Camping

Haven't updated in a long time and now isn't the best time because I'm about to leave for camping. Everything is going well, I'm very excited for this week of camping and also excited for school to start back up at the end of the month, It keeps me busy and I always like meeting new people. Nothing special has happened lately really, pretty much the average play poker all day, stay up late, hang out with friends. I'll update more after camping. Goals for this week-- catch and eat some type of animal, possibly attempt to swim across the Mississippi river, have fun.

summertime

I've been doing a lot of stuff since my last update, mostly just having a good time. Last week I basically worked everyday since my boss was out of town. And almost everyday after work I met up with friends, started drinking, and went to summerfest. Summerfest is basically just a huge music festival that goes for 11 days at Milwaukee's lakefront, and its always a good time. I think I went five times and.. yea it was a blast. But waking up and working 5-6 hours a day and drinking and staying out till 2-3 am takes its toll. So I just took it easy for a day or two. Meanwhile, I've played very little poker since taking down the 109 and when I have played its been far from a serious grind. So today I played quite a few games and pretty much broke even for the day. But breaking even is better than losing so I'm alright with that. I don't have any plans for the rest of the month really so I'm probably going to do a variety of things like go camping and goto brewers games and just hang out with friends. Hopefully i'll get in a few games of poker and make some money in there too.

quick update...

its 430am right now... so i'm gonna keep this short, but I just was having a horrible turbo night on stars but I just shipped the 109 turbo for 5k. Really happy right now

the good life

I've been a little lazy with updating the blog, pretty much just enjoying my summer. I've been playing a decent amount of poker, I've been killing the 60$ 45mans this month, and I've played more this month than I have ever before. Also, just a few days ago I had my biggest win ever just a few days ago. I took 2nd in a 5$ tourney for about 2500$ and it felt good to make such a deep run but was kinda disappointing to not finish it off and take first. Since that happened I have been kinda lazy and just messing around with poker but I'll get back to the grind soon.
Meanwhile in the real world... I've just been chillin with my friends lately. I went swimming 3 times this week which was awesome, been sippin a few brews, went to a brewers game, went camping, went fishing, went go karting, saw some people that I haven't seen since school ended, and destroyed some trivia today at buffalo wild wings. Other than poker and doing some outdoors kinda stuff, and watching sporting events, I would say a couple of things that I really like would be knowing semi-useless information like there is in trivia, and magic tricks. I really want to learn some simple magic tricks that I can show at parties and whatnot so I need to get working on that. I think I'm going to buy a book soon because I talk about it a lot and I think it would be really awesome but I barely know any tricks.
And finally, SUMMERFEST! Its basically just a huge music festival that started on thursday and goes until the 4th of july and theres always a bunch of good bands playing. Between covering a few extra hours at work and summerfest at night I don't think i'm going to play a lot of poker this week... but its not a big problem, i'm doing great so far this summer and its really not essential for me to play everyday of everyweek. Although I did feel like I was really really in the zone. I'm having a great time so far this summer and hopefully the trend will continue. Theres only a few things that I can imagine that would make it sensational but I'll work on those and give an update in a future blog. Have a good one

results

Whew, what a grind... 24 hours and around 550 games of 45mans 180mans and tourneys was pretty crazy but it was a great experience. I think it really helped me get better in terms of volume and ability. It started off really well but allprowi and I were struggling a bit in the middle of the day which resulted in him taking a much needed break. I ended up grinding through it and finishing all 24 hours at the end of which i think i could have kept going. Not sure exactly when it happened but I got to a point where i was beyond the sleepiness and just in the zone. I think i played well throughout the grind but my brain was barely functioning by the end. I was like a robot or a zombie. So.. pretty happy that i was able to get this done, I'm playing a little bit today but probably going to take it easy and go hang out with friends. My next goal is to reach 10k in my account which I think will happen by the end of the month. Meanwhile, life is good, I really want to go fishing and camping soon though.

24 hour grind

Really just enjoying my summer lately. Everything just seems to be going well. I've been playing a lot of poker and making a good amount lately, hopefully capping off the first half of the month in a good way by playing all day on june 16th from midnight until midnight. Its gonna be a long day and its gonna be fun. I'm quite excited to see how it all turns out. I'll update again at the end of the 24 hours.

ROAD TRIP

Its been a while since I've written a blog post and now probably isn't the best time to do so considering I'm going on a road trip in 3 hours and haven't packed anything. But... anyways... school is finally over, got pretty busy at the end of the semester even though i feel like I was slacking a lot. Had a couple good days of partying after exams were over and around the end of the night on Thursday when everyone was quite intoxicated, one of my buddies asked if anyone wanted to go on a road trip to Miami on Aunday. I said sure at the time without really thinking about it, but it actually works out perfect. Although we decided miami is too far so were heading to Georgia instead. I'm pretty excited for it, I've been wanting to do something spontaneous and different for a while so i'm glad that im able to do this.
Meanwhile, poker has been pretty rough, I had a pretty rough downswing of over 3k but I final tabled the 23$ hyper turbo for a little over $1k to help bring it back. I was on pace for platinum star this month which would be the first time ever for me, however im going to be gone until friday the 28th so that leaves me less than 4 days to get 2k points. I'll see what i can do though. I feel like I've gotten a little distracted from grinding with exam week and all that so... watch out for me in the month of June. I'm going to set a goal for june to play a certain # of games but i'm not sure what that number is yet. I do have a few plans for june like possibly another road trip and summerfest at the end of the month which could make it a little harder to reach that goal. I feel like its really going to click soon and i'll take home some wins. Thats all I've got to say for now I guess... Be back friday and I'll be grindin hard.