Very nice. Pretty sick life.

Any plans for wsop this year?

Was thinking of hitting it up for several+ days in June...but might just might do the ME now that someone is busy(ier) in June

It's official:



Probably only going to go to Rio for 3-4 days, then to US v. Ghana in Natal and back home this time around. Went in with 2 other people on the ticket requests, so I have have 2 tickets to all 3 games. Booking the flight to Rio with miles, and gonna sell the 5 extra tix at market to pay for the trip (Rio is gonna be expensive as ****).

Have no ****ing idea how someone could legitimately score on 3 separate ticket requests for those highly-demanded US games. Unless FIFA's internal processes are screwy, and b/c I won tix on the 1st one, somehow the system auto-gifted be the other 2. Which, given FIFA's less-than-stellar-performance in operation these types of things, seems somehow more likely than hitting a 1-in-1,000+ or whatever the odds of getting tix to all 3 was.

And they'll ship the tickets to your home pre-WC for the first time, so you figure every ticket broker with Passport friends was putting in requests as well.

Woulda been nice to bink the SM or ME, but this will do

Super jelly. Hope you have a blast.

I mean those tix are cool and all, but it's no...

you lucha in your spare time for xtra dough?

WC Ghana be sweet, hf.

^^^ This plus 2 x dobles is gonna be some scary sh**!

Thanks to Marcus/bumpking for organizing another Xolos excursion last night:



They lost 3-0. At least tix vs. the LA Galaxy should be easier to come by in a month.

Oh damn, hit me up next time you go; was really fun the first time.

God damnit. I just read back through this and saw the early jan freeroll which I missed even though I was one of the elite few that would have been allowed 2 guesses.


Edit: Should also mention, looking forward to another epic year from gramps. The standing desk is pretty cool and my fat ass should get one (but I'm lazy so I won't)

Lotta VPPs in that pic.

I think there's only been one other pic with more VPPs in it...

Can we get names to go with the faces. Im not sure I know which you are, certainly can't tell by the gramps moniker.

There were no Xolos goals, and no innocent women and children to drench with beer, so you picked the right game to skip Definitely going to try to go on March 18th vs. the Galaxy, let's hit that up. Sat in Gen Admin this time, was actually a better vantage point in some ways.

Let's just say you would have guessed really high and been way off?

That's what...um....there's a joke in there somewhere. There were two questionable-judgement gringo guys wearing Stars watches in Tijuana all night.

Is it wrong to feel upset for not being in that picture?

I'm on the far left with the goofy expression, bumpking on the far right. Octavian_C next to me, and a dude named Kyle who I started talking about the Seattle Sounders with...until we realized we met briefly 6 months ago in Rosa and had had the exact same convo progression, lol. It was an amalgamation of about a dozen loosely-associated people and ended up being pretty fun times.

Freeroll update - Have just passed the 2k game mark. The 9-mans are progressing about as I figured.



180s/MTTs on the other hand....



Which makes the total



Lol variance. Only takes one bink to make it interesting, at least.

Normal games are going pretty well. The gap b/n red and green is a relatively "small" swing in the 500s pretty much, lol.

Alright I suppose I can live with that

MS Paint skills finally rival your redline skills.

dat red line... wow

Just posting to bring some rungood for you in the upcoming Micro-Millions. Let's bink a few juicy ones, eh!

Seriously though, run better in those $500s...

Don't jinx it, I have a proven track record of finally learning how to use simple software, only to forget again later down the line

For whatever reason my games were better the first few months of the year (on average) than they really should have been. Sometimes they're just gross when it's normally a good time to grind, and vice-versa.

One truth in Stars hypers that we all know too well is they tend to get uber-ugly sooner rather than later. Hopefully that sooner doesn't come right away

If I hadn't slept 12+ hours last night after doing a Century & battling traffic 5+ hours getting back home, I might have been up in time to do another Sunday grind. Looking forward to playing some more <$10 MTTs with 5 figures up top, fo' sho'.

Probably not going to finish the 5,000 <$10 games til later in April. I think I'll keep the slower pace until I get >4k games, then will just crank it out at the end.

TR on the century ride?

Surived Very nice scenic course starting from Solvang, many of the back roads had been recently re-paved and were in phenomenal shape, and some of the climbs that looked a bit long/scary on the map turned out to just be very gentle uphills.

Was starting the ride with 4 other friends. I'm probably the least-experienced on the bike and didn't really expect to hang if people were gonna get chippy. Even if people say they're going to "chill," that just doesn't happen to 5/5 ex-competitive runners once other riders start passing, etc. Fortunately we stayed together for a decent-enough portion, and regrouped every 15-20 miles at the aid stations. Getting to ride with 1+ friends for the vast majority definitely made things >>> easier.

Total riding time was just under 6 hours (a lot faster than this old man thought he'd do). As the course got more and more spread out towards the end, you just kind of start following people ahead at turns instead of looking for the orange arrows on the pavement (marking the intersections). It was me and one other friend hanging on towards the end, we kind of followed one rider ~100 yards up ahead, came to a major traffic intersection....and realized we were a couple hundred yards from the finish, even though we were supposed to have close to 2 miles left

Dude's like, "I wanted to take a shortcut to where my car is parked, I'm ready to be done for the day." Lol. Still rode 100 miles technically with total riding.

Only had one major issue going up a hill at mile 85. Had been taking a bunch of Gu packs, liquid, food, etc., but had just passed the last aid station and realized I was down to one Gu pack, hoping to save it for > mile 90. Then both my quads started twitching pretty hard, while going up the last long hill. *Mad scramble in jersey pockets to locate/intake sugar before having to stop/lose momentum*. Had to get a bit conservative towards the end, but fortunately no more cramping or bonking.

Got a meal, hopped in the car all dirty & smelly, and battled LA+ traffic back to SD for 5+ hours. Was buzzing like a mother****er on that natural high, at least.

Body is tripping a bit today (it wants balanced amounts of food constantly throughout the day), but legs, etc. feel good. Will hopefully get to go for a run tomorrow.