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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