There really has been a lot that's happened in my life since my last blog, so I guess I'll go point by point through some of the highlights and/or interesting parts:


- I've been to LA and back twice now. The first trip, I won about $60,000 in 3 days of playing mostly $400/800 at commerce. The second trip the games were even bigger than that, and when all was said and done after my own action selling in them (1000/2000 and 1500/3000) my second trip was a $45,000 loser.


- The second trip I signed a lease on a place in Long Beach. I'm still living primarly in Minnesota, though it'll be nice to have a place of my own out there so I can get away from Commerce Casino. Since typically when I go out there, I stay at the hotel and basically am either awake playing poker, awake sitting in my room, or asleep. That kind of hotel-lifestyle makes you feel like a zombie after a few days. A friend from high school went to school at USC and has lived in Long Beach since graduating, and she was having roommate issues so she convinced her old roomie to move out, and I am taking over. The lease is like $1780 a month, and I'm responsible for $500 of it and can come and go as I please. I have my own bedroom and bathroom with shower, and feel like it's a pretty solid setup for me. I also have a garage space.


- Along with all that above, I bought a lexus ES 300. It's got a lot of miles on it but otherwise is great and feels a lot like my beemer I own in Minnesota.


- Some of those live LA players are such sick action junkies. Like seriously, maybe I'm just a busto nit compared to them, but I can't imagine playing $1000/2000 while having my action booked against two people (meaning that person was playing $3000/6000, essentially). The first time we kicked it up to 1k2k from 5/10, I objected to it jumping that big cuz I didn't want to play that high on my own, so Ali Eslami who was in the game says, "Schneids I'll take 200/400 of you, lets go." I asked if anyone at the table objected to Ali being in the game and having a piece of me, nobody did, and the game continued. Then the next day I went to Commerce after talking to the floor on the phone and being told the game was 1k2k, and show up with my chips and learn it's 1500/3000. Uh what? Ali again aware I don't wanna play that high, says, "I'll take 250/500 of you, Joe you want 250/500 of Schneids also?" Joe says sure, and once again problem solved. Also, two of the players in this game played it for 2.5 days straight, and a third was in it about 1.5 days straight.


- Ali Eslami has the most amazing headset I've ever seen. In addition to his headphones that cost about $1000, he also has this attachable base or sub woofer thing or I don't even know what it is but all said not including the ipod all that stuff it's connected to is about a $2000 setup. If you played as much live poker as he does I'm sure it's well worth it.


- Also have been playing some 500/1000 and 1000/2000 online. For a few days there, it really screwed up my sleep schedule, but I've fought to get it back to respectability. I think it was last Tuesday night/Wednesday morning, I was about to go to bed around 6am, then Busterstacks started playing a sesh on full tilt, so obviously I have to try to chase his tournament score dollars (he finished 4th I believe in the $5k ftops for around $200k). The few nights prior to that, he'd start at 100/200 and lose and move up to bigger limits and lose, and basically martingale his way up to 1k2k and eventually win back his losses there. That Wednesday morning he started immediately at 500/1k and lost about 20-30k and moved up to 1k2k. By about noon we were still going, and he was down, and it was pretty apparent to me that he was going to either bust his account or get it all back. By this point my fatigue was really setting in but I knew I had to press on, so I debated my options and decided to put up a facebook status msg saying something along the lines of, "if you're in the minneapolis area i'll pay you good money to bring me mountain dew asap." A few minutes later someone from my high school graduating class that I haven't seen or talked to in like 6 years msg'ed me and said she was pretty sure she lived near me and could do it, how much? I said I'd pay $30 if she could get me 2 liters asap, and 15-20 minutes later, she had mountain dew to my place. Best $30 I've ever spent. By about 3 or 3:30 Buster was down $100-150k or so and he moved to a HU table with Boosted J, and was down to $13k on the table and somehow managed to run it back up to $200k and insta-sat out. This was about 6:30pm. So I waited a few minutes and he didn't return and started getting myself ready for bed, and sure enough sometime between 7-7:30pm Buster returns, right as I'm about to go to bed and waaaaay too tired. I debate playing in it again and decide not to because I was nearing the point of delirium, and instead get 10% of Dean's action in the game. About 2 hours after that, Buster lost all $200k, and Dean was a $67k winner so at least I got an extra $6700 while I slept.


- Here is a screen from my marathon online session described above:
http://img219.imageshack.us/my.php?image=overnightermx6.jpg


- Next blog I'll have to put up a few pictures, such as of my new work out set in my bathroom and my California car.


- Since being back to Minnesota, I'm still listening to California's "Indie 103.1" station from my computer. The music they play reminds me of the now defunct Drive 105 (for you Minnesota people).


- This week I've got meetings Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday pertaining to a company me and a few friends are starting up. I'll talk more about that in another blog too but I'm pretty excited about it (as well as a few of the other companies I've invested into the past year). Obtaining several sources of passive income and getting myself set up for life is definitely becoming a priority and challenge and source of fun and a way to occupy some of my spare time during the day since I certainly don't have the passion for poker that I once had long ago.



Until next time, g'luck at the tables and happy turkey day.