December sucks; it is just a horrible time to be playing poker. The live games are weak, the online games are weaker and in general everyone is focused on a lot of other things. I get a little stir crazy at these times. Lately I have been playing a bit on (Gulp) Absolute Poker, I know, I know, but they have all deep stack games which is my new passion. Mostly though I am trying to lay low, no real need to mix it up when I don’t believe there is a ton of value. Playing against a bunch of other decent players isn’t my thing.
I was a little disappointed in the Mayweather vs. Hatton fight; Hatton put up a valiant effort but just got beat. He certainly made it a fight and I enjoyed it but when he got knocked out I was upset. After the fight Floyd handled himself well and you could really see that a lot of that pre-fight stuff was mostly to hype the fight. I hope they don’t have a rematch because Ricky can’t beat him. I will be on the lookout for other Hatton fights; he is a really entertaining fighter and the type of guy that you root for and seemingly fearless. I don’t think his style would work against super highly skilled fighters but there really aren’t that many of them boxing these days.
Every other month my wife and I watch my in laws children and they in turn do the same. This was our free month. Since we do it 6 times a year we often go to Vegas for the weekend or something a little out there. Because we will be doing so much traveling soon we decided to just stay home and just relaxed. I spent at least 5 hours of Tivo time ( about 1.5 hours real time) watching stupid reality TV shows. I just couldn’t help myself, the first show was a “Keeping up with the Kardashian’s” marathon. Why the hell Bruce Jenner is on the show I have no idea but he seems like the only normal one. I’ll never waste my time with that again, mostly because the reason you watch the show is to see a lot of Kim Kardashian, which you do not really get to do. When I was a kid I was a HUGE Run-DMC fan, even today my youngest daughter walks around the house singing “Mary Mary, why you buggin”, they have an aunt Mary and it is one of the funniest things you will ever see. I did like “Run’s House” a bit more but what occurs to you as you watch all of this stuff is that these people are selling out there family to stay relevant. Run-DMC was like the Rolling Stone’s of rap, it sort of takes away from their persona when Rev. Run is walking around in his robe doing Fat Albert impersonations. Mostly I think what people see from these shows is the celebrities don’t appreciate the gifts that there families have been given. There is no way that these guys are being paid enough money to embarrass themselves; yet that is what they are doing.
That said, I have Snoop Dogg’s “Fatherhood” taped and I am going to watch this trainwreck.