Not much going on this past week in teh pokers. Been playing a lot of CoH ... up to level 12 in 2v2 americans, and holding steady @level 10 in 1v1's. Getting better.
Had to get up at 6 this morning to drive Brian & Cam to the airport. Okay, I wasn't actually their ride there, but I was their car's ride back. Replaced my shovel for the driveway, so I can clear that out at some point, and finally went shopping post-Florida trip.
Rerolled a new character in Dragon Age, a city elf rogue. I think I'm gonna try a main group of rogue x2, tank, healer. Should be interesting.
Thursday, January 14, 2010
Saturday, January 9, 2010
Freeroll!
Cashed in the gold level freeroll, then got knocked out with TT against 67 on a 58J4 board. Knew I should have repopped him pre. Low skill tournament, really - very fast levels. Some jackass at my table was stalling from 210 players (180 spots paid); it was pretty sweet knocking him out in 182nd. Won't complain about $50 from a freeroll, though.
Played about 6 games of CoH today. Won all but the first, including a standard 4v4 where I had double anyone else's score (buncha noobs! nobody retreated anything!) and a 2v2 on Rails and Metal where my opponent whined about how I "spammed" rangers (I had 4 squads). Well, gee, the dude on my side built nothing but PG's with the first rifle upgrade and tank hunters, both of which upgraded rangers act as a hard counter to. Finally towards the end of the game he builds a single IST (yay for counters) and then sends it directly into my blob (d'oh!). It gets two shots off and gets raped by my 8 bazookas. Then he starts whining, to which I say "I'm sorry I was able to out-produce you", almost getting around to mentioning that I might not have spammed them if he had actually built an effective counter.
Time for Einherjar, and then my first limbus in quite some time.
Played about 6 games of CoH today. Won all but the first, including a standard 4v4 where I had double anyone else's score (buncha noobs! nobody retreated anything!) and a 2v2 on Rails and Metal where my opponent whined about how I "spammed" rangers (I had 4 squads). Well, gee, the dude on my side built nothing but PG's with the first rifle upgrade and tank hunters, both of which upgraded rangers act as a hard counter to. Finally towards the end of the game he builds a single IST (yay for counters) and then sends it directly into my blob (d'oh!). It gets two shots off and gets raped by my 8 bazookas. Then he starts whining, to which I say "I'm sorry I was able to out-produce you", almost getting around to mentioning that I might not have spammed them if he had actually built an effective counter.
Time for Einherjar, and then my first limbus in quite some time.
Thursday, January 7, 2010
Travel day
Woke up at 8am after 4 hours sleep, managed to get myself semi-conscious, and caught Doug on the way out, thanking him for hosting and feeding me for the past 18 days or so. Missed the girls, but they knew I was leaving and we'd said tentative farewells the previous night.
The day went pretty much as expected: two flights, a 90 minute layover in Memphis (stopped in a restaurant for a burger and a Sam Adams), an hour wait, a bus ride, picked up at the bus stop by Camille, dropped off at about 7:15 pm. Immediately logged in to Dynamis, which went very smoothly right up until the point where we got Brian's fragment with 3 minutes left in the run and realized, to our horror, that one of our attendees had gone AFK and couldn't pass, meaning the fragment was lost and Brian's relic will have to wait another week. Fucking stupid drop distribution system, but equally stupid of this particular member not to realize what he was risking.
Played 4 sit and go's, 3 @$30+3 and one @$24+2. Cashed in all three of the $30+3's, 1st 3rd 3rd, for a total profit of something like $90.
Went to bed, didn't get up 'til noon, not playing hardcore poker today.
The day went pretty much as expected: two flights, a 90 minute layover in Memphis (stopped in a restaurant for a burger and a Sam Adams), an hour wait, a bus ride, picked up at the bus stop by Camille, dropped off at about 7:15 pm. Immediately logged in to Dynamis, which went very smoothly right up until the point where we got Brian's fragment with 3 minutes left in the run and realized, to our horror, that one of our attendees had gone AFK and couldn't pass, meaning the fragment was lost and Brian's relic will have to wait another week. Fucking stupid drop distribution system, but equally stupid of this particular member not to realize what he was risking.
Played 4 sit and go's, 3 @$30+3 and one @$24+2. Cashed in all three of the $30+3's, 1st 3rd 3rd, for a total profit of something like $90.
Went to bed, didn't get up 'til noon, not playing hardcore poker today.
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
Grrrr
Stupid ghetto ass cab driver service can't drive down as far south as Johnson's Creek to pick me up at the bus stop there. "We can't leave Watertown." It's a 10 minute drive people. Luckily Camille was susceptible to bribery, and will be picking me up tomorrow. She thought she was picking me up at the airport at first, so after I told her "oh, no, I only need you to drive 10 minutes, not 90" she felt like she was getting a deal.
I didn't like asking her, particularly since Brian had said he didn't want me to (or more specifically, that he wasn't going to obligate her to do so, which I suppose makes a bit of a difference), but she was more than happy to, so I don't feel too bad. That is, after all, what friends do for one another.
Not much last night. Played some CoD-MW2, discovering that the Capture the Flag games are substantially more brutal than the Domination games - they require more teamwork, and are less forgiving of stupid deaths - and got spanked pretty good. Tricia's dad and mother-in-law announced a surprise visit roughly 16 hours in advance, which stressed the fuck out of Tricia. Lots of cleanup, vacuuming, etc. They're here now, and Trish is feigning enthusiasm with the best of them. I think they wanted to see Chris more than anything, and Chris is at school, with double dance recital afterward, meaning they'll likely get to see her for all of 20 minutes before she collapses tonight.
No poker today, probably gonna start a game of Civ 4, maybe log into FF, play some MW2 tonight after the girls have gone to bed. Jocelyn is showing off for the grandparents and is bouncing off the walls so she'll likely collapse early.
The good news is that this vacation has shifted my sleep schedule back a couple of hours, and I've been staying up pretty routinely until 3 in the morning, which is good because hopefully once I get back up to Wisconsin I can stay up after events and play some poker, where there are more fish at the tables than there are at my more regular 11 in the morning times.
I didn't like asking her, particularly since Brian had said he didn't want me to (or more specifically, that he wasn't going to obligate her to do so, which I suppose makes a bit of a difference), but she was more than happy to, so I don't feel too bad. That is, after all, what friends do for one another.
Not much last night. Played some CoD-MW2, discovering that the Capture the Flag games are substantially more brutal than the Domination games - they require more teamwork, and are less forgiving of stupid deaths - and got spanked pretty good. Tricia's dad and mother-in-law announced a surprise visit roughly 16 hours in advance, which stressed the fuck out of Tricia. Lots of cleanup, vacuuming, etc. They're here now, and Trish is feigning enthusiasm with the best of them. I think they wanted to see Chris more than anything, and Chris is at school, with double dance recital afterward, meaning they'll likely get to see her for all of 20 minutes before she collapses tonight.
No poker today, probably gonna start a game of Civ 4, maybe log into FF, play some MW2 tonight after the girls have gone to bed. Jocelyn is showing off for the grandparents and is bouncing off the walls so she'll likely collapse early.
The good news is that this vacation has shifted my sleep schedule back a couple of hours, and I've been staying up pretty routinely until 3 in the morning, which is good because hopefully once I get back up to Wisconsin I can stay up after events and play some poker, where there are more fish at the tables than there are at my more regular 11 in the morning times.
Monday, January 4, 2010
Year's End
It was a bad year overall and I'm not going to go into much more detail. The final 6 months of the year were simply not great.
One of my goals for 2010 is to keep a more up-to-date record of how I'm spending my time as a whole, how I'm running, and various other things going on in my life. To that end this blog is doing a bit of a transformation from poker content only (or, to be realistic, no content, period) to more varied content including poker, and the other things which are consuming my time, which include but are not limited to other video games including my MMORPG of choice, Final Fantasy XI (which I put far more time into than is reproductively recommended) and the activities going on in the linkshell that I help to run.
I've been in Florida for the past 2+ weeks now, visiting with my brother and sister-in-law, playing with my nieces, and catching up with the parents, who came in for about an overlapping week of the same time period. I fly back on Wednesday, and need to figure out how I'm getting home from the airport as I had a friend drive me to the nearest bus stop (10 or so miles away) when the time came to fly out, and that same friend will be out of town on business this week. Given that there is only one other soul in that town that I actually know (said friend's wife) and she's taking care of 2 month old twins, I can't impose on her. I suppose I'll see if the local cab service can pick me up that far away. Either way it was more cost effective than trying to park for 18 days.
Did some crafting in FFXI, 26 elemental beads for a somewhat pathetic +0.2 to my goldsmithing, bringing me up to 84.7. Slowly but surely working my way up.
Been playing a lot of Modern Warfare 2 (the abbreviation MW2 will forever in my brain be Mech Warrior 2) on my brother's PS3, and had some good matches the other night, including one where I went 20-4 in a Domination game.
Been spending quite a bit of time with my oldest niece, Chris, who is 6 and thus actually of an age to remember these yearly visits of mine. She's a lot of fun but can be a little grating; she's a nonstop chatterbox (as my sister-in-law puts it, she simply has no understanding of the concept of an internal monologue), but so far above and beyond where any kid of that age has a right to be in the academic sense that you can't help but be impressed.
Poker on the vacation has been sporadic and uninteresting. I haven't had a losing session while on vacation, but most of that has been running significantly +EV and a few of those sessions were basically breakeven, sub-$10 wins. I think I'm up $400 or so on the trip, which pays for the trip and then a little bit but isn't setting the world on fire.
And that's about it.
One of my goals for 2010 is to keep a more up-to-date record of how I'm spending my time as a whole, how I'm running, and various other things going on in my life. To that end this blog is doing a bit of a transformation from poker content only (or, to be realistic, no content, period) to more varied content including poker, and the other things which are consuming my time, which include but are not limited to other video games including my MMORPG of choice, Final Fantasy XI (which I put far more time into than is reproductively recommended) and the activities going on in the linkshell that I help to run.
I've been in Florida for the past 2+ weeks now, visiting with my brother and sister-in-law, playing with my nieces, and catching up with the parents, who came in for about an overlapping week of the same time period. I fly back on Wednesday, and need to figure out how I'm getting home from the airport as I had a friend drive me to the nearest bus stop (10 or so miles away) when the time came to fly out, and that same friend will be out of town on business this week. Given that there is only one other soul in that town that I actually know (said friend's wife) and she's taking care of 2 month old twins, I can't impose on her. I suppose I'll see if the local cab service can pick me up that far away. Either way it was more cost effective than trying to park for 18 days.
Did some crafting in FFXI, 26 elemental beads for a somewhat pathetic +0.2 to my goldsmithing, bringing me up to 84.7. Slowly but surely working my way up.
Been playing a lot of Modern Warfare 2 (the abbreviation MW2 will forever in my brain be Mech Warrior 2) on my brother's PS3, and had some good matches the other night, including one where I went 20-4 in a Domination game.
Been spending quite a bit of time with my oldest niece, Chris, who is 6 and thus actually of an age to remember these yearly visits of mine. She's a lot of fun but can be a little grating; she's a nonstop chatterbox (as my sister-in-law puts it, she simply has no understanding of the concept of an internal monologue), but so far above and beyond where any kid of that age has a right to be in the academic sense that you can't help but be impressed.
Poker on the vacation has been sporadic and uninteresting. I haven't had a losing session while on vacation, but most of that has been running significantly +EV and a few of those sessions were basically breakeven, sub-$10 wins. I think I'm up $400 or so on the trip, which pays for the trip and then a little bit but isn't setting the world on fire.
And that's about it.
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