settling in L.A.

I know its been a little while since my last post but we finally got an apartment this last week and we just got internet set up 2 days ago so that was the reason behind the waiting. I have a lot of posts i really want to do but i'm  thinking i might be a little lazy and just do a few in the next week about all the things i want to talk about. so for this post i'll just sum up how things have been going so far and what my plans are from here and my thoughts on things.

me and my friend got here either the night of the 8th or the 9th and started looking for apartments. there are a ton of apartments all throughout L.A. but the main problem is that the vast majority of them only do a 1 year lease and we are only here for 6 months. i kinda already knew this and figured i would have to do some persuasion with the land lord to find an apartment. about 5 days after arriving we had a couple apartments that were possibly able to do a 6 month lease and a couple days later we had an apartment. the apartment is in the exact area i wanted to live and in a really popular part of the town so the location is awesome. the apartment itself has some ups and downs to it but im not complaining.... yet

the inside of the apartment is pretty nice it was recently remodeled so it has a lot of new aplliances and stuff but weve been having troubles with the electricity which the landlord seems to be a little slow on resolving the problem but nothing that is discomforting. there are some appliances that dont work which isnt a big deal to me cause i dont use them but still its kind of lame to have a place with broken appliances. so it's kind of a give and take i suppose. its a nice apartment in general in a really popular part of town really close to a lot of things but it has a couple downsides to it. all in all i'll be fine living here for the next 5 months.

LA living so far has been pretty fun. since i have my friend here its even more enjoyable being able to enjoy some things with someone else so that is a big plus. we live about 30 minutes from santa monica and venice beach.

the traffic is crazy at certain parts of the day. theres usually always a little bit of traffic no matter what time of day but nothing to crazy but if you're out in rush hour you're in for a wait. it might have been a fluke but it took me 2 hours to get home the night before thanksgiving when i was stuck in traffic (probably from thanksgiving traffic) but there seems to be a lot of entertainment and plenty of things to do so there should always be room to have fun.

the girls here are like nothing i can compare to. when we first arrived we were stunned by how many good looking girls there are. dont get me wrong there are not so good looking ones as well but coming from alaska and the ratio of good looking girls there compared to here is no where close. ive been doing a bit of day game and ive probably approached about 25 girls or so but nothing too solid yet. a couple days ago i approached a girl that is an actress in low budget films and she didnt want to give her phone number so we swapped emails.....weird... but i emailed her and she emailed me back. shes gone for a month so maybe something will happen when she gets back. besides that i have tons of plans for daygame this winter and i would really like to get a fling or relationship or something for the winter or 3-4 months but im fine with whatever kind of garbage the sewers will wash my way as well... maybe ;)

poker has been a little interesting since i started playing. im up 3.5k right now in the last 4 sessions which is good but there might be some darkness in the future. the commerce casino has two areas that they spread their poker games. the normal area and then the "high stakes" area or the hotel side as they call it. well the 5/10 game use to be in the normal area where all the rest of the games were. and when it was there it would usually get a lot of action because players from lower limits or players from the half stack 5/10 games would come over and from what everyone says there would almost always at a minimum be 4-5 tables of 5/10 going. well they transfered the 5/10 over the to "high stakes" side and now for some reason every one who was playing 5/10 is starting to transfer over to 10/20. i think the reason for this is that the minimum buy in for 5/10 is 500 and the min buyin for 10/20 is 600 so the bad players probably think that well i can just buy in for 100 more and ill win more or however bad players think. anyways it has been killing the 5/10 game yesterday there wasnt a 5/10 game and today there was 2 tables and they killed off by 9pm but there was 5 tables of 10/20 ???? yeah figure that one out for me. so im going to try the bicycle casino out in a couple of days and see what there 5/10 is like. the only hope that the 5/10 at the commerce that i have is that the LAPC is going to happen in about a month so hopefully that will bring some action to the 5/10, or the other hope is that i know some regs have been complaining about the 5/10 dying out so maybe they will switch it back to the normal area.

now all that complaining isnt horrible it just means that it's going to be harder to make a big profit. my goal for this winter is 35k but if the games stay how they are then it is going to be tough. i really dont mind only having 1 or 2 tables to choose from, i did that all last winter playing 2/5 in seattle.  the only issue i have with it is that 9 out of 10 players that do play the 5/10 now seem to be pretty solid which again makes it really tough it might be more profitable to play the 5/5 buyin of 500$ than the 5/10 but i really want to play 5/10 this winter. well thats all for me about complaining about poker. i am playing a tournament tomorrow at the hustler casino so that will be cool to check out and it will be my first live tourney in almost a year so that will be fun. its actually a decent tourney for like 200$ with a decent blind structure and i think 1st place is garunteed 15k or something like that so we'll see waht happens. i want to play a few tournaments this winter and the LAPC schedule came out this last week and i plan on playing a few events in it so im feeling good and think i will do well. fingers crossed.

so i think my next post will be about my goals for this winter and any views or thoughts im thinking about so far i do like LA but ill be able to decide more after the winter is over. untill next time cosmonauts. stay tuned :)