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Crazy action, but what's new? Commerce is always hopping during February. I am getting lazy these days… I ac a trip to Carnival (Brazil) and mis week of the frenetic happenings. didn’t have to go through withdrawal. Yu aged to get a game or two going down th nice. Then back to LA.
I wish February at Commerce could be all year long, but that is just not the case. caught the last half of the side games and then had a go at the tourney. But I died outside of the money, and that was that. My girl, however, well, that was a different story. Jennifer beat out her old record of a deep fi nish in a 10k event. Back in Borgata she made it 15th, this time 12th. Hats off to my girl, I was on cloud nine that week.
After LA, it was off to Caesars Palace in Vegas for NBC’s National Heads-Up Championship. I cashed but somehow fell apart when it started to really matter. Heads up is a beautiful thing. And congrats to Chris Ferguson coming back from a defi cit to beat Andy Bloch in the finals.
With a bit of an opening in our schedule, we were able to make it to the Canadian Open Poker Headsip Main Event. For my girl and me it was an easy matter of getting on a plane and goin. but for the eventual winner Huck Seed it was a different matter altogether. I am fairly certain he has the record for most arduous journey ever to make it to a poker event. He encountered just about every obstacle imaginable. Your average humer would have given up with the amount of resistance he was getting. but Huck is not one to yield. He plowed on through, both in logistics of getting there and the field he had to beat once there. he and Yukon Brad were in the finals and regretfully I could not watch. i was trapped in a very sick $25/$50 Pot Limit Omaha game. I don't think either of them would have respected me much if I missed a hand in that game.
Oh yeah, and that was also the night where i hit a one-outer(where I only paid 3% of my stack to see if i could get it) to completely and fully destroy one of the guys who had a very decent stack. it was like a grenade launcher coming out of nowhere in CoD4.
Which brings me to a whole new random topic. Call of Duty 4 (CoD4), Modern Warfare. it is a first-person shooter game that works on my new Xbox 360. This game is sick. Really sick. It has been a long time since i was pulled in so voraciously by a game. In fact the last time it happened was poker and that was back in 1999. I am happy to report it has been going along rather nicely, however I am a bit nervous that I might be losing part of my life to this Call of Duty thing.
Call of Duty 4 is outright insane. Before a month ago, my exposure to video games was your basic stuff. Video games at the movies, pizza parlors, what have you. I had no idea that this alternate universe was as intense as it actually is. Thanks to the internet and genius game programmers, you are able to plug into unbelievably fun and amazingly realistic ground warfare scenarios. One of the very interesting things that I have learned about this game is that the reactions you get from people vary widely. From “Oh yeah, nearly lost my life to that game, very addictive, nearly killed my work and social life.” To “It is sad that you spend any time at all playing a video game.” To “What is your name on the system? We should join a clan and really kick some ass!” And then there are those who have no idea what you are talking about and that is the end of that. But enough on that. Back to poker.
Bay 101. A favorite of mine. The bounty thing is great. On Day 2, I had 85 times the big blind and things were moving along swimmingly. But hubris snuck up on me and my semi-big stack without warning. Yup, I managed to play an Ac Kc like a blundering idiot and was felted by aces. Blech. I exposed myself to a negative freeroll and got what I deserved. Pain. Just like in Call of Duty 4, a well-executed battle plan is often in the details and expecting the unexpected often gives you that extra shot at life. I didn’t listen and the grenade launcher nailed me in the ass. LOL!
And on a completely random note, I started reading a book called Born on A Blue Day. It is the story of a highly functioning autistic savant named Daniel Tammet. It is such a great book. Talk about a paradigm shift! I can’t even imagine seeing the world through this guy’s eyes. With each page turned, I am constantly reminded of how precious and fl eeting time and life is. Daniel (the autistic savant) tells of his childhood to his adult life, and somehow he brings you closer to his unique way of looking at things. At times you feel like you are fl oating alongside him as he recounts his life.
Let’s see, anything else. Oh yeah, one of my favorite moments this month was when Jennifer started talking about how time is a lot like a poker tournament. If you don’t do anything with it, you get blinded off and have nothing to show for it. And whether or not you use it (time) effectively, it still gets gobbled up. Just another reminder of how ephemeral the whole life thing is. It passes on by whether you use it effectively or not. Just a little wake up call on how important it is and that we should all use it as wisely as we can.
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