Vacations woohoooooooo!

I began vacations this past Thursday, I was waiting for this all the summer. On saturday I made a trip to el Yunque, with my girlfriend a friend of her and a friend of mine. Was awesome, el Yunque is a rainforest located in Puerto RIco, at Rio Grande and Luquillo municipalities. It have a lot of rivers, creeks, falls and ponds and
has many beautiful views of nature. When we arrived to Luquillo, we eat some alcapurrias (a typical food from Puerto Rico) in a place called la Poza (which I recommend) There you can seat to eat in front of the beautiful river, here's a photo.

Then we went to el Yunque, to look for a place called Juan Diego Falls, my friend went to that place some years ago, and he told us the place is awesome. So he lead us to the place, where he found a sign which says Quebrada Juan Diego. So we began to walk to the place, where wasn't any trail, we need to climbed a lot of rocks, made some jumps, got inside the water, passed between trees, something hard even for boyscouts hehehe. We do that for like 3 hours and didn't found the place, my friend was frustrated, saying that he didn't remembered that the place was so difficult to reach, my girlfriend, her friend and I, were very tired. In fact my friend thought that there had been a landslide on the place, because he couldn't recall any part of the trail. So we returned to the road, where we parked out and there my friend walked a little more forward and realized that he lead us to a wrong way. The correct path was quite easy to walk and we arrived in 10 minutes to the place. That was so funny... lol

Here some pics of Juan Diego creek and me inside the waterfall.



In poker not a good week, to be sincere the worst week, since I began to play again. I get tilted, so I played in a higher level to get back my money and lost more than a hundred bucks.

What is good about that? I learned a lot...never play on a higher stake, and less if I am tilted. And in addition to that, so things I discovered the hard way from msnl(micro stakes no limit):

Do not call a reraise PreFlop againts a shortstack without cadillac hands (AA,KK,QQ,AKs).
Do not reraise UTG(under the gun) without cadillac hands.
It's good people get a TAG (Tight Agresive) image of me.
I need to keep in mind that if an opponent call a CBET in the flop, he's not bluffing, he had something, so watch out!!!
Do not call any bet at the river, unless I know, I have the nuts, or very sure I had the best hand...

So tired!

This past week, I was so tired, and crazy to begin the weekend. A lot of work and a lot of tennis, and not too much sleep were the causes of getting so tired. On Saturday, I wake up early to go to my last game of the season of the men's league. Our opponents from Caobo, Ponce didn't arrived so we won the game by default, which means that we secure a place on the Adult Sectionals. If we won the sectionals we are going to represent Puerto Rico at the USTA National Championships on US. It's the first time I enter to the sectionals in the men's adult league, so i'm proud of that. In the afternoon I took my girlfriend to the theater to see Transformers(great effects, but the trama, not so nice), then we went to Plaza Carolina to buy a small grill. Yeah a grill, because my brother call me on Friday to invite me to the beach on Sunday, which is a great opportunnity to fulfill my desires of cooking on a grill to make some Pinchos. WTF are pinchos?...For those of you that doesn't know what Pinchos are, here's a pic of me cooking some.



On Sunday, at the beach we had a good day, I made some hotdogs, chicken and churrasco pinchos...hmmmm, I played paletas (paddle ball) with my bro and my grilfriend..., and share a good time with my family and my girlfriend. At the afternoon, I played basketball with my friends and arrive home extremely tire to wakeup early next day...not good.
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I didn't play a lot of poker, because I was so tired all the week, and finished -$5. That's without adding the rakeback which was almost 2 buyins, so it made my stay in with positive numbers for July. So I dedicate the few time I had to read the Theorem of Poker book I expected to finish it this week, also I read a lot on the 2+2 and leggo poker forums. I hope to play more hands this week after starting the vacations.

Federer Won

Extraordinary!!!, that's how I described men's Wimbledon final yesterday. The king of tennis, Roger Federer broke Sampra's record 14 Grand Slam titles won. Roddick played an excellent match, but Federer found the way to win in 5 sets. The last set score was 16-14. The stage was seen by the great champions Borg, Laver, McEnroe, and the Great Pete Sampras. The last three finals of Wimbledon have been excellent matches to watch. Congratulations to Roger Federer for his achievements, is a great athlete, and has dominated the sport of tennis as no other has dominated any other sport. I always thought that the most dominant player in any sport has been Michael Jordan, for their success inside and outside the courts. But look what Jordan has to say about Federer.

If you watched Roger Federer and Andy Roddick's marathon 5th set all the way to the end, then you probably saw this awesome tribute to Federer, which was played immediately after the match. The commercial features some of the all time greats, both in tennis and and other sports, congratulating Federer on his record-breaking 15th Major championship. It's definitely a fitting tribute to one of the greatest athletes of all time.

This past week I get a new internet connection installed, which works extremely fast. Now its easy to play, see videosm browse de internet and have poker sweat sessions. This month I began playing 2300 hands and winning 1 buyin. My goal its to reach $400 in my bankroll at the end of the month. With $330 on my account now I need 14 buyins more, to achieve my goal.

Nice start

June ended on monday, I finished +37.79 with a Bankroll of $322.73. I didn't won a lot of rakeback because I played micros, so was a very small amount. For those who don't know what rakeback is, I explained it in my own words. Every time you won money in a pot, the casino or the online poker site keep a small % of the winnings, that amount is the rake. Rake back is a rebate or a repayment to a player of a portion of the rake paid by that player, normally from a third-party source such as an affiliate. Rakeback is paid in many ways by online poker rooms, many use direct money payments for online poker play. I personally use Rake the Rake (raketherake.com), which makes rakeback deposits to my fulltilt account weekly. Its nice to receive a weekly check just for playing.

In July I hope I could reach $400 hundred on my bankroll. That's equal to 40 buyins, in 10 ssnl, the goal I want to reach to begin playing 10nl. I used the money sent by the Bush administration for economic stimulus to start my bankroll. I deposited $500 bucks, but after ups and downs, as a rookie I get my bankroll down to $283.00. My main goal is to convert this $500 in $1000, just by playing poker. I know I will do it, I am putting a lot of effort to learn the game and be a winning poker player.

Here some of my stats with the 4450 hands played. Make a click on the image to see it bigger.