I made it to the gym last night, but I did not make it this morning as I was up too late last night. So much for that.

On the poker front, I did win my $10 double of nothing SNG, so that is on track. One think I noticed was that the Juice gets higher as the tournament goes, so I should find a way to win the juice before I go on. I think I will change the rules so that I have to win 2 $5's before moving on. That will get take care of the juice.

WSOP 2009

After watching the final taped show of the 2008 WSOP I made up my mind that I want to go in 2009. That being said, I do not have the 10k I need to get there. So, I have a plan. I am going to try to win my way there. The first way is to progress through SNG's to see if I can win the 10k. Failing that, I will try to satellite in.

Plan A looks like this. I will invest $5 in a Poker Stars Double-or-Nothing S-N-G. I will then use the winning to buy in to a $10. If I win there, I will do a $20. I will continue this until I can get $200. With the $200, I will buy into a $200 SNG. I will keep buying into progressively higher SNG's until I reach the 10k.

As an adjustment to the above strategy, I may start pulling some of the money off the table as I move up to fund my WSOP.

If I lose and end up back to zero, I have to win my $5 before I can start the climb again.

In order to get to the 100, I need to win 5 10 20 40 80..

I started plan A last night and I won the 5. tonight I will try the 10.

On the O8 side, I think I forgot how to play. I need to read Kreigers book again before I play for real.

We got back from our trip to Disney. We had a great time. The daughter really enjoyed it, and that made if great for me. It really amazed me that she actually thought the princeses were real. I think she even thinks that Mickie and Minnie are real. I guess I never thought about it, but to her they are.

We had to Disney tomorrow. The wife has a conference and we are taking the daughter. The daughter is quite excited. I too am excited as it will be the first time I am back at the Coronado Springs Resort since my time on the HUG board. Back then I was there every year. I have a lot of good memories of the place. Also, I am anxious to see the magic through my daughter's eyes. Hopefully I can exercise a bit while I am there. I will bring my running shoes and maybe I can hit the weight room once. If I can run twice and hit the weight room once, I will be ok.

I will be out of town for the TKD testing, so I need to schedule a make-up test. I did it once before, so it shouldn't be a problem this time as I am still a beginner and I know my stuff. I will call the school today.

I lost my bankroll at Full Tilt last night. It all started a few weeks ago when I took the big hit, and it continued from there. I will continue my NL O8 there for a while with my goal of bringing that bankroll up to 100 by year end.

An old friend of mine died last week. He died from the flu. Really, he died from a life of excess, but the flu was the straw that broke the camel's back. It was sad to see his parents yesterday. It is amazing that in this day and age someone could take such poor care of themselves to end up in this situation, dead at 36. How is it that Shane Macgowan can live and Jake Norwood cannot.

I tried the new Matrix SNG's on Full Tilt. They are fun action-fests. I am not sure if they will be profitable over time, but the are fun. I will play a few tonight and Sunday along with some PS double or nothings to see how they work out.

Speaking of working out, I did Snatches last night. I tweaked my back, but enjoyed them. I set a PR of 105. I failed on 2 attempts at 115 and when I went back down to 95, I was amazed at how easy the weight went overhead, so I went with 105. I was able to get it with enough ease that I was tempted to try 115 again, but with tweaking my back, I thought better of it.

I did not go to the gym this morning as my back hurt. I will stop after TKD tomorrow and do some pull ups and dips.

I was holding a board in TKD yesterday and when the kicker put his foot to it, it flew out of my hand and straight to my face where it bloodied my nose and knocked off my glasses. Kind of funny, and not too much damage.

I played a little poker last night. I broke one of my new rules (I played two games at once). I lost a little bit of money playing NLHE and I broke even on the new Double or nothing SNG's. I don't know if the Double or nothing SNG's will work out, you need 70% winning rate to come out ahead, but I think with minimal work I probably could. It might be an easy BR booster. I will try a few.

Mountaineer

I went to Mountaineer yesterday and lost $200. The day started well. I made some money when I hit a flush and then I stacked a guy when I made a higher full house. After that, my play went down hill. Two big mistakes (one medium mistake really and one huge one). The first mistake was when I had 55. There was a raise and a caller. The raise wasn't that big and I should have called to see if I could catch a set. Of course a 5 came on the flop and I would have made a full house on the river. I should have called that original bet, but that isn't too big of a mistake. The next mistake I made. I had KK and made a raise PF. I got one caller. The flop came 429. Nothing scary here, so I be the pot. I was raised and I called. I should have slowed down here, what can this guy have? The turn was a blank so I pushed all-in. He had 42 for 2 pair. I completely married my KK. I forgot small hand/small pot. After his raise. I should have slowed down. What was he going to call with that I could beat. Actually I thought he was making a play at the pot and he would fold. He wasn't.

After I got home, I reviewed my previous posts about mountaineer and I found much more insightful posts from earlier this summer. I need to go back and read Harringtons books.

My Poker improvement plan for this week is:

1. Drop down limits in PL08
2. Verbalize thought process for hand reading
3. Go back to book one of Harrington on cash

Challenges

I did my first round of the October CF challange. 1 round of Cindy. I missed this moringing, so I will make it up tomorrow.

My other challenge is a personal challange. I want to turn $10.00 into $100.00 at UB. I have 3 months to do it. I am going to use Chirs Furgeson's rules.

1. Never buy into a cash game or a Sit & Go for more than 5 percent of my total bankroll; the only exception is at the lowest limits: I am was allowed to buy into any game with a buy-in of $2.50 or less. I can also buy into a $1 sng
2. I will not buy into any multi-table tournaments for more than 2 percent of my total bankroll; the only exception was $1 MTTs
3. If at any time during a No-Limit or Pot-Limit cash-game session the money on the table represented more than 10 percent of my total bankroll, I have to leave the game when the blinds reached me

I have officially quit the 100 burpee challenge. I got behind and it just proved too much with everything else. I made it over half way, so I feel OK. I like the idea of the monthly challenges, so I may keep with them.

I have only made it to the gym twice this week so far. I am going to try to go tomorrow before tae kwon do. On Sunday I may just do a bicycle ride and some pull ups. It will actually work out as my daughter will be staying with my Mom. If I can wake up early, I can get in a nice ride. That should be incentive to not drink too much on Saturday.