Christmas Already? I mean come on.... !

So it's been a little while, short quick update on the past few months.

First my baseball team made some "run good" at the end of the season and actually started winning games. I hit a bunch of triples, which would of been home runs for most of the guys/girls on my team but I was tired as I hit 3rd. Time to hit the bike and get in better shape for next year. We made the finals of the playoffs and lost a close back and forth game in extra innings when our right fielder dropped a routine pop up and both the guys at 3rd and 2nd came around to score. Ugh there is always next year, but I was happy to even make it into the playoffs let alone the final championship game.

Work is good, I haven't gotten into too much trouble and the ladies in the office are a great bunch of women.... Who doesn't enjoy being the only guy on a 15 person team... It helps me get my ass out of bed and into work each day.

Halloween is over and no sooner that the decorations came down do I have x-mas trees and lights and presents out on the lawn being lite up each evening. I asked the Dutch es about it and said "Is it Christmas already? I mean come on...!!!", she replied "At least I waited until after Rememberance Day".... Well I can give her that much and when the electric bill comes in and I hand it to her to pay I will remind her of her enthusiasm to put the lights up so early in the season.
The kids had fun trick or treating and went out as a storm trooper and Annican (sp) Skywalker with full body outfits, masks and weaponry to boot. I got to stay home and answer the door and hand out candy for the evening which was a blast and gave me exercise in between eating candy after each time the bell rang. I have raided my kids loot bags so much that there is no chocolate bars left and they have hidden it away from Daddy in their respective bedrooms.... LOL. It's okay though I made it up to them by buying "on sale" Halloween bags of chocolate each from the store a week later.

For my birthday, November 11th (also Rememberance Day in Canada) the ladies at the office took me out for lunch, my kids made me 15 birthday cards at school, my 15 yr old told me "happy birthday" with some persuasion and my parents bought me dinner and my favorite ice cream along with a crisp $50 bill. They don't "do" cards anymore as they are a waste of money as my mom says.

My dog had puppies, Chihuahua and Shih Tzu mixture and we are keeping one, maybe two if my wife will agree. I promised her I wouldn't ask for sex for the next 3 months if she let me keep them and even have forgone birthday sex to prove my determination. She is sick right now anyway and I don't want to catch what she's got, so it helps give me reason to not have to get to close.... :)

Poker is poker, same old same old, study, practice, repeat. I have been watching all the videos I can on both training sites and participating in the forums, looking at HH's and trying a stab here and there at higher buy in games with mixed results. Some days I just run great and others I run so bad that I almost expect my KK to be rivered by A3o on the bubble of the tournament. But it is all good, I don't usually tilt and when I feel frustrated I simply turn off the games for a bit or for the night.
I gave in and got the 1K Mansion bonus as my bank roll had dipped below 1K and needed the $ to feel okay about playing the levels I was for the buy in to be the right % of my roll. I am going to move up on Full Tilt playing slightly higher and starting December I "may" put more focus on playing at Pokerstars if things continue the way they are at Mansion. I mean I don't get rake back at Mansion and I am basically breaking even and running bad on that site so why not cash out 2K and put the same or more volume in at a site that has better rewards... right?

The World Series of Poker Main Event 2010 Final Table has now come and gone. Congratulations to fellow Canadian Johnathan Duhamel for taking the almost $9 million in prize money and probably double that in possible sponsorship deals over the coming years. I was happy to see the way it panned out and was even happier when Cheong "done blowed up real good" to give him the 6-1 chip lead going into heads up play against Jon Racener.
It makes me pumped even more about building my role and getting to the point of heading down to Vegas to play in the events in the future.

I played a hand at a home game the other night and woke up with AA in the BB with 3 players left, paying the top 3 and everybody had equal chips, but I was slightly covered by both people in the match. the B limps, SB calls I raise the AA, B shoves all in SB folds and snap call.
It turns out he was limp trapping me with Q10o and when the flop came out QQQ it demonstrated what a superb trap it was. I got knocked out in 3rd and made double my buy in back and went outside for a smoke as he commented that he was very lucky. I told him it was a great hand, and 3 handed a very good play to limp shove all in... he smiled and thanked me for my insight and hopefully it will ensure he makes this play many times over in the future. Hopefully.....

Cheers and good luck at the tables all.