Life Update

Hey guys, LOT of stuff been going on recently so this will probably be a long blog post. But thats good because if im only updating it once a week you should at least get some quality content =).

Lets start with poker again, afterall this is a poker blog so its probably a decent place to start. Lately I have been playing ONLY FR cash. In fact, I am offering a bounty. My Pokerstars Screen name is WCGRider and my FTP name is WCGRider. If you catch me playing anything but either Full Ring No Limit Cash or Heads UP No Limit Cash then ill ship you $1000.00. Id say only FR No Limit Cash, but occasionally there are douchebags who challenge me to heads up or something and i cant not be able to play them. Offer is only good on the first person to catch me, but i dont think ill have to worry about being caught because i doubt ill do anything other then fr cash.

So you guys might be wondering, I am a good 6m player why would I do something like this. Well after looking at the data, my hourly is BY FAR better in FR then in 6m. In fact, my winrate at FR is only slightly lower (2ptbb/100 vs 2.5ptbb/100), but i can play 24 tables without it suffering and additionally your rakeback is so much higher. The point in poker is to maximize how much you make and it just makes good business sense to play fr. Plus i hop around too much and im hoping to gain some consistency.

Ive been running pretty terribad, breakeven over my past 180k hands. Im down an absolute heap of money in equity, but again i decided to take a new direction with my blog and thats not something i really want to get into. I took a few days off and have been doing better recently and have a fresh (or perhaps shifting?) perspective on the games. Hopefully I can become a good Full Ring player and make SNE next year, but we will see.

Recently I decided to move into the MSNL Orlando House. Its going to be Me, Fees, Fees friend Vince, Croz, and Mdom. Im really looking forward to this and im sure its going to be a really awesome enviroment to be in. Id live there for at least all of 09 and then go from there. Its just so awesome to be around other poker players. It helps you deal with swings, helps you grind more, and gives you people who go through a lot of the same thigns to talk to. We arent completely sure on the house yet and fees is flying out to check them out tomorow, but hopefully we can come to a good agreement on something.

Part of why im glad to do this though is for the change. I mean its a state I havent been to much (and even less outside of spring break haha), and a city ive been to never. Also ive never met any of these guys in real life, so its pretty much a leap of faith. Ive known fees online for over a year tho and he seems like a nice guy. Plus fees+me+croz all play warcraft 3 so we will always have that. However I foresee plenty of degeneracy and drunken antics but hey I mean thats what its all about right? Should be good times.

I think im like 90% going to go, however a very small part of me thinks I should maybe go back to school and possibly stay in this area. Getting your degree can never really be a bad thing, plus ive already got like ~40 credits, would be a shame to waste them. However at the same point I know if i went back I wouldnt really take it seriously. Sort of funny but when I first started playing NL 100, I would think man how can i take today seirously i wont or lost $y last night, this is totally worthless. Except nwo that i play 400-600 with some 1k and 2k games when they run, its more like man how can i take this seriously when i won or lost $y times 6 lol. I know its valuable but in the day to day consequences it feels so worthless I know I Wouldnt take it seriously and that is never too good.

From a health standpoint, im in the best shape of my life. This morning I weighed in at 203 (was @ 245 in mid august), and last monday i ran FOUR MILES on the treadmill. Before that the farthest I EVER ran was 2.5 miles, and i almost collapsed after. It was the wierdest feeling when i realized I had hit 3 miles, and i still didnt feel too bad. I mean man my best mile time in high school was like 9 minutes or something, And I ran 4 of them in 35 minutes n the treadmill and was ok when i got off (The next morning however, not so much). It just feels so good to have come this far, but I have a long ways left to go. I want to get to at least 190, but id be happier @ like 180. The only problem is I actually have a fairly wide body build, and im 6'3, so getting to like 190 but more muscle would probably be better. Regardless im going to keep eating healthy and working out and try and get into really good shape. Maybe if i get to the point where I want to be some day ill do some before and after pictures =p.

Im fairly sure i commented on this last time but its fairly boring here in San jose atm, Im not really in a good enviroment to meet people. However I met a girl on a flight into vegas, and we ended up exchanging numbers and went out for dinner last night. We ended up bowling as well and bowled a tie lolll what are the chances of that. Anyway she is really a sweet girl and im sort of sad im moving but idk what else I can do about it, sort of a tough spot but I guess ill just play it by ear as it goes along.

So thats pretty much my life atm, sort of boring i suppose but overall life is pretty good despite being 40 buyins under equity or whatever, so im happy. It has to turn around eventually right? (hint: it doesnt).

~Doug