So, I had a million things I could possibly write this blog about. I'll skip them and tell a very annoying story from my life. (cliffs: poker, playing well, running good, still not winning all the money, but getting there)

I see a Chiropractor from time to time. I saw one when I was younger. I have a great deal of neck and back problems (a military neck that really makes it difficult to look down, or even left or right, or keep my head/neck in any position except straight ahead with a slight curvature). I have bad posture. I realize that Chiropractors are probably mostly a hoax-- they went to school in a frickin' strip mall! But, I feel a little bit better after I see one, usually. I think it gives me a little bit of piece of mind or something, and if there is even a 1% chance that it's helping me feel 1% better, it's worth some frivolous amount of money that I pay for it. That's me squashing the comments section of my blog from debating the validity of seeing a chiropractor so that everyone can focus on how annoying this story is.

The Chiropractor's office calls me about once a month to remind me that I haven't been in for a while. I know that I haven't been in for a while. I haven't been in town for a while. They call me all the time, just to check up on me. Gee, those guys are really nice. Really just all around swell people. They're certainly good (...at trying to solicit my business). They frequently call me early in the morning when I'm on the West coast. Sometimes I roll over and answer. I know what it's about, I ask them nicely to stop calling, I tell them I'll be in when I'm in town.

I pay my balance there infrequently-ish. Usually every 3 or 4 visits. It's not a big deal, the balance hardly ever reaches three figures, and I just swipe my credit card when I think about it or I'm not in a rush. They know me and I know them, I've been going there for probably about a year (and we have an intimate phone relationship, as previously outlined).

When I was gone for 8-12 weeks or whatever this summer, apparently they started to send me bills. I usually only skim through my mail anyways (of course I did not do this while I was 1500 miles away because I have not acquired that power yet), and I would always ignore mail from them anyways. Once they send me so much freakin' junk mail soliciting my business, I just stopped opening mail from their office. Much like the Boy Who Cried Wolf, this is a case of the Chiropractic Clinic Who Cried Pay Me.

I was shuffled to a back office, out of the harm of the lay people, to be told that my bill was sent to a collection agency. My first reaction was [IMG]this[/IMG], but I eventually realized that this was actually happening. No problem-- I paid them the money I owed them, plus $25 for the collection agency or whatever, and I'm all paid up.

As we're walking back to the front counter, I comment to the (girl wearing the nurse clothing looking stuff... assistant?) that it's too bad they never called me about this, because I could have gotten it paid over the phone. I make sure to remind her how many times they've called me to remind me I should come in soon, yet they couldn't make a call to me to let me know that I hadn't paid my bill before I left town, and that soon debt collectors would be coming my way with baseball bats. She looks at me, with a straight face, and says:

"But there'd be so many people to call.." (She is assumedly talking about people who need to pay their bill.)

It's too bad that logic evades her, because she's super cute (but married, I think). In 2010, how do things like this even happen?

Ahhh, a day in the life...

Hey, I finally booked a nice winning session today a poker. Even LOL SAMPLE SIZE can't keep me from thinking that I'm playing really well. Poker has been pretty fun again. NLHE is fun and it's running (for the most part). Hopefully in the next few weeks I'll have all my hands in my HEM back in Indiana and I can throw up a screen shot.

I'm in Vegas now and I was lucky enough to be on a poker TV cash game show. It'll probably air in a few months, but it was an awesome experience and everyone involved was very cool. Sorry, can't say much more than that!

On the Leggo front-- I made a high stakes video today at 25-50 and 50-1 that should go up in the next few days. We're also going to plug two holes in the next two weeks-- a MSNL HU specialist and a PLO specialist. Both of them come with exceptional results over the course of the last few years. I'm very excited-- you can see that there are no filler videos at Leggo, we bring the heat, imo.

I guess I promised nothing but visions of sugar plums in this blog, but the White Sox have been depressing lately. I guess I can't complain too much since they had such a good run in the middle of the year, but I just hope they turn around the awful baseball. It's tough to watch a team have the winning run thrown out at the plate when less than 2 outs and have a bullpen that was once a strength become a weakness.

I leave you with one final, awesome youtube clip.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Sgj78QG9Bg

First off-- I'm a frequent guest on the 2+2 Pokercast, but this week was a particularly long stint talking about the Durrrr Challenge. I always enjoy talking to Mike and Adam because they ask good questions and seem to really enjoy what they're doing.

I've been playing poker lately (wtf?). It's been a few weeks, and I'm proud to report that the games are good. It seems that you can actually get people to play you if you try hard enough. Sure, it's not what it once was, but if you want to succeed in poker you can-- and when you get to 10-20 and 25-50, there'll be beatable games waiting for you, imo. The key is that at least I'm finally playing a reasonable volume. I might keep winning at 10-20 and 25-50 and losing at 50-100 and 100-200, but the fact is that the latter group is just going to have a tenth the sample size. Nothing I can do about that.

Yesterday I played really, really well-- and only won $2k (ran about $40k below EV, small sample size in the 50-1 games). Today, I played pretty poorly. If yesterday was my A game, today might have been my C game. I really hate when that happens, but I quit pretty quickly today-- and up $15k! Is that ironic Bobbo?!

Bonus hand for funsies:

Full Tilt, $25/$50 NL Hold'em Cash Game, 4 Players
LeggoPoker.com - Hand History Converter

BB: $6,521
UTG: $9,349
BTN: $8,394
Hero (SB): $5,000

Pre-Flop: A Q dealt to Hero (SB)
2 folds, Hero raises to $150, BB raises to $550, Hero raises to $1,255, BB calls $730

Flop: ($2,560) T 6 7 (2 Players)
Hero checks, BB checks

Turn: ($2,560) 8 (2 Players)
Hero checks, BB bets $650, Hero calls $650

River: ($3,860) 7 (2 Players)
Hero checks, BB bets $3,925, Hero calls $3,070 and is All-In

Results: $10,000 Pot ($2 Rake)
BB showed J 5 and LOST (-$4,950 NET)
Hero showed A Q and WON $9,998 (+$5,023 NET)

• I can see my television from my bathroom by way of the mirror. I thought it was quite weird when A-Rod ran to third after his 600th homerun, though.
  
• One of the scariest things that can happen on a hot summer day is to think you might have lost a Raisenette in your car.
  
• Butler keeps sending me Alumni stuff-- do you think if I start giving them money or responding to it they'll just send me a degree?
  
• Check out chipotlefan.com, now there's a group of people I can related to. [1]
  
• Note to self: next time you think your phone might be breaking, don't peel away the layers until it actually is broken.
  
• I recently made a 10-20 video scheduled to come out around the middle of next week. It's very good, even by my standards.

[1] Sample post from chipotlefan.com:

I was lucky enough to have the newest acceptor of the Durrrr Challenge on our most recent Leggocast. It is a real fucken cool interview and Dan was more willing than I thought he'd be to talk about a bunch of cool aspects of the challenge. It's definitely worth a listen, and I'll have the popcorn out to watch him battle it out with Durrrr when it goes down.

Leggocast #6: Jungleman

This America, mang.



And the remix...



Sometimes I have to pinch myself.

Unlucky! Sometimes it's funny how life works. I lost $70k today playing 100-200, after winning 20 at 10-20 and 25-50. I have been playing so well it's almost surreal when a shot like that goes poorly, especially considering how unbelievable the games were. These games were much better than your standard 5-10 or 10-20 game, so it's particularly disappointing when a 200 hand sample goes just about as poorly as a 200 hand sample could go. It's also real unfortunate when I had plans tonight and they sort of went up in smoke around the time the 100-200 games started. When you look at games like these, anything above 10-20 really, you realize that the people who run good in the short term are the ones who are going to look like geniuses. A 100k hand sample is barely significant and I don't think you could play that many hands at 100-200 in an entire year, even if you were on the lookout for games at all hours.

Sigh.

In other news, I'm back in Indy a little earlier than expected. It's weird to be home, I don't really know how to describe it. Things feel different when you've been away for a while. The weather is terrible, it was 98 or something today and humid as hell. It's such an unpleasant heat, especially after getting used to the dry heat in Vegas. My schedule is of course all fucked up, but when I am awake during the daytime, I don't want to leave the house.

Speaking of which, my roommate must either be the dumbest person alive or think I'm the dumbest person alive. He pays the utility bills, so he turns the air off when he leaves the house. When he goes away for the weekend, he thinks that having the house on 78 degrees won't bother me-- wtf? I usually don't notice the temperature change until I start sweating a little bit. I'm turning that motherfucker down to 68, I hope our bill is a zillion dollars this month.

Peace out homie.

After my last blog, I had some people tell me to get off the ledge. I can assure you all that was never the case, I just have a flare for the dramatic and a tendency to write blogs when I'm annoyed by something.

That isn't the case today, as I'm wrapping up another Summer in desert on a high note.

I'm pretty happy with the way life has been going; although I'm a stickler for perfection and could certainly be more pleased with my diet, poker work ethic, and social life. I'm optimistic for the future. After a few vacations, I plan on getting on the midstakes PLO grind. I look forward to new challenges when NLHE isn't running. A couple other things have me excited as well that I can't talk about just yet.

I had another chance to check out the NBA Summer League today. It was fun to watch and got me excited to do some player evaluation one day in the basketball world. I haven't decided how I'm going to go about doing this just yet, but it's almost certainly in my future.

Tonight we went to see Inception. It seems like it's one of the most 'hyped' movies in quite some time and it has the pedigree to be a blockbuster. I was pleased with it because it was interesting and kept me entertained. A movie like that seems destined to alienate its' audience by trying too hard (FPS for movies!), but I think it does a reasonable job of relating to a wide array of movie-goers.

Most importantly, I'm concentrating on living my life actively. I spend (spent) too much time just browsing the internet, waiting for something interesting to happen. The revelation that I had about this was that I was essentially waiting to read something that happened in someone else's life. Why though? I'm a happenin' guy, I can make things happen, I'm a mover and shaker myself. My goal is just to do something more often. Take people up on their offer to go out more often, be productive and grind Leggo stuff, workout or play sports, even grab a book to read. There's a lotta shit to do in life and (relatively speaking) not a lot of time to do it.

You either get busy livin' or get busy dyin'.

The WSOP is finally over for me. I'm really relieved, in many ways. I didn't play my A-game in the Main Event, I don't even know if I quite played my A-game in the 25k, I'd say it was more like B level material to be honest. That still makes me better than 95% of the field, but not enough to overcome what needed to be overcome.

This whole summer has been pretty mediocre. It has been fun, I suppose, but not really productive. I took a lot of steps back in figuring out where I am in life and where I want to be. I lingered and put off a lot of questions and didn't get a lot of answers. All those things are for a much deeper blog.

For now, I will just say that I need to apologize for the lack of videos lately. We've been having crazy amounts of technical difficulties on our side and on the server's side. To try to make up for it, I promise I'll put out four (4) videos this month (July). I'll probably have to make 6 in order to get 4 that work, but that isn't a problem.

I'm going to sleep. I feel like hell and I hate live poker and the time and money I've wasted on it this year. I think maybe Vegas is to blame for all of this.

Man, what a rough summer. On top of the fact that we only have one final table and no bracelets, a bunch of us are down six figures, and no one made day two in the 25k, we have lost two videos this week to technical difficulties (improper saving, computer restarting as soon as the video is finished, etc.). It's just really been depressing. Anything related to poker (or poker videos!) has gone absolutely as poorly as possible.

Outside of poker life is okay, but a little hectic from time to time. It's pretty hard living in a house with a lot of people and I've learned that my personality is not cut out for it. I'm not quite a loaner but I like to be alone, if that makes any sense. You wouldn't guess it by meeting me, but a lot of things tilt me. I spend a lot of my life controlling my emotions and becoming callous to such things.

I've met some pretty cool people this summer, but I'm extremely ready for it to be over. I can't wait to get back into a routine which involves better influences on my diet, my exercising and sleeping habits, and my poker and business work ethic.

I'm sure I'll just win the Main Event and be able to write a blog with a little better tone