Life awesome, poker not so awesome.
Insert witty sentence hereFriday afternoon I headed up to Newport Beach for my cousin's wedding which I was incredibly excited about. I have the greatest family and extended family ever and don't have the opportunity to see them very often. Everybody that has a significant other ends up bringing them to our side of the family, and it's a ton of fun. So, party on a yacht with this awesome family? I'm stoked!
The ceremony was short, simple, and beautiful. Shortly thereafter we headed downstairs and straight to the open bar. Now, if you've ever read this blog, you know that I have been known to throw a few back, and my family is on par. Last Christmas at the "kids" table we were doing tequila shooters. This day we were doing vodka and cranberry. I made sure my younger cousins always had a drink in hand and at one point actually did a shot with my sister - first time ever doing that.
After the wedding and reception and dinner and dance party we headed to Joe's Crab Shack for the after-party. I was planning on only having a beer before heading down to San Diego for my buddy's 21st birthday at midnight, but I met a bridesmaid and those plans got waylaid. I finally got out of Joes two hours later at midnight and hauled ass down to Mission Beach. I made it in an hour, hitting 100 twice on the way. When I got there it was the sweetest welcoming ever as everybody was trashed and didn't think I was going to make it. Before I could shake more than two hands I had two shots in my hands followed by two Miller Lites. From there we had philisophical conversations about the AIDS epidemic in Africa all the way home at 4am.
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My sister
My fam
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Married cuz!
Dave, Devo, Pickett, Jay Rockets
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Sweetest thing ever the following morning. The construction workers had the day off or something! I actually got to sleep until noon which was awesome. We woke up and went on a mission for breakfast. Jay, Pickett and I all jumped on beach cruisers to go acquire gyros. On the way we ran into our buddies on the beach, drank a quick beer, and then got our pitas full of lamb. We ate, played some guitar hero, and then the six of us headed over to the beach. It was a long walk across the street to the ocean side. Cooler full of beer, the bose jambox, chairs, a football, a whiffle ball with a bat forgotten at the pad, and horseshoes. Good times. We headed back around 5pm, ate Round Table pizza, and basically chilled for three hours until people started showing up for the 21st birthday, part two.
At 9:30 twenty of us piled into a limo followed by another SUV full of people and we headed to Confidential in downtown San Diego. Booth, bottles, the whole nine yards as usual. We were there forever. We took cabs back and fell asleep at some time before sunrise. Telling stories today has been quite the blast. We've decided that we need to make friends with some 20 year olds so we can do this again soon.
It was neat seeing all these 21 year olds that were friends of our buddy having the night of their lives. The five of us poker players bankrolled the night, and it felt good to hook up our friend and his friends with a night that they could never make happen otherwise.
Today, I was psyched to play some cards, but I shoulda just kept drinking. I blew almost $1400 in the usual fashion. I was chip leader in the 750k and played a HUGE pot with a guy that really overplayed AQ and he naturally hit his 3 outer on the flop. No problem. Oh, later I flop top two on an A92 flop, and he manages to get it all in for a 10x CRAI (lingo: 10 times bigger than my flop bet Check-Raise-All-In. Analysis: really bad.) with AT and it goes JJ, so I lose getting counterfitted. I got it good in every tourney except the million where I bluffed off my whole stack against a very well disguised hand. Well played.
Still though, frustrating. My roll's officially hurting and I'm going to have to go back to some serious grinding. I have been lazy and haven't been playing as much as I should be, but that is going to change soon. I discovered a new website with play that is incredibly soft with 33% rakeback, so I'm gonna grind a bunch of hands there until I win a million for my backer in one of the 10k's coming up :-).
I'm probably going to head back to Vegas Wednesday night, watch Poff get married on Friday, and start the Caesars classic on Sunday.
Peace and good luck,
Devo
posted by Devo @ 8:57 PM
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