So it’s been one month since I last blogged and I have had a good January. The first weekend of the year I took down 2 tourneys for a total cash of about $2100($5 HORSE & $40 O8) which boosted my bankroll to about $4kish. I started intersession in school and too keep me away from distraction I withdrew about $3k and focused on school. I haven’t played in about 5 weeks till I started playing this week. I am up about $500, but I am rarely playing because I am trying to focus on school, and between that and working fulltime I have like zero time to do anything but sleep.
I recently started working out again. I started working out again in January and did one cycle of P90X which was super hard; I managed to shed about 20 pounds so that felt good. I decided that for myself this year I wanted to set some fitness goals. So I told myself I wanted to run at least 2 half marathons this year. I have started training for that and it’s been hard, intersession ends in 2 weeks so it should be easier after that since I will have school twice a week as opposed to 3 days consecutively right now. Ideally I would want to run before class so I can come home after and crash, so it’s pretty hard to stay motivated to work 9 hour days, come home eat dinner in 5 mins, take off to class for 3 hours and come home at 9pm and run 4 miles. So I am just looking forward to finishing with a passing grade and continue on my soul crushing path of owning school lol.
As far as personal life goes, I am really going through something at the moment, I am not too happy, but I mean I should be. I have everything going for me; I have a great job, good friends, great family and great goals. I guess to tell you the truth, I am bummed about being bored with my life right now, and having girlfriend problems doesn’t help. Lately I can barely get out of bed and it’s more than just being tired, I just don’t want to leave my room. I guess I am just wishing I didn’t have to work, I wish I could just go back to school fulltime, or just have a big score so I can pay off my car live with my parents and focus a 100% on school. Maybe I need to see someone about how I am feeling??? Who knows, maybe I will make a doctor’s appointment it’s been a year since my last physical. Sorry to get all whiney and emo.
Well I have a huge research paper due Thursday that obv I haven’t even read the short story yet. I think I plan on pulling an all-nighter tonight and knocking it out. I secretly just want to read the story and come into work and doing the writing here and focus on revising and editing and then Thursday turn it in and get an A. As soon as that paper gets done I am prob going to put in a nice amount of volume, I spent $600 on nonsense shopping clothes and shit this last weekend so I am looking to turn that shopping spree into a free roll lol. So I plan to make about $1k this week cash out and buy Mass Effect 2 for Xbox 360 and just play some video games this weekend and study for my final. This weekend though should be fun got invited to a couple of friends bday parties so I will be out in LA, and enjoying myself alcohol free of course. Well hope all you run good and play good just not against me, till then gg…

-Marky

Group Pics... Me in the middle OBV doing ridiculous shiet!!!!






Group Pic for nice Chrisitans... lolaments




Authors Note: I will do everything in my power to not sound like a pervert, or offend anyone with my account of how last night went, although I must warn you it usually doesn’t matter because that’s how I come off anyway. Also here is m pre-apology to boyfriends and girlfriends about how I describe your significant others. ENJOY!!!!!!!!!
So before I get into the bizz about last night let me preface by saying facebook is the way to find and stalk everyone you ever lost touch with, but anyway about a couple months ago my long lost 4th grade girlfriend lol Michelle got in contact with me about meeting up with old friends from elementary school. I thought “hey why the heck not.” In the coming weeks I reconnected with people I hadn’t seen or heard from in over 12 years!!! So this weekend when I got a facebook post from Michelle about meeting up with everyone Monday night I just had to be there.
So the plan was simple I got in contact with two guys I used to hang with the most and we decided to go together. We arrived about an hour earlier than expected, we all had something to do the next morning; three of us which was Me, Ed, and Mike so we agreed not to be out too late, barring how boring this was going to be. I hadn’t seen people since I was 10 so I was curious to see what everyone was up to. Anyway to kill the hour the 3 of us headed over to barney’s, btw this all went down in old town Pasadena, so anyway we headed down there for some beers and a pool sesh where mike totally soul crushed me and Ed. We shot the shit and made jokes about Jacob Roark (the grungy scumbag kid).


So we made our way over to wokcanos where the festivities would be taking place, and ran into Diandra and her boyfriend Rudy? It was loud I couldn’t hear but I am about 85% sure that was his name. Anyway after intros the 5 of us headed back to the bar and started drinking. We caught up before easily my 2 favorite people of the night showed up Katie who went to school with us and her husband Clayton who was one cool ass dude. Slowly after this everyone trickled in. I am not going to lie I started right away with the obscenities, announcing how I would love to bang slutty chicks, and trying to get Diandra to invite me to her sorority house so I can just stare at her rowdy sisters. I think I genuinely bummed out some people, but what can I say I love to say “fuck.” One thing that fascinated me was to see how everyone had a degree or was working on their 2nd one. I tried not to bring up poker, but when people ask what you have been up to since you were 18 somehow saying “nothing” doesn’t fly. So without going into too much detail I hinted that I made a nice amount of money and skipped ahead to talking about what I was doing with my life now. I vaguely remember telling someone how I planned to do school and try to graduate because poker is taxing and someone chimed in and was like, “naw you lost all the money you won right?” lol I didn’t actually, but let’s just say I am in good shape anyway enough about poker this is a trip report!!!. So I gave the background on me, which is fulltime job part time school, just living and enjoying life. Anyway after settling down at our table more people arrived and a guy named Michael Howard showed up, cool dude and apparently a sergeant in some form of the military??? Pretty sick dude is 23 and living oversees on government dime… sick life in my opinion!!! Anyway he recognized me which was cool, but he was too cool of a guy so I had to give him a hard time, first because all the girls were clearly all over him, second he was the only one guaranteed female pussy, and three because I haven’t seen the dude in over 12 years. So I made a bunch of gay comments and jokes that were really offensive and he totally laughed it off and was super cool about it which made it impossible to hate this kid. It was funny on the way home me Ed and Mike were talking about people who we were psyched to have seen and the consensus was “Michael Howard was cool as fuck!” ha-ha anyway I bought a round of drinks for everyone, and Howard did the same which was cool to hang out someone who wasn’t a nit in life, because most people are. FWIW Ed bought drinks too but mike didn’t have a chance I am sure he would have bought a round but beers were coming left and right so nothing against him for free rolling on alcohol all night. Little by little people started to leave, but I tried my dammdest (sp?) to make everyone laugh, and found sticking with Katie and Clayton was in my best interest since they enjoyed anything I said. I think I could have taken a shit and they would have laughed while everyone would have given dirty looks. Another FWIW the Dillard sisters were super cool and enjoyed my belligerence. After food came in, we just shot the shit until it was just Me, Michael, mike, Diandra, Ed, and some girls I don’t remember names but they went to school after I left so it doesn’t really matter to me one way. Towards the ends we found our way inside the dance floor and danced with some crack head black bum who was too funny, I laughed so much my head hurt which was a first. All in all I had a great time and seriously didn’t want anyone who was cool to leave, and I didn’t want to leave, I rarely get out much, but last night was easily top 3 nights of all year. I hope to see most of those people again, though I could do without some randoms I didn’t care for or who I didn’t really mingle with, so in order to just put some people on blast I am just going to list the people I enjoyed the most, and then post some funny quotes and summarize moments… enjoy…………..gogogogogogog:

1. Ed and Mike for putting up with my ridiculousness all night
2. Katie and Clayton for being super cool, like I said you invite me to dinner and I am there
3. Diandra and Rudy for just being chill, especially Diandra for letting me be straight out obnoxious the whole night…..
4. Sergeant Howard for banging skeletor and getting the gift of gab from the supermodels friend
5. The Dillard sisters, because I secretly caught them laughing at everyone of my gay and vagina jokes… sickos getting my toilet humor what’s wrong with you two??? Ha-ha jk good times
6. And obv most important Jacob Roark you thieving bastard of a scumbag
Favorite quotes of the night include:
• anything Ed said in a terribly offensive Asian accent
• “dude you need at least one degree to bang that chick”
• “yeah why wouldn’t you be invited, just be warned I am going to tell every guy that you might try to suck their dicks or something gay like that”
• “everyone looks the same, I mean even Michael, he still looks 30”
• “keep talking to me like that and I am going to put these heels up your ass”
• “did you see Marika on TMZ??? Yeah she thinks she is all cool now...”

Hahaha that last one just made laugh a ton… well that’s all I got hope you enjoyed this and all the pictures as well... even the one where I am doing something so ridiculous like grabbing frank zappas weiner….

Also...

so i have been running good lately and pretty grateful for that. i got my bankroll at $1431 at the moment by playing $25PLO which i tend to think is pretty good. Finally got my PTR page out of the negative, where at Dec. 14 it had me as a $1335 loser now i am about a $54 winner hahah. Anyway my christmas was pretty good, i got my ipod stolen a couple months ago, so i got a new one, and a new xbox 360, also a nice jacket and some pants, plus $500 bucks in cash so all in all i would say my christmas was pretty fucking good. Speaking of xbox does anyone have a wireless adapter lying around? i need one asap so i can get online and crush it so send me a pm or post a comment on here if you have one, interested in talking pricing. Lets see i went out last nigth with friends to some shitty bar, and we ended up at IN-N-OUT BURGER which is like the shrangila(sp?) of burgers out here in california. While ordering i fell in love with the girl taking my order, but having no balls to talk to her i just smiled and said thanks when she handed me my food, i am telling you though she was super pretty, and exactly my type, if it wasnt for these braces and glasses killing my game i might have made a move at her... prob not but wishful thinking. Speaking of bars, i am 4 months sober and counting, i dont mean sober in the alcoholic sober, but i took up a bet o lose some weight to cut out alcohol and i have been doing it since Aug. 31 and havent tasted alcohol since. So i am pretty proud of myself for having self control. what else?? i am prob cash broke at the moment, i have a nice roll, but buying christmas presents and having a gf will busto you pretty fast. i get paid friday so i am lookin forward to that, and hopefully i run good and win a tourney so i can cash out some monies and feel baller. o yeah how could i forget tomorrow at 8:30 i have a reunion with all my elementry school friends, lol reunionaments lol so that should be funny, and hopefully some girls who got cute will be there and i can spit some hot game... so i should definitely have a trip report about that coming soon...well thats pretty much it for now, i got another short week at work thankfully, and hoping to get home and play a ton of volume and more tournies so i can run good and win soemthing. hope everyone had a good christmas, and look forward to next year, i migth update during the week, but if i dont look forward to my next blog where i set life goals, and poker goals.... see you all at the tables...

-Marky...

p.s. fuck the typos and grammar... you guys get the idea...

so this shot is way out of my bankroll limits but after watching John Phan play for like 20 hands i realized how could i miss out on oppurtunity to make a buy-in... i bought in for $200 before i realized i should try to cover him because we need to play for stacks... and in 83 hands this happened....

Full Tilt, $1/$2 PL Omaha Cash Game, 2 Players
LeggoPoker.com - Hand History Converter

John Phan (BTN): $346.60
Hero (BB): $442

Pre-Flop: K 8 6 8 dealt to Hero (BB)
John Phan raises to $6, Hero calls $4

Flop: ($12) 2 7 3 (2 Players)
Hero checks, John Phan bets $10, Hero raises to $42, John Phan calls $32

Turn: ($96) 8 (2 Players)
Hero bets $96, John Phan raises to $298.60 and is All-In, Hero calls $202.60

River: ($693.20) K (2 Players - 1 is All-In)

Results: $693.20 Pot ($0.50 Rake)
John Phan showed 9 Q 7 3 and LOST (-$345.60 NET)
Hero showed K 8 6 8 and WON $692.70 (+$348.10 NET)

so last night after seeing some responses from my last blog and the couple i got from the forum i decided to try to grind out my $1k roll into $2k playing $25 PLO. I will prob start shot taking at $50 PLO once i reach $1500. Anyway i came home and fired up 5 tables of 6max $25PLO and grinded a 600 hand session for a profit of about $48 bucks so 2 buyins and i am happy seeing as at one point i was down about $200 it felt nice to get unstuck and turn a profit. i usually dont like to play long sessions just because after work i am always usually tired. I am 22 and i work full-time in downtown LA so as much as i would love to be able to grind long sessions, during the week it really isnt an option. So everything so far is good poker wise, i finally have a roll for the stakes i am playing, but personally things are going to shit. Without going into too much detail girlfriends suck and i just want christmas to be done. well i get out of work early tomorrow and have all weekend after that to grind, so i want to try and play at least 10,000 hands within the next 4 days lets just hope i am profitable within those hands lol... anyway working on getting holdem manager i actually have already purchased it, but i am having trouble with it because it makes my comp slow and has just been giving me a hard time... anyone know how i can make this better???? if so post comments here.. anyway gl and catch me at the tables.... Merry Christmas

-marky

i have a comma in my account now... obv wining a tourney for $700 helped... i primarily focus on shot taking at $50PLO HU and that has worked out well... but i want to really have a nice roll for those games... any suggestions on videos i should watch? i feel like i run really bad at 6-max PLO but obv i am doing something wrong... any ideas would greatly help... i will also be posting this in the PLO forum.. thanks guys...

so heres my first post, i had an interesting monday night to say the least so i will speak a lil about poker and then dive into my ridiculous night.

i got home and decided to degen it up, i had like $200 on UB and figured why not try to run it up. Judy(my mother) took off to Seattle for business so i was left without food. (sidenote i call her Judy because i worked with her in a pretty professional setting for like 2 years and i couldnt say mom so 6 years later i still call her Judy.) so anyway i hook up the laptop to my 42" tv and pull up some $50PLO and run pretty bad, but mostly big hands whiffing flops. so i lose a buy-in and decided to win it back playing $25NL heads up. i proceed to get stuck a buyin there by just bluffing inot the nuts....standard. then i hit a run and proceed to recoup my losses. i feel even more gamble and sit down with $100 on some $50NL table and proceed to get coolered with aces running into K10 off where my "friend" hit a 10 on the river to fill up, so i am down to my last $30 bucks after paying off light in wiered spots. and then i go on a miracle run. i just finished watching Cero's heads up videos, and was really into how frequently he bet, and i felt my opponent played very much like his opponent in the video. about 400 hands later i unstuck and leave the table with $261 big ones lol not bad for degening it up and being stuck. so i was proud of myself and it was just in time because my friend jason got to the house and it was time to do some club/bar thing. i am not one wo is big on going out, but eff it right?

so we get to this place, and there is a sick line, and i instantly dont want to wait in it. there is five of us, 2 girls 3 guys, and obv i am the only dude who isnt too into dancing, so i plan to head straight for the bar and make my night worth it. let me also say this place was 18 and over 21 to drink so you can imagine all the teenie boppers thinking they were cool and pretty much just being annoying. i really dont like clubs because of the loud music, i like to talk to people, and because i dont dance ******"my preflop game sucks" but whatever. after about 20 mins we get into this place and its bumping Michael Jackson hits, i go up to the bar, order shots and a beer and see the special which reads "Jack-o Shots $3 RIP MJ." interesting but not for me. i forgot to mention the girls that are with us are both 18 and one just turned 18 two weeks ago lol i am 21 and my friends are 22, its crazy how were only 3 years older than these chicks, but i feel so aged, and to be 18 again would be nice lol. anyway we obv sneak them shots, and start laughing and joking, they are both hot chicks, but dont seem like my type so the idea to hit on them instantly is gone. i mean dont get me wrong i will usually talk to almost any girl, but i am not a lingerer if there is a vibe then i am all for it, but if there isnt i am not one to the extra mile. so anyway we head to the dance floor after consuming enough drinks for me not care how stupid and rhythmless i look dancing, all five of us dance in a group, when jason sees a thick girl with a nice rack sitting alone, he proceeds to give her his own lapdance which the has her grab and throw him on the couch while she drys fucks the shit out of him, and i cant help but laugh, he invites her to dance with us, and somehow forces her to dance with me where she goes off and grinds the shit out of my dick, which reminds of what he said as we walked into the club "were going to find you a slut tonight.." i laugh it off and get said thicks girls name which happens to be monica. i make a shitty reference to our names both starting with M's and she laughs, but it isnt long before i realize i am not into it. we say the usual "nice meeting you's" and go our separate ways on the dance floor. i decide its beer time and we head up to grab some more drinks. at this point everything becomes a lil vague, and i dont remember much till the end of the night where jason is going making out with one of the girls, and the other is giving her number to some dude wearing a Montreal Expos hat... weak... i say to her

M: your giving your number to the guy with the Met's hat? who dates Met's fans???
(she clearing doesnt get my sense of humor and/or sarcasm)
Girl: i dont care he just starting talk to me and i think he is cute so why not? i am just newly single so i am here ot have fun
M: hey whatever works right?

at this point i decide to ask the guy a question about his hat, mostly to make fun of him without him knowing so i lean in and say:

M: so your an Expos fan? how did you feel about move? do you enjoy being the Nationals now?
Guy: (wierd look) um naw man i am just into hats i have a a bunch of hats, you know because i am a tagger.

i thought to myself why did this guy say he was a tagger like it was a thing everyone wanted to do. so i said

M:so then does the M on your hat is that your tagging name?
Guy: yeah me name is Mase (sp?) and i am killing the game homie
M: what does that even mean?
Guy: peace

i couldnt help but start laughing he said he was killing the game, i am sorry dont taggers get fined and go to jail???? where is the merit in doing that? lol at least in poker your making money, but i cant remember hearing about anyone named Mase getting paid to tag, so i thought insta douche. i teased that girl about what that idiot said and we all had a good laugh. ended up at jack in the box, and fired up a $5 HU sit n go which i shipped when i won AQ to 88 AIPF when i hit an Ace on the turn. turned off the comp, and groaned thinking i was getting 3 hours of sleep. now i am at work hungover. hope you enjoyed this rant and didnt ask yourself "why the fuck did u waste my time reading this guys blog that was completely boring and very bad.?" but if you did, I LOVE YOU!!!!
anyway i will get some more poker content in soon, but i think tonight i am going to ctahc up on sleep. you can find me in the forums.

-Mark
AIM: Markjustdied