After seeing the doctor on monday, we decided to continue ahead with the plan I discussed in my last blog and cut off the final drug I was on to control the ulcerative colitis.  It’s been years since a major episode, but going medication free is still a risk.  I’m obviously hoping to not fall [...]

November was pretty damn good to me.  A lot of aspects of life are “progressing nicely” at the moment – I’ve got a rekindled desire to play online MTTs again, I’ve been successful at cash games, my coaching group is plugging along nicely, I’ve spent a ton of time working on my own game, and [...]

a few days ago I found a package on my porch. it was pretty large – the side of the box informed me that it weighed almost 35 pounds. I was worried that I’d have to call some burly friends to help me move it, but I remembered a trick I had learned [...]

I planned to spend today at work (yes, at work!) on various projects and can report a pretty varying degree of successes:
1. I planned to finally get officially started with a workout program/diet regimen with Alfalfa from SA. He operates a company called PetraFitness where he creates customized plans for training/nutrition. I [...]

As is quite obvious, I haven’t posted anything in several months.  At least I can say I’ve been doing well, as evidenced by the five (four of them from live poker!) bragbot posts taking up blog space in my stead.  I’m quite happy and rather proud of the last few months’ successes.  I’m not really [...]

I haven’t really written too much in awhile.  As typical with me, my standard super hot/cold on ideas/activities has kind of taken me away from writing, but I’m getting back into it again and the overdue trip report for EPT Monte Carlo seems like a good place to start.
I haven’t really been doing too much [...]

Starting off this post with a non-poker yet somehow serious topic, it seems to me that the under reported story of the week is the publication of the International Committee of the Red Cross’ report on torture/abuse during the Bush administration.  Apparently, the ICRC wrote a report, meant to be privately sent to the CIA, [...]

It’s been a pretty good past few weeks for me pokerwise.  I’ve won a WSOP ME seat, made a few deep runs for some smallish 5 figure scores, and capped it off by winning the FTP $150 on Sunday night.  In the past two weeks, I’ve cashed for almost $100k in 10k+ scores alone which [...]

I’ve felt like writing a lot recently. I’m not sure why that is, but there’s no real need to look into it too deeply. I’m even enjoying writing blog entries, which is cool because I won’t write anything when I feel like it’s a chore.  A side effect of this is that it writing [...]

I set the majority of this week aside to just relax, as I haven’t done that in awhile, and it pretty much worked out as I planned.  To be honest, I don’t really remember what I did each specific day, because I pretty much did nothing every day.  I made some videos for PokerVT, wrote [...]