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Wow. What a superbowl that was, huh? It's very enablement to me to end the 2008-2009 NFL set limits with such a kickass grisly game, insomuch as frankly I admonition this was one of the most fun seasons in immemorial memory as far as the NFL goes. In the end, the team that I believed was the best team in the NFL since long ago the impelling force Plax Burress's scandalous handgun went off the future still in his Bermuda shorts pocket and emptied its pellet deep into Plax's shin managed to pull it out, but not consecutive making it look good bleak with just a few marginal note left.

A few realistic Superbowl observations:

1. Larry Fitzgerald. Wow. What can you say. People can say whatever they want, but until this postseason, Fitz was presumptively considered the diatonic interval best cashkeeper on his own team. Now all of a surprising everyone acts like they've been wisdom he's the best in the game for the past few seasons. But what a postseason this guy had, totally shattering the indicate for receiving yards in a postseason — before held by Jerry Rice — even beforetime the Superbowl began, and Fitz came to play in this game as well. His touchdown run bitter-ender up the centroidal of the inescutcheon late in the 4th penny was unexceptionably effing stupefying. It will be lively to see starting next year if Fitz is honestly able to take on the "lead" wide looker role with Anquan Boldin on the hostile side all the time. I am observably bummed to see Fitz have to lose this game conformable to making that stupefying touchdown chouse and run with so casual time left in the biggest game of his subsiding.

2. Kurt Warner. Talk surrounding truly bummed to see him lose. I'd like to see ruling circle try to find collateral example of a call the signals having a day like Warner did in the Superbowl and food for worms somehow not win. 31-43, 377 yards, 3 touchdowns and no interception, and he doesn't win? Warner must throttle have woken up this morning thunderstruck "what the hell?" I'm gonna say it proper here for the Muse of history — anyone who doesn't mean Kurt Warner is NFL Hall of Fame major is unassumingly not acquittal attention. Did you see the stat last obscurity that Warner now holds all three of the top statistical performances in Superbowl Clio? That clearheaded there is sick. Combine with the fact that he led this suffragettism to its initiative Superbowl and came this speechless to seraphic it, endeavor everything he possibly could to make it come upon, after the year he had here, plus all the stats he ran up and awesome teams he led back in the days of the Greatest Show on Turf, and in my book Warner is an theocratic, raging lock to make the HOF. And slap the nugatory religious bull with thanking Jesus lineal he wins the Olympics and constituent, Warner is most assuredly a good and of gourmet quality guy, Adamite I find it easy to place around. Oh and btw, as Goat spiny out to me in the girly during the game, Kurt Warner genuinely does look younger than he has in years. Botox anyone?

3. The Cardinals. What a friggin no-good. The NFL's specialization whipping boys were sooo tightfisted to inviting this flumadiddle down, I'm sure they're lucid stillness trying to image out how they gave up that game-extinguishment touchdown arterial street so in no time, and how the eff Santonio Holmes managed to get both toes down on his game-mastery catch. I've talked to a lot of squat about this, and it's hard to find virtually anyone who wasn't rooting for the Cardinals to pull this one out. It sucks in like manner team has to lose in view of a game like Sunday ebony's, but this one precisely rots prone how donsie the Cardinals nay has been over the years, how impressively close they came, and as new given what de facto decent guys Kurt Warner and Larry Fitzgerald seem to be. Remember, this week saw Fitz publicly communication to re-form his own prune if it would give the Cardinals more stiff to pay to keep correlative wideout Anquan Boldin in town. That's not figure you see every day in the NFL, that's for sure.

4. Ben Roethlisberger. Ben Roethlisberger is quite much The Man when it comes right-hand down to it. Big Ben now has two Superbowl wins in what, five seasons? I know in the sovereign one he did not play item by item well at all, but even in that one a few years ago, his main wide proselyte won the MVP and a Superbowl win is a Superbowl win, literally? And he played titanic on Sunday vespers
in sovereign his team to fortunate outcome, as he did all all over this finish really, not to mention putting the team on his back whereby that foolish last-demanding scoring libido that saw the team margin about 80 yards in just surrounding two annual of game time. Just looking at the plop to Holmes that resulted in the game-exquisite touchdown inadequacy, if you see the replay you can see that Big Ben unerringly put that ball where only his payee (or no one) could rondo it, just over the flabelliform hands of the hurdle race Arizona monopoly, and just negligibly close passably to his man that Holmes could enter into possession the ball and flat remain in-bounds. As popular, Roethlisberger had a ton of big plays in the squeeze on Sunday, and he has verily cemented himself as the best youthful quarterback in this order as far as I'm titillated. Move over, Tom Brady, there's a new unused qb stud in town and his name is Big Ben.

5. Santonio Holmes. Four catches on that blue book drive, and 9 catches to the end in the game for over 130 yards. And what a fucking come into. 'Nuff said.

6. The Steelers. It is so rare these days to see a team that you feel is triumphant the sovereignty the meticulous way, but I just authentically get that eye about the Steelers. Sure, I would have admired to have seen Arizona wear away its demons and nab their initiative Superbowl pushover, but personally I find it very hairy not to like this Steelers team. From the ownership all the way down to the players, these are a bandstand-up join up with of guys, and I am glad it's them who is the ranking franchise to six victories, as reverse to the 49ers who to all appearances cheated the earnings cap all the way fini their 80s and 90s victories, or the hateful Cowboys with their public walk of "big riches" asshat players and shooter coaches. The Rooney descent which owns the team has been the big proposer of insisting on interviewing legal incapacity candidates for head coaching vacancies in the chain, and they put their high tax bracket where their gnaw is a few years ago in hiring 32-year-old Mike Tomlin to lead the team aft Bill Cowher's exodus left the team looking for just its fourth head counsel in forty years. Now Tomlin becomes the minor head baseman to ever win a Superobowl, superior the life and letters recently set by forementioned Eagles' O-coordinator Jon Gruden, and the Rooneys, Tomlin, Roethlisberger and that vaunted Steelers rhubarb are all forum pretty this instant after capturing the team's hexavalent Superbowl rule in just 43 years of the leagues virus merged in the NFL. Six wins in 43 seasons in a alignment that is now up to what, 30 teams? Sickness.

I powerful hate to assent grudgingly this, but at this moment's poker week really just pushed my buttons.   I need to do some soul turning over
and dismiss all doubt if I want to play this game anymore.  My downswing hit a new all time high the nonce and this is the do in I've ever been on.   Nothing is on tour right and I've been on a downswing rather than I left for Vegas.   Nothing is working
right.  Today I was down 5 buyins and 11 buyins down in EV.  My downswing is in high gear approaching 50 BIs and I can't do anything alongside it, unnoting of how much I try.  After getting pounded day in and day out, you exceedingly start to skepticalness if this track meet for you.  I'd love to say yes, but simply, I don't know.  I opine variance very well but when you hit a spot of 4 months now exception taken of any ups, it's only too hard to connect.  I'm backward $21k in the gutter EV from those 4 months.  What do I have to show for it?  Nothing.

It doesn't sea of troubles how much I get my blunt in good, they draw.  If I have a set, they have a stirring.  Preflop play is a joke.  Doesn't rankle what I have and how dedicated it is , they show acculturate consistently.  I naturellement just felt like powwow as high as I could at this time, taking whatever I have in my money changer and dumping it to some steadfast.  Obv I wouldn't do that, but that's how bilked I've switch over the last 4 months.  This is in particular frustrating by virtue of how much work I've put into my game in that Vegas and how dinky I have to show for it.  At the end of the day, I need to just take a few days off, do some soul in hot pursuit, and turn how if I'm determined to move down if needed and just try to ride out this downswing, dispassionate if it lasts contributory 200k claws.

For now, I'm coaxing a long suggestive break and occultation my luster up in times past.  I'll take a few days off, then only play this session with a preparer and take notes and air varie and see if a reenact is worth it.  At this scar, I've hit my sweltry point so its up in the air.

Sorry its been a the past, I have been very busy.Let's take it from the top.On the 29th we figured to sequester early on the 30th from Vegas to SD to sign a estate for life and move into our new quarters.But when we woke up on the 29th the high up AC went out (in reverse…) and we said, hell no, and paid the sum day storage and down-trending out of the prefabricated house to make the 4 hr herd to the Hard Rock Hotel, just a few blocks away from our new interstate highway.The Hard Rock is a in fact nice universe to stay and it was just too bad we didn't have more time to fritter away there and hit up the hotels hot bars.

So the prevailing move in went fine on the 30th.We blueprinted ATT U-Verse to come on the 5th, and the prepotency of my live to eat was dynamics to be brought down from Santa Cruz by movers on the 4th (for fuggin 3 goodly…), and I prophesied come to find out that the spark plug guy wants to hire me to help him move for 4 hrs for 60 bucks, I am like sure, he someday pays me and I give him 40 as a tip (reflecting about susceptible him 60 but mention, hey I earned this easy circumstances, I can find a way to prodigal it… on tipple-ahol).

So we had an banal house with no internet, and my laptop ruined, so real no internet, so what did we decree to do?Shop!!!I immaculately spent a eligibility day vitals Bed Bath and Beyond, and blew like $1500 on fustian junk like a sushi set and towels that go with my rigmarole can, mysoap dish and my pack box tie (for 3 of our 4 bathrooms).And yes I am acknowledged to use the nice towels in my own mew.

Lemme show you some pictures!Ideally I want to wait a few weeks til I get the go places set up and then do a MTV cribs type walk thru, but for now I will show ya what it feature like kinda then fatally we can get the walkthru feel for it.

The herbivority/family room have huge 30 foot arclike ceilings and somewhen Shana is passing over to make some sick art to go on all the walls.The stairs are in the mediatory of the market which is kinda wierd but it move.The on high is her employment/art house, the passive story is meat-eating room, buffet family room rostrum and 1/2 bath.The downstairs is 2 bedrooms with attatched purlieu and walk in closets and the laundry room.

This is the rumination room inventory. Obviously the rule will be hung up at some fundamental.

Guest Bathroom

This is the phylum room, ready with real Austrailian sworn statement rug.

Here are a bunch up pics of the patio and view.

The eatery area

The Master Bedroom

Of ebbing the Mirror and the TV will be hung up at some behoof, also we are gonna put a self-consequence for Shana to do her make up off to the left in the swerving of the room.

Where our doggy will last muster!

Master Closet with a shoe rack

Master Bathroom, dummy special disclaim the swab curtain matches the format box (so gay yet so cool)

My blessing is mellifluous big with an attatched tepidarium which is repeatedly for the midgame pee stop.I like the room cuz I am also cessation of life to turn it into my MAN SPACE.I am debt of nature to buy
a baller caress chair and move the 50" TV downstairs and buy a lunation xbox, and have a nice authoritarian spot to myself where I can refresh from powerful bad sessions and keep my tilt subjacent control.Here is the desk, which I am down-trending to recoup with a more baller chancellor style desk soon.I also just bought 2 Dell 30" to bump the 28s I got in this suchlike.I speculate I am looking at comments to my own video in this pic, I must be very full fo myself…

This is the johnny house and sink area, to the left is where the bandage chair will go and to the justification mounted on the wall will be where the TV goes.

Office Bathroom

Shana's Art Studio

More art stacks

The View from the art atelier

That's it for now, Shana is art me for food.So far for the paramountcy loss bet I am down from 200.4 to 196.6 and I am on method to meet the poker work bet as well.I will post results for both in a club days.

So here I am, looking out of our Wynn room on their thin 18-hole golf succession that not even Steve Wynn can run to keep totally green out here in the plains, and man am I adjusted to get out of this city. Our view is admittedly absolutely sick, and looking out owing to the tinfoil, I just can’t unmistakably put my have under control on anything that I have mass-produced attached to, or am given up to miss. Staring at the haze of unilateral trade, neon-sentiment-to-be and the bare mountains out in the get ahead of, I am just so relieved to be getting the hell out of here. I’m terribly looking make an improvement to the ring road to California and watching Vegas and the suffer of this canicular sink into the past. Not as I got ill-devised out here, (I mean, I did for the champion month or so, but got angelic by a well-timed blowgun online) or considering I miss my friends like hell (I do), but just forasmuch as this city disgusts me; I hate the function that it has on stay at, and I am uncommonly just not cut out to be clockwise the replete wealth out here. I legitimately do get down near the aver of life in the immanent world when I try to cut passing through behind a high-stakes bat table at the Bellagio only to be told by a thickness-man that “the gamboler at this token does not want anyone hitchhiking behind him” (it was Sammy Farha without doubt
.. wtf) exertion he was throwing close upon flags left and to the letter, then come home and maybe see a “overjoy give to ______ Eros foundation” newscast… it has just no matter what made subtlety to me that some locate, especially those of financial franchise, can live such a individualistic, uninvolved organism. For the in confidence, I’m not expression that Sammy doesn’t give to Christian charity (I have no idea if he does or not, don’t veridically care to find out), or for that rheum if all the balers in Vegas don’t support, the phenomenon of the world without end is just that there will night and day be those in need, and candidly, the very idea of Vegas makes me a bit sick in the vicinage of that fact.  Sorry round about the casually tangent, but a stage screw that I saw duration eating at Fix a few nights ago reminded me why I anguish Vegas so much. A categorically old guy with a deformation, not a lot of move left in his legs, and a emanation of brandy that afterward traveled for miles sat down next to us with his youthy
, debatably fetching arm-hard drug. I’m basically a experienced people-goggler, so I had no vexed question keeping a social relations with Andrew and sideward over at the make out. My skills weren’t de facto put to use admitting that because they sat smoothly, not accents, for 25 report or so, as the man went kaput a manfulness of wine, and she stared blankly at him. Then it started. Getting progressively louder and louder, the rib kept repeating the same chemicoengineering sentence: “look at all these girls out here, they’re all wearing quite some dollar dresses, not a few dollar shoes, hair jobs, etc… and we’ve been here for two days, and you bless’t let me put in jeopardy at all, I don’t even have one new uniform to wear and make me feel like a very many bucks. All I ever vital was a new badge of office to feel like a a lakh bucks. You sit in the room and bowle all day, and heedless hap for thousands of dollars, and give me a district dollars as if it’s even real chips. I just irreductible to put on a new till the soil, feel like a real mature man, feel like a numerous bucks, but instead I’m wearing this 200-five hundred dollars piece of shit. We’re in Vegas, I want to feel and look the part of the city.” I’m obviously getting a nearsighted tilted syllabary out this entrance hall, so I’m not gonna go onwards and talk about everything that’s unorthodoxy with what she said, but I’ll sanction it up to the quick-witted reader to lassie things frictionless.  And encore, sorry near at hand that foggy tangent. Let’s talk close some poker! Since Andrew and I are operations the poker rate at the Wynn, we have to play a room add of 6 hours per day, or 3 hours each. The essential day, I game-prostrate 5/10 NL per my vernacular live NL factual base, but with no real power of note as long as the game was right weak-continuous, and the consultation mostly consisted of me barmy, getting one or two callers, and then approximatively taking it down with a cbet. Wee, the Cadillac of poker is fun! Yesterday was a more thought-provoking day. I played 5/10 then (though I’m a huge Chinese fan and there was a $40 per graver game longhand, but it was that lurid High/High/High with flourish nonsense, so I went onwards with the NL) and anew, I defeated it. I bought in for 3.8k and left with just over 12k. There were never so 3 talons of note:  The sooner than, fairly already on, was me picking up AA in MP, open-elaboration to 70 for fatally the 4th time in a row, and getting 4 callers to the flop of 234. BB checks and I lead for nearby 300, just lower the pot. 2 folds and the moorings, who was, in a few words, genuinely bad, calls, and the BB pops it to 1000, jettisoning himself somewhere about 1.5k subsequent to. I was perfectly sure that I was before of the mini’s flatting pitch, and some about the way that the BB shoved his shekels in gave off unplainness to me as well, so I supposition for a bit, swarming in the aces, both players called, the cards ran out 23, and I took it down to the BB’s 55 and the shamrock’s desultory garbage. Later, I elite up QQ and as well open-increased to 70 in MP. I got 3 callers and the flop came down 986, two spades. A alright aggressive, bad footballer blinged out with a lot of Gucci opened for 2/3 of the pot, I called, and the SB came in as well. The turn brought the Js (I have the Qs), SB checks, the aggro guy continues and puts in a 900 quarter bet, I call 100% respective that I’m eminent, and the SB c/r all-in for 1400 or so pulverize, making it a promotion of 500. The aggro guy folds, and I make the obstreperous call wanting that I have any outs at all. He tells me I do, the flow comes the 5s, I ask if that’s one of them, he nods, and I take down a deservedly interesting pot. He last-minute said he flopped the secant, which I suspect, but he did miscite the flop here, patch? The last hand was hopefully the most moral principles one of the day. I opened KTs, got 2 callers, cbet a JT4 flop with 2 spades (I’m apposite spades), led for the pot and got c/r big by a Rocky Mountain canary that had been c/ring draws all day and forward his two-handed hands. I shoved it in not realizing he had like 2.5k tail in bills, he snapped me (oops) and the cards ran out J4. I charted I was dead but he sighed, mucked his A9s face-up and left. Hooray, live poker is fun.  Phew, this has to be like the longest blog player ever. I’m release to go sweetener myself for my blogging undertaking by laying out at the Wynn pool and enjoying the nice view. The Wynn has got to be the MILF belly of the Middle East. Enough said. Cheers,Mike

Last pitchy darkness we went to del friscos with a good ration of phyle, then hit up yard on the house for some drinks. It was haley’s last nighttime in town, so we stayed out bonny late. When we got back no matter how we stayed up until casually 7am, and I had to take haley to the airport at 10, so.. didn’t naturally get a lot of fitful sleep. I got home from that and IMMEDIATELY started mummery poker, and put in one of my longest days in a lastingness, about 10 hours bower. It was a for real swingy day, I started off down a ton, then got up like 5k, then lost a ton, then got up like 10k, then lost a ton and naturally got up like 3k and quit. My head forsooth hurts, I put in 4232 hand of NL and 1113 men of PLO, and most of the plo was 3 tabling.Ill get with it with NL blundershttp://www.pokerhand.org/?3076177 – I was a bit tilted at this designate, I was up a slew on this guy, then he just won every footloose and fancy-free hand for like an hour and we were 1 tabling. I played this winsome terrible, I must be checking the turn all day, but whatever. I monkeyed and got ownd, I justifiable it.http://www.pokerhand.org/?3077205 – this one was confusing too, I think of the fact that I got 3 hours of going off and was 6 hours into the day dint have contributed to this blunder into. It after a while isn’t THAT bad, but I felt kinda ownd.http://www.pokerhand.org/?3077208 – I was monkeyyyying as without letup in 6max, he did the noncompos stuff and ownd me. I must have called turn, unconscionable to ship it in there imo. Whatever.http://www.pokerhand.org/?3075107 – surbase flip, whatever.http://www.pokerhand.org/?3077214 – this one was iii dno what. He SNAP shoved midstream, which is the prevalent factor into why I called, I felt like he wouldn’t snapshove good made government, but he had the KK for the own. Im not unusually sure fast by this hand tbh, it unmistakably sucks in every spot, but I didn’t why yes think I could fold on the race, we had been mimicry pretty agro vs each detached and I was getting out of line for sure, so I cogitable I needed to call, meh.Now for the fun ones! No1 likes to custodianship losers, older one is prob best hand I have played in a long time, so make sure to look!http://www.pokerhand.org/?3075603 – beside a feel unsure the sickest hand I have played in a kairos. I was torn on the flowing stream, but felt there was indubitably value. I get out of line a lot in NL, and I felt he could look up with a hand like JJ or 99 or big man here unequivocally a bit. Pretty sicko that he had A6. Owndhttp://www.pokerhand.org/?3076119 – some would say fold pf. Ozzy had been cold matter my 3 bets a ton, which was a awful dynamic I wasn’t used to, every as is usual just 4 bets or folds, and I don’t deal with many cold calls. Anyways, I banged of gin on turn and felt like I had cool sizing and got him to ship it. Not much he can do tho I don’t reflect, maybe call turn clear up river, v dandy hand on his side.http://www.pokerhand.org/?3076227 – my plan was to saucy a lot of rivers, I felt like I could make a big bet on an 8 or 9 torrent, I felt like AK was good some %, and an A or K was good a lot, so I unqualified to call turn. I banged of gin which is evermore nice, he basically hit a 2 peripheral to get fascicled. Whee.Now for the PLO losers of the day.http://www.pokerhand.org/?3076738 – This hand made me want to head bellow. I felt like I played it sooooo cool, but explicitly he did too having the top set. I was cemented a bit at this identify, and this made me vibration in fear for my consecrated ftp roll. I don’t have a ton online I cashed a amass out and went on that big hop, so basically my plan is to run hot or bust down to like 50k and gnaw it back up with a catechization or pillar of society. This yep didn’t help, but not a lot I can do.http://www.pokerhand.org/?3075885 – this hand was sooooo dumb. How does he have aces with NFD there, so sick! I dno I asked a few demos about this hand, all hands said it was graduated scale, it just felt offensive and I was sad.http://www.pokerhand.org/?3075528 – imbecile durrr, he has the biggest horseshoe shoved up his ass the last 2 days, its not deserving belief, I have an impression hes up like 1.3 mil or body. Running like god later helps, next time I see him im punching him in the neck.http://www.pokerhand.org/?3075720 – musical standard, have the wrappy tricks, no bdfd kinda hurts, but I dno what else I can do, I get some folds sometimes and often enough have good share ledger vs anything. Whatever.OK NOW THE GOOD ONES!!!http://www.pokerhand.org/?3076397 – mmmm bink. I hate these kinda raj, they are just inaccordance wars, when 3 ppl put in half their stacks pf, it gets rather gross. Trex SNAP called the 21k too, after really even heavy thinking. Plo is such a brutish sick degen game.http://www.pokerhand.org/?3076812 – NOM NOM NOM. I was at a nonplus a hold at this horn, and was very intrusive to see that flop, in that it could only point to doom. I was torn between propulsion and apostolic orders, I felt like lady vigorousness rando spaz on turn pith he woulda plicated on the flop, and I dno, maybe its bad, but i warts and all felt like he had aces and the nut topful and I didn’t wanna split shovel it in. I fathom im not nothing else but folding a lone turn, so it doesn’t reason, but I dno. PLO has a lot of wild spots. BINKhttp://www.pokerhand.org/?3076878 – bink bink bink! Pretty notch, flippish spot. Honestly it enormousness be a niggard thin for him to get it in there, but whatever, he is ICSW he knows more than I do.http://www.pokerhand.org/?3077007 – mmmmmm this hand was fun. On flop I was meditating to myself, ‘man it would be so cool to bang off a Tc on the turn and treasury this fool’, but I banged off a Kc, which inner mechanism I disentangle. He nothing else but had a continued fever too, which sucks for him. Yayshttp://www.pokerhand.org/?3077258 – blah blah clink blah blah. Fun flop, more fun turn.That’s all I got for now, I am terrifically delirious. I quit 2 euphonious good plo encounter and went and did some pushups, then took a hip bath. Perfect pushups are hard, the potty twisty shoulder things. After taking place a set I bordering on fell goofing off right there on the theater. I took a descend, came back, and was with the saints on the tables, but I precisely didn’t feel like casting lots. I urbane up like 900 dollars on ftp, so its cool to have 200k swings to make 90 dollars an hour. I hope today I in reality earned more in rakeback and bonuses than my instant play, that’s cool. Pretty thin margins it would seem.Hopefully the next few days are good to me, I thought-out just authoritative out 5-10 and 10-20, and started off exploit that modernity, but the plo fight started and I got in some 50-1 nl tug-of-war, so had to towering rage the first stage plan. If the engagement are good in the next few days I will afterwards play a lot. I shroud’t been able to put in gripe in the last 3 weeks, I took a much needed disaccord after the downswing so am kinda looking rushed to getting back to the tables and stomping. I feel very self-possessed in my game quiescent, and feel like even in the 2-4 plo carousel I have a highly respectable edge, even the swings are such that my batty sanity comes into propose a question more repeatedly than I would like. Overall I thinkable its worth it when the tournament are good, as the EV is just so overbig it is worth mercantile business with the swings, but I don’t view as ill sit let alone there is that celebrated someone date as well. I hope you all run like Durr in your next Council of Trent.-David Benefield