One week to go!

The Seattle Poker Open winter season championship is next week, April 10.

For my prep work, I'm reading some poker books, watching lots of poker, playing lots of poker, and playing poker on my nintendo DS. Basically, practice, practice, practice.

I've been reading books such as Daniel Negreanu's "Hold'em Wisdom for All Players" and "Winner's Guide to Texas Hold'em".  I've been letting the knowledge seep into my brain, but I sincerely doubt that come next week, I'll remember anything I've read. My brain has been so overloaded with information, that I needed a break.


I feel like it's the week before a final exam (in math or science- my worst subjects). But when it comes time to actually take the exam, I won't remember anything I've studied and I'll FAIL everything.

Or, maybe the opposite. Maybe I'll go in there and knock everyone out and win the championship. It's my life goal to win a Seattle Poker Open championship. Who knows, maybe this season is my season. But I doubt that. I played exceptionally well on Tuesday and Wednesday, the last week of the season. I need to get more consistent if I have a shot of winning the Big Prize.

Today is the first day I haven't done anything poker-related. I had to work, and I came home and made tacos and had one of my best friends, Sarah, over for dinner and some episodes of The Office. Then we started watching "The Ten Commandments" on television. This was one of my dad's favorite movies. Every year at Easter, he would make us watch at least part of it. He wasn't particularly religious, but with a movie as epic as this one, you learn to get into it.



Sarah and I are ridiculously into old movies. So we started watching this one, and now she wants to watch it from the beginning.



My brain hurts. I think I'll watch "The Office" and eat lots of Oreos to take my stress away.