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Lunch time

RIGGED! — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 19:26:54 +0000

Today is a pretty nice day for lawn mowing standards. It's about 64 degrees and sunny. I think I'd rather have cloudy, but the sun might save what tan I have left from this summer. I was too hot in long pants so I came home to change into my shorts. My house is along the lawn mowing route so I don't waste much time. I am gunna eat lunch while I am here too. A Wal-Mart brand TV dinner. I have vowed to not go out to eat for awhile cause I can't afford it. I've went from eating out twice a day to none. Pretty big step. I've been eating a lot of apples again.

Today is a pretty laid back day. Picking up poop and mowing a few lawns. I could type a lot more, but I better eat and get back to work. Later guys.

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Hey guys!

RIGGED! — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 02:06:29 +0000

Ugggg! It's been FOREVER! I need to update you guys on everything. As I said in my last blog entry, I am still working with my friend doing landscaping. The season in winding down though. There is about three weeks left till I will be out of a job again. I can talk about that later. Let's get to the POSITIVE stuff that has been going on.

About two months ago I met a girl and now she is my girlfriend. Yeah, I am as surprised as you. Her name is Katie. She is awesome, smart and hot. We have about everything in common from politics to sports. I think she is going to be my last girlfriend. We have done a lot of fun stuff together already.

Katie and I at Mt Rainier

Katie's dog Mila in my backpack while we hiked. She was tired.

Well, I am obviously extremely rusty at blogging because I somehow managed to delete my whole second portion of this blog while I wrote it in my gmail. Don't ask me how I did it, It's extremely stupid.

I'll write a summarized version of it.

Katie lives an hour drive south of me. We want to move in together. I need to find a job down there soon because my job up here is going to end in a couple weeks. I am scared to find a job because I don't want to work for someone. I pretty much want to do my own thing as I did when I played poker.

I haven't played much poker over the last few months. I have almost forgotten about it. I'm not sure if I want to get back into it full time because playing and studying will take up every ounce of time I have. Besides the fact that I would have to move out of the country. I sure as hell can't afford that right now.

I'll keep in touch

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Happy 4th! (life update)

RIGGED! — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 17:05:15 +0000

Hey guys! Happy 4th of July! Oh there is probably like no one from the US that is on this site anymore. What a cluster fuck this whole online poker situation is. I won't go too far into it because it just pisses me off. I've actually been staying pretty busy. I've been mowing lawns and doing yard work with my friend for about a month and a half now. It has been hard work, but I'm in better shape and I have one helluva tan. It's fun to work with a good friend all day. I don't dread going to work early in the morning. Yeah I make money, but I don't really think about the money. I'm not huge on the 'making a butt load of money' thing. If I enjoy my job, I'm fine with it. As long as I can survive of course.

The last month has been pretty uneventful I think. I haven't drank alcohol since my ambulance trip to the hospital from the Mariner game a couple months ago. I really enjoy not being sick or hungover. Joel (my friend and boss) has me hooked on Mountain Dew, so that's what I am drinking instead. Might be less healthy for me than beer, but at least it doesn't make me feel like shit.

I am still single. Haven't found any girls that I really want to date. Been a few possibilities, but I'm being picky. It's kinda cool that I don't just fall in love with anyone that will talk to me. Courtney ripped that part of my heart outta me. It was for the best though. Quite recently, there is a girl that I kind of have my eye on. She is my mom's hairdresser's daughter. She is crazy hot and she seems like she's down to earth and not too much of a crazy bitch, like most single hot chicks. I have only saw her once. My mom was supposed to talk to her more and kinda get to know her better for me, but I guess my mom had a couple martinis too many before she went to get her hair done and had to go home early. I have persuaded her to not drink with me now. I'd like to get to know this girl better, but I really don't know how to go about it.

I have been going to the casino every Friday and Saturday night since I have been working my new job. I am keeping track of the results, but only for the past couple weeks. I'll never have a big enough sample at live for me to know my win rate, but I want to know how much money I am winning or losing. The casino I play at is about a half hour drive for me in each direction. I have figured out what I pay in gas and what I spend on food while at the casino. All things I never had to worry about playing online. I am only playing 3/6 limit. There are a lot of people that say you can't beat the game because of the rake and there are people that say you can beat it because the players are so bad. I believe it is quite beatable because of the players. I will do the best I can to help prove this theory. I am only going on the juiciest nights, so I don't get stuck in a tight game. If the game is tight, yeah it's impossible to beat. I hope I can overcome the cost of gas and food. I have the results over the past two weeks but it's not nearly enough to represent how I am doing. I'm like $23 up in 16 hours. -$30 including gas and food.

Today I am probably mowing my lawn and going to a party this evening. Setting off fireworks of course. I am stocked up for the night. Going to be dangerous as usual. Fun times.

I'll try to blog more often.

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I just have to get this off my chest

RIGGED! — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 00:13:59 +0000

I will start with talking about my Memorial Day weekend and posting some pics. I know it's been a long time since I've blogged. I'm sorry.

Sunday morning I left to Seattle with my Aunt, her husband Tom and my three cousins. We got to the Mariner game about an hour before it started, which was perfect. I had bought seats that were two rows up from the field behind the right field fence. About 30ft from Ichiro. I paid five more dollars per ticket than my aunt's family and they sat in the 300 level, nose bleed section. Tom isn't very good at the common sense aspect, but he is like one of three top heart surgeons in our state.

My seat

I ate pizza at the game because I heard it was so good. It was good, but I'll just stick with my hot dogs I think

After the game we went back to the hotel. I went to dinner with my Aunt and Tom. It was crazy. We went to this steak house and it was like $50 a plate, not including all the add ons. It was definitely a look at how people with a lot of money eat out. It was super good though. I'd just never spend that much money on food. When we got back to the hotel, we all went swimming in the indoor swimming pool. I don't think I've actually went swimming in a pool in probably four years at least. It was fun.

Monday morning we all got up and ate at the breakfast buffet. Very good food. When we were done eating my cousins wanted to go play racquetball at the racquetball courts in the hotel. We rented equipment at the front desk and went and played. I haven't played racquetball in a good five or six years. It brought back some good memories.

My breakfast

At around 11:30am I took the hotel shuttle to the airport and took the Link Light Rail up to Safeco. I met Savannah (my sister in law) outside the stadium. I had selected our seats, so we were two rows up from the field on the home team side about half way from the right field fence to first base. It was a beautiful day in Seattle, the Mariners won and I had a great time with Savannah.

Our seats

When the game was over, we didn't just want to leave and go back home right away. I suggested the Crab Pot. A restaurant where you can buy a bunch of crab. I knew Savannah had been dying to go there. So we walked down to the pier from Seattle and went to the Crab Pot. I have never ate so much crab. It was so good. Savannah had King Crab legs and I had a whole Dungenous Crab. Savannah couldn't eat her last leg, so I happily helped her out.

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Okay, now to the reason I am writing this blog entry today.Â I have been talking with this girl for maybe the past week.Â We've known each other for maybe a year or longer, but have been texting and chatting on the phone a lot more often recently.Â She lives in Spokane and is planning on moving to Yakima at the end of this month.Â Spokane is a three hour drive from here. This past Saturday we were talking and for some reason I decided I wanted to drive there and meet her.Â She was practically begging me to come.Â She has been going through some tough times because she had found out she was pregnant like maybe a month ago and wasn't dealing well with it.Â She was talking to me about having an abortion a few days prior and I said all the right things and thought I had shown her the light and she was going to give him/her up for adoption.Â She has a three year old daughter now. Well I went over to Spokane and met her at the casino she works at. We drove back to her place.Â Her niece is her room mate, who is 17 years old.Â She is 24ish years old.Â We all watched a really stupid kids movie with her daughter.Â Then went to sleep on her couch.Â Odd, but okay.Â Sunday morning comes around and the niece asks me if I could give her a ride to Yakima.Â I'm like sure when I go home.Â I had planned to stay there till Monday.Â I planned to play poker at the casino the girl works at while she worked.Â The niece started packing up her stuff like she wanted to go now.Â I was like okay...Â The girl I was there for just went along with it.Â Like she wanted me to go as soon as possible.Â I am not a weird or bad guy by any means.Â I didn't do anything wrong and it was really really weird.Â So I took the hint and left for Yakima with her niece.

Well, I think it was late late Sunday night, the girl in Spokane called me at like 11pm and said she was getting her daughter from somewhere that was like an hour away.Â Which was really weird.Â Then I texted her a couple hours later and she said she was in the hospital. Ooooookay? She had been saying her stomach hurt a little when I was over there, so maybe she was there for that.Â I thought nothing of it.

Today I was looking at her facebook and she was saying that she lost her baby.Â That is super sad right?Â I'm calling bullshit.Â She had that abortion she was talking about.Â Everything falls into place.Â My unexpected departure Sunday, her "picking up her daughter at 11pm" (actually dropping her daughter off).Â Her being at the "hospital."Â It's all a crock of shit and she is lying to everyone saying she "lost the baby."Â I am 99.9% certain.Â I don't think I'd even care if I didn't believe abortion is outright murder.Â I am SUPER against it and I don't think I am against anything more.Â I don't want her seeking all this sympathy from everyone because she just killed her baby.Â How do I even go about this?Â I guess I just write about it on my blog.Â There is that .01% part of me hoping that she didn't have the abortion.Â I'd love to confront her about it, but you know how that will go.Â "HOW DARE YOU ACCUSE ME!!"Â I'll be the scumbag of the earth. Nothing good can come from it.Â I know three woman that are my friends that have "lost their baby" One I know for a fact had an abortion because she told me and the other is a 99.9% deal like this one.Â It's just that personality or trait people have that you know they are lying about most things.Â I had no idea abortion happened so much.Â I thought it was a rare thing.Â I feel like ratting out this chick and telling the world she is a murderer, but that's not gunna happen.Â I'll just tell the people that read my blog.

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ps.Â If you think I am wrong, let me know.Â I want to be wrong.

edit: Now that I have read this blog entry over.Â I think I have moved from 99.9% to maybe like 60%.Â She didn't exactly live the healthiest of life styles, so maybe she did have a miscarriage.Â Do miscarriages happen a lot or is that a common way for people to cover up abortions?Â She did say that she had planned the abortion appointment down the road so that she had time to think about it.Â I'm just not as sure as I was.

Working hard and weekend plans

RIGGED! — Sat, 28 May 2011 19:17:25 +0000

The last two days have been quite different than the last couple years. I'm actually outside working hard. No more sitting at the computer all day. Just about every muscle in my body is hurting. My fingers even ache. The bottom of my feet hurt like a bitch. No blisters, just aching. I think its the old shitty shoes that I wear all day. They are my normal lawn mowing shoes, but I don't think being on them all day is doing my feet any good. I may be able to stop by a Nike outlet store on the way to or from Seattle and get some real cheap ugly clearance shoes.

Thursday night I went out to dinner with my family. Afterward we stayed and played trivia. We ended up getting third place and got a free pitcher of beer. I'm not drinking, but just the fact that we won something is cool. After that there was a bonus round where everyone pays a dollar. If you win you pick from five envelopes and one of the envelopes has a piece of paper in it that has 'cash' written on it. If you pick that envelope you get all the money people paid in. Well over the last month at least, no one has picked the 'cash' envelope. The pot had built up to about $220. The bonus round category was 'state capitols.' Our family is awesome at these cause we always quiz each other on them when we are bored in the car. For some reason we had trouble with Kentucky and New Jersey, but we figured them out just in time. We ended up the only team with all 10 answers right. I was selected to go up and pick the envelope. I picked one and opened it up and there was a little card that said 'cash.' You know that feeling you get when you just know you are going to win when you just pushed with 72o and were called with AK. That's the feeling I had when I was picking the envelope. We split up the money amongst the five of us which came out to about $44.

Friday night I went over to my parents' house because my grandpa and step grandma were visiting. We watched the Mariners play the Yankees and the Mariners came back from three down and won 4-3. They are only .5 games back from first place in the division. It's just unreal. The Mariners were supposed to be the cellar team again this year according to all the critics. Even the Seattle critics! I'm happy the Mariners are proving them all wrong. I put $5 on them at the beginning of the game. I won $9. They were huge underdogs for some reason. It just shows how clueless the odds makers are right now. They see Yankees and it's an automatic win. Doesn't matter that they were facing about the best pitcher in baseball. I'm fine with it. I make money. I just need to start putting more money down. The quote of the night was from my grandma after a few glasses of wine "We just beat the fucking Yankees!!!"

I have a four day weekend and I need it. My body needs to heal up. Although I'm not exactly sitting around. Today I am going to the driving range around 2:30. Then at 3:30 I'm gunna golf with my friend and maybe my dad at the the nicest golf course in town. It's only like two minutes from my house and I've only been there once since I've lived on my own. It's a beautiful day so far and I am super stoked.

Tomorrow I am leaving to Seattle with my aunt and her husband and my cousins to go the Mariner game. They are playing the Yankees. I was wondering if I should wear my Mariner stuff or something that was degrading about the Yankees. My grandma said I should wear Seattle stuff, so I'll stick with that. I hate the Yankees so much that I could spit. I hope the Mariners sweep those All-Star team wannabes. After the game we are staying in a hotel for the night. Which works out perfect. On Monday Savannah is driving over to Seattle and I am going to meet her at the Mariner game :) They play the Orioles that day. Interesting fact is that the only foul ball I caught was at a Orioles game in Baltimore.

This Memorial Day weekend is going to be super fun. I will refrain from drinking any beer so that I don't end up in an ambulance again like last month. I have great seats for both games. I'll make sure to take pictures and post them when I get back. Laterz

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First day on the job.

RIGGED! — Thu, 26 May 2011 04:46:43 +0000

I'll start with the results of my sleep tests that I had for the first two nights of this week. I went into the sleep doctor's office yesterday and he told me that I had SEVERE sleep apnea. My air way collapsed about 400 times in a five hour span. Which means I can't breathe about 80 times per hour. When I can't breathe, my body wakes up so that my air way will open up again. I don't notice when I wake up, but it never lets me get fully to sleep. The doctor told me I was getting about 79% of the oxygen that I needed when I slept. 100% being when you are awake and 50% when you are dead. So you can say I was almost half dead. The doc said I was getting better sleep when I was awake. So I got a C-PAP machine and it's supposed to solve that problem. I have to wear a mask to bed every night for the rest of my life, but at least there will be a 'rest of my life.' The doctor said I probably would have started having heart problems by the time I was 35 or 40 if I let this go untreated. Scary.

I used the machine last night and I went to sleep at around 11:30. I got up at 5:30am to go to my first day of my new job. I felt pretty good when I woke up. When I really noticed the change was late in the day and I was still wide awake and wasn't dying as I was mowing lawns. So the machine looks like it is going to really change my life for the better.

My landscaping job today consisted of mowing lawns and picking up dog shit. I mowed two lawns with the 'zero turn' lawn mower. It was the first time riding one of those so it is going to take some getting used to. I weed eated all of the other lawns. I think we mowed about 15 lawns all over town. Yeah it's a lot. One lawn was on a freaking hill and I had to mow the hill with the push lawn mower. The grass was hella wet and long. It was hell on earth, but I got through it. After I was done with mowing it, I was fine. It rained all day and I was soaked when I got home. Working with my friend is like the best job I've ever had besides poker. Totally laid back atmosphere. The first day on the job was hard work, but it wasn't too bad at all.

Well I need to start getting ready for bed. (It's only 9:45pm!!!) I have another early morning tomorrow. I guess tomorrow we get to push mow the lawns we mow. It shouldn't be too bad....I hope.

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Omg, I got a job...

RIGGED! — Wed, 25 May 2011 05:52:31 +0000

Too many things to talk about. I'll make it short. On Friday I woke up and logged onto facebook. How I start out every depressing day. I saw that my friend Mallory posted something about her husband hiring someone to help him out in his landscaping business. I immediately texted her and told her that I wanted the job. She said okay and to come over for a BBQ at their house that evening. I was over there for about three hours and I got the job. I'm pretty good friends with them, so I'm a perfect choice. They know I'll work hard and they can trust me. So yeah. I have my first job, besides poker, in a little over two years.

Should be decent hours. Decent pay. I'll admit, I'm pretty nervous. Most of the job is probably mowing lawns and pulling weeds. I'm fine with that. I've been doing that my whole life. Still nervous though. I'm sure he is pretty fast with every thing and I'm only used to mowing two lawns per week. Not sure how many we'll be mowing a day, but I bet it's going to be a lot.

I start tomorrow, Wednesday. I need to be at his their house by 6:45am. AH! That is going to suck. I gotta start going to bed by like 10 or 11pm at the latest. That is freaking crazy insane. I think I went to bed at 10:30pm once this year. That was the earliest. Going to take some getting used to, that's for sure. The good thing is that I'll have every night and weekends off.

The last two nights I have been spending the night at a sleep center. They have been testing me for sleep apnea. I haven't slept well either of those nights. I've been hooked up to wires and shit. I woke up with goop in my hair and red marker all over my face. The lady woke me up at 6am to get up and leave. I immediately went home and took a long hot shower to get all the crap outta my hair. Then I went to bed for another 4-5 hours. I love my own bed. Today I go there to find out the results. I'll let you guys know.

This weekend it looks like I may be going to two mariner games back to back. On Sunday they are playing the Yankees and on Monday they are playing the Orioles. Sunday I'll be hitching a ride with my aunt. I think they may be staying the night there, so I might stay the night with them. Then I will meet my sister there for the Orioles game.

Sorry that I have nothing about poker. Poker is on the back burner for now and I will keep you guys updated on my life without poker.

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I think I'm running WAY under EV in life.

RIGGED! — Mon, 16 May 2011 22:30:21 +0000

Been doing a lot of thinking and researching lately. Bottom line is that I don't want to sell my house because it would be a huge hassle. I have a lot of furniture and if I were to move somewhere, I'd have to stick all my furniture in a storage unit or sell it. That would be an incredible chore.

When I moved into this house, I didn't plan on moving out for awhile. When my parents bought this place for me, I planned on paying them rent till it was paid off and eventually get married to my girlfriend. She had a job and I was playing poker. Everything was going fine. I was 100% that I was going to get married and be settling down. Well, in June of last year everything drastically changed for me. My fiance dumped me two months before we were going to get married in Vegas. Funny thing was that we dropped her wedding dress off to get worked on a day before. (More on that in a future blog. The year anniversary of her dumping me is just a couple weeks off) In November'ish WA state outlawed Full Tilt poker. That was a set back, but I worked around it. Then as we all know, a month ago was probably the second worst moment in my life. Online poker was basically banned in the US.

All my money is online. I barely had enough to pay last months bills. I have zero money till Full Tilt decides to pay it's players. Over the last couple days I have been researching on moving to Canada. I heard it wasn't as hard as I was making it out to be. Turns out that you just drive across the border and tell the border patrol that you are going there for six months to play online poker. Oh and you need about $15,000 to $20,000 in your bank account. Guess how much money I have in my bank account. About $50 give or take about $40. I might be able to borrow that much money from my parents so I can just have it in my bank account for when I cross the border, but that's a lot of money. Plus combined with having to rent a place in Canada and selling my house. That is just too much of a hassle.

So, I'm back where I was. I have to get a job. It is the only option I have. Extremely lame. I feel like I have given up on poker. Not to mention all these people that have been telling me that I can't make it in poker are going to have huge "I TOLD YOU SO' looks on their faces. Doesn't matter that it was the f**cking goverment's fault. They aren't going to look at it that way. I just assume not talk to these people or at least not bring up the subject.

Today, I'm going to my parents' house to make up a resume'. I haven't made one in like five years. I can't remember how to even write one up. Plus I am applying to the Wal-Mart that is jest a few blocks from my house. That seems like the ideal job right now. It's close and they seem to hire anyone and everyone. If some of those retards can get hired, I should be a shoe in. I applied for any position except 'cart pusher' Screw that. I hope I get the job just so I can post pictures on here of the most miserable time in my life. I really doubt that I am going to make as much as I made online. Prolly not be able to afford living expenses. I'll end this paragrapgh with the plus sides. I will be able to apply for food stamps. Prolly get about $200ish a month for food. It's pathetic, but I'll be paying taxes up the ass and this is just like getting that money back. I'll get to live in my house and take care of my garden and lawn that I have been growing and bringing back to life for almost three years. I won't have to move my cat, he loves it here. I can continue to feed all my stray cat friends on my back porch. Although I will be completely miserable at whatever job I get (if I get), at least I'll be able to survive.

My life is.....
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The decision process of the past week

RIGGED! — Sun, 15 May 2011 00:47:47 +0000

All this week the weather has been outstanding. High in the mid 70's the whole time. Today was the first time I actually got out and golfed. It looked like it was going to rain, so that made me excited. I've been dying to use my Full Tilt golf umbrella that I got last year. I decided to get it after my brother and I golfed in a torrential downpour. It hadn't rained since. Till today. The round started off nice, but then it started raining pretty hard and I got to finally use my umbrella. It was so cool. I was nice and dry. I still golfed terrible, but that was okay. I figured out a huge thing I was doing wrong with my irons. I am hitting them about 20 yards at least farther and hitting them a lot more solid. It is so nice. Just in time for the golf tournament my dad and I are playing tomorrow.

This past week I haven't been doing much. Pretty much just researching what to do since there is no more poker. I'm not going to kid myself and think I can make a living on Carbon Poker. There is like zero traffic on there and what traffic there is is decent regulars. The software is also beyond shitty, so I'm not even going to try to deposit on there. If you live in the US, online poker isn't happening if you are going to make a living at it. Bottom line.

Another option that has been weighing on my head a lot is moving out of the country. At first I was thinking Bahamas, but now Costa Rica looks like a nice place to go. Housing is somewhat cheap and I could play on Full Tilt. My friend Spencer (mrhobbys, i think) said he'd move down there with me. That'd be great because I don't think I could do it alone. I don't wanta get mugged and raped. One of my friends was telling my Full Tilt is drying up and is practically unplayable these days. My other more reliable friend told me its not that bad, but that friend has been on vacation for the last two weeks. He's going to give me feedback on Full Tilt when he gets home.

Now all signs are pointed to getting a job. I have zero money because Full Tilt has about $5k of mine. That's not even that much. Plus I don't really want to spend all of that because I want to have a bankroll when I get back into poker. I've never been back to zero since I deposited on Full Tilt. As much as I hate hate hate the idea of a job, I'd rather be miserable working than miserable with no money.

I'll keep you guys updated. Laterz

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My mini vacation weekend

RIGGED! — Wed, 11 May 2011 05:16:58 +0000

This past weekend my parents and I went on a little vacation to Long Beach, WA. It was kind of a mothers day thing. We left at about 5:30pm on Friday night and drove all the way there. About a five hour drive. My dad's secretary at work had a beach house that she let us borrow for the weekend. We got there around 10:30 or so. We went to bed cause the drive sucked. It rained the whole way over.

Saturday morning, we got up and went to a breakfast place. After that we went clam digging at about 9:30am. The weather was perfect, but the clamming was so so. I got about eight clams in the matter of five minutes, then couldn't find anymore for the next half hour. My dad grinded out seven clams. The clams were pretty small too. It's really too late in the season to be clam digging. Me being as out of shape as I am, through out my back and could barely dig anymore. We stopped digging and had 15 clams between the two if us. Only one limit. Pretty lame, but oh well, I wasn't gunna kill myself out there like last time.

Dad and I clam digging

We went and ate lunch at a random bar/restaurant in Long Beach. I had a bowl of clam chowder and the three of us shared a pound and a half of steamer clams. I refuse to eat anything other than seafood when I go to the coast. After that we went on a couple short hikes to a couple lighthouses. It was fun, great views of the Columbia River mouth and the coastline. We hurried back to Long Beach so we could watch the Kentucky Derby. We went back to the bar we were at. I had $5 on Derby Kitten. Obviously no luck. My second choice was Animal Kingdom, of course I put no money on it... I like picking the long shots.

When the race was over, we drove across the bridge to Astoria. With people unfamiliar with the town, Goonies and several other movies were shot there. We drove by the jail that is in the beginning of the movie and the Goonies house. Pretty underwhelming, but that's what I expected. We went to the Astoria column. It was 164 steps up to the top. (I counted) It was fun, very cool view from the top.

Goonies House

Astoria Column

We headed back to Long Beach and ate at a restaurant and watched the Mariner game. They got killed six to zero. My fish and chips were really good though. Then we went back to the beach house and we all went to bed at about 10:30.

Sunday we got up and my mom went and brought back McDonalds for breakfast. After I ate, I took the bike that was at the house and rode for about a half hour. It was a lot harder than I remember and when I got back to the house, I felt like I was going to die. I was so out of breath. It took me a few hours to recover. We left the beach house and drove down past Astoria to Fort Clatsop. Where Lewis and Clark stayed the winter while on the Pacific Coast. There was a little movie and replica of the place they stayed in. It was interesting. After that we drove to Seaside, Oregon. We ate lunch there. I had calamari, it was so good. Maybe the best I've ever had? There was a super super hot waitress serving us. Of course I'm too chicken to say anything. Why go through the stress when nothing could ever happen with her living six hours away. When we were finished eating, we walked around for a bit then headed back home. The drive was really long and windy (like curvy). I watched an episode of Mythbusters and Camelot on my laptop. We finally got home and I was never so happy. (exaggeration)

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Fort Clatsop Pics

Long Beach pics

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A very long night....

RIGGED! — Tue, 10 May 2011 05:30:49 +0000

It's been about a week since the last blog and I have a lot of things to talk about. Nothing eventfull will be happening over the next couple days, so I'll just talk about last Wednesday. The next blog I'll write tomorrow or the next day will be about the little weekend trip that I took with my parents over to the coast. It should be full of pics, so I'm excited to share that one with you guys. Tonight, I'll talk about one of the worst nights in my life.

I got up Wednesday morning and went and ate breakfast with Erika. We had the new 20 piece Chicken Tenders from Burger King. They were so good. She wanted to come over and hang out till she had her next class, but I had to get going to the West side because I needed to pick up a casket (my family sells caskets on the side, if you guys didn't know). Of course I have to go to a Mariner game, if I am going to be near Seattle. The weather was perfect the whole drive. Even in Seattle, it was nice and sunny. I picked up the casket and drove about 10 minutes to the rail station to take the Link Light Rail into Seattle. It's $4.50 round trip. A steal.

When I got to Seattle, I walked to Ivars and got clam strips again. I ate the clams and fed the fries to the seagulls. Not much people were there because it was a weekday, so the seagulls just swarmed me when I started throwing them fries. I had to throw the fries out super quick because they were going to attack me I think. It was fun though. After that, I had like two hours to fill before they opened the gates at Safeco Field. So I walked along the pier for awhile. The view of the sound was so nice. You could see the Olympic Mountains. They still had snow on them.

I made a turn inland and walked up the hill to Pikes Place Market. I had nothing else to do, so I decided to walk around there for a bit. That was quite boring, as usual, so I walked toward Safeco and stopped at a bar on the way. The bar was one of the more famous ones right across the street to the north of Quest Field. I sat in there for awhile and watched ESPN. I had a couple beers and left for Safeco when The Pen opened at 4:30ish.

Quest and Safeco Field with Mt. Rainier in the background. It's pretty small, picture doesn't do it justice at all.

The Pen was built this year and has food and beer. It's right next to the bull pens. You could always walk up to the bullpens, but now it's like a whole new thing and it's cool. Like a huge beer garden, I guess. Between 4:30 and 6:10, they have $5 beers. Which is a steal at Safeco. Beers are usually $9.50 a piece. So I bought a beer and stood by the bullpen. There were some Mariners talking in there. David Aardsma was talking with one of the coaches. He's usually the Mariners' closer, but he's been injured this year.

When they opened the doors for the whole stadium at 5:10, I went and stood at my normal spot for batting practice behind the right field wall. Like every batter taking batting practice was right handed and no balls were coming my way, so I left and went back to the pen. I grabbed a beer and stood at center field and watched the rest of batting practice while talking to some guy. By this time, I was pretty buzzed. I hadn't eaten since about 1:30. It was 6:09 now and I needed to go grab two more beers while they were still $5 a piece. So I rushed to the vendor and I got there just in time. I got my two beers and this is when the night starts getting blurry for me.

My view from center field

I bought a seat three rows up from the field on the first base side. I didn't sit on the third base side because I realized that there are more opposing team fans over there because that's the side their dugout is on. I had Oakland A's fans all around me last time and it was miserable. I got down to my seat in time I think, I don't remember the Star Spangled Banner or player introductions though. I remember like the first three or four innings. This guy to my left was filling out an All Star ballot and he wasn't picking all Mariners, so I was giving him a hard time about that. That's pretty much the last thing I remember before it started getting really bad for me.

View from my seat

Blurry of course, that's Ichiro with my finger in the way.Â (I don't remember taking this pic...)

I vaguely remember puking my guts out between my legs while I was in my seat. Just puking non stop. I think the couple to my left got up and left. Next thing I know someone taps me on the shoulder and says, "let's go" It was either alcohol enforcement or Safeco workers. They manage to stand me up and walk me up the stairs. I can remember a fan sitting on the isle wanting to give me a high five. I left him hanging. I could barely walk. The guys walking me sat me in a wheelchair. I remember it being very comfortable. Next thing I know, I am outside some room with people deciding what to do with me. Next thing I know, I am being loaded onto a stretcher into an ambulance. I told the guy in the ambulance with me, that I'd never been in an ambulance before. I asked me questions, like my birthday, the date (I had no clue), the president. I laughed hard and said Obama. That's the last thing I remember of the ambulance ride.

I was now in the Harborview ER waiting room. I've been here before when I was super sick once. I hated it all the same. I was sitting in a chair puking my guts out. A lady gave me a little pee tray thingy to puke into. By this time I was puking up black stuff cause I had nothing in my stomach anymore. All of a sudden I heard "Brian LaBree" it was the best sound ever. I about ran to the guy. He brought me back to a bed in the hallway. I really didn't care, I just wanted to lay down. The nurse said that she needed to put an IV in me. I hate IVs cause they always fuck my vains up, so I told her that I think I'd be okay if I just kept sipping on liquids. She still had to draw my blood though. She stuck me once in my arm, I could tell she missed cause it hurt like a bitch. She sticks me in the other arm, miss. Sticks me in the hand, miss. Sticks me in the other hand and finally hits my vain. I was so pissed off. I never act mean to nurses though, so I just let her do her thing. The rest or the night I pretty much got the worst sleep till about 5am. Nothing is worse than sleeping in the hospital. Nurses and doctors walking around talking loud. Talking to each other like we aren't even in the room, like they don't give a shit what pain us patients are in and they can't wait to be off work. Patients screaming for their nurses. Not to mention there was this older lady in the bed ahead of me that was completely delusional. She was talking to herself and laughing the whole night. I've never seen someone as mentally disturbed as that in my life, only in movies. I hate hospitals okay...

Around 5am, I was starting to wake up. I got up to go to the bathroom and couldn't make it because I puked my guts out. I went back to the bed and laid down for awhile. Then I had to puke again. The nurse came to me and said I needed an IV and I didn't argue. This guy nurse came up to put the IV in and I could tell he was about off work and was ready to be outta there. I sticks the IV in my arm and I knew he missed. He wouldn't admit it, but I could tell. So he goes for my left hand. I'm so fed up with all of this by now that I don't even give a shit any more. He sticks the IV needle in the vain on top of my hand and oh my god it hurt like a bitch. At least he hit the vain this time. So he hooks the bag up and of course the liquid is like ice cold. I can feel it in my vain going to my heart. It made me shiver like no other. I was so cold. Eventually, he brought me a bag of warm liquid and that was so nice. He was on my good side now.

When the bag of IV stuff had run out, they discharged me. I was feeling a lot better after the IV. My parents decided to drive up to Seattle that morning and come and get me. Thank god. I wanted to see them so badly. I was in such a horrible place. I went to the cafeteria and waited for them to get there. They picked me up at about 9am. I was so happy to be outta there. We drove back to Tukwila to get the van and we were on our way back home.

I haven't drank alcohol since and I don't plan on drinking in the near future. Hopefully the far future also. If I do start drinking again, I will never drink at a Mariner game again. I can guarantee that.

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In a better mood now

RIGGED! — Wed, 04 May 2011 06:40:39 +0000

Hey guys. I've been pretty much lazing around the last couple days. Monday, I kind of cleaned up a bit around the house and did the dishes. A big chore for me. They hadn't been done for awhile. Ali came over in the evening. We got caught up on all our reality shows (Survivor, Amazing Race and Celebrity Apprentice). It was awesome having someone to hang out with. I thought she was going to bail on me again, but I'm glad she didn't.

Today I was going to do something poker related, but I didn't. I ate breakfast, and dinked around on the computer. Erika texted me and needed a ride to the grocery store. I was happy about that. I thought she was avoiding me and not going to talk to me anymore. I know that she might just be taking advantage of me because I give her rides, but I didn't get that vibe today. I am actually going to pick her up at the college and go eat chicken nuggets tomorrow morning. This evening I BBQ'ed myself a cheeseburger. Stuck some onion on it and it was heaven. I didn't do anything else the rest of the night. I listened to the Mariner game and they are red hot. They beat the Texas Rangers 4-3. Erik Bedard was pitching, their worst pitcher in the rotation. He pitched a no hitter into the 6th inning. I think he is back to his old form before the surgery that set him back for two years. I stuck $5 dollars on them tonight to win. That was an extra bonus. I may put $5 on them every game for the rest of the year and track my results. I also stuck $5.00 on them to win the division at 30 to 1. They are only two games back right now.

Tomorrow I am going to Kent to pick up a casket for my parents business. I am so happy. After I pick it up, I am going to park in the Park n Ride in Tukwila and take the Link Light Rail to Seattle and go to the Mariner game :) Pineda is pitching. He was the AL rookie of the month for April. He is just crazy good and it's going to be so fun to watch him kill Texas tomorrow night.

This weekend, my mom, dad and I are going to drive over to the coast and go clam digging. I guess this is officially the last clam dig of the year. We are going to Long Beach and staying in a beach house that my dad's friend from work owns. We haven't been there for clam digging before, so hopefully it is good. It'd be nice if I didn't over work myself this time. I'd prefer not to puke again. I'm going to try and con my parents into going to the Mariner game for mothers day, hehe. First 10,000 moms get Mariner earrings. How can ya pass that up!

I doubt that I will blog tomorrow because I'm going to get home pretty late.

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ps. Veloblank asked about the Wal-Mart chick on my last blog. I haven't seen her working since around Valentine's Day. I don't think she works there anymore. It's upsetting, but not the end of the world. I tore down a wall when she was the first person I actually asked out in person. She pretty much refused. I wish I could have kept at it cause I think I was getting some where with her. Oh well, can't win em all.

Osama bin Laden is DEAD!

RIGGED! — Mon, 02 May 2011 06:58:44 +0000

I was going to make the title something about Mariners beating up on the Red Sox, but better news came unexpectedly tonight. Osama Bin Laden is dead!

This is a huge deal here in the US, so I'll devote some of my blog space talking about it. I was on Facebook when I saw that Obama was going to give an emergency address. I went to Fox News and nothing had been updated and then it said something about OBL being dead. So I called my parents and told them about it and they were excited. I put up my American flag outside. Feels good to be an American today. Hasn't been much to feel good about lately.

As we all know, Osama Bin Laden founded Al Qaeda and they were responsible for the 9/11 attacks. Let's rewind the clock 10 years. My brother, dad and I were all just getting up and my bro and I were getting ready for school. I was a sophomore in high school. It was like 7am or something like that. I was in the shower like any normal day. My brother (three years younger) opened the door and said "I think something important is happening." So I got outta the shower quickly and looked at the TV and for the first minute it didn't even look like it was real. I eventually told him, yes this is huge and go get dad outta the shower. So eventually we went to school and watched the news all day long. I'll never forget that day and I'll never forget today.

Now to what I did this weekend (a lot less exciting). Saturday I woke up and cleaned my golf clubs and went golfing with my friend BJ. We played nine holes at one course then went to another course and played nine. I didn't have a very good day. Very inconsistent with my irons. It was a beautiful day though. On the way home, I stopped by Wal-mart and got some rice and chicken. When I got home, I opened up the steam cooker that my mom gave me for Christmas and cooked the rice. It worked perfect. While the rice was cooking, I BBQ'ed up the chicken thighs I bought. Then I sliced up the thighs and combined them with the rice. It was soooooo freaking good. Like the best meal I've had at my house in almost a year. Later that night, I ate more of the rice and put some sweet and sour sauce on it.

Today I woke up at about 10am. Then I remembered the Mariners had an early game today, so I listened to that. I went over to my parents' house at about 11:30 and watched the rest of the game. Red Sox won when Ichiro lost a fly ball in the sun. It was perfectly okay in my book. Ichiro is allowed to make an error. He's human...kinda.

On the way home I made another stop at Wal-Mart and got some hamburger and hot dog buns. I thought I was going to have company tonight. She canceled (saw that coming) and is coming over tomorrow night (Yeah, we'll see). Anyways, I BBQ'ed myself a cheeseburger and a hot dog. While I was at Wal-Mart, I got an onion and sauerkraut. I stuck some onion on my burger and chopped up some and stuck it on my hot dog with some sauerkraut. Such a good dinner. I love BBQ weather.

Tomorrow is going to be full of nothing till Ali comes over in the evening. Erika has not been talking to me lately. Pretty sure shes done with me. She might be needing a ride to school or something this week. It'll be interesting to see if she calls me for that. She said numerous times that she was going to see me this weekend. Yeah it didn't happen. Whenever I ask if she wants to come over she doesn't answer. I'm going to try and not talk to her till she talks to me, but it's really hard when you are bored and lonely. It'll be nice to see Ali again.

Laterz

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This no online poker thing is getting to me...

RIGGED! — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 05:07:46 +0000

Well here I am, blogging on a Friday night. I was hoping to have plans, but it's not looking like I will. The day started off good when I went to lunch with my dad, mom and brother. After that the day was just boring. I played my freeroll steps for the day on Carbon. Those are enough to drive a human insane. Now that I am semi used to the software, I really don't give a shit about them anymore. They take too damn long and aren't worth my time.

Tonight I have been laying on my couch watching the TV shows I like. It's really boring and I hate it. With no 8+ hour poker days, it's starting to get to me. I have zero money, so I am trying not to spend any. I'll have money when I get my money from Full Tilt, but who knows when that will be. I'm really bored all day. I hate cleaning and doing things around the house. I want to be playing poker. I really miss it. Carbon Poker isn't the same. The software is really bad and the traffic on there is next to nil. Being alone all day with nothing to do is really depressing. It puts me in a bad mood. I'm more emotional. Just sucks in every way. Moving away sounds more appealing today. Not sure if it will tomorrow. I'm almost getting sick of my family. My dad and brother are both super negative people. If we are all together it's an instant fight. Useless shit about how I don't care about the royal wedding or that it's not too windy outside for golf. Of course my mom is the only person that is nice 100% of the time. Just everything is falling apart. No poker which means no money. My brother and his wife are split up because my brother might be the biggest idiot on the planet. (relationship wise) This place sucks right now.

On a lighter note, my friend BJ invited me to go golfing tomorrow. I've really been looking forward to it. Supposed to be a beautiful day.

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And the Seahawks pick.... who?

RIGGED! — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 07:32:59 +0000

Woke up at about 9am this morning. I actually went to bed at about 12:30 last night. Erika called me this morning and wanted me to pick her up at the college cause she stayed later and wouldn't be able to catch the bus in time to make her next class. I was fine with it. I had nothing else to do. It's just a drive into town, which isn't much gas at all.

When I got home I did some laundry and cleaned out my van. The Mariners game was an early game and started at 10am this morning. I had that to listen to while I cleaned. I cleaned the inside of my windows in my van, they were disgusting. My van is now cleaner than when I bought it. Literally. I think a reason I got it so cheap was because they didn't want to clean the inside of it. It felt good to get it cleaned out. It needed to be done. Next step is to figure out what the screeching noise is when I start it up and when I run the AC. It's some kinda belt, but I don't know which one cause it squeaks a for like a second right after I start it up. Then it will squeak while my AC is on. Weirdest thing.

Tonight I listened to the draft. Jake Locker went early like I thought. Was pretty sure he was going to the Titans too. Good for him, but was wishing the Seahawks would have a chance at him. That would have been quite the story. The Hawks went for a O-lineman. I'm happy with that. I guess that means they'll be keeping Hasselbeck? I sure hope so.

After the Seahawks made their pick, I went for ice cream with Erika. It was a fun time. Kinda nice to have someone that actually wants to hang out with me. I was supposed to go to trivia tonight, but my brother had too much homework and my sister is working a second job for some reason.

I just got done playing a set of games on Carbon Poker. Today was better than yesterday. I'm getting accustomed to the software, but I still need a lot of work. Playing with no Table Ninja is tough. Very tough. I've pretty much decided that I am going to stay here and play on Carbon. Canada is impossible to move to, so I'm forgetting about that option. I think I'd move somewhere in Europe if I were ever to move. Mexico is too stinky and sweaty.

Tomorrow I have no plans, probably going to be a lot like today. I hope I am going to be too busy to blog tomorrow night :) See ya.

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What to do, what to do...

RIGGED! — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 05:53:01 +0000

Today I got outta bed at about 9am. I picked up Erika from her college classes and we watched an episode of Walking Dead. Then I brought her back to school. I'm really not sure if she is interested in me. I'm just going with the flow. After that I played ten tables of step freerolls at Carbon. It went a little smoother than last night, but I still seriously hated it. Not sure if I can multitable with that software when I am playing with real money. Hopefully I can get used to it.

Today I actually looked into moving to Canada. Seems like it should be easy enough. I live like five hours from the border. No it's not easy. I need money and a job. Canada, I guess, is like one of the hardest countries to move to. They don't just take anyone. They sure as hell aren't going to let me go there to solely play online poker. I could just go there for 180 days without a visa. I'd need someone to stay with I'm sure. I still wouldn't be able to get the right proof to prove I live in Canada. It's just a mess. Now, I'm just hoping Carbon is going to work. Canada is not looking like an option anymore. I don't think I could move as far away as Mexico or another continent. My family and I are too close.

Now I think I am going to play some more step freerolls on Carbon. I'm still waiting for my Full Tilt money, so I cant deposit. Probably a good thing because the software is going to take some getting used to.

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Life of a US online poker player

RIGGED! — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 06:32:31 +0000

I need to start this blog back up. I never type anything because there is so much to talk about and I don't wanta spend all day typing. I just need to do better at keeping it short.

This past weekend was fun. Friday my new friend Erika came over and we watched three movies. Dodgeball, Jackass 2 and Constantine. I love Constantine so much. Not sure if she liked it too much because it is actually pretty slow. She was probably getting bored because I missed the last 20 minutes of the movie. That's about as much as I will talk about that. Let's just say I didn't get to bed till 2am, well I mean to sleep. She's actually really nice. I enjoy spending time with her so far. Only spent one day together though. Who knows what will happen. The drawback is that she's too young. She is 18 years old... I'm turning 26 in June. That's a lot of years. (omg im turning 26... im old). At least she is someone to hang out with. We'll see how it goes.

Also on Friday night, my cousin called me and really wanted me to come to the coast and see them and clam dig. Well I don't think she has ever called me in my life, so I knew her and my grandparents really wanted me to come over. So I gave in and told them I'd drive there in the morning. Well I had to wake up at 4am on Saturday and I got outta town at 5am. I was supposed to be there by 9am to clam dig. Let's just say that dawn is a horrible time to drive over a mountain pass. Deer and elk freaking everywhere. I almost hit three and probably saw 30-40 others on the side of the road. No exaggeration. Herds were crossing the street. I've never seen so much deer. I was speeding like a mad man over the pass cause I wanted to get over to the coast in time. I slowed down a bit when there were so many deer. I was freaked.

I got to my grandparents at 9:04am. I made it from my house to the coast in four hours. That is hella fast. It's usually a good five hours. My grandpa and I went out to the beach and dug clams. The weather was about as nice as it gets on the Washington beach. Sunshine and prolly 60 degrees. I was sweating so much. The clams weren't so easy to dig this time either. They were deeper down than usual. Had to really work for them. I found out that I am in horrible shape. After about a half hour of digging, I couldn't do it anymore. I puked in a few holes people had dug. I over did it. I felt like an idiot. I've never puked clam digging before. We headed back to my grandpa's house and pretty much hung around there all day.

Sunday I left the coast and I had to make a pit stop in Seattle. The Mariners played at 1pm. If I am on the West side and there is a Mariner game, I'm not missing it. I drove to Tukwila and parked in the free Park n Ride and took the Link Light Rail up to Seattle. It was $4.50 for a day pass. Tukwilla is prolly a 20 minute drive to Seattle. It's nice not having to park at the stadium for $20 and mess with Seattle traffic. Plus it's more 'environmentally friendly.' I bought tickets at the stadium and I was going to get the cheapest tickets. Yeah I always say that and it never happens. I got tickets three rows up from the field on the 3rd base side. I don't go to enough Mariners games to get shitty seats. The game was good till Chone Figgins lost the game for them in more ways than one. I had a great time though. I bought a footlong hotdog and a beer. Weather was decent. It was raining but the roof was closed and it wasn't too cold. After the game I drove home.

Monday I did about nothing. I went over to my parents and ate clams. I make my mom and dad clean them because I don't have the heart. I'm the same way with fish. The clams were so freaking good. One of my favorite foods. Plus they tasted so good cause I knew how hard I worked for them.

Today I didn't do much either. I drove Erika to school. She walks normally. I'm not doing anything so I tell her that I'll drive her in the morning if the weather is shitty or she just doesn't feel like walking. It's nice to see her. I lazed around most of the morning. I actually made myself get off the couch and I mowed my lawn. It was super long. I hadn't mowed it since before I left to Vegas. The rest of the night I didn't do much. I played some freeroll SNGs on Carbon Poker and that's pretty much it.

Let me tell you. I hate not being able to play on Full Tilt. It makes me so mad. They have the best online poker software by far. Everything is where it should be, runs smoothly and has a lot of convenience features. I used to take it all for granted. My god do these other poker sites suck. I have decided to move to Carbon Poker. I played 10 freeroll SNGs today at a time. Ummm I wanted to throw my computer in my toilet. If I see another 'Are you sure you don't want to check,' I might lose it. Don't allow me to fold when I can check!!!!! Plus the names of the SNGs are beyond dumb. Why does there have to be a stupid name for a SNG? I won't even talk about the graphics. If I didn't have my glasses, I wouldnt be able to see the cards, let alone the bet amounts. I won't even get into the struggle of multitabling. There are so many other small things that just make the experience worse and worse. I hope I get used to this amateur poker site. I mean is it really that hard to make things easier? I miss Full Tilt so much. Not enough to move to Canada though....well not yet.

I checked to see what my credit card bills are this month and I have enough to pay them. I won't have any money for next month though. So Full Tilt has to pay me in May. Poker Stars started letting players cash out today, so hopefully Full Tilt isn't too far behind. Jani (Jtx) and I have a dinner bet going on that I won't have my Full Tilt money by the time he gets back from his cruise in mid May. He says I will have my money by then. I think it's actually gunna be really close. I've been hearing rumors that Full Tilt is getting ready to pay us US customers.

Well I think that is enough typing for tonight. I'll talk to you guys tomorrow.

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My seats at Safeco (two line drive foul balls hit the two people in front of me, I had no chance at em)

Vegas trip and Oh I'm screwed (tl;dr)

RIGGED! — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 01:05:10 +0000

Where do I start? I guess I'll just begin on Friday and go in chronological order.

Friday:
I went ot lunch with my dad on and then I went to get some sunglasses for Vegas. I have temporarily lost my old pair. I bought some for $15 at American Eagle. I refuse to spend more money on sunglasses because I break them or lose them so often. I headed back home and got on my computer. I don't know if anyone remembers Pupp3tmast3r on here, but he messaged me on Skype and asks if I have heard. Of course I'm totally clueless and he says the FBI has shut down Full Tilt. As he is telling me this, the Skype chat that a few of us are in started loading up a conversation. I quickly tried to get on twoplustwo and it wasn't loading. I knew something big happened. Eventually I found out and nothing really sank in too much because I was literally leaving for Vegas in like a half hour. I found out as much as I could about the situation and then my dad and I left for Seattle. No one really knew what was going on at the time, so I didn't really know any further details. I decided to make a last minute withdrawal for the max I can take out in a day which is $950. Everything had just happened within the hour so I thought I could sneak one by. It left me with plenty of money in my bankroll if this was all going to blow over. Well the $950 is still "processing" as of now. Hasn't even been approved, which usually happens instantly. Good thing it's still in my cashier and not caught up in the middle man like my other $1900.

We drove to Seattle and caught the plane to Vegas. For some lucky reason when my dad booked the flight a few weeks ago, we got 1st class tickets on the flight to Vegas. I've been in 1st class once when I was super little and can barely remember it. It was pretty nice. Free drinks and decent food. The leg room is obviously the best thing about it. I just sat and watched the latest episode of Celebrity Apprentice and we were in Vegas in no time. We got into Vegas around 11pm'ish. We decided to rent a car during the time because we were going to drive to Laughlin for a couple nights. My reserved a car from Payless Car Rental. I will summarize the experience. We waited for maybe a combined two hours in line (which was maybe six people) and trying to get the right car. Of course they are out of the car that you reserved. So it was either a mini van or a Dodge Ram pickup. Well we picked the Van and when we finally got to it. It was a handicapped van which had a wheelchair lift inside and hand controls for the brake and gas pedals. Not gunna happen. We finally got it sorted out and got a mini van that wasn't meant to be driven by my paralyzed great aunt.

We drove to Laughlin, which is about an hour and a half drive. We got into our hotel room at The Riverside at about 3am. Oh, and I forgot to mention that the front desk lady programmed us the wrong keys to the room. So I had to walk back down through the whole damn casino to get the right ones. It was quite the night.

Saturday:

My dad got out of bed in time for the 10am poker tournament. Yeah not me. I don't do getting up early for poker. I woke up at about 11.30am and ate breakfast. Then I played 2-6 spread poker from noon till 3pm. They have a promotion going on that if you get red aces cracked, you get $500. So pretty much whenever that was going on I played. It was a good excuse to play at those times so I didn't have to play all day long. Nice to have somewhat of a schedule.

Before I get too much into this, let me tell you about the people at this hotel. Average age is probably 60 years old. I might as well be an infant in this place. All old people which means a lot of high maintenance and very stupid jokes. I think there were about eight old guys named 'Froggy.' They were proud as hell to have this dumb ass nickname. One had a hat that said Froggy and about ten frog card protectors. Not to mention he looked like a frog and I think he was retarded.

If anyone has ever thought smoking is in the decline, you haven't been to this place. Every single person smokes. I have never seen so many old people that were this unhealthy in my life. These people have sat down 99% of their life. They chain smoke, drink heavily, and eat 6000 calories a day (probably 98% grease). It is very tilting to be honest. I somewhat take care of myself and I am probably not going to live as long as those people. Although I'm sure not one lives 10 years from now.

Sunday:
I woke up at about 10am, ate breakfast and laid by the pool. It was about 95 degrees outside. The high in Yakima, Washington (where I live) is maybe 55 degrees. The warm weather was like heaven. It was hard to stay inside and play poker. I made sure to get outside somewhat. After I was done playing poker at 3pm, I took the free water taxi across the Colorado River into Arizona. I walked over to a Sam's Club that I could see from our hotel.. I have never been in one before. You need a membership to get in like Costco, so I just walked in with a random family. The place was like the twilight zone. It was exactly like any Costco I have been to. From the food samples and $1.50 hot dogs to the LCD TVs at the entrance to the five pound bags of cheese. I couldn't buy anything cause I wasn't a member, so I collected as many food samples as I could and got a ICEE that I waited 15 minutes in line for.

There was a freeroll that night and I made the final table and cashed $120 or so. We split in nine ways. I was certainly okay with that because the blinds were ridiculously high and I had like two big blinds. Then we played another three hours from 8pm to 11pm for the red aces cracked promotion. I actually got red aces, but they held up. It sucked. After that we went and ate at the coffee shop. This is where my night began...

My dad and I were seated in a booth right next to these two hot chicks. Like crazy hot and they looked my age. They were laughing and having a good time. Of course I was looking at them all the time and they'd look at me and smile. This had to be too good to be true right? Well we got our check and my dad walked up to the cashier. You know those times where it's like a once in a lifetime thing and you can't pass it up? Well this was one of those times. I stopped at their tables and created small chit chat with them. They were here alone and they were going to the lounge afterward and wanted me to meet them there. I was in my shorts and flip flops at the time, so I rushed up to the hotel room and changed my clothes so that I at least looked decent. I went down to the lounge and they had a live band playing (I thought they sucked). I sat down at a table with a drink. There was maybe 15 people in this place on a Sunday night. No one dancing and super lame, but I stuck it out. Eventually they came to the lounge and we sat and talked for an hour or so. It felt like eight hours for me. They were super nice and cool. Unbelievable hot. One was 26 years old and the other was 27. Both blonds. Waaaaaaaaaaay out of my league. Like I'm grid kids football and they are Tom Brady. I'm pretty sure I have never even held a conversation with a chick as hot as them let alone TWO at the same time. There were several guys at tables alone just green with envy. I was sitting with the two hottest girls, bar none, in Laughlin. I held my own for a little while. It's really really hard for me to think of things to talk about. I am very unsociable. As the night started to wind down, that is when my anxiety and nerves took over. I haven't gotten sick over talking to a girl since I first met my ex fiance about four years ago. This was too much for me to handle. I could feel it coming on like a freight train. I said that I needed to go to the bathroom, and I puked my guts out. There was no way around it. I could have just wimped out and left, but I decided to tough it out. I kinda thought they'd be gone, but there were still there. I talked to em a little while longer till the band quit and the lounge was closing up for the night. Well, I had no freaking clue what was going to happen next. I was already way farther then I thought I'd make it. Well before I could think too much about any of this, I could feel my stomach getting sick again. I couldn't use the bathroom excuse again (maybe I could have cause I had been drinking) so I tried to tough it out, but it just wasn't going to happen. So I found the nearest garbage and puked again. Yeah I knew that it was going to be the deal breaker. I went back to the table, talked for maybe a minute and they said they had to go. Sorry that it was a bad ending. I was just too nervous and wasn't thinking clearly. I was drinking alcohol instead of water. If I would have been keeping myself hydrated, I probably wouldn't of puked. Just stupid play on my part, but at least I did play and didn't chicken out. A good life lesson for me and will benefit me in the future.

Monday:

We woke up at about 9:30amish, at breakfast and headed back to Las Vegas. I was not feeling well, because I puked the previous night. It wasn't so bad though. We took the back way to Vegas so we could drive over the new Hoover Dam bridge. The bridge has concrete walls on either side that are probably 10ft tall and you can't see over them. The purpose of that, I have no clue, but it sure sucks for sight see'ers. I hadn't been to Hoover Dam since I was super little, so we decided to drive across it. I drove back and forth over it and got a decent view of it and that's all. Didn't need to spend a whole day full of tours and walking. Maybe when I have a family in the future.

We got to Vegas at about 1:30pm. Checked into our room at the Flamingo. Our room was probably a quarter mile walk from the elevator. Thank god the keys worked. From there we walked to Toby Keith's I Love This Bar and ate a pulled pork sandwich. I am not a Toby Keith fan by any means, but the clientele in this place is just like home, so it's a fun place to go to once in awhile. As we were leaving Harrah's we heard over the loud speaker that they were having $60 poker tourney starting in 20 minutes. That sounded fun so we scooped it out and played. I thought it was a very decent structure. About 50 people. Neither my dad or I did well, but that's just how it goes.

That evening we went and played 3/6 limit at the Mirage. My dad loves playing there. I lost $100 in about 15 minutes because of this super crazy player at my table. I manged to grind bank some of it, but I think I lost about $70. I hadn't lost in one session at Riverside, so losing sucked. We played there for a few hours, then went to eat at Kahunaville at Treasure Island next door. I've walked by the place a 100 times but never been in. My dad always wanted to take my there, and it was close. The bartenders are fun to watch flip and throw around the cups and bottles. We sat there and watched em for about an hour. I can't really remember what we did afterward (I had not been drinking for the record). At about 1am, my dad went to bed and I decided to go play some craps. I did pretty well at the Riverside. So I was kind of on a craps rush. I went downstairs at the Flamingo, but they were $10 minimum tables. No thanks. I knew they'd have cheaper ones next door at Bill's so that's where I went. I spent about an hour and half playing craps (super long time to be playing craps) and I can't remember how much I won, but I didn't lose so a good times spent. The table was loud and fun, I had a good time.

Tuesday:

In the morning my dad went and played at the Mirage and I went down to the Flamingo pool. The weather was too nice. Sunny, hot and not a cloud in the sky. There were so many people at the pool. I was lucky to find a spot. I sun bathed for a little bit and scoped out the hot chicks. Everyone was drinking at 11am. Not my idea of a good time. I'm really starting to be turned off from drinking. Anyways, when I was done with that I went to the Mirage and met up with my dad and I took him to lunch. At Casino Royale. $1.99 foot long hot dogs. That's how I roll. When anyone says it is expensive to eat in Vegas, I just laugh. They just don't understand where to go eat. After I ate my hotdog loaded up with sauerkraut and onion. I took my dad to the Venetian and showed him the poker room. They were having the Deepstack Extravaganza so there were a lot of people in there. We didn't really have anything to do, so we went back to Harrah's and played the $60 tourney again. While we were there we saw someone that plays in our local casino all the time. Of course he was at my table the whole tournament. He had an idea of how I played, so I wasn't too fond of that. There was this complete idiot that almost busted me directly to my left. He was a younger guy like me and was a complete douche. He had me on tilt the instant he snap check raised me. I called his ass with ace high and he crippled me. I thought it was a good call though. I had a inside straight draw if I was completely wrong. I was only kinda wrong so it was okay. I worked my stack back up. He was put out of the tournament early (which was obviously going to happen). I ended up getting to the final table and busting 10th when I pushed my 5bbs into the BB with A10o and he called me with 98o. Very good players at this tourney.

After the tournament I met my dad at the Mirage again and we got $30 of comps for some reason. We ate at the burger place that was where the white tiger exhibit used to be. We had a kobe beef burger. Tasted like a normal burger to me. I can make a better one with preformed hamburger buns from Costco on my BBQ. The waiter talked Seahawks with me so we left him a big tip.

I was kinda pokered out from the tournament so we walked over to Bellagio and the card room had a couple 20/40 limit games and thats the highest it went. I think there was one 2/5 NL game going and everything else was 1/2nl. Mind you it's like 8pm. It's prime poker playing time. More people are playing at the Casinos cause of Black Friday? Show me where please. A lot of people were playing at Venetian because of the Deepstack tourneys. There were a lot at Caesers because of the WSOP cercuit event. I think they had like three live tables going. We took the tram to the Aria and I wanted to see if anyone was playing in Ivey's Room. My dad spotted out Daniel Negreanu right away, and I was quite surprised. I also saw Barry Greenstein and Todd Brunson. A couple asian guys I recognized were smoking right next to me, but I can never recall their names because their names are all the same.

I had seen that there was a 2/4 limit game at the Flamingo, where we were staying, so we went and played there for a few hours. I didn't feel like dumping a $100 in 15 minutes. I didn't want the stress of it. I just wanted something to pass the time so I didn't have to drink at a bar with a bunch of super drunk tourists that only want to make noise. I was up $120 in like a half hour, but I gave about a $100 of it back. It was fun. There were three super nice southern ladies at the table. They were making me laugh. One was talking about how much she loved her pockets (pocket pairs) and she "could just eat them up, nom nom nom." It was cute.

I wasn't quite ready for bed because it was our last night in Vegas, so my dad and I ate at some burger place in the Flamingo. There was this group of girls sitting next to us. Well one wasn't technically a girl, but he was sure trying to be. Girl's brain in a man's body, is what I call it. We ordered steak and eggs for $8.99. It was like chewing on a tire. I think I chipped one of my back teeth. It's not rib eye and eggs from Bill's for $4.99. Not sure why they didn't have that promotion going on, must be during the summer months.

We walked over to Bill's to play craps again. My dad and I both bought in for a $100. Of course I only play the pass line and come bets. My dad didn't play the pass line even thought I told him it's the best bet in the house. He wasted his money playing the field, hardways and C/E. He blew $70 in about five minutes and left. I was in about $160 till this black guy got hot and I made my money back. Then the table got hot and I ended up cashing about $330. It was super fun. There was this big group of friends that really had the table going. Very loud and exciting. How a craps table should be.

Wednesday:

Got up early and returned the rental car that we drove two days. Then flew back home. My mom and sister flew back from London and got to Seattle about the same time we did. My brother surprised us at the airport and we drove back home.

Today:

I have been trying to sort out all this online poker mess. Mess is such an understatement. I'm like totally screwed. I have $2500 on Full Tilt that I probably won't get in a few months. I have $1900 lost in the middle man somewhere. I'm praying that I get it, but it's not looking good. I have $700 in my pocket in Vegas and that's all that I really have to my name. I am stuck between a rock and a hard place. Everything that I have built on Full Tilt is long gone. Just when I was getting my game back on track. I have been having some of my best months ever and this happens. It's pretty much the story of life right. Anytime you have something too good to be true happening, it is. I guess I really don't have very good luck. At least I have a good family. It's really the only thing going for me. My fiance walked out on my and now my job was taken away from the United States Communist government.

It sure looks bleak for the future of online poker in this country. Nothing is going to be resolved for a very long time. I highly doubt Full Tilt and Pokerstars are ever coming back. It would sure be nice if they could sure the US government or something. I'm starting to hate my country. I hate my state, I hate my government. Being a part of the USA isn't so glamorous. Just a bunch of politicians that want a lot of money for themselves. It doesn't matter how much they screw the little people like me.

I'm going to trivia night with my brother and his wife. Maybe I will blog again tonight and talk more about what is in my future. Laterz

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(sorry if there are multiple spelling and grammar errors, I don't have time to read this over)

I was back to my lazy ways!

RIGGED! — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 08:12:52 +0000

Well yesterday I accidentally caught a glimpse of my bankroll. It wasn't pretty. A lot lower than I expected. Not really in any kind of danger. I'm just doing shitty this month. About $800 down and my red line was going down right with my green line. I knew I was playing bad so I decided to watch the first video that I did with Skitzofrenik. It really helped me out and got me back in the right frame of mind. I was playing too lazy. Now I am back to playing better. Today I did better. I didn't get a full day in, but i played two sessions. I started opening a lot more pots and not being lazy. Amazing how much that helps.

Tomorrow I leave for Vegas with my dad. I can't wait. Going to be so fun. Hopefully I can bink a tournament. I think I might reserve $200 for the craps tables. Meh, we'll see. Going to be playing poker the whole time down there. Vegas owes me some money. Last time I was down there I lost a lot of money. Pretty much because I suck at no limit poker. I doubt I'll play any of that this trip, but if I do, I'm not playing tight. That's for sure. I'm going to see lots of flops and exploit players post flop. I'm a better poker player than I give myself credit for and it's time to use my skill to my advantage.

Well, I probably won't blog till I get back. I get back Wednesday night. It'd be nice to be bragging about how much I won down there when I blog next. Anyways, see ya.

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Push the worse hand > Call with the better hand

RIGGED! — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 05:36:47 +0000

Ran funky at poker today. A lot of very odd plays by regulars against me. Had me just dumbfounded. I'd have the best hand most of the time and and they'd suck out just about every time. Very frustrating, but I'm used to it. I didn't let it get to me. Happens everyday. Just a lot today. My first session sucked. I probably went through 20+ tournaments without getting heads up. I might have came back a little toward the end, but not enough. I decided to go golfing because it was a very nice day out. I think that stresses me out more. At least it got me moving around and woke me up. I've been having trouble staying awake while I play poker. It's just all the sitting around. I haven't been to the gym in probably almost a month. I have like no time. Poker takes up so much of my day. I guess if I cut out golf, I can go work out. That will be my whole day. No time to do anything else. That's life.

Tomorrow I'll get a earlier start. Mariner Pregame will start at 11:30am. I need to be ready and playing poker by then. Mariners won again tonight. That makes two straight. When they win, it is actually surprising. I almost don't know how to act. I'm so used to them losing everyday.

I think I've told you guys already. On Friday my dad and I are going down to Vegas. We'll be there till Wednesday. After that, I might try and catch a bus over to the coast and clam dig for a few days. Depends when our plane gets in. I have to take like three buses to get over there and it might take most of the day. We'll see. Talk to you guys tomorrow.

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About to fall asleep, decided to blog

RIGGED! — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 10:03:23 +0000

Hey guys. I woke up at about 11 today and didn't get started playing poker till about 1:30. I played a session that started off well and then I lost a bunch right at the end. My brother asked if he could film me walking to my mail box for a project. I didn't care. While we were doing that, my dad called us and invited us out to dinner. We ate some burgers and drank some beers then my brother and I went back home. I played another session while I listened to the Mariner game. They got behind 7-0 right away. It was going to be another one of those games. Till they came back and won! A walk off double in the bottom of the ninth. What a miracle. That made my night. I started laying another session and I got a little over an hour into it when Full Tilt shut down the SNGs because they were going to have maintenance in a few hours. I was kinda pissed, but nothing I could do about it. So I talked to Jani and Spencer on Skype for awhile. Then I watched the Amazing Race. Now I'm just laying in bed wishing that my brother wasn't doing his laundry at 3am. The washer and dryer are right outside my door.

Well tomorrow should be uneventful, but you never know. See ya

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I found another video of Veloblank

Not too much happened today

RIGGED! — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 05:30:49 +0000

Today I slept in till about noon. It felt so good. Hadn't got much sleep in the last few days. I never wanted to get out of bed. I had that Main Event qualifier to play at 1:15, so I forced myself outta bed. The tourney was pretty eventful. I was at a pretty tight table and I was playing about half my hands. Probably not the way to play, but it seemed like it was working. I'm not just gunna sit a and blind out with stacks so deep at the beginning. This hand was pretty interesting and I seriously was sure this guy was going to fold after the flop with my four bet. Me and him had been at it the whole time. He knows I like to bet bet bet, so I think he would have just called me down if he had a ten. If he had middle pair or a pocket pair lower then TT he could lay id down too. Well look and see for yourself:

Full Tilt Poker Main Event Race Final No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t40/t80 Blinds - 9 players - View hand 1272480
DeucesCracked Poker Videos Hand History Converter

BB: t5690 71.12 BBs
UTG: t6280 78.50 BBs
UTG+1: t3220 40.25 BBs
UTG+2: t6165 77.06 BBs
MP1: t4420 55.25 BBs
MP2: t3465 43.31 BBs
Hero (CO): t3350 41.88 BBs
BTN: t2075 25.94 BBs
SB: t2215 27.69 BBs

Pre Flop: (t120) Hero is CO with 9 2
5 folds, Hero raises to t200, BTN calls t200, 2 folds

Flop: (t520) 7 2 T(2 players)
Hero bets t230, BTN raises to t640, Hero raises to t3150 all in, BTN calls t1235 all in

Turn: (t4270) 7(2 players - 2 are all in)

River: (t4270) 9(2 players - 2 are all in)

Final Pot: t4270
Hero shows 9 2 (two pair, Nines and Sevens)
BTN shows K J (a pair of Sevens)
Hero wins t4270

I prolly got like 500th or something in the tourney.Â I 3bet all in preflop with A9o against a btn raiser. He had KJ and I was out. Oh well it was fun.Â I was pretty much trying to keep up Jani (Jtx) I hate when he has more chips than me... :)

Tomorrow is going to be full of poker.Â Full days worth.Â Nothing exciting.Â Right now I am going to get something to eat and watch some TV.Â Laterz

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My adventure for this week

RIGGED! — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 06:34:33 +0000

This weekend was pretty fun. Friday I woke up at about 7:30am. It was way too early and I hated it, but that's okay. I had to be up early because I needed to catch the bus to the Greyhound Station to catch a bus to Seattle for the Mariner game. The Greyhound left for Seattle at 9:40am and got there at 12:40pm. I pretty much slept through the whole ride while listening to my Zune.

My view from the bus on the way to Seattle

I woke up about right when we got into the Seattle station so I had no idea what way was what. I had to walk around a little bit to see where I was. Not after too long I realized my location and made my way down to the waterfront. I walked to Ivar's and got some clam strips and fry's. Yeah yeah, you are supposed to get clam chowder from there, but I've had it so many times that I decided to change it up. After I was done eating, I had a whole basket of fry's left. So I decided to go feed the seagulls. Usually outdoor restaurants have signs that say NOT to feed the seagulls, but this place encourages it. So I let a few seagulls take the fries out of my hand. Then I had this thing going with them where I"d throw the fry up and they'd catch it. Well before long I had a train of seagulls coming at me one after another. They swoop down at me and stop right in front of me and I'd toss a fry to them and they'd fly away. People around me thought I was pretty cool. Eventually I ran out of fries and was on my way.

At about 2:00 or so I got to Safeco Field.

My favorite sports radio station (710 KIRO ESPN) was stationed right outside of the Safeco gates. My favorite sports talk show hosts were broadcasting live not 10 feet in front of me. I just stood there and watched them till 4:40pm when the gates opened.

At 4:00 they renamed the street in front of Safeco "Dave Niehaus Way" and I watched that also.

The game was okay. The Mariners lost 3 to 12 at the hands of the Cleveland Indians. It was Opening Night, so it was extra exciting. The game was sold out so it was super packed. My dad met me at the game because he was driving my mom and sister to the airport. We had beers and walked around Safeco to explore what was new this season.

We upgraded seats when pretty much the whole crowd left.

After that we headed to the hotel where my mom and sister were staying and got a little sleep. I stress 'little' because they had to be up at like 5am and they were the loudest morning people ever. I swear they were blow drying their hair for an hour and this blow dryer sounded like a freaking jet plane. So basically my dad and I were forced to wake up.

That morning my dad and I caught the 11am poker tourney at the Snoqualmie Casino. I pretty much sucked as I usually do in the tournament. I tried my extreme hardest not to blind out. I thought I was doing quite well at it till the old man to my right woke up with AK against my AJ. It was nice when the jack high flop came. Not nice when the queen and ten followed. So I lost abut half my stack there and not before long I had 7 big blinds in the hi jack with TT and the SB had KK. My streak at doing horrible in that tourney continues, but I really didn't feel bad about anything. My dad busted pretty soon afterward. We then went to the sushi bar, caught a few minutes of the Masters and went home. When we got home we decided to go watch the Mariner game at a bar. They lost 2-1, but at least it wasn't a blowout and was interesting. My dad dropped me off at home and now here I am typing out this blog.

Tomorrow I think I have a main event qualifier to play and after that I hope I can grind for awhile. As I have told you guys, I've been slacking online lately. It won't help when I go to Vegas next week. I may even go clam digging when I get home from the trip because it is probably the last time of the season. I haven't been once and my grandpa has been begging me to go. Plus I want to try out my new waders that I got for Christmas!!

Well I'll try to talk to you guys tomorrow. Hopefully I'm going nuts on how I just won a Main Event seat.

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Life/poker update

RIGGED! — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 06:26:53 +0000

Sorry that I have been slacking guys. This blog isn't what it used to be. Thought I'd share what is going on while I wait for my tables to load at this late hour. On Friday I am going to the Mariner's Home Opener. I can't wait. It's going to be so fun. My dad is going to meet me there, because he has to drive my mom and sister to the airport. They are flying to London early Saturday morning. That morning my dad and I will go play the noon tournament at Snoqualmie Casino. That's a fun tourney. Next Friday or Saturday, my dad and I are flying down to Vegas. From there we are going to drive to Laughlin for a couple days. From there we will drive back to Vegas for a couple days. My mom and sister get back into Seattle on Wednesday, so we are going to fly back then also and we will all drive back home together.

I have a fun next couple weeks. I'm excited. Poker has been going okay. Still at the $12s, bankroll is healthy. No looking at my results as usual. Just putting my head down and grinding. Trying to play my best poker no matter what. A lot less stressful this way. I like it.

Talk to you guys soon.

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March Results

RIGGED! — Sun, 03 Apr 2011 00:53:27 +0000