Apparently, the poker gods don't want me to play poker this month.  It snowed 8+ inches today and school was cancelled, so I had to change my original plans, which was to play poker all day while G was in school.  Instead, we played some Super Mario Bros. while we were waiting for the snow to stop coming down.  I can not tell you how humiliating it is to get your ass kicked over and over (and over and over) again by a 6 year old (over and over).  Being a life-long video gamer, I would consider myself above-average on that front, but playing arcade style games with multiple buttons is horrifically difficult for me (Defender, Mortal Kombat, Street Fighter, etc).  Isn't there supposed to be like a 8-16 year period where the dad kicks the son's ass at all things?  Where's mine?!?  Next thing you know, my neighbor's 13 year old daughter is going to come over and start beating me up for my lunch money.

Mercifully, it stopped snowing and some of the neighborhood kids came by to go sledding in our back yard.  We have a pretty large back yard, and it's a little sloped so it makes for a great sledding hill.  I took D out and was exhausted after carrying him around a few hours.  So I was thinking about how tired I get and I have come to the conclusion that: (4 hours with D) = (8 hours with G) = (12 hours with Mrs. Fly) = (16 hours of playing poker).  Since I'm a "numbers" person, I liked how the four things in my life worked out so evenly.  I could play an absurd amount of poker if I had no other responsibilities.  Now if only the poker gods would cooperate.

POKER

As a regular on Full Tilt, I get free access to Stoxpoker and Cardrunners. I saw two of Rick Mask's (Stox) videos the other night and they were better than I was expecting. He's definitely closing the gap on Sean Nolan (DeucesCracked) as the best NLFR midstakes video maker. To be fair, I haven't seen any of Nolan's recent videos though, but that'll change once I start exercising. It looks like he made an epic 12 video series on 3betting since I was last a member.  Considering everything I know about 3betting can be summed up in one 30 minute video, I guess I have to watch now.  I chat with them occasionally on 2+2. FWIW, here is a list of the videos makers I really like (not in any order):

* JCL (CardRunners)
* IRock (CardRunners)
* Nolan (DeucesCracked)
* FoxwoodsFiend (DeucesCracked)
* Baluga Whale (DeucesCracked)
* Risk Mask (Stox)

When I was starting out, I also liked DJ Sensei and fslexcduck's (Deuces Cracked) hand analysis videos because you could watch them on your itouch. I also want to try BlueFirePoker - their lineup looks amazing.  It's almost making me looking forward to working out.  Almost.