Operation: $$ accumulation

playing some poker
doing some exercise
sorting some shit
life grind music

Minuit - Lock the Doors, Block the Roads (live) - YouTube

p.s. what's a box vs the best tag-nit etc

$0.10/$0.25 No Limit Holdem
7 Players
Hand Conversion Powered by weaktight.com

Stacks:
UTG ($25.18)
UTG+1 ($9.09)
MP ($23.90)
CO ($38.89)
BTN ($19.65)
daven (SB) ($26.87)
BB ($36.33)

Pre-Flop: ($0.35, 7 players) daven is SB
5 folds, daven raises to $0.75, BB raises to $2.50, daven calls $1.75

Flop: ($5, 2 players)
daven checks, BB bets $2.77, daven raises to $6.30, BB calls $3.53

Turn: ($17.60, 2 players)
daven checks, BB bets $6.77, daven goes all-in $18.07, BB calls $11.30

River: ($53.74, 2 players, 1 all-in)

Final Pot: $53.74
daven shows a full house, Eights full of Queens

BB shows three of a kind, Queens


daven wins $51.74 (net +$24.87)

BB lost $26.87

first time in years i haven't had a couple of years living $$ sitting in the bank, i was saying to a friend a while ago that it would be good to be back to life busto for a while
funny that
life is pretty fucking cool

i'm missing out on seeing dj hype tomorrow, cos i'm off to a festival
DJ Hype - Ready Or Not - Drum N Bass Remix - YouTube

but who cares, cos i'm seeing the mad professor (not doc anger) live in a few days! woot!!!
Mad Professor - A Dub Lesson - YouTube
MAD PROFESSOR - KUNTA KINTE DUB '91 - YouTube

and i get to see minuit live too, cos, they fun
Minuit - Aotearoa - YouTube
and thumping the remix Minuit - Aotearoa (Hexadecimal Mix) - YouTube
and acoustic Minuit - Vampires (Acoustic Encore) (Als Bar 18-04-09) - YouTube

and paul ubana jones = probably my favourite intimate venues musician of the last few years
Paul Ubana Jones " I need a storm" - YouTube
Angel - Paul Ubana Jones - YouTube

and black seeds and etc. Might even get some juggling done.

and thus ends yet another week with not a hand of poker played. Now I'm back in dunedin, my house is still standing and things are looking good. Back to poker tomorrow I guess

Originally Posted by daven

and i get to see minuit live too, cos, they fun
Minuit - Aotearoa - YouTube
and acoustic Minuit - Vampires (Acoustic Encore) (Als Bar 18-04-09) - YouTube

they played both of these - aotearoa obvious way to finish a great set

Originally Posted by daven

Might even get some juggling done.

got some juggling done

ain't poker grand

life is stunning. I've been busy. Drinking more than i have for a while. Nice drinking, no hangovers in sight. Riding again too = nice. And had my first good surf in ages late last week. Loving watching the waves from my new lounge. Eating good food. Spending time with quality people. Psyched where my life is at, where i have been ('most everywhere ), and where i am going.
Poker is fun too, i'm in a nice routine, playing 3-5hrs a day and earning an ok hourly again.
Right now it's sunny out, i've worked my shift for the morning, reported two more collusion cheats (including a high volume 2p2 poster - stars have locked them), and now it's time to go fishing 'cos i want to eat trout for dinner tonight. Ahhhh. Loving it.

and a couple shot of my girlfriend and i drifting at a cocktail party last night, around 2am i guess

daven, just checkin in to say your blog/op has always been a personal favourite of mine, makes me wish I had more time to hang out in IRC (does yourself or anyone still do this, these days) and talk poker. Or at least go outdoors at some point in time.

Originally Posted by daven

now it's time to go fishing 'cos i want to eat trout for dinner tonight.

dinner that night was freshly caught trout, salad freshly made from my garden, potatoes from a friend's garden.

Originally Posted by Penneywize

daven, just checkin in to say your blog/op has always been a personal favourite of mine, makes me wish I had more time to hang out in IRC (does yourself or anyone still do this, these days) and talk poker. Or at least go outdoors at some point in time.

cheers bro. I haven't been in irc much for ages. I got banned/kicked from the cool kids club by bikes cos, who knows and who really cares. IRC has been pretty quiet since black friday, well it was for a while anyway. Getting outside is gold. People spend way too much time inside, and especially in front of computers - it's physically and psychologically damaging. I mean, think about online poker players who list internet and computer gaming as hobbies outside of poker. Think about their physical and mental state, if not now then in five years from now. Likely pretty unhealthy... I'm getting in a bunch of sunshine and outdoor life. Psyched for a cool climbing/hiking/maybe fishing trip with a few friends over easter.

oh, and poker seems to be going ok. Cos that's the point of this blog? right? edit: i'm not sure what my record for consecutive winning sessions is. One day i'd like to hit 20.

easter was an awesome trip - Friday we drove then climbed then camped, saturday drove to the west coast then went hiking to a remote-ish hut that was pretty damn nice. Sunday morning i went out and caught wilderness brown trout for late breakfast, then we headed back out in the afternoon rain. Monday was all about coffee and food and lake swimming. Yet another great break from poker, four of us roadtripping in my little corolla.

poker is all about 6ptBB/100 at stakes from 16nl to 50nl thus far this month. Things are just fine. Need to play more hands though.

i still don't understand merging, but i somehow successfully bet 3rd pair for value vs a reg on a four-flush, four-straight board today

I like it when other people don't understand things that I don't understand.

someone once said:

Originally Posted by wise words

stop being such a fucking nit you fucking loser

or something to that effect.
they had a point.
Full ring up to 100nl the last couple of weeks. Yeah, i know, volume fail etc.

good to see, amigo. keep it up

yet again, it's time for me to remember to be more like the moon...

Originally Posted by tom

The rain clouds have gone. Gambled away their transparent dimes and boxcarred out of town; spent, skinny, ragged, and broke. The moon, always a winner because it knows when to fold, stands on the balcony of the closed casino, looking as though it might light up a cigar. Stars blink at it,as if to say, "As sure as this is Seattle, there'll soon be another batch of big spenders rolling into town from the west." The moon is in no hurry. It wipes its flushed brow with a cirrostratus handkerchief that must have fluttered from some sucker's pocket when he turned it inside out.

yeah, yeah. It's my first time reading that book. etc.

Hi, Daven, I'm back playing. I'll be talkin' to you soon.

...i'm all wrapped up in glass slipper greatness
gonna journey to the moon...

...on the road and nothing
nature tastes dirt smells ocean....

...fire's depths and fascination
burn motherfucker, burn

last 100k hands, a mix of stakes. All Full Ring. I need to look into my preflop calling/limping/completing ranges. Some starting tables and 3-5 handed periods with regs after game-selecting regs left... Highest played in these hands is 100nl. Most volume 25nl and 50nl. Played terribly for about 25k of these hands. This is about the last month in my poker life. Time to up volume and up income. I've had a lot of cool days with no poker thus far in april...

i finally hit a stars milestone hand

Originally Posted by stars

Players dealt into a milestone hand win a cash prize of $60 for every VIP Player Point (VPP) they earned in the previous 50 hands played on that table. All players dealt in will also receive a base prize of $20, and any player that wins a portion of the main pot will get their prize doubled!

• Dealt into Milestone Hand: (# of VPPs in previous 50 hands x $60) + $20 = Cash Prize
• Win Milestone Hand: (# of VPPs in previous 50 hands x $60 + $20) x 2 = Cash Prize

Note: The 300 regular Milestone Hands will begin with hand number 79,700,000,000 and end with hand 79,999,000,000.

utg obviously open shoved for 150bb, 3 players wtf folded?!?!!? including a reg who was only 100bb deep and had been at the table a few orbits, then the rest of us lfdo went all in. Two pair on the flop looked good, a shame the river wasn't a blank though cos a blank river was worth another $1000 or so to me... definitely not complaining though, cheers for the nice little bonus stars!

Originally Posted by daven

i finally hit a stars milestone hand



utg obviously open shoved for 150bb, 3 players wtf folded?!?!!? including a reg who was only 100bb deep and had been at the table a few orbits, then the rest of us lfdo went all in. Two pair on the flop looked good, a shame the river wasn't a blank though cos a blank river was worth another $1000 or so to me... definitely not complaining though, cheers for the nice little bonus stars!

nh daven!!

the deep ante games are interesting, dunno why i didn't spend much time on them before. There is a whole bunch of interesting bet-sizing/action stuff that i've figured out during studying ante games, and now that is all spilling over into normal 100bb tables. Time to move up on the ante tables i guess, both regs and fish seem to get very confused playing against my style. Style is loose and fish cos i am fish and cos everyone else is just as bad on these tables. And once people know that i bluff more than some, well, anything can happen...

A hand from my most recent session, this villain has proven to be particularly adept at folding to my bluffs and calling my value bets...
button in this hand managed the absolute soulread in chat
$0.10/$0.25 Ante $0.05 No Limit Holdem
9 Players
Hand Conversion Powered by weaktight.com

Stacks:
UTG ($35.89)
UTG+1 ($37.99)
MP1 ($32.62)
MP2 ($64.80)
daven (MP3) ($95.64)
CO ($25)
BTN ($62.50)
SB ($29.18)
BB ($50)

Pre-Flop: ($0.80, 9 players) daven is MP3
1 fold, UTG+1 raises to $1, MP1 calls $1, MP2 calls $1, daven raises to $5.60, 4 folds, UTG+1 calls $4.60, MP1 calls $4.60, MP2 calls $4.60

Flop: ($23.20, 4 players)
UTG+1 checks, MP1 checks, MP2 checks, daven bets $9.70, UTG+1 folds, MP1 folds, MP2 calls $9.70

Turn: ($42.60, 2 players)
MP2 checks, daven bets $74, BTN says "ha ha idiot", MP2 goes all-in $49.45

River: ($141.50, 2 players, 1 all-in)

Final Pot: $141.50
MP2 shows two pair, Sevens and Fours

daven shows two pair, Aces and Sevens


daven wins $164.05 (net +$74.70)

UTG+1 lost $5.65
MP1 lost $5.65
MP2 lost $64.80


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for completeness, summary copy of my april results from the bc thread

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I withdrew $2500 from the poker economy last month. That was pretty much all of my profits before feeps and luckbox bonus. I still don't have 250k fpps, so no bonuses for a while yet...

a mix of stakes, some rungood, some runbad, some 1000bb pots, some HU4(%of)RLLZ that went badly, etc.

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Ship ship

yaawn made me appreciate J8s in this thread, specifically:

Originally Posted by Icanhastreebet

wat, (J8s) this a open on some CAP tables, let alone 100 fucking big blinds deep.

so, i took these words to heart and decided to start overplaying J8s every chance i could. Today's deep-ante edition, i mean, KJ is suck a small part of his range, especially cos he can't have KJcc and he almost always has a flush draw:

$0.10/$0.25 Ante $0.05 No Limit Holdem
7 Players
Hand Conversion Powered by weaktight.com

Stacks:
daven (UTG) ($67.21)
UTG+1 ($61.65)
MP ($43.88)
CO ($99.40)
BTN ($36.73)
SB ($66.38)
BB ($107.62)

Pre-Flop: ($0.70, 7 players) daven is UTG
daven raises to $0.60, 4 folds, SB calls $0.50, BB calls $0.35

Flop: ($2.15, 3 players)
SB bets $1.25, BB calls $1.25, daven raises to $3.80, SB calls $2.55, BB folds

Turn: ($11, 2 players)
SB bets $41.50, daven goes all-in $62.76, SB goes all-in $20.43

River: ($134.86, 2 players, 2 all-in)

Final Pot: $134.86
daven shows a straight, Eight to Queen

SB shows two pair, Tens and Nines


daven wins $133.69 (net +$66.48)

SB lost $66.38
BB lost $1.90

That's a really nice hand, Daven. Like your read.

I'd be curious to know villains thought process in that hand.

Originally Posted by Icanhastreebet

I'd be curious to know villains thought process in that hand.

i'm guessing something like 'he probably has AK, imma gonna stack that motherfucker cos i saw him shove one pair earlier'
or 'i has two pair, that's the nuts - but people always suck out on me so overbet!'

yet another climbing weekend done and dusted. Single pitch moderate sport climbing was saturday at this place http://www.queenstownclimbing.com/wp...4712836252.jpg, multipitch big climbing was sunday am, lakeside staunch sport climbing was sunday late arvo. Highlight was pulling the roof on ythe third pitch of 'get up, stand up' at kingston = this place http://www.queenstownclimbing.com/wp...4712449759.jpg. Good times. And yet another night of camping in a good spot with great people. And now i guess it's time to play some more poker...

i've decided to post occasional photos of my house and garden to remind myself what poker has allowed me to buy and to motivate me to keep on grinding so that the bank continues to play a diminishing role in funding where i live

some ghetto garden fence action behind the apple tree

and some checking St Kilda swell from one of the lounges

Awesome Daven! Checked out the roof, the one on the cragg - nice pull. That rock has some features, but not tons of stuff that has juggy holds. Rating?

Thanks for post in my op thread and re-posting in the "thoughts on tilting" thread.

Originally Posted by Robb

Checked out the roof, the one on the cragg - nice pull. That rock has some features, but not tons of stuff that has juggy holds. Rating?

schist surprises in the holds it has
the 3 pitch route with the little roof was 18 or 19, i think that's 5.9 or early 5.10. Not as hard as it might look The route on the hawk wall in the photo is 25, about 5.12b? We did the 23 (11d?) next to it, stellar climbing. Climbed about 18 pitches over the weekend, most were 17-20, I only got on three that were harder = 22-25.
I decided to climb harder, started training yesterday. It will be interesting to see where I end up 3 months from now.

withdrew some $$ to leave me thinly rolled, moved up in stakes, ran bad, time to grind it back...

Originally Posted by daven

withdrew some $$ to leave me thinly rolled, moved up in stakes

Originally Posted by aka_red

i'm sure there's a math or logic error in me withdrawing to a thin online roll, then moving up in stakes - but it's never really been a problem
A friend and I spent the last five days hiking and camping through some big tussock/mountain country. The last couple of days got interesting with snow down to 400m and us up over 1300m. Beat the cold and all is good back home today with the fire keeping the house warm. Fitness = improving. Life = great. Poker = enjoyed yet another week off = just how it should be. Bankroll = healthy enough to play the games i want to play.

p.s. @ redzill4r - i am flattered to note that you are continuing to check my op post-ban and -unban. Lovely, it makes me feel warm inside

Originally Posted by daven

i'm sure there's a math or logic error in me withdrawing to a thin online roll, then moving up in stakes - but it's never really been a problem
A friend and I spent the last five days hiking and camping through some big tussock/mountain country. The last couple of days got interesting with snow down to 400m and us up over 1300m. Beat the cold and all is good back home today with the fire keeping the house warm. Fitness = improving. Life = great. Poker = enjoyed yet another week off = just how it should be. Bankroll = healthy enough to play the games i want to play.

Beat the cold? It's summer.

Oh.

five days walking was nice.
tent:

boot:

walking dry:

walking snow:

Fucking life. Well jell. Big time

time to get some volume on. Days when i'm not doing uber-cool shit i've gotta get some hands in. I mean, this is all sorts of stakes from 10nl to 200nl and wtf i could easily have played twice the hands this year without too much impact on quality of life. Sure, buying a house took time. So has loads of weekends away climbing. But.... treat it more like a job now that it's winter = that's the plan...
graph is 2012 nlhe on the main site.

lol 88<KTo flop 4b allin DEEP on K89tt
games are good
now run better please, kthx.
would have been a + 15bi day so far if that hand had played out a little differently. Still doing alright i guess.

paid 6bi in rake in the day too, guess i get some of that back, but still, wtf!

Originally Posted by daven

paid 6bi in rake in the day too, guess i get some of that back, but still, wtf!

How many hands, and how many hours?

Went climbing yesterday, with a bunch of non-climbers, so nothing epic, just 5.8's with (for me) setups and tear downs. And an hour's hike up and back down. A day you would enjoy, I'd guess.

Originally Posted by Robb

How many hands, and how many hours?

biggest poker day in ages, 7k hands over 8hrs spread over 4 sessions. 5k hands is usually big for me. I typically average about 4hrs a day, 5 days a week.

Originally Posted by Robb

Went climbing yesterday, with a bunch of non-climbers, so nothing epic, just 5.8's with (for me) setups and tear downs. And an hour's hike up and back down. A day you would enjoy, I'd guess.

sounds like a heaps fun way to spend a day.An hour walk in has got to get you warm..

Wikipedia Yonah Mountain

About 20 miles from the house - love that place. Second picture with lake in foreground shows the hike in. The parking lot is about 200 yards from the lake. 1400 foot elevation change over 2.5 miles.

The main face you see in the photos at the top is 200 - 250 feet high by nearly half a mile wide, with over 100 routes from 1 to 3 pitches, and grades from baby-beginner to 5.12. Sport, trad and easy top-ropping in roughly equal quantities. There are four other crags on the mountain with anywhere from half a dozen to two dozen routes. Mostly friction slabs, but some cracks, overhangs, flakes and dihedrals too. And because it's one flat, massive wall of granite, most routes offer several variations.

When the kids get older, we're gonna climb every damn pitch on that mountain! That's why I gotta get more fit. My 8-year-old daughter has already climbed 3 or 4 of the 1-pitch beginner routes, and the boys climb part way up until their fear of heights kicks in. None of them complain about the 5 miles of hiking, so that's pretty awesome.

fingers crossed i get an entry into this
http://www.keplerchallenge.co.nz/

tapering could be an issue, cos i'm expecting to be in thailand for a lot of november, but i'll sort it out somehow

yonah looks nice!

mostly mixing 25nl and 50nl at the moment. Up 50 buyins at the tables. I've played on half of the days in may so far. That's about appropriate, 2-6 hrs/day, 3-4 days/week. The most amusing hand of late was this one. I mean, he's ahead the whole way some of the time, but probably not often enough to keep calling

$0.10/$0.25 No Limit Holdem
8 Players
Hand Conversion Powered by weaktight.com

Stacks:
UTG ($10)
UTG+1 ($23.67)
MP1 ($29.58)
MP2 ($26.78)
CO ($7)
BTN ($32.98)
SB ($18.91)
daven (BB) ($26.06)

Pre-Flop: ($0.35, 8 players) daven is BB
1 fold, UTG+1 calls $0.25, 1 fold, MP2 calls $0.25, 1 fold, BTN raises to $0.75, 1 fold, daven raises to $2.80, UTG+1 calls $2.55, MP2 folds, BTN calls $2.05

Flop: ($8.75, 3 players)
daven bets $3.90, UTG+1 calls $3.90, BTN folds

Turn: ($16.55, 2 players)
daven bets $11.85, UTG+1 calls $11.85

River: ($40.25, 2 players)
daven goes all-in $7.51, UTG+1 goes all-in $5.12

Final Pot: $50.49
daven shows a pair of Aces

UTG+1 shows high card Ace


daven wins $50.88 (net +$24.82)

UTG+1 lost $23.67
MP2 lost $0.25
BTN lost $2.80

the least amusing hand i'm not going to bother posting. Suffice to say it involved holding pocket aces vs an unknown with less than 20 hands in a 4b pot, very very deep stacks even by ante table standards, and a set. Razvan probably could have got away from it, cos he treats unknowns differently than i do...

and a nice hand, one that i just like cos it's pretty and standard and it's nice to be dealt aces, play uber-standard abc poker and actually win from time to time. Cheers shortie.

$0.10/$0.25 No Limit Holdem
8 Players
Hand Conversion Powered by weaktight.com

Stacks:
UTG ($9.49)
UTG+1 ($12.89)
daven (MP1) ($31.48)
MP2 ($13.53)
CO ($24.64)
BTN ($21.04)
SB ($25)
BB ($31.55)

Pre-Flop: ($0.35, 8 players) daven is MP1
1 fold, UTG+1 calls $0.25, daven raises to $1.10, 1 fold, CO calls $1.10, 3 folds, UTG+1 raises to $3.50, daven calls $2.40, CO goes all-in $24.64, UTG+1 goes all-in $9.39, daven calls $21.14

Flop: ($62.52, 3 players, 2 all-in)

Turn: ($62.52, 3 players, 2 all-in)

River: ($62.52, 3 players, 2 all-in)

Final Pot: $62.52
UTG+1 shows

daven shows two pair, Aces and Sixes

CO shows


daven wins $60.52 (net +$35.88)

UTG+1 lost $12.89
CO lost $24.64

treat it more like a job now that it's winter

Actually had to think about this one for a minute. It's been a long week.

i've been involved in what seems to be a lot of 300bb-1000bb pots the last few days...
also., today is the first time i've played at a weekend in quite a while
ahhh, coincidence

Originally Posted by supa

Actually had to think about this one for a minute. It's been a long week.

summertime
for you guys is when our birds fly north yo

and some more aces
a little bit deep vs reggish wannabe lag, obviously we have big history which may make his play less awful than it may seem? probably still pretty awful though. There's some mad preflop dynamic and sizing at this table for all sorts of reasons, i'd probably 9x aces in his spot in this session

$0.10/$0.25 Ante $0.05 No Limit Holdem
9 Players
Hand Conversion Powered by weaktight.com

Stacks:
UTG ($27.07)
UTG+1 ($108.19)
MP1 ($47.81)
daven (MP2) ($84.14)
MP3 ($55.78)
CO ($44.29)
BTN ($62.50)
SB ($83.03)
BB ($107.17)

Pre-Flop: ($0.80, 9 players) daven is MP2
1 fold, BTN says "superdonk strikes again", UTG+1 raises to $3.25, 1 fold, BTN says "runing like aids", daven raises to $10, 5 folds, UTG+1 raises to $17.50, daven goes all-in $84.09, UTG+1 calls $66.59

Flop: ($168.98, 2 players, 1 all-in)

Turn: ($168.98, 2 players, 1 all-in)

River: ($168.98, 2 players, 1 all-in)

Final Pot: $168.98
UTG+1 shows two pair, Kings and Sixes

daven shows two pair, Aces and Kings


daven wins $166.98 (net +$82.84)

UTG+1 lost $84.14

Are you superdonk? NH brah

Originally Posted by kickass

Are you superdonk? NH brah

apparently so

i decided to play another long session
of various games/stakes
interesting times

so far i'm up more bb than last month, and at a higher average stake (lowest games played = 25nl, but that's also where i've played most hands this month, and don't think i'll change that before month=end). I was still hoping for 100bi table profits a few days ago, but that -11bi dumpswing has made that unlikely now. I'm still saving my fpps...

so i went nato on volume the last few days cos i wanted to hit 100buyins for the month. Instead i just started playing loads of hands at c-game.

here's a graph.

i started today's session with a roll of about 38 buyins for the stake i was playing. At some point i was 16-tabling, 7 deep ante and the rest 100bb tables plus on a couple of waitlists. A seat came up at one of the tables, i clicked to take it, only to get a message that i did not have enough available funds to sit. Minor concern, but a quick check showed that the session had been profitable up until that point. My average stack across all my tables? +/- 300bb. Poker is weird. Guess i need to start rolling deeper if i'm going to get involved in so many big pots...

The volume alone makes that graph sexy, the green line is just the icing on the cake. wp

poker
june has been a poker train-wreck. Losing at the tables at -1BB/100. Running like shit. If i miss another 21-outer or run into another turned set or lose another pot with aces after 3, 4, and 5 bets preflop... etc. moan. moan. boring

life
Oh well, better to bank my rungood for real life events rather than using it all up on internet poker. I managed to retard myself on my bike the other day, i was confused as i was flying over the handlebars towards tarmac, and further confounded when the bike landed on top of me. I got lucky, some bruises and that's about all.

I cashed some feeps and withdrew a chunk of change a little earlier this month than i was planning. Drank some nice booze. Ate some good food. Bought tickets for a trip to thailand later this year. Etc. Things are fine

poker
all this runbad has meant splashing even more than normal at the tables trying to 'win it back fast'. 27% vpip for the month with an average of over 7 players at the table for all those hands. pfr over 20. It's fullring bro. wtf. moan. moan. boring Yeah, that's an idea. Boring. Imma gonna be a nit. Fold J9s utg, not auto-squeeze every button (button pfr approaching 30%, 3b up to 7%), not auto-defend my blinds (sb is breakeven this month, bb is -9BB). It means i'll have good cards once in a while when i see a flop. I mean, it's not like anyone ever folds anymore when they have middle pair or whatever cos middle pair pretty much always becomes a set or trips. Blah. Nittery. Cool. It's like a resolution.

life
And then after a week of nit imma gonna have a week of no poker whatsoever cos there are fun things to be done. Fuck yeah.

keep on truckin' man

Grateful Dead - Truckin' - YouTube