november review

november is done and over with but more importantly it was my first month off since being done with the summer season of work.

 we got done with work on the 1st of november. after that i spent 2 days in AK finishing what i needed to take care of and i was off to seattle for a few days. i got to seattle and took a taxi to where my truck was stored. of course the battery was dead from sitting all summer long. after getting it jumped started i got a room at a motel for the next few days and started to enjoy my winter off.

 over last winter i made some friends playing poker in seattle so i spent a couple days playing poker at the casino i played at. met up with one of the guys and got some dinner and talked and stuff like that. talked with a couple of the dealers and that was pretty much most of the meet and greets from poker. one of the guys that i became better friends with went back to canada so it was kinda lame not meeting up with him but its no biggie. also ended up losing 350$ over those 3 days which sucked cause i was up like 1200 before the last day i played there.

 when the weekend came i met up with my daygame wingman that i met there last winter and we decided to have a reuniting day game session and hit downtown seattle and the main mall that we went to for some approaches. over the whole weekend i approached almost 20 girls and got 2 numbers. one of the girls actually came through and we had a date set up. she ended up flaking on the date but came to my hotel room ( which i moved to hotel close to the date site ;) after she got off work. i ended up fucking it up and i could tell she wasnt comftorable and all we did was kiss 3 or 4 times before she left. it wouldve been awesome to have gotten that lay but no biggie shes a sweet girl and we've been keeping in touch since then so maybe on the way back up after the winter is over. after all that i picked up my friend from AK when he flew in and we were on our way to LA

 it took about a day and a half to get to LA because we stopped for a little bit but it was a pretty smooth drive. after making it here we stayed in a motel for about a week while we searched for apartments. it turned out to be a little tricky here cause almost all the apartments really want you to do a 1 year minimum lease and we are only here for 6 months. we were still able to find an apartment that would allow us to stay for 6 months ( after i pursuaded and upped the rent 100$) its exactly where i wanted to live on a really cool street with a lot of entertainment and in a nice neighborhood so it worked out.

 after we got settled in we began to start our cali life. since settling in ive played 7 sessions of cash games and 1 tourney but ill recap those in a minute. i also began to run a bit of daygame since ive been here. so far i got an email address from a low budget actress who hasnt flaked yet but shes gone for a month so we'll see and i got 3 numbers. one from a sales rep from seattle that comes here once a month and the way the interaction went it sounded like she was looking for a fuck buddie and said next time shes in town we might get together so again we'll see.

one number i got was actually from a few days ago from a pretty good looking hispanic looking girl and she said her ex is in the nfl but she hasnt textd back yet so she probably flaked. no biggie i would have had thoughts that theres no way my dick was as big as a nfl stars lol. and the last number i got was from an attractive 39 year old haha. she has been texting back and the whole theme has a little sexual tension behind it so i actually think i will end up banging her.

 poker was interesting since being here. when i first arrived and started playing 5/10 at the commerce i found out that they recently moved it to a different section and all the bad palyers were actually jumping into the 10/20nl games. wierd i know. well it was killing the 5/10 games and some nights the game would die out around 9pm where in the past there was like 4 games running. it turned into a happy ending though because they moved the games back over to the other side a few days ago and the games were looking good. the first 2 days i played ended well. the first day i played i got stuck 900$ before my aces held up in a 3600$ pot 3 ways and i left the night being up around 2600$. the next night went decent and the table i was on had a bad beat and the table share was 750$ so with that i ended the night around 2200$ up over the next few days when the games were still bad i ended up losing a little over 2 buyins. the tourney i played in went decent and i felt really good about how i played. i went out just after the bubble happend when my aces got cracked all in preflop and i won a little more than the minimum pay out. if you want more of a description on the tourney there is more in my last post.

there is one hand i want to post that was really interesting to me. this one was actually from the last night i played and if it wasnt for this hand i would be up about a buyin more than where i am at for the end of the month.

so there are 4 limpers and it gets to me on the button with AQ off suit and i raise it to 80$, the sb calls and the first limper shoves for 280$. it folds to me. the shove was from a fish who had been losing and just lost a big pot within a couple of orbits ago so i was fine calling it here but i didnt want to let the sb in either so i raised to 600$ the sb thinks for a while and shoves all in for 2500 and i had a total of 1800. the sb player was actually a really decent player he was between ABC/TAG but really patient and was all around a decent player. it was just a strange move but i figured he had TT or maybe JJ and didnt want to race for that much so i folded. the board runs out. of course bringing an ace on the river. and the fish shows KK and the sb folds. later i found out the sb recently came in 5th in the la poker open main event. which even more solidifies that hes a solid player.

the hand started to bother me more and more mainly because i put in 60bbs and folded. i thought about it and realized that he made a really advanced play. with me raising to 600$ theres an extra 320$ that i put in trying to isolate the fish. that means if the sb can get me to fold than he auto profits the side pot and pretty much is free rolling to suck out on the fish. so it didnt matter what the sb had as long as he was sure he could get me to fold. it was a tricky play but in the end he obviously decided my range was wider than a premium hand that would stack off 180bbs deep and he was right. a give him props but i now know that knowledge of the play and about him so it made me a little more advanced.

as poker goes i feel like im playing really well. im way focused at the tables and im paying so much attention to a lot of details and reading people for who they are and their playing styles and playing the game based off of all that information so i feel like im playing pretty damn close to my A game. im sitting up 2680$ for the month which im ok with.

my goal for the winter was 35k and now that the games are back to how they were im still going to shoot for it. ill have a better idea over the course of this next month so it will be more details on that on the next month recap. i also start my workout routine tomorrow and im pretty excited for that actually. its a really well planned out routine but im actually going to explain it more in detail in my next post, but thats a bit of details for this post and the month has gone pretty good. im glad im settled in and starting to enjoy my winter. loving life so far. so untill next time cosmonauts. stay tuned :)