Ok, am I officially too freaking old for Spring Break? Nate Lie you are most certainly right "As I get older..." Lake Havasu was an absolute blast that I will never forget. Details will be saved for drunken nights with my friends but it was pretty crazy. Four days there had my liver screaming at me to stop.
Did I listen....
Of Course not. It got back to Yuma at 7pm Sunday night with my alarm set at 4am for a 6am flight to Key West. This time for another 4 days. Hands down one of my favorite cities on the face of the earth. This was like my 6th time back and one of the best for sure. Couldn't have been a better time to be down there either as it was St Patty's Day on the second day in town. Irish Kevin's and Finnigan's Wake were rockin a little harder than usual. Lots of Green and Lots of hours of blackout. It is a shame I have to go back for 26 days starting on April 1st. (My Liver will pray I am saying April fools that day as I board my flight)
To keep this short.... I am absolutely NOT too old for Spring Break just too old to start drinking from noon to 3am for 6 of 7 consecutive days. jesus
Cant wait to tell you all about it sometime... out
Saturday, March 21, 2009
Thursday, March 12, 2009
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
So much for that....
Well that 5-0 streak came to a crashing halt tonight when I dropped $1,500 in less than 3 hours at the casino. A mix of bad plays and unlucky scenarios meant time for me to get the hell out of there before it became worse... A minor setback but not too bad at all.
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Been a while...
It has been nearly two damn months since my last entry. A lot has certainly happened since then though. Unfortunately there haven't been any crazy trips to Las Vegas but I am working on that. Things didn't go to well at Viejas back in January. I played great poker in the tourney but things just didn't go my way. All I can ask is that I play my best game and let the cards falls how they may. Fortunately I was able to clean up in the cash games that followed rather nicely. After gas, food, hotel, and two full days of poker (including a $1,050 buy-in), I left San Diego down about $300. Very successful trip believe it or not.
My life in Yuma has changed quite a bit lately as well. A couple months ago I found out I was selected to attend Expeditionary Warfare School in DC this summer. I have been looking for a place to live so if anyone has friends in DC looking for roommates hook a brother up. It is going to be an amazing break from everyday squadron life and give me a chance to think about what path I want to take with my career. I really have two options. 1. Come back to the fleet in the spring of 2010 for another 3 years. 2. I could go to Meridian, MS as a flight instructor for 3 years and basically have a jet at my disposal every weekend I want to use one. We shall see on that one. Just looking forward to getting to the East Coast for a little while.
Another reason I am ready to get away from Yuma is that some of my best friends, Greg and Suzanne York, have left Yuma and now live in Corpus Christi, TX where Greg is now a flight instructor. Yuma just isn't the same without them.
As of about two weeks ago I was able to get back in the cockpit and have been loving it ever since. I took Brian "Buck/Oprah" Mahoney on the road to Phoenix. We did some training flights that day but later landed at Phoenix Sky Harbor airport. Rob Bowen, the catch from the Oakland A's, came out to meet us and we took some pictures with the jet. He is a great freaking guy. We went out and partied all night long which made for a very rough Saturday of flying but Buck and I made it through. Rob picked us up once we landed back in Phoenix that night and treated us to an absolutely amazing steak dinner in Scottsdale at a Ruth's Chris Steakhouse. Highly recommend it for anyone who has never eaten there. Good luck to Rob as spring training gets going and thanks for the Jersey brother!
I came back and flew 4 of the 5 days the next week and am finally very comfortable being back in the cockpit. We will continue to fly quite a bit as we prepare for our Air-to-Air combat training detachment to Key West for the month of April. Even sooner than that, a couple of us are looking forward to partying it up on Lake Havasu for spring break in two weeks. I think Eddy is going to join us so it is going to be a great time. It's crazy to think about Spring Break since the good ol days with the boys from Miami. Panama City, Vail, and the Cruise. Great times.
As for poker, I am slowly getting back to playing after a small time off while I was getting started back in the cockpit. I have come out of the gates very strong and have put up a couple big wins. The new casino, Quechan Casino, that just opened up last month has a pretty impressive poker room. Fortunately for me, a much improved poker room doesn't mean improved players. I went by opening night and pocketed $900, went back the next day for a quick $450. Since then I have cleaned up rather nicely. Wins of $300, $1,100, and $2,500 without a losing session have made me come to love playing there as bad as the management is at times. I hope to improve on my 5-0 record there this weekend. (If I don't go to Vegas that is). Sunday I had decided to take the day off from poker so I hung out at the pool. Let me tell you that falling asleep poolside for someone as white as me was not a good thing. I have been in moderate pain since then. Better now than Lake Havasu I guess. Well I ran some errands after the pool and made it back to the house around 6pm. I couldn't resist and decided to play a tourney or two online. My play online has fluctuated madly with my account reaching $6,000 at its peak and was now back down to $1,200. Trying to stay within my means I played only two tourneys. One was a $100 ten man sit n go where the top five double there money and are done. They usually take about 30 minutes to complete one. Well I got knocked in 7th place in that one and pretty much just wanted to quit playing the other tourney I entered. It was a $27.50 buy in with 2,030 entrants. I ended up doubling up early and decided to give it my full concentration. 6 hours later, we were down to 15 players and I was the chip leader with $966,000. I had my eye on the first place prize of $8,600 but came up short when I finished 6th for $1,932. Although it may seem like small potatoes at this point, it was a huge accomplishment seeing what it takes to outlast a huge field like that for the the first time. Chalk it up to more experience.
My life in Yuma has changed quite a bit lately as well. A couple months ago I found out I was selected to attend Expeditionary Warfare School in DC this summer. I have been looking for a place to live so if anyone has friends in DC looking for roommates hook a brother up. It is going to be an amazing break from everyday squadron life and give me a chance to think about what path I want to take with my career. I really have two options. 1. Come back to the fleet in the spring of 2010 for another 3 years. 2. I could go to Meridian, MS as a flight instructor for 3 years and basically have a jet at my disposal every weekend I want to use one. We shall see on that one. Just looking forward to getting to the East Coast for a little while.
Another reason I am ready to get away from Yuma is that some of my best friends, Greg and Suzanne York, have left Yuma and now live in Corpus Christi, TX where Greg is now a flight instructor. Yuma just isn't the same without them.
As of about two weeks ago I was able to get back in the cockpit and have been loving it ever since. I took Brian "Buck/Oprah" Mahoney on the road to Phoenix. We did some training flights that day but later landed at Phoenix Sky Harbor airport. Rob Bowen, the catch from the Oakland A's, came out to meet us and we took some pictures with the jet. He is a great freaking guy. We went out and partied all night long which made for a very rough Saturday of flying but Buck and I made it through. Rob picked us up once we landed back in Phoenix that night and treated us to an absolutely amazing steak dinner in Scottsdale at a Ruth's Chris Steakhouse. Highly recommend it for anyone who has never eaten there. Good luck to Rob as spring training gets going and thanks for the Jersey brother!
I came back and flew 4 of the 5 days the next week and am finally very comfortable being back in the cockpit. We will continue to fly quite a bit as we prepare for our Air-to-Air combat training detachment to Key West for the month of April. Even sooner than that, a couple of us are looking forward to partying it up on Lake Havasu for spring break in two weeks. I think Eddy is going to join us so it is going to be a great time. It's crazy to think about Spring Break since the good ol days with the boys from Miami. Panama City, Vail, and the Cruise. Great times.
As for poker, I am slowly getting back to playing after a small time off while I was getting started back in the cockpit. I have come out of the gates very strong and have put up a couple big wins. The new casino, Quechan Casino, that just opened up last month has a pretty impressive poker room. Fortunately for me, a much improved poker room doesn't mean improved players. I went by opening night and pocketed $900, went back the next day for a quick $450. Since then I have cleaned up rather nicely. Wins of $300, $1,100, and $2,500 without a losing session have made me come to love playing there as bad as the management is at times. I hope to improve on my 5-0 record there this weekend. (If I don't go to Vegas that is). Sunday I had decided to take the day off from poker so I hung out at the pool. Let me tell you that falling asleep poolside for someone as white as me was not a good thing. I have been in moderate pain since then. Better now than Lake Havasu I guess. Well I ran some errands after the pool and made it back to the house around 6pm. I couldn't resist and decided to play a tourney or two online. My play online has fluctuated madly with my account reaching $6,000 at its peak and was now back down to $1,200. Trying to stay within my means I played only two tourneys. One was a $100 ten man sit n go where the top five double there money and are done. They usually take about 30 minutes to complete one. Well I got knocked in 7th place in that one and pretty much just wanted to quit playing the other tourney I entered. It was a $27.50 buy in with 2,030 entrants. I ended up doubling up early and decided to give it my full concentration. 6 hours later, we were down to 15 players and I was the chip leader with $966,000. I had my eye on the first place prize of $8,600 but came up short when I finished 6th for $1,932. Although it may seem like small potatoes at this point, it was a huge accomplishment seeing what it takes to outlast a huge field like that for the the first time. Chalk it up to more experience.
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Viejas Poker Classic
So not a whole lot has happened over the last couple of weeks. I have been laying pretty low trying to get my knee to start the healing process. Fortunately it didn't tear all the way through. I barely avoided surgery once again! Still not sure how long I will be out of the cockpit but hopefully I will be back sometime in Feb.
I have been putting in a lot of time into tournaments lately on Pokerstars. In 2009 I have already had more success than ever before. Not money wise but my results have been absolutely stellar. I have went very very deep in about 8 tourneys. Unfortunately I haven't been able to close the deal and score the big money in some of these. I have outlasted nearly 4000 entrants the last two Sundays to finish 35th and 44th for nearly $2,600 total between the two. The total buy in the for the two was $121 so not too bad. It pain me to think that if I had won both of them there would be over $200,000 in my account. I promise it is going to happen in 2009.
Maybe even this weekend! The first ever Viejas Poker Classic is this weekend Viejas Casino outside of San Diego. It is a $1,050 dollar buy in tourney that will pay $100,000 to first place. If I can get the cards to fall my way a couple times I feel I have a very good shot at this thing. A cash and possibly even a Final Table in this event would validate how well I have been playing lately and continue to push me to improve even further.
http://viejas.com/promo/images/ViejasPokerClassic.pdf
Any day now I am expecting to get the phone call to hear that I am a new uncle! My sister is due in the next couple of weeks so it is pretty exciting for the whole family. Especially considering my parents know there are probably no kids coming from me anytime soon. (Unless one knocks on my door one of these days and calls me daddy!) I never rule anything out.
Once more chance this weekend to live up to the name of this so called blog!
I have been putting in a lot of time into tournaments lately on Pokerstars. In 2009 I have already had more success than ever before. Not money wise but my results have been absolutely stellar. I have went very very deep in about 8 tourneys. Unfortunately I haven't been able to close the deal and score the big money in some of these. I have outlasted nearly 4000 entrants the last two Sundays to finish 35th and 44th for nearly $2,600 total between the two. The total buy in the for the two was $121 so not too bad. It pain me to think that if I had won both of them there would be over $200,000 in my account. I promise it is going to happen in 2009.
Maybe even this weekend! The first ever Viejas Poker Classic is this weekend Viejas Casino outside of San Diego. It is a $1,050 dollar buy in tourney that will pay $100,000 to first place. If I can get the cards to fall my way a couple times I feel I have a very good shot at this thing. A cash and possibly even a Final Table in this event would validate how well I have been playing lately and continue to push me to improve even further.
http://viejas.com/promo/images/ViejasPokerClassic.pdf
Any day now I am expecting to get the phone call to hear that I am a new uncle! My sister is due in the next couple of weeks so it is pretty exciting for the whole family. Especially considering my parents know there are probably no kids coming from me anytime soon. (Unless one knocks on my door one of these days and calls me daddy!) I never rule anything out.
Once more chance this weekend to live up to the name of this so called blog!
Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Happy New Years
Yes I am posting this from the couch just a couple minutes before 2009. I am somewhat tipsy on Vicodin and a couple bottles of Samuel Adams... For those that don't know I took a trip to Big Bear Mountain east of LA last weekend and after two days of snowboarding I took a nasty spill on the final run of the trip. I think I tore my MCL again but won't know for sure until the swelling goes down and I can get an MRI on Monday. Here's to wishing everyone a healthy and happy 2009!
Friday, December 26, 2008
Las Vegas City Life
One of the things I love about the game of poker is the social aspect of it. During what seemed like a year in Las Vegas on my trip I met an amazing amount of people. What is also crazy is the amount of extremely anti-social people you run into. Fortunately there are fewer and fewer of them every time I go up there. Those who know me surely know I never shy away from a good conversation (That way it's less awkward when you take their money) One of the players I met was Bob Shemeligian, writer for the New York Post as well as Las Vegas City Life. Over quite a few hours we talked about all the latest happenings in poker including the cheating scandal on Absolute Poker and Ultimate Bet. He asked if he could publish a few quotes from me and I said "cool" (How's that for a quote). Here is the article he posted in Las Vegas City Life newspaper. I will be expecting a call from my commanding officer on Monday morning.
http://lasvegascitylife.com/articles/2008/12/11/news/local_news/iq_25625422.txt
You just never know who you are going to meet in the craziness of a poker room.
http://lasvegascitylife.com/articles/2008/12/11/news/local_news/iq_25625422.txt
You just never know who you are going to meet in the craziness of a poker room.
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