P90x = amazing but 200NL blows

P90x. It's finally here and I've never been so excited and motivated to get back to working out. This should be a great program and give me something different to do while I'm not playing poker. It also beats the hell out of the monotonous workouts I usually do in the gym. Upbeat stuff that has proven results will be great and I think my mom is going to try and jump in on it too. That should be interesting.

This past weekend one of my family friends got married and WOW, it was a blast. Threw a great bachelor party on Thursday that involved a party bus around Houston. The rest of the weekend continued to be more debauchery and all I remember after the wedding on Sunday is still being awake Monday morning outside on the driveway with 2 beers in my hand and my friends dad walking out for work. Mission accomplished= great weekend. Got to see lots of friends and family and it was awesome having everyone there together at once.

The Houston Astros officially blow. What a lame season but that's ok. The Houston Texans have a great defense this year and we are really hoping to make that break and get to the playoffs. As long as Andre Johnson, Steve Slaton and Matt Shaub stay healthy on the offense I think we will sneak in. Won't be easy since the Colts and Titans are in our division, but we play both of those teams pretty tough. I am really stoked about going to opening day against the Jets and my gf is coming in town so she will get it come to her first Texans game. (She's a Titans fan). Bahh. Sidenote: The Texas Longhorns are the future national champions. Sam Bradford can suck it. Tebow, you scare me.

Poker wise it's been going great. I have really been crushing the 100NL 6-max tables with a couple of shots at 200NL. One part of my game that is really helping me is thinking about my bet amounts more instead of being on auto-pilot. Fellow shipshape crew member texanssocer07 and I had a quick conversation and it involved betting the smallest amount to win the pot. If you really think about it, most people auto-pot most the time. A bet of 1/3 or 2/5 of the pot gets the same thing done most the time and in the long-run you can really see your BB/100 hands increase by 1BB or 2BB. This is a huge difference over 100k hands and most the time when u bet the smallest amount with air, the double barrel bluff isn't as expensive, and usually works.

Taking a shot at 200NL did not really work out too well for me. Did well in the beginning but took a series of bad beats/bad action hands that had me down 6 buyins in an hour. One hand in particular, I limp AA UTG and of course no raisers. Flop comes A99, bingo! UTG+1 pots and I flat. I check-raise him after the turn brings the 2 of spades and he insta-shoves. I snap call and he tables J9 off. I'm excited because I am about to scoop a 300BB pot, but ooops. 9 on the river. Love it. Thank goodness for BR management because I did not tilt after this, but instead dropped down in stakes and I've managed to get it all back plus 4 more buyins on top at 100NL. MiniFtops is on its way and I've begun the satelites and $T accumulation. So far I've jumped into Event #1 via a 4 person HU shootout and I did a superturbo saty to the 200k double deuce then unregistered. There is a contest going on pocketfives here. It involves taking your top 10 miniftop scores and putting a point system along with them. Top individuals and teams will get paid out at the end. Rivermeplz and I are trying to put a team together and hopefully we finalize this because it will be great motivation and a great chance to make some extra cash.

My graph would be much better but that 200NL session killed. I know people always say you have to improve your non-showdown winnings, but I really do not beleive in this because there are so many styles of play and you have to go with what is most comfortable to you and what works the best. My whole reason of playing is to make sure the "winnings" line is constantly going up and that I am constantly improving my game by plugging leaks and places where I'm spewing off money. (Hand 22.5k is the 200NL shot). In the graph on the right I am hoping to sustain that winrate for the 100NL games but it's going to be tough. Hopefully the doomswitch does not set in (knock on wood). GG. Shipshape.

Boreddd!

I am finally back home after being in college for 5 years. I am officially bored out of my mind. I have not been in the mood to play poker or really do much of anything as well. It's weird but I kind of feel like going back to school. Maybe it's because that has been the norm for me for the past 5 years or maybe I miss the college life and my college friends and don't really want to go out into the real world yet. Who knows? Sugar Land is still the same except we got one new bar which is really cool. If you ever come, it is called Loggia, so go to it. Don't tell them I sent you because they won't know who I am.

So far this break I've been chillin with a bunch of friends and playing lots and lots of video games. Since my xbox has the red rings of death, I've been playing Playstation 3 at T-maggs' house and also borrowing other people's xbox's. T-maggs and I went on a streak of 2 days straight of Fifa online while downing plenty of alchol in the process. I never thought I could go on tilt playing Fifa, but wouldn't you know, it happend. We both went on a streak of about 5 hours without winning a game. Let it be known that we are decent players and at one time we were both individually ranked in the top 200. It was similar to a bad downswing. Every shot hit the post, we lost every shootout, and it seemed like every shot the other team had would bounce off of every player and somehow go in. Very frustrating. After some sleep we turned it around and went back to our winning days. I was pretty exhausted after this Fifa marathon and 2 nights of going out after that I decided to just relax at home and recover enough to hopefully start playing poker again next week.

Saw the movie District 9, and I have to say that it was really good. I don't want to give anything away, but I highly recommend it. I also just discovered that we have OnDemand on our TVs at home, so I moved a mattress into our movie room and started going down the list. I've watched every UFC fight, every HBO series and some of the worst movies known to man. I am just buying time until the P90x stuff I ordered comes in the mail. I am very excited for this and can't wait to get started.

Since I have not been playing much I have been railing all my friends and they have been putting up good results. Shipshape crew members Rivermeplz has been dominating omaha and omaha hi lo tourneys with almost a final table every day this week. There are so many I can't even keep up. Andy "themoccasin" Danger had a deep run in the Sunday Mulligan but got donked off late to get 20th. Almost there. I feel like one of us is going to get that big 5 or 6 figure score here soon. Hopefully one of us will ship a Mini Ftops event. Time to get some sleep and get ready to hop back on the virtual felts. GG. Shipshape.

Done!!

It's been a while since I posted, but I'm done!! No more school! It was such a great feeling turning in that final Spanish exam. I had a huge cheese on my face and now I'm sitting on the couch drinking and donking around FTP. The movers finally confirmed and they are going to ship my car out tomorrow sometime then I'm off to bum a ride from a friend and go celebrate my Gf's birthday which is today (Happy Birthday).

Poker wise I have not really played much due to moving and not being in a comfortable place to play. I donked around in the $14+$1 super turbo omaha hi and ended up finishing 2nd for ~$400. I should have won but doom switch set in during HU play and the other dude won 4 allins in a row. O well. Still a bingo tourney that is fun to play.

I'm going to keep this short because it's celebration time. GG. Shipshape.