october review

i know its almost a week before the end of october but seeing how i'm not going to have any more results i will just post now while i can. this post will most likely be pretty short due to the fact that not a whole lot happened this month.

 poker went decent actually the main thing i did this month was switched from playing 8 tables to 4 tables. i guess im just not the 24 tabling phenom i use to be or maybe i just dont have the time for it either or. anyways i actuallingy like play 4 tables as weird as it seems. i think in general i am more of a live player now and i like live poker more than online now. so in that case i like being able to make my decisions and watch my tables while i play online. thats my excuse anyways and im sticking to it :p i was able to make a whopping 3.75 buyins this month lol. i was actually up about 6 and then my last 2 sessions i played 25nl and my first session went ok but my second i lost 1.5 buyins due to just running shitty. i was able to amass an astounding 3350 hands. woooo haha. looking back on the month though for the poker that i did play i liked how everything was going and felt i played pretty well for the most part.

daygame was pretty slim. due to it pretty much almost being winter here its almost like people go into hybernation mode and dont really go out that much. when i did go out to run some day game i really didnt have that many opportunities to talk to girls. i was able to rack up 8 approaches but i didnt get any numbers or dates :( its all good though. soon enough ill be in southern california where i plan on just crushing day game. looking back on what i was able to accomplish this month with daygame i again felt pleased with my performance. with day game and poker its like a never ending cycle of me trying to get better so im consistantly trying to improve which i see as positive.

 the life category has been the worst i suppose. since i have been working 12 hours a day everyday this month my life is pretty much just sleep work, poker, and daygame. i did go out to lunch with the girl i was seeing for most the summer and hung out with friends a couple days and a couple lunches here or there but nothing real exciting.

some bad new for me though im afraid. theres talk of us staying and working till november 10th, which is actually my bday. it will set my schedule back about a week which in all reality isnt that horrible but i really want to get the fuck out of this place so i can be in LA and grinding 5/10 and doing the things i want to do instead of working 12 hours a day in the freezing cold. right now its kinda like we might or might not be staying but im just pretty much going to say we are. i mean its an extra paycheck but sometimes money isnt everything expecially when your going boarderline insane.

 either way eventually ill get out of this place and be doing the fun and exciting things i want to do. ill be moving out of my place in about 5 days so this will be my last post for probably a couple weeks. ill try to update when i can and fill in on the adventure but untill then stay tuned cosmonauts :)

final 10 days!

I'm finally into a 10 day countdown at work before i'm on my adventure to grind in L.A for the winter. man am i excited. i'm starting to sleep less because my excitement is so high. that's neither here nor there. on to the real news.

so poker has been going ok for 4 tabling. i think im up 5.5 buyins for the month which is only like 2500 hands haha. the weird thing this week is that on merge only 1 maybe 2 games of 10nl were going on at the time i was playing but there was on average 8-10 25nl games going. i decided a couple weeks ago that when i get to L.A. im going to start grinding 25nl. it wont be for money but still just practice im going to be spending 95% of my card playing at the commerce playing 5/10 most likely or wherever else there are juicy 5/10 games.

ill have like 35-40 buyins for 25nl when i start playing which i usually play with 75-100 but im pretty sure i wont be a losing player at 25nl and if i have to ill deposit 500$ more. guess i want to start playing a little harder players for better practice and win a little money online we'll see how it goes.

daygame was pretty slow pretty much this whole month. this weeknd i did 2 approaches which was pretty lame. kinda funny stories with both of them though. the first girl i approached was a young blonde girl and i stop her and she gets a phone call and its her boyfriend, she goes thanks. but thats my boyfriend walking this way. woops haha. next girl i talk to was a 2set and i stop both of them and the girl on the right goes hey i know you, you tried to talk to me and my other friend about a month ago. yeah... that didn't go anywhere. i think ive only approahced the same girl like 5 times since doing daygame and its only awkward for like 30 seconds no biggie. makes for a good laugh afterwards. so im pretty much done doing daygame before i leave cause ill be busy pretty much up untill i leave.

the life section was ok i suppose. the girl i was seeing for most the season ended up meeting up with me to go out to lunch and see each other one last time. just talked and what not, no spicy details unfortunitley. other than that not much. ive got 12 working days left of work but 10 actual days of us doing the job. i plan on putting in a few more sessions of poker before i shut off my internet and start cleaning my apartment and move out of here. i wont have internet after that and i dont know when i will. once i do i will do a month recap and updates. i should have took some pictures of my apartment cause its a pretty nice place. i plan on taking more pictures and videos to post to the blog so things will be even more entertaining.

so my friends next post will be the start of when things start to get interesting. expect plenty of stories, good and bad. filled with probably a lot of drama and excitement. so untill next time cosmonauts, stay tuned :)

cant expect too much

this post will probably be short and sweet seeing how things were pretty short and sweet this week.

poker was actually decent this week. i recently moved down to only playing 4-6 tables instead of 10-12 and ive seen a big difference. ive won every one of my sessions (which i think is 5) except for 1 session where at the last 10 minutes of the session were all in on the turn and he has a flush draw and gets there so just unlucky there. so far things are going good just 4 tabling. i guess i just cant put enough concentration into my hands when im mass tabling or maybe i just have to get use to doing it again since besides this summer ive been away from online for 2 years.

there wasnt really much at all going on in the life category. we ended up doing some test dredging in a new area which was a pretty far crew boat ride so we put in three 14 hour days. we are going to end up working the rest of the job with no days off so i wont really have any real free time but thats ok only 2.5 more weeks.

pickup was decent, although i only approached 2 girls this weeknd i like how the interactions went. well the first one actually didnt go far and that was my fault. only going out on the weeknds kinda makes you a little rusty untill you do a few approaches. the first one was pretty much a rejection and i looked back on it and was like oh yeah i didnt even smile when i approached her. smiling is huge when you approach a girl. you can get away with a lot of shit if you give a cheeky smile and its a must in day game. on saturday i went to the mall and only did one approach but the interaction went really well and i felt like i did things really well. we talked for about 10 minutes and when i went to get her number i found out she had a boyfriend. we werent really into the same things but i still would have spent a night with her which i kinda suggested haha but yeah although i didnt get a number i really liked that approach cause i felt like i did everything i was supposed to do in a pretty smooth way so yeah it was fun.

if anyone is interested in daygame there are plenty of sites out there but the main company that i clicked with and follow is called daygame.com they are in london and dont really have a presence here in america but everything that they do with daygame is genuine and how they go about things is really good. like i said i just clicked with how they did things and im glad i found them because it made daygame so much more fun and enjoyable.

so yeah just 2.5 more weeks and then i should be done and out of here. thank god too, i mean i grew up in alaska and im thankful for everything it has given me but man i can not stand this place. plus it snowed last night which makes me want to get out of here that much more. anyways ill stop complaining so untill next time cosmonauts, stay tuned.

getting closer!

things are still going as they have been for the past i dont know feels like forever so ill just jump into the details.

life was boring as shit this week. just working 7 days a week 12 hours a day same grind day in and day out. the only good thing is i got 3.5 weeks left and then im out of here and back onto the felt.

poker was a little interesting in one aspect. after my first session which i lost. i decided to try and lower the number of tables that ive been playing. i have been playing 8-10 tables but at times it almost seemed overwhelming. i use to 24 table 10nl on stars but that was 2 years ago. i think after playing live for 2 years and not playing online till this summer my thinking got a little slower (not worse! just slower ). which isnt a bad thing. also on merge their time bank activates after like 5 seconds and then it starts a ticking noise like a clock. meanwhile any tables you havent attended to will start to ding consistantly and theres a lot of noise making you feel rushed which adds to the factor of not being able to think on the fly. you can turn the sound off but then sometimes the tables skip and youll get sat out and its only like 5 minutes before they kick you off the table so thats no good. anyways, after playing 4 tables i think i almost prefer playing like 4-6 tables rather than mass tabling. i can really focus on my opponents and the playing styles and tendancies and adjust or make the plays that i need to. since playing 4 tables both my sessions after my first losing session have been winning sessions so we'll see how it goes. also i think next summer when i come back up if i havnt won enough this winter online i will deposit a little more and just grind 4 table of 25nl instead of 10 tabling 10nl makes sense right.

day game was ok i suppose. if i remember at the end of last month i dont believe i did any approaches. so this weeknd when i went out i had a little butterflies in my stomach. to tell you the truth it actually felt good to be nervous and i almost invite the feeling and look foreward to it. after approaching non stop sometimes it can lose the initial spark so its good to take breaks every once and a while.

this weeknd i was able to do 3 approaches but no resulsts. 1 girl i wish i could have continued the conversation with her because i felt like it was just about to hook really well and she was starting to invest a bit but her friend came out of the restroom and off they went, oh well next time.

this next week will probably be pretty lame all around. we have to go to a different spot at work which is going to add an extra 2 hours on to our shifts so ill be working 14 hours for 4 days which will ruin my poker time but i will probably still do a little game. also theyre trying to not have any more days off untill we're done with the job  which is fine. so ill have about 3 more weeks of doing my regular routine and then ill have to shut everything down for the big move to LA

so yeah this post was pretty cut and dry and the next few will probably be the same. good news though is that come november things will be sooo much more fun. so untill next time cosmonauts, stay tuned :)