Mladen Kekic

I was angry yesterday. I’m really glad that none of my friends watched the game with me because I threw a fit. When the Seahawks are doing bad or losing a game I am sort of an evil little kid. Once the game is over I realize that it’s just football and life has to go on. But still every time ,during the game, I show frustration. Yesterday was no different, but now that it’s all over with for the Seahawks, I am relieved and happy.

First of all give credit to the Packers who have done an outstanding job in weather like that, with the youngest team in the NFL, and one of the best Quarterbacks to ever play the game. They were unstoppable and Seattle looked like a High School team against them.

So what am I excited about? Next year.

Seattle has seen a lot of trials this year, especially in the running game. For the last 5 years they have relied on the run and this year it was gone. Good for Hasselback as he got to finally step up and be the type of leader the Seahawks needed. He had his best season in his career and will go into next year prepared like never before. The Defense also was much improved this year and if they keep building on it, it could become a force to be reckoned with. Now to the opportunity. The Running back situation needs to be fixed. God puts trials on people so they can learn from them and grow. Shaun Alexander knows this as well as his team. I am sure that the reason for their running back fluke this year was Gods intention to make Hasselback into a leader (mission accomplished). Now Seattle needs to get a good running back in the first round and the situation will be fixed.

The future looks brighter then ever. I can’t wait for 2008/2009.

So yesterday I played some poker with my friends from work. We had 7 people at my house and it was great. I came in 2nd and won $20 but whats even better then this I was playing the best poker of my life. I was reading people so well and made really good decisions. The feeling I get when I play good poker is the type of feeling I want every day. I would love to play professional poker for a living. That is a dream I have had for years now but the urge to play has never been stronger.

Some people claim that poker is gambling and this is possible. The reason why it’s also not possible is the fact that its a game of playing people not cards. Sure luck is involved sometimes but over a long run a person who knows how to read people and their betting patterns will come out on top more then 75% of the time. Why do you think professional poker players make in the money most of the time. The World Series Of Poker Championship doesn’t give a great example of this. When you have a tournament of 3000 to 4000 people playing, sure luck will have a lot to do with winning this monster. Unfortunately this is what we see on TV most of the time. We don’t get to see the cash games and smaller tournaments the professionals play and dominate. Put the guys who luck out at the big tournament on the same table with 8 pro’s and he will fold like a piece of paper.

This is encouraging to me. Hopefully one day somebody will sponsor me to play a tournament and start doing this on a regular basis. But until then I will have to keep improving my game.

Going to do my push-ups now,

Later