RPM Poker Blog - threatnasty

Hey guys. I’m sorry I’m such a hack when it comes to Blogging. I know I’ve promised before, but I’m really going to try and blog more frequently. I think I could benefit from a little semi-meaningful reflection on life.

I just got back from Los Angeles where I was visiting Brainwash during my spring break from law school. Yellowsub86 and BarbTail also flew out to LA, and we had quite the time. Brain, Sub, and I all busted the LAPC 10k on the first day, so we had plenty of time to #WIN. We decided to immediately start #winning by doing what any intelligent group of college aged guys would do and went straight to Tijuana. Many cervezas were consumed. To Steve’s dismay, we never found a donkey show; however, a good time was had by all.

San Diego was awesome except for the fact that Steve and I couldn’t hold down any grub/drink due to the water in Tijuana. Steve kinda deserved it b/c he was ordering Vodka Water’s at the club in TJ. Not exactly sure how I got avenged by Montezuma, but he got my ass too (probably the tequilla/yellow-water mix they force down your throat everywhere you go in the entire city). Anyways, we went to Taco Tuesday and hit up the Pacific Beach bar scene. Late night attempts to breach the pool security were offset by an angry on-site hotel manager who did not think Brainwash should be running around in the buff. #Winning

After a couple nights of partying and shuffleboard gambling, we headed back up to LA. We capped the party off with a day at Disneyland which was awesome. Then we had dinner in Laguna Beach with one of my best friends from highschool who lives out in LA. Sub was on an epic life heater so after a little prodding, he agreed to treat us to the Lakers game at the Staple Center for our last night. Brain’s birthday was the following day, so we were going to hit up Hollywood during the day, go to the Lakers game, and then find a club to party at for a little while afterwards. Turns out the most economical way to do the whole thing was to buy a box (#winning). So Sub split a box with a handful of other hsmtt regulars and we had quite the time of it. Then we hit up a club called Las Palmas. Since we were celebrating Brain’s birthday, it was fitting that he passed out in the cab on the way back from the Lakers game and never made it out (#winning). We had a good time. It was an interesting crowd. I was asked by multiple people why we had chosen this particular club (apparently we were the only four white people that had been to the club in years or something). It was awesome.

Then, the next morning, we woke up at about 11:30 and decided to dikk around for a while b/c Matt reassured us that we had plenty of time before our 1:51 p.m. flight out of Santa Anna. Everyone showered. We watched an msnbc special on charlie sheen. Matt drove us through Beverly Hills and showed us some of UCLA campus (which is gorgeous btw). Anyways, we got to the airport and it was too late to print our boarding passes. Somehow we schmoozed the lady into overriding the system and then ran to our gate. We made it to the airport at like 1:37 and somehow still got on the plane (#winning).

I’ll update again soon.

-threat

hey guys,

so the summer was kinda crazy.  i played mtt’s pretty full time, but i also took a couple law school classes (constitutional law and professional responsibility).  actual classes ended on July 6 and i had 2 exams, 1 that could be taken any time up to the 20th, and another on July 20th.

when i saw this huge gap, i immediately decided that i was going to fly out to vegas and play the main event.  i obviously wanted to be out there the entire summer, but I also wanted to get a little ahead for my 2nd year of law school so that i can hopefully take a lighter load and get an internship in the spring (since i am a little behind the 8-ball on that so far).

anyways, it seemed perfect as i told myself that if i made it like 4 days, then I’d be itm, and if i made it far enough to mess up my studying, that i’d be making a bunch of money (and i guess studying my arse off at night between days?)

i knew there were days off (media day, day 2a/b, etc.), but I figured i could just study during the off days (yeah right).  anyways i made it thru the first 2 days with the starting stack essentially.  on day 3, i got seated at a super soft table and ran my stack up to 300k with essentially 0 showdowns (after i doubled with top pair to a fd).

day 4 restarted at 1200/2400 (i think) so i was sitting pretty (mind you this is actually the 7th day i’ve been in vegas b/c of the various days off).  i did some initial research on my table and realized that it was going to be a tougher day.  everyone was either an internet pro or a live pro with multiple scores.  i decided to play it pretty snug and basically ran AK into AA twice, lost 66 to 97, got value-bluffed out of a huge pot by 66 (where i had AK again), and then 4b jammed AQ in a slam dunk spot only to be called by AA <70 off the money.

so it was now like July 15 and i had to get home and study.  i booked the first flight out of vegas (slightly tilted b/c in terms of $/study ratio, i did as poorly as imagineable), i napped for like 6 hours after my redeye, and then started studying like mad.

i guess sometimes it helps to have a little fire under your butt, cuz i did remarkably well on both my exams considering the circumstances.  i was really worried about how poorly i might have done (conlaw was a miserable 8 hr experience), but now that i have my grades back, the whole situation is pretty funny.  silly me to put myself in that spot.

since the wsop/finals fiasco, i’ve made some pretty deep runs in stuff.  i won the sunday 2nd chance which was pretty fun, and i got like 14th in the ftops 300r after i made a play that i thought was solid considering the range of hands that i could have in my opponent’s spot.  the problem was, his range was different (oops).

i’m really looking forward to UBOC, WCOOP, and my 2L year.  we started classes today, and it’s actually pretty nice to see everyone again.  i have a decently light schedule, and i look forward to enjoying a year that will hopefully be alot less stressful than the first one.

tdomeski just moved in next door to me, so i’m pretty pumped about that.  since he moved in, he’s won the 163 on ftp 2ce and the nightly on stars 1ce.  it’s fun to have a friend to grind/tilt with, and i’m really proud of him for grinding out tourneys, and so successfully (he used to primarily play hu plo/nlhe).  plus, his gf katy and mine, kathryn really enjoy hanging out, so i’m looking forward to some fun times in atlanta (outside of the standard buckhead bar scene potentially).

anyways, that’s about it for now.  i’ll try to update more frequently!

-brett

I’ve been pretty busy trying to balance school, poker, and life.  This semester, our workload was increased a bit as we are taking an extra 3 hr class, Criminal Law.  With this extra class, my workload is heavily weighted to the early part of the week.  My Mondays-Wednesdays are jam packed with class and reading.  This means my weekend activities have suffered very little, but I need to do a better job of taking advantage of some free time later in the week to try and get ahead (since very little gets done on Sunday).

I haven’t reported about my UBOC score.  In the Main Event, I ran extremely well and got 3rd place for ~$115k.  This is by far my biggest score.  It comes after a ton of really deep runs but no closes.  I eventually lost KQ to 99 3 handed for a very good shot at winning the tournament.  Congrats to DoubleDave22 and SUPERMODL who got 1 and 2.  Another player at the table was a guy WAWA7171 who i apparently met at PCA and bought a buncha drinks for at a fun late nite 2/4 game.  He was a great guy, and congrats to him as well.

I just booked my flight to San Jose, CA for Bay 101.  I’ll play Day 1b on March 9, 2010.  I’m meeting Brainwash there, and it should be a good time.  I’ll be missing Spring Break with all of my friends from school, so that’s a bummer, but it’ll be okay when i win the tournament. =)

Gabe and I hosted a Super Bowl party and did a $2 Superbowl squares.  I ended up buying out all the extra squares during the first quarter.  Kathryn won the first quarter, and then I swept halftime thru final.  It was a good time, but I really wish they would make a National Day after Super Bowl Holiday or something so that we could’ve celebrated properly.  We made some interesting bets (small amounts).  Noteworthy props we hit were: Orange Gatorade Dumped On Winning Coach, Sants Win and Stock Market Goes Down Next Day, and First Challenge is Overturned.  A good time was had by all.  Best food provided award goes out to Simsy Clause for his Cupcakes, with an honorable last place mention to Goochie’s buffalo chicken dip.

I’m looking forward to the Start of FTOPs, but I may have limited ability to play.  We are pretty competitive in the Intramural basketball league, and we are scheduled to have 3 games this week, and then a tournament throught next week.  Somehow, I’m sure i’ll figure out a way to get in some tournaments.

Thanks for Reading, I’ll update soon.  Also, I’ve been playing a ton on RPM.  Come play with me!!  The games are great and the VIP rewards program is very competitive.

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Hey guys. So, it was a crazy week. We celebrated 4 birthdays, UBOC started, I wrote a P5’s article for my buddy over there, David Huber. Generally, I’ve gotten very little sleep, and poker’s been very mean to me. Today i Got 300th in the PS warm-up (lost my last two flips), 100th in the FTP brawl (lost JJ to KJ and then AQ KT or something stupid), 19th in the PS 100r (lost AQ to JJ and then AQ to KT for an FT stack), and 63rd in the $2.5k UBOC event.

It was a really rough day, and I’m going to have another rough week trying to keep up with my readings. I’m excited to celebrate some more birthdays this week while balancing the FTP double guarantees, the PS blogger series, and the end of UBOC.

Here’s my article, if you missed it:
http://www.pocketfives.com/poker-articles/the-2010-uboc-a-tournament-grinder-s-perspective-5124331

I just realized one of the perks of blogging frequently. I received an e-mail from Pokerstars inviting me to play in the World Blogger Championship of online poker.

I have registered to play in the PokerStars World Blogger Championship of Online Poker! The WBCOOP is a free online Poker tournament open to all Bloggers, so register on WBCOOP to play.

Registration code: 533465

I need to update with a PCA trip report. I’ll try to do that tonight.

Hey guys, Sorry it’s been a while.  Just wanted to make a short post.  For a while, I was dealing with well known hacker Stevdapimp, aka Stephen Coleman of Charleston, West Virginia.  He got access to a bunch of my accounts, namely AIM, pokerstars, and briefly gmail.  It was a huge deal, and I didn’t get much help from any authorities, but I have all of my accounts secured, and I hope that it’s generally behind me.

I had my first law school exam today, Contracts I.  It was a complete doozie, but it’s over.  3 more in the next week.  Then I should be putting in massive volume and generally pwning souls for the next 31 days during our winter break.  Looking forward to winning my PCA seat and spending a week in paradise with all of the poker pplz.  I’ll post more soon!

I’ve been so bad about updating my blog since law school started.  I’ve been so busy trying to balance all the work with a reduced online schedule and a generally maintained party life =).  The huge difference in law school life has been the strict schedule we keep.  Our classes are set up to get us to school by 9 a.m. every day.  This requires me to wake up like a real person at like 7 a.m. daily, which I hadn’t done since highschool.  School occupies the day through like 2:30 p.m., and I generally like to get in a workout or some basketball after class.  Even if I were focused enough to go knock out the next day’s reading in the library, I’m just not mentally strong enough to go for that many hours straight.  Anyways, after my workout, I’ll head home on Marta, the public transit (plenty of stories coming), and I get home around 6:30 p.m.  I usually try to get some reading done, and if I don’t have too much to do before the next day, I”ll fire up the 8 p.m. tourneys and play through the 9 p.m.’s (standard 163 ftp, 100r PS, 100turbo, and 162 nightly, with occasional 1k if i’m feeling cheddary).  Adding a little poker to the load doesn’t seem to add much additional stress;  however, I didn’t get much sleep during WCOOP.  I definitely bubbled the 5k at 4:30 a.m. with AA, bubbled the 1k day 2 with AK to AQ, and got 23rd in the 215 WU wcoop with KK to gboro’s AQ.  I’ve been getting 16th in every 100r on the internet.  I’m happy with how I’m playing, but generally upset with the late hours I’ve been playing since I haven’t had any good results, and I’m perpetually tired since i basically just don’t sleep.  Gabi even caught me nappin in the library one day.

Alot worse when you get 13th.

Aside from poker, my general life style hasn’t changed a great deal.  Our classes are heavily weighted toward the beginning of the week, and by day’s end Thursday, everyone is generally ready to party.  We have established a precedent of pre-gaming at a local pizza joint called Maddio’s.  Typically, we drink about 32-48 of the $4 pitchers, and then head out to Buckhead.  It’s been getting progressively more excessive (not surprisingly), and this weekend, we almost lost a soldier, theboy222 (pictured here representing yellowsub86 on an important conference call.) 

Gabe Lost His Camry So Sub Picked Him Up In A Limo

After about 5 days, an abandoned LSU trip, a trip to the DMV, 14 hrs on the BOA fraud line, and a tow truck, the Toyota dealership, and a locksmith, Gabe’s life is almost back in order, although I think he’s still working from home just for fun.  I’ll elaboate:  Basically, Gabe, recently took a position with a big software company.  They apparently provide some sort of information system to large corporate clients, but i’m almost certain that their mission statement provides explicitly that employees will be terminated if they do not maintain inebriation for at least 50% of the workweek.  These people never quit.  Anyway, Gabe usually comes to trivia, but this week, he had a third consecutive, mandatory happy hour of the week, with his co-workers.  I went to trivia with all the usual law school suspects.  We have a fairly witty name, “Show me your torts,” and usually come in like 3rd place.  After we imbibed all the beer at the pizza parlor, we headed to Buckhead, where I found Gabe.  Gabe was doing shots with like 3 different parties, and eventually got cut off by the bartender.  Pissed off, and certain that the bartender had no clue, he made some comment suggesting that if he were Lumbo, maybe he couldn’t party, but that he clearly wasn’t Lumbo.  I told him to chill out and that I’d just buy the shots.  he mandated 2 each, and i obliged.  We took the first one, but Gabe wanted to spite the bartender, so we waited until he was looking to take the second.  We were asked to leave the bar, and then shit hit the fan.  I’m a little fuzzy on the facts, but generally maintained myself.  Gabe on the other hand, somewhere between the bar and our house, managed to lose his ignition key, his wallet, and most of his soul.  When we woke up, someone had charged ~$1600 on his debit card before Bank of America froze the account.  He made it to work, in my car, at like 10 a.m., only to take lunch with his co-workers, vomit by noon, and to return immediately home.  Fun night.  Some of the details that remain fuzzy are where we lost Billy, how Gabi (pictured below) fell into a drainage ditch, why I took out $140 from an ATM at 2 a.m., and such.

Thursday Night Trivia

In more uplifting news, I am in the process of settign up my Walk of Hope team.  The Walk of Hope is a fundraiser for the Muscular Dystrophy Association.  It will take place at Zoo Atlanta on Nov. 7, and I’m getting a bunch of generous law students to help me raise some money for the cause.  Our team name is “Bring Back All The Campers,” a response to the administrative changes in MDA policy limiting Camp Walk ‘N Roll to campers under 18.  I hope I don’t make anyone mad!  More on this to come.

I’ll edit in pictures in a bit.

Law school has officially begun as I have completed my 3 day orientation at Georgia State. The orientation was really well done, and I am very excited to begin a new phase of my life. I previously noted that I was still waiting to hear from UGA’s program before deciding where I was going to go. Well, I gave UGA until the end of the week, and I still hadn’t heard from them. During that time, I was thinking about the pros and cons of Athens vs Atlanta and UGA vs GSU. Against the advisement of some friends and family members, I made the decision to go to GSU regardless of the verdict from UGA admissions committee. Atlanta’s a great town, and my room mate situation worked out very well. Gabe and I were looking into a really nice condo (hardwood floors, granite counter tops, jacuzzi, etc.), I wanted to be closer to my girlfriend, Kathryn, and my friends in general (most of whom recently graduated), and I also spoke to some professionals who told me their thoughts on the two programs.

This is Kathryn!

Without getting too detailed, GSU is rising in national rankings, closer to Atlanta law firms, and a really great change of pace, being positioned in the city vs. the NeverNeverLand college town, Athens, where people stay young at heart, and school is set aside for tailgates and general alcohol induced tomfoolery. Being in Athens, living with tdomeski and tbthanx would have have been a great time, but probably not the environment most conducive to law school success and eventual matriculation into the profession. I came into orientation really excited and open-minded, and after day 1, on my way to the car, UGA called me and offered me a spot (lol.) I declined, and told them thanks for considering me, etc. Pretty ironic and typical that as soon as I make up my decision, they insta ship me an offer, but regardless, I think I have made the right decision.

Throughout this whole process, I’ve been homeless, but tomorrow, we are moving in. I’ll put some pictures up after the place is presentable, but it’s a really nice condo, and the location is ideal. I’m so excited to have a home base, to get my grind station set up, and to actually be able to get after some of the assignments that have already been posted for next week. It’s going to be alot of work, but I think I’ll be able to handle it as long as I don’t allow myself to fall behind. I’ve met alot of my classmates, and most of them seem really cool, very similar to myself. I’m looking forward to getting my place in order and having some of them over to hang out. We’re gonna be stressed out together for the next three years, so I figure it’ll be good to have some friendlies to commiserate with.

Lastily, but easily the highlight of the week, I am proud to report that I shipped the $100r turbo on FTP last Sunday. I was all depressed and single tabling, having lost every other tournament for the day, when I looked at down at KK, and a rather large stack(40bb, but big for a turbo). I was facing like 4 raises when I shoved all my chips and was snapped by AA, but for some reason, I actually hit a K, and was quickly the Chipleader by a huge margin. This happened with like 100 people left, and I rode the chiplead all the way to the final table. The final table was stacked with great players, notably Charder30 and Bakes (Bussa Buss), but I won like all my showdowns, including A3o>AA, en route to my biggest score ever!

100r turbo screenshot

I won the tournament b/c I ran well. Immediately after the win, I was obviously really happy. Then I went through a period where I wished it had required some skill, or that I could have showcased alot of good play during my biggest score ever. I quickly realized that I had just won a good yearly salary in 4 hours, and I decided that I didn’t care if I just ran really well to do so =). I’ll update again with pics of the new apartment. Oh, and hopefully a victory story from FTOPS Event 17 (300r). I’m 140/190 atm.

So, my life has been pretty hectic since my last post.  My flight back to Vegas was the same morning as my Day 1 for the Main Event.  Luckily, my morning flight was delayed by about two hours, and I non-challantly strolled into the Main Event in true Phil Helmuth fashion a couple hours late.  It was perfect for my image as all the old men were muttering to one another comments like “what’s 10k” and “online player” and stuff.  Unfortunately, the main event was truly brutal.  Starting with 30,000 chips, I lost a 50k pot, 3b preflop, with AA vs TJ, and had to grind back from there. I made it to day 2 with about 28k.  From there, i grinded it up to like 50k, only to lose an 80k flip. After this, I grinded back up to 25bb’s to get in QQ vs AA.  Fun stuff.

The Main Event wasn’t a complete dickoff.  Afterwards, I spent a few good days by the pool pounding brewskies and lamenting things that could have been with Tdomeski and Profontaine, and we put in some serious time at the clubs with tbthanx and friends.  One thing led to another and eventually we were calling hookers to Clayton’s (clayton27) room between his Main Event day 2 and 3.

When I flew back to Georgia from the Main Event, I basically returned to a full plate of completely tedious tasks.  I wasn’t sure where I was going to law school, I had a pile of bills/mail dating back to May, and by July 27th, I had to have all of my stuff moved out of my house in Athens.  So I spent another 4 or 5 days drinking gin and tonics by the pool and playing golf with S00tedj0kers.  Life was so tough that I didn’t really get around to reading my mail for another week.  When I finally got around to it, I had missed like 4 deadlines pertaining to law school admissions requirements, and generally just created a real mess for myself.

Eventually, I got most of the law school stuff figured out, and then I started packing up my stuff.  I hadn’t heard from UGA Law at the time, so my plan was to go with my backup school, Georgia State, which is located in Atlanta where alot of my friends from UGA are currently located anyways. 

Well, since I had planned it so well, waiting until the day b4 my moveout date to rent a U-Haul, I ended up having to drive to Atlanta to pick up the U-haul, since none were available in Athens.  After a long and miserable day of moving, I finally got all my stuff from my house in Athens to a storage unit in Atlanta thanks to some help in Athens from S00tedj0kers and some help from our buddy Lumbo (previously yellowsub86’s assistant) in Atlanta. 

Me and Lumbo, Minutes b4 we Flipped for $10k w/ Deldar182 to Decide Whether or Not We Would Take Next Flight to Arizona...We Lost

**I’ll have to elaborate on the Deldar Flip later, but essentially, the caption says it all.  I figured that Lumbo deserved a photo introduction, and then when I saw this photo of that night, I had to use it.  This was a friday night in Athens, and the Bulldogs were playing Arizona State Saturday afternoon.  At about 3a.m., we flipped with Deldar for 10k.  If we won, we were going to Arizona.  We lost.  We went to bed.**

I intended to move into an apartment with my good friend Gabe Pirela (theboy222), but then I got a call from the UGA Law admissions department. 

Basically, they’ve asked me to remain on the waiting list about 6 or 7 times since I was originally waitlisted, but never actually accepted me.  And considering law school starts in like a week, I had given up hope and decided to go to GSU.  Obviously, as soon as I got to Atlanta, I get a call asking me to wait for 3 more days (til tomorrow) on a significantly reduced waiting list.  Well since I am completely in love with the University of Georgia, I’m waiting it out to hear from them.  What does this all mean?  Basically I’ve been homeless, hanging out with friends in the Atlanta area and sleeping at my girlfriend’s house.  Without any real office or computer station, it’s been hard to put in any real volume or update my blog, etc.  Apparently, UGA should let me know by tomorrow whether or not I have been accepted, and I can find a place to live for next year if not.  If I am accepted to UGA, it’ll be me, tdomeski, and tbthanx living right down the street from yellowsub86 and chapsmagoo for another year.  I can’t imagine that is too +ev for my law school aspirations.

I’ll update soon with UGA/GSU decision and some other stuff.  I think I’m gonna add some random pics to this one from our Vegas fun during the ME.  Also, if you haven’t heard it yet, check out my podcast at http://www.pocketfives.com/poker-forums/7/podcast-featuring-threatnasty-now-available-4439240.

MDA Camp Walk 'N Roll

The cancellation gave me about a week and a half in Georgia to recooperate from my stay at the Rio. Staying in the hotel for 3 weeks resulted in a lifestyle less healthy than I am accustomed to. That is, after a few days of health consciousness with respect to eating and fitness habits, I quickly lost focus, eating way too many times at the American Grille and making it way too few times into the spa fitness center.

While I wish i could give stories of crazy parties and wild nights, I’d have to argue that my stay in Las Vegas was fairly subdued. Tdomeski was trying to fit as many events in as possible as he was only in Vegas for 10 days, and there just really wasn’t much time until he was gone. This will clearly not be the case when I am joined by tbthanx and stoweski for the Main Event next week. When they get out there, we’ll just get TB to buy some tables, and then maybe even yellowsub will party. and I will definitely include pictures. There were a few memorable nights, and I’ll post those pictures in my next entry. One reason for the lack of party time was that I ran pretty good early in a lot of events, and hence made too many Day 2’s to be out getting inebriated on a regular basis. All in all, I had 4 pretty deep runs which were relatively upsetting given my results. The two deep runs worth talking about resulted in a Day 3 14th place finish and an end of Day 2 22nd place finish.

random club night

**We found a lil time to party when friends from Georgia visited.

The 14th place finish was really upsetting, especially considering that I had convinced myself that I was going to redeem myself from last year’s 13th in Event 49. Everything seemed to be going very well. I won a few pots, and then I lost K5cc to 86 in a standard 10bb shove blind vs blind situation. After this i lost a decently sized 40bb pot when I reshoved a wide opener with KQ and was called by AT. I then proceeded to lose AJ to QJ for the remainder of my chips. I enjoyed playing on day 2 with Stammdogg and gbecks, despite losing A4 to Stamm’s KJ at the end of Day 2. Stamm eventually won the event, and was very happy to congratulate him on his success. He’s a great guy, and really enjoyable to talk to and play with.

The 22nd place Day 2 was a wild one. a $2500 6m event, this one was full of really good players deep, and my Day 2 seating assignment proved to be pretty crazy. All day, I had Seabeast to my direct left with way too many big blinds (100+ for 90% of the time), and he proved to be quite worthy of all the scouting report praise that other players shared with me. To his left was a wild Canadian with blue hair who cold 4bet 4 times within his first 2 levels at our table. This made for some interesting pots, but to be honest, it was a great day of poker with many testing pots that really stimulated my mind and reminded me how fun it can be to play with good players, even if you’re getting owned =).

I eventually shoved 44 on a short big blind stack who called and won a flip vs me with J8. Then I think I lost AK to 88 in a flip situation and eventually called off my tournament in a bvb situation with AJ to Brock Parkers K9 shove (very standard shove on my 11bb’s). He flopped two Kings and turned a 9 en route to his 2nd WSOP bracelet. Again, he is a great dude, and congratulations to him as well for his success this series. He’s been around forever, and it’s great to have some of the good guys do so well.

I’m grinding with ChuckyDuce tonight after a nice workout and a few games of basketball. Feellin great about a weekend with some friends to celebrate the 4th of July, and then I’m back off to Vegas for a Day 1d start on July 6. I’ll update soon with some notable events since I’ve been back in Georgia as well as Prop Bet report from Vegas trip which deserves its own entry imo.

edit** i’m trying out picture adding..might take a few tries