CARDRUNNERS

Our week in Colorado is almost over, we fly back to Seattle tomorrow afternoon.  I've had such a good time but am also kinda stoked to get back to Seattle.  Man I'm actually stoked to play some tournaments...it's been so long...I've got the itch!  :)

We snowboarded in Keystone, Breckenridge and Vail.  Breckenridge was my favorite by far actually.  The mountain was big but not too big, the runs were all pretty long and good and it was beautiful!  There was lots of rolling terrain where you felt like you were just crushing it the whole time!  The only thing I'll hate on Colorado ski resorts for is their insane amount of moguls!  It's nasty...so many of the runs have them and it's tough to find hard runs without moguls.  Breckenridge had the least amount of moguls which obviously was a huge plus.   Besides that though the boarding was awesome.   

Another fun thing we did was cross-country ski!  I had never been before but I did well and really loved it.  Being a runner it's not super surprising that I loved cross-country skiing.  I could totally see doing that in the winter if there was a spot  close by instead of running!  So yes who knows I might be buying a set of cross-country ski gear next year depending on where I'll be living and if it'll be possible to go a lot.  Holler for CC skiing.  

Ok here are a few photos from the trip!

On our one break day we went to the outlet mall and got a couple new items, then went and hit up happy hour like champs!  This is us before happy hour on the deck messing around with my new camera.

Speaking of happy hours!  The first day we were at Vail...I wasn't having such a good day so we ended a bit early and hit up this spot in the village for $2 beers....2 shots and 2 beers later we met back up with his parents and headed "home."  

Don't be scared of a big orange monster.

This was the place we went cross-country skiing...it was so pretty!

More messing around with the camera on the way back from Vail today.  My camera is the bomb...it has this flip screen which makes it super easy to take pictures of yourself while holding it in your hand.  I love it.  

This is us at Vail today at the Blue Sky Basin area.  Please notice Vladimir's board!  LOL...this thing is so nasty, it's his second board that he got off steep and cheap and it's so ridiculous!  As you can see on the back is a picture of a huge nasty grill smiling at ya, then on the front is all kinds of bling.....it's so laughable but he loves it so hey more power to ya if you can rock it!  

Hope all is well for you guys!  Colorado is awesome....I so wanna come back here soon.  

Love!  Love!  

 Hey guys!

So right now I'm chilling on the couch in our condo in Keystone.  The trip so far has been so good.  I'm getting along with the family really well and I'm pretty sure they like me.  It's awesome because it seems normal hanging out with everyone and it's super chill.....ahhh I'm so happy.  Today we walked about 200 yards from our condo to the ski lift and then got to work on exploring Keystone.  It was definitely in my top 5 snowboarding days of all time.  It was super sunny and I was crushing it out there.  Vladimir adjusted my bindings to make my stance a little more duck-ish and it helped me so much with my turns, being loose and bending my knees.  We were going down blacks and I was just loving it and actually crushing it down them for the first time ever....it was awesome!  The only sad thing about this mountain was that it seems to be more geared to skiers because so many of the hard runs were moguls which I absolutely hate.  But as long as we stayed away from those I was loving it!  We have a 4 day pass for the week and we are allowed to go to Keystone, ABasin, Vail, Breckenridge and Beaver Creek.  Tomorrow we are talking about going to Breckenridge for the day. Tuesday maybe Vail.  You always hear about how Vail is the hot shit so I'm pumped to check it out and see what I think about it.   Awww I'm so stoked to just continue to crush it.  Being here makes me want to live here for a winter, get a all-mountain season pass and just live it up!  We'll see you never know what could happen with me.  Yeahya!  

Alright I have my new camera so I'll hopefully be taking fun pictures and I will show you guys all the awesomeness that will be this week. Good times...good times.  :)

Love!  Love!

 Hey guys!   

I've been trying out PLO cash and it's been alright so far.  I've had 3 winning days and 1 losing day.  PLO is a crazy amount of variance but I really enjoy it and can't wait to keep learning and learning.  Actually I've been thinking a lot about learning all the games and perhaps trying to get to be able to play the mixed games.  For my situation I think it would be very use-full so that I can try out those types of live tournaments and who knows maybe crush it?  That would be great and awesome!  

You know what else would be awesome???  Lately my mind has been trying to figure out a way where I could travel the world while rock climbing all around it?  This is the new dream for me.  I've always wanted to travel the world and do more than ever but rock climbing around it is a new addition that I didn't see coming into play.  The thing is is there are rocks to climb everywhere in the world so really those two can go hand in hand right?  We all dream but actually I don't really see why I couldn't make this work in sort form or another.  

I truly believe you can do whatever you want in life you just have to want it bad enough.  This is awesome but in a way it presents a problem for me.  There are almost too many options and I don't know which one to choose.  Do I want to stay in Seattle "forever", do I wanna still play poker, do I wanna go live in a million different places around the world and check out all kinds of people and cultures, do I want to persue this new business idea out that I have?  I need to focus up and buckle down and figure out what I want to do with my life and then do it up.  Oh man it's so hard to decide and honestly right now I have absolutely no idea which choice to make....it sucks...I so wish I knew!  The problem is I want to do all of those things but I have to make a decision soon and just go for it.  Traveling the world is clearly my top choice but this is dependent on so many things.  I still think we could make it happen for a year or a couple years at least.  My second choice would have to be this business idea that I have that I'm stoked about.  I don't really wanna go crazy into it but it would involve salads and lots of them LOL.  Seriously though SALADS...they are delicious and people want to eat them and all this equals great business idea.  To make this work I would have to be "all-in" so to say  on it.  It would have to be my life and would be a ton of hard work for awhile.  But I would love it and I think it would make bank in the long run.  Anyhow so many options...now  is the time to focus in and make a decision.  On my vacation next week I'll try to think about it a ton.  

On Saturday we leave for Colorado to spend a week with Vladimir's family on a ski trip.  I haven't met his family yet so hopefully all with go well.  I'm definently nervous as hell but I'm sure it'll be alright.  It's funny actually the thing I'm nervous the most about is Russian.  When he talks to his family on the phone it is all in Russian.  I do not speak Russian.   I am trying to learn  but it's pretty hard and my accent is just laughable.  I don't know how this kind of thing works...obviously if I wasn't there they would be speaking in Russian the whole time but since I'm gonna be there maybe they will speak in English most of the time?  I'm not sure but I feel bad and wish I knew the language so it wouldn't have to be different for them just cuz I'm there.  Whatever though I'm sure it'll all be fine...I'm pretty excited.  Snowboarding all week...yeah that'll be awesome too.....holler!  :)

One more piece of good news before I end this crazy blog.  I ordered a new camera that is going to be arriving to my house tomorrow and I cannot even wait.  It's not quite an SLR camera because I didn't really want one because for right now it's just way too technical for me.  It's very close to an SLR and if I want I can learn a ton about photography from it in a low key and easy-ish way.  It's a Canon Powershot G11.  The dude at the store told me it's the camera that professional photographers buy to take on vacations.  So yeah I'm stoked.  Awesome pictures to come soon.  

Alright guys I'm super tired and can't wait to pass out.  I really hope all is well and that you are crushing it on the tables and at life.  

Love!  Love!


 

Hey guys.

Well sadly I am not an extremely rich woman yet but that's ok.  This weekend was kind of a bust.  I did end up playing the $100 PLO re-buy and totally blew it.  I crumbled under pressure and was really really disappointed in my play.  It was very sad.  But hey what can you do besides learn and move on?  I was so tilted though it was insane.  I've been playing so good lately so to just totally blow it just tilted the shit outta me.  After all the tournaments were over I was just laying in my bed, being all emo and just so sad and frustrated.  There was a big party that I was going to later that night and I was trying to come up with anything to make me feel better.  Clearly I hopped on some cash PLO tables and make 5 buy-ins real quick and that ended the tilt and made me feel much better.  :)  I seriously crush these PLO re-buys in general and cannot even wait to play the next big one and not blow it.  I'm going to give PLO cash a shot as well in order to try to help balance out poker with the rest of my life.  So we'll see how that goes in the next couple weeks.  I figure I'll play tournaments a couple times a week then PLO for the rest.  This is the plan as of now but you all know how that could change in a heartbeat LOL.  

Today was one of the only days this week where I was gonna have enough time to play tournaments so I did it up.  Nothing huge happened but I did get 5th in a $40k guarantee 6-max tournament on PokerStars for almost $3k which was cool.  I was real happy with my play but it was obviously just a teaser.  At the same time I was almost busting my Stars roll playing the tournaments I did today so it's good that I don't have to transfer any money from Full Tilt!  

I'm going clothes shopping with my Mom tomorrow which I'm super stoked about because I haven't been shopping in forever.  I have been SO good about spending money lately so I might have to go on a small spree tomorrow...holler.  Many hot and fun items are going to be mine very very soon.  

My good friend Tom (GnightMoon) is crushing the NAPT Venetian with the Final Table starting tomorrow!  I'm super stoked for him and cannot even wait till he takes it down.  Hot Siggity Sauce!  :)

Anyhow guys I hope everything is going well with you.  I've been working on some more video blogs so I hope to have another one of those out to you soon.  Keep crushing.

Love!  Love!  

Hey guys!  

Sorry I've been a little MIA lately for some reason I just haven't felt like bloggin it up.  But don't worry I am back!  Last weekend we actually went to Tahoe and it was pretty fun.  We stayed in a house in South Lake with a bunch of my friends who go up every President's Day weekend.  Sadly though a bunch of my boys who are normally there couldn't make it so it was fun but just sorta not the same for me personally.  The other problem was we didn't have a car and ended up stranded at the house  more than we wanted.  But whatever next year we'll know better!  I love Tahoe though and could really live there for my life.  If only I could get my friends and family there I would live there in a heartbeat...the place is incredible.  From what I've heard the summers are awesome too and I really wanna try to make it out there this summer along with another trip this winter!  We'll see how I can make all of this happen LOL.  

Lately I've been struggling to find a balance between playing poker and real life.  The problem with tournaments is I will put in crazy crazy long hours then not do anything else besides that.  This is not good for me mentally, my body physically, my friends, family, boyfriend or for my game!  I need to learn to "know when to hold em" as far as hours go while playing tournaments!  But I will get there and this week has been much better even though the money hasn't been great.  As far as FTOPS goes I haven't really been able to play many of them.  Tomorrow I am planning on playing the 6-max $200+$16 one.  Saturday I am considering playing the $100 PLO-rebuy even though I have never played a $100-rebuy tournament let alone a PLO one.  But I have been playing the $30 PLO-rebuy almost everyday i play and have had very good results in it so I'm considering it.  We'll see  I might not even want to play on Saturday at all since I will be playing on Sunday for sure.  We will see how things turn out either way I hope to be a much richer woman by the end of this weekend!  You all know it's coming...holler!  :)

Anyhow guys I hope all is well with you and that life is treating you good.  I'll keep you updated on all the hotsauce action that happens this weekend.  

Love!  Love!

 Hey guys!

Oh man I am so stoked.  I just won this 35k guarantee on Full Tilt for over 11k!  Ahhhh everything is finally coming together.  We were battling heads up forever.  This guy wanted to make a deal the whole time when there were like 3 people left.  I really wanted to win it so I did not agree.  Ship!

I'm super exhausted right now.  Playing all these tournaments and getting to the final stages can really take it out of you.

In other news instead of watching the super bowl we went on a rock climbing trip to Vantage.  Vantage is in eastern Washington right by the gorge.  It was so much fun!  Here are some pictures of the good times!



This was me working this 5.10c route!



Getting ready to climb it up.


Vladimir admiring my impressive shoe tying ability.

This was the crew after all the climbs...we killed it!  


So my weekend was pretty awesome and I'm super stoked to climb some more outside...it really is the bomb.  

Ok the last exciting news that I have for you guys is Bodog is looking for a new female to sponsor.  I applied today and am hoping I get it.  That is clearly the goal for me in poker.  I think I would kill it for them and I really hope they pick me!  So all good stuff going on right now.  Life is SO good.  :)

Hope all is well with you guys.  

Love!  Love!

 Hey guys!

So I've been playing a ton and making a ton of very deep runs.  I'm having a blast.  Winning at least a little bit feels really good and I feel like something big has got to be coming.  It's kind of amazing what a little confidence can do for your game.  

Today I got 4th in the 75k guarantee on Full Tilt for almost 7k!  I was def. disappointed to only get 4th but you gotta win flips to win tournaments.  My play was great and I'm pretty stoked to go over the hand history.  I downloaded this replayer called Universal Replayer.  It works alright but doesn't always work and has been a little buggy lately.  I'm hoping the CR one will get updated soon so I can just use that.

 I have so many hands to go over...it's insane.


This is a real picture of my hands after a rock-climbing trip close to San Diego a couple months ago.  Nasty but sorta hardcore...LOL.  

Sam, me and Vladimir living it up after the Little Red Hen!



What?  We don't give a F**k.



Me, my brother and cousin at the Fremont troll here in Seattle. 



This is my brother and cousin sacrificing up little Peyton to the troll...LOL.  



Lake Union from the top of the Space Needle.



There are a bunch of draw bridges around here.  This one went up the other day on my way home so I took advantage and got out an took some photos!



Another Lake Union shot from the bridge this time. 






Tomorrow I'm gonna play.  I might try to end early if something is going on but it'll just depend on how I'm feeling.  I've been really stoked to play lately.  Even on my days off if I look at the lobbies and see tournaments about to start I totally have to fight off the urge to play them.  I'm determined to beat this shit and can't wait to keep improving and making something big happen.  

Hopefully I will have some good updates to come for you guys.  

There has been talk in OT and on Facebook about looking up your name on Urban Dictionary so I did.  This is what it said...

Desirae...

A girl with a alot of sexuality, but is the most professional person in the world. 2. A fine girl with a great booty that teases all the guys but secretly wants them all. 3. An attractive girl with a nice body that gets along with anyone and everyone, and is usually the life of the party. 
4. A hot nerd that thinks shes not good enough for anyone so she secludes herself from everyone else, even though they really like her.

I'm not a fan of #4...obviously. Not good enough....ppppssssshhhhhhh....come on now!  :)


a Beautiful girl. name means desire and hope.

1) A REALLY fine girl. 2)A girl who has big boobs and only dates mexicans 3)a really hot girl, with big tits, a hot boyfriend, hot mom, and nice ass. typically has good hair, is well dressed, and black.


Hilarious.  I encourage everyone to check themselves out...cuz why not?  it's fun and funny.  

Have a good weekend everyone.  

Love!  Love!

 Hey guys!  

Sorry I haven't updated more.  I've been playing poker non-stop this week.  These double guarantees on Full Tilt are really making me want to play more.  I'm also playing so well right now, I feel like I've been playing some of the best poker than I've playing in a long time.  My confidence is back!   I've been making it very deep in some of the Stars tournaments actually but 11th place was my best....so just teasers.  On Wednesday the 11th place was in the Nightly 70k guarantee and I should have gotten much much deeper.  I just ran really really bad to get knocked out in the end.  I reshipped in the SB with AJ for 25ish BBs and the dude called me with A10 and hit.  It was the most crushing beat ever just because I was SO close to good money.  The thing is if I keep it up and keep playing like this something is bound to happen.  

I'm going to play today during the day but try to quit earlier than I have been the last couple days.  I'll take Saturday off because I have a bunch of family stuff then friend stuff at night.  We have a friend's birthday party and then also one of our friends took a month off of drinking so this is her "coming back" night LOL.  Lately I haven't been playing Sunday because I'd rather hang out and do fun stuff.  But this Sunday is just going to be too good to be true so I'm gonna do it up.  Hundreds of thousands of dollars coming my way...ship it!  :)

It's really weird just sitting in front of a computer all day long.  I have been going running in the morning usually before I play which has been great.  But shoot siting there for that long can really make you crazy by the end of the night.  I get very stir-crazy if I'm doing the same thing for too long.  But still I am about to start playing in a couple hours and I cannot even wait.   I've really been loving this game and I can't wait to crush the shit outta fools!

I'll keep you guys updated on the awesomeness.  Have great weekends.

Love!  Love!