Donk @ Life

FML! and Full Tilt's Life as well!

noreply@blogger.com (Predator314) — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 10:30:00 +0000

I just did a Premium Bank Wire withdrawal from Full Tilt for $400. I usually use bank transfer, but this time I decided to do Bank Wire because I needed the money quicker than normal. Full Tilt advised me that my bank might charge me a wire fee. Yep its $10. So I made the withdrawal on 12/13, it was instantly approved. The money hit my account on 12/16 with $41 in fees associated with it!!!!! Only $10 of those fees were from my bank. So where the fuck did the other $31 go?

After some research it seems that if FTP doesn't have a direct line into your bank, they use an intermediary bank. This bank can charge whatever fees they feel like. This information was no divulged at the time of cashout. Nor has it been a problem in the past (this wasn't my first FTP withdrawal using premium bank wire).

I fired off a pleasant email to FTP asking where the fuck that extra $31 went. I'm expecting one of their usual canned responses. If that happens, I'm going to get ill with them. I would have rather just waited an extra 3-4 days for my money than pay 10% in fees. WHAT A RIPOFF!!! BUYER BEWARE!!!

Dear Card Collecting Community

noreply@blogger.com (Predator314) — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 06:31:00 +0000

Dear Card Collecting Community,

I've been a part of the online card collecting community for a few years. I took about a 4 year hiatus from it all and came back to a new world. The main area of this world was YouTube. I have spent countless hours watching box breaks and such on Youtube and have come across a whole new ball game. Then I jumped into the BlogTV world a few months ago and discovered group breaks and actually made some decent friends in the community. I like to kid around and such with the guys. It takes a lot to make me mad, but for some of you this doesn't seem to be the case. Maybe I can be a voice of reason for this community? So what if I'm new to your world... I still have something to say.

First of all, a few weeks ago, everyone got their panties in a bunch because so and so was making X amount of dollars on each group break. Rants were flying at me right and left. I watched a few rant videos as the shit-storm first hit and then I pretty much ignored the rest. Let me tell you this: IT DOESN'T MATTER WHO'S GROUP BREAKS YOU JOIN, SOMEONE IS MAKING MONEY OFF IT. Let's take my favorite group break person, Mr. TheTruth17. Am I accusing Chad of making money on his breaks? Hell no. I've watched most of Chad's videos and saw that he buys his stuff directly from his local card shop. Chad has always been a stand up guy so I trust him at his word. But you know what? Chad might not be making money from his group breaks, but Mike that owns his local card shop is making money. So is the distributor that Mike buys his cases of cards from. The factory that makes the cards? Yep they make money too. It's how this country works. It's called "capitalism". Get used to it folks, because if it goes away, so does our livelihoods.

Now Ndepaul99 seems to be the most accused of making money on his group breaks. Who cares? He found a way to skip the middle man. Good for him. This is part of his income to support his family and pay his bills. Who are you to judge how a man makes a living. If you think he lied to you about making money on his breaks, how is it your business how much he makes? I purposely omit how much I make playing poker online in this blog because I don't want you to know. Don't like it? I don't give a fuck. Let me tell you that I have been making my income in unconventional ways for the past 10 months. I've been judged by both church and government for how I am making a living and it sucks. So I know how Bryan feels for being persecuted for making a living. Kudos to him for taking it upon himself to find a fun and interesting way to make money.

Anyway, that storm is close to passing, so I'll leave it at that for now. A new pile of drama has unfolded in the past day or so. Again, panties are knotted up and cutting off the testicular circulation. I won't name the person who started this drama. You know why? Because I'm not going to give him the attention. Basically, the guy is insecure and has lost touch with reality. It's fairly obvious he lacks any real friends, so the line between real life and this online community gets blurred more for him than the average person. Basically he's wants attention...GOOD or BAD because that makes his life seem more meaningful. Everyone is ranting and raving, cursing up a storm. They think they are going to make this guy feel bad. Actually you are just stroking his ego. He's the center of attention and he loves it. Why waste your breath on this guy? A word to the wise, just ignore him and he'll go away.

Anyway, I've said my peace and hope people take my words to heart. This is a great community we have. When you have people from various parts of the world, with ages ranging between middle school kids to senior citizens, that all have the same passion, you have something special. There is a great bond there. Let's keep that bond strong. Don't let the cancers of the community break the bond.

Sincerely,

Predator314

Check your FTP bonus accounts!

noreply@blogger.com (Predator314) — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:29:00 +0000

I received a $100 bonus from Full Tilt Poker yesterday. FTP has sneaky bonuses sometimes. You have to go under the Requests --> Check Bonus Offers menu to even see you have one. I luckily got a popup window after playing in some donkaments last night. Maybe if I read my emails more often, I would have seen some sort of heads-up about the bonus in there. Anyway, no deposit required. Just accept the bonus and work off the points. I hope to have mine worked off by tomorrow. Thank you FTP for paying my electric bill!

Why I don't play blogger tournaments

noreply@blogger.com (Predator314) — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 04:36:00 +0000

I never play in blogger tournaments and here is why. 90% of the players are in it for the friendly banter and play. The stakes are low and designed for fun. However, the other 10% of the players spoil it for me. I’m not sure if this PokerSlut tour or whatever is a blogger thing, but I know a few bloggers played in it. I saw the tweet from OhCaptain and checked it out. Limit Holdem! My favorite form of poker. Poo flinging at its finest.

Now I’m not a LHE specialist, but I do have my own style that seems to work and has worked well for going on 3-4 years. I’m not much of a tourney player, but I do play in the occasional LHE tourney when I find it. I have taken down several in my career. So I figure my LAGtarded ways would be great in this blogger tourney. And I was right. I succeeded at tilting my first table with my play. But it was all in good fun. Then this hand happened at the final table:

Full Tilt Poker Game #16056750288: PokerSlut Tour XVI (111159087), Table 1 - 200/400 - Limit Hold’em - 22:34:31 ET - 2009/11/15

Seat 1: Julius_Goat (2,270)

Seat 3: Zerbet (2,250)

Seat 4: stpetebeach (7,100)

Seat 5: OhCaptain (5,000)

Seat 6: wvapoker (290)

Seat 7: SmBoatDrinks (3,125)

Seat 9: WiredAces77 (3,965)

Julius_Goat posts the small blind of 100

Zerbet posts the big blind of 200

The button is in seat #9

*** HOLE CARDS ***

Dealt to WiredAces77 [2d 4d]

stpetebeach folds

OhCaptain folds

wvapoker raises to 290, and is all in

SmBoatDrinks folds

WiredAces77 calls 290

Zerbet: double you tee eff

Julius_Goat: gg light

Julius_Goat calls 190

lightning36 (Observer): later, mates

Zerbet calls 90

*** FLOP *** [2h 6h 9d]

Julius_Goat checks

Zerbet checks

WiredAces77 checks

*** TURN *** [2h 6h 9d] [Ac]

Julius_Goat checks

Zerbet checks

WiredAces77 checks

*** RIVER *** [2h 6h 9d Ac] [2s]

Julius_Goat checks

Zerbet checks

WiredAces77 bets 400

OhCaptain: later

Zerbet: sigh

Julius_Goat has 15 seconds left to act

SmBoatDrinks: gg

Julius_Goat folds

Zerbet: betting into a dry side pot? really?

Zerbet has 15 seconds left to act

WiredAces77: really

Zerbet folds

Uncalled bet of 400 returned to WiredAces77

*** SHOW DOWN ***

WiredAces77 shows [2d 4d] three of a kind, Twos

wvapoker mucks

WiredAces77 wins the pot (1,160) with three of a kind, Twos

wvapoker stands up

*** SUMMARY ***

Total pot 1,160 | Rake 0

Board: [2h 6h 9d Ac 2s]

Seat 1: Julius_Goat (small blind) folded on the River

Seat 3: Zerbet (big blind) folded on the River

Seat 4: stpetebeach didn’t bet (folded)

Seat 5: OhCaptain didn’t bet (folded)

Seat 6: wvapoker mucked [8c 8h] - two pair, Eights and Twos

Seat 7: SmBoatDrinks didn’t bet (folded)

Seat 9: WiredAces77 (button) showed [2d 4d] and won (1,160) with three of a kind, Twos

and the resulting chat:

OhCaptain: That would be something I’d bet into a dry side pot

Zerbet: why? no respect for the others in the hand, or just unfamiliar with the game in general?

WiredAces77: dude it’s a donk game

OhCaptain: Because many players would call to seeWiredAces77: anyone would have bet that

WiredAces77: take it easy and have fun

Zerbet: well, some HANDS are certainly donk hands, I’ll give you that./

Zerbet: there is no one left at this table that would “call to see that” but it’s good to know you dont know thatWiredAces77: stfu

WiredAces77: and blow me d-bag

Zerbet: wow, how do you find the time to play poker, doesn’t it take you away from your job ghost writing for Ms. Manners? Zerbet: what the %!$& dude, for someone calling “donk game” you seem a tad… tense.

WiredAces77: i’m not the one berating peoples play in a $5 LHE tourney

Zerbet: wasn’t berating your play, just one specific bet, but I can see how you would be defensive about it.

Zerbet: math, it’s not just for breakfast

etc etc etc… this retardedness went on for several hands. And then when I bubbled the tourney, dude stuck around and gave some snide comment about that being sweet (I busted him a few hands earlier). Classy.

Anyway: I checked this douche’s Sharkscope and saw a whopping $3 avg buyin with a 4% ROI and a total profit of $117. It’s starting to make sense now. And here’s the PTR data for this douche:

Feel free to check my stats d-bag. Feel free to check my stats even though I don’t play on FTP much (except for some donkey tournaments and bonus whoring).

I have no clue who this Zerbet fucker is, but he wouldn’t let it go. What kind of fool checks behind on that river card? Anyway, fuck that crybaby. He’s part of the 10% and pretty much spoiled my evening. Remind you, this is a friendly $5 tournament! Get a life dude.

Making up for last week

noreply@blogger.com (Predator314) — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 18:03:00 +0000

I barely played any poker last week. I spent the entire week with a head full of medicine, sitting on my ass, suffering. I just wasn't in the right mind for poker. I tried playing some donkey stakes SnG's and pretty much got bored/tired after the first 5 hands of each. So that didn't help the bankroll any. This week, I'm going to try to double down and put in 40 solid hours of table play. No excuses. I have been progressively feeling better every day and after sleeping like a rock last night, I think I'm healed up and ready for action.

I also just found out that my local casino in Cross Lanes, WV has changed from 10 handed games to 9 handed games. That might not seem like a big deal to you folks, but it's great news for me. 1 less person means I can open things up just a little bit more. It also means more elbow room at the table. So if the guy next to me smells like a foot, I don't have to be crammed up against him. I can distance myself somewhat.

I was also checking out the 2+2 forums about the local casino and saw an interesting post about and interesting person that plays there frequently. Let's just say the last time I was there, this person had on a trucker hat, flannel shirt, blue jeans with the beer belly hanging over the waist line. It had long hair.... and tits. According to some it was one of those "Transformers". I just couldn't figure out if it was a dude transforming to a chick or vice versa.

Sickness: Week #2

noreply@blogger.com (Predator314) — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 14:14:00 +0000

I've been sick since late last Friday night. I was hoping I would magically feel better this week since it's the start of a new week. But nope, I rolled out of bed, tried to get the day rolling, and it just didn't happen. I don't think it's a Swine Flu, but what the hell do I know? The only reason I don't think that is because I never really had a bad fever. The rest of the symptoms were/are definitely present though.

Don't get me wrong, I feel much better than I did 1 week ago. But I still feel like ass. I'm all congested, still have periods of body aches, and just feel out of it. I've tried to rectify the situation by avoiding any bad foods. When I eat right, I feel good. This has helped me get through the days, but it's exactly making me feel healthy.

Hopefully I'm at the tail end of this thing, because it has really kicked my ass. I haven't been able to sit and grind poker like I should be doing either which hurts my wallet as well. Poor poor pitiful me :)

Fire Bill Stewart NOW!

noreply@blogger.com (Predator314) — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 04:27:00 +0000

OK, you're down by 7 points with nearly 12 minutes left in the game plus all your timeouts. It's 3rd and 9 from your own 24 yard line. What do you do? Run a quick dive up the middle? Nope? Coach Stewart did. So that didn't work and it's 4th and 8. What do you do now? Any sane person would kick a field goal. Too bad WVU's head coach Bill Stewart is mentally retarded.

Tomorrow the headlines will probably be squawking about the blown instant replay in the 1st half. Clearly a fumble from any WVU fan's perspective, but hey it is what it is, we can't help that. What we can do is put our heads down and play harder. Which is exactly what the WVU players did. Blown calls can't be helped.

What can be helped, though is the play calling. Believe in your kids. Give them an opportunity to win. Coach Stewart you failed your players, your fans, and pretty much the entire state of WV. And while we are are at it, aren't you the special teams coach? How do we get not 1 but 2 illegal formation penalties on the same kickoff? Jesus fucking Christ you're giving me an ulcer!!!

I'm calling for the immediate termination of Bill Stewart. He's just not capable of being a division I coach. Enough said. He would be more suited being an assistant coach for some pee wee league. There's a man on the sidelines that can get shit done. We don't need to look very far for a replacement. This guy is a world-class coach. I am formally recommending John "Doc" Holliday for the job as WVU's new head coach. Anyone else with me here?

Poker Grub

noreply@blogger.com (Predator314) — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:34:00 +0000

Am I the only person rooting for Grubby to go on an epic heater and take over the world? For an obviously problem gambler, this guy has some shitty luck.

My November 9 Profiles (after the fact)

noreply@blogger.com (Predator314) — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 16:41:00 +0000

I never get to know the main event final table contestants until after the fact. Usually it's months after the WSOP has ended because I just don't watch much tournament poker on TV, however, I have watched a lot of the WSOP coverage this year and followed the final table last night. Here is what I think about all the players involved starting from 9th place all the way down to the final pairing.

9th place: James Akenhead - I really repsect this guys play and wish he had more chips at the final table. He did triple up at one point to get his head above water, only to get coolered when his KK ran into AA.

8th place: Kevin Schaffel - Seriously, was this a real guy? He pretty much slipped in and out of the WSOP under the radar. I have no idea what the guy looks like, how he plays, or if he really even exists. His AA ran into Buchman's KK only to have a King on the flop and King on the turn kick him square in the junk.

7th place: Phil Ivey - The baddest man on the planet. Beliedat!

6th place: Steve Begleiter - Begs..This guy just rubs me the wrong way. Not because he's some Bear Stearns executive or whatever. I could give 2 shits about that. But during the WSOP, he was in a big pot against Akenhead. Akenhead got the best of him and after that hand, he reached over and slapped Akenhead in the back..HARD. Akenhead refrained from saying anything. Begleiter knew what he had done wrong and tried to pretend it was "nice hand" gesture, but I'm not buying it. ESPN ignored this antic. The dude just stayed wound up the entire WSOP, ran like the sun, and he just looks funny.

5th place: Jeff Shulman - Shulman was going for the grunge look this year. He's a solid tight/semi-aggressive player. I didn't give him much of a chance to win this tournament because a.) he was getting coaching from Mr. Weak/Tight (aka Phil Hellmuth) and b.) see reason "a".

4th place: Eric Buchman - Another guy who quietly made his way to the final table. Buchman seemed to accumulate all his chips during the late stages of the WSOP. He was the chipleader for quite some time, but didn't really take advantage. There was a good chunk of time when Ivey and Cada were severely short-stacked. Buchman could have basically gotten away with murder at the table. None of the mid to large stacks would have called his raises without the VERY TOP of their range until after one or both of the short stacks were eliminated. Personally I thought he ABC'd it too much and squandered his chance at the bracelet. But WTF do I know? I'm just the low limit pro barely grinding out my mortgage payment each month.

3rd place: Antoine Saout - The most impressive player at the table. I think he was easily the 2nd best player behind Ivey. Saout mixed up his game quite a bit and made life very difficult on the players around him. When he gained the chiplead, I figured the tournament was his to lose. Unfortunately, he couldn't avoid that luckbox Cada's run.

Final 2: Darvin Moon - He's a logger, a donkey, evidently a degenerate gambler, and just an all-around nice guy. I have given Moon shit for a few days, but just because I'd love to run like this guy one time.

Final 2: Joe Cada - I'm impressed how the guy went from having 3 big blinds left in his stack with 7 people left to being in the final 2. Evidently Cada is an online pro. But he's one of those 2+2 contingent pros I guess. These guys should get "Douchebag" tattoo'd on their foreheads. Cada himself did nothing to rub me the wrong way, but his fans made him look awful bad IMO.

WSOP Final Table Madness

noreply@blogger.com (Predator314) — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 16:03:00 +0000

First of all, I'd like to thank AlCantHang, TaoPauly, Change100, and F-Train for providing me with updates and endless entertainment well into the night and the morning. You guys deserve a beer or twenty after the day you just put in.

The 2009 WSOP final table was just plain silly last night. I tried starting from hand #1 and following it all the way down to the final 2. I saw the first 2 eliminations. Then I woke up from nodding off at the keyboard around 3:00 a.m. and there were still 7 left. FML, I'm going to bed. I'll leave this shit in the hands of the reporters I mentioned above. I jumped out of bed around 7:00 a.m. to check the progress of the tournament. Surely someone has been eliminated. I was in a Nyquil haze, but I'm almost positive there were still 7 left!!!!!!!

There was no doubting I was pulling for Phil Ivey in this one. Him and Tom "Durrrr" Dwan are the 2 sickest players on the planet. I was heartbroken to find out that Ivey's AK was defeated by Darvin "Run Like the Sun" Moon's AQ. Gay. Several reporters (not the good ones I listed above) gave Phil Ivey some flack because he didn't do his exit interview. WTF guys? If you had been playing poker for 12-15 straight hours, on the short stack the ENTIRE TIME, and then finally get your money in good just to get sucked out on, not to mention all the hounding Ivey gets on a daily basis, would you want to stop and chat with the media after that bustout? Fuck that, leave the man alone. I'll d his interview for him. Media: How do you feel about your bustout Phil? Phil (thru me): I want to stab Darvin "RUN LIKE THE FUCKIN SUN" Moon in the eye with a spork! and </interview>

Anyway, the smoke has cleared and it's down to Darvin Moon and Joe Cada, heads up for the 2009 WSOP main event title. Darvin Moon qualified in a casino just a couple hours from my house. It's no secret that I wasn't rooting for him at all though. The man ran like the sun for 8 straight days to get here. It will be obvious tomorrow night just how bad of a player he actually is (including a horrendous 3 bet where he folded to a 4 bet getting about 8 to 1 on his money). However, I will be rooting for him because Joe Cada might not be a douchebag, but he's got plenty of friends that are. He seems to have cornered the market on douchey drunken fratboy friends. Some of these guys were ejected from the P&T theatre for their drunken antics. How fucking drunk do you have to be to get kicked out of Vegas sporting events? Seriously guys.

I wasn't personally there to witness any of this, but I can only imagine. There's someone every year that brings the d-bag friends to fill the seats at the WSOP. Don't be that guy. Your friends will just make you look like an ass on ESPN.

TV

noreply@blogger.com (Predator314) — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:42:00 +0000

I love television shows. I love them much more than movies. You have an entire season to develop your characters and construct elaborate plotlines and what not. TV is great. That being said, my list of shows I'm watching these days has gotten out of hand. Let's go through my list of shows that I'm watching NOW.

The Biggest Loser - Lame, but it keeps me motivated to eat right and exercise. If you haven't seen the show, just imagine 10 fat people crying for 2 hours straight and you pretty much have the gist of it.

Sons of Anarchy - I wasn't going to ever watch this show. Then there was a lull in all TV programming for a while towards the end fo the summer, So I figured I would try it. And of course I liked it because it was a FX show. I will probably quit watching once they kill Opie. Jax should be dead already. He douches up that shows very much bad.

It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia - One of the funniest shows on TV period.

Dexter - Dexter Morgan is still up to his old tricks. Being a Dad and a serial killer at the same time is tough. Dexter is a brilliant show and one of my favorites of all time.

The Ultimate Fighter - I've gotta have my UFC fix. And they keep threatening to bring back Kimbo every week :) Personally I'm not a fan of the heavyweights, but I like TUF. I think TUF has listened to my appeals to focus more on fighting than in-house hijinks. The first few seasons resembled The Real World more than a fighting show. These days you get to see some in-house antics and such, but for the most part they focus on the fights and hyping the fights. Rampage rules too BTW.

Parks & Recreation - Basically it's The Office but outside. Funny as shit.

The League - Another one I wasn't going to watch... until I heard the Birthday song:

I'll probably give it a couple more episodes before I commit to the show, but I almost pissed myself laughing at episode #1.

The Big Bang Theory - Dr. Sheldon Cooper FTW. I love this show, but I'm a geek. Ever notice Penny is hotter in some episodes than others?

V (2009) - OK, had to give this hyped up POS a try. You know what? I thoroughly enjoyed it. Again, maybe a couple more episodes before committing to it.

Friday Night Lights - One of the best High School dramas ever made. Probably ranks 2nd behind Freaks & Geeks for me. FNL is like the step-child that is far more superior in every way to the other children, yet he remains unloved, beaten, and abused. NBC has tried to kill off FNL for years now. First by putting it into the Friday night slot of doom. Now they just said fuck it and aren't even showing it on cable. I'm sure this seemed like a brilliant idea in some board room. "Make it DirectTV and fans will have to subscribe to directTV! Our affiliate revenue with DTV will go thru the roof!!!". In reality though it's more like this "I don't have DirectTV, so I'm going to pirate every episode".

That's all (I think). The only other thing I'm looking forward to is MORE RESCUE ME AND MORE LOST! That is all.

Running good, grinding mediocre

noreply@blogger.com (Predator314) — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:12:00 +0000

I've been running well the past 2 days. Both days started off with a few hundred hands of break-even play followed by a nice upswing. Day 1 could have been better, but I forced myself to play that extra hour and pretty much got decimated in that hour. Day 2, once I started going up, it stayed that way until I logged off. I'm playing good poker right now and reaping the benefits. I've been playing way more hours lately too, but still not up to what I would call a full work week. I don't see how these guys play 20-24 tables for 10-12 hours a day. I focus so hard on each hand, that my brain is fried after 3-4 hours of straight play and I need a break. I try to avoid auto-pilot at all costs. Thats why if you ever sit in on of my games, you might notice I'm straight up LAGging it up on on table, while playing more weak/tight at another. Different table conditions warrant different styles of play IMO. Also, once I "catch" myself auto-piloting, that's when I turn things off and go eat a snack or something. Or, in my case yesterday, when you start making hero calls with 4 high (don't ask) it's time to shut 'er down.

I have been trying to table select more often, but with playing during the day a lot, the tables aren't really full of what I would call "normal fish". Instead, I've been targeting TAGfish. These are the guys who play a TAG style, but really don't have a very good understanding of how we make money in poker (or at least how I make money in poker). Long story short, they fold too much. Pussies.

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I haven't watched any of the 2009 WSOP coverage. I need to sit down and catch up with the action one day. But the whole WSOP/ESPN "let's give the d'bags the airtime" mentality pretty much ruined TV poker for me. When does High Stakes Poker start again? Anyway, I'll be rooting for Phil Ivey to take this bitch down. He deserves it more than anyone else at that table. Plus he's pretty bad ass.

Day 1 of uber-grinding = failure

noreply@blogger.com (Predator314) — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:18:00 +0000

I'm already running 5 buyings below EV this month. FML.

I grinded for about 2 hours yesterday. I was getting aggravated as shit because I was getting my money in good left and right and getting hosed. I shut it down after about 1500 hands. I took off to the grocery store to pick up a few things and clear my head. I was gonna pick back up and play some more after that. Well, on the way home, directly in front of my next door neighbor's house, a stupid fuckin deer decided to prance its big ass in front of my car. We locked eyes at about the time her dumb ass flipped straight up in the air and landed in the other lane. I didn't stick around to see if it survived. My guess is yes, but she wasn't liking it. I managed to get slowed down to maybe 15-20 mph before we locked horns (<--- see what I did there? it was a doe, so no antlers). Anyway I was so damned mad because it broke the grill on the front of my car. So thats my excuse for not grinding several more hours last night.

Never fear though, I'm super motivated today. I'm already up and at 'em today. I've had a nice nutritious breakfast and a little bit of exercise in the form of picking up trash scattered about my yard. Seems either dogs or raccoons got in my trash last night. FML. But I'm in good spirits. It's bowling night. It's cold outside today. I'm just going to watch last night's episode of Dexter and then grind until time to leave. Depending on my state of mind, I might squeeze in a few more hands after bowling. I should get a solid 6-8 hours of play today. If I had better drugs I could do this. Anyone know how addictive Adderall is :) ?

And with that I leave you with some video footage of some friends I went to school with jamming at the train station:

The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test Song

Poor Taters | MySpace Video

The Grind

noreply@blogger.com (Predator314) — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 17:00:00 +0000

I have a newfound dedication to the game of poker and I intend to make the best of it. Today starts a new month. I love the start of new months because you can just wipe the slate clean and start all over. This month I intend to play 120 hours of poker. Yep, 120 hours, probably the total of my last 2 months combined. That's about 30 hours per week which is good and still allows me to keep my sanity. The grinding will begin this evening once I get home from Sunday dinner with my Mother.

I love eggs

noreply@blogger.com (Predator314) — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 14:49:00 +0000

I woke up this morning after an awesome night's sleep (9 hours FTMFW!) and decided to eat healthy today. 3 egg whites + 1 yolk with a touch of Frank's hot sauce. Damn they are good! I love eggs and I don't know why I don't eat them every morning. It literally takes 5 minutes to cook them too. DId I mention these eggs were straight out of the chicken's butt? My uncle has some chickens and has been my egg connection for about a year now. I just had to get over the fact that not all eggs are white, yet they are all the same in the middle. I had a green one and 2 brown ones this morning.

There's also nothing but water to drink in this house. I'm cheap. After I finish a bottle, I refill it from the water dispenser in the refrigerator and then re-use the bottles.

The rest of the day is laid out food-wise. Mom is making chicken & rice. I'll probably have some more of that chicken for dinner. And I have several various kinds of apples laying around the house. There is ZERO Halloween candy. Nothing to tempt me.

I even feel like exercising today. Go me :)

Live Bloggin': 2009 World Series Game #3

noreply@blogger.com (Predator314) — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 02:40:00 +0000

Picking up 2/3 thru the bottom of the 1st. Hamels looked good in the top of the inning, but you have to wonder how much the game delay and Andy Pettite's extremely slow pitching in the bottom of the 1st (if that continues) will wear on him.

Also, Jimmy Rollins is a stud on the basepaths. Not many people can get a jump like that on a lefty. Didn't even draw a throw!

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Slowest half inning ever. Ryan Howard is a strikeout machine after his NLCS MVP run. C'mon dude! Get your head out of your ass!

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Jayson Werth is my 2nd favorite Phillies player (behind J Rol).

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Should have waited 2 more seconds to publish that. Werth goes yard! 1-0 Phils.

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And I'm back.... summer of failure.

noreply@blogger.com (Predator314) — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 22:25:00 +0000

All my domain names and websites associated with those names are down or are going to be shut down very soon. It's just another expense that I can't afford right now. I'm not sure if anyone will ever find this site again. I will try to update it and notify people that link to this site that the link has changed.

I haven't blogged in a very long time either. So that's something i can change. I need a newfound motivation. Something to get me jump-started. I've kind of settled into this funk and can't get motivated to do anything.

How is the not working thing treating me lately? Great and Horrible. Mentally, I'm happy. Never been happier. It's great not having to answer to a weasley condescending asshole boss. It's great making my own hours, being able to come and go as I please. So what's not so great? The money. I was doing good for several months and then this past couple of months I just forgot how to win at poker. The games have gotten even tougher, but are beatable at the stakes I play. The cards just wouldn't flow my way for a very long time. So long in fact that I basically gave up the game for a few weeks. This all leap frogged into a drastic decrease in fundage. To put it mildly, I'm broke. Now there's some motivation for ya!

I've supplemented my income by having a huge virtual yardsale on ebay. Basically I went into my spare bedrooms in the house and about anything that I no longer had the need for went on ebay. I actually fell in love with the buying/selling aspect of ebay, but the profit margins are so low and the amount of BS you have to deal with just kills it for me. If I could find some products that bring in a better profit margin, it would be better I guess. I did build up a decent sports cards bankroll in just a couple weeks buying and selling baseball/football cards. Basically I'd scour ebay and some sports card forum sites looking for multiple card lots to flip. I did well at this for the most part. I got scammed once, but Paypal took care of me (FUCK YOU BIGJOHN181. EAT A COCK!) Then I had to pretty much take that entire bankroll and blow it all on stupid stuff like bills.

My poker bankroll is at an all time low as well. Like I said, I just haven't been winning. However, I'm renewing my motivation to play more poker now that the weather has turned. Hopefully things will turn around soon and I'll be reaping the rewards again.

More failures on the homefront: I vowed to do more traveling. Well, I failed there too. I did take a few days at the Shenandoah river fishing in August. I went to Spring Training in St. Pete, FL in March. I also just came back from Surf City, NC where I did some Redfish fishing with my brother and father. All these trips were a blast, but I expected to be seeing new people and places this summer. And that just didn't happen. Who knows I might be a snow-bird this winter and head south for a while. I would really like to go back to St. Petersburg. That place rocks the party.

Let's see, what else? Oh yeah, I've gained weight over the summer. Basically being lazy and eating poorly was the cause of this. Did I mention lack of exercise? I'm feeling it now too. I can and will fix that starting this week. I have the knowledge, it's just a matter of staying consistent and not falling victim to my lazy ways.

I don't want to ramble on. Let's just say this blog is back. I'm back to playing poker again. This will basically be all my blogs rolled into one. I'll be blogging about poker, sports, sports memorabilia, weight loss and exercise, and just life in general. Hopefully you'll stay tuned!

We have moved!

noreply@blogger.com (Predator314) — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 17:51:00 +0000

The new site is up and running.

http://www.donkatlife.com

Also, the RSS feed is new so, you will need to resubscribe to the new feed if you view through an RSS reader… http://feeds.feedburner.com/DonkAtLife

Getting Back to the Grind

noreply@blogger.com (Predator314) — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 12:18:00 +0000

I have a little more time for a proper post this morning. I’m coming off a little mini-vacation from poker. I had such a rough week on the tables over the weekend that I really didn’t want to look at another poker hand for a while.

I thought my Full Tilt check withdrawal should have been here by now. I checked my mail yesterday and still no check. Then, out of coincidence, I got an email a few minutes later from Full Tilt thanking me for my deposit. Hrmmm… I made no deposit and this one was the exact amount of the check I was expecting. Another email soon came and said they had to cancel my withdrawal (even though I had been sent a letter telling me my check would be unaffected). So, 16 days after the withdrawal and I’m back at square 1. Ugh… I hate the UIGEA.

The good news is that I got another $100 bonus for my efforts, so I will go ahead and grind on that a while. I’ve decided to go ahead and move up to $50NL for the time being. I have enough bankroll, and it will also speed up the clearing process for that bonus.

My ultimate goal in the $50 games will be to continue to build my bankroll and then start working on my heads up play a bit. The HU NL games are the most fun games that I have played (besides 2-7 TD) on the net. I’m no heads up genius or anything, but I feel that I have a considerable edge over the competition. I know the HUNL games can be swingy, so I’ll wait until I pad my roll a bit more before continuing into those.

Lastly, I finally got Wordpress installed on the new site. Now, I just need to get it working the way I want and I’ll be all set to move this blog over to the new location.

noreply@blogger.com (Predator314) — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 12:51:00 +0000

Lack of updates on my end. Sorry about that. I haven’t been in the office. This won’t be a proper post either because I have training in a few minutes.

I have been working out of town the past 2 days. I have in-office training the next 2 days. Friday can’t get here fast enough.

I played a bunch of tournaments over the weekend and ran like pure ass. I tried to make it up by playing 2-7 triple draw and run like smelly ass. I lost a good chunk of money over the weekend.

I haven’t played poker the past 2 days because I have been getting home late. I went to my parents house to watch the HR derby Monday night. Last night, I had intended to watch the All-Star game on MLB.tv, but what was I thinking? It was blacked out of course. Fox, ESPN, and MLB are tight.

Maybe more of a proper update later on. I still haven’t began working on the new site either. So much to do, so little motivation to do it.

Moving / More MTT Thoughts

noreply@blogger.com (Predator314) — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 14:42:00 +0000

This website will be moving soon. I bought a domain and hosting plan for it. My goodness is webhosting cheap these days or what?

I’m still waiting for my account to be set up and all that jazz. Then I’ll have to install Wordpress and mod it up a bit. Hopefully everything will be ready for me to work on that over the weekend or even this afternoon :). I’ll post the link whenever it’s ready. The main reason for the move is that Wordpress is some much greater than Blogger. Plus I want to open up a couple other blogs under some sub-domains. Hey, I like to purge my brain into the keyboard which sometimes comes out as a blog post. It’s how I keep my sanity. It’s my drug. I don’t claim to be a good writer, but I will claim that writing calms me more than just about anything these days.

Now for the more important stuff. I have been giving though to the whole MTT concept and how to incorporate more into my play. I think I will try out the cash games during the week, MTTs on the weekend type thing. This way, I can buy into some of the larger events (player wise) and not have to worry about sitting around for 8 hours. I know I won’t have to be at work the next day.

I’m also going to only set aside a certain portion of my bankroll for MTTs. This way, I can 1.) keep track of my winnings easier (since Pokertracker doesn’t seem to handle that aspect well) and 2.) protect my cash game roll. I’ll probably play mostly $4/180’s on Stars and satellites to larger events. This way I should be able to build my MTT bankroll and then eventually move into buying directly into the higher buy-in events. I can also move up the 20 table scale by going from the $4 –> $10 –> $20 or whatever they spread.

noreply@blogger.com (Predator314) — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 12:50:00 +0000

Congrats to Iggy for making the money and surviving day 3 of the WSOP. I know the little man has to be exhausted right now, but remember the field is full of donkies and with your patience at the tables, you can take this bitch down for the bloggers.

I sucked it up last night on the tables. I tried playing in several satellites and stayed away from the cash games for the day. I cashed in zero of the tournaments I played. I went deep in all of the tournaments but 1 too. The 1 I didn't go deep in was a triple shootout where I did get down to heads up at my first table, but the dude made 2 hero calls on me and beat me.

I'm going to study up a little bit on MTTs this coming week and put them as part of my arsenal again. They are too soft not to.

Tonight, I'll be going to the newly constructed concert hall type building they opening in town. There will be a Bluegrass band playing that I've never heard before. I'm not a big bluegrass fan, but a music and local music fan, so I'll go check it out...especialy for free. I'm most interested in this huge building they have erected in town. It looks fabulous!

MTT Madness

noreply@blogger.com (Predator314) — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 20:12:00 +0000

I’ve been a good little boy for 10 straight days. I’ve stuck to the cash games and I’ve grinded. I’m on pace for my 20K hand month (I think). So I’m going to take a night off from the cash games. Instead of cash games, I will run a few tournaments on Stars and/or Full Tilt.

I’m looking for a couple big scores to boost the bankroll.

River on!

noreply@blogger.com (Predator314) — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 18:02:00 +0000

Not an hour after my last post, my buddy Charlie called me. He is the other half owner of the cabin and the contractor on my house last year. He said him and his cousin Danny were definitely going to the river. So the trip was on! Nice!

I called the usual suspects to see what their status was for that week.

Rusty – Oldest of the crew. Recently married, awaiting child. One of those What Can Brown do for you guys who wears brown shorts and brown socks to work if you know what I mean. He works for a Hypermega Global Corp. type company and they have all kinds of procedures for vacation days. He’s pretty sure he can get off the necessary days.

Bub – 2nd oldest of the crew. Definitely the most blonde. Fun to get on a sleepless induced tilt. Even more fun when he’s drunk. He said he would love to go and will make it happen. Bub is a trooper when it comes to fishing.

Roger – My oldest friend. Personal problems kept him from attending these trips the past 2 years. He’s going to check about getting the days off. My mother is his boss, so I’m not seeing a problem there :)

Jason? – Other owner of the cabin. I’m sure he’s working on the park somewhere. Doesn’t answer his phone. Checks his email like once a century. His status is very doubtful as I have mentioned the reasons in my last post. Jason originally started organizing these trips and I hope things work out so that he can go. He needs a break anyway.

Danny – Cousin to Jason and Charlie. Overall good guy. Kind of looks like Sloth from the Goonies, just not as sexy. Danny has a knack for landing women that are way out of his league. It’s either all personality or he’s hung like a horse. By the looks of his up and coming bride to be, I’m guessing it’s the latter. She’s way too hot for him :) Danny is the fish at the poker games. It’s not that he sucks or anything. He just lives to spew.

Mike? – 2nd oldest friend. Mike and I don’t get to hang out much anymore because he spends his spare days jumping from airplanes. Myself, I’m afraid of planes and have never really had the urge to follow him down to SC on these trips. Mike is the quiet guy that can probably outdrink anyone on the trip. We grew up in the pool hall together (along with Roger), went to college together, and both loathe our IT jobs together.

So, what can we expect from this trip? Well, it’s mostly poker and fishing with some horse shoes on the side. There will be drinking. There might be some magical tea passed around. Fish might actually be caught. There will be grilling and a lot of chilling.

Danny is getting married next month too. This means, there might be a trip to Charlestown for a bachelor party. This means a redneck version of The Procedure. Poker, Booze, Strippers… not necessarily in that order.

Charlestown has strip clubs and a casino. I’m pretty sure they are running table games now that they are legal too. If that’s the case and if the Powerball winner that lives beside the cabin comes along, I will try for a stake in the highest stakes game they spread. If Mr. Powerball gets hammered and starts handing out cash like he did last time this mini-trip happened, then that cash will skip the strippers’ grubby mitts and land in my pocket so I can stake myself :) That’s how I roll. I don’t care much for Mr. Powerball anyway. He’s a pill popping douche who likes to show off his money :)

Vacation Fail

noreply@blogger.com (Predator314) — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 13:53:00 +0000

I’m 2 weeks off a vacation and now I have another one scheduled in 3 more weeks. However, I’m not sure if it’s going to happen at this point. For like the past 15 years, a bunch of us friends pack up the vehicles and head for Front Royal, VA to do some fishing. It looks like perhaps last year was our LAST year doing this trip. Nobody seems to be able to get their shit together this year and get the days straight (we’ve been going the first full week in August for the past 15 years). The guy that owns the cabin just married the anti-Christ. They have a child that was born back in December. So that complicates the issue. However, the real reason is that the guy is a superintendent at a popular WV state park and has a hard time with his schedule during the summer. In short, he has managed himself into a corner where nothing gets done if he’s not there. So he has to work 7 days a week during the summer. I don’t know about him, but I went to college so I could get a job where I didn’t have to do such things.

So here I sit again, wondering what vacation #2 will bring. Vacation #1 was decent in the beginning because my Dad and I took the boat out fishing for a few days. Vacation #1 was supposed to be Bonarroo, but I really enjoyed my time with my Dad. More so than I would have with a bunch of filthy hippies. We might sneak the boat out during this vacation too if his work schedule permits. If not, then I’m not sure what I can do. I really don’t want to spend another vacation sitting around the house.

I’m actually going to get with some other friends and see about maybe putting together a beach trip. There are issues with that as well because one of the guys is starting school that following week, so I’m not sure about that either.

Long story, short… Vacation plans are “iffy” at best this year. Getting old is gay.