All This Bush Hate...

I seriously don't get all of the belated, hackneyed hate and cheap shots against George Bush that are still going on today. Pink's latest song, "Mr. President," makes my blood boil in how cliche, uncreative and speculative it is when it comes to criticizing the Bush Administration.

Yeah, Bush will probably go down as one of the worst presidents of all time. And yeah, he's one of the few people in the world who I would punch in the face if I had the chance.

But the fact is that he's just over-matched as a leader and an individual. He doesn't have the tools, the smarts or the foresight to be President of the United States, and he never did. It wasn't his fault that he was put in to office, it was the American people's fault for being such idiots and electing him in the first place, TWICE. To his credit, he's a good people person and has a certain charisma to him (particularly if you live south of the Mason-Dixon line and are somewhat illiterate), but he never should have been president. End of story.

Which is why all this belated and stupid Bush hate almost pisses me off more than Bush himself. Let's not hate him anymore; let's just celebrate that he's going to be out in a year's time. Sounds good to me.

In other news, I've been swingy swingy swingy in poker. Still up like 600 for the month but it's been a total roller coaster ride. I've been playing my B game most of the time, so I will look to get that back in shape.

I was also at the mall the other day in a mentally altered state and discovered this amazing foot massager at Brookstones. I know how completely retarded, lame and gay it sounds to have a foot massager, but it just feels so good/relaxing. It costs 500; if I make X number of dollars this year then I'm bringing it up to Stanford... LOL, so that'll be my motivation for the rest of summer: a foot massager. I'm pretty weird.

Today was interesting...

I missed work today. Well, kind of.

I showed up for an hour but still felt like shit after throwing up/headache yesterday so they told me to go home. I didn't have much to do anyway; tomorrow, for once, is an actually important day for work so it was probably best to rest up today.

I got home, took a niiice 2 hour nap...It was nice because I usually have a tough time napping. I had a crazy dream about playing basketball and being charged by cops for trespassing. I flipped out at the cop, not physically, but with a verbal tirade and let him know how hypocritical, idiotic and ignorant I thought he was. Then I threatened to sue, sure of my case. Then I woke up.

LOL

I guess in a Freudian sense you could analyze this as an upheaval against authority figures in my life, which is definitely a possibility. I am still an adolescent, after all.

It was a vivid dream though, which was cool. I'm still waiting for one of those elusive lucid dreams, but it'll come someday.

I got to hang out with a couple of old friends from high school back at my place in the afternoon, which was tight. Nothing like kickin' back over a joint and chilling at my pool...

As for poker, today was hellllla swingy but I'm still winning this month. I need to stop bluffing =)

Anyway, here's the graph for the month so far after about 9 hours of play:



AND CONGRATS TO BARRY BONDS TODAY. NEW HOME RUN CHAMP... SHIP IT

They Always Come Back...Robustoland or BUST

So after taking a general break from online poker for this whole year, and a complete break over the beginning of summer (didn't play, read hands or even visit the forums at twoplustwo.com), I got the itch a few weeks ago and checked my PokerStars account.

I had 80 dollars in it. I saw a $109 multi-table tournament starting up in five minutes, and knew that I had to play it. I went to 2/4, stole the blinds after going all in preflop several times and soon had 115.

Long story short, I final-tabled the tournament for $1k that night.

In the last few weeks, I've been playing here and there but I've decided to take poker seriously again for the month of August.

I'll be playing .5/1 ($100 buy-in) at PokerStars, ten and 12-tabling the games like no other. Ten and 12-tabling sounds ridiculously insane, but it's really not that hard as at the level of .5/1, the game is completely mechanical and so many of the people play totally transparent. Also, playing so many tables keeps me from tilting and playing off my A-game--which is the only real problem I have had as a poker player.

And as I've found in the last week or so, the games are still pretty soft and there's still a shit ton of money to be made in online poker--my hourly rate at .5/1 is easily over $100, and with my current sample size of 5,000 hands in the last week, it's at ~$130 an hour.

I'll be updating this blog regularly with how things are going. Hopefully it'll motivate me and keep me from tilting or whatever like I always have done in the past.

I'm working a 9-5 and have writing gigs on the side, but it shouldn't be impossible. I'm gonna try to play 60k hands this month. 12-tabling, that comes out to an average of 2 hours a day. My social life shouldn't be hurt either--I'm just going to manage my time better and stop wasting time on facebook/aim etc. Realistically, I won't reach 60k hands for the month, but it's still worth setting the goal.

Anyway, here's to my journey back to Robustoland...HOLLLAAAA

AUGUST so far:
5.5 hours, 5,100 hands, +725 profit.

I'm getting a new car...

As long as everything falls through, I'm pretty sure that I'm going to the dealership to get a 2007 Mazda 3 tomorrow. I can't even begin to express how excited I am. SHIP IT!!!!!!!