Picture Blog
What a busy month of March. Pokerwise, I'm on the verge of my first ever losing month in 3 years of playing. Fun stuff. I took a ride in the delorian to check out last year's March. I noticed the coincidentally poor results I had last March, of course that was back when I was first starting at 2/4nl. Now I'm taking shots at 10/20 and 25/50. I feel like I've come a long way since then, even reading some of the old hand analyses that I made then. I wont dwell too much on poker related nonsense in this entry though, I want to talk a bit about my time off.
We took a 14 hour road trip to the Blue Ridge Mountains in North Carolina. Leaving at 6:00 pm central time, we finally arrived at about 9:30am eastern time to Missy's family's shared mountain house that sits on the top of a hill in Crossnore, NC (population 250). It's pretty far removed from modern civilization, which is a good thing to get away. It's so different than what I'm used to... there are people living in run down shacks, old school buses, and trailors as far as the eye can see. Pretty sad really, but the people there seem nice for the most part. All of these people living in simply terrible conditions, and they have all their junk and trash spread out across thier "yard". Certainly, it's always good to have a reminder of how good you have it, even if you've played 45,000 hands of break even poker and feel like you constantly run terribly (oops, i wasn't going to get into poker bs).
So while in NC, we mostly saw the natural sites, ate some local food, went up to Grandfather Mountain (named because the profile of the mountain looks like an old man laying on his back), checked out some waterfalls, drank some beer by the fire, watched college bball and just spent quality family time. All of those were nice ways to get away from my typical routine of having my nose glued to the computer screen playing thousands of hands of poker. I did manage to bring along the laptop and go through some hands in PT and do a little work on the new website, but other than that we kept busy enough driving along the mountain roads that I didn't have a lot of extra time to spend with technology.
Onto the pics... Of course I managed to sport the poker hoodies on the trip ;-)
Missy and I by a waterfall
Near the dam at the bottom of the mountain from the house
By the frozen water fall
On top of the Blue Ridge Mountains
Another day at the Blue Ridge Mountains
Beer and Roasted Marshmellows by the fire after a hard day of relaxing
Missy at Grandfather Mountain
Me on Grandfather Mountain
Both of us at the top of Grandfather Mountain
Being goofy at the mountain house
Torturing the dog
On Wednesday we left the mountains of NC to head back to KC, taking a detour through Memphis, TN, where I had a doctor's appointment. The checkup went fine which is always good news. Finally late thursday night we were back home.
Since then I've been putting in a good number of hands with similarly crappy results. Hovering between -7k and +1k on the month. ughhhh.
I've got a mini rant about March Madness and basketball in general, but I'll save it for another day. Also tax time is around the corner and I have some things that will help you prepare your taxes if you've made some money playing poker. It can be complicated. I plan on hiring a CPA this week to get it all done.
Later,
Aaron
We took a 14 hour road trip to the Blue Ridge Mountains in North Carolina. Leaving at 6:00 pm central time, we finally arrived at about 9:30am eastern time to Missy's family's shared mountain house that sits on the top of a hill in Crossnore, NC (population 250). It's pretty far removed from modern civilization, which is a good thing to get away. It's so different than what I'm used to... there are people living in run down shacks, old school buses, and trailors as far as the eye can see. Pretty sad really, but the people there seem nice for the most part. All of these people living in simply terrible conditions, and they have all their junk and trash spread out across thier "yard". Certainly, it's always good to have a reminder of how good you have it, even if you've played 45,000 hands of break even poker and feel like you constantly run terribly (oops, i wasn't going to get into poker bs).
So while in NC, we mostly saw the natural sites, ate some local food, went up to Grandfather Mountain (named because the profile of the mountain looks like an old man laying on his back), checked out some waterfalls, drank some beer by the fire, watched college bball and just spent quality family time. All of those were nice ways to get away from my typical routine of having my nose glued to the computer screen playing thousands of hands of poker. I did manage to bring along the laptop and go through some hands in PT and do a little work on the new website, but other than that we kept busy enough driving along the mountain roads that I didn't have a lot of extra time to spend with technology.
Onto the pics... Of course I managed to sport the poker hoodies on the trip ;-)
Missy and I by a waterfall
Near the dam at the bottom of the mountain from the house
By the frozen water fall
On top of the Blue Ridge Mountains
Another day at the Blue Ridge Mountains
Beer and Roasted Marshmellows by the fire after a hard day of relaxing
Missy at Grandfather Mountain
Me on Grandfather Mountain
Both of us at the top of Grandfather Mountain
Being goofy at the mountain house
Torturing the dog
On Wednesday we left the mountains of NC to head back to KC, taking a detour through Memphis, TN, where I had a doctor's appointment. The checkup went fine which is always good news. Finally late thursday night we were back home.
Since then I've been putting in a good number of hands with similarly crappy results. Hovering between -7k and +1k on the month. ughhhh.
I've got a mini rant about March Madness and basketball in general, but I'll save it for another day. Also tax time is around the corner and I have some things that will help you prepare your taxes if you've made some money playing poker. It can be complicated. I plan on hiring a CPA this week to get it all done.
Later,
Aaron
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