Next year I will be a 5th year Senior and most of the guys that I came into school with graduated last Sunday. To celebrate their progression into the real world, we all decided to go down to South Carolina for one last shit show. It was an amazing time to say the least.
Within the adventure to Seabrook Island in SC, I had a couple other adventures. My friend O'Shea and I took a trip to Myrtle Beach where we hung out with my friend Stevie. We hit up this bar called liberty and then we went back to her house where her mom made us shrimp scampi. She then showed us around a bunch of other bars and we got blasted. Most of the bars we went to were much different then what I was used to. They were very spaced out and it seemed that people didn't know each other but it didn't stop them from being very talkative with each other. At the end of the night, after I blacked out, I guess I was talking to a whole bunch of locals outside the bar, so I guess I was adapting to the situation because it just seems that southern folk are very friendly.
The next night 16 of my Beta Brothers went to Charleston to go out to the bars. We hit up 2 different bars. The first had the hottest 4 bartenders that I had ever seen. It reminded me of coyote ugly, but the chicks were WAYYYYY hotter. It just made me miss California even more because the selection of hot girls in Pittsburgh is few and far between. Anyways, the 2nd bar was on a rooftop of a hotel. I'm pretty sure that there is a height limit on all buildings in Charleston because this was the highest building and it was only 5 stories tall.
After a very sad farewell to my Beta Brothers, we went to my friend Jameson's cousin's graduation party in Maryland. Jameson's other cousin Jackie had trouble with handling her alcohol and puked out the car as we parked coming back from the restaurant where the party was at. She was really funny because she was under the illusion that everyone else was throwing up with her, not sure why.
So after putting my liver through liquor boot camp, I need to start buckling down and focusing on my goals for the summer in Vegas and for my last year playing College Football. I'm going to go pack, run, and lift. PEACE
Monday, May 26, 2008
Monday, May 12, 2008
Finals
So I just finished finals last Friday and it feels so gratifying to be done. But more than just feeling good about finishing, this year I actually left the tests feeling good about my performance. Meaning I felt that I could of possibly got a 100% on one of the finals that I took, which is incredible coming from a guy that started his college career with a 1.22 GPA. With that being said, there is no guarantee that I got A's in any of those classes because I do not know what any of the curves are for the final grade, but as long as I am close to the 3.0 mark I am happy about my performance.
I think that most people go on a binge for a week or two after they finish finals (when I say binge, I do not necessarily mean they go out drinking every night, more of the idea that they become lazy and unmotivated when their finals conclude). After my last final on Friday, I went out drinking and then did nothing productive on Saturday, but yesterday I went to the library and I continued reading Scott Fischman's book, "Online Ace." I want to make my Vegas trip very productive and it is obvious to me that the only way to do that is to spend a lot of time preparing and studying for the WSOP. Binging from now to the time I go to Vegas would be the worst thing that I could possibly do.
So, I am going to set my goals high when it comes to preparation. For just this week, I want to watch 30 poker videos and finish reading the Harrington on Hold'em series and also finish three other books that are more directed to the psychology of poker. I think that I am going to read and study until I get back to California at the end of the month and then put as much of that information to work and play in tons of live MTTs.
I think that most people go on a binge for a week or two after they finish finals (when I say binge, I do not necessarily mean they go out drinking every night, more of the idea that they become lazy and unmotivated when their finals conclude). After my last final on Friday, I went out drinking and then did nothing productive on Saturday, but yesterday I went to the library and I continued reading Scott Fischman's book, "Online Ace." I want to make my Vegas trip very productive and it is obvious to me that the only way to do that is to spend a lot of time preparing and studying for the WSOP. Binging from now to the time I go to Vegas would be the worst thing that I could possibly do.
So, I am going to set my goals high when it comes to preparation. For just this week, I want to watch 30 poker videos and finish reading the Harrington on Hold'em series and also finish three other books that are more directed to the psychology of poker. I think that I am going to read and study until I get back to California at the end of the month and then put as much of that information to work and play in tons of live MTTs.
April Results
I guess it's been a while since I posted, so I will post some results from last month. April has been my most successful month ever as a poker player. I got 2nd place in FTP's Sunday Brawl and I won a big daily double tournament as well. This netted me about $47,300. It was a big boost to my confidence and big pick me up to my bankroll which was hurting from playing NL(4) at the beginning of the month.
Right after I got 2nd in the Brawl, my poker playing probably got cut by three quarters. I have heard ghost stories of friends going up in limits on cash games and trying to beat tough games just because they had a big tournament score. I was determined not to have this happen. Leaking this big tournament score to the cash game players would be retarded because my month in Vegas over the summer is more important than stroking my ego by playing NL(10). With that said, my main purpose is to have $30,000 of my big score turned into liquid cash, which is much more difficult and time consuming than I anticipated it to be. 20gs going to expenses and my bankroll for Vegas and 10gs going into a CD for next year's tuition (tuition alone for my school is about $40,000 a year).
So April came about new beginnings for my poker adventure and I now have a new problem:
How to build on $40,000 instead of locking it up or spending it all?
Right after I got 2nd in the Brawl, my poker playing probably got cut by three quarters. I have heard ghost stories of friends going up in limits on cash games and trying to beat tough games just because they had a big tournament score. I was determined not to have this happen. Leaking this big tournament score to the cash game players would be retarded because my month in Vegas over the summer is more important than stroking my ego by playing NL(10). With that said, my main purpose is to have $30,000 of my big score turned into liquid cash, which is much more difficult and time consuming than I anticipated it to be. 20gs going to expenses and my bankroll for Vegas and 10gs going into a CD for next year's tuition (tuition alone for my school is about $40,000 a year).
So April came about new beginnings for my poker adventure and I now have a new problem:
How to build on $40,000 instead of locking it up or spending it all?
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