interesting night with a russian hottie.

so before i get into the story behind the title i will recap how the week went.

poker actually went pretty bad. i only played 2 days and i lost 1500. im not sure if im still up for the month in profit or not but i'll find out at the end of the month. i only played 2 days because i was busy one of the days with a date from the ballet girl i had been seeing and then when i lost both days i lost my drive to play another day and my friend is leaving on the 4th so i just decided to hang out and try and find somethings for us to do.

daygame was pretty low volume this week as well. saturday i just felt really low energy and kind of out of state. i did probably like 5 or 6 approaches but nothing hooked. we went back to a mall near our place and i did a couple more approaches and i got a number from a girl trying to be an actor/model. pretty much the story of every girl here. shes cute though i just texted her and she hasnt text back so might be a flake but we'll see. sunday i didnt go out because i had a date planed with a girl whos number i got from last week and thats where the story starts.

so the date was supposed to be around 4ish so i did my daily routine and got ready for the date. in that time i was also texting the russian girl whos number i got last week. i found out that she lives about 80 miles north west of me with her cousin which was one of the other russian girls. she sent me a text that said she wanted me to come see her and i told her i had plans but we will see. well it was pretty rainy for the whole day and the girl i was supposed to meet up with ended up getting busy so we rescheduled for next week. after that i texted the russian and told her id be there at 6:30

i didnt really mind driving 80 miles to go see her for one i never been to the city she was living in and it was a coastal drive, it wasnt raining there, and she was a hot russian what else do i need. so after getting there we agreed to meet up at a bar/club that her cousin works at. alright cool not my first choice but no biggie i let her choose. i get there and dont see her so i text her and then i get some quarters to play pool. her cousin comes from the back smoking area to greet me and says that they are both back there smoking so i head back there to sit with them.

we start the chat off pretty normally and everything is going good. the girl i was interested in was dressed pretty casual and everything but she was a little tipsy from a few drinks already. no biggie. her cousin was wearing a mini skirt and a revealing shirt that pushed up her tits basically advertising herself. her cousin was very obnoxious and forward just like she was when i first approached them. so a few minutes goes by and they say that they are also meeting a couple brazzilian guys there that they met earlier. i was like ooooook. the girl i was interested in told me she wasnt interested in them. that didnt really matter to me because i know how social dynamics and attraction work. i decided just to hang out for a bit and if i didnt like how things progressed then i would just leave. well the 2 brazillian guys showed up and actually turned out to be pretty decent guys. usually brazillian guys are way foreward and direct but these guys were pretty chilled and not really foreward at all.

so the night at the club started to progress with the brazillians buy the girls drinks left and right. the girl i was talking to didnt drink a whole lot more but her cousin on the other hand was a walking fountain. so we bounced from playing pool to talking and joking around and stuff. meanwhile her cousin is giving the brazillians lap dances and making out with them right there. i was like wow thats interesting. me and the other girl go to the outside smoking area and chill for a bit while her cousin starts to make out with the brazillians and putting on a show for the rest of the guys in the club. the girl i was talking to kept telling me how she wanted to go back to her place and watch a movie and talk with me. i was kind of getting a little skeptical by everything and she was still pretty tipsy so i wasnt sure. eventually after we got close enough and started to progress things i told her lets go and i led her to the door.

we left the club got in my truck and i took her home. i actually started to get some thoughts of maybe im playing a reverse roll and her and her cousin traffic guys they meet from the street back to a russian mafia house where they torture and do other things to them. anyways those were the thoughts. we got to her place and we step into a dark hallway. then those thoughts quickly jumped back into my head. no joke i was actually a little concerned for a second. she turns on the lights and i go into her room. we lay on her bed and put on a movie and start to talk. on the ride over i told her no sex and she found that comforting. we snuggled and talked for a while. she was pretty restless and kept moving all the time and couldnt stay still for more than a minute. when she was laying next to me i could feel her heart beating really fast and told her i felt it. she said " oh thats probably the cocaine." WTF.....

so now we go into a talk about drugs, alcohol and everything between. she says she has only done it like 5 times. yyeaaahhhhhh ok. and after finding out a little more about her things get a little more interesting. just before the movie ends her cousin comes home with who??? the two brazillian guys yeah. then her cousin strips down to her bra and panties and then takes her bra off and her, and the brazillian guys just watch the rest of the movie with us. after the movie is over her cousin looks at us and is like "i wish we had more" and grabs a tiny jar, opens it and snorts the reminence of what im assuming use to be cocaine and then lick the edges of the jar.

she then says well, c'mon boys lets go and puts on an even sluttier outfit and takes them out of the room and leaves to somwhere else. there is so many things that her and mostly her cousin said that were just like WTF. like she was saying she hope they didnt stick it in her ass because that hurts. pretty much just after they leave i told her i was going to leave at 12 which was in like 10 min. 12 comes and i tell her im leaving as i get up she litteraly latches onto me and tells me to stay. she wouldnt let go and i stand up with her latching on to me. i peel her off of me and she tugs and pulls on me to try and get me to lay down with her. i tell her id stay for 20 more minutes but thats it. 20 minutes comes and i get up to leave and the same thing happens. this time im pretty direct in telling her im leaving no matter what. she still tries to persist but it doesnt happen. i do end up kissing her at this point and laying on the bed kissing her for a couple more minutes but then we were back up again. she walked me to my truck. after a short conversation i tell her that ill text her when i text her and she says ok drive safe, talk to you later, i had fun, goodnight, love ya.... i mean like ya... im just like yeaahhhhh and say talk to you later. to put in prespective i told her that her and her cousin are crazy and she laughed it off like it was a joke.

pretty much her cousin is a complete slut/ coke fiend most likely. the girl i was interested in. well im not sure yet. i can sense that she is a possible stage 5 clinger. none the less there is no way in hell i would make this girl my girlfriend or anything close. i also probably wont ever drive back out there again to see her.

she says she comes into LA almost every sunday so if she wants to meet up with me on those days then cool but other than that im not going to pursue it much pass that. kinda lame because ive always wanted a hot russian girl too. :(

so thats the dramatic story. me and my friend are going to vegas tomorrow. weeee! i plan on pretty much only playing 5-6 hours of poker a day and hopefully i dont continue to run bad. the rest of the time i am going to show my friend around the strip and i am going to do a lot of day game.we will be there till friday night so maybe i might even get a story that is more interesting than this one. so until next time cosmonauts. stay tuned :)

wsopc results and fun?

so this week has got a lot of ups and downs to it which is one of the reasons im posting on a tuesday and not sunday.

we'll start it off with poker since it will be the easiest to talk about. the last post i had i think i was talking about me running good for a few sessions. well this week was a little different. the first cash session i played i lost 800$ in an hour while i was waiting for the tournament to start FUN. i did however manage to cash in that tournament.

 it was a normal tournament. it only drew 115 players and 13 players cashed. the buy in was 345 and first was 9k. i however busted out right after the bubble and won 585$ which helped a little bit for how bad the day started. the next day was similar and i lost 350 at the cash tables right before the tournament this time i didnt cash in this tournament. it sucked because this was the tournament that i was waiting for.

 it was a deepstack tournament. you started with 30k in chips. the first 4 levels were an hour long and then after that they were 40 min levels. my table was decent and i only had a coule decent players to my right that i wasnt too worried about. through the whole tournament things just didnt go my way. i did make it half way through and busted out in like 110th or somthing like that. 1st place was 25k. i played 4 tournaments that series and in 3 of the tournaments when i went to make a move deep in the tourney i ran into aces. once was when i went all in short stacked so it doesnt matter too much but it was just like oh i ran into aces again fun. it kinda put a damper on the whole mood of things.

 all in all this past week wasnt too productive for poker. the month overall is going ok and the lapc is going on at the commerce. im actually going to vegas between the 29th and the 1st so i decided if i run ok between now and when i get back and the 5/10 games are decent at the commerce then i might give them another shot so we'll see about it.

 this week i also took it kind of easy since i had some rough spells at the poker tables i think i took thursday off and me and my friend went and played some mini golf. saturday ended up being a lazy day and i forgot what we did. sunday i went out and did some daygame which i have some stories to tell and monday was interesting.

 so monday we decided to go to 6 flags again since my friend is leaving in a few weeks. we went on a bunch of rides of course. it was all good fun except the last 2 rides. the 2nd to last ride we rode was called the lex luthor drop of doom.

it raises you up beside the superman ride probably 300 feet in the air and you just drop i dont know how fast you go but then you just stop at the bottom it was the scariest thing ive been on. it was fun but super scary. the last ride was called x2 which we been on before and it is really fun. but as we began the ride going up the first hill i felt my keys slide out of my pocket and i couldnt stop them. after the ride we had to go to lost an found where we reported them and then wait for another hour to see if they could find them. they didnt find them. i had a spare car key in my truck so i talked to a cabbie to see if he had a slim jim to pop my lock open. he didnt and pointed me to the police point that might. they didnt and pointed me to ground security who did. they. we had to wait for 20 min for them to come and try and they couldnt even get it open. after that they gave me a number to call a guy to come and it took him another 30 minutes to get there while we were waiting in the cold. once he arrived he unlicked my door pretty quickly and so we accomplished the first part. cost 100$ for that 5 min of work btw. we didnt have any house keys so we had to rough it out in my truck for the night which was a restless night to say the least. in the morning we contacted the landlord who gave us a spare to duplicate and that was that.

 daygame was interesting for the one day that we went out. i wasnt totally in the mindset but i was still up to do some game. i only approached like 5 or 6 girls but i got 3 numbers. the first number was just a standard interaction.

the second number was from a girl that i approached that was with 2 of her friends. they were all russian and all very sexy. i had to be super confident and play around with them all and then i ended up landing her number.the last number was the most interesting.

so me and my friend were sitting on a bench. a girl walked by and gave me a smile. i waited till she passed and then i ran after her to stop her. the approach went smooth and the conversation was going well. about 5 minutes into it she said she only lives a block away and is doing laundry and asked if i wanted to walk her home. i said yes and my mind began to race. a few minutes later we are at her front door and talking a little bit more. she insisted that i took her number and wanted to meet up again and thats where i missed my chance. at that moment if i would have went for the kiss i think she would have taken me upstairs and had her way with me. i hadnt been in that situation before so i didnt know. we just said good night and i left. i did text her and the other two girls the next day and they all texted back i set up a date with the girl i walked home for this sunday and im working on the other two. i would love to land the hot russian so i hope things go well.

 thats how this week of events went. for the rest of this week im going to try and score at poker and then do my weeknd thing. and then we are going to go to vegas on tuesday so that will be that. so until next time cosmonauts, stay tuned :)

good week not so good weeknd.

so as the title puts it i had a pretty good week but the weeknd turned out a little lame just based off of results.

poker went well for what amount i played. i only played wednesday and thursday. on wednesday i played another wsopc event and i felt like i played really well and before i busted out i made a move that i felt really good with but got called and my 25% equity didnt show up so i was out of the tournament :( sad face ... haha the cash game went really well both days. i won 1300 one day and then 1400 the next day. hopefully im starting an upswing and things go really good.

also on thursday allen cunningham sat at the 5/5 table i was sitting at. i think he was just messing around because he basically threw away 500$ the very first hand he played.

the reason why i only played poker 2 days this week is because i had other stuff planned. on monday i had a date with a girl i have been talking to and then tuesday was like 75 degrees out and me and my friend wanted to go to the beach and try to tan which i dont think we got any darker. and i wanted to take friday off and do whatever so that is what happened. the date was fun we went to an indoor go kart place. the karts were really fast and it was only me and her but it was still a good time.

after the date she came back to my place where we watched a comedy and then we went into my room where we talk for a bit and then the touching came into play... and then a little kissing.... and then a fart.... wait no not a fart lol you get it though we sealed the deal. its weird though because she has got a crazy hot body but she is so self concsious i kinda hate when girls are like that. we saw each other a couple times after that and then she came over again on friday night and we went for another round. shes a pretty fun chick but i mentioned in my last post that she is supposed to be moving out of state within the month so im still pursuing other girls.

 daygame was kind of the let down this weeknd. we did put in some good effort this weeknd and actually i think i probably approached the most girls i have in a single weeknd but i just felt so out of state. like i was slacking or just really disconnected from it. it was a pretty lame feeling. i did get one number and she has texted me back but i dont know how far it will go.

and since the weeknd from daygame i have got a feeling of being lost without direction which i tend to get every now and then. i just start to question things and wonder where my direction is and what it is im actually aiming for in all aspects of my life. without direction it seems like things are just really plain and dull. it seems like these little slumps only last for a few days or so, so maybe ill feel better next week.

my friend is going to be leaving back to alaska on the 4th but before then we are going to vegas on the 29th-1st so that should be pretty fun i plan on doing a bit of poker and a lot of daygame. as well as jumping off the stratosphere connected to a harness so that should be a crazy adrenaline rush ill try and get pics or something.

so yeah this week went pretty decent actually but the weeknd was kind of dull. so until next time cosmonauts, stay tuned :)

2013 first week, wsopc event #1 recap

ive got plenty to talk about this post but it should go pretty quick.

 i will start with poker. i didnt start playing poker until wednesday because of the new years weeknd and i kind of just relaxed on tuesday. wednesday was also the day of the wsopc event #1 at the bicycle casino it was a good deepstack tournament. 40min blinds and 30k starting stack. buy in was 345$ and it attracted 275 players. in the first 3 levels i played pretty good. my table was super soft and i knew i was going to be able to take advantage of them in the deeper stages of the tourney. i made it to the 4th level when a new player sat to my left.

he seemed like an ok player but i wasnt affraid by any means. a couple orbits after he sat down we got into a hand where i had AQ and the flop came A 7 5 i bet he called. the turn was a 9 bringing a back door flush draw. i bet and he raised and i called. i felt like he was making a move there where so many combo draws in his hand and one pair hands that either picked up a straight draw, flushdraw or both. the river was an offsuit 2 and he shoved and i called and he showed A7 suited. looking back on it. i really could have laid it down on the turn and to be honest i feel like i get away from that spot 8 out of 10 times to make matters worse we were 150bbs deep. so yeah i made a rookie mistake. the same day i went and played some 5/5nl and dropped 500 so that was fun. the next 2 days i made 800 i think so pretty close to a break even week. im thinking about playing 2 or 3 more events maybe one in this next week.

 daygame was pretty interesting we only went out yesterday but i did really well the first 4 girls i talked to i got their numbers and after that i probably talked to 6-8 more girls but no numbers.

i texted them all and only 1 replied but looking back on it i didnt think the interactions were that solid in the first place so i thought they all would've flaked. also most of the girls that i have been texting kind of fizzled out except for a couple but since everyone was busy for the holidays i kinda expected it to go that way.

since new years was on monday the life category was pretty fun and i had a couple extra spices thrown in as well. so we went to the electronic dance concert on new years which was awesome and a lot of fun.

i danced with a few girls and talked to a few others but i really wasnt there to try and get a girl so i didnt have any expectations to meet any. after we got home i got a text from a girl i had been texting and she wanted to meet up. we were going to meet up for dessert but it was closed so we just hung out in her car and talked for like 30 min.  and i gave her a couple kisses. then we met up again a few days later and got smoothies and i gave her a couple more kisses. and last night she came over for about an hour... she could only stay for an hour so i didnt want to pressure her into sex and i wanted her to get comftorable at my place for the next time she came over. we snuggled a little bit and kissed some more and that was it. were going on a date tomorrow and if she comes over afterwards then i think sparks will fly. the girl is an ex ballet dancer and i found out she used to teach the dance moves to some big performances and shows in LA but now she does other stuff. shes got a rockin body though and shes pretty cool. unfortunitley she is supposed to move in a month out of state so theres a good chance that i wont see her after that.

everything else seems to be going decent. poker seems to be about break even for the last couple of weeks so hopefully it will turn around. and at the moment ive got a head cold and feel kind of crappy but things are going good. so untill next time cosmonauts, stay tuned :)

2012 review, 2013 expectations

heres my 2012 review which im pleased to say it has been my most successful year yet.

 we can start things off with poker. when 2012 started i was living in washington and playing the 3/5 nl games at a local casino. the action was pretty decent but i wasnt 100% confident with my abilities yet, but i was rolled for the stakes and so i was playing them. i was only able to play until late april because my summer season of work in Alaska started in may. in that time i was able to make 20k (19,800$) and i was booking a win rate of 32$hr. after the winter was over i felt really comftorable in those games and i would feel confident saying that i was probably one of the most consistant winners in it.

 i put a lot of effort into studying my game off the felt as well. before i would go to the casino i would usually read a few threads from the poker forums or watch a video on strategy. when i would get home from the casino it would usually consist of the same thing. i felt like i improved my game greatly from the year before and i as happy that i had the results to prove it. although you can probably tell that with me putting so much effort into poker i didnt really leave time for other things. in alaska i also played online at one of the merge sites but only played 10-12 hours a week and played 10nl. i was basically just trying to keep my mind up to date with poker. over the summer i walked away with like 320$ from 10nl woot woot.

 after my summer work in alaska i moved to LA because i heard from so many people online and in real life that the 5/10 nl games at the commerce were some of the juciest games. i felt comftorable with where my bankroll was (35k)to grind the 5/10 and decided i wanted to move to LA for the winter. after getting here i found that the casino moved the 5/10 nl game to a different side of the casino, and then they introduced a 5/5nl game with those 2 factors in play the 5/10 went from consistantly having 6-8 games going a night to bairley having 2 going. and the games were horrible because they had all solid regs in them now. the casino did move the 5/10 back to where it was but it never got back going how it was and at best it had 3 games going but it was still filled with good regs.

 it was a tough decision but i decided to just grind the 5/5nl games instead. it was either fight it out with solid regs at a higher limit with more varriance, bigger swings, and not knowing if i was even a winner with all those varriables. or play a game that is lower in stakes but know i have a significant edge in. so i set my ego aside and decided to play 5/5nl and that is where i am at now. november and december went relatively slow for me and because of the lack of volume but my combined yearly total from poker was 23,838$

now for daygame! at the begining of the year was when i actually really started to focus on daygame. prior to that i had been doing a mix of night game and day game just trying to figure out how it all worked and trying to learn it. after the year started i switched primarily to daygame because i didnt really like night game all that much. i started going out saturday and sunday to a mall to run daygame and after about a month i got my first real result. i really pretty blonde hair blue eyed girl named cassi. my skills were still pretty bad at that point but i guess i showed enough confidence in my approach that she liked it enough. about a week after meeting her we went on a fun indoor skydiving date and got smoothies then we went back to my place and sealed the deal. we saw each other about once a week for the next month and a half or so before it kinda fizzled out since i wasnt going to get into a relationship with her. prior to that i was getting numbers but they were flaking consistantly. i also met a couple guys from pick up forums that both turned out to be pretty cool guys. one was a guy that i would go out to the clubs with a few times but we didnt hang out that much because i pretty much stopped doing night game. the second guy was a guy who was brand new to daygame and i met up with him and showed him some basics and then we kind of winged each other for the remaining couple of months that i was there. he turned out to be a pretty cool guy and actually became a pretty decent friend that i keep pretty good contact with now.

my game had improved over the course of the winter with a lot of studying and practicing. if i wasnt playing or studying poker than i was studying or practicing day game.  at the end of the winter i was getting decent with being able to get a girls numbers but my skills still needed work and because of that a lot of the numbers would flake. when i got back to alaska for my summer job i would go out and do daygame on the weeknds. alaska was pretty horrible for trying to find a girl but i got lucky to pick up a girl within the first couple of weeks i was there. we went on a few dates before she stayed the night at my place and we sealed the deal. over the course of the summer we would see each other about once a week and it turned into somewhat of a relationship but we werent ever boyfriend/girlfriend. i still did daygame on the weeknds just so i could keep practicing and keep my skills growing. over the whole course of the summer i think i approached like 75 girls which was pretty low but given how muched i worked (6-7 days a week 12 hours a day) it was ok im just happy that i continued to put effort into improving.

after the move to LA and getting settled in i started doing quite a bit of daygme. and just over the month and a half that i had been here my skills have grown dramatically. i had proably approached just as many girls here that i had in alaska just in the weeks that i was here and i dont even remember how many numbers i got but within that time frame i already went on 4 dates which included an attractive 39 year old, a blonde haired blue eyed nurse, an ex ballet dancer with a really nice body, and a hungarian low budget film actress. i havnt had sex with anyone yet but its getting close. i also have a couple dates lined up within the next couple weeks. day game here isnt like a paradise by any means, there is just more people so theres more opportunities plus my skills are getting pretty decent and thats where i am at as of right now.

the only thing left to talk about is my life outside of everything. well when the year started i was putting A LOT of effort into poker and daygme like i stated. besides going out a few times here or there and the dates that i did, i really didnt leave much time for anything else. sometimes thats how it goes. you have to sacrafice some things to benefit from others. so needless to say when i was living in washington there wasnt a whole lot of excitment. then i came back up to alaska and worked a lot and really didnt have time to do anything which was super draining but i got my monies!! and then i moved to LA with my friend. since being here we have had a lot of fun. including going to a few amusement parks, movies, beaches, entertainment activities and other fun stuff. plus my dating life is really starting to kick in so all the dates i will do will just add to the list. since the life category was pretty univentful up untill moving to LA. that is pretty much all there is to talk about it haha.

finally its time to talk about my 2013 expctations. after getting settled into LA i have a pretty good idea of how this winter is going to go. since my friend is here and my dating life is starting to get really active and we are living in a really exciting city there probably isnt going to be a whole lot of volume put into poker and daygame. dont get me wrong. i still am going to try and put in 120 or so hours of poker a month and im still going to try and daygame on the weeknds or when i can but for once in the past 3 years it is kinda the other way around. instead of being really focused studying and practicing the things i want to get good at, i can finally enjoy the fruits of my labor. which is how i for see this winter going.

i do plan on trying to make as much money from poker as i can which i think 20k is reasonable. and i would actually like to find a girl that i can see for most of the winter while im here  maybe even a couple ;) then i will go back up to alaska for another season of work which i plan on pretty much doing the same routine i did the year before. hopefully since my game has improved i can find a girl up there as well for the summer and then after that im not 100% sure on where im going to live after that but the choices so far are london if the opportunity comes up, florida, or las vegas again. when i do move. for next winter im pretty sure i will be back in grind mode since i wont have my friend with me this time. if i move to florida i found out that they have supposibly the softest poker games in the country at the moment so i will play 5/10 there. wherever i do move to i plan on putting a lot of effort into poker and daygme again so we will see when the time comes.

i dont really have any "2013 new year resolutions" but i do have some realizations that im trying to be more aware of in 2013.

i find myself really pressured to succeed. i feel like it has something to do with being known by society as a success or something along those lines but thats why i was so driven in the past couple of years. every poker player wants to win, its hard to win at poker and when you do you feel validated that you are a winner. you want to be that poker player that people will look at and be like wow he is good and successful at poker. the same goes for daygame. being good with women is looked up to. it feels validating if people look at you and think wow hes really good with women, then it is the same validation. i really feel like society has somewhat brainwashed me into these thoughts over my 25 years of life and i have lost the  true genuiness of living life. it kind of took me moving to LA and having fun to realize it but i do now. that is also a big part of why this winter i am still going to put effort into a lot of asspects of my life but i am trying to really focus of enjoying life this winter and actually living life.

i do like how driven i can be at times and i like how it does make me want to succeed. i like succeeding and i like improving but i need to learn to be able to appreciate other things besides success and hopefully i can learn that this winter. i know this post has been way long but if you read any of it i appreciate you reading my material because i like writing it. all in all i think 2013 will be a good year and will have plenty of positive memories. so untill next time cosmonauts, stay tuned :)