Life is a journey... return to Vegas.
Find yourself. I received an e-mail yesterday saying that I needed to be writing about poker more. Aparrently all my recent blogs have been about "fishing and [sex]" according to my friend Larry. Thanks for the e-mail buddy - I laughed quite hard.So I got back from Montana Saturday at 1:30pm and went straight to the Bellagio because my life is all about poker and I am an action junkie. *NOT* (in typical Borat fashion). I went straight to the lake, cracked a beer, and cast a line in the water. I love the lake. It was so nice coming from thirty degree weather to having my shirt off and the sun on my chest in perfect 75 degree weather. After we got back, THEN I headed into the Bellagio for a little cards. I must admit, I did have the itch for some serious action. All this small NL online stuff and small live stuff I've been a part of lately was definately rubbing on me - and I wanted to sit in a big game. I started in the 40-80 mix game, moved to the 100-200 game which sucked, moved to the 10-20 NL game that was decent but broke, and headed home after a few hours. I made somewhere around a dime.
Sunday I woke up later than I wanted to and had to kinda hurry down to Binions for the UPC $300+40 NLHE event. I need to make one of these TV tables man! However, nothing went right for me and I was busto within four levels. I won one hand in the third level when I raised pre after one limper and everybody folded. LOL. It was quite fun though to see some of the friendly faces that were there; my friends Brandon Cantu and Pam Brunson as well as several other people that I recognized from the circuit. Also in the field was Todd Brunson and Hoyt Corkins. I'm going to play in the $600+50 event today. Hopefully I'll bust out in level two so I can get on the lake before it's too late!
That evening I came home and played some online and ran pretty well. More importantly though I have been playing pretty well in the past week. I'm officially un-stuck from my online lessons and actually up about a thousand. Well, while crushing the game, Randy (friend in town from LA) got all fired up to go play some cards, so Danny, Jared, Randy and I headed to the Sunset Station to play some 3-6-9 limit hold'em. I decided that instead of playing my usual reckless style I would only play reckless pre-flop. Anytime it was limped or folded to me, I would raise. If it was raised in front of me I would play straight. It was good to put myself in some weird situations with huge pots. I definately learned a thing or two about value betting cause I knew I was getting called by some super weak hands! Plus, it's just a ton of fun to roll over king-three offsuit on the river, say "The nuts," and not be lying!
Well... in other news I'm going to be playing mostly cash games until the start of the Bellagio Five Diamond starting on the first. I'm selling up to 50% of myself for the events simply because I don't feel like investing $30k into a couple of weeks of tournaments. Fifteen sounds much better! So if you or anybody you know is interested, please let me know. Otherwise you'll only get to read about some of the events and not the main event i'd be playing!
Last night I watched the movie Cars for the second time this week. It is an extremely beautiful movie in all aspects. It really captures the essence of the fact that life is a journey, an adventure. Relationships are more important than destinations. It is a wonderful reminder that we all need to take some time to just slow down and forget about time for a while. I highly recommend that you buy the movie, watch it, let it sink in, laugh, cry, and then watch it again a few days later. Here is the lyrics from the song played during the epilogue that really brings the movie home.
Find Yourself
Brad Paisley
When you find yourself in some far off place
And it causes you to rethink some things
You start to sense that slowly you're becoming someone else
And then you find yourself
When you make new friends in a brand new town
And you start to think about settlin down
The things that would have been lost on you
Are now clear as a bell
And you find yourself
Yeah that's when you find yourself
Well you go through life so sure of where you're headed
And you wind up lost and it's the best thing that could've happened
Cause sometimes when you lose your way, it's really just as well
Cause you find yourself
Yeah that's when you find yourself
When you meet the one that you've been waiting for
And she's everything that you want and more
You look at her and you finally start to live for someone else
And then you find yourself
That's when you find yourself
Well we go through life so sure of where we're headed
And we wind up lost and it's the best thing that could've happened
Cause sometimes when you lose your way it's really just as well
Cause you find yourself
Yeah that's when you find yourself
Peace and good luck,
Devo
posted by Devo @ 3:19 PM
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