Hello. Sorry, I know it's been awhile -- it's just been one of those stretches where I've never really felt like blogging. I know Taylor and some of the other CR guys have went through those stretches once in awhile. I've had it in my mind the past week or so and I thought that I'd maybe have this "return blog" include a video tour of my house or something, but I still haven't gotten my place cleaned up enough to do yet (but that should be soon... I'm hosting some of my family and extended family for Easter Sunday this year, so it'll be cleanish before then). Maybe soon I'll make that video and put it up...If I can figure out how the camcorder works on my camera.

The second half of my Commerce trip in February I was a loser on the trip. Nothing huge, but enough to make it so all in all my month of California poker was not nearly as profitable as I'd like.

In March I did a little 5 day Vegas trip with some old high school and college buds who are now scattered around the country (some of them who made it out to Vegas now live in Phoenix AZ, Columbus OH, and Eau Claire WI). I didn't play much poker on that trip, though the two times we found ourselves in the poker room it was sad to see how dead the Bellagio card room was.

Since about mid March, I've been trying to make an effort to "grind" more online. Even though the amount of hands I'm putting in is far short of some people I know, I'm pretty happy with my efforts thus far. I've also been playing some O8 and some razz. Although I know I'm still making plenty of mistakes in these games, I think I'm also making great strides and I feel like I am +EV in the games I've been playing in.

Here is my hold em play which is for a little more than the past two weeks (and since I made the decision I need to stop being lazy and put in some hands online):





About time for me to start upswinging a little bit online. Until this stretch, I never really got any momentum going online in 2009.


Also, go Twins, today was their season opener that you can probably predict I was at. This year I've made two longshot bets with a friend that I know I have the worst of it but I don't really care, they're just fun to do as a fan:
- 60:1 on Denard Span being AL MVP
- 15:1 on Scott Baker or Kevin Slowey being AL Cy Young.


In 2006 I had two bets relating to Justin Morneau being the AL MVP that I won with a friend and got me shipped $6500. So I just look at any of these futures bets as me being on a lifelong freeroll from that wager. :)


Lastly, since I talk about movies in a lot of my blogs, here's my latest movie recommendation:

Me and You and Everyone We Know -- It's a little vulgar and inappropriately odd at times, and kind of lacks a central plot, and is kind of stupid. But it's awesome nonetheless. All I'm going to reveal about it is it contains one of the funnier scenes I've ever seen in a movie. It's honestly one of my favorite movies I've seen in the last year or two.


I've also watched The Squid and the Whale and Machuca in the past week while playing poker, and would definitely recommend either of them. Machuca would've been even better if not for Slumdog Millionaires' presence; it has a type of feel similar to that movie, though is not executed quite as well (but that said, was still very good).