CARDRUNNERS
What's Your Edge
I know, I've been terrible at updating my blog. Excuses aside, here's a quick little picture update since I went on an Asian trip (Koh Samui, Thailand, and then Busan and Seoul, South Korea) near the end of September, then when I got back I went to Detroit for the last two games of the Twins-Tigers series. And now, in about 10 hours, I leave on a flight for South Africa where hopefully I'll come out with some photos as sweet as Cole's blog showcased awhile back. I didn't bring my SLR with to Asia, but plan on doing so for South Africa because I wasn't happy with the overall quality of my night pics.
Anyway, here's a few pictures of what I've been up to when I haven't been playing poker (which on the overall whole has went well when I've played the last few months):

Above, awesome beach and some of the quite expansive skyline of Busan, South Korea.

Very sweet bridge that changes lit up colors at night and is at the same beach as the first picture, in Busan. The bridge is gigantic as well.

Me enjoying an authentic Korean BBQ in South Korea. I need to do a nice Korean BBQ in America more often, man that stuff is good.

You stick your foot into this huge tub with thousands of minnows. They bite the dead skin off your foot. It tickles a lot at first but you get used to it and it feels really good....sort of like an accupuncture type of foot massage is how I'd describe it.

Some of Busan, from 120 meters up. Stupid glare from the flash...

A several hundred year old temple in Seoul, South Korea.

The reward for climbing up 500 meters worth of rock/mountain with only a rope and other trees to grab onto. So exhausting but so worth it! By the end of it, honestly one of the more challenging physical things I've done, simply because I did the climb without bringing any water with me so by the end I was quite thirsty. This is near Koh Samui, Thailand.

Sort of shows what a lot of the climb was like to get to the top...

The resort I stayed at that was right on the beach in Koh Samui. This is obv the pool that overlooks it.

Scenic lagoon at one of the islands near Koh Samui...


Jealous yet? It was a fun trip. :)

Dave P, myself, and Bicyclekick at the Twins-Tigers games in Detroit. It wasn't hard at all to get some killer seats, which was kind of surprising considering the magnitude of the games :) Even though the Twins didn't win it all, I' still proud of their effort and the awesome run into the playoffs... The end of the regular season was like a whole bunch of game 7s.
That should do it for now. I need some sleep before my 9hr flight to Amsterdam and 11 hour flight from there to South Africa.
Nov 8, 09 06:44:34
2nd last pic is amazing Schneids! Glad you had fab time.
Fav place so far?
Nov 8, 09 08:22:23
That resort in Koh Samui looks like the one I stayed at. Is it the Thai House?
Nov 13, 09 15:24:07
hey that's pretty sick u went to korea man. I'm there right now playing poker and enjoying the country.
did you have someone show you around Seoul?
I didn't play any hands on Tuesday the 11th, and now Wednesday the 12th I didn't play any hands till finally early into Thursday morning (but we'll still call it Wednesday since I haven't slept yet). So yeah, I think it's fine that even with my goal of playing a ton of hands this month, that I give myself a little time off too. My pace of hands/hrs played is down from what it was a week ago, but I think it still looks pretty respectable by my standards anyway:
http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/6947/aug092.jpg
I just need to stop getting destroyed in full tilt 100/200 games and Stars 50/100 games (holy cripes I lose like 50 bets every session in Stars 50 games, it's so sick how overpairs and sets never win there for me). Fix those two things and keep on crushing in all the other games, and it'd be a flawless month.
Not too much more to report about life lately, August has been pretty boring and I've played a lot of poker and watched a lot of DVDs while playing (tons of Seinfeld episodes, every True Blood Episode, and some random movies...the best of which was probably a Swedish vampire movie called "Let the right one in."). Also the Twins really need to stop sucking any time now. I still think we can pull off a Central division crown, we just need to start piecing together a few more nights where the pitching and hitting both perform well (seem to so rarely have both doing well any given game).
So yeah, since it's been awhile since I put up any music, here's a song that I like and it's somewhat likely you've never heard it:
Aug 13, 09 07:12:01
First Apparat, now Owl City. Keep posting music I've never heard of that I really dig. Thanks.
Aug 13, 09 13:28:59
That one is called "fireflies." Most of the songs from that album, Ocean Eyes, are pretty good -- especially if you're a fan of the postal service...Owl City's style is really similar.
Aug 13, 09 16:17:54
Adam's whole album is pretty amazing. Good recommendation.
Aug 26, 09 12:11:33
Looks like they listened to you 5 in a row hope they can catch the Tigers, 4.5 games back yet is a lot of ground to make up
They start Laying down the sod yesterday at Target Field pretty exciting can't wait to go watch a game outside on a nice summer night.
I wish I could say that I have some kind of prop bet regarding hands played this month. Or rather, I wish I would've made a prop bet about it. In any case, I made it my resolution to treat August like I'm an actual online poker pro, and try to grind it out with whatever games are going. I also have this desire to remind the LHE community that I've still got it :) So yeah, you'll probably see me on the tables a lot in August.
So far other than one night with a several hour rough patch, things have been going great. Oh yeah, Tuesday was also slightly frustrating because I played 2500 hands, won over 100BBs, and was -$700 on the day thanks to being a $13,000 loser in my $100/200 and $200/400 hands, and a huge winner in the $50/100 and $30/60 hands. But I mean no complaints, swings happen in poker, and overall I'm still running pretty well and I feel like I'm playing super well too.
Here was one hand that I played while 5-tabling, that I'm super proud of being in tune with how the game was playing... i'm sure most people don't win as much here as I did even if they were on just this 1 table, let alone 5 total...:
stonecoldczy: posts small blind $50
PapaWarbucks: posts big blind $100
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to PapaWarbucks [9d 9s]
bxpeter: folds
joedi20: folds
NicP: folds
Big_Nemo: raises $100 to $200
Lanceryosuke: raises $100 to $300
stonecoldczy: folds
PapaWarbucks: raises $100 to $400
Betting is capped
Big_Nemo: calls $200
Lanceryosuke: calls $100
*** FLOP *** [2d 8h 8d]
PapaWarbucks: bets $100
Big_Nemo: folds
Lanceryosuke: calls $100
*** TURN *** [2d 8h 8d] [5d]
PapaWarbucks: bets $200
Lanceryosuke: raises $200 to $400
PapaWarbucks: raises $200 to $600
Lanceryosuke: calls $200
*** RIVER *** [2d 8h 8d 5d] [2s]
PapaWarbucks: bets $200
Lanceryosuke: calls $200
*** SHOW DOWN ***
PapaWarbucks: shows [9d 9s] (two pair, Nines and Eights)
Lanceryosuke: mucks hand
PapaWarbucks collected $3047 from pot
So yeah, I like to boast when things are going well, and I hope I'm not about to jinx myself, but here's how the month has went so far...:

Also I find it amusing how several times now Doughnutz has commented to me at the tables, "wow, you really are serious about trying to play some hands this month." Yup, I am. See some of you at the tables!
Aug 6, 09 12:35:50
i wish i could call 9k hands a grind.... that's more like one day worth of hands for me!
Aug 8, 09 04:45:26
Congrats man, good to see more red tables in your direction. Also ship the HEM already...
Aug 13, 09 05:30:08
aha to the guys saying that's not a grind...LHE is a little different than NL in that it's tougher to play a billion tables of it at once!! And compared to how many hands I typically played a month the last several months this is huge.
I'm all caught up with True Blood. It's entertaining!
Yeah Taylor, you should get back into it for awhile.
Aug 13, 09 05:31:25
oh yeah, and bejeweled... it's such a time eater! I try to limit myself to once or maybe twice a week, for 30-60 minutes... Typically get a top score of anywhere btwn 130-170k most weeks. Have had one around 225k.





