What do people do while 2+2 is down? Browse Leggo, I hope, but maybe not—2+2 is a fix unlike any other. I don’t even think there is any strategy on 2+2 anymore, but you can sure get your fix for anything else. Everything from talking about how good people are at poker to sports to news, views, and gossip (speaking of which, where are people talking about how 2+2 is down now that 2+2 is down? Seems like a paradox or something [1]).

It came at a good time for me, as my internet time has been pretty limited the last two weeks. I went to Miami for a WPT last week, where I just barely faded the mincash and got 9th in a ~100 person 2k where first was like 70k. Losing flips in situations like that are annoying, but it’s encouraging that I’m multi-daying nearly every tournament I play these days, I feel almost as optimistic as when Chewy just thinks he’s going to win everything. Almost.

I then bagged for two straight days and kinda almost but not really bubbled the Main after playing pretty good poker and just having everything go wrong on Day 3. Day 3 is a bad day to have everything go wrong, but I guess Day 4 is a pretty bad day to have everything go wrong too. And I can say from experience that Day 6 is a bad day to have things go wrong as well, and it’s hard to say that you’d rather Day 3, 4, or 6 go well than Day 1, because the formers cannot be had without latter. But I digress [2].

From Miami I walked to Cancun [3], where I was standing up in a wedding. Destination weddings seem pretty hit or miss, but this one slammed it out of the park. My friend is somewhat connected to the poker community and used to play professionally, so there were some familiar Leggoites in attendance. Combined with our mutual friends from home, it was an elite crew of shenanigans at a resort where everything was free [4]. As I get older I think I write quite a bit less about my personal life in my blog, but I felt like this was a trip that had to be at least cliffnoted. The resort was a 5 star [5] couples resort [6] that was all-inclusive. The staff was insanely helpful at all times, and they were not shy about providing sufficient 24 hour room service complete with chicken nuggets and champagne [7]. I cannot stress enough how good the staff was. I anticipated some laziness or aloofness since everything was “included,” but everyone was personal—one girl must’ve seen me 4 times throughout the trip, I never recognized her because she was in a million different uniforms [8], but she always knew who I was. The name of the place was Sun Palace. I am not a Sun Palace affiliate, but if you’re looking for a long weekend getaway with your girl, you should go here.

On the trip we did a bit of an expedition where we went on ATVs, ziplined, and jumped into caves. I jumped from 52 feet, which was the highest platform they had, and I probably would have jumped from as high as they told me it was okay to jump from, because that’s my style. Most of the group jumped from 37 foot platform, but I’m a showoff and I like heights [9], so I couldn’t resist. The ziplining was pretty tame, but certainly cool enough, and the ATVs were fast. Most people told me not to leave the resort in Mexico because I’ll get abducted, but I faded that, so I’ve got that goin’ for me, which is nice.

I’m also excited to start playing online poker again. I keep saying that I just want to start playing 5-10+ again, but it always takes a few weeks for me to really get back in the swing of things, and by that time I’m going back to the States for whatever reason. I’m pretty set on going abroad next year and staying there for a good period of time (maybe 3 months) so I can just put in 100-200k hands on Stars and have that be that bulk of my online poker playing for the next calendar year. As always, I try not to plan too far in advance.

I am a little out of the loop I suppose, but last week was Mojito Tuesday, the day the we found out Stars is (probably? maybe?) buying Full Tilt, and in some way, shape, or form, we’re getting some of our pesos [10] back. Even if that solution does not turn out to be perfect, having Stars lined up to do something is better than having a French gangster lined up to do something, imo. Cheers to April 24th, forever known as Mojito Tuesday (assuming we get our pesos back—actually, even if we don’t, Mojito Tuesday will just take on an entirely different connotation, and we’ll drink until we can’t feel feelings anymore).

[1] The author is aware this is a bad example of a paradox, but it does seem a little paradoxical, or something.

[2] I hate when people say “But I digress.”

[3] I did not walk to Cancun from Miami. I actually flew (in a plane).

[4] Everything was actually $400 per night.

[5] I don’t actually know if this was true or not, but GirlChewy mentioned that it was, and although women are almost exclusively the devil, she seems to be on the straight and narrow.

[6] I went stag and chopped a room with a friend; a few bridesmaids went stag. It all worked out A-OK.

[7] At least a dozen bottles of champagne were ordered during and half-drank or not drank at all. At one point we ordered two to the room complete with 8 glasses for pre-gaming and we completely forgot about it.

[8] Or maybe I’m racist and all Mexican women look alike. But seriously, she hosted karaoke, put on a fire show, and dealt blackjack. Everytime she said my name I was taken aback and tried to figure how who she was and why she remembered my name from a 37 second conversation on the first night of my stay.

[9] Relative to the rest of the population. No one likes heights, but I don’t necessarily dislike them, and I like things that get me out of my comfort zone, that is why I bluff a lot (and in bad spots).

[10] I’m still in Mexico.