I’m not quite sure what it is exactly – maybe it’s the changing of seasons (winter is the best), maybe it’s the fact the super-draining WCOOP is finally in the rear-view mirror, maybe it’s the fact I’m actually training again and eating better than I have in a long time (more fish and plain chicken [...]

I’ve spent the past few weeks in kind of an odd cycle; for me, that means something, considering my definitions of “normal”. I’ve been feeling kind of strange, sleeping consistently oddly short durations, and ontop of all this I’ve had some weird computer issues come up lately.
I’ve been having computer problems for a few [...]

All this poker talk bores me and anyone who reads this blog regularly knew it wouldn’t last forever.  as promised, it’s time for yet another issue of the tuesday taknapotin television treatise.
For those of you who aren’t exposed to it already, my buddy Cameron introduced me to SurfTheChannel.com a few months ago.  The quality of [...]

Starting off this post with a non-poker yet somehow serious topic, it seems to me that the under reported story of the week is the publication of the International Committee of the Red Cross’ report on torture/abuse during the Bush administration.  Apparently, the ICRC wrote a report, meant to be privately sent to the CIA, [...]

Although I certainly want to continue where I left off in my last entry, my intentions at the inception of this post are to be (relatively) brief and focused in a different direction than pondering the different vagaries of teaching, learning, and motivation.  I received pretty strong and diverse types of private feedback regarding my [...]

I haven’t really done too much since the FTOPS contest ended.  I played the 1K on Monday, busting 13th or something, and I played a full night on Wednesday, only cashing in the 100r.  I feel my tournament game is super strong these days and I’m playing better than I ever have before.  There’s a [...]

The quarterly alarm bell known as FTOPS begins tonight.  I don’t think I did anything last series, but the series prior to that one was a little special in that I teamed up with Kevin “BelowAbove” Saul and MattG in a sidebet contest.  Mostly thanks to Kevin, our team won something like $40k-50k for having [...]

I set the majority of this week aside to just relax, as I haven’t done that in awhile, and it pretty much worked out as I planned.  To be honest, I don’t really remember what I did each specific day, because I pretty much did nothing every day.  I made some videos for PokerVT, wrote [...]

It’s been a fun past few weeks.  I haven’t been particularly productive, but it’s been fun.  I spent a lot of time hanging out with friends from the old days, playing games and just generally relaxing.  I played poker every once in awhile, won the FTP $150, etc, but nothing really new to report there.  [...]

I’ve been home for a week or so and, among some poker and fallout 3, caught up on a bunch of TV shows.  I watch a lot of tv.  A lot of tv.  Before things get crazy again for me, I felt like writing up some short reviews of stuff I’m currently watching.  Seems like [...]