The Deadliest Catch

Okay, so we Canadians are behind a bit… okay, alot! Discovery channel in Canada is famous for running shit like 1 year past it’s stale date, and this is another example…

The Deadliest Catch is all about the crab fishing industry in Alaska. They go out during season on the boats, and follow 5 crews each time that are trying to catch the crap. The seasons are intense, often short, and deadly and dangerous. During the course of just the two seasons they covered, around 10 men lost their lives and probably 50% of the players were injured in some way.

Why do they do it? at near $5 per pound, the industry generates near 60 million on each season, a crewman can make enough in a couple of weeks total work to live for a year. It is an intense and scary race for the millions, all on the unforgiving, rough, and freezing Bering Sea. Truly an intense experience.

We are about half way through the series now in Canada, and it is pretty intense. Watching these guys work for 72-90 hours STRAIGHT THROUGH with only short naps and quick meals is mind numbing, especially when you consider they are working with heavy equipment, fast flying ropes, and all this on a sea that is swelling 10-20 feet at times. It is really a miracle that they can do it at all.

Between that and Australia’s “The Block” I am pretty much ruined 🙂

More Poker stuff

Well, the last few days have been interesting, that is for sure. I have never really done all that well in larger tournaments, limiting most of my play to sit and go tables (online) and 2-4 2-6 or 4-8 tables in person. I am NOT a big spending high roller or anything like that. I wisely keep my playing within reasonable numbers, and as a regult, I get to enjoy the games more and worry about the outcome much less.

Things started a couple of days ago, when I decided to play some of the $1+0 and $10+1 bigger tournaments. The $1+0 ones are truly interesting, as they certainly attract a very wide crowd of people (usually 2000+ players) and the skill levels go from decent to great to total clueless beeyaches. Let me tell you, it really seems to help my confidence and skill level when it comes to spotting the players and spotting the easy marks.

Anyway, I noticed that I was doing pretty good in these things. Routinely coming in the top 20% or so, and I made a slight bit of money ($3 or $4) in a couple of them for making it into the top 10%. During the same time I had been playing some $5 and $10 sit and go tables, and I was really doing well, probably 50% in the money and at least 25% wins. Not terrible, and keeping my bank reasonable and happy.

Well, I decided (quite randomly) to give a $50 tourney a shot. I hadn’t played anything over $20 since i started back, but I was sort of in a what the fuck kind of a mood and I decided to give it a shot. I was mostly interested because the number of players was reasonable, and as it turned out, the payouts went back almost to 10%, which is pretty decent.

Anyway, long story short, I made it into the money (solidly in, and then I blew it playing a hand I should have stepped away from) bringing me about $150 for my $50.

Kewl, I thought. Maybe just luck, whatever.

So today I pick up an afternoon $20 tourney. Bigger crowd (about 700). I played carefully, staying just about 10 times the blinds pretty much consistantly. I picked up a couple of good size pots… and the money number was 70. This game stayed on 71 players for about 15 hands in a row. Finally the dam broke and someone got knocked out. So I was in the money again. I finally made it up to about 45th, which paid me about 5 times what I put in the front end, which is fine by me.

Most importantly, I stated to get the feeling I was just a little bit better of a player today than I had been in the past. I really seem to have started down a more positive route for these tournament things (I am playing a $1+0 right now).

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Back in the saddle

Well, I took a couple of months off, not realy playing too much and generally paying attention to other things in my life that were more important (plus trying to get away from a very specific playing style that was killing me). Anyway, in the process, I didn’t realize and lost over 7000 points I had built up at PP. Oh well. What can I say, my own fault, right?

Anyway, I have played a little bit over the last few days, and the results are mixed but encouraging. I played some sit and go tables (about broke even), and played a few lower dollar tourneys (I am landing about in the top 20% each time… ). I tend to be playing pretty good, concentration okay and everything, but over time I tend to lose the thread, lose control, and I start playing poorer and poorer hands, or playing good hands long past the time that they weren’t good anymore. That is what lands me out of the money most of the time.

I played my first rebuy / addon game as well. It was a cheapy ($5), and I was amazed at the number of people who didn’t addon at the end of the first hour. I figured that half the people should have less than the average number of chips, so each of them should be at least interested, plus some of the others as a matter of course. Yet in this case, not even 20% of the people took advantage from what I could see in the numbers.

So I will be back to play a little bit more, money is tightly controlled, so I am playing really money tables not subs or semis… at least not until I build up a little roll to work with.

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The Little Trouble Maker

I was looking back at some of the sites I have built over the last couple of years, and I came across this one:

little trouble maker – sexy Joey is a lightspeed girl, tall thin, with nice pert titties and a shaved pussy you will love! Anyway, there are 9 or 10 galleries over here, plus links off to some of the other lightspeed girls and galleries I have built. Check her out, she truly is a hotty!

Black Meat White Treat

They whole interracial fuck thing is taking off like mad. This site is kinda coll because it sort of features the bangbus style pickup and slam down situation, except these girls are getting some seriously large black cock rammed into their little cooters. White girls, black cock… it’s a pretty darn hot idea.

I checked it out, the movies are hot, the camera work is tight and the girls, well, they are screaming in orgasm as soon as that monster size dark meet gets injected. If this is your thing, well… it’s worth the visit for sure, possibly one of the best of it’s type.

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Happy New Year 2006

Happy New Year 2006 to all my readers and fans all over the planet. I know I have been quiet over the holidays, there has been a ton of stuff going on in my personal life that has really knocked me for a loop, rearranging many of my priorities and making stuff come much clearer. I can tell you without a doubt that changes at any level can be painful, but the end results can often be better than just standing there frustrated, hurt, and feeling wrong.

2006 is also a good time to start new projects. I actually started on one new project last week, and it is coming along nicely. I am using it as a chance to more fully learn CSS and all the nice things I can do with it, and it is truly a learning experience. Yes, the new project is a link site, but with some new bells and whistles and even a free to join member’s area. I am really excited about this one, I think it has the potential to be a big winner. The other thing is that I will be building some nice new “back end” technology to go with it, so I will get a double dip on the project, as I will be able to roll that stuff out over the long run for all sorts of areas and ideas.

Basically, it will be a culmination of much that I have learned in the last couple of years, putting a superior product on the table that you guys and girls will love and that I will enjoy maintaining.

Speaking of maintaining, I think everyone will be happy because in the new year, I will be posting way more in this blog, and opening up a bit more about things I am working on. I have a ton of good ideas, and I will be developing them over time and letting you people here be amoungst the first to see them…

So, good luck to everyone in 2006… May you find in 2006 what 2005 could not bring you, and may you profit grandly from it 🙂

Alex