This is exciting and sad at the same time. I'm gonna miss my girl like crazy and already feel it, but at the same time this is my first trip to Vegas and I've been preparing for it for months. I even started playing live poker, which I used to hate, so that I wouldn't be a total fish when I showed up in Vegas. At least now I understand how things work in a casino - at least a little bit.
Mostly done packing and I'm sure I forgot some stuff, so hopefully I remember what it was before tomorrow morning. Gonna be doing an 11 hr drive (according to mapquest, but I have heard it only takes 9) from CO to Vegas. I've got a friends place to stay at once I arrive but I'm hoping I can find an LP couch to crash on later so that I can spend more time with other poker players.
Trying to do this all on a budget, hence the couch surfing. I'm also gonna be on the subway 5 dollar footlong plan unless I can figure out another cheap way to eat while I'm there. I have this fantasy that I'll get some comps for the buffets, but that's probably from watching too many movies about Vegas, haha.
I'm excited to meet everyone. I've been talking to a lot of LP guys for ages and never met em in the flesh. Milkman, MiPwnya, Frinkx, Night201, SakiSaki, Wisdom, and a bunch more. I have a feeling this will be pretty similar to going to WCG, except everyone will be much more baller.
I'll try to post pictures here in my blog if anything exciting goes down while I'm around. And I'll probably be updating this quite a bit as I play and so on. I've been lazy on the blog lately cause I've spent a lot more time working my part time job for a non-profit than I have for poker (it's been pretty full time for the last few months cause I wanna help em out). But starting with this trip my life is gonna refocus on poker. I really want to be a 2/4 reg taking 3/6 shots by the end of this year. I feel pretty confident that I could beat 2/4 right now if I was rolled for it, but it would be for a very tiny winrate. I'm hopeful that spending time with a bunch of LP guys will allow me to learn and break through that wall. Plus if I run good I should be able to boost my roll quite well vs all the fish who will be in town.
Gonna spend tonight with my lady and then get up and I'm off to Vegas! Crazy to think that the time has actually arrived for me to do this =)
I have 313 movies on my Netflix list - 179 on the DVD Queue and 134 on the Instant View Queue. Right now I'm on the 1 DVD at a time plan, which means that if I watch it as soon as I get it and return it the next day I can do about 8 DVD's a month (give or take 1-2 due to mail fuckups, holidays, etc). So we're talking 22 months to watch all of the DVD's, if I stay on top of it. But then factor in how I keep finding more movies to add or I miss movies in the theatres and then add them, and I'm fighting a pretty tough battle here. And that's just the DVD Queue - I gotta pick away at the Instant Queue at the same time, which means I gotta watch a lot of movies. And I'm supposed to be playing poker, coaching, and working a job at the same time. Shit, with that schedule I barely have time for things like hiking, going out to parties, and spending time with my lovely lady. So wtf am I to do about this gigantic Netflix Queue? What have I gotten myself into?!?!
Just kidding. I was just gonna say "wow I have a lot of movies to watch" but I started ranting and thought this was a funny way to put it. I'd love to take a bunch of time off and just work my way through all these movies cause I love movies and I feel like I've missed so many good ones. Netflix has given me the ability to have a list of every movie I ever wanted to see, which means I have another list that I will probably never finish in my lifetime. Funny how that works out.
I'm leaving for Vegas on Friday (see below post) and my last day in the office @ the day job is tomorrow (Tuesday). The rest of the week I'm using to get ready for the trip and get my shit in order (oil change and tuneup, etc). I also like to use lots of parenthesis (which are these "(" ")" things) while writing, especially in this blog post.
Anyway, the point is that Wednesday and Thursday I have a bit of free time to throw in some coaching sessions, so if you're interested and play low/micros, read my coaching thread to learn more.
Anyway, heading to Vegas at the end of this week and starting to plan out the trip. I'm going broke man style, driving there and bringing a sleeping bag to do some couch surfing. Have a friends place to stay at first but I'm hopeful to find some LPer couch to crash on so I can be closer to the action. If you have a couch (or floor) available please let me know.
I'm driving out on the 3rd and planning to hit up Frinkx's house party on the 4th with the hope of meeting a bunch of LP guys at it. Then I'll stay for at least a few days and maybe a few weeks depending on how things go, and by that I mean if I run good or bad. If I run bad I'll have to make it a short trip. If I run well then I'll stick around longer.
I'm planning to just have fun with the fish @ the NL200 tables cause I don't have much live practice and no BR to play any of the tournaments. I figure there will be such juicy tables that I should be able to clean up if I don't run like shit. If I can run well @ NL200 and get to meet/hang out with a bunch of LP people I'll consider it a great trip.
PM me if you're gonna be in Vegas so we can meet up!
On another note, coaching is going well. I've got about 5 students that I'm working with and several more who have shown interest but haven't had time/money to start coaching yet. If you're looking for Low/Micro stakes coaching check out my post from before here. I enjoy it a lot and so far I think I've actually been able to help a few people quite a bit (or maybe that's all in my head, hehe). I'm definitely gonna keep coaching people for a while and I'm glad I decided to finally start doing this.
Finally had a long session. I've been getting back into the flow of poker after a 1 month break and man it was hard to rebuild the stamina. Just did a 3k hand session today and it was awesome. Played well and dealt with beats by smiling. Good feeling to have the discipline back and the calm, focused mind.
Things are also going well with the new coaching endeavor. In case you missed it I started coaching for low/micro stakes and have gotten a lot of interest. I have several lessons lined up and a lot of people who can't do it now due to tests, internet problems, etc, but I will hopefully be helping them in the future.
I'm excited about coaching. I'm weird in the sense that I like to help people and I especially like to teach people. I remember back when I first watched CR videos I would think "man I'd like to make a video like this and train someone". But for the longest time I didn't think I was good enough to really help anybody. Lately I started feeling like I could help, but only recently have I felt like "yeah I definitely know enough that I can train someone". I think what inspired it is my lady started playing facebook poker and I offered to give her a poker bootcamp. She kind of took me up on it but in the course of teaching her some stuff I realized that if someone is on the newer side to poker, I have a LOT to offer them. And it's really enjoyable to help people, if they're serious about learning.
So I'm gonna be grinding and coaching this week. Let's see how it goes!
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