Oct

I don't really have much earth-shattering to say, but I've gotten called out a few times recently for not blogging for a while so I'll post this to keep anyone from chirping. I played in three tournaments yesterday after playing in basically none for the past few months. I got 55th of 7800 or so in the Pokerstars sunday million which paid about 200k to first. It was a good run but frustrating to bust out so close to the big money, especially since you don't get a chance to get this deep in these big tourneys very often. There were also 3 frustrating hands when there were under 100 left that crippled then eliminated me, with a double up in between. These hands for those who care were KKpreflop, AK<JJ all in preflop and the board came A87 9 10 to make him a straight the brutal way, and the last one was 1010<QQ all in preflop to knock me out, but they teased me by making me a straight on the turn only to have him make a full house on the river (QJ9 8 8). I ovbiously had a bunch of chips to be able to lose these pots and remain alive. I was still around avg. chip stack when the last one happened which added to me wanting to chuck my laptop out the window and into the street (I held back).

Last week I played in a tournament (I know I said I haven't been playing tournaments, but these are the only kind I've been playing and only a few of them) that got the winner a seat into a 10k buy in tournament in the Bahamas in Jan along with a flight, spending money, and 7-10 days at the Atlantis hotel which is amazing. I got heads up with a very known, successful player with about a 2-1 chip disadvantage. I battled to even, back to behind, then when he had 120k and I had 80k I got it all in with 88 vs A4 and he of course won which sucked.

I played at Commerce 4 times in Oct and about the same about in Sept with pretty good results minus one awful day that was semi-hard to swallow for a couple days. During that bad session I played with James Woods (on TV show "shark" and used to be in movies like Casino and others) and Jack Haley (played 10ish years in the NBA in the 80s I think) and to keep it tame in case they somehow ever see this: My initial impression of both of them after only sitting with them for a few (4-6) hours each was not extremely favorable. Of course I'm discussing character, not poker skills which, since I mentioned it, both of them had about 4% of they thought they had in that department.
I've been playing online cash a good amount as well and doing pretty standardly (new word) well. In other news I've been playing NHL 09 for PS3 against my roommates and shootout mode online which is pretty fun. I haven't played hardly any video games since soph. year in college when I dominated NCAA football 03 on the regular. As nerdy as it is, I have to admit that this game is really fun and I'd say I've averaged 1-2 hours on it over the past few weeks. I've also been playing a lot of basketball which is currently preventing me from typing with my right middle finger because I jammed it pretty bad today.
Last week/weekend I was in La Jolla (San Diego) for five days which was amazing. I am also going to NYC on Nov 11 with two of my friends to stay with another one of our friends who lives in Manhattan. After eight days there, one of them and I are heading to Nashville for five days. I'm really excited for this trip since I've never been to NYC, and I've only been to Nashville for one day and I loves it.
If you have anything that you really enjoyed in NYC, whether it's well know or not, restaurant, bar, whatever, please let my know because we have eight days there and want to make the most of them. We're going to a NY Rangers and NY Giants game so far. You can leave a comment on here and I'll let you know if I liked it too.
Til next time...