Chief's Take on Things ...

The Wall?

Trying to keep an up to date blog going is hard work !

Mayo were useless again at the weekend against Cavan, hopefully not too long until Maughan is gone, and O'Mahony is in.

I post quite a bit on boards.ie, and find it a good place to keep up to date with what's happening around the Poker and GAA scene, it's a great place to spend your lunchtime munching a sandwich, or just browsing at night, whilst folding bad hands at poker.

One thing that is really pissing me off though, is the way fellahs that only took up the game a few months ago feel that somehow they are the 'chosen few' or something, that new players are somehow invading their space. They tend to be pretty short on 'newbie' questions that get asked on discussion forums, questions like "Did I play this right?" when their Aces get cracked by 67 off suits.
Sure some of the questions have been asked before, guaranteed they were asked by the fellahs slagging people off at the moment, but somehow after 18 months of playing poker, they now have gained enough stripes to become the poker police, and refuse to answer certain questions that don't meet up to their new found elite standards within the game.
These guys are assholes.

I then look at lads like HectorJelly, Nicky O'D and BigDragon ... none of them are actually the soft cuddly type, but they give their time and knowledge to others, and they get their point of view across in a (cough :)) straightforward manner.

I'm about 10 months playing now, and doing well, but I've hit a bit of a wall at the moment, not losing money, but not earning either. Bit like the golfer changing his swing, the more knowledge I am gaining, the more it is making my game feel to me more technical.

I guess I need to play through it. The concenus seems to be it is normal to go through such a phase.

Going to hit into The Fitz on Thursday, time to start producing a few results now, so first on the agenda is to win a ticket into the €270 game this month.

Reading Slanksky theory on poker at the moment, and then Harrington's 2nd book.

Work is going OK, though still waiting for the web designer to finish the bloody website www.magazines365.com. Anyone would think he was creating a nuclear missile the amount of time he is taking over it, it's getting embarrassing having to keep telling people it will be ready 'next week' (again).
Still, we have alot of the major UK and Irish publishers on board so things do look promising. Biggest hurdle to the success of the buisness is the postage costs involved for the subscriptions, but hopefully the digital magazines and newspapers will enable us to overcome that, and An Post should be getting some competition soon, and things should improve then...and who knows whats around the corner then.

Sherwin is gearing up for her trip to the USA at the end of the month, and shopping will be a plenty, so time for me to try and make a few quid this month.

Brothers Neil and Chris & Family was home for the bank holiday weekend from the UK, so it was nice to catch up over a few pints. With Forest playing in the never never league, it will be hard to pick a couple of 'must see' matches next season, but I guess I will go over for a couple of games ...depressing thought really.

Getting involved in a little business on the side ...more about that next time hopefully.

posted by Chief_OHara @ 10:35 PM