Some Random Stuff

I’m sitting on a plane(which was delayed an hour due to too much weight, they finally took a bunch of fuel off, hope we don’t need that) heading to New Orleans so I figured I’d write a blog about some stuff that I didn’t get around to since I didn’t post in forever. Basically I didn’t play much poker at all during the month of April as I would usually find something else to do that would be more fun as poker really isn’t that much fun most of the time. I tried to play a lot of golf as one of my goals this year was to get down to a single-digit handicap, currently I’m a 14.3. I really haven’t improved much at all this year and haven’t got to play as much as I wanted to as it has rained a ton it seems or been colder than usual. My best round all year is an 81 which was eleven over. I’ve been trying to work on my short game as I used to have a pretty good one, I’m still a pretty good putter but the rest of the short game isn’t up to what it was a few years ago. I’m awful on the tee most of the time so that puts me in a lot of trouble situations, so a usual round can look something like bogey, par, bogey, double bogey, par, par, par, bogey, double bogey, a bit all over the place. I’ll get back on the golf hardcore after I get back from the first Vegas WSOP stint. I’m currently experiencing the worst turbulence I’ve ever had the joy of riding in.

I don’t really have much to say on poker stuff as I sort of recapped the big stuff in my last blog…. Random sidenote…. We saw Gene Keady at the airport today, Lindsay wanted to get a picture with him but ended up not. His combover looked good. I am playing some big live tourneys coming up as WSOP is just next month and I’m on my way to New Orleans currently where I’ll be playing a $1k on Thursday, $1k on Saturday, and then $5k WSOP-Circuit Main Event on Monday(www.pokernews.com (live reporting) ). After that Karec and I are heading to Vegas where I’ll be playing a WSOP event almost every day from June 2nd-June 17th, Karec will be playing the Venetian events most likely.

Getting back to Gene Keady and Lindsay not going up to get a picture, I would have definitely went up and talked with Tom Crean if he was the one standing there, He’s obv very receptive to fans currently. So far so good with him at the helm, he is doing a pretty good job recruiting as he got some players to actually put a team on the court next year and could have 4 or 5 top 100 guys coming in 09. Oh great, now we can’t land in Memphis(connecting to New Orleans) and we have to fly around for a while until we can land, bleh. I’m pretty excited for the future of IU basketball.

My 2nd favorite Red tore his knee up last night, SS Jeff Keppinger, he was batting around .330 on the year and really the only productive Red with runners in scoring position as he was leading the league in that category as of about a week ago. Looks like he will be out a couple months at least, I haven’t gotten to see the MRI results yet. The 2 rookie pitchers have been pretty good, Edinson Volquez has been unreal 6-1 with a 1.06 era, but Johnny Cueto has struggled with giving up the longball and his era has ballooned to Eric Milton like numbers. He is just 22 though. I still haven’t been to the new ballpark but plan to make it to a few games this year.

Oh Kentucky Derby this year, I actually had a pretty good day betting. I just bet $10 to win on one horse races 2-10 and I had 4 winners including back to back with a 14-1 and a 13-1, apparently thats where I run good. Big Brown looks like a triple crown winner.

I'll try to update this with some New Orleans stuff.