Tecmo vs The World

So I haven’t updated this in a while (standard), but I thought I’d update a few things in the life of Tecmo.

Owning your own home is both sweet and not. I’m not complaining as it is a great blessing to have the opportunity to own your own home, but man is it a lot of work! I settled in August and planned to have a house-warming party in early October. Then I planned to have that party at the end of October. Then November. New tentative date is mid-December lol. Whenever I buy stuff, I do a good bit a research, read customer reviews, and wait for good sales. Heck, it took me almost a year to decide on my TV! So in the past few months I’ve gone through a lot of research/bargain hunting for couches, dining room tables, office desks, and backyard fences.  I’m happy to say that all of those purchases have been made and I’m really happy with all of them.  My couch and love seat are really comfortable, my fence looks really nice, my desk is finally built for my poker office and I just have to finish setting the electronic stuff up, and my dining room table is pretty sweet.  It’s a square table with 2 chairs and the other two sides are booths!  That’s right – I have a restaurant-style booth in my house!  It’s pretty sick.  Now I just have to finish unpacking some boxes and throw up some decorations on the walls and I’ll finally be at a point where I can just chillax and enjoy my new home  I’ll post pix soon!

My dog, Kali (see previous post for pix), is doing great.  My girlfriend, Meagan, and I have been working with her on different tricks and we took her to take the Canine Good Citizen test (a set of 10 different tests to determine obedience).  On her very first try she passed!  She has ended up costing me a good bit more than I originally thought, but she’s worth it

As far as poker goes, I haven’t been able to play too much with all the grown-up stuffs going on.  Every now and  then I’ll put in a session, but nothing too substantial.  I did have my worst session ever that was 50% running bad and 50% tilt.  Afterwards  I realized my biggest leak is “playing to get even.”  It’s all one big session in poker and it doesn’t make a whole lot of sense to play as if each session is the end all be all, but alas, that’s a leak for me.  Because of that, I have instituted a timed session policy.  I’ve done it a couple times so far and really enjoy it.  You play for a predetermined amount of time and stop when it’s over no matter what.  You never play to get even or stop playing too quickly.  You also don’t end up playing until 3:00 am when you have to get up for work the next day haha.

My poker office is nearing completion and I’m really excited to have it all set up.  I’m still doing a little coaching here and there, but mostly I’m trying to get the house stuff done so I can concentrate on working on my game again.  I want to be a 200NL reg in the next couple of months and build up my roll for WSOP ’10.  I can’t wait for the summer.  I think there’s a chance it could be my best Vegas trip yet!  Between hanging out with my normal crew, meeting up w/ some DC peeps, and looking to play a good bit and make some good $, it should be a blast!  Oh yea, and the girlfriend might get to go this time too!

Oh, and as far as DeucesCracked goes, I should have some really cool stuff happening on that front as well.  I can’t say anything just yet, but I’ve got 2 or 3 things that I’m working on w/ them