CARDRUNNERS

Friday I took off from work early and came home and slept. I played poker for about an hour and won about 1 buyin. After that I ended up heading to my friend Laruen's house. She has a pool so I figured we'd go swimming, but no one wanted to swim. We just sat around and drank some beers and shot the shit. It was a pretty good time, but nothing great.

Saturday was a solid day. I woke up and headed over to my friends house to watch the US vs Italy game and cookout. The game was a dissapointment. The refs were absolutely pathetic and IMO they cost the US the game. I think we looked MUCH better than the last game though. We still have a chance. I really hope that everything can fall in place so we cna move on to the 2nd round.

After the game we went to my friend Eric's house to just hang out outside. His sister was having a party and had a volleyball net up so we ended up playing volleyball all afternoon. We cooked out some more and drank some more beers. Around dusk it started to rain and we headed inside to watch the end of the Sox games and shoot some darts. Again, nothing too crazy but a solid night.

Today was fathers day so I didn't play any of the majors. I played some 10/20 early in the day and CRUSHED. I then watched the back nine of the US Open. Wha ta crazy crazy final round. I can't believe Phil drove the ball so poorly. I relaly wanted him to win.

I playe da little 5/10 tonight and got KILLED. Overall, I was up on the day, but I gave a lot back at 5/10 and I'm pretty pissed about that.

NBA game was a SICK SICK game. Wade is unreal. I can't believe the stuff that he pulls off. I have $5 on the heat and I think I might be cashing in on that. I cna't believe they have won the last 3 games. What a great NBA playoffs.

Taylor bought 4 tickets for the Radiohead concert this tuesday. We had to pay a lot more for waiting so long to buy them, but it will be worth it. Mork and Beaumont are both coming too. I like both those guys a lot so it really should be a great time. I love radiohead and I hear they are amazing in concert. I just hope I can get off work early on tuesday.

I've left Vegas and am now in a hotel in Atlanta. I am here until Thursday afternoon to work on auditing a company called Amvescap. Thursday will be my last day of work, so I am pumped for that.

So when I left off yesterday I was leaving for lunch with Taylor, Gaucho, Steam Boat, Melissa and also Whitelime from 2p2 showed up. We ate at a deli in the Rio and decided to go our own ways after lunch. I decided I didn't have time to play live because we were meeting with Bill before the CR dinner to go over some stuff. Ryan (steam boat) and I went back to his hotel room to just chill for a little bit. At first I was going to take a nap, but since I'm a degenerate, I decided to play some online poker instead. The only place that had any reasonable games was party. I also wanted to stick to party or stars so that I could use the resizable table option. My laptop only lets me play 4 w/o overlap and I was hoping to play 6. Luckily, the games were really good on party and I had a great session. I picked up about 4.5 buyins. It was nice to finally get a good session in online.

The CR dinner went great. It was cool to meet Cardrunners members face to face. The food was good and we all had a few drinks. Bill took some pictures, so make sure ot check them out (not sure where they will be yet). After dinner we were debating what to do next. Gaucho really wanted to go to the Ghost Bar at the Palms. It sounded pretty cool and I wanted to go as well, but we decided that I wouldn't be able to get in. Also, I wasn't dressed appropriately to get in anyway. We decided instead to go to the Venetian to play some poker. I ran into Jsup, JohnnyDrama and Used2beGood there. They were all in Aruba last year and we all hung out a lot there, so it was cool to see them. I got into the 5/10nl game and sat with about 3k. The game was full of nits. I played for 1.5 hours and I didn't see a single pot over $250 (i'm not exaggerating).

David (gaucho), who was playing 5/10nl at a different table, came over and told me that a bunch of 2p2 guys were coming out to play a 1/2nlhe and 1/2plo uncapped game. That sounded good and since I was bored out of my mind at 5/10nl, I decided to join that game. About two hands in David and I got into a bit pot. I don't remember if he raised first or if someone else did but someone I got $130 in preflop w/ 1/2 blinds and he called. I had AQo and the flop came down K10x. I bet out $240 and he called. The turn was a blank and I bet $420. He called again. I wasn't liking this. The river came 10. I thought for awhile and decided that I didn't want to give up. I wanted to bet an amount that looked like a value bet that would get him off a king w/ a reasonable kicker (thats what i put him on at this point). I bet $780. He thought forver adn folded. phew. A few minutes later the floorman came over and told us wed either have to switch to 5/10nl uncapped or 2/5nl capped at 1k. We went too happy about that, but we didn't have a choice and we went with the latter. I pretty much just slowly lost money the rest of the night. I lost a 1k pot to whitelime where I reraised 23s and pushed a KJ10 flop. He had AA and called. Dumb play by me. BLdsWttrs was plyaing and was sitting two to my left. It was fun to get to meet him. Suprisingly, a lot of the people at the table were playing pretty tight, but me and him splashed around quite a bit. A few of teh other 2p2ers there were Neon (bedeviling on UB), fsuplayer and flawless victory. There were a couple others, but their 2p2 names are escaping me at the moment (although I do remember their first names!). I left the game stuck about 1k and hating live poker. It's just too slow for me. I think I am pretty much done playing live cash games. I have a pisspoor record and I never have any fun. The only thing I can really see myself playing is some small stakes with heavy drinking involved. Losing 1k live stings.

That pretty much sums up my trip in Vegas. I wish I had more time there as it was a very very quick trip.

Time to get back to the grind of a long day of work with hopefully some poker and cr stuff mixed in. Come friday I will be able to replace work with a round of golf and some additional relaxing time. I cannot wait.

Yesterday I head out to the city at like 230pm. I was supposed to be there earlier so that Tay and i could go out to get a sushi lunch, but I overslept. oh well. It takes about 45 min to get there and it's pretty easy directions. I think I'll probably go to Taylors place at least once more to work on CR stuff. We got a pretty good amoutn of stuff done, but not everything. There are a ton of things that go on behind the scenes that we constantly have to make decisions about. We spent a lot of our time discussing the best ways to handle different situations. I think we made good progress. After a few hours of working on that, we played some fifa. We went 1-1 at the time. I would show my dominance later though.

Our next plan was to go to eat at Benihana. I have a feeling that we were influenced by the latest Office. We were all pumped to do saki shots and just eat a lot of good food. We looked up the closest one and took a cab to where we thought it would be. However, it was nowhere to be found. We walked around and didn't find it. We asked some guys working in subway. THey had never even heard of it. We even tried calling some friends to google it, but no one was at home. We finally threw in the towel and went to some sushi place called Ra. It was pretty good. We ordered a ton of stuff and had a few drinks as well.

We were planning on meeting up with some people, but we didn't know where we were going yet, so we just headed out to Linkin Park area and went into the first bar we saw. It was a chill bar called the Lions Pub. We had a few drinks there and my friend, Brad and his girlfriend, Meera, showed up. After that we went down the street to a bar called John Barleycorn (at least i think thats what it was called). A bunch of girls that lived in my neighborhood as I was growing up and hadn't seen in awhile met up with us there. It was good to see them. One of the girls I hadn't seen in probably 6 years. It's always fun shooting the shit about old times. I also ran into some friends from U of I there. Apparently, some girl was having a birthday party so a ton of girls from her sorority were there. I didn't expect that, so it was a nice surprise. Earlier in the night it was looking like we wouldn't have many people to hang out with. I'm glad it ended up like it did.

After the bars I fleeced Tay in Fifa. I beat him twice in a row and by wide margins. We decided we were gonna play some low limit poker on UB. We went with 25nl. We basically ended up going allin almost every hand. I ran my stack up to $300 on one table, but lost most of it back by the end. I think I dumped about $250 or so. Kind of dumb, but it was fun. I hadn't gone crazy at a low stakes table in a long time. It reminded me of the old days when I played poker less for money and more for enjoyment.

Awhile back, my friends and I wrote a pretty dumb rap song. It was basically about getting in trouble for drinking and smoking in high school. It's become kind of a cult classic. I have run into people I've never met before that can recite the lyrics to my song. It's pretty crazy. Anyway, the girls I hung out with last night know the song and kept rapping it. Taylor suggested I put it up on my blog. It's obv a bad song, but people seem to enjoy it. I'm probably a dumbass for making this public, but I really don't care.

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