Vacation!

Off next week. Not doing much but I had to burn the time or lose it. Gonna do some biking, fishing, and poker playing. Looking forward to fishing more than anything else. TK might join me. Gonna hit my club.

Low stakes cash game at my place on Tuesday, and I'll likely hit the casino a couple mornings as well.

Meanwhile, it's HOT outside! I am not complaining, I'll take this over snow ANY day.

2 more winning sessions and an awesome Aerosmith concert

Up $420+ in 4 hours over 2 sessions going back to last week. Even hit a royal flush and nearly hit the BBJ for $60k! Nothing fantastic to report, just kinda grinding it out. Seems like I have to dig out of a hole every time though, except for session before last.

Mr John Coleman hooked me up with a free ticket to Aerosmith last night, and what a freaking show! Our original tickets were taken from the will-call booth from someone claiming to be Jennifer Coleman, John's wife, lol. So, he had to text Johnny B (Aerosmith's road manager that buys tobacco from JC year-round), and for our troubles, got us 2ND ROW SEATS! Wow. I think this was my 12th time seeing them, and despite Steven Tyler joining American Idol (UGH) and doing BK commercials, his voice is as good as ever. They played a couple new tunes from a forthcoming new album, and they sounded pretty good as well. They had some technical glitches and missteps on a couple songs, and Perry/Tyler seemed to bicker like an old married couple, but they held it together. I guess this was only the 2nd show on this tour.

Still undefeated at the CLE casino!

Banked another win last night. Up $92 after 6 hours. Went deep early, getting KK and AA cracked by J3 suited and QJ suited respectively. Guy with QJ called $75 preflop. I made it $12, he made it $25, I bump to $75. I shove $140-ish on the J-high flop. He tanks a while. I consider showing him my AA, which I should have done. Q on the river. Some will say I overplayed the hand but this guy was in there splashing around on every hand, and I wanted him to fold. That was no value bet. Guys like that make it worth it to play there, but they are gonna hit now and then.

So this is what I have recorded there so far... about 2 hrs of the 4th session is $2-5:

Up $231/7.5 hours
Up $214/3.5 hours
Up $123/3.5 hours
Up $11/8 hours
Up $92/6 hours

$671 over 28.5 hours = $23.54/hour. Nothing huge, but wins are wins. Made my car payment with poker money!

I am beginning to see why the rake is a factor. I have yet to sit at a table with a number of big stacks. I'm still not driving to PA to get away from it.

OG CPMG sighting of the week: Five Dollar Josh was there playing PLO. He's still a dick.

Prometheus...good movie!

Thumbs up for Prometheus. Visual effects were fantastic, had a few good thrills, and plot wasn't incredibly watered down. You don't see many R rated movies any more.
If they make another comic book movie, I'm gonna puke. How many times are they gonna remake Spider Man?

Savages looks like a winner. http://youtu.be/KC2zbOwbeEs

We also saw a preview for The Possession. It's based on this story http://www.dibbukbox.com/ but it looks like they really embellished and screwed with the story. They should have stuck to the "real" accounts, they seemed much creepier. I learned about this thing from the Mysterious Universe podcast. As I was listening to it, on my way home from work, a bird smashed into my windshield.

$11 win at the casino!

Played some this week, got WAY deep, but still scraped up a $11 win. That puts me at 4-0 down there. Played $2-5 for a few hours to get it back. I may have to play more of that. The players were no better than the 1-2 crowd and the rake doesn't kill you as much.

I finally managed to hit quads down there. Q-10 in my hand, flop was 10-10-x, turn was a 10. Got a guy's stack when he thought his pocket 9's were good.

Funny wig night for kickball tonight! We have the late game. Pics to follow. I might be pitching. I'll lead the team much better than the current pitcher. He rarely covers home or first if needed, never moves fielders to better spots, and just doesn't guide anyone, which is very important.

Prometheus man-date coming up Tuesday. Looks like a fantastic flick.

Last day of school for our teachers today, which means we will be busy for the next 3 months. Not gonna be as crazy as last year but we have plenty to do.

I have some vacation time left to burn, so we'll be planning something very soon. The poker group heads to Vegas next week, it should be an epic trip. I think there are about 30 people going. I just haven't had a big desire to go back. I want to see some other great places, not sit in an air conditioned hell hole for a week.

Weekend report

No kickball on Friday, we got rained out, so we all went to Amvets and cooked up some food. I got to play around in an industrial kitchen for the first time in quite a while. Felt like home.

Chili Peppers were great! Very good show. Those dudes still pack some energy. We ate at Greenhouse Tavern before the show. They have a really crazy menu for being somewhat hippie. Pig's head, lardo, etc. I ended up getting the ratatouille, which was excellent, though the portion was smallish. Padron peppers appetizer added to that. Top it off with a Burning River from GLBC...mmmmm!

Got my Jeep back yesterday, at 1/3 of the cost of the original quote! Turns out it wasn't the clutch, but severely worn U-joints. It now runs better than it ever has. I am hoping it also fixed the rattle I used to get when the temp dropped under 40 degrees. It feels like it'll be gone.

Picking up the bikes today, they were in the shop getting some gear issues fixed. I played around with them quite a bit but couldn't figure them out. We need to put in some miles! Did I mention I sold the road bike? Used the $$ to pay the Jeep repairs.

RHCP!!

Got tix to see the Red Hot Chili Peppers tomorrow. Gonna be a great show.

Looks like my Jeep needs a new clutch. Gonna be almost $500 to fix. There goes most of my poker profits for the past couple weeks! Oh well, at least it's not out of my pocket.