Sunday, March 29, 2009

poker?

poker what is that? i haven't really played in close to a month. i had to cash out my STARS account for some personal expenses. honestly though, i doubt i would even have played. guess that would be part of playing positive EV hours. i do have a plan for when i get the urge to play again. i have FPP's on stars i plan to use then to play satellites and use those to build up from ZERO. i just need the motivation to do this.

so what have i been doing? well following baseball. playing the new MLB'09 game. which is the NUTS btw. getting back into fantasy baseball. catching up on t.v. shows i had DVR'd. spending time with my daughter. and just been plain old tired after working.

i am really getting pretty psyched about baseball this season. now that the home run outburst is gone. adios steroid!! pitching and fielding matters again. i miss the days of baseball during the 80's. and i think they are back.

Wednesday, March 18, 2009

global warming!!

OTTAWA (AFP) – A group of stranded British explorers fighting to survive at the North Pole received vital supplies of food, fuel and equipment Wednesday after a mission hampered by bad weather finally reached them, organizers of the aid effort said.

An airplane laden with supplies flew from the remote Inuit hamlet of Resolute on Cornwallis Island in northern Canada and reached the team at 2115 GMT.

The group -- Pen Hadow, Martin Hartley and Ann Daniels -- set off on an 85-day hike to the North Pole on February 28 to measure the thickness of sea ice, but bad weather has hampered supply flights.

They were down to half-rations and battling desperate sub-zero weather conditions, waiting for a break in the weather for a plane to reach them.

Hadow, speaking after the pilot made a safe landing, recounted how it has been a "pretty grim time waiting for the weather to lift."

The North Pole, he said, is "no place to just hang around" when temperatures drop below minus 40 degrees Celsius -- equivalent to minus 40 degrees Fahrenheit.

"The team could not afford to move without our essential kit, food, fuel and batteries for our survey and communications gear," he said.

"All of us are just wanting to get going quickly and have a high calorie meal to fuel ourselves up."

The resupply flight was to return with scientific data collected by the team as part of an effort to capture data on floating ice in the Arctic Ocean.

The team aims to gather data to complement satellite and submarine observations to measure the sea ice and plot how fast it is disappearing during their 850-kilometer (530-mile) trek.

Global warming is believed to be the main culprit in the rapidly melting north polar ice cap that is freeing up new sea routes and untapped mineral resources on the ocean bottom.

"It's a relief to have finally get the plane down. The longer we were forced to delay by the weather the worse we knew it would get for the team," Simon Harris-Ward said Wednesday in a statement from the London headquarters of the Catlin Arctic Survey.

The expedition now expects to arrive at the North Pole in late May.

Three earlier flight to drop food supplies to the team had to turn back because of bad weather.

In an earlier statement, Hadow described the team's desperate plight.

"We're hungry, the cold is relentless, our sleeping bags are full of ice and because we're not moving, the colder we get," he said.



REALLY??

Thursday, March 12, 2009

street kings review / MLB 09'

very under rated movie. decent amount of star power. James Ellroy wrote it. good story. i liked Keanu Reeves character. seemed to be more complex & conflicted than i thought it would be. i didn't have high expectations for this movie. i think that's why i liked it. i always enjoy movies more when i hear nothing about them and expect very little.

i bought the new MLB 09' last week. last years version was very good. this years is even better. it is almost a simulation game. that's how good it is.

graphics 10
sound 10
gameplay 10
replay value 10

tons of things you can do in the game. i am looking forward tototally geek out and download the song "WILD THING" put it in the game for when my closer comes to the mound. the amount of things you can customize is cool. franchise mode is unreal they have the rule 5 draft in it!! if ya like video games and baseball get this game. this is a consloe seller type of game.

Tuesday, March 10, 2009

frustration & elation

well i played the league tonight. nothing to really speak of. went out 1st. had 2 decent hands and lost. oh well. so i decided to play some PLO SNG tonight. i kept getting disconnected. yes. right on the bubble. so i decided i wasn't gonna deal with the disconnect. i was gonna play some 6-max cash. so i loaded up hold em manager. screeech. except it won't load up. i go to the H.M. site. seems the newest VISTA update has fucked up H.M. i saw they figure it out but i don't know how to do that stuff. so i need the wife to fix it or have them TEAMVIEWER it up for me.

i did play PLO 6 max real quick earlier today though. and this happened.



Dear themerk08,

Congratulations! You have fully earned your Deposit Bonus. Your
PokerStars account has been credited in the amount of $150.00.

Thanks for participating in the PokerStars World Record Week 25% Reload Deposit Bonus, and
we'll see you at the tables.

The PokerStars Cashier

well maybe i will go play something other than 6-max.

Sunday, March 8, 2009

past week and other ramblings...

it has been a very unpoker like week. guess that is due to vacation. haven't played online since tuesday night donkfest league. took 2nd in that. my buddy from MD came up and stayed with me since tuesday night. we played the new MLB '09. WOW! talk about realistic. we pretty much played that for like 4 days straight. that and the occassional game of MADDEN. and drank lots o' BUUUUUUUR, and girly drinks for him.

we did happen to find time to make it out to play a live 3/6 H.O.R.S.E. game and 3/6H.O. that was cool since i haven't played a "live cash" game since ooooo. October!! probly the longest strech since i started playing poker. i was on fire in the HORSE up over $200 playing 6 handed. then that table broke and we played H.O. 10 handed. lost a good chunk i was as flop dead as you could get. still left up $65. and had a blast playing poker with my old poker spouse. (Greg) :)

i still have off till the 17th. i plan on finally watching all those episodes of 24 from this season that i havent seen yet still. going to see THE WATCHMEN Friday with my jeff and josh. that should be totally comic book geekiness/drunkeness.

i would like to grind online at some point this week. i am sooo close to clearing that $150 STARS bonus. i would like to try and keep my silver star status. doubt it will happen though. don't feel like it all right now. and i said one of my goals was to play +EV hours. which means playing when my head is really into it.

looking forward to going totall MLB '09 geek. i reallized how out of touch i am with MLB nowadays. i used to be a total baseball nerd. then i got married and had our daughter and it became all football. baseball just sort of fadded out of my life. but with this game and a fantasy baseball draft waiting in the wings i really would like to back into it. whats funny is during the "steriod"era i lost intrest. i loved the 2b that would hit .250 hit 10HR and field like a god on turf. i loved the closer that would get K's like they were going out of style. my favs back in my day were Mitch Williams, Rob Dibble and the nasty boys Calvin Schiraldi. i loved my red sox form the late 80's. baseball was just so pure and awesome back then.

i remember playing purse the pennant with Ruben. we would spend hours playing that game. talk about 2 baseball nerds. while other high schoolers were going out meeting chicks, drinking & doing what "normal" kids would do we would play that game at his kitchen table ALL WEEKEND LONG. wouldn't trade those days away for anything.

wow is this getting long. lol

lastly i joined facebook this past week. so my 3 readers now have company as i probly picked up a 4th reader. and for all of you that haven't heard or seen me since high school,military,maryland or whatever else.

hey.

yup i am a poker geek.

Tuesday, March 3, 2009

grinding 10nl

well i got in the mood to play 6-max 10nl today/tonight. did very well. i went back to playing my style as opposed to the style i have seen in the vids. i do incorporate elements of the styles i have seen. i also don't rely on the HUD as much. i try not to just "get it all in" and did well. i played almost 1000 hands. only 4 tabled. like i said before i know playing more than 4 and i go to shit.

i only got it in bad i time and i drew out(fruuush). i guess it is better to try to play all the streets and go with my gut. i do feel like i got pushed off a few hands but they weren't very strong i was just up against a few maniacs. and i didn't realize it till after i checked my HUD. thats fine though. i put their names in my search so i will look for them next time. i am getting quit the list of names so that will help.

i watched the 1st episode of high stakes poker tonight also. love that show. great mix of players in the game. only wish they would muck BENZA & KAPLAN. so anoying. possibly worse than Norman Chad.

well heres my graph for tonight. wOOOOT!

Monday, March 2, 2009

retract that

just looked at my stars account today. lol i am still a silver star! they must have applied the new standards to this past month. cool. i didn't play at all yesterday. but i plan on playing some tonight later. that's it.