March Madness..."Butterfly Effect"

At the Beau right now getting ready to fire some bullets at the Mega's today to get in the Main Event. Feeling really good right now since UNC won...and me and my uncle took down $1600.00 ($800.00) each. It was a tough day yesterday as I wanted to be smart and maybe bet the other way with the bookie and have a 7.5 point window to scoop both sides. I spoke to about 10 people yesterday to see what their thoughts were, and I got kind of spooked in the pre-game when I saw that hometown crowd. I got the best advise from my buddy Al "Big Al" Clement who told me, "T-mac (I can't even get into why thats my nickname), Dude...you got the best of it and I'm telling you that UNC is going to cover...and it might be ugly...I watched the game where UNC beat them by 30 points and I am telling you...your good...Those boys cant play with UNC"...and so we have it.

I have been playing here at the Beau and I have been sustaining...not winning or losing. I win $200.00 in the cash game...burn it on a tourney/satellites. The nooner event I played in last Friday is where the "Butterfly Effect" comes into play. There are so many variables that happen in poker that can go either/or ...that you can't let things outside of the actual game itself tilt you. I am told by my wife that I am too hard on myself, but I guess I just have a low tolerance of stupidity...especially from me.

So...I am heading to play the nooner on Friday and I am a little late (Go Figure), and as I am walking up to the escalators, I see a kid I play with from New Orleans. We start chatting up the escalator and I am about 5 steps up from him. I get to the buy-in line and forgot to pick up the $40.00 for juice in casino chips (My Fault). We wish each other luck and I head downstairs for chips as he registers...where I would have been. I get back upstairs and register...get to my table. Im in the 10 seat and the kid is in the 9 seat...they just seated us as we signed in...no random drawing here when your late...the kid commences to flop nuts...after nuts...busts 2 people at our table...cripples 2 more...and is one of the chip leaders at the first break.

Anyhow...I was card dead and got out played in my small ball strategy. The kid is a good guy...hope he did well as it wasn't his fault. I was not that tilted by this, but what tilted me even more was that I won a satellite to get into this event ...that morning. We finished at 10:45am. I knew I was going to play in the nooner...why not just go and buy-in and get in the random draw...SSiighhhhhh...oh well. My point is that there are so many small things that can make you aggravated when you think you could have done something more logical.

Clarification...Got some feedback on my previous post from a couple of emailers. They both pointed out to me that even if the Videos are staged...that the goal of the site is a "Training Site"...so if there is knowledge to be had...then it is a good thing...that people can still "Learn" from them...point taken

Im going to take a page from Monk/Reid and post some random thoughts here:

-Why does the beau use 5 digits for their room numbers? I mean come on...im on the 9th floor and my room # is 09035...if i was on the 12th floor it would be 12035. Why not just 935 or 1235? (You can probably tell that I have forgot what room we were in more than once)

-Random bumper sticker I saw
"If you haven't been to Iraq or Afghanistan...then SHUT UP ABOUT IT"

-Tattoo seen on the inside arm of a UNC player "Family First"

-I heard a story about a family coming visit Louisiana from Silicone Valley California...and their 6 and 8 year old children had never see butterflies before

-I was asked by a colleague from Dallas what would I do if the economy got so bad that I lost my job and poker dried up...I replied "Nothing...My family will eat and we will survive because when I was young...I was taught to fish, hunt, shrimp, crab, crawfish and farm...and my wife was taught to sew, cook, decorate, work in a garden, pickle homegrown vegetables, raise chickens...and we were both taught how to ride a bike"...he said, "So that's it?"

-I think Huck Seed is one of the best players out there...period

-Anyone with an ego problem that needs to be brought back to "Reality"...go sit in the lobby of Children's Hospital in New Orleans for a couple of hours and just watch

"Trust me, it's paradise. This is where the hungry come to feed. For mine is a generation that circles the globe and searches for something we haven't tried before. So never refuse an invitation, never resist the unfamiliar, never fail to be polite and never outstay the welcome. Just keep your mind open and suck in the experience. And if it hurts, you know what? It's probably worth it" Leo DeCaprio as Richard in "The Beach"