The past little while has certainly been memorable for a lot of reasons. Some good, some bad. Last week I took my family on vacation to the beach. We went to Seaside, Oregon, which turned out to be a huge disappointment. We made the best of it and had a good time, but wow, apologies if you live in Seaside, Oregon, but that city is a dump. Not only is it a dump, but it may very well be the largest congregation of morons I have ever seen. The people there just blew our minds. We would go to a restaurant and the best result we had all week was 3 mix ups on our order! No joke. We had between 3 and 7 mix ups every single meal! And that was if we even got one. One time I went to a restaurant and asked if I could place an order for take out and they waiter said, “Yes” and turned around and walked in the other direction. It was like he thought he answered my question and that I was not implying at all that I may actually want to place an order haha! I never was able to track him down again, so I ended up leaving without even ordering.
While the hotel we stayed in was pricey and had a spectacular ocean front view, the hotel service was awful. Unlike any other hotel I have stayed in, the housekeepers were all male. Not only were they males, but they were creepy looking dudes. They knocked one day to provide housekeeping and my wife answered the door and said no thanks and we did not let them in at any point during our stay. It is just not a comfortable situation when you have creepy looking dudes knocking on your door. I hate to say certain genders own certain types of jobs, but what the hell I’m going to say it anyway. Dudes should not be doing housekeeping. If you are a hotel manager and you have a bunch of dudes working for you in housekeeping, you are making a huge mistake. The women staying at hotels HATE men coming in their living space whether they are present or not. No one feels comfortable.
Oh that reminds me, while we were on the trip we went to see the movie “Inception” with Di Caprio. He’s the best actor in the biz right now if you ask me. It doesn’t hurt that he gets all of the great roles, but man he is good. Anyway, when we were at the theater we went up to the concession stand to order something and the guy standing behind the counter asked us if we would like anything. We started by asking if we could get 2 bottles of water. He said, “Yes, we carry bottled water.” We then looked at him and we were both thinking, “Yeah, we aren’t just asking if you have any, we are placing an order here.” He just stared and stared and finally we said, “We would like to order two bottles of water.” He said, “Oh, ok. I thought you were just asking if we had any.”!!! I mean, how on earth do two different people on that trip just assume that we are only asking for things out of curiosity and not to actually place an order? It’s like they put a large dosage of brain dead in the water over there in Seaside, Oregon. That’s definitely the last time we are going to that town.
One very memorable thing was that I got to have dinner with the inventor of N.E.T. N.E.T. is an acronym for Neuro Emotional Technique. I will avoid trying to explain exactly what N.E.T. is since you can google it and learn all about it if you are interested, but that technique that I have used with his protege, Dr. Demaris here in Portland, Oregon has dramatically improved the health of myself, my wife and is responsible for the life of my daughter, Lennon. Shortly before my wife became pregnant, she was told that she would not be able to have children due to medical issues she was having. They said becoming pregnant would be next to impossible. Dr. Demaris asked if he could do some work on my wife and see if he could fix the problem. Through a combination of N.E.T. and natural supplements, several months later my wife became pregnant, to the complete shock of her gynecologist, who defined it as a miracle. We knew better of course, since we did not tell him we did work through Dr. Demaris, but it was a pretty sweet surprise nonetheless.
So to get an opportunity to meet Dr. Scott Walker, the inventor of N.E.T. and someone whose work was responsible for the life of my daughter, was pretty incredible. I view him as someone who will go down in the history books as one of the most important figures of the last 1,000 years once his work becomes accepted as mainstream. Right now there are plenty ok skeptics on N.E.T., but take it from a poker player that deals in probabilities all day, the likelihood that N.E.T. is a pseudoscience like some docs will suggest is almost nil. It has worked so perfectly for the 2 years I have used it that it is several million to one against that all of the benefits my friends and family have experiences from it could be due to randomness.
This month has really sucked poker wise. Worse than that is my luck with computers. I literally had all 4 computers I own go to shit on me. All 4 needed to be repaired within the last 2 months. In fact the brand new computer I bought won’t even boot up..lol. I am returning it today to the company and getting a new one. Unreal! I thought the fact that I have run $400,000 behind all in EV according to my Holdem Manager over the last 28 months was monumentally unlucky, but it’s got to be a close race between having all 4 computers you own become unusable at virtually the same time. I’m not going to lie, being $400,000 behind EV and not being able to get your computers running properly has had me wondering if I should do something else with my life, but that could open a huge can of worms that I don’t want to get into today. For now I think I will just wrap up this blog and hit the tables and see if I can’t start getting a little luckier and chip away at that massive EV deficit. Man would it be nice to actually run good for the first time since early in 2008. Getting on a nice run would sure be nice, but I guess whether I run badly or not, I get to play a game for a living, so I am pretty lucky right there.
Lastly, I wanted to let all of the smaller stakes and recreational players know about a wildly popular event going on at Poker Stars. The PokerStars Lamborghini Freeroll has become so popular that they are actually restricting people to one entry per day because so many people were entering it that others weren’t getting a chance to play. That is not something I have ever seen in poker since the year that so many people entered the WSOP main event that they had to turn players away! Well, I’m headed to the Poker Stars tables here in a few minutes to fire up a bunch of cash games, but definitely check out what is going on at Poker Stars because apparently everyone else on earth is!