cash games. I've been playing a lot of heads-up cash games and this pretty much verified that it's getting pretty good. First and second place were like 10k and 18k, so we chopped it for 14k. Other than that, cash games have been going well too and I've had two of my biggest online cash game days ever in the past couple of weeks, and also one of the worst. I don't really have any plans for tournaments or anything in the near future, but I'll probably try to get to Commerce more often to play live.

One thing I almost forgot that I might make another post about in a week or so, but don't hold your breath. Someone with the film production company that produces the world series of poker called me and asked me some questions and told me that I will be on the show on Sept 16 at 9pm eastern time. It should just be for one or two hands, but still the most TV time I've ever gotten.