The last few days have been a lot of fun. Played some golf on Friday at Eugene CC and actually played half decently. I had only hit about 30 range balls since February before playing on Friday, but managed to shoot 72 from the tips on a tough track, thanks mostly to a really sharp short game (weird, I thought after a 5 month lay off your short game was supposed to be bad? Golf is strange.) I played with my buddy Casey Martin and his brother. We had a great time as always.
The day before my wife and I went to Portland’s annual Brewfest at Waterfront Park. Brewfest in Portland is AWESOME! In fact, I have seen it on numerous lists as being hands down the best brewfest in the US. I have only been to the brewfest in Portland, so I have nothing to compare it to, but I can definitely say I am not sure how you could create a better brewfest. It is right along the water, has some of the best beers in the world, and there are probably ten thousand people on the grounds, so it can get pretty lively. Portlanders love their beer and their passion for it comes through pretty obviously at the brewfest.
Last night I was really struggling at the tables for awhile. I was about to quit playing, but decided to tough it out because I had some pretty sick seats with direct position on some massive fish. I am glad I maintained my composure and stuck it out because I went on a pretty good run and stacked most of the fish before quitting about 8 hours into my session. From there the day kept getting better and better. I decided that I wanted to go on a little trip with my family so I looked into some ocean front rooms along the Oregon coast for next week and found a really nice one. I went to book two rooms online (one for the 3 of us and one for my mother in law who travels with us now that we have a baby) and the room types I wanted were not being listed as an option online. So I called the hotel and spoke with a really nice woman who ultimately got us hooked up with an ocean front multiple room suite that we can all stay in, that was actually much LESS expensive than what I was trying to book online! So here I was calling up thinking we were going to be screwed and I ended up saving $1,000 AND got the better rooms than I was even hoping for. Score!
So with that good fortune I decided to book a 2 day anniversary trip with my wife that I am sure will score me some major points. We ended up getting an awesome room by a winery in the Willamette Valley and got all of the fixins to go along with it (massages, champagne upon arrival, driver to take us to the wineries etc.). What’s even better about all of this is that my wife was cool enough to let us “observe” our anniversary on a different day because if we didn’t, it would interfere with game day for Oregon football against New Mexico (the weekend after that I am going to fly to Tennessee to watch the Ducks play Tennessee on Sept 11th). What can we say, we love our Ducks!
I will make another blog post about this, but keep your eyes peeled this week for a brand new you tube series I am starting that is essentially me recording myself talking about the most interesting hands I played for the day. Each week I am going to pick out the 7 most interesting hands I played for the week and record myself breaking down the hands. I will chop the recording into 7 videos and we will release 1 each day on dustyschmidt.net. Now only 1 hand per day might not sound like a lot, but keep in mind that I am talking for 3-7 minutes per hand about every little detail of the hand. No detail of the hand will go ignored and I will be breaking down why I did everything I did (or wish I had done differently). I am hoping people enjoy this series and if they do, I will keep making them for an indefinite period of time. I think the first video will be ready to go up either Monday or Tuesday. I will make a new blog post about it with links to the video when it goes up. Please check it out. If these videos get a lot of traffic, I will keep making them.
Well, I’m off for another big day on Poker Stars. I am going to play for the next 8-12 hours on Stars in all of the high stakes cash games and tournaments. I can’t wait. Hopefully I get some momentum going early and am able to capitalize on the day!