Season Changes Suck

This seasonal change has hit me like a ton of bricks. One day it just turns into fall and I feel like I have no energy, and just been feeling depressed lately. I've been on a month now so far with the vitamin D pills, and still feel drained of energy. I am now taking Vitamin D pills everyday now with a fewer dosage from the 50,000 units, twice a week, I'm now taking 5,000 units every day.

Hopefully we will get a few more awesome weather days in before fall officially hits, and hopefully I will be up with those days are. As far as that deposit goal, I know it's not going to be possible now, but hopefully I can fulfill my other deposit bonus on Pokerstars. I have a week or so left to try and get as much of the bonus I can on Full Tilt as I can, but trying to get everything situated in my life first.

Poker
As far as the poker has been going, I found out that the micro limits is just not working for my grind and I have moved up in limits from .5/.10c to .10/.25c or 25NL and have finally got out of the horrible bad luck bad beat session I've been having as well. I actually am back to even on my bankroll now and see that the players the 25NL limits play a lil worse than the micro limits actually, it's kinda crazy. People are willing to go all in preflop with mediocre hands like AQ offsuit and mid pocket pairs, so I have found me a new home!

Gaming
I actually had a little time to get some gaming in and got to play Halo Reach on campaign with my brother and 2 other friends to get full 4 player co-op and it was fun, but it was just another game to me. Nothing really standed out to make it exciting or anything it just felt like I was going through the motions. I haven't had time to play the multiplayer yet though and I know that's what halo is all about so, until then I really can't say shit about it. I'm really looking forward to Dead Rising 2 though, and need to hurry up and preorder it! I'll be playing that with my brother since it's co-op as well. I really enjoy playing co-op games with my brother because I don't get much "Bro" time in with him these days.

Blog updates and gadgets
I've always wanted my own camcorder and I just bought a HD camcorder. It's a portable one that is really easy shoot and upload, so I think I will be converting my blog over to a "vlog" pretty soon so you won't have to read lots of articles anymore, it will be glorious video in 1080p! Nah, I don't think I will be recording 1080p although I can, but low quality is good enough for me for now. So look forward to my next update being a video blog update post!

Distracting Distractions!

  I first off want to say congrats to my friend Sasha for having a adorable baby girl!   Here's a picture of both of them angles, and Sasha actually smiling!  I never seen her smile only once but I had to do very bad things and sell half my soul. 

This post is a little old, I made a draft and wanted to add some things before I posted it, but now a week has gone by, but oh well here it is. I just got done with playing a Uno Co-op match with a friend Drew of mine from the 4BG community.  It was our first session playing it against people.  We do it via www.gamebattles.com so there's a little more competition and bragging rights, because people set up games there and go against people and sometimes win prizes and cash and what not. We did pretty good for our first team session, and one match was so good that the other team thought we were cheating we owned them so hard!

Here is video of the whole game!

Watch live video from 4BG with Druminfected on Justin.tv




Watch live video from 4BG with Druminfected on Justin.tv


I'm going out of my mind lately with all the distractions that have been going on.   I haven't even had any time for actual poker lately as my bonus goal sinks farther and farther out of reality.   This is my first goal I've tried and I'm failing miserably at it.  I think what I should have done was to get all my poker stuff prepared before depositing my bankrolls on the sites.   You live and learn from your mistakes is the best way to learn I guess, but some mistakes cost you a lot more than others.

   Lately I've been preparing all my poker tools I use before playing, like my HUD's ( head up displays), notes, keeping in contact with people, and building a reputation slowly so I can build up my staking trust as well.   Other than poker, little things like chatrooms, social sites, are really distracting me and pissing me off that I'm wasting my time doing that and not getting to poker!    So now I've put my foot down and strictly going to stick to twitter and my blog and check out facebook once in awhile, and hopefully stop enough distractions to get my shit in order and more focused.    It looks like I need more than one goal to finish others, almost like a circle of life.


   I got a good friend of mine that's helping me upgrade my computer in the next week.   I wanted to upgrade my system to RAID and get a upgrade on my video card, since I need a upgrade on this PC I built from 06.  This will make my system run super smooth and less strain on my processor, and will be my last upgrade for this pc, before I get a new pc one day in a far future.  My friend Steve that is helping me, is a super skilled person when it comes to computers, so skilled that he's opening up his own business that does everything geek squad, but doesn't rape you with crazy insane prices.    So if your looking for someone to help you with your pc hit him up!   You don't have to be local for him to help fix your computer either by the way he can fix most of the problems from his house!


Hopefully my new blog post will be filled with a good poker session!

Paying it Forward

If you haven't seen the movie pay it forward, it was a decent movie, but what I took from the movie was it had a pretty interesting concept.  basically this d00d conjures the notion of paying a favor not back, but forward--repaying good deeds not with payback, but with new good deeds done to three new people.  Since a really good friend helped me out with my poker and staked me a bankroll to get started, I wanted to pay it forward.

One of my friends is stuck in the same situation as me, no bankroll to get anything going.  His play is good enough to be a winning player at the moment and is always improving, so I wanted to help spyder along the way and show him the mistakes I made the first time, so he don't have to do the same thing and lose his bankroll. I've made 5k from a 50$ deposit in 2005, so with determination and grinding it out it is definitely possible by sticking with the bankroll management rule only spend 5% of your bankroll on any buy-in.  I found out helping and teaching other people how to play poker helps your own game in many ways as well, so we both get something out of it.  

I just got done helping my friend spyd3r try to get a bankroll on a few sites so hopefully all of them will go through.  I've spend the past few days setting up all my stuff onto my pc instead of playing on my laptop, so I have a bigger screen and more powerful and can do so much more with dual screens.   before I was starting to multitable with the tile tabling the poker tables, but that was just to much mouse movement and decided to stack my tables instead.   

The thing is, I already setup all my huds for the smaller table sizes so i had to set them all up again for full screen tables.   I can fit way more stats on there now though, so I'm much more happy now, so I can learn all the stats now and get better at using them when needed when i multitable. The HUDs don't help you play poker, they are more or less little notes to help you out, especially when you are playing more then one table and have to move very quickly from one table to another.  

I have 30 more days to get his bonus and time is getting shorter and shorter, I really want to finish this goal because I don't like to fail. I'm going to spend one more day configuring table ninja which is this program that helps me multi-table much more easier ( it's pretty much a AHK script program) and then I'm going to be super busy playing nothing but poker all day long.  Tomorrow I'm also going to figure out how many bonus points I need to acquire each day in order to get this bonus as well.   I'm way to tired to do it now, plus my schedule is all fugged up.

I know I'm not even close to being pro yet, but I do have a lot of knowledge to share with anyone willing to listen, and I also get trained myself from pros, articles, poker schools, forums and more it's all out there for you to soak your brain up on. The only thing that I am missing and want right now is a poker buddy that I can talk to and relate too.  I haven't found a friend in real life or even online that I can talk to on a regular basis about poker yet, and I've been looking for a few months now.  Sure, I talk to people about poker in chat rooms here and there, but no poker buddy yet.   When I do found someone that is as passionate about it as I am, it will improve my game even more, and I can't wait until that day comes.   I just hope it comes soon!

34 more days left for my Deposit Goal!

I'm trying to achieve a first deposit bonus goal, and was trying to get the most out of it so I did the max deposit, which was 600$ match on your deposit bonus. I have until Oct 3rd, to get this bonus so I have
34 days left to get the full bonus and it takes 185 points to release $11.50 cash into your account. The thing is i'm pretty much am a tournament player, that's where my game is best. I also found out you don't get that many points for playing tournaments compared to how many you get playing cash games.

I figured this is the best time for me to improve on my cash game, but I don't want to loose my whole bankroll trying to get this bonus. Right now I'm runnin bad, down about -$120, and have $34.85 so far from the bonus being released. ( it's released in $11.50 incriments ) I've been trying to take advantage of the bonus hours there are 3 times a day, since you get double in points. I think playing those x2 Bonus Hours are very important if I want to get this full bonus.


Earned: $34.85
Expires: Oct. 03
Days Left: 34 days
Goal: get full $600 bonus

Can it be done?   I also put up a countdown clock, to get me more motivated and to poop my pants when I see I only have a couple weeks left!     Right now I'm converting all of my poker related stuffs over to my main PC, where I have dual monitors and more of everything I need, so I can multi-table a bunch of tables.
 Right now it's way too small and scrunched up doing it on my laptop.   Time to build a War Room!

Tired and wasted day

   well today I finally got this old blog setup again so it's all new and shiny with a bunch of new features that makes this blogger site much better to use now for blogs, and really dig it now.   Took me a few hours to get everything setup, but I'm happy with it for now and will improve it more when I get content I want to put up. Now I have added a twitter widget, a follow button for google people, and also a subscribe RSS button, and added my JTV channels Fourbeatgamers and my other channel where I stream poker shows.  I didn't even get any poker in today, mostly just watched Scott Matasow play ( mike "the mouth" matasow's brother) online and let a bunch of people know about his site that also has a poker room that already gave away a million in prizes, and it's a no deposit site.   

I didn't even get any studying and going over my hands either today, so it really felt like another wasted day.   I'm not even sleeping that much, and the days go by so fast, I can't believe it's already friday.   I'm going to crash out for tonight.  When light emits from the windows I must get into my coffin!

Rise from the grave!

The blog is finally coming back since my main site is yet at another hault, trying to move to a new server and new software.  until then I can't do my blog or anything, so I figured what the fuck and to get back to doing at least a blog for now.  just wanted to post a little snippet that I'm back after a couple years.

Summary of the Jacki Rickert Medical Marijuana Act

Medical marijuana is currently legal in thirteen states.  Named after
Jacki Rickert, a medical marijuana advocate who 12 years ago led a
210-mile trek of wheelchair-bound patients from Mondovi to Madison in
order to seek legal access to the medicine they said made their lives
bearable, this comprehensive legislation would allow patients with
debilitating medical conditions access to marijuana if authorized by
their doctor or if they have a valid registry card from DHFS.

Similar to 2007 AB 550, this legislation is based on Michigan law that
passed last November on a state-wide ballot of 63% to 35%.

This is an issue where the public has been ahead of the policy makers.
Polling over the past few years has shown consistent support for
medical marijuana, most recently escalating to over 75% in Wisconsin.
In the seven states where medical marijuana was added as a ballot
initiative, it passed in each state by a wide margin.

It is time that we address medical marijuana as an issue of providing
comprehensive health care to all people.  The patient and their doctor
should have as many options as possible available when treating a
patient’s medical condition.

Key Provisions of the bill include:

· Provides a medical necessity defense to marijuana-related
prosecutions and property seizure actions.  A person may evoke this
defense if they are undergoing a debilitating medical condition or
treatment and have written consent from their physician or obtained a
valid registry ID card from DHFS.  Conditions include cancer, glaucoma,
AIDS or HIV, diseases that cause wasting away, severe pain or nausea,
seizures or severe and persistent muscle spasms, and any other medical
condition or treatment in rules promulgated by DHFS.

· Creates a maximum authorized amount of marijuana a patient may have,
thus establishing clear limits for both patients and law enforcement
officials.

· Prohibits the arrest of a physician who provides a written
certification in good faith.  Also, the primary caregiver is protected
from the same exceptions under the law.

· The defense may not be applicable if the patient performs an illegal
act while using marijuana.  This includes driving or operating a motor
vehicle, operating heavy machinery, smoking near a school, park or
youth center, at a person’s employment, etc.

· Requires DHFS to establish a registry for medical users of marijuana
and an ID card to a qualifying patient.

· Requires DHFS to license and regulate nonprofit corporations that
distribute marijuana.

· This bill only changes state law regarding marijuana.  Federal law on
marijuana does not change.  However, 99% of marijuana arrests are made
by state and local officials, not federal officials.

If you would like to sign on to this bill, please call Rep. Pocan’s
office at 266-8570 or Sen. Erpenbach's office at 266-6670 by 5:00 PM
Thursday, October 22, 2009.

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Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau>

Current prohibitions and penalties
Current law prohibits the manufacture, distribution, and delivery of
marijuana (also known as tetrahydrocannabinols) and the possession of
marijuana with intent to manufacture, distribute, or deliver it.
Penalties for violating these prohibitions depend on the amount of
marijuana involved. If the crime involves 200 grams or less or four or
fewer marijuana plants, the person is guilty of a felony and may be
fined up to $10,000, sentenced to a term of imprisonment of up to three
years and six months, or both. If the crime involves more than 200
grams but not more than 1,000 grams, or more than four plants but not
more than 20 plants, the person is guilty of a felony and may be fined
up to $10,000, sentenced to a term of imprisonment of up to six years,
or both. If the crime involves more than 1,000 grams but not more than
2,500 grams, or more than 20 plants but not more than 50 plants, the
person is guilty of a felony and may be fined up to $25,000, sentenced
to a term of imprisonment of up to ten years, or both. If the crime
involves more than 2,500 grams but not more than 10,000 grams, or more
than 50 plants but not more than 200 plants, the person is guilty of a
felony and may be fined up to $25,000, sentenced to a term of
imprisonment of up to 12 years and 6 months, or both. If the crime
involves more than 10,000 grams or more than 200 plants, the person is
guilty of a felony and may be fined up to $50,000, sentenced to a term
of imprisonment of up to 15 years, or both.

Current law also prohibits a person from possessing or attempting to
possess marijuana. A person who violates this prohibition and who has
no prior drug convictions is guilty of a misdemeanor and may be fined
not more than $1,000, sentenced to the county jail for up to six
months, or both. For a second or subsequent offense, a person is guilty
of a Class I felony.
 

Current law also contains certain prohibitions regarding drug
paraphernalia, which includes equipment, products, and materials used
to produce, distribute, and use controlled substances, including
marijuana. Under current law, a person who uses drug paraphernalia or
who possesses it with the primary intent to produce, distribute, or use
a controlled substance, other than methamphetamine, unlawfully is
guilty of a misdemeanor and may be fined not more than $500, imprisoned
for not more than 30 days, or both. A person who delivers drug
paraphernalia, possesses it with intent to deliver it, or manufactures
it with intent to deliver it, knowing that it will be primarily used to
produce, distribute, or use a controlled substance, other than
methamphetamine, unlawfully may be fined not more than $1,000,
imprisoned for not more than 90 days, or both.

Medical necessity defense and immunity from arrest and prosecution
This bill establishes a medical necessity defense to
marijuana>−>related prosecutions and forfeiture actions. A person
having or undergoing a debilitating medical condition or treatment
(qualifying patient) may invoke this defense. A debilitating medical
condition or treatment means any of the following: 1) cancer, glaucoma,
AIDS, a positive HIV test, Crohn’s disease, a Hepatitis C virus
infection, Alzheimer’s disease, Amytrophic Lateral Sclerosis, nail
patella syndrome, Ehlers>−>Danlos Syndrome, post>−>traumatic stress
disorder, or the treatment of these conditions; 2) a chronic or
debilitating disease or medical condition, or the treatment of such a
disease or condition, that causes wasting away, severe pain, severe
nausea, seizures, or severe and persistent muscle spasms; or 3) any
other medical condition or treatment for a medical condition designated
as a debilitating medical condition or treatment in rules promulgated
by the Department of Health Services (DHS).

A qualifying patient may invoke this defense if he or she acquires,
possesses, cultivates, transports, or uses marijuana to alleviate the
symptoms or effects of his or her debilitating medical condition or
treatment, but only if no more than the maximum author>ized amount of
marijuana (that is, 12 marijuana plants and three ounces —
approximately 85 grams — of marijuana leaves or flowers) is involved.
If a person has obtained a valid registry identification card from DHS
or a valid out>−>of>−>state registry identification card (see Registry
and distribution centers for medical users of marijuana below) or has a
written certification from his or her physician documenting that the
person has or is undergoing a debilitating medical condition or
treatment and that the potential benefits to the person of using
marijuana outweigh the health risks involved, the person is presumed to
have this defense if no more than the maximum authorized amount of
marijuana is involved.
The bill also prohibits the arrest or prosecution of a qualifying
patient who acquires, possesses, cultivates, transports, or uses
marijuana to alleviate the symptoms or effects of his or her
debilitating medical condition or treatment if the person possesses a
valid registry identification card, a valid out>−>of>−>state registry
identification card, or a written certification. This prohibition,
however, applies only if no more than the maximum authorized amount of
marijuana is involved. In addition, the bill prohibits the arrest or
prosecution of or the imposition of any penalty on a physician who
provides a written certification to a person in good faith.
The defense provided under the bill and the prohibition on arrest and
prosecution contained in the bill do not apply if the person possesses
or attempts to possess marijuana and if: 1) while under the influence
of marijuana, the person drives or operates a motor vehicle; 2) while
under the influence of marijuana, the person operates heavy machinery
or engages in any other conduct that endangers the health or
well>−>being of another person; or 3) the person smokes marijuana on a
bus, at his or her workplace, on school premises, in an adult or
juvenile correctional facility or jail, at a public park, beach, or
recreation center, or at a youth center. In addition, if the putative
qualifying patient is under 18 years of age, the defense provided under
the bill and the prohibition on arrest and prosecution contained in the
bill apply only if the person’s parent, guardian, or legal custodian
agrees to serve as a primary caregiver for the person. The bill defines
a primary caregiver as a person who is at least 18 years old and who
has agreed to be responsible for managing a qualifying patient’s
medical use of marijuana.
The defense provided under the bill and the prohibition on arrest and
prosecution contained in the bill apply also to a primary caregiver for
any qualifying patient, if the primary caregiver acquires, possesses,
cultivates, transfers, or transports marijuana to facilitate the
qualifying patient’s medical use of it. The defense and the prohibition
apply to the primary caregiver only if it is not practicable for the
qualifying patient to acquire, possess, cultivate, or transport
marijuana independently or if the qualifying patient is under 18. The
defense and the prohibition apply also to offenses involving drug
paraphernalia if the qualifying patient uses the drug paraphernalia for
the medical use of marijuana.

Registry and distribution centers for medical users of marijuana
The bill requires DHS to establish a registry for medical users of
marijuana. Under the bill, a person claiming to be a qualifying patient
may apply for a registry identification card by submitting to DHS a
signed application, accompanied by a written certification and a
registration fee of not more than $150. DHS must verify the information
and issue the person a registry identification card. 

 

 

A qualifying patient and one of his or her primary caregivers may also jointly apply
for a registry identification card for the primary caregiver. DHS may
not disclose that it has issued to a person a registry identification
card, or information from an application for one, except to a law
enforcement agency for the purpose of verifying that a person possesses
a >valid registry identification card. A registry identification card
is valid for one year, unless revoked sooner by DHS based on a change
of circumstances, and may be renewed. This bill also requires DHS to
promulgate a rule listing any state, district, commonwealth, territory,
or insular possession thereof that allows the medical use of marijuana
by a visiting qualifying patient or allows a person to assist with a
visiting qualifying patient’s medical use of marijuana. Under this
bill, documents issued by these entities identifying a person as a
qualifying patient, primary caregiver, or equivalent are treated the
same as registry identification cards issued by DHS.
 

The bill requires DHS to license and regulate nonprofit corporations,
known as compassion centers, that distribute or deliver marijuana or
drug paraphernalia or possess or manufacture marijuana or drug
paraphernalia with the intent to deliver or distribute to facilitate
the medical use of marijuana. 

 

This bill prohibits compassion centers
from being located less than 500 feet from a school, prohibits a
compassion center from distributing to a qualifying patient more than a
maximum amount of marijuana, and prohibits an organization from
possessing a quantity that exceeds, by an amount determined by DHS, the
total maximum amount of marijuana of all of the qualifying patients it
serves. An applicant for a license must pay an initial application fee
of $250, and a compassion center must pay an annual fee of $5,000.

Effect on federal law
This bill changes state law regarding marijuana. It does not affect
federal law, which generally prohibits persons from manufacturing,
delivering, or possessing marijuana and applies to both intrastate and
interstate violations.
 

Because this bill creates a new crime or revises a penalty for an
existing crime, the Joint Review Committee on Criminal Penalties may be
requested to prepare a report concerning the proposed penalty and the
costs or savings that are likely to result if the bill is enacted.
For further information see the state and local fiscal estimate, which
will be printed as an appendix to this.