Gulf Coast Poker Championship
Haven't wrote in a while. My break from casinos feels like it is lasting forever when it has only been 2 months. It is getting closer to the Gulf Coast Poker Championship in Biloxi, MS. I am ready to go play and excited to play some Half n Half. I wasn't able to sell all of my action but I have a good portion of it sold. 25% so I will be adjusting the action to 7.5% on just 2 events
Those events are the $230 Half NLHE Half PLO on Tuesday August 30 and the $130 multiple Re Entry on Wednesday August 31. If I have success in those I will most likely extend my stay for one more day to play the $230 1R/1A on Thursday. I don't plan on investing much in re-buys for the multiple reentry tournament but I'm sure there will be players that will be loose cannons that I can build a stack off of. I even convinced a poker buddy to come with me as I got my room for 2 queens since they were out of just 1 King rooms. I much prefer going with someone I can discuss poker with rather than just go to events by myself. The wife will be tagging along as well so she'll most likely be basking in the sun and finding random ways to blow money but as long as she lets me focus in the poker room it will be all good.
APP League
I have to say I am very confident and will be using this Friday's League game (last Texas Holdem regular season game of the year) as practice for the Biloxi Trip. I mostly want to work on my patience and not getting involved in pots that don't have alot of + EV. I don't want to over value my suited connectors and keep pots small that need to be small and maximize pots that need to be huge. If I can accomplish this will playing most pots in position I know I will be able to cruise to success. other than the League game this friday will be the last League game on Sept. 9 which is NL 2-7 Single Draw which should be interesting and the Championship FreeRoll for the top 9 point earners for the year which will be Sept. 23. I am currently in 2nd in points and 6 points behind the first place player. Im gunning for First to earn an extra $200 but as it stands I am lined up to get atleast $100 of the bonus winnings for either Most Final Tables or Most cashes. I am also in the hunt for Mixed games champ in second with 4 points behind. I also added a 24 person Head Up tournament to the schedule just because I have been wanting to play one live and it should be pretty fun. The top 8 players will have a first round Bye. 9-24 will play to advance to the next round. Most likely the top 4 will be paid so it should be a decent prize and good competition. Seeding will be based on the point standings for the APP league.
The seeding will be as follows:
1 vs (16/17)
8 vs (9/24)
6 vs (11/22)
4 vs (13/20)
3 vs (14/19)
5 vs (12/21)
7 vs (10/23)
2 vs (15/18)
I have been playing around with bleaching designs on shirts but only like a couple of them so far So idk how much time or money I will invest as far as that goes. I also want to try spray painting designs but again if it doesn't come out good it won't be worth the investment. Don't want to make Shirts that no one will want to wear. I had a Screen Printing company that would make my previous shirts but they are just completely unorganized, unprofessional. I guess that is what I should expect when dealing with a mom and pop printing company though. The worst part is every time I go to order more shirts they have a different price and its always higher than what it was. I have to bring in the receipt for the previous purchase every-time when proving to them that it isn't the right price. They stay busy as hell but IDK how because there is nothing professional about them and the last batch of shirts they made for me were more on the bleh side.
Fantasy Football
I am so excited about football and sooo happy the football season is back (my wife does not share the mutual feeling...So I plan on torturnig her 4 nights a week for the next 3 months). I missed tailgating the UL Ragin' Cajun games and there has been so much anticipation built up around Coach Hudspeth and the new Recruits it is ridiculous! I expect to see a huge crowd for the first home game and hopefully for the rest of the season.
Last year I said I wasn't going to play Fantasy football for money but instead I got in 2 leagues this year for More money haha. My original league is drafting Sept. 4 right before the NFL season begins and it is a $50 league. I also joined one of Will "Poker Monkey" Souther's $100 leagues which has 16 teams! That draft is Aug 27 and coming up soon! The largest league I've been in previously had 12 teams so the draft should be stupid deep and whoever picks the best 3rd stringers and back up QBs will have the best season! Its all about finding those Hidden Gems. I am still yet to see the payouts in these leagues though but they should be awesome! I'll post my teams once I have drafted. Just in case some of y'all are reading this though I'm not giving away any drafting plans. Just gonna play it by ear and take what everyone gives me lol.
Peace.
Matt Stroud
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