CARDRUNNERS

I am so close to Vegas... I am starting to get anxious and excited, but still have two days to wait. On Wednesday I will be heading out of town at 6:15am to make a near three hour drive to the airport in Sioux Falls. The drive is worth it to get a direct flight that is relatively cheap too (<$300). In anticipation of the trip I have been going to bed 2-3 hours earlier than normal so I can get nice and rested for five days of torture to my body. I am more than ready for my first trip.....now I all I need is for it to be Wednesday.

This past weekend was mostly uneventful. I hung out with the family and went to a BBQ at a friend's house. While there I degened it up a bit with Wii Bowling to the tune of a $10 loss. I was/am heartbroken. On Friday I went golfing with a buddy. If you are a regular reader, you should already know that I suck. I only took the sport up last summer, and it shows. On the first tee I hit my first two shots out of bounds.

Yeah, I know...

It was ok though since I recovered and only took a ten. The second hole I forgot how to hit the ball completely. I put another out of bounds then wasted five or six strokes around the green. At this point I tilted badly and three my sand wedge rather hard. Unfortunately it hit the fucking golf cart and got bent up pretty bad. To finish it off I neatly folded it over my knee. The end result? It is in three pieces and I had to buy a new one. The next two holes were also brutal. I finally figured out I was setting up to close to the ball and opening my front shoulder as I made contact (freaking baseball swing). After putting up a 43 in the first four holes, I shot 29 on the last five. While still not impressive, that averages out to a 54 which is very good for me. I still had some ugly shots but was able to bogey a 185 yard par three and par a 150 yarder. I need to work on my tee-shots (I don't carry a driver, but still slice the shit out of my fairway woods for some unknown reason) and my chips around the green. Of course, doesn't everybody?

This will prolly be my last update before Vegas. I will try and make one when I arrive and then the next day after the CR Party and meeting with Lee, Trev, and Rodeo.

Catch you all soon.

-Jeff

I'm sitting on my ass in the Chicago airport...still. I thought I gave myself plenty of time going to the Winnipeg airport this morning. But after hitting massive traffic on the way there (that damn contruction on route 90 for you Winnipeggers). But, I still walked in the airport 45 minutes before departure, just to stand in line in check-in for 10 minutes to realize my flight has closed and has now been filled. So, I go through security and all that jazz, get to the terminal 5 minutes before departure just to watch my flight leave the terminal. The flight I switched to was 2.5 hours later.

So, I get to Chicago almost 3 hours later than I was supposed to just to see the original transfer I was supposed to take still hadn't left. But of course, it was full and I had to wait for the later one I was booked on. Now, it had been delayed 2 more hours!!!! Geezus!

I paid the $7 fee to Internet in the airport and am currently up about $1k on Full Tilt (even after being super coolered for 2 buy-ins at $5/$10 NL). So, not all is lost. But, my laptop is about to die and my power cord is in my checked suitcase.

So, the plan is to pick up my Infinity late tonight around midnight. I'm actually taxiing to the lady I bought it from who is at a birthday party. She lives close and will bring me to the car, then I'll drive until I'm too tired and crash at the closest stop. I won't be able to make the Canterbury tourney I wanted to play tomorrow unfortunately.

Made almost another $1k while writing this entry, so that's sweet. Good start to online on this little trip. I'll update again when I hit Shakopee, MN. I can't wait to get my car!!!

Last hand before laptop dies: http://www.pokerhand.org/?1606586. Nice! Made just under $3k in Chicago airport.

  I've been traveling SO MUCH in the past 2 weeks that I'm glad to finally settle down!  Since I got back from China, I had to drive straight from Maryland to Durham to get my things in order for the move to San Francisco.  While there, I was fortunate enough to have my best friend from college drive down from Pittsburgh (he goes to grad school at Carnegie Mellon).  With my other 3 really close friends from college who are still in Durham, we had a really nice week hanging out grilling, eating Dim Sum, and playing Guitar Hero ;p.

  After the week, I booked a flight on Sunday from Durham to San Francisco, and the cheapest flight I could find was form Airtran.   Well, being the lifenit that I am I took the bait, and on Monday I went to the airport only to be told that my flight was delayed 4 hours because of a hurricane in Atlanta, so I would miss my connection.  The next flight would be Tuesday morning at 6am.  No problem!  So after staying up all night, I got to the airport at 5:40 only to be told that I couldn't check in bags!  "No problem," I said to myself, I'll just hop on the NEXT flight.  Upon inquiring about my options, I was told "Our next available flight is at 9:45 you should arrive in San Francisco at 9:30."  So apparently, the hurricane in Atlanta was sooooo bad that there were only 2 flights that day from Atlanta to San Francisco, and not only did I have to wait 3 more hours in Raleigh-Durham Airport, I'd also have to wait an additional 6 hours in Atlanta.  Needless to say that day was a very very long day, but I've been settled here for 2 days so far and its going well.  The city is very hilly and has a ton of narrow roads which I don't like, but its very culturally rich which I love.  It should be fun living here :).

  In poker, I've been doing pretty well.  I made quite a bit playing $25/50 NLHE and PLO, and lately some $100/200, $200/400.  I dropped $100k playing $100/200 HU at the airport, but I've since made most of it back playing $200/400 while running well and playing well.  Here are some hands:

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/509339--leveling smokey but catching some bad variance

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/510589--getting set up by Benyamine but generally outplaying him

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/512595--slowplaying PF and on the flop and getting paid off

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/513724--making a good read

I plan I grinding a ton while I am here in San Francisco before I go to London, which will be in mid September.  Look for more news about poker and less news about traveling for the next month :).