A Break in the Action

I haven't played much at all this month, and am actually on track to lose money this month for the first time since starting my poker career. Although, I do have half the month left so I'm not too worried. Both online, and live have been virtually nonexistent. November might be trending like this for many years to come. There's a reason for this though, as November comes around its been a family tradition to hunt whitetail for many years, and I can't find much time to play as of late because of it. I played a session last night of some smaller buy-in MTTs to get in the swing of things again. Results were decent, I went deep in the $11RA, only to bust in 46th out of 1155 people to this crazy crazy play by a villain holding 77 in the BB, after I already 3-bet a person from MP! Whats his thought process here? Lets think about this, we're not very deep, as the later in tourney's you go the blinds kind of catch up with you, I've 3-bet a very select range of hands to this point, he shoves his tourney life which is probably around 27 or 28 BBs. I mean how often is this guy ahead of me with the 77 here, and I was way priced so I'm obviously not folding. It really would have been a better shove if he had 78s or J10s because of the way the hand was playing. In the $5R+ I got 91st outta 2678 players, and in the $8.80 I got 69th outta 2223 people. A bunch of deeper runs that don't mean anything besides giving me a slight boost of confidence. I feel I'm playing great, and another decent score is in my near future! On another note I'm trying to eat shrimp Cajun Alfredo right now, but can't, because as I glance at my 52inch Panasonic I see models throwing up. WTF? Why does this kinda shit make TV? A. who cares about these people that are putting themselves in this predicament? B. Why does this need to be shown on TV, don't people become bulimic because they're not only starving for food, but also attention? C. Can they at least not show the vomit, the remote is so far away. Anyway I digress. Another thing I really don't agree with is Pokerstars signing these so-called "pros". I don't understand it, I mean I'm sure some of these players are good players, and a lot has to do with marketing reasons and such, but really? Please, if you are reading this take a look at some of these guys? Show me what they have done to make their case as a "pro"? I'm not saying these guys are bad at all, and I'm not saying they're not worthy of the job, but what I am saying is that there are much better players that qualify for the job in a much better way, rather than half of these Pokerstars "pros". If you go ahead and actually find the time to waste reading some of these team Pokerstars "pros" bio's they actually get quite amusing, when it never lists a big score or any kind of cash game play, but list where they're from and how they started playing. It doesn't make sense to me, and really hurts the online poker community imo. Anyway, lots of grinding in my near future! I really want a PCA package, and whenever I put my mind to something pokerwise I've been very fortunate, and I hope this time is no different. I'll be leaving for Minneapolis again Friday night to meet up with AceQuad for the weekend grind, its really nice to be around someone with such good work ethics as himself. I might play some live cash early next week since I feel its been quite awhile since I've really tapped that resource, and I'll be in the area. If your an online player that grinds with music I strongly suggest making a play list on YouTube of your own. Mine contains almost 200 songs right now, ranging from Sublime, to Ray Charles, and is the best thing I've EVER invested my time into! See you at the tables all. GL everyone (except lol, cigaro).

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-Blake