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Alternative Plans
June 23, 2008Sometimes life doesn't go like you planned. I "planned" on spending July in Vegas playing in the Main Event. So far (and with time running out), I have been unable to win a seat. I know, I know. With the multitude of opportunities that PokerNews and all of the online poker sites give me to win a seat, if I can't win one, I must not be the caliber of player that would do well in the Main Event anyway. Well, I don't agree but I'm prejudiced in my behalf. With time running out, I guess I need to come up with something else to do in July. So........
I booked a free room in Biloxi, Mississippi for 3 nights. There's no particular tournament going on but the cash games and daily tournaments should be OK. I'll hit the poker tables as long as there's a good game going on. If the game dries up, I'll hit the blackjack tables. This may not substitute for the Main Event, but maybe it'll ease the pain a little.
But this is how life is like poker. We go into a tournament or session with a particular plan in our heads. But often times, the cards or the other players at our table just don't follow the plan. Our draws don't hit. Our bluffs don't work. Our big hands fail to get paid off. So we have to come up with alternative plans. If our game is TAG and so is the rest of the table, LAG becomes our new game plan. If we're being out-LAG'd, it's time for a good TAG game.
Sometimes you just have to take what life or the dealer gives you and make the best of it.
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1 Hour / Day
June 09, 2008Now that the WSOP has started, I've developed a routine. I spend each evening following all of the events in the Live Reporting Section but there's only 1 problem. Generally because of time zone differences, all of the tournies go on dinner break around the time that it would be prudent for me to go to bed. So......
I spend an hour a day every morning catching all of the action up. I don't look at the final post of the day until I've clicked my way back to the dinner break and followed the action in order. It makes for an entertaining morning.
Still looking to add my name to the ME entry list. Played some this weekend on bodog and Stars. Took a flat out beating. Lost 4/6 tournies to 2 outers on the river. It made me question my game. I play more long ball than short ball and I guess that's the risk you take. Need to improve my short game.
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Can Anything Cure This Itch?
June 04, 2008I've been following all of the great PokerNews Live Reporting of all of the WSOP events so far and damn, it's given me the itch to go. So far, PokerNews has told me where to eat, party, and play while I'm in Vegas. The only problem is I haven't won a seat yet. It's always the details that bite you.
OK. So I look at it as having 5 more chances to get a seat:
1. The Bodog 5 Seat Guaranteed. Only 5 seats but it should be a relatively small field.
2. The WSOP Freeroll on PoolStars. But I'd have to get VERY lucky.
3. PokerNews Freeroll on Duplicate. Not really poker but WTF.
4. The Chris Moneymaker tourney on PokerStars. I won't buy in but may try to satellite.
5. The 200 Seat Guaranteed on PokerStars. $370 and it should be a HUGE field.Oh yeah, I forgot about lottery tickets. Better chance of winning on PoolStars.
I've got to find a way to get a seat or this will be one sad summer.
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For Me
June 02, 2008I decided that I would write this post for me. It's not for anybody else even though everyone is faced with this eventually.
It's been 6 days since I blogged. I would have done better but I got a call 4 days ago that my father had passed away in his sleep. He'd been suffering for the last couple of years with pulmonary fibrosis (black-lung disease). This disease has no cure. Any treatment is to prolong life and ease the symptoms. When I saw him Christmas, I didn't expect him to make it to Easter. Neither did any of my siblings (7 of us). Thank God he proved us all wrong. For the last few months, every breath was a struggle. He's been on oxygen 24/7. Baths took 4 hours because he had to rest each step of the way.
So now he's gone but never forgotten. He's in a better place. He can play golf until sunset then poker for a couple of hours in the clubhouse. It never rains and no worries about the cops busting the game. He can sleep through the Braves games and nobody will change the channel and wake him up. (Never knew how he could do that) The pain for him is gone. He's with his father, mother, and 2 brothers. At peace at last.
For me the pain will wane as time goes by. As I've grown older, I've realized how much wisdom my father had to pass on to us. I realize how much more like my father I become as years go by. Overall, it's not a bad thing. He loved to win. He hated a bunch of commotion. He loved his family. He'll be missed but never forgotten.
