Updates and Online Break (8.9.2010)
Monday, August 9, 2010 at 12:48PM My plan was originally to stay in town and put in some volume over the weekend. There was a million dollar guaranteed Supernova freeroll, but I ended up blowing off the grind for the beach. It was one of my best friend’s birthdays and he really wanted me to hang out. And that’s me. I spend a half a year torturing myself to hit a certain status, and then I blow off the free perks. Well done, very logical! I actually took a video clip of my friend and I watching the sunrise at the beach drunk out of our minds at 6:30 a.m after being up all night (everyone else was sleeping). The sunrise was really cool and the discussions were absolutely hilarious. I waste no time starting off: “You know, I really had high hopes for that Russian girl!” Here I was referring to a girl I had been exchanging texts with for two weeks who lived at the beach. Let’s just say we had a communication break-down and it never happened. I’m talking most of the time so I risk revealing my true identity, but I don’t actually show myself on the video so I may consider posting it here tonight:
(Stay tuned)
It's 22 minutes in length so I may have to post on youtube and link it. I think it might be cool for some readers to hear what I sound like. But then again this isn’t such an accurate representation of normal. I had been up partying until 6:30 a.m at that point in the video. I’m cursing tons and I’m kind-of out of my mind to say the least.
I’ve barely logged any hands this month. I have put in some good study, but that’s about it. This upcoming Thursday-Sunday I’m visiting family in Manhattan. The two weekends after that I’m going to be back and forth between Atlantic City area checking out places. So it looks like August is going to turn into the lowest volume month online so far this year. However, I’m going to be putting in a decent amount of volume live in AC.
The goal is to sign a lease by early September. It will probably turn into a situation where I sign a lease, but continue commuting back and forth for the first month or so because of my day job. Even then I would be saving money as long as I used the place 3 out of the 4 weekends during the month. Hotels cost a lot of money and they suck. There are some loose ends I would need to tie up with my job before I left for good. Taking care of this last step is important; it could end up eventually breaking me if I screw it up. I’m not going to elaborate here; I’ll just leave it at that.
I’m not torturing myself with the volume on top of my day job this month. My path is already set; I’m going to play poker full time. So my mind-set has sort of shifted from:
A) I need to put in as much volume as possible on top of my day job so I can quit and play full time with a respectable win-rate.
To:
B) There is no need to torture myself during August. My path is already set to play full time. The last two months of the day job will provide the final bit of income I need to take a shot. August should be about lining up a place and catching up with friends/family.
-bag
Reader Comments (3)
Bags, I am sure you deserve the vacation. Just remember, time is money, too.
Good luck with the ladies and let us know when you get back to the tables.
naw :) you sound like an awesome friend..
too bad you missed out on some sexytime.. ;)
Luc,
Thanks will keep updated. I've basically just been replacing my online volume with having a life and setting up a place to move during August. Still grinding the day job, a necessary evil.
Alex,
Guess it's impossible to please everyone. Sexytime Yes it's a shame! haha. I guess I should have wrote out the full story because it's sort of amusing, but oh well next time.