Hey guys, and girls. Wonder if any girls read my blog. Anyway, been a little busy with a bunch of stuff. First, my car is finally being shipped to me on Friday. The GF is actually driving it up to Vancouver, BC and dropping it off with the people that are going to send my car over to Toronto. Should take 7-10 days. I can't wait. I have a sick thing for cars (worst kind of investment you can make). I really need to start playing live cash games. I'm craving it so hard. The thing is, Eskal is one sick fukk. It's tough going out to play sessions with him because he rarely leaves before games break. I really need to be able to get up when I see fit. A large part of my live game success last year had to do with table/game selection and session length. Back in the day, I used to shoot till I couldn't keep my eyes open. People would tell me that I play too long all the time but I didn't really care cause I love playing live casino cash games much more than most. Obv it's impossible for anyone to play their A game when you can barely read the board. After grad school last year, I really committed myself to making good decisions as far as game selection and was strict about the hours I would log in per session. Luckily, it worked out for the best. Once I have my car, I'm gonna be going to casinos regularly to play cash games when I'm not mtt'ing online. Can't wait! My GF is actually hoping on a plane on Friday and heading to Toronto for the weekend. Should be a fun weekend. She's leaving our dog with her old roommate because the traveling and change of surroundings is a bit tough for her. Sucks that I won't see her.

On Saturday, Goodfella and I went to his uncle's homegame with his friends. He asked us to come out and we thought it would be fun. It ended up being a really good time and we got to meet some of his friends. They were all very nice. The funny thing is that they kept calling us "professionals" as soon as we got there. They kept saying how we were there to take their money. Goodfella told them that he and I would be the first two to bust. I was sure of it too. It always happens when you're playing with family and friends. I was certain that we would be trying to smash each other and get blindsided by the others. Actually, we got in a hand right away when he raised UTG and I 3 bet him outta the SB with AsJs. Board came KKQ rainbow. We both checked and the turn brought the Ac. I checked again thinking he would bet no matter what. I planned on flatting the turn and bet calling the river unless it brought a Q. He checked behind and when the river came blank, I led out and he called. He showed AJ as well and we chopped the pot. What a fish. Anyway, it actually turned out great because we got heads up and chopped. The other guys were laughing about how fitting it was that we tied for the win after all the "professional" jokes. I went on to finish 3rd in the money in the second tourney. Professionals come through one time! Home games are the best. Nice to play stress free poker once in a while.

I planned on grabbing a bottle of scotch for the night. A fellow CR blogger, TheWrongOne, recommended a specific brand so I decided to grab it and try it out. I think drinking habits bring people together. Anyway, there was some kind of confusion about the brand and I ended up getting a bottle of McClellan's. I think it was Lowland (sp?) that he meant. Anyway, the shit I got was absolutely disgusting! It was ass water! Steve, who's house we were at, actually knew quite a bit about scotch and taught me a thing or two. Thanks pal. And also, he let me try some of his good stuff (Glenfiddich 30 Year). It was really good. Thanks again pal for a great night.

Yesterday, I decided to get back to MTT'ing. I started around 9am. I was taking standard suckouts for hours and hours. However, around 6pm or so, I felt like I was playing really well. I was feeling good about my decisions and was hoping to break through before the session was over. In the last tournament I registered for, I started running really well after the antes kicked in and was able to get my stack to over 150 bb's. I coasted into the final 4 tables. I was fortunate enough to see blue lights but ended up busting out in the first hand of the final table when I caught a cooler. UTG shoved about 13bb's and I ended up re-shoving with TT (25+bb's) on the BTN only to get called by the big stack in the BB who showed QQ. UTG showed 99. QQ held up and I was out in 8th place. Still felt good to see blue lights on my first day back. Pretty tired from a long 17 hour session so today I'll probably just chill and play a few tourneys late in the evening.

I should mention that in one of the rebuy tourneys last night, I played at the best table of all time. It was absolutely ridiculous. At one point, I had all the other 5 opponents noted with a either Yellow, Pink, or Orange Tabs (Fish, Reckless Fish, and Mega Fish). The Orange tabbed player was the greatest. This guy played 80% of his hands and top pair was the absolute nuts for him. At one point, I was ISOing him and value towning w/ 8K bets into 1,100 pots. On a board of KQ744, I led out w/ 3 over bets and was called by K8off the whole way by this guy. I had KK :/ He was great. The other fish at the table started to berate this guy. So amazing that a guy who called a UTG limp shove and showed 10h9h and made two pair to beat AA berates anyone. I was reading Kara Scott's blog the other day about how irritating it is that people berate fish. I agree that it is just the most retarded thing ever. It will never change though. People will always be too emotionally invested in poker. Just the way it is. And it was true about myself by the end of the session. At the final two tables last night, a guy just started smashing me in the chat when I blind on blind smashed with 6s4s and beat AK. I was laughing at first but this guy was just going off. I was super tired and a bit loopy and decided to tell him that he made a bad stack off with AK when he got smashed into having a 10bb stack. He just lost it after that. Eskal and another friend were sweating. At one point he turned to me and said, about my chat antics, "you're sooooo fishy". He looked so sincere. Oh well, they get to you sometimes... even though they shouldn't. When he got it in and was called by another player, I pretyped "Get some sleep, see you tomorrow sl ut" and clicked enter when he busted.

SOOOO FISHY.....