Nothing much to report, hence the lack of blogs lately. I've been downswinging since mid-June, which I suppose is to be expected after a really heatered up May and early June. I think I'm going to try and spend some time kind of looking over some stuff from the last couple weeks to see if I can spot anything that I'm doing wrong. Having said that, this past week-10 days has been a bit better than the previous 5-6 weeks, so who knows.

I've taken a lot of time off over the last 3 weeks, which is a combination of not having the motivation to grind, as well as having some stuff to do outside of poker. I had taken off maybe 12 days from the end of school (End of April) up until mid July, but have probably doubled that since July 15ish. I had to take a trip over to my grandmother's house for a family get-together, which obviously turned itself in to a 4-day bender. Immediately after that, a friend who was on vacation spent half that crashing in my house drinking and playing live poker (which we kicked ass in btw), and now I have family down for a week visiting and getting drunk with us until Saturday or Sunday. Long story longer, I average 5-6 days off/month, I've already taken 7 in August. Gonna have to fix that pretty soon.

It's all but official that I'm going to Seoul, South Korea for Christmas this year. My brother has been living over there for the better part of 4 years teaching English, and he and his girlfriend are expecting their first child in Late October/Early November. He can't come home for Christmas since the Christmas holiday in Korea is apparently 1 day for North American's/Euro's/whomever (as in Asians don't do Christmas), and then right back to work the next day. It looks like we're flying out on Christmas day and coming back on the 11th of January, so like 16 days total. Apparently we're going to be deep-frying a turkey in a garbage can.

I'm pretty jacked for this, since I've never been out of North America, and only out of Canada twice, not to mention my lack of nieces/nephews. Online poker is illegal for the most part over there, which is sort of lame I guess (not that I'd want to spend my first trip to Seoul playing online poker), but my brother says that there's some kind of law that prevents Korean Natives from leaving a casino with any more than what they showed up with or something stupid like that, so basically people play holdem for fun and then spew off their profits towards the end of the night. I'll have to ask him to clarify that for me next time I talk to him, but that really sounds like the best thing ever.

-Grady

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