I've been watching LOST with my roommates constantly for the last like week-10 days in preparation for the season 6 premiere. We've marathonned the entire series and only have like 4 episodes left in season 5 to finish. I don't know if this kind of thing has happened to anyone else, but using poker as an example, when I first started playing a lot, I would have dreams about poker; well I've been having LOST dreams lately. I was fine with the dreams; it's a healthy obsession, and it serves as an entertaining creativity mechanism, and since this is the best show ever and season 6 is going to take over my life. Having said that, I think things went a little too far on Wednesday.

I went to the bar on campus for open mic and wing night, and proceeded to get hammered. For some reason the bar on campus closes at 1:00 AM, so I ended up going to a different bar at like 12:30 with this girl and her friends. We're making out for a while, and around 2 we decided that we wanted to head back to my place and cook and drink more beer and what not. (sidenote: on the way home she tells me that she's not going to have sex with me. For anyone who's ever heard this little gem-- you know where the story is going. For those who haven't-- let's just say that I've slept with all 4 girls who have used this line on me within the hour.) We make food and then head down to my room and end up naked pretty soon after.

I'm a little fuzzy on the exact details, but she finally decides that she definitely wants me to bang her.
Her- I hope you have a condom.
Me- Fortunately, I have slept with many thousands of women, and thus have a large bag of them at my disposal.
Her- Well you only need one.

Well. I happened to put my thumb directly through the first one somehow. I scramble to find another one, drop it and get it dirty, and throw it while yelling "THE FUCK?" loudly. That's 2. I get a third, with only a minor problem. After fiddling around with rubbers for what seemed like an eternity, GG erection. Well this is stupid. For some reason, the first thought that entered my mind was that The Island just doesn't want me to seal the deal. I start laughing to myself and explain just what exactly is so hilarious, but she doesn't watch LOST so she doesn't get it.

Anyway, once we got that whole mess out of the way, we started back up again. I "didn't" sleep her that night, and I "didn't" sleep with her again the next morning, and I certainly "did not" sleep with her twice more in the afternoon. I love it when girls say silly things about not fucking me.

-Grady

Nothing like getting a backer and bricking every single tourney for the first week. I've been running like hell ever since we started and have subsequently gone like 45 ABI's in to make up, which is sweet. I had what I believe to have been my worst Sunday ever, though I could be wrong. I cashed in one of like 20 tourneys, busting that one in a mincash after getting it in postflop with 96% equity for a 90 bb pot. I then backed that up with a rare 0-fer on FTP turbo night somehow, bubbling 2 tourneys obv. Maybe I'll just go back to freeroll stakes.

Yes, you're right; that IS a fantastic segue.



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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