Ok....Seriously I need to get on top of my blogs. It's been three weeks since my last blog, and tho it's been a busy three weeks for me it's no excuse. Not sure what happened, when I first started blogging I was really into it and blogging like 5x a week. Now I can't promise you I'll be blogging that often but I'm gonna make a point to at least get a new blog up once a week if not 2 or 3.  I think thats the 45th time I've said that since blogging for PR, but this time I hope to keep that promise....let's call it one of my top 3 New Year's resolutions (even tho I don't believe in those really hahahahaha).

So how was everyone's holiday? My shit was pretty cool...back home now relaxing and typing this as I watch The Dark Night (thanks Mom). Yesterday I headed to my Aunt's house to see my Dad and Step-Mom and his side of the family. It's pretty much tradition in my family, Xmas eve is with my Dad's side of the family and xmas is with my Mom's side. It was pretty cool, but at the same time reminded me how getting old sucks. When I was younger I'd see my cousins and aunts and uncles on my Dad's side of the family many times through out the year. But as everyone gets older, they all have their own families and getting together gets tougher and tougher. Of course I'm the free soul who doesn't have his own family started yet so I realize the difficulties everyone else faces but still kind of resent it. Now we get together like twice a year, and its a month a part LOL. And then there's my cousin Ryan, who is the oldest male cousin on my Dad's side and the one I always looked up to growing up who I think I've seen twice in the last 6 years. He can't make it on xmas eve anymore because thats when he does stuff with his Wife's side of the family....SHRUG.

So the week didn't start out so hot for me. On Monday I was supposed to get my xmas shopping done and then meet both of my sisters and their kids at the mall to have some professional pictures done for some gifts for xmas, then head to my Mom's house for dinner and the Bear's game. Well I woke up @ 5:30 A.M. to throw up the 1st of nine times Monday. It was a pretty miserable day and I obv had to cancel all of the plans so we never got those pictures taken. It was so cold outside here in Chicago that I couldn't even attempt to get to Walgreens to get some meds to try and get me better. Finally about 7 PM my friend Anne picked some up on her way home from work and dropped it off for me. I took about 2 swigs and the nausia pretty much went away so I was able to watch the Bears game in better comfort.

Unfortunately by halftime of the game I was nautious again due to the horrible performance of our Bear offense in the 1st half. Biggest game of the year vs our most hated rival the Packers on national TV and we were laying a stinker....WTF? As most of you probably know, the 2nd half was a much different story. The situation was clear...win and we can still make the playoffs, lose and we are officially eliminated from any chance of the post season. Well it was an amazing comeback with some freakish turn of events during the last few minutes and overtime and we won. Given the pressure on the line, I think this win might have been more amazing then the monday night comeback win a few years ago vs the AZ Cardinals where Dennis Green had the famous rant afterwards with the ever popular quote "We are who they thought they were!" So go Bears Sunday, take care of business and hopefully the Giants will crush the Vikings too.

As for poker news...well the I played Fiest Al Lago @ Bellagio earlier this month and it was pretty disappointing to say the least. I only played two pre-lims, both 5ks and neither of them went to well. Nothing too eventful and I pretty much shrug it off for what it was. The main event was a different story. Day 1 I had a pretty tough starting table, felt I stayed focused most of the day despite misplaying big pairs twice and was happy to make it out of the day with 80k from the starting 45k stack. 

Day 2 was a different story. In general I had a pretty easy table and for the 1st 3 levels of the day I felt like I played some of the best poker I've played in a long time. Of course I was fortunate to crack pocket kings with 75cc when we got all-in on a Q75 flop and hold for nearly a 200k pot. My peak stack on day 2 was probably around 375k, and towards the end of the 3rd level my table broke and I was moved to a much tougher table. No problem, right? I got the chips, and there was no need to get out of line with 2 levels left in the day and a re-draw ahead. So what do I do? Well I pretty much scrape and scrape to win every pot but instead lose them all, go on pretty big tilt which ended in me having 28k in chips. How did I get that low? Yeah...I decided to make an ill-fated 3 barrel bluff vs my friend Amit (fellow PR blogger and Amak316 online poker) when he flopped a set and turned a full house. He just check-called my air balls the whole way....OOPS. 

Day 3 I came in with 50k, well below average and like 35 people from the money. I ran my stack up to 65k or so before I ran my pocket queens into pocket jacks on a 642 flop vs one of the tightest players in the tournament. He hit his Jack on the river and I was out. Was I mad about the beat? Not really...after all that is poker. But more so I know that if I hadn't fluffed off my 375k stack that I had going on day 2 I never would have been in that position. 

So after much thought of what I wanted for christmas, I decided to ask Santa for a few more gears to add to my arsenal. Sometimes I seem to be stuck in superfasthighlagtard mode and my game could definitely use a 2nd and 3rd gear to be much more effective. Hopefully I'll be able to apply these new gears in the Bahamas in 10 days...I guess only time will tell. If not at least I'll be in the sun and able to enjoy some pretty fun shit.

Until then~

BeL0W