Still sucking at the blogging

OK. Been about 2 weeks since my last post. I really suck at keeping up with this but I am not going to quit. I probably should quit as no one is reading this anyway (why would they as it sucks). I guess other bloggers could use this blog as an example of what not to do in your blog.. so maybe that is my new niche.. come to untiltable so you can see how NOT to run a blog.. worst on the Internet.

But enough negativity for today.. positive and full steam ahead. First off, I want to see if any of the other bloggers I have been playing with read this so that they can learn what not to do with a blog (waste readers time), so i will pay the buy in for the Mookie or Riverchaser, to the first blogger who posts a comment on the blog. Hoyazo, I love the blogger tourny you are running but $26 is too much to pay for someone else. I am cheap. So if you are the first to comment on the blog, leave your Full Tilt username and I will transfer the money to you.

Poker Part:
Tournaments:
Ran good last week and made the final table of the Mookie and finished second in the Dookie (turbo razz). Got knocked out in the Mookie when I raised w 99 UTG and got reraise by a tight player on the button. I should have folded but I donkey pushed with my 99 (I would only be ahead of 88 or lower, be racing with A10 or higher and be a huge dog to 10 10 or higher... very bad play on my part considering the read I had on him).. he turns over KK and I was gone. The same player had limped earlier with AA when I had KK.. then just called my raise. I pushed on the flop as there was not A (he has 2 of them so it was a long shot that an A would flop:-).... he turned over AA and doubled through me).

PLO:
Cash game PLO has been going well as I have gotten control of my tilt and am getting a good feel for the swings. I hit a good score a couple of week ago in a tourny and have moved from the $100 tables to the $200 tables (I am buying in short ($80) as the PLO book I am reading at moment suggests). A good example of why I have to keep control of my tilt was last night. I was hot early and up about $300 the first hour, over the course of the next 15 minutes I dropped about $500 and was stuck for about $200 and $250 over the next 3 hours. I stayed patient, didnt tilt and grinded my way back to $50 win... In the past, I would have been pissed that I dropped $500 and would have burned through another $200 or $300 before I got my tilt under control. Over the course of a month, my tilts were costing me somewhere between $500 and $1000.

Bankroll: After my score about 3 weeks ago, my bankroll is sitting at about $5800. I keep $3000 on FT, about $100 on bodog (to play the blogger tourny hosted by Smokkee) and about $2700 in the bank so I have money to go to the Borgata this spring and hopefully to Vegas for the WSOP this June and July (I would like to play in some of the smaller buy in events and maybe sat into the main event).
Still staying with the Furguson strategy of 2% for tournaments and 5% for cash game (I actually only put about 2% on the cash table but will go as high as 5% if the table is good). So far, it has paid off as I started with about $1000 or so and am now at $5800.. time will tell if this works or not but overall it has been interesting (gone broke about 5 times so we will see how it goes :-)

Life:
My wife has recently started her pre pharm courses and it looks like she will be done by this summer so the hunt is now on for a pharmacy school. We have fixed the house up and will be putting it on the market in January. So far, we have found about 5 schools that we like (but we will have to move to wherever she gets accepted as it is tough to get into pharm school). Univ of Hilo at Hawii is at the top of the list. We both would love to experience Hawaii for several years. and it would be nice to worry about the waves being too big instead of flat (which is about every other day here in Coastal NC.. plus, Its too cold to surf in the winter and that would not be an issue in Hawaii). I will need a job when we move there and the UH at Hilo has had several positions that I could apply for (instructor or technician). I would love to move there and slide into an instructor position teaching networking and security courses... they currently are looking for an instructor but it starts in January and I wont be ready to move until about May.
One of our concern about Hawaii is moving to an area that we never have visited. The best perception I can come up with about this issue is to treat is like an assignment. When I was in the Air Force, you did not have a choice about where they sent you. You took your orders, moved to the base and the learned about base and surrounding area. This is the perception I am going to use if we do go to Hawaii... My wife needs the Pharmacy training, I need a new job.. we will go, make the best of it and after 4 years (Phar school is 4 years), we can move back to NC if we want to.

Enough rambling on my crappy blog.. remember.. if you are the first person to comment about this post, I will pay your way to the Mookie or Riverchasers. Just leave your Full Tilt username in the comment.