Damn Ringer's Poker Blog

I think its more than safe to say that my breakeven stretch is finally over. I had been breaking even since the end of May before this month. I really started to doubt my game but was quite impressed with the way I came out of the stretch. I have already figured out that vegas made me a much better player and much better hand reader. It feels great to put in some serious volume and finally be enjoying poker again. I am still running about 1.1k below expectation this month but its not too big of a deal. I am pretty close to even at EV on the year. I plan to put in some more volume the rest of this month. My current plan is to probably play another month of 1/2 and start trying to move back up to 2/4 and 3/6 by the end of the year. It’s a pretty reasonable goal i think. Hopefully, that will also aid in getting me to my financial goals for the year.

On a personal note, I have had a few things going on in my life recently. I moved to Washington DC to live with my long time gf, Leigh. We lived together for about 3 weeks and things were just weird. I finally got her to talk last weekend and she was in fact “not in love with me”. I figure a ton of you guys think that the status change was another elaborate prank by us (which its understandable why you might think that). It isn’t and I would say there is a 99.9% chance we are done for good. However, there was no big to-do. No big fight and I think she felt really guilty for even doing it. It’s likely just she is interested in another guy, which I’m surprisingly fine with (which was the main reason I realized it was time to move on). I am more happy to not be in a relationship that is treading water. It was pretty crummy timing however, considering I moved from a city I absolutely loved to one I really kinda hate and stayed faithful to a girl while I was spending 3 months in Vegas. I do however get to live with my best friend from college, so that’s a definite plus. I’ve gotten so use to change recently I’m really kinda falling in love with it. I’m gonna stay in DC for a full year, and then re-assess in 2010.

On a different note, I went to a wedding this past weekend in Richmond to watch one of my fraternity brothers get married and shindig afterwards. It was a great time, but let me say… I hate Richmond. It was just a terrible city. We had a really great time though, and I met alot of fun new people and got some see alot of old faces I hadn’t seen in forever.

I have also decided to pick up the drums. Me and Klein setup the drumset tonight and were messing around with it. I think i’m going to take some lessons and try to get really good. It’s gonna sound gay, but I got the urge to play drums after playing the new guitar hero: world tour game all summer. I was doing several songs on expert and really really enjoying the riffs. I felt like I had a natural gift with the drums so I’m gonna pursue it. My room is gonna be setup with 2 guitars and a drumset… it will be the rockout room of our house. I’m pretty excited about it. I’ll post pictures after I get the whole thing setup.

I think that’s about everything in my life at the moment. So on that note, this blog ends.

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