Saturday, November 11, 2006

i haven't written in a while. i'd apologize, but no one has complained, so fuck you all.

FTOPS is starting tomorrow, and i'm drinking heavily to celebrate. heavily. i haven't really tied one on in a while, and my tolerance is just pitiful. i admit it--three beers and i can barely see straight, despite the eloquence my readership has come to expect: quite the far cry from my senior year of near-perfect pub attendance, i must say. but drinking is awesome, quite. i nearly forgot that over the course of the last couple months.

anyway, i'll be playing all the events, and hope that FTOPS goes much better than WCOOP. read: i hope that i can win the one all in as an 80% favorite that i need to so that i can actually make some money. i've played a few tourneys to warm up, and they've gone well. 3/5 cashes, one 5th place. PLO8 is the first event, and probably my best tournament game, so i'm really looking forward to hitting the ground running. i've been playing a lot of PLO8 these days, and absolutely crushing it. after learning the intricacies of O8 through limit play and then going back to PLO8, it really seems like people are just playing with their cards face up. so yeah, hopefully i'll be getting off to a good start.

in other poker news, the bankroll has permitted moving back up to the best LO8 money on the net, which after my short return i have beaten to the tune of 75BB/100. that's obviously sustainable. and no, i'm not telling you where it is. you'll ruin it for me, and it's my bread and butter game.

i've also decided to make it (somewhat--no one reads this shit anyway, lol) public that i've taken on some students, all of whom are from FCP and really showing some progress since they've started working with me. this is a good thing, i think, since the one thing i really miss about grad school is teaching. i'm honestly quite proud of my students--they're working hard, asking the right sorts of questions, and learning a lot about general poker theory, the mental preparation part of the game, and the specifics of some new games. and most importantly, the group gets along great--really great--which is an absolutely necessary part of any good learning environment, IMHO. i'm not going to say who they are at this stage of the game, but they're fairly well-known FCP faces and really diligent as students, which is why i have nothing but good things to say about them.

outside of poker, i occasionally watch cnn and heard that we had this "election" thing recently. and i'm proud of you, america. honestly. i'll say significantly more about that when i'm less drunk, but for now i'll leave it at this (which, coincidentally, is really all my now-defunct thesis was ever trying to say--you guys may get excerpts later):

liberal, progressive: these are not bad words. don't ever let fox news tell you that they are. for whatever reason (by "whatever reason," i mean "money," of course), the right has claimed the exclusive privilege of defining the political rhetoric in america of late, and their equation of "extremism" with a genuine concern for civil liberties and the underprivileged in our society is one of the greatest tragedies in the history of the media. on tuesday america showed it was smarter than that, and for the first time in a while, i can say that i'm (relatively) proud to be an american.

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