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.