Today was a good day

Pretty short and sweet today. I found out my 360 will be arriving this wednesday!!!!! I wanted to play a little online poker to practice for my friends big poker tournament tomorrow and lil E pops up on the IM radar and has the same idear. Long story short I actually was down to 300 in chips, but ended up playing a super long heads up with this guy, and ending up taking the win! Now I'm bout to pop a couple flicks in and watch em and try and get a lil shut eye.


Today was a good day.

I'm Famous!

I ran out of watch instantly time on my netflix subscription and wanted to watch a movie NOW, and not pay 4$ either, so I hit up vongo.com it's another instantly watch site and they are offering a 14 day free trial right now, so I hit that up so I could watch a movie. I selected Scary Movie 4, (it was one of the only good new comedys they had so I picked it. I get halfway through and I'm just about to crack open a fresh can of Emerald honey roasted peanuts and and my laptop crashes. If you haven't ever had emerald nuts, they are the best nuts ever, and expensive! Just pick your favorite nut and buy a can. Anyhoo, There goes my whole night. stayed up until 4am trying to fix the damn thing. I still wanted to watch a movie and eat my delicious nuts, so I ended up paying 5$ to watch a PPV movie on demand..... what a crap night. At least the movie was in HD.... the movie was Dead Silence, from the director of Saw. it was ight.


Right now I'm trying this last attempt to recover my half broken already laptop. I have to wipe the whole thing out for this attempt. I'm about half way there and really hope it works. I need a new pc and laptop and don't have money for either. In other news, gaming website Kotaku
used a tip I sent them on meeting Uwe Boll (director that makes bad video game movies like House of the Dead.) for the It came from Lake Michigan movie festival and they wrote an article on it. I go by the name druminfected and Teekan, so if you ever see either of the tags, it's me!
the article is just after the flipside

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If your not doing anything August 12th at 9 p.m., 8 p.m. central, don't like it's sunday you ain't doin shit. the debut launch trailer of Bioshock will be shown on Spike Tv. 2K tells us that during Spike TV's original series "The Kill Point," a 60-second never-seen-before trailer for BioShock will air.Some "surprise announcement" by Game Head's Geoff Keighley will immediately follow the trailer, so look out for that as well. The game is coming out soon... Aug 21st, and and just look at my countdown 12 more days! I better get my 360 by then or I'll have to crash at a friends house with HDTV and a 360. In tech news, i'll be slowly installing a live webcam by stickam
it's a pretty kewl program for webcams and you can look at more than one webcam at a time! Slowly but surely, i'll be adding videos and then get to that live fun stuff too. Shit, I gotta still get my own damn digital camera and stop using my moms. I need loot! I'm goin to add a Paypal donate site too what the hell? People like giving away money.

Primitive Days, Birthdays and Paper Mario Nights

Had another fun filled weekend back up in Madison. This time it was my friend Nick's kid Jasmine's birthday. She's 4 now and what better age to get a computer! Wolfgang and I, picked up a My First Computer, I remember seeing those things and it looked pretty kewl, plus Leap Frog makes pretty good learning tools. We also picked up like 3 different games so she can tear it up with the knowledge. The kewl thing about it is she can also bring it with her on trips to grandmas house and what not. We also picked up a web camera for Nick & Katie, so we can see the family on the Internet and vise versa. That camera actually will follow your face... pretty kewl.... I want one!

After hitting up a couple of stores me and Wolfgang hit the road for the 2 hour journey. I'm finding myself hating to go long distances without any entertainment to make the boredom go by, especially music. Music is by far a must and good music at that. It makes the drive go by so much faster since your jammin out on some good ol tune-age. We both had our Ipods so hit had the way up and I had the way back.

The Birthday party was a pretty good time, and I also seen some faces I haven't seen in awhile so that was kewl as well. Kids have a lot of energy! Geez, I pretty much goofed off and played with Jasmine to wear her out to go to bed, and that was definitely a challenge! I think she stayed up till midnight and then the sandman came.

After the slumber party and a pizza for brakefast later, we hit the road back home. I finally get home and crash out hard and wake up and... Suprise no internets! So I call up tech support and go through the bullshit automated messaging support that never works, and then finally talk to tech support. After 30 min on the phone we came to the conclusion that the modem is shot. So, no internet! what the hell am I going to do? It feels so primitive when you don't have internet it's crazy how much you use it and you don't really realize how much you actually do use the internet for different things like porno, to email, to checking what the hell a bukkake is on wikipedia!

Well I'm back finally online with the internet and here is some gaming news! Today a new demo released and the name of the game is John Woo's sequel to Hard Boiled... Stranglehold. You lucky ones that have a 360, will have the glory of the first taste of this game. This is already on my Pre-ordered list, and another game on my hit list. This is a great moment that I hate not having my 360. REPAIR IT GOOD MS!


In more 360 news it's confirmed new premium 360's with HDMI inputs are already showing up in stores and Microsoft has confirmed this. I price cut, a HDMI input, a new PC 65nm chip? (maybe) MS is stepping it up right before Madden 08 comes out as well. Oh yeh PS3 will only have 30 fps while the 360 version will have double the dose.... yes 60fps!



Here's a couple of horror games that look pretty sick coming out. This first one is a PS3 game by the name of Imabikisou. Has a kinda RingU feel to it, but looks pretty dark and actual scary game to play.







Techland the makers of the FPS, Call of Juarez and Warhound just announced that they are bringing their shooting-stuff talents to the zombie-killing genre. I'm a zombie junkie,sucker, whatever is more addicted to zombies, this is another game that just got added to my Gotta get list. This is coming out on PC and 360 due next year takes place on a mysterious island. After a plane crash, you have to hunt through the zombie-infested paradise looking for your wife... I hope they make that wife or husband. Anyhoo, the game is said to have amazing damage modeling (think torn flesh, exposed muscles, broken bones), an "artificial life system" that will allow you to take advantage of the instinctive behavior of groups and individuals, an open, non-linear world and the ability to use the world around you as weapons.

And for the crazy funny video of the day. This is the definition of too many cats!

Grand Theft Auto IV Delayed To 2008

Just when there's good news, the bad news comes along right after the good sooner or later. Rockstar just announced that GTAIV to be delayed until the 2nd quarter of 2008!!!!! BOGUS! I'm sure I'll be entertained with the fall lineup enough to hold me off until 08, but delays are popping up left and right lately! As long as my child... Bioshock will be born on Aug 21st, I will be content.... for now. Another Delay is Lair (u play a dragon) for PS3. The Makers of Lair is saying, it's because they are fixing leaderboards, but I smell bullshiznit.

If you weren't home, or not up early enough to watch the first world series of videogames on CBS of all channels. I actually didn't get to watch it, and have been trying to find the footage so I can watch it. I watched a interview on how the WSVG on CBS was, and they said it was OK, but they paid more attention to the tricks people could do, for instance on Guitar Hero 2 guitar tricks, instead of playing the game competitively like it should be. The games that people where competing at were, Guitar Hero 2, Fight Night Round 3, W.O.W. and Quake 4. Here's a link for all the video game goodness on da Flipside.

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If you haven't seen the new Call of Duty 4, it's pretty damn sick looking and looks very intense! When they showed it at E3 they also announced that there will be a public beta for Call of Duty 4 very soon! But here's some bad news for people that don't live in America.... you lose.

In NON video game news, check out the first flying car! Finally the one thing I wanted to see before I die happen! These cars goes 50mph top speed and can fly up to high story buildings as well, and have special cars to save people from buildings. I couldn't add a video on my site so here's the link. The cars range from 90K, so start saving now!

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Here's a short little Machinima clip called, That was Dennis.




Back to some more game news. Electronic Arts are blaming the slow growth on PS3. EA boss John Riccitiello has said that while the company was all over the PS2, the lack of sales on the PS3 is hurting: " Point blank, this cycle is developing quite differently than the last cycle. The next-gen hardware build is going a little more slowly.

This time, there's been some unexpected strength with the Wii and the PS3 hasn't--yet--performed as well as we expected it to. That probably has a bigger impact than any other factor on our margins." Let the Blame games begin!

Alrighty then, I leave you with this last nugget of video clip. If you haven't heard about this Chocolate Rain video by Taz, then you live under a rock or don't have the interent or maybe your just to busy doin important shit? Anyway it's been a internet hit hype at the moment, and if you want to hear the orginal clip it's called Chocolate Rain by Taz Zonday. Ahh Fugg it, I'll post the orginal and this kewl video game mash up remix.

Original Chocolate Rain:

Chocolate Rain DDR Mashup


Well, tonight I'm goin to try and put some of my crap I don't need up on Ebay to make some extra cash. I have my whole dining room filled with stuff, so I really need to get on that. I could have a garage sale with all the stuff I have, but garage sales don't make shit compared to Ebay! That's my to-do list today. Ebay listings, Movie Time, and a lil bit of VG-action!

Roll ups and Appeals.... mmmm...mmm

I figured I'd write this up while I'm waiting for my dinner vietnamese rollups to be done, but some good news today for me and all the people who want to play manhunt 2! there is a chance! I actually preordered this game since it was spose to come out in July but sadly it received a AO rating (adults only), which the ESRB usually use the AO rating for games with boobies and snatches, but for a psy horror game? WTF? To get you people that don't know what's been going on, Nintendo, Microsoft, and Sony doesn't allow AO rated games, so Manhunt can't even be played! So Rockstar the company who makes GTA IV and Manhunt can either edit the game, and have puppies instead of chainsaws like the picture on the right, or appeal the AO rating, or be done with the game all together. Well good news today!

After nearly six weeks of silence since UK's Manhunt 2 ban, Rockstar has filed for a hearing with the Videogame Appeals Committee, an entity with the power to overturn the existing ruling by the BBFC (British Board of Film Classification).

A date will be set for a hearing, in which the VAC panel will view demonstrations of the game while weighing each side's arguments. I really hope Rockstar can pull this one off and promise not to put any codes in like hot coffee or a code that shows your wiener. I'd like to play this on the Wii with all it's bloody horror glory, and say video games are a form of art.

Heavenly Sword demo came out on PS3 last week and I've seen some gameplay and it looks like God of War time three. PS3 title Heavenly Sword wasn't always a PLAYSTATION 3 game. Back in 2003, a "concept trailer" for the game appeared, and the game was apparently destined for the Xbox. The game's developer, then known as Just Add Monsters, made one game for Microsoft and then went bust. By 2004, GameSpot reporting that the game was in development for "next-generation consoles," while the company said it was looking for publishers. A year later, the game was a PS3 exclusive.



Here's a couple of last minute nuggets of news for ya. Nirvana's album Nevermind will be available for Rock Band after the games release. A new patch for Shadowrun is available which makes the load times under a minute now and other fixes as well. I leave you with some New Army of Two gameplay, a tight new Co-op game coming out for 360.

Major Announcements!

Yes yes yes.... some great great news today today! If you haven't heard Bungie was having a lot of problems getting the Single player Co-op 4 player campaign mode to work online. I was thinking to myself, Gears of War seem do to it fine, but this must be pretty tough if even Bungie can't figure out how to get a 4 player Co-op to work. Bungie said if they can't get it done by the release, they would finish it later and make it available via download. Today is some great news though, as I inform you that Halo 3 will indeed be 4 player Co-op with the single player campaign.

Here's the details, the game will support four-player co-op via both Live and System Link with up to two player per a television on split-screen. To access the game you go into the lobby and set the mode as Campaign and then invite your friends. Unfortunately, you won't be able to drop into an active co-op game. Click the Flipside link for even more info!

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In other news, my parents own this house and the fucking tenants burned it down yesterday night. It's actually in the Local paper today in the Journal times on the front page. The cause of the fire? She poured the used charcoal after grilling out in the garbage. The tenant thought it was all out. Definition of a dumbass .

Ok, back to some gaming news.... for those peeps that are into driving games and don't want to spend a shitload of money on a steering wheel might want to get this little accessory for your 360. This little do-dad lets you just nudge the controller, making the cars more precise to control instead of crashing into the walls!
Here's a link for a review on it, it's fairly cheap as well, so if you like forza games and don't want to buy a steering wheel this might be for you. Speedfreak accessory review.

Also in more Video game racing news Nissan Brings 2007 Cars to Forza Motorsport 2. The first nuggets of downloadable content for Turn 10 Studios' Forza Motorsport 2 will be available to download just hours from now, scheduled to hit Xbox Live at 2 AM PDT late tonight/early tomorrow morning. The first pack is free and features three Nissan rides, the 2007 sentra SE-R, Altima, and 350Z. Slightly less attractive for Microsoft Point misers is the Peugeot 908 race car which one can download from the Xbox Live Marketplace for 50 MS points, about 63 cents. Pretty cheap download on xbox live... that's what I like! Keep em low! Hit the FlipSide for more info....

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Just to let everyone know I've changed the comments to anonymous so you don't have to register to comment on anything ( lazy bastids) , so feel free to comment whenever! or add your email to add yourself to the mailing list.

Also! one last nugget of news... if you want to get a xbox 360 just wait until August 12th! There will be a 50$ price drop it is confirmed! I've seen adds on the internet from Circuit city, toys r us. it's crazy how the internet gets everything leaked weeks before anyone knows... the Internet is crazy! here's a lil pic of the Circuit City ad.

Well, I'm off to tackle a little Scarface before I cash out. I want to try that new mario strikers game that came out today ( also 300, and Hot Fuzz came out today!) that's also online playable too. I'm not really into sports games, but this game looks fun and got pretty good reviews so far, but you can never trust reviews... play da game!

Get on those Achievement points too, while you can! Because when I get my xbox it's on mutafuckas!

Second Red Ring of Death Strike Upon Thee

Second red ring of death you say? Yes... This is because this has happened before. The first one lasted almost a year before it bricked on me. I bought it at Circuit City and didn't by their protection plan at first and the lady said I had 30 days to do so. I soon then changed my mind when I heard motorboat noises come out of the 360 when playing DeadRising.

Sure enough not much longer the 360 starts freezing and then finally bricks on me with a red ring giving me the evil eye. So I sent it all back and they sent me a refund via gift card.

Not long after purchasing the 360 from C&C music factory, I get almost the same symptoms, freezing, then get a checkerboard like screen, and that's the 360's way of saying his last words before he dies. This box actually only lasted about 4 months before dying. This time though, it's actually free to repair by MS, but I seen the email says it takes 4-6 weeks to get it back... WTF? I surely hope not, because I might start a riot if I don't get to play BIOSHOCK the first day it come out! Shit I'll go loco if I don't get it before the demo comes out! Yes, the demo is coming very soon, and I'll let you know for sure when. If I don't get my xbox by then, please tell me how it is! Maybe you can record the gameplay while your playin it? Yeh I'm a little hyped about the release..... it's definitely my most awaited game of the year thus far.

I just got back from Madison and stayed up there for the weekend to hang out with my friends, and also for my friends B-day Katie. Only 24 years old... man I remember when I was that young, now I'm almost ready to get gag presents like fart pills and over the hill coffee cups. we got a barrel for the party and meat and corn on the grill and ice cream cones in the freezer, now that's what I call a fucking PARTY! I had a pretty good time when I wasn't working. I pretty much spent 75% of my 3 day weekend setting up Nicks new computer and new plasma 50 inch hdtv. getting all the software installed, the crap the added uninstalled, virus protectors, bookmarks,browsers, routers, all that fun stuff!

My friend Nick has always been outdated in the computer department.... you know, has a 56k modem and a shit pc that makes a high pitch noise that makes cats and babies throw up, when you turn it on. And also that piece of shit computer only would stay on for less than 5 min, before you got to hear the pleasant noise and it would just freeze up.

But finally he went all out; he got a new pc, a new plasma, and now is living the good life with a cable modem. So he has A LOT of catching up to do on the internet, and the whole family will be entertained for life! You don't realize how much you use the internet until your without it and need to know something. Just like my damn 360! Microsoft knows the 360 has a design flaw that makes some xbox's fugg up and brick, hence the new 3yr warranty. If they didn't have so many great games and those damn addictive achievement points I would just say fuck it and get a different console.

I find myself seeing a game that's on every console I own, but one has achievement points so I go for the 360 version. I own a Wii right now too, but I find myself playing the xbox 3x more than the wii. Right now at the moment it's because there's no games out right now, but that soon will change, but the 360 has such a great lineup this year that I will be definitely gamin it up hard the rest of this year! what a line up and what a treat what a treat!


While I'm awaiting for my 360 to be fixed, (and hopefully updated with the new heatsink placement away from the motherboard) I still have a handful of games that need my attention to beating, so that will definitely keep me busy like Bizzy B! Right now I'm in the middle of playing Scarface: The World is Yours for the wii. That game is pretty kewl, and has a ton of voice overs from celebrities we all know. Before checking it out, one gamesite game it a great score while the other one game it a lame score so I had to see for myself and me likes. Has a kinda GTA feel to it while enhanced scarface style, and looks like they put some effort into creating the game. So I have that and paper mario and shit, I still have to beat zelda as well! I also have God of War 2 i'm playing at the moment and Bully. That is until I found out that Bully will be ported to the Wii and 360 so, that game is on pause at the moment until I buy it for 360... so I get more achievement points ha ha! They'll be upping up the graphics as well too, so good for Rockstar that game is a good one.


Well peeps that own 360's, that gives you a chance to get a little ahead on some achievement points while I'm out for the count right now. The closest person closest to me is my bro, by the gamertag of FARTBURGER. he claims he will be doubling his points now that his is moved out of the parents house. We will see Jason..... We will see. I'm challenging you all to get more points and to try and get more than me. Congrats to Jason and Emily for getting a nice lil place to live and for Jason for getting the Fuck outta the danger zone we call my parents house. One day that will happen for me... again. On the news side, I'm going to be posting links on my site instead of mailing out stuff for the time being and see how it works out, just to test it out and see how it goes. I wrote a lil extra this time because I've been outta town.
Thanks for reading and see you on the flipside!

The first of the first

This is the first post on my new site I'm goin to do. I tried to do one on poker.... I tried to do one on music.... I tried to do one about everyday life.... and they all are DEAD now. So I figured why just make one damn site? Sound like it would be much more simple.

Well here it is! This is pretty much going to be a anything goes site for now until I actually have some categories, but I know for a fact I'll be talking about video games and video games stuff, followed by me ranting on certain things. I usually send out a mailing list as well with new info on games and what not, and if you ever want in, register and hit me up with a PM and your email!

Since this is the first post, this is mostly a test so this falls under the category... " this bores me "

But just to let you know, it's only a month until Bioshock, so I leave you with... The Bioshock Countdown!

See you on the flipside

-j0n

The family be Clubbin until the wheels fall off!

I wanted to try and write about each and every day that goes on here in Vietnam, but there's so much to do and so little time that I haven't been able to do so. It's already Sunday here in Vietnam (we're a day ahead) and it seems like only a day or so has gone by. On friday we decided to do a little shopping and hit the market. The market is pretty much 7 mile fair in Wisconsin where you can pretty much find anything you want; but here in vietnam it's so much better. They have everything from jewelry like jade bracelets, necklaces, rings, statues, toys, any kind of asian food you can think of; clothes, footwear, fabric, electronics, souvenirs, etc. I could go on an on, but I think you get the point…. That’s the place to go shopping!

The kewl thing about it is that most of the places you can bargin for different things, so if that’s your kind of thing you can bargin to get the lowest price on an item or just look somewhere else for it, for a cheaper price. My cousin Linh is definitely a pro at it though. What we would do is, if I wanted something I would tell here and then she would tell the person selling the item to go lower and if they wouldn’t go down to a price we would like, we would walk away.

Now this is where my impulse kicks in, and I’m definitely bad at that. If I want something I usually want it then and there. So the first time we did the bargining, and we were walking away my impulse instinct kicked in and I kept telling my brother and Linh, that we should go back and just get the item I wanted. But Linh just winked at me and my brother said just watch and hold up….. And sure enough the person selling the item, would come running up to us telling us that they well sell the item we wanted for the price we wanted. It was bargining at it’s finest, and I have Linh to thank for that. I think if I want to go shopping anywhere I have to take her with!

After we done a little shopping and hanged out at the hotel, we went out to look for this restaurant my mom seen in this Vietnam book. If you have never went to Vietnam, the streets are crazy with traffic with people in cars, bikes and mopeds and bicycles. If you thought Chicago traffic was crazy you should go here! I actually think that the Vietnamese people are better drivers, but there are so many people riding vehicles that it’s very intimidating to cross the street. You pretty much have to just pick a spot and just go, and just walk slowly, otherwise your arse will get hit! Another thing is you can’t ever hesitate otherwise you’ll get hit as well, but after the first couple times you’ll get use to walking in the street.

We couldn’t find the place my mom was looking for so we went to this place that was recommended by some local security guard out in the street that was across from where he was at. It was pretty good food considering I’m the most picky eater in the world! I actually ordered a Australian steak with fries (my cuz from Australia calls them chips) and my brother ordered this orange chicken. I wish I would’ve picked what my brother did because that stuff was great! My brother keeps trying to find that plate at every restaurant we go to now, and I have to agree with him, it was excellent! The food was actually a little more expensive then a usual restaurant, but I think it was well worth it.

Our bellies were all full, and we wanted to go out dancing, so we went out to hit the clubs and see how they did it Vietnamese style. The first club we went to, was actually right next door, so that was really kewl because we didn’t have to do any walking around. I really don’t care how far we go because these days I’m not walking I’m just rolling! My brother does all of the pushing, so I have to give big props to him helping me out. One thing is for sure in Vietnam; it’s definitely not a place for wheelchairs. The sidewalks (if you can call them that, are all uneven and have potholes and big curbs ranging from 8 inches to 2 feet, so my brother Jason is always having a workout pushing my arse around! They are some ramps by the edge of the curbs, but everybody parks there motorcycles on the sidewalk so half the time Jason’s pushing me in the street with all the hundreds of drivers. Since I have been here I have not seen 1 WHEELCHAIR! That’s prolly why everybody looks at us when we are walking around. That, and because we are also tourists.

So let me get back to talking about the club. I forgot the name of the club, but it was on the second floor ( more steps yippie for me and Jason!) and when we got upstairs and went it it was dark as hell. It was so dark that the people working there would shine a flashlight on the ground to show us where to sit down. It was like a restaurant slash club, and when we went in there, we saw a couple of people dancing to the band that was playing this jazz rock Vietnamese music. After a couple of minutes a guy came by us and flashed his flashlight at the menu to show us what was on the menu to drink. We were there for about 10 minutes and then the band stopped playing, and then all of a sudden this house beat kicked in and everybody got up and started dancing! One this is for sure in Vietnam…. They love there house/techno music!


There was actually an older crowd of people dancing to the music, which surprised me because I didn’t think many people over 35 liked electronic music, but there they were kickin a groove to the beats. I’d like to point out the all the older people were men and they were dancing with women that looked half their age. The club had decent lights, but for some reason they just mostly used the strobe lights. My mom and dad actually came with us and they had their hands over their eyes practically the whole time the house music was goin on, because of the strobe lights. We were about to go, but after 30 minutes, the house music stopped and the band came back to play, so we decided to stay a little bit longer because they were playing a couple slow songs and gus,linh,mom and my dad got up and slow danced.

We decided to leave after a couple of slow songs, and my ozzy (Australian) and Vietnamese cousins wanted to hit up another club so off we went! My mom and dad actually wanted to come to another club, so we all went. It kinda surprised me because my mom hasn’t really ever went to a club, and my dad looked pretty jet lagged. We found this other nightclub not to far away call the Rainforest. When we went in it looked just like a club you would see in the states. They had a couple of tables in the back and the dance floor took up the rest of the room. They had a DJ spinning some house,techno and everybody looked like they were having a good time. Someone was having a birthday because there was TV screens saying happy birthday to the person, and someone on the mic would say happy birthday every 10 minutes as well.

The DJ wasn’t that good though, because at one time he just killed the flow ( a sign of a bad DJ ) and at one poin the played a remix version of MC Hammer, “ You Can’t Touch This “, so when I heard that I just laughed out loud. It was pretty packed, but the music all stopped at midnight because it was more of a restaurant than a club, which kinda surprised me because it looked straight up like a club from the states. When the music stopped at midnight we all left and went to the hotel to sleep, because we had to get up early to do another adventure the next day.

Well that pretty much sums it all up for that day! I’m actually 2 days behind on telling you what happened, but I’m not going to forget what happened on those days. I will write about it as soon as I can get on the internet again and actually have time to do so again. We are actually going to another hotel at this resort by the ocean called Vung Tau and are getting up at 8am. I’ve been up writing all this for about 2 hours now and it’s midnight already, so I have to get some sleep in. ( if you don’t know me that well, I LOVE SLEEP)

I’ll be writing about the day after this and the next day as soon as I get some time again….. But until then…. Raise that Pot!

Touchdown T-minus 26 hour later

Well I'm finally here and wow, what a journey! We started from Chicago and then took a Korean Air all the way to Souel which was a exhausting 13 hour & 1/2hr flight. It was a pretty decent flight though, they gave us a kewl little pouch with a pair of socks, toothbrush, eye mask, and all that good stuff for the plane ride. They keep feeding us with little things and 2 main meals, and had 2 movies on the flight as well, but one movie was the crappy sequel to Zorro and this korean movie, that I only watched half us, because the person in front of me had a big ass head.

We finally got off the flight and they we were layed over in Korea for 3 hours. The Korean airport was pretty kewl though. Every thing was high in technology... even the bathrooms. A carton of cigs was only 15 bucks!!!! I don't even smoke... but I had to buy a carton just cause, and I could hook anyone up with a smoke if they asked me for money. They had this wacky game show on TV, at the airport, where there were a bunch of guys and they were trying to guess how many fingers a person was holding, but the person would wave his hand around super fast so it was real difficult to see how many fingers he was holding. If the person guessed wrong, the guy holding up the fingers, would flick the guy who got it wrong right in the head! It was funny as hell and I didn't have to understand the language. They reality shows are way better than ours in america. I could watch that for ever an ever.

After that me and my bro went out to get our last burger, before the good ol nam, so we hit up the good old burger king for my last double bacon cheeseburger. It costed 15000 W in korean money. I really don't know how much that is in american, but it wasn't that much. I'll know exactly how much it was when I go back... I'll take a look at the currency rate.

I munched down my burger, and watched the rest of that crazy game show. After that I busted out my poker chips and a deck of cards ( yes i brought chips and cards... I'm a poker player for life!) to teach my mom how to play poker. It took about 1hr to teach her all the basics, an she understands it alot more, but still don't know the names of the hands. But She actually played pretty good for the first time, so next time I watch poker on TV, she will understand it alot better and get into it alot more. I actually played heads up on the plane with my brother too. We played 2 outta 3 and I took it down. ( who else you think won?)

It was finally time to leave the korean airport and go to Vietnam finally! So it was another 5 hours until touchdown at Ho Chi Minh city. We had yet ANOTHER meal, and after that I just tried to sleep and listen to that new Harland Williams comedy CD. Of coarse he did a wookie joke and did the chewbacka yell. DDDDDDDDDRRRRRRRRRRRR!

When we got to the Vietnam airport, it was if we went back in time 20 years. The airport was all basic with old desks and everything out of date technologywise. The bathrooms were small and simple and I could barely get my wheelchair in there to pee. One thing is for sure.... Vietnam wasn't built for peeps in wheelchairs!!!!!

One the ride to the hotel, it was crazy! They hardly have any traffic lights and mopeds and motorcycles everywhere! You think chicago is bad, come to Vietnam.... Traffic is insane! You definately have to keep your eyes peeled, because they will be a moped to the left,right,back,front of you!

Well I'm going to get back to talking and socializing with the whole family. I'll hop back on and update whenever I get some more free time. My hotel has a internet cafe, so I'll be updating it more than I though.

Until then... Keep it real in the USA!

Goin to the NAM

Nam?

Vietnam foo! Yup, as I speak my whole family is racing to have everything ready for the long trip. It's about a 14 hours flight there, plus a 4 hour layover in korea. We will be goin to Chicago to Korea, and then from Korea to Vietnam. My old man said that there will be wifi on the actual plane, and I hope so, so I can have a little more time to update and tell you more things about the trip. In Vietnam they have only dial up, but at least they have a internet connection. I brought alot of things to keep me entertained on the trip, and my doctor prescribed some sleepin pills too, in case I want to sleep on the trip; since it is 14 hours! I'm going to try and see if there's any poker rooms there in the good ol Ho Chi Minh and I'll comeback and touchdown as soon as I can plug in. Until then, Raise that pot!

Promo of the week

This is actually a pre-registration of a new poker site coming out called Spades Lounge. If you preregister you are in the 40k freeroll and the 3g freerolls as well. So I wanted to give you all a heads up on it so you can get in on this potential free money. Here’s the link… http://www.spadeslounge.com/Preregistration.aspx

It's been awhile!

It's been awhile since I've posted anything in my blog, and the reason why is after the 2 month binge in Minnisota, I have been chillin pretty hard at home. I'm just about back to normal mode after coming back and have paid all my bills (most of them) and replied back to everyone trying to get ahold of me since I left.

On the poker side of things, I've been barely playing compared to the played I did before. Right now I play about an hour or two of limit at the 1/2$ tables online. Why have I gone down to 1/2$ now? Well limit online is a little different than live play, but I've been spending alot of time studying the game of No Limit Tournaments since that is my best game. Since the last time I wrote, I've won a 400$ freeroll and 1st prize was $80. So that's not too shabby, and I've been doing pretty decent on the sit n go tournaments as well. I just have been playing alot less tournaments (for now)

I plan on going back to full speed and upping the ante to $10,$20 Sng's as soon as I get done doing a couple things I've been meaning to finish for a long time. For instance, I've bought a 5 disc dvd on poker from gus hansen and friends, that I haven't had time to watch and also I have a couple books I need to finish up on as well. In fact I'll be finishing up a book as soon as I get this blog entry finished.

Poker School has been pretty kewl, although I've only been to one seminar since I came back, but I'm ready and I'm not going anywhere for a month I can do alot of catching up and attend a ton of seminars. For those of you who haven't heard about this school, it's run by Brett Jungblut the wsop bracelet winner for Omaha hi/low in 2004. Here's a link of the site Pro Poker School

Take a look at it, you don't have buy a year membership to the school, you can buy single seminars on subjects that you want to learn, or check the schedule for a free seminar so you can see what it's all about! I'll be keepin in touch more frequently, so keep on checking back! I usually sent out a little mailing list, so if you want to be on it just reply with your email addy and I'll add you to the list.

Now raise an make'em fold!

Road to Perdition

I only got 4 hours rest before I went to bed, so I was pretty tired to go and almost didn't. But I told Paul I wanted a ride the day before, so I just went. THAT WAS THE 1ST MISTAKE ( I wanted to read a little more info on limit) Paul asked me if I had seen what was outside, and I responded no of coarse, since I don't see the outside very often. I'm like a cat that hisses when it feels like it is threatened. He showed me a mountain of snow outside and so we put on the snow chains for my wheelchair and off we were! The salt from truckers tires got all over Paul's window when we were driving, and the washer fluid wasn't squirting high enough to clean the window, so we pretty much Ace Ventura'ed it all the way to the next gas station, with a couple wrong exits and turns in the mix, but we finally got to the club; body parts still attached.

I ate my usual brakefast and off the the tables I was! The table I was at pretty much sucked after my first hand (so far every time I sat down at a table for the first time, I win the pot) because there were two maniacs at the table. So there was no seeing a flop with out it being raised at least once preflop. Half the time it was capped! I played when I had good cards to play and of coarse it was capped preflop by this d00d named chester, but I flop a nut flush. Of coarse the pot is capped almost every turn, and he gets his 2 outer on the river on me. So I put my name on the board to move to a different seat as fast as I could.

I got to the next table and this table was even worse! Every hand I would play I would get sucked out on the river! It happened so much the dealer was like, "man, you've been having horrible beats man you should take a brake." It was good advice because I was starting to steam then and he simmered it down a little....... but not enough. I started loosining my starting hands and started calling turns and rivers when I should've just folded, and had the patience to get premium hands. So, I was definately not playing my A-game after all those beats, and playing marginal hands after getting beat all those times, made me loose double when I should've just lost on the bad beats. I actually didn't win a hand until after sitting there for 2 hours, because I either got beat on the river or the hands were just so terrible that I had to just fold and be gone with the hands. and that just lost me more money. Like I said before and I'll say it again, Limit and No Limit are poker games the they play like night and day compared to the two.

In the end I came out negative, but walked out with some valuable, but expensive lessons. Lets hope they pay off!

Preboot Camp

I'm back here for round two of the Canterbury Park mission, and going to invest my time and Bankroll towards limit for now, and I think it's going to be a very good investment at that. I've been here for about 5 days now getting all situated and I wanted to catch up on some knowledge before I sit back down again. Not that I couldn't sit down right now, I just wanted to be prepared for everything and anything, especially getting every extra ducket that I can in the pot.

The Wolf, my bro and me have been all crammed up in one room for the past 4 days because Paul didn't come up until later, but finally arrived today at 6am. I stayed up until he came, and then had a little session before bedtime. My bro and I just got done rearranging our room, so we are all situated now and I'm just waiting for his ass to get home from the gym, so I can grip on some food. He actually goes to the gym after he works for 10 hours! Reason why is so he whole body doesn't get outta wack, because he only uses certain muscles while working. I guess he don't want to look like Popeye. My plan is to hit up the Park on saturday and try and work my mojo. Saturday is always a good day for the bones to be rollin. Hopefully my way!

Until then...
Ez

The Canterbury Park Plan

The Canterbury Park Plan

I got a good nights rest, the day before and was pretty hyped to get there ( I actually had trouble sleeping for a couple hours because I was thinking to much. I got myself out of bed and made sure Paul was up, and he decided to just take me to the Park, and my bro would drive to work with Wolf. Just as we arrived at the Park, Paul gets a call from my brother saying his car won’t start so poor Paul had to go back to the hotel to pick those cats up and then go to work. But enough about them, lets get to the casino.

The place was pretty dead since it was 6:30am, but as long as there’s a table for me to play on I don’t care. I wanted to have a little breakfast first so I got me my favorite breakfast meal, 2 eggs, 2 toast, 4 pieces of bacon and a glass of OJ. I have a whole system for eating the meal, but I won’t get into that. I gave the service lady a generous of enough tip that she said it made her start of the day.

I put my name up on the board for the 2/4 and got called before I could even check the coat I borrowed from Paul. After I got back and sat in my seat, I took a hundo in chips an started my day off. I doubled up pretty quickly, but then caught some bad luck on a couple big pots that were capped. One had I had the nut flush and this guy hit his out on the river and gave him a full house.

The hand that really got me was when I was in mid position and had a pocket pair of deuces, and this guy that bought in with 20 and looked like Coolio, capped it preflop and I was heads up with d00d. The flop came 2,3,3 rainbow, and I flopped a full house. The turn was a 6 and we capped it with 4 bets. I put him on a set of 3’s by now and the river came a 7. For some reason he slowed down and just checked and I bet 4 and he called.

I flip over my 2’s and he flips over 7,3! I felt like going to the bathroom to go and throw up. He was trying to buy the pot preflop and thought I was just bluffing for some reason, prolly because I was winning alot of hands, while he was at the table. My bankroll went all the way down to 40 bones at one time, but I managed to hang on and kept on rolling.

When I first sat at the table there was this guy by the name of Aaron that sat next to me. He had been playing for more than 20 hours and still playing. He pretty much made the day go by just talking about poker among other things. One time this old d00d sitting next to Aaron, actually said, “ jesus Christ, will shut up for a second my hurting my ears!” Aaron replied back.. “ don’t say the lords name in vain”. After that I had to brake the ice because it was getting serious after that and the whole table was having fun before that.

Aaron stay there as long as I did,(27hours around) and he lost about 300 hundo while I was sitting at the table with him. He told me that he didn’t care if he won, he just played to see if he could stay up as long as he could and still do it. That’s not really the plan I would really go for, because if your tired, you will just make errors that you normally wouldn’t do, and it wouldn’t just stop after a couple of errors, which would mean more and more money lost on just trying to hit any 2 cards you have. You will start thinking that you have to play until you are even, but I learned that if you just stop playing while you are at a loss; you are already even in money. Just wait until the next day and start off fresh.

I played at that same table for 10 hours and it went by just like a snap of the fingers. At the end of the day I had 9 stacks of 40 sitting next to me and that was definately intimidating my opponents that were at my table. I walked out of there with 4 racks (360 bones) and a big grin on my face. The plan was a success, and I think I could grind this out just like I did every single day I play!

So Wolf and the Paul and my brother are off for the week for Thanksgiving and coming back on Sunday. I’ll be coming back with them as well, and I’ll be going to my job at the tables while they go do there job. Paul is nice enough to hook me up with a ride to the Park as long as I give him gas money, but of coarse that’s fine with me. I’ll even include brakefast, shit!

This is a great opportunity for me since I can’t get out of the house and go to the tables whenever I want and there isn’t a card club where I leave either so, this is the perfect for me to test out my limit holdem skills to the fullest. And I definitely need some more knowledge in the game, so I’ll be getting my SS2, and my Limit Holdem resources that I have never touched until now. It really sucks that they don’t have No Limit, but I don’t play so hot when it comes to No Limit cash games anyway. I think I see my future already. Me playing Limit Holdem for Cash Games and me Playing NLHE for the tournaments. Usually people play limit before no limit when they learn the game, but I guess I’m doing the vice-versa approach to it.

I never really was a big fan of the Limit but I’m starting to like it. I don’t think I would ever play it at any home game still, but as for the live play I’m down for it for now. We’ll see how it all goes in a couple of weeks.

Tournament at Canterbury Park

I missed the first tournament they had because I was in a funk and wasn't feeling it, but this time I was prepared and woke up fresh and my friends Paul & Wolf and my bro came home around 5:20pm and was pretty much ready to go. Just as I put on my shoes, I wanted to give a call at the card club to see if there was still room since it's 130 max. The registration started at 5pm and the tourney started at 7:30pm, so I gave a called and of coarse they are all sold out. Well that really sucked because I'm pretty much a tourney player, so I was really looking forward into getting at least ITM the tournament. Every minute that went by we were not feeling Canterbury Park, but we all gave that last umph and we were off to the races. (I guess they do actually have horseracing betting there)

It was the first time I seen snow outside in minnisota, and I was in for a real treat outside. And I thought Wisconsin weather was cold, shit!, if you like freezing parts of your body off like your ass, and ears that's the place to go. I was swearing and screaming ( I really really do hate the cold) until the heat finally started emitting out of the vents and I got some Mc d's in my belly.

We finally got there and it turned out that the place was a whole card club. So there wasn't any slots and that's what wolf and paul wanted to just do; Sit and relax and have some dranks. They decided to go hit up a bar while I play poker, but I didn't get a seat on a table for about an hour and a half. I also seen a bar in the back of the cardroom so wolf and paul didn't even have to leave. (they thought the only bars were outside the card room. ) I wanted to call them but my dumbass forgot my phone so I was going to call collect, but you know how much they are asking for a collect call from wis is? 9 fuggin dollars! I cashed in some of my chips to get some quarters to call up my brother and to tell paul that there was a bar in the card room and they could just chill there.

Well I finally got on a 2/4 table, I was on the waiting list for 3/6 too, and I was ahead 80 before my last 2 hands before I left. I had pocket Jacks and it was raised max preflop, and the flop comes Q,Q,3 and long story short it was raised to the max on the turn and me and another person called his bet on the river. What does he have? Q,3 of coarse...... limit I love it! So I made about 30 in a couple hours but that's how limit is, a less exciting game than No Limit, but you can make money if you take the time and patience to do it. That's what I plan on doing in a couple days. I'm going to go back there on friday and stay there the whole day while the boys are at work and see how I do playing Limit Holdem, my weakest game I play.

One thing I forgot to tell you is that I'm in my metal chair rolling around, and my feet rub the floor alot, and that of coarse conducts electricity, and then my ass gets zappped whenever I touch metal. Just to let you know I get take pain like any man can; but this was the worst zaps I ever got from static electricity. I actually seen a small lighting bolt form from my finger and the metal, I kid you not. So on friday I have two plans, take my time and wait for premium hands and be patient and try to not touch any metal.

Ez

1st Royal Flush!

On the Road again.... da da da

I have friends by the name of Paul and Wolf that work in construction and they are gone for weeks... months at times, and then come back home for a week or two and rinse and repeat. My brother is kinda of buff like Paul an Wolf so they asked my bro if he wanted to try out and work with them because they are short on people and need help. The hotel that they are staying at has internet so what more do I need? As long there is some place for me to plug in I'm good! So I pretty much stay in the hotel while my bro goes to work and play my usual online play. There was a NLHE tournament at Caterbury Park that was a 220 ducket entry fee, but I decided not to go. I was actually planning on going to it, but I wasn't feeling it for some reason, so I went with my gut and didn't go. I'm going to be checking out the website though for any new upcoming tournaments. I wanted to say happy B-day to Kryptonite Jason, and congrats on his huge BR he made from 50 duckets.. way to go man. It's been pretty interesting here so far... I've had internet connection problems since I've been here though. I had to get a new wifi usb adapter but still have a crappy connection. Right now I'm afraid to play a lil poker, because of the connection. I hope that it don't act like this all the time, because that's the main reason why I came out here. Well also... I HAD to get outta the house before the November Cabin fever kicked in. I'll be keepin posting as usual, and hopefully I can get tons of poker in while I'm down here!

The Joys of Data Entry

I intended to make this entry about 12 hours ago, but those hours have passed and I'm on a 28 hour high listening to Cypress Hill Illusions right now.... whoa crazy! Nice track to go with my flo right now. Well since I have been playing online and live games, the past 2 years, I've been keeping track of all of my wins and loses in my PDA. I also have a subscription to Poker Charts right now, and if you don't know about that site Poker Charts is a web-based service that allows you to easily and anonymously log, chart and analyze the results of your poker games. If you interested they have a free trial, so you can check it out yourself. The reason why I like it so much it it's all right there for you too see, whatever your looking for... ROI,money earned to date,Win rate accuracy,Best Win,worst beat, win/lose streak, etc.

Only thing is I've been really slacking on transfering it from my PDA to Poker Charts. I think 80% of my logs are on my PDA and 20% on Pcharts. I better start making it useful ey? Plus I'm very interested as to see where I'm at as of now. I'll be back to report my stats, if there good enough that is!