Not much poker

Not much poker played recently, as work demands took precedent. I was up at 4 this morning preparing for trial. Trial prep is always such a weird thing. How much time is enough time to prepare? Can there possibly be "too" much time spent preparing for a trial? You literally cannot prepare for all the possibilities and possible contingencies. Things have been going well lately in that regard. I need to get more jury trials to take myself to the next level, but despite the fact that I have not had a jury trial in a while, I feel like I have been crushing my cases lately. The deals that I have gotten have been too good for my clients to turn down. I like to think that it's due, in part, to my advocacy and my preparation of the cases, but who knows? It may just be that I got lucky enough to string together a few winnable cases. It may just be happenstance.

I did manage to sneak in a HU PLO game this morning and won when I turned the nut flush against his dry Aces. The opponent was German. The people that I hate playing the most are Italians. I have found they don't play straightforward. Seems like they just keep bombing, and bombing, and the one time I catch a piece, they flip over the nuts. Hope to play some games tonight, as I'm done with court for the week. Going out to dim sum tonight with wife and her cousin. Wife is getting more fatigued as the days go on. She felt like shit this morning, but sounds better now. I think we've finally gotten all the baby shit together.

My schedule is a mess between now and mid-August though. I didn't do a good job of clearing up enough time in preparation for the little one. I hope she waits until I get out of court to surprise us.