The bad luck continues on the felt. I wish I could gain my February/March form again. It was so easy to win then. Now, I can't put two winning weeks together. I have to wonder if the herd has been thinned consistently now that I have dropped to the classification of one of the weaker members. On the African plains, a lion only has to out-run the slowest gazelle in order to eat. As the slowest gazelles are culled, the lion must chase faster gazelles, thus he needs to be faster as well. I may have come to that point. I don't necessary think it is true, but I do need to make a few adjustments. 1, I need to pay more attention to players, 2 I need to tighten up slightly on my starting hand requirements. I am going to review some hand histories today to check for some bad habits and will try to improve this weekend.

I started my pork shoulder last night by injecting it and rubbing it. I will put together a schedule for tomorrow later today. I also took some pictures of the smoking process and plan to do so throughout the entire smoke. I am then going to make a powerpoint. I may even post it here

After my debacle last week, I hoped to make up some lost money over the weekend. Unfortunately, I played 2 $11 sng's, which put me $22 in the hole. I am not sure why I played them, as I am not a good tourney player. I usually do play them on the weekend, so I guess that is why, and I figured that if I hit one, I could make back a big chunk. I did flop a straight flush with a probability of 1 in 230,414 or odds of 230,413:1 against. I did win some money on that hand as well. Overall though, I played many hours and netted only $12.00 for the weekend. On
Sunday night, I realized that I had spent too much time playing poker for too little money while I left unattended many other useful endeavors, so I imposed a 2 day poker hiatus. So far into the hiatus I have played 1 hour and won $36.00.

I built a bbq table on Saturday. It actually turned out pretty good, considering my lack of building skills. I will put the table to good use this weekend when I smoke a pork butt for our cookout. I bought an injection syringe for the elk I plan to smoke in July, and I think I will inject the pork but this weekend, just for a change

At least I wasn't drunk/Tilt

I usually have a good grip on my emotions, especially when I play poker. I sometimes do get upset, but it is not too often. I say usually, as there are always exceptions, such as week 26 when I lost 200 on the table and then 200 playing blackjack, of course I was fill with Powers, but that is not excuse. Last night though WAS one of those exceptions. I sat down to play a little poker and noted that I was a bit tired, (breaking rule # 1, play only when can play A game). I sat at a 2/4 table, which is higher than my normal limt, but no too much so. After a few hands, I noted that the table was a bit looser than I liked. This increased my implied odds, but added to my varience. For instance, my set of 5's was beat by a flush on river. Because there were 5 of us in the hand, the villian was getting the right price to draw. I did not make an adjustment for this level of play. I also violated rule # 7 by playing every day this week. Anway. I was down about 60 when I was dealt a playable hand from the SB Q8. Of course there were 5 of us that saw the flop. Flop was Q83 rainbow, so I flopped 2 pair. So I be out. The game was loose, but it was passive and I wanted to get as much money into the middle as I could. Everyone called, so the pot contained $20.00. Turn was a K. I checked, figuring that someone surely had a King and would bet. A middle player bet, button called and I raised. MP and Button called, pot now $44.00. River K. The worst card for me, as now I am pretty sure one of the other two has trip K's. I check, MP Checks, and button bets, pot is now 48 and it costs me $4 to call my pot odds are thus 12:1, which means that I need to be right 1 out of 13 times for this to be a correct call. I call and button shows K3o. I lost, and for some reason lost my mind, even though I knew I lost. I think it was the fact that no one should have entered the hand in the beginning with K3o. Instead of being rational noting that, in the long-run, I would get chips from maniacs that play those cards, I went insane that I lost the money. Of course this is on top of the other beats I received earlier which were not necessarily bad beats per say. When I went insane, I raised and called to river just hoping to give away my money, which I did do, instead of just calling it a night.

Oh well, it will take me a few weeks to wing this back, but I shall by following my manifesto, at least until I don't...............

I am back from Orlando. That place is Hell as far as I am concerned. At 6:00 AM, the resort was filled with think people in very good shape. They were running/walking or excercising in the gym. By 10 AM all the fatties were out. Many Americans are fat, but most people that go to Disney are. The conference was good. It was nice to not be involved in the BS portions like I had been as an officer.

With the beach 4 weeks away, my fitness plan has escalated. My abs are starting to show. I would like to be 5 pounds lighter, but we will see how it goes.

I have actively started my job hunt. My current job is boring me to tears. I have had one interview (well maybe two, I had a phone interview and a face-to-face interview with the same company) they offered me a job, but it was a project consultant job. Some parts of me would really like the gig, other parts of me would not. I think I want to stick to a more traditional working arrangement. On the one hand, if there was no current project, I could collect unemployment and research stocks or play on-line poker. On the other hand, I do not really want the uncertainty associated with that life style. I will keep looking and see what happens.

From a poker stand-point. Last week was horrible. I have been card dead since Florida.