Went to the bar last night to watch a band. They were okay. One of my roommates was sitting with a bunch of her girl friends, so obviously I start hitting on all of them because I'm a pig. Some girl shows up and claims to have met me before through a mutual friend, but I don't believe her, but talk to her for a while anyway. It was briefly after this conversation that I remember posting the following from my phone:

Heavy girl just proposed a threesome. Prob not going to do it but I am drunk so omgwho knows LOL. There also a funny looking asian here and I am without yellow belt.

Seems pretty standard I feel. Anyways, I left the bar a little while later and kind of felt like going for a jog, despite being 20 beers deep. I just jogged home from the bar and called it a night. Got home and sat on the couch, cracked a beer, and wrote out this gem for some reason (warning- [ ] regard for the english language):

well i didn't do either asian has a boyfriend and i said dude i don't care, i have all kinds of boy friends, doesn't mean i can't hook up with asians. so she said is that why you're here? and i said ummm, you've never been a white skinny kid who hasn't hooked up with an asian before, right? and she said no i'm a girl. and i said no you're an asian girl. and she said man what's wrong with you i've lived in nova scotia my entire life and i said yeah but you're still asian. look. eyes. and then i did the thing where you use your index fingers to make yourself look asian but besides the stretchy eyes you're still white and she said that i was funny and pretty. and i said uhhh pretty is a term to describe girls and then i ran out of beer and because i'm an alcoholic i prioritized more beer instead of banging an asian but i'd probably do so again because i'm an alcoholic, but she had a boyfriend so it was the right move (results oriented victory). so anyway, i went for beer and then came back and some dude was talking to her and i said hey man you binked my seat but he said well my girlfriend wants me to sit beside her for now and i said oh. and then i thought hmmm drunk fat threesome girl? butnahhh. and then i texted my friend mike but he didn't answer so i didn't know if i should bang this tubby girl in a threesome but then i talked to her again and she said yeah i asked the dude if he wanted a threesome with you and me and he declined and i got mad because i just assumed that the threesome was mff and not mmf so i got mad at her. you don't know how badly i don't want a mmf threesome with a fat girl. she was really cool tho, i'd hang out with her if we were just having a beer or seeing a comedian or w/e, but once she brought up threesome i lol'ed because i had no intention of banging her. i'd have to be blind to bone this girl, but if i was blind then i prob wouldn't have gone to the pub since it's stupid and almost requires sight.

Indeed.

In point form-

- I found a full on backer. I'm going to make a fuckload of money for him.
- I'm trying to stay positive, however:
- I'm going through a "breakup"- nothing was official to begin with, but this certainly wasn't my idea, and I'm upset about it. pwned.
-As result, I've gone to 2 classes this week. I know it's stupid, but I can't bring myself to getting up before 2PM this week. I'll figure something out by monday, but this week has been brutal.
- we're back on the liquor; not that we were ever off the liquor, but since Christmas, I've been drinking moreso than ever. That said, I've also won more money since December 1 that I had for the 6 months combined prior to that.
-I'm running like death over the last couple days. I'm like 4/12 with KK/AA over the last couple days, and most of these losses have been either busting tourneys or crippling. It's not usually like me to bitch about beats, but with the extracurricular stuff going on.... sigh.
-random sightings- watching poker after dark-> phil laak is obv terrible, but antonio seems to play really well and is underrated. I mean obv he's a live pro, and I understand that he plays weird (which is a lot coming from a fucking kid with a $7 abi) but I find myself really impressed with his game, and his inability to do retarded things that other live pros do.

I think it's time for bed. I'm drunk and upset and kind of tired and have nothing left to say. I could actually go on for hours based on the above, but won't.

-grady.

Having not written anything in the last 20 days or so, there's plenty to catch up on. First off, I still haven't done the 24 hr session. I'll do it eventually, though it won't be as soon as I thought it would. My plan was to do it on the 28th or 29th, but things came up. I think I played about 1/3 as many tourneys as I had planned to over my christmas break, and I head back to school tomorrow or Monday.

I had written in my last post that I had gotten a seat in to the miniftops $109, in which I ended up bubbling after losing AKs<T9s AIPF for a 100bb pot, which still seems retarded to me. That pot was a microcosm of my next 2 weeks, just running absolutely brutal in any and every situation. I thought things were turning around on Christmas eve, but instead showed up with a 16th and an 18th to make me hate poker even more. 2 days later I took a 15th and was ready to snap.

Finally, on the 29th I made 2 final tables, as well as winning a $6/90 man. The next night I took 7th in one of the daily doubles on FTP, cashing in the other as well.

Overall for 2009, I profited about $6.5k for the year, plus rakeback and live poker, though I'm definitely stuck buying pieces and staking people, and probably stuck a little in online cashgames. I played about 2700 tourneys or mtt sng's, which is a number I'd like to boost up a fair amount. I think that, more importantly than volume, is cranking up the avg. buy in. If I can stop withdrawing money to pay for things like liquor and rent and fines then I should be able to move up. I feel like I'd be profitable in midstakes tourneys, given the amount I made this year at micros/small stakes. If i can manage to not cashout so much money over the year, then I don't see any reason why the goals that I've set for myself aren't attainable.

Goals for 2010-
>Profit $20k- I profited ~6.3k with an ABI of just over $6 in 09, including a 3 month breakeven spell in the summer. Like I said, I plan on playing a little higher this year, plus simply getting better at poker. With a ~$20 abi, I don't see why profitting $20k is out of the question.

>review more HH's, watch more videos- self explanatory. I think I might autopilot a bit too much, and would like to fix any little leaks I may have.

>get a new fucking computer- we had a party at my house like 6 months ago and someone spilled a beer in it. It somehow still works, though not awesomely. It might take something drastic, such as winning 3k or just having this one explode (or take a month off drinking), but this seems like something that needs to be done.

>try a little harder at school- I skip too many classes due to sheer laziness, I often leave papers and studying for exams to the last minute (if I study at all), and am just generally not really on top of things. I showed up to a midterm at one point this year not knowing that the midterm was that day. I'm not someone who really cares a ton about getting 90's or whatever; the goal is moreso about going to class more, not bullshitting all my papers, and simply doing a little bit of reading or w/e through the week instead of playing video games and getting drunk every night. I'm more than satisfied as long as I pass my courses, but I'd like to try a little harder during the course so as to not worry about anything or be nervous during exam time.

> run better at staking- I'm probably stuck about $2k lifetime in staking ventures. I had an opportunity to buy a piece of a friend in an EPT but decided against it- He took 8th for like 57k euros or something like that. During the last WCOOP I bought pieces of a few high stakes regs who all bricked, I had a few % of 2 guys in the WSOP ME, as well as another guy in the WSOPE ME, but bricks obv.

I guess that's all. I've been at my parents' house for 2 weeks now and I'm about ready to head back to school. I got to see some old friends, which was fun, but I'm ready to head back. My plan was to head back today, but it's storming out right now, and it's supposed to be worse tomorrow. I suppose I could be doing my 24hr session right now if I felt like it, but I don't really.

Ooohhhhh yeah, I already won a tourney in 2010. UB $10 6 max. Sustainable ROI imo.

-Grady

I think I played 2 tourneys between my last entry and Saturday night. Seems kind of ridiculous, but I had to try and do something other than play poker so I could study for my exams. I was kind of fucking the dog in all of my classes, so decent exam scores were kind of crucial. I told a friend of mine that I wasn't going to play any tourneys from Monday-Saturday; he responded by setting the Over/Under line at 60 tourneys in that time span, which is probably slightly higher than my average, non-exam line. He was clearly on drugs, as I buried my face in books and notes (and MLB offseason rumors and reports).

Exams went well. My first was simply 2 essays that we could write at home. They took me forever to write, but I feel like I got that one done well enough. I did well enough in the rest of the course that I didn't really need to do overly well to get through, so it was hard to be motivated to write, but I got it finished. My next was on Thursday afternoon; the prof gave us a list of 42 study questions the day before the exam and said that 4 of them will appear on the exam, lol. I was ready enough for them that I feel good about that one, though it could have went better. My final exam, the one I was most worried about, was Saturday night at 7pm. I had barely failed the midterm, but made up for it with a good essay, but I was still a little nervous about the final. He gave us a list of 8 study questions, we had to answer 3/5 that he gave us. I must have been generous to him in a past life, because of the 5 questions that we had the option of answering, the 4 that I knew best were on there, and I wouldn't be surprised if I got an awesome mark on that one.

We went to the bar afterwards to celebrate being finished school for 3 weeks, and all I could think about was playing a full day of tourneys. I was excited to the point of not being able to sleep, and ended up staying awake until like 5:30 am, an impressive feat given my drunken tendencies to pass out immediately once I get home from the bar.

I woke up and immediately fired up super turbo satellites for miniftops. I typically play these for the FTP Double Deuce every sunday, and win like 9 seats for the T$. For whatever reason, I couldn't win shit in these today, and went 4/48, which was a really depressing start to the day. Nothing seemed to go right at all for the first 6 hours, including busting the Stars $11/$250k on the second hand with AA<66. I was online messaging a friend, telling him about how this might end up being my worst day ever. Within half an hour of that, I was chip leader in 2 different tourneys and top 20 in 3 others. Overall, I ended up making 2 final tables (stars $5/12k, and a $3 turbo on ftp), taking 8th in both. Ended up getting deep in the UB $10/10k only to lose AA<QQ AIPF for the chip lead with 30 left, then busting with KK<AJ in 27th place. Came 40/2100 in a $4 turbo on stars, 33/870 in another $3 turbo on ftp, and got semi deep in a $10 6 max on ftp as well before getting coolered for a big pot. I salvaged the day by winning a seat to MFTOPS 12 (109 6 max), so we'll see if I can get anything going there.

The reason I'm still up at this hour (5:15 AM) is because I forgot to pay off my open liquor fine. They give you 60 days to pay it, and if you don't pay (or make arrangements to make payment at a later date or w/e) by the time that the 60 day deadline passes, they assume that you're contesting the fine, and a trial is automatically set. Long story short, I have a court date at 9AM, and the only way I'll be awake at 9AM is if I don't go to bed. I'm just going to go and ask if I can pay it without the trial, but either way, it should be an interesting experience.

I'm going to write up a Year-end review fairly soon, though that will probably only happen either after the new year or like a week after that, when I come back to school. I'm going to grind my balls off over the next 3 weeks, so I'll probably win twice what I won so far this year (that's the plan anyway), which explains why I'm waiting until after that to write. I'll include goals for 2010 if I can think of anything other than simply "Get as good at poker as possible" or w/e.

Like I said in my last blog, I'm planning on playing a 24 hour mtt session along with some friends. It will more than likely begin Tuesday when I wake up (~1PM?) and go through the night and in to Wednesday morning. A friend of mine planned a 24hr marathon a month or so ago, but ended up quitting after 21hrs and like 5 FT's, so hopefully I can equal (surpass imo) that feat. Probably going to live blog that one, which I can only assume will be boring as shit. A few friends want to play a day of tourneys and donate 5% of their winnings to a worthwhile charity, so I'll likely do that for my 24 hr session.

-grady

I just realized that I forgot to write a Trip report for the Girl Talk concert that was at my school about 3 weeks ago. Let me start off by saying that this was a promotion put on all across Canada that involved the student body of every college and university in Canada voting on Facebook and Twitter to get a concert on campus for free. One of the conditions was that there would not be liquor served, which is fucking stupid. The concert started at 8 pm with The Stills opening, followed by K-OS, and finally Girl Talk. I started drinking at about 3PM, so as to be sufficiently shitfaced by the time Girl Talk hit the stage at ~10:30-11 PM.

Needless to say, my plan went through to perfection, as I drank an entire quart of Canadian Club by the time we left. Based on what people are telling me, there was a station in which you could get a picture taken with inflatable guitars and such, immediately inside the concert setting. I was obviously blacked out at this point; so much so that I completely forgot that I'm right-handed, as witnessed by me holding this guitar backwards.



By the time K-OS shut his stupid mouth and got the hell off my stage, I was ready for Girl Talk, and decided that there was nothing that was going to stop me from being at the very front of the crowd. After politely finagling my way towards the front of the room, I accidentally bumped in to a girl who gave me the dirtiest of looks. While I don't remember the exact conversation that we had, she continued to get mad at me as I obnoxiously took pictures of EVERYTHING with my cell phone on the terrible choppy camera that is built in. Zero of these pictures turned out, and I knew in advance that this would be the case, and I certainly verbalized this to her. After she pointed out that she "didn't give a fuck" I finally decided that I was going to slowly ruin this girls' night since she was being a snotty beotch for no real reason.

I explained to my roommates that I had a real snotjob to my 9-oclock and asked for everyone to try to remember everything I say so that they can re-tell the story later when I'm sober. I begin by asking her if she wanted to be in a picture for the 10th time. She said no. Then I asked if she would get her friend to snap a picture of the two of us. She said no. Then I asked if she wanted to hang out after the concert. She said no. Then I asked if I could snap a picture again. She politely ordered me to leave her the fuck alone. This went on for another 10 minutes or so, until I told her that she'd make more friends if she wasn't such a twit. I left her alone for a minute, but then came back and got my roommate to snap a picture of us.


She almost punched my roommate in the face.

Girl Talk was fucking awesome by the way, and if anybody ever gets a chance to see him, it's absolutely worth every penny and then some.


Haven't played much poker since I last wrote, but I made a final table on Sunday, taking 3rd in the giant $2 turbo on stars. This was my first final table on stars ever, other than a small one that I made on turbo night a couple months ago. I hardly ever play on stars, since it just seems cursed or something, but I happened to get deep in everything I played on stars on Sunday, cashing in 4/5 tourneys. Too bad for me that I swapped 50% of everything I played on stars with a friend, and he happened to brick everything. kaihdsf;ojad;fj.

I have 2 classes left in the semester, then 3 exams between now and the 12th. I'm also heading to a Dane Cook show this coming weekend, and am hoping to get some time in at the Casino that's just down the street from the venue, for a little bit of live 1-2 NL action, but it doesn't look like I'll be playing a ton online between now and then.

I'm pretty excited to be done school for a little while and just playing poker everyday. I'm planning on sticking in a ton of volume, mostly 90 man's on FTP. I'm going to be at my parents' house from the 14th until Jan 4th-ish, and other than Christmas and New Years, I'm going to have a pretty empty schedule for the entire Christmas break, so as long as I can stay motivated to grind every day/night I should be able to either bust my entire account or make some decent moneys. I'm intentionally waiting as long as possible to accept my Holiday bonus from ftp, since I'm hardly putting in any volume until school is finished with. Conversely, once school is done and I have nothing important left to do, I'm planning on being up all night and crushing idiots. I have plans to do a 24hr mtt session with a few forum friends, so I'll likely document that here whenever that happens. I'll be sure to include judgments that I get from my parents and siblings, who have no idea that I have the ability of playing any more than 2 tables at once, nor do they understand that putting in decent volume doesn't make me a degen gambling addict, since I'm almost the exact opposite, given that I'm a huge nit with money. Fuck families are retarded.

-grady