Anonymous says

Nice run. Maybe you wont have to work the swing for long...good luck with the shitting and the eating.

02/12/08

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I really had a hum drum, kinda sucky January as far as final tables and big cashes went. The very last day I played a 50/50k and cashed for $414 finishing 13/1400ish runners which saved my ass, it was a pretty tough final 30 that had guys like sheets and bengiec just to name a couple sitting on my left. I generally run over the table when it gets down to the last couple of tables, I simply wasn't allowed to steal so I had to play a little more solidly and lost a couple of big coinflips that would have propelled me to the final table.

I played the most mtts I've played in a single month, 91. I played 37 mtts of at least 180 runners, I made only 2 final tables, as I seemed to get unlucky around the final table in 4 mtts. Just the usual lose the coin flip for most of my 20bb stack, build it back up and repeat. I finished somewhere between 20th and 10th in 4 or 5 mtts which is soul crushing.

Overall I finished up $364 for the month which was my 2nd best month ever. Of that $364, $80ish of it was from cash, thank God for cash games. I think from now on I'm going to leave out my diet situation as I can't seem to get a full week under my belt before I eat something stupid. The biggest problem I'm running into besides my laziness, is putting in an average of 25 hours a week devoted to playing or studying poker and the horrible weather in Iowa. It seems we get snow or freezing rain at least every other day which makes it tough for me to go outside and walk or hit the gym, I HATE COLD WEATHER. In fact there's supposed to be a monster winter storm moving in tomorrow afternoon.

I'm in the process of shipping out tons of resumes as it looks like in the next couple of months I'll be forced on the swing shift. An example of the swing shift schdule is that they get sat, sun, mon off so they come in working 7am-3pm for 2 days, 3pm-11pm for 2 days, then 11pm-7am for 3 days. Then its the same except they work for 2 days on first shift, 3 days on second shift, then 2 days on third shift. Basically it sucks. I worked this schedule when I first started with the company, to say it was brutal is an understatement. It was tough sleeping, eating, and shitting. Basically you go through every day as a fucking zombie.

I was really hoping that I would have had a decent bank roll by now so that I could quit work, live off poker as I switched to a new job. Unfortunately my shift 3-11 doesn't permit me to play during prime time 75% of the month which certainly has reduced the amount of money I could win.