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PEACHY KEEN!!

January 31, 2009

So after my last entry I told myself that I would grind really hard to give my roll a boost. Well, I finally started to run normally, after the "Peter Eastgate" incident, but then I started to play badly as well. Go figure! After spending Christmas Eve on a ship with my family, the days after in Sea World, Universal Studios, and Epcot (my favorite being Sea World, the concept of training killer whales to do what you want still boggles my mind), New Years Eve in New York City, Skiing in the Poconos immediately after, 1 week+ in the Caribbean again for PCA, I was FINALLY back to San Francisco again!

This is when i started my heavy grinding, playing 12 tables and averaging 3k hands a day. On Full Tilt I was playing 5/10 FR, and on Stars I was playing 25/50 6max and FR. In this period of about a week I managed to make 100k, running at expectation. It also helped that a bunch of my friends from England came to visit us in San Francisco for a month, and we did a lot of cool stuff like hiking and climbing near the San Francisco shoreline. I also made a video where I played super aggressively, which I keep forgetting to upload fully (I'll do that tomorrow) and will hopefully be up soon.

Afterwards, I went to Las Vegas to go house hunting as real estate prices are pretty low at the moment. Well, I told myself that the Vegas trip was going to be all work as I was determined to buy a ~$500k house at the end of the trip, but somehow Thursday night, with my friends Clay, AJ, and Chris in town and it being Chris's birthday, it was obvious we had to go out to Tao. We had a huge group of 8 people, and started the night off with shots of Patron, and quickly finished off a bottle. Since we were getting a buy one get one free deal on bottles, I ordered 2 more bottles of Patron, but at this point people were declining shotglasses and it turned out that only me, Clay, and Chris were doing shots. Somehow I was just NOT getting drunk, at all, whatsoever, so we finished up 3 bottles in about 2 hours, pure shots. After finishing off the 3rd bottle, my girl and I were dancing and having a good time, but my memory of the entire situation is really fuzzy, and all I can remember is her handing me bottles of water and me slamming them down on the table and refusing it. Supposedly shortly after, I stood still for 2 minutes, and promptly passed out on the seat. Supposedly, and I was told this later so it could be wrong, security then came over, shined lights in my face and tried to get me up, but I was just telling them to go away. Apparently I then got dragged off by security into the medical area, where they strapped me to a gurney and started asking me questions. What I remember of the conversation went like this:

Paramedic: Eric, Eric are you ok?
Me: WTF why are you doing this to me? Get me out of here.
Paramedic: I'm an EMT and we're taking you to the hospital.
Me: I'M A TRAINED EMT AND I KNOW I'M FINE, LET ME GO HOME!
Paramedic: Ok, we're going to ask you a series of questions, and if you get them right you can go home.
(at this point Chris somehow finds me, and starts arguing drunkedly witht he paramedics)
Paramedic: What year is it?
Me: 19...2008...2009!
Paramedic: Who's the president of the US?
Me: BARACK OBAMA (with a smile)
Paramedic: How many quarters are there in a dollar?
Me: 25
Paramedic: How many quarters are there in a dollar?
Me: 25!
Paramedic: Ok, we're going to have to get him out of here...
Chris: C'mon Eric, you got this, how many quarters in a dollar?
Me: FOUR, NOW GET ME THE F*** OUTTA HERE.

Then all I remember was stumbling along, friends helping and dragging me into my Bellagio room. The next morning, I woke up completely hangover-less, and without any urge whatsoever to throw up. I drank two bottles of water, and besides feeling listless all day I was 100% fine! This was defintely my most interesting clubbing experience, and probably the 4th drunk I've ever gotten.

After Vegas (the trip was semi-successful as I managed to submit an offer for a house) I flew to London for a few days to film an educational extention to the Pokerheaven European Cash game, where I talk about some of the hands that I played. It was frustrating with the way they categorized the discussion, and we only got a short amount of time to discuss every hand so a lot of things I wanted to talk about I couldn't. However, I think things went pretty well, but unfortunately I couldn't meet up with all my friends because the jetlag kept making me go to bed at 8.

From London, I flew back to San Francisco, where I am now, back on the grind! Today I'm in a pretty good mood, winning about 40k, which is why I decided to update my blog (also because someone reminded me ;)). Here are some godmode hands:

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/621039
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/621045
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/621050
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/621167

That last one was especially brutal!

Here are some hands against some total spewmonkey, who I happened to get the most $ from:

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/621005
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/621020

And some more UNREAL spew:

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/621012

I also played Eastgate again and lost 30k to him :(. But that's ok...I'll win vs him someday, and when that day comes...robusto! :)

Well, thats all for now, hopefully I keep running well.

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Jan 31, 09 09:13:45

ur the man eric, you're a god to me, I love you bro

imallrin

Jan 31, 09 11:42:29

great story. and run better vs eastgate!

IversonXX3

Jan 31, 09 13:06:12

Chris: C'mon Eric, you got this, how many quarters in a dollar? LMFAO!

mmfb

Jan 31, 09 19:12:09

nice to see you doin better; best of luck