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I realized I haven't posted a single picture of actual tacos, so here's basically what happens when I'm hungry at night. I grab my teléfono, call this guy. He comes over 10 minutes later. I exchange him a pink piece of plastic (55 pesos, equivalent to 5 usd) for some delicious tacos. In this case, campechanas. Combined meat of trompo and bistek. Yes, that is an excessive amount of salsa and onion.

Anyway, been pretty busy lately. I'm doing a prop bet with another poker player to play 50k hands this month and apparently I'm behind pace, although not by much. I would definitely dislike paying the man so I guess there's not much else to do but grind. Fortunately, it's been going really well and I'm running at double-digit bb/100 which is always nice in PLO. That said, I'm really trying not to focus on results as of late. Not just because it makes it more likely that you'll end up feeling miserable after a losing session or tilting off even more money after a loss, but because worrying simply drains you of energy that would be better used in paying even closer attention to what's going on. If instead of checking HEM results in the middle of a session you write up a note on someone's play that's probably a much better way to spend that energy. I guess this becomes even more important when you're grinding a lot with regulars and playing more tables.

As a result of all this busy-ness, I will only be taking in a couple of more students until my current ones end their sessions. This way I'll also be able to spend time on improving my game, which will result in benefits for my active students as well. I was planning on writing something about improving, but you might as well just read this thread, especially shuttle's and improva's bitchslaps of truth.

Also, I'll be using twitter more often (finally!) now so you can follow me here: http://www.twitter.com/orestto. My latest tweet was about this hand I played today where I won a 380bb pot with King high. You know the drill, 3b pot, xraise with wrap + fd get it in vs bare wrap, blank, blank. 

Non-poker wise, haven't been doing much. Spent some time playing Portal 2 this weekend, and I have to say Valve did a great job. I didn't try the solo version, but the co-op is fantastic. Requires a lot of thinking and good communication, definitely something you want to play with a friend imo. Really good visuals as well if you're into that.

Ok, here's the hand from my twitter post. 

UTG: $193.20

MP: $98.50
CO: $81.30
BTN: $305.10
Hero (SB): $213.20
BB: $38.75

Pre Flop: ($1.50) Hero is SB with 9 J Q K
UTG raises to $3, 3 folds, Hero raises to $10, 1 fold, UTG calls $7

Flop: ($21.00) T 3 8(2 players)
Hero checks, UTG bets $19.95, Hero raises to $79.80, UTG raises to $183.20 all in, Hero calls $103.40

Turn: ($387.40) 3(2 players - 1 is all in)

River: ($387.40) T(2 players - 1 is all in)

Final Pot: $387.40
UTG shows Q J 9 6 (a pair of Tens - lower kicker)
Hero shows 9 J Q K (a pair of Tens)
Hero wins $384.40
(Rake: $3.00)

Games are good! Peace!

orestto