Still around

Life's been pretty busy, and poker pretty boring. I'm at the tail-end of my 2nd largest O/8 breakeven stretch playing full-ish games (still doing very well at heads-up and 3-handed thank god) and beginning to take my Stud8 game more seriously. I'd post some hands, but honestly it's June and I've been doing so mediocre lately that I really want to move on. I'm up 30bb or so since June 1 in O/8, which is very modest but a good sign.

I got a chance to check out the lax final four games in Philly last weekend, where the tailgate is several times more important than the sport. I don't mind lacrosse (at least men's), but I still think it's pretty bland to watch a team run around on offense passing the ball until someone rips a shot that maybe goes in - if not, most of the time that team recovers the ball and does it all over again. It'd be OK if you could see the skill involved in the plays and stuff, but you really can't - it all looks very basic, even though it definitely isn't. I'm holding out for the World Cup...soccer is by far my favorite sport, the US should be decent this year, and we get great games right out of the gate vs. Czech, Ghana, and Italy. If Arena gives Convey, Dempsey, + Johnson decent minutes in the opening games I'll be really psyched.

I was real close to going down to Germany to see the cup this year (just like I had planned to visit Torino). I'll definitely get there next time. The way I see it, I may as well enjoy the time + resources afforded by poker + just being a young 'kid' with no strings attached. There's still time yet.

Well that's all I got. Run well...I'll be trying.