So after getting 13th in a major and my 2nd straight week of getting close to a monster score only to get break even on the day money is very frustrating. So I've taken the liberty of doing something a bit more extreme to make winning that much sweeter.

So i issued the following challenge on myself: I must win a tournament with a prize pool over $5k (so 20/180s don't count). Second place no matter how big does not matter, it must be a 1st. Until I do the following condition will remain in place. I will have a mullet. Yes that's right, a mullet. Don't believe me? Have a look for yourself:

business:


party:


so far all i have to show for myself is a sweet new look, however if by sunday i still have failed to get a win i've told my roommates they can shave a $ sign in the top (im really praying this doesnt happen). Wish me luck, im gonna need it

Even if that something is just a $44 6am tourney with 59 runners. I actually was telling deeb when i joined it i was playing it so that i could just finally have a win. Sure enough it was super super soft and I was able to run people over when play was tight and especially shorthanded when almost no one adjusted. The win for was like $850 or so which is by no means steller but nothing to snub either. Also anything to get closer to out of makeup i will take. Infact i will probably start playing 20/180s on stars during my hours when not alot of tournies are going on (like mid afternoon). This way i can get a low variance way of hopefully atleast breaking me even through the other tournies i fail to cash until i can hit a big score or atleast that is my theory (i have a very good record of crushing the 180s on stars).

So it is now 4:00 AM on sunday and i have to play the warmup in 9 hours. However i just woke up, 2hrs ago. So i am in an interesting spot, as around 11pm or so im gonna start getting tired. I think my strategy will be to no to register for anything after the mulligan at around 7:05pm. This way unless i go deep in stuff it won't matter and i can go to bed when i'm tired. However should i be making a deep run in any of the sundays i have some red bull plus the adrenaline should keep me up. It's not perfect and my plan had originally been to stay up all the way till 10pm last night however i wasnt able to make it past 5pm (however realistically i was aiming for 7-8pm which i could of done if i really tried or had something keeping me up.

Anyway here's hoping for a good sunday where i win a bunch of money instead of slipping 2k deeper into makeup

This is a post i made on 2+2, thought i'd share it here:

So I've often thought of these sort of scenario's and i thought i would ask OOT what their thoughts are on this sort of subject. Let's assume you could send a highly trained seal team back in time to England in the year 1700 when they were a world powerhouse. They understand the times and the language. They are instructed to topple the government and install a different puppet ruler (let's assume that this is someone from our time period who is capable of pretending to be a current era noble). So just killing the ruler and causing chaos isn't enough, they need to cause a regime change that gets a selected person with no previous political fame elected. Therefore you can assume the following:

-Assume inability to communicate with superiors
-The seals will be resupplied with weapons, explosives and ammo
-The seals will not be given modern vehicles, biological weapons or more men
-Seals will be given vaccines before hand and have modern medical tools, however due to inability to communicate needs, will only receive standard resupplies
-They may train militia or troops to fight a war for them, but these people will not be given modern weapons
-The seal's will be briefed in era tactics and political climate

So the question is as follows: Do you believe the seals could take over the British Empire (the strongest country in the world at that time), how long would it take and how do you think the most effective way of achieving the goal of placing a puppet dictator in control would take?

post can be found here:

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showthread.php?t=96802

So after talking with the wafflecrush guys some the past few days I am now officially playing under their stake for ONLINE play. Live is still on my own dime however it might be something we discuss eventually in the future. The terms of the deal I wont reveal however lets just expect to see me putting in a large volume of online tournaments over the next few months. I'm really excited to do well and haven't been this motivated to play in a long time. I think it's the combination of not having to worry about my roll as well as a chance to prove my ability as a poker player to good players who have a direct interest in how i do.

Also i wanted to do a PLB bet with my friend for this month but he's already in a big one with the pocket 5s challenge along with being in the bahamas and thus not going to put the volume in that he is going to want to if he wants to win the bet. However we will be doing it in february for sure.


WAFFLECRUSHED IMO

had to try it out, feels good

It's freaking impossible to make my family members understand poker. I went and visited with my grandparents, cousins, etc today and they were all shocked to hear about me playing poker (the ones who didn't know). The ones who did know still think its luck. Also if one more person says i must just count cards and then when i tell them "no you cant count cards in poker" they continue to argue with me about it. WHICH ONE OF US DOES THIS FOR A LIVING? DO I TELL YOU HOW TO BE OLD OR WHATEVER IT IS YOU DO!? NO!

I mean i love my family, but what sucks with them is that unlike other people I can just be like forget it and not bring it up, however these people are related to me and it's hard to explain when they already have their minds made up. It annoys the hell out of me. Atleast i should be getting some presents or something, i may be almost 22 but fuck it i still like getting presents under the tree