DonkeySquad

I have been staying up late every night to watch the Olympics.  It would not be a big deal if I did not have to get up at 6:15am every morning.  I am only getting 4-6 hrs of sleep every night and it is starting to ware on me.  I just can’t stop watching.

I justify it by saying “the Olympics only come once every 4-years so I can stay up and watch”.  I have also been really busy with other projects as well so it was had a compound effect on me.  I feel like all I have been doing this week is working and watching the Olympics.  It has left me no time to play poker, watch training videos, or even read 2+2 or stoxpoker blog.

Speaking of the Olympics, Usian Bolt is amazing.  I love the track and field events and it is crazy how much faster Bolt is then his competition.  He easily broke the 100m world record.  But the big news is the 200m where he broke the world record set by Michael Johnson.  Most experts though that no one would be able to break that record for many more years, but Bolt proved them wrong.  Bolt was even running into a head wind so I think he could go lower in both the 100m and 200m.  I was just an amazing race.

I will be happy and sad when the Olympics are gone, but I still have a few more days to enjoy all the great competition as well as the pain of getting up in the morning with 4 hours of sleep.  I am tired just from watching the Olympics.

After church on Sunday, I saw a few old friends that I play some home games with.  They want to get together and play some poker again.  The other surprising thing was that they both want to start playing more as a part time job.

Now, I know that they both totally overestimate there poker abilities, as do I, but they are perfect for this site since they would be consider donkeys at this point in there poker life.  I am not trying to put down or offend them, but I just want to be realistic.  I would say that they are long shots to do well in poker, or even be able to put in the hours to develop there game, but you never know.

Tommy Ngo actually could be good if he learns the game and puts in some time.  He as fearless and good at adjusting to his opponents.

Isaac is the other guy that wants to play part-time.  I have not played much with him so I don’t assume much from his skills.

I would love them to join me on my attempt to be a pro poker player and also to write on this blog.  They can’t be any worse writers than I am so by default it should only add to the quality of the blog.

The long weekend was fun and it was also my b-day on the 1st.  My wife took me out to the Chart House.  I had Steaks and Lobster tail.  It was the first time I had lobster and it was really good, though I think the Steak from Fix in Vegas was better.  For the 4th I went to a lagoon with my friends.  My wife was not feeling good, so she said back at the house and let me hang with the guys.  They grilled up some food and we watched the fireworks.  I wish my wife was there, but it was fun anyways.

At the BBQ, we pretty much just chilled, but we did have a stupid guy moment.  It was getting dark and we were getting ready to clean up before the fireworks show.  There was a cooler with some ice water in it and Jawn thought it would be fun to see how long he could put his hand in there.  Well, one thing lead to another and all of us were trying to see who could last the longest.  I was the winner with a 56sec and 60 sec time.  I could have gone longer, but I did not want anything seriously bad to happen to me.  We were not sure how save it was, but it sure was funny to see everyone try and it broke the boredom of the day.

Next year, we are going to make a whole event out of it.   Stupid Guy Events or something like that.  The title is a work-in-progress.  It should be fun and will test us all on how Stupid we are.

Poker has been on a stand still.  I have been reading a lot on poker and been watching a lot more videos, but just have not put in the hands yet.  I have also been very busy with my photography.  We will see how this week goes.  Maybe I will get the itch again and start putting in some hours.

Well, this is obvious to any serious poker player, but the WSOP 2008 started on May 31, 2008 and goes until Mid July.  I have never played any WSOP event or even been to Vegas when WSOP was going on.  My goal is to play in a WSOP event in either 2009 or 2010.  I really want to go down and watch next year if I don’t qualify to play.

From what I have heard, this WSOP is running very well and it as big as ever.  The big news is that the final table of the main event will be postponed until Oct.  It will be broadcasted almost live (1-day behind).  There is a lot of debate on if this is great move or a bad idea.  I think it is great for poker and also great for the players involved.

The Constanza_G prop bet is almost over and it was not the summer of George (seinfeld quote).  He pretty much lost the bet, even though there is still like 3-days left.  I think he “only” made $20,000.  So he is still up for the month, but only like $4,500 + rakeback. 

WCGRiver has just started a prop bet today.  I have his web cam on the sidebar of my blog (replacing Constaza_G).  His bet is at the NL25 tables, but he has to win $10,000 in a month.  It seems like this bet is harder, yet WCGRiver is much more of a grinder and will be putting in 20,000 hand days consistently.   These are always fun to watch. 

WCGRiver offical Thread: http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showthread.php?t=208939

Monday is Memorial Day and I have the day off of my day job.  I have no plans for that day until 6pm so I am going to use this day-off to use for a mock pro day.  I am going to get up on Monday and act as if I was a Pro poker player.  I am going to grind out 8+ hours on Monday and try to do it as a job.  My plan is to get up at 6:30am, take a shower and get ready.  I am going to fire up my computer and start datamining the NL25 table at around 7am. 

I plan on starting play 4 to 8 tables on NL25 starting at 8am.  I want to play for 4-hours and have a 1 hour break.  Than I plan on putting another 4-hours at the $11 SNG’s table.  I think I will play 6 to 10 at a time.  I want to start slowly and work my way up to more tables as the day goes on.