Hey everyone,
Wow long time no update. Which is slightly odd except not too many real exciting things have been happening in my life at this time. Just grinding it out like a good poker session. First off what am I doing for the holidays your all wondering. Well I am just spending it at home per usual. Eat some food open some presents, and the like. Standard Christmas. Then on the 28th we are having a larger 4 day gathering in the wilderness. So I will be taking my little cousins on walks to chase down the giant squirrel. So pretty standard and I will be there for New Years too so everyone will have to wait an entire year for a crazy New years story out of me.
One interesting thing is that over the last little bit I've been playin a little bit of XBox live. A little Black Ops and Madden everyday. It has really been beneficial to play these and be able to just work on my on the fly game theory practice as there are many situations that occur in these games when playing random people that you have to take into account and handle. It's much like poker in that regard but just in a different forum. It is all leveled thinking, if I go here, and then there and do this it should work. Or I called that play in this situation last time and he reacted like this so this time I will make the play look the same except put a player here for a desired result. So it has really kept my mind sharp even when I'm not playing poker.
Poker has been going fairly well. It is odd because it seems when I know the out cards in stud I am able to make better counter intuitive plays. However usually at the micros the other people aren't paying attention to these out cards and are very willing to chase down one out. However sometimes they get there. You really do see some strange hands come up however people have such predictable betting patterns that you can easily tell when they hit on seventh. I almost always have to pay them off for one bet more usually getting such good odds around 10-1 but still sometimes I make the tight hero folds. MTT's are going ok. Lots of bubbles and mincashes and now more final tables. However that is just because I haven't been putting in the volume needed to do this consistently. So that is that, however I have been trying to work on the mental side of my game. Making every right decision and causing my opponents to make wrong decisions. Somedays I'm on it and somedays I am not. I really need to get back into the swing of things about hand discussion and posting on the forums more. I have been slacking at this ever since I got back from Vegas but it was really helping my game along and I should get back into the habit of more study.
Lastly I think I might take the Black Badge course after Christmas and in Febuary. Pretty much it is course shooting with a handgun. The course is monitored by the IPSC I think or international practical shooters association. It would just be something to do and add another feather in my cap. Plus then I could go to competitions and whatnot for practical shooting. Which is either seeing who can run around a course and hit all the targets the best in the fastest time. There are also other types of challenges like talking on the phone, putting it down, getting your gun loading it and then shooting. I think this would be much more fun than the straight up olympic style events that seem kind of weird. Anyways just thought it would be something challenging to try and accomplish. I figure I might as well get all my survival skills ready for the craziness that will be the 2012 apocalypse. Just kidding, however I still think it would be fun and a challenge. Plus who doesn't want to be able to say they are a black badge. Anyways thats all for now so have a great Christmas season and remember what its all about which is being happy and giving what you can to others.
