Aaron ‘WiltOnTilt’ Wilt’s +EV Poker Blog

We got our baby furniture delivered this week.  It was delivered at 5:30 on wednesday, clearly the last top for the delivery people.  Despite getting an amazing deal (thanks to my bargaining skills), it was still a pretty expensive purchase all things considered.  As part of the purchase, we got the shipping and assembly included since I knew I would be in no mood to put that stuff together myself.

We got 5 things delivered: the crib, dresser, hutch, chair and nightstand.  Of those 5 things, 2 of them were screwed up in some fashion.  We’re unsure if it was a result of the manufacturer or the assembler, but without judging books by covers, I can assure you that they did not look like the most proficient pair of assemblers.  My thoughts were confirmed after seeing the clearly misaligned crib (we’re talking brutally-no-where-close to being correctly aligned arms of the crib) plus shelves on the hutch that did not physically touch the back of wall of the hutch (picture a book case where the horizontal piece of wood the books sit on is 2 inches away from the back of the bookshelf).

Things like this are really irritating to me.  It was pretty clear that the deliverers were in no mood to do their best work, which was especially confirmed when I called them on it and got them to verbally admit that there’s no way this is how it was "supposed to be."  They fully intended on leaving the furniture assembled incorrectly and gtfo as their day was ending.  After pointing out and stating the obvious, they wrote that it was incorrect on our invoice and passed the buck right over to their manager for her to fix.

One would think the way the economy is, people would be taking some pride in what they do…but that doesn’t appear to be the american way these days.  It’s a good reminder to me that as a representative of DC, I should try to be as helpful as possible to people.  I think DC as a company does a much better job at this than most companies.  I feel like our close knit community is unmatched in the market and unmatched in most american businesses.  I hope the members feel the same way.

If you’ve never caught the movie "Falling Down" with Michael Douglas, I would highly recommend it.  It’s about this guy who gets fed up with everything going wrong and snaps…he goes on a rampage pointing out what’s wrong with the world today. If anyone needed the 8 fold path to poker enlightenment, it was this guy

Here’s one of my favorite scenes from the movie…but you should definitely watch the whole thing to feel the full effect:

Jared (jk3a) and I often joke about him "Good cop/Bad cop" in various situations.  It’s funny because we can both fill the roles and both be either cop in a given situation.

My last blog entry (i deleted it) was the "bad cop."  It was meant to be a satirical post about the current state of personalities and egos and general forum behavior of the HSNL community on 2p2 and elsewhere.  The genesis of the post was from the HSNL **** thread and a few other threads in the forum.  I was kind of bummed to see how many people just "didn’t get it" or simply thought I was "bitter" from the post.  I tried to even make fun of myself 3-4 times in the post but I guess communicating sarcasm over the internet isn’t always the easiest of tasks…so because of the widespread confusion I decided to simply take it down.

Anyway, we have a lot of exciting things coming up at DC in the next month.  I’ll be making an announcement post in the next few days of something big that we’ll need the DC community to help us with.  I think people will find it to be fun and hopefully help pull our already close community even closer.

Many of you have been following my nosebleed stakes HUNL matches on UB.  At some point I’ll write up a more definitive blog about it but I’d still like to remain quiet for now for obvious reasons.

At one point he did refer to me as "terrible" and a "pay off wizard" which I was happy to see.  Of course right after he says it, he runs another awful bluff that I snap off instantly.

Anyway, the last thing I’ll say is that my screen name refers to this guy, you sickos:

Been a looong time since i’ve posted an update and while I’m waiting on 30 hu tables and getting no action I figured this would be a decent time to write up a post.

sooooo i’ll start from the top with some quick hitters:

-WSOP Main event bust out is almost certainly going to be on TV. I got a call from someone at ESPN who asked if I was the guy who got knocked out by Brad Garret (Everybody Loves Raymond) and it’s true. The TV cameras raced over when I got it in on the turn with his straight better than my set. Jason Alexander aka George Costanza was also at the table. If you’re a friend on facebook, this is of course old news. Anyway the table was super soft and I ran bad and that was that. It’s going to be pretty embarrassing to be on TV getting knocked out by that guy and having him shout to the cameras “dont pair the board” or whatever. The tournaments were pretty disappointing for me this summer but the vast majority of the time tournaments are going to be disappointing. The only saving grace was at least I busted out on Day 1 instead of Day 4 like Ariel and still not making any $.

-The dog has fully recovered from his surgery. So far there has been no personality change, which is good.

-I played much less poker in the last week than I normally would. It was really nice to have a little bit of a break. I had some big swings this month but ended up running bad at like 5/10 but running good at 25/50 so it still ended up to be a good month despite some stressful stretches. I’ve only coached an hour or two since vegas which has been realllllyyyy nice. I think I’m getting to the point where I’m ready to really scale back the amount of coaching I do. Both from an hourly rate perspective and a burnout perspective, it’s probably better if I focus my mental energies on just playing myself. Any current students I have I’ll still coach but I’m going to hold off on new ones for the time being.

-While I was scaling back my hours playing poker I started playing Fallout 3 for PS3. I think I beat it in like 5 days or something. It wasn’t overly amazing but I did enjoy it. I like how you have quite a bit of flexibility with your character alignment (good/evil) and the story isn’t too linear. I really miss good RPGs from the days of the Final Fantasy series for NES and SNES but I guess that dates me a bit I was pretty surprised to go into the game store down the street and have them tell me there really aren’t any good RPGs out at all for PS3. I get a little tired of button mashing games but I did pick up Street Fighter IV to also relive one of my favorite SNES games. Perhaps next I’ll go for the latest Madden or NCAA football games if I can’t find an RPG/Adventure title that is good. I guess I could always get back into WoW but that game lends itself a bit too much to wasting time away.

-I saw the movie the Hangover last night. It was hilarious and I highly recommend it. I generally don’t like comedy movies but I thought the Hangover was funny throughout the whole thing. Definitely some “raunchy” and “shock” humor but overall it kept me laughing through the whole thing, which I can’t say for too many movies.

I guess that’s it for now

Poor Dexter. Today was the day he got fixed. We just picked him up from the vet and he looks so defeated. I guess I would be too if I was him.

They say the dogs are never the same (personality, I mean) after the surgery but given his recent “interest” in his big brown football toy, it was a must-do procedure. We also got a micro chip in him in case he ever gets lost.

Here are some post-op pics. Poor guy.

We’re currently on hour 17 of 20 on the ride back from Vegas and the wsop. As you might have guessed I’m writing this long overdue entry on my iPhone. Missy and I have had a lot of fun playing with the new phones for the past couple weeks and it’s definitely getting to the point where I don’t think I could live without it.

Dexter is here sitting on my lap giving me the “whaddaya want from me?” look while Missy is driving along. So far I’ve driven about 14 of the 17 hours and it looks like we’re going to make it straight back to kc without stopping to rest.

Since my last entry I played and busted from my final 2 planned wsop events: the 5k 6 handed event and the 10k main event. Both were lol-donkeriffic as I managed to bust out of both tournaments by getting the money in with sets vs straights against the weakest players at my tables. In both events I busted a few hours after the dinner break.

I had the softest main event table ever which included both Jason Alexander (aka George castanza) and Brad Garret (aka tall guy from everyone loves raymond). There were a couple clueless old guys and a couple Internet pros and that was it. I don’t think I played a softer table since party poker 2004. Anyway I end up busting to brad Garret when he c/c, donks his turned straight vs my 88 on a Qh 8h 5s 9s board and we get the money in. I started the hand about 35 blinds deep so I’m pretty sure there’s nothing else I could do besides watch the espn cameras rush over to our table as the dealer shouted “all in and a call” as brad stands up and waves his arms like a babboon screaming for the board to not pair. After I whiffed the river the espn producer was there to ask for my name/online screen name. I think there’s a v good chance that I’ll make it on tv losing that hand which will be bitter sweet.

So obv being pretty life tilted I went back to our house to unwind. I did a little channel surfing that night and stopped on a seinfeld rerun and missy gave me a hard time about wanting to see George castanza again. About 5 mins later the show ends and guess what comes on next? Yea, “Everyone loves freaking Raymond”. Let the life tilt continue.

Although the tournaments didn’t quite go as I’d hoped, the month in Vegas was definitely a blast. I had a great time hanging with everyone and basically being immersed in 4 straight weeks of poker diacussion. I also managed to run well and ship a big month online.

Some stuff came up that compelled us to get back to kc earlier than we had hoped and we’re going to miss the connect 4 charity event that deucescracked is hosting at Planet Hollywood Thursday night. If you’re in Vegas still you should check it out. They are raising money for a good cause.

Anyway that’s it for now. I’m pretty happy with how my Haj School series ended up and now I’m doing a HUNL dojo with 4 ninjas in training and I think it will turn out pretty good so check it out and let me know what you think.

Later
Aaron