Will be funny to see how my blog views goes up after add this as the title.

Just a quick little story I found today:

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage...cle2275504.ece


Viagra orgy man collapsesBy VINCE SOODIN

Published: Today

A SEX-MAD Russian died after guzzling a bottle of Viagra pills to keep him going for a 12-hour orgy with two women pals.
The women had bet mechanic Sergey Tuganov £3,000 that he wouldn’t be able to satisfy them both non-stop for the half-day sex marathon.

But minutes after winning the wager, the randy 28-year-old dropped dead with a heart attack, revealed Moscow police.

One of the women, named only as Alina, said: “We called emergency services but it was too late, there was nothing they could do.”




It's safe to say that this guy wins the award for finding the greatest ways to make you're exit. Well done.

So lately I've been mildly obsessed with TED talks. In case you aren’t really sure of what these are...actually I'm not 100% sure what they are either but I *think* they are presentations on experts in their fields on some sort of important topic. TED stands for Technology Entertainment Design and basically is a collection of presentations by very smart people on things ranging from string theory and genomics to the intelligence of crows and Wii Remote Hacks.


They range in time from about 5 minutes to about half an hour on the more standard ones. And I pretty much love this site and wish they would release more of these videos. Each is from some sort of conference and they only release a set amount of presentations and they do it slowly, like one a week or something.

Lately in life (maybe the last year or so) I've been slowly growing more and more fascinated by things I really can't understand fully. I don't know why but I've become very intrigued by things like CERN and the LHC and String theory. Also, anything about the actual universe and how and why physicists think the things they do. Much of this might just be theory but to me at least, it's unimaginable how they can even come up with some of these concepts and I love trying to wrap my brain around these concepts.

Anyways, I encourage everyone to check out this site. I guarantee there is at least one video on this site that will stun you and if nothing else, you'll definitely learn something.

I'll probably be posting some videos from this site and others like it on blogs to come so now you know where these are coming from and will spice up the boring poker poker poker poker poker blogs with a "WTF I had no idea crows were so intelligent" blog post. So keep an eye out.

-Cheers (I love saying this)

Been awhile since I last updated. Haven't played a ton. The few sessions I've played the last few weeks have solely been focusing on HU PLO but I have yet to put together a decent session and it always ends up in my scalping the 6max and 9max games for HU until tables fill.

Literally, yesterday was my 11th attempt at making a HU video and in 45 minutes I played 3 different players on only one table, all of them ran after winning one significant pot. I might post the vid on my blog if thats cool with leggo. I don't feel like putting it up since I don't think there is a ton of good content on it and I want my first HU PLO video to be good.

Other than than that I've been busy. For the superbowl I had people over. It turned out extremely well. We had a ton of good food for the party, everyone brought a little and everything was good. To my delight, a martini bar was having their late holiday party for their workers the same day and some girls I know that work there wanted to come over before the party to predrink and watch the game. They left during the first half and came back after halftime until the game ended then we all walked to a piano bar about 50 yards behind my place. Was a great time. A buddy ended up bringing his like 10 week old bulldog over and it basically stole the show.

One random pic from the party. I don't have many good ones.



Tiny bulldog.



Lastly, the most important part of this blog. I finally got a toaster for my place. This thing is like the rolls royce of toasters....ok, it cost $40 or something, so it's like the Toyota or something but its friggin' sweet. It has a cancel button so I don't have to jam up the lever and break it if I want to exit my current toasting session early. But MOST importantly, it has a special place that can cook and egg and heat up meat so I can make breakfest egg and ham sandwhiches. It does it all at the same time and takes about 5 minutes to cook the eggs + heat up the meat + toast the bagel/english muffin. It's ok if you're jealous, I would be too. Shout out to Kahn from 2p2 and formerly PTE for bringing this bad ass machine to my attention.

Ok so like I've said I've been busy lately. A lot of that has been due to me moving into my new place and slowly getting everything set up. I literally had nothing before this so I had to buy a TON of stuff for my new place. I still don't have everything yet (anyone reccommend a good toaster?) but who knows when I'll have it all set up. I might post pics later after I find some female to spend all my money decorating, but right now you can get the jist of it. I'm very proud of my place, it's the nicest place I've ever lived in and like many of the nicest things I have to enjoy, poker is the cause of that.


Behind this photo is like an 8 foot entrance into the apartment.




This is the reverse angle sort of.




The rest of the living room with the kitchen to the right, bedroom door to the left and bathroom and laundry room doors behind the photo.




Some kitchen pics:






Shot toward the bedroom, bathroom and laundry rooms:




Bathroom:




Steam shower




Bedroom:









My view???





Thats pretty much the jist of it. It's not huge by anymeans but its perfect for me. It also comes with a 1.5 car garage in a gated private parking lot which is hard to come by in downtown Kalamazoo. I know its not extremely baller like a lot of poker players have. Its not a 2 story condo highrise in downtown (incert big city here) with flat screens, pool tables and a really nice toaster; but I love it.

Some things I still need:

Toaster
Wood cutting board
Decoration stuff
New Laptop
Reciever
Wine
Liquor
Soft bath towels
Robe
A triangular coffee table with hinges so that the top surface actually folds up higher
Some comfortable blankets
Tooth brush holder


Ok thats about all I can think of off the top of my head so if anyone has any good suggestions, feel free to suggest something.

I've gotta start playing more and more frequently. Over the last month or so I've been very busy with a bunch of things.

Holidays with the family, been moving into my new place, doing videos for Leggo Poker (not coaching yet), spending some time with this girl I've been seeing and still working 50+ hours a week.

I need to find time to start a regular schedule and it might be pretty easy for most of you guys but this has always been a struggle for me. Its hard to sit at a computer when I get home from sitting at a computer all day. Maybe I'll ease up on my working hours and and look to get out at 3 or 4pm since my poker winrate far exceeds my pay at my job currently.

This comes from the sesison I just had the other night.

I basically got kicked in the balls, and I haven't really reviewed the hands to see if I was playing my A game, I feel like most of it was fine and if I made a mistake I think it was marginal...but we shall see. The problem though is that I had to quit because I was just taken out of my game. I wasn't really steaming per se (sp?) but I was just knocked back and went into a little mode where I was just out of it, folding mostly and not really paying attention or taking the initiative. For the last few rounds I was literally telling myself to focus and just make smart decisions but I needed to quit.

This of course cannot happen and I find that it only happens when I'm not playing often. Back when I was playing a ton of hands per month or at least playing short sessions everyday, the minor swings from day to day didn't effect me. But playing so sporadically like I have been tends to take me out of my element when things do start going well.

I only played about 400 hands and started off +$300 or so I'd say but ended up a little worse than -$1,000. Ya, one big kick in the sack.

Some hands from the session:

Hand 1) http://www.pokerhand.org/?3739081

Here theres two spots that I question my play. One being pretty trivial which is preflop. This is vs an aggro regular and I def can afford to take stands against him and not let him control the bvb battles. The big mistake I think I make is over estimating my fold equity. For some reason, I just realized he didn't start the hand as deep as I did. Looking at the stack sizes now though, once he check raises me to $93 he is just about never folding for his last $138. I think had be been deeper there would of been more merit for a 3bet looking for FE but since he was so shallow thus committing himself with just about his entire range, I could have and should have elected to just call and chase since I have absolutely no showdown value as is.

Hand 2) http://www.pokerhand.org/?3742916

Basically a cooler. Kinda ****ty when you can flop second nuts with a set + a flush draw and still be losing to a worse made hand. Had he not blocked the board, I'd become a slight favorite but still, neither of us are folding this, just wasn't my day to win these.

Hand 3) http://www.pokerhand.org/?3742973

This is a pretty sick hand. I didn't know much about this guy except that he is probably bad and not use to HU (nitty). Two things I should of considered before making this river play is 1) the opponent and 2) the turn card. This normally would be a good spot with stack sizes, my hand and my Qc blocker to barrel down a weaker straight forward opponent. Since I know he usually won't slowplay the nut flush once...much less twice and I know he can't have the second nut flush since I block it, I'll look for fold equity if I don't pair the board and if I do I'll valuebet my inflated pot if I hit. Seems pretty simple and standard to me. The turn though, being a club probably isn't the best turn card to continue with this plan, but I just couldn't help myself. I'd like the second barrel about twice as much if the turn was a 2 of hearts/spades/diamonds simply because the club gives my opponent more reason to doubt I have a strong flush. And finally, this river play would probably work on a solid thinking player, but little did I know, this guy isn't quite there yet. Once he bets the river this small I have him on weak flush and try to get him to dump it. I think this might of been a level or two above his head as he literally snap called me without thinking about...and I highly doubt I got owned by a sick $42 bet to induce a c/r bluff here...but ya never know.

Hand 4) http://www.pokerhand.org/?3743016

This hand makes me sick because I almost made a bad play and won the side pot. Nothing going right. The preflop 3bettor was playing like a laggtard and once he 3bets for all but his last 5 or so dollars I start eyeballing the other guys stack and just consider the shorty all in. I'm really not gonig anywhere once this guy check/raises me. I had one person (Grizy) saying he'd ship the flop once I get raised and I don't really think I like that. Not that it matters too much in the long run anyway but I think calling is slightly better than getting it in. Just because we have again, no fold equity vs. him and no made hand. I thought if he had the straight and the board paired he might slow down and let me see a free river or if he had nothing or a draw (like he did) he might check behind and let me see the river too which I think is better than pushing my pair of sixes into a guy that is never ever ever folding. So with this line I saved like $60 which is fine, but I almost bluffed the river. I was multitabling, saw I bricked out but was licking my lips at that side pot and his weak ass line so I maxed out my bar to $90 or so and was like damn, i don't have much to bluff with considering the pot size...then looked at his stack and saw that he had even less than me and I begrudgingly gave up. Then was pissed when he turned over 778T and scooped $130. On the flop, the AKT4 is actually a good size favorite and I'm second in equity with a little over 26% and the 778T is dead last. Neat.


Blah, theres a few more but I'm done. Might play later tonight, but I think I'm going to go run, do some laundry and play my wii that I'm slowly becoming addicted too.

Scott

I got beat up pretty bad last night at the tables. I started off up about $300 or so and proceeded to lose every single decent sized pot I entered in one fashion or another. Missed bluffs, failed bluffs, pushing at the wrong time for FE, coolers and the ol' being outdrawn. Basically nothing went right and I had to quit.

I ended up down about $1,000 in about 400ish hands. So I had a nice $1,300 or so downswing in less than 400 hands.

With that said, I think I'm going to start playing more.

Makes sense right?

I'll explain later when I have access to my HHs and time to vent.

Pictures still coming, I promise. Probably have a long PLO strat/review post when I get home.

Scott

So for some reason or another, I'm feeling very outgoing this morning.

Normally when I see the "save online poker" threads and sites I don't go too wild and spam happy. Don't get me wrong, I usually take a look, read, will vote or sign up if I need too, but other than that never really done a whole lot.

Don't know why today is different, maybe I'm just bored but:

Go here: http://citizensbriefingbook.change.g...Pos=0&srKp=087
Make an account: Name, email account and password
Vote for legalizing online poker:

Takes under a minute.

Also, feel free to vote down any ideas above as it will help our cause out 2x


Its actually a pretty cool site. You don't need to sign up to look at the ideas but to vote and probably make a comment on one you need an account. I've sent this to just about every poker player on my aim list that is online right now so if you've already gotten an IM from me, its the same thing.

So I've slowly been moving into my new place and getting it all set up the way I like it. My computer was one of the first things set up but I haven't been able to really use it since the internet at my place has been awful.

So all year I've logged a total of 4 hands of poker and things like browing the internet and even updating a LeggoPoker blog have been frustrating because of it.

Last night I finally get a chance to tinker with my wireless setup to see if I can improve it.

In the midst of moving the router closer to my computer and then unplugging all the equipment and rehooking it back up, I noticed that I was still online and connected to the internet.

Turns out, for the past 12 or so days, I've been using a neighbors unsecure wireless connection while the wireless for my apartment has been at full strength. But since, it needs a password that I was not given when moving in, my computer defaulted to picking up the first available wireless signal that was password free.

Needless to say, I'm an idiot and I'm glad I didn't just deal with the slow connection for, ummm 5 months.

Pictures of my new place coming. Along with some HHs, PLO thoughts and maybe a good story or three.

Scott

This is probably going to serve as my long intro to LeggoPoker.

Well 2008 is over and it was one of the best years of my life.

Poker went extremely well when I played. As far as volume, I'm pretty dissapointed in myself since I didn't really find enough time to crank out the hands. Overall, 2008 was the lowest volume year I've played online in over 5 years. But the few hands I played, I managed to do extremely well and I probably had the best yearly winrate of my life. I stopped using PTO mid year though so I haven't uploaded all my HHs but I still have them saved for anlaysis and tracking purposes, just need to install it when I have time.


Also, I had a great year on the life front. Not sitting at the computer 10 hours a day grinding is probably a very big reason why this year has been great.

Just to recap:

I actually started 2008 with a great new years celebration. It was a little random but a few friends and some others I'd never met got a party bus limo thing up to Grand Rapids for a few hours and ended up partying all night when we got back till the sun came up.

Heres a few of us I think at a bar in Grand Rapids, I'm in the back:






My Birthday somehow fell on St. Patricks day in March. Can't remember how, but something like it was going to fall on a Sunday and the Catholic church moved it to the 15th....something like that. All I knew was it put a huge drinking day on my birthday on a Saturday on a college campus and we definately took advantage. Think we hit 3 different bars downtown, then through a quick kegger at my place mid day before heading out to 2 other bars and returning back to my place for a nightcap...was pretty rediculous.

This was at the first bar we hit up. This is me and a few of my real close friends from Detroit:





I also graduated from Western Michigan University earlier in 2008 with a double major in Management and Finance. I must admit I was pretty sad not to be in college anymore as I had a wonderful time but it was definately getting old.



The 4th of July was a crazy weekend spent in South Haven, MI. A buddy had a power boat that we rocked out thursday-saturday and topped it off Sunday with a long day of drinking on Alan Jacksons old boat called the Neon Rainbow ( for you country fans). I was pretty geeked out since I grew up on Alan Jackson CDs but my friends didn't seem to care as much.


Later in the summer up in Grand Haven, MI they have an annual festival called The Coast Guard Festival. I've been going up there for a few years now and this was the first year we brough a boat. It was also the first year I was introduced to Hanky Pank, which is a big boat party in Spring Lake that is connected to Lake Michigan through the channel. Was basically a huge boat party with a ton of people all having a good time. It was perfect. Here's some pics:








Speaking of Country Music (I'm a big fan as you'll come to find out) I got to see Kenny Chesseny in concert. One thing I'd like to do more of is go to more concerts. I turned down an opportunity to goto one once, and I'm never doing that again. Ideally I'd like to see Jimmy Buffett sometime soon, I'm not sure how long he'll tour for but it would be impossible not to have an amazing time at a Jimmy Buffett concert I would think.


For you sports fans:



I had some sick experiences in the sporting area this year as well. In the summer I stayed with a few friends in the Detroit area so we could go to the Detroit Redwings championship parade and that turned out to be literally the best day of my life. We went from waking up early hungover to get good spots for the parade, to drinking at Chelis Chili Bar with all the Redwings. I ended up luckboxing a ton of free drinks by getting into the private area where the players families and friends were haning out. Scored some free tickets to the Tigers game across the street from the girl that got me into the private area and even managed to drink out of the stanley cup as the players were letting anyone who could fight their way up to the bar drink out of it. It was a riot.

Heres a clip I took while trying to fight my way to the bar, theres a few more on youtube from the same night:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Umjc3rfbv-Y





Another trip to Detroit landed us some really sick seats for the last pistons game of the year. Unfortunately the Pistons lost to the Celtics who ended up winning the Championship but it was still an amazing time sitting so close to the game and enjoying it with some good friends.







Our last whorah that summer was a random road trip down to Knoxville. 3 of us scored some Tenn v Florida football tickets and we knew that was an opportunity not to waste and man am I glad we went. We just rocked out for a few days and had the time of our lifes. It was one of those trips where everything went well. The people down in Knoxville were extremely nice and gratious but still knew how to have a good time. Ended up meeting a few people that showed us around and we hopped from tailgate to tailgate and bar to bar on this little strip near the campus. I'd highly reccommend anyone that has a chance to goto a Tennessee home game to take the trip.

This was a pretty sweet pic I snapped as we walked into the stadium:





Right as I got back from Tennessee I started my job where I'm at right now. It's a really sweet gig and I again luckboxed my way into it. I get to do something I love everyday and it keeps me on a normal schedule which I love. I don't wake up every morning at 1pm feeling like a bum. I'm also learning a lot which is a big priority for me. I took a decent paycut taking this job over poker but I think in the long run this will turn out to be a good investment of my time.




Getting picked up by LeggoPoker is something I am extremely proud of too. I know a lot of people have given me some **** about trainging sites and making the games harder and whatnot, and to a degree I agree with them and still hypocrit. But I've worked my ass off in poker and I honestly enjoy helping others out so I might as well get paid for it, since before now I've been doing it for free via poker forums. I'm also hoping that being associated with LeggoPoker keeps me grinding away as I'm having trouble finding hours to log hands...now I'm sorta forced to a little bit for video purposes. So we'll see how this Leggo thing goes, all I can say is that I'm really pumped...