200NL sucks

I finally played a session today and I ran pretty poor and made a few mistakes. Overall I think it's just varience but I will be dropping back down to 100NL now to rebuild for a while. I'm down to 3100.

We have been doing a lot in Switzerland. I've visited a bunch of cities so far and tomorrow were taking a panoramic train from Montreux to Interlaken. Should be a good time. It's also my birthday tomorrow so I'll probably drink a lot throughout the day. For new years we have a hotel in Geneva for the night so I'll probably party pretty hard then too. Good thing I'll be busy so I can't tilt off my money online. So far I'm - 700 at 200NL over 2000 hands. Pretty gross.

Thats about it because poker sucks right now.

Bienvenue a la Suisse

So here I am in Europe. It's pretty amazing. So much of the area is different. We got in around 10am (their time) or 4am (our time) on monday morning. That led to along day because I didn't sleep at all but managed to keep myself awake for a while. Christmas was pretty crazy. There we alot of presents for my girlfriends siblings, all 6 of them. Then we had a nice big Christmas dinner and I stuffed myself with turkey, potatoes, and wine. MMMMMMM

Today we went riding in the alps. I snowboarded but her brothers ski so I was the outcast. Her sister snowboards too but is still learning. It's totally different from riding in New England. The blue runs here and like black runs back home. Needless to say I had a pretty tough time adjusting to it. On the first run I took out some little kid who decided to carve in front of me while I was whipping down the trail. He was probably about 13 or so but he didn't get hurt which was good. It was an absolute mob scene there with so many little kids going down these big trails but just going from one side of the trail to the other side which made it difficult to manuver around them at times. I fell once down a steep part and slid down the whole steep part, and in turn sprained my thumb. All in all it was an awesome day.

I have alot of pictures as well I want to post but I didn't bring my connector with me so I'm not sure when I'll be able to put the pictures up.

I haven't gotten any poker in yet but in hte next few days I will be throwing in some sessions at night.

Its all over

School is finally done. I'm so very happy about that. No more classes to worry about for a month.

Poker has been unkind to me lately. I took my first shot at 200NL and ran pretty poor. I managed to get 2 large pocket pairs all in against overpairs for 100BB's each but given the circumstances they both ended up being totally standard plays so I'm not unhappy with my play in either of them. I'm playing fairly well at the new limit and if I had to rate my game I think I'm playing about a B game. There is room for improvement but I feel I've been playing solid poker for the most part. Over 1000 hands I'm down 350$ which isn't horrible but it can be disheartening when first taking a shot at a higher limit. One thing I need to focus on a lot is game selection. There are still plenty of bad players at this limit and I need to make a conscious effort to find them and leave games that are unprofitable. But its been tough having no database to find the players. The level jump has some differences and you can tell that the regular players are by far better players then at 100NL.

I have a lot of cleaning and packing to do before my trip. I leave in 2 days and I can't wait to experience Europe. My next few updates will be about that, but I will be trying to get in as much poker as possible.

School is no fun

This one class is killing me. I have a take home exam, assignment, investment portfolio (like 30 pages long) and a final for one class. I'm starting to get really aggravated with the class because this portfolio is insane and he wants so much in it that I don't know how to do. I hope tomorrow morning people will have theirs done and I can take a look at theirs to see what I need to add.

All this work leads to no time for poker. I really wanted to take a shot at 1-2 online today but I had no time getting all this work done. Hopefully everything goes smooth tomorrow, I get all my studying done for my exam on Tuesday and I still have some left over time for poker.

Semesters end

School is winding down now and I have a lot of work to finish up before my finals. I'm really only worried about one class where I have a huge project, an assignment, take home exam, and in class final to do by Monday. WTF!

It's supposed to snow a lot today but it looks now like it's changing over to some sleet for a bit. I might go do some snowboarding either late tonight or tomorrow for a bit. Then it'll be hittin the books all weekend long. Poker is probably going to have to take a back seat this weekend so I can finish up all this work in time.

Europe in 10 days

Awesome Headphones

So on my way down to Foxwoods on Saturday I stopped at a Bose store and picked up a new pair of headphones. I bought then new quiet comfort 3 headphones. They are on the ear noise canceling headphones and I love them. They ran me 300$ which is kind of extravagant but I like them so to hell with the money.

I only played for less then 2 hours that day and made a nice 185$. I flopped 2 pair from the blinds, flopped top set with aces, and backdoored a flush in a decent sized pot as well. Not too bad for only about 40 hands.

I went snowboarding last night which was a bunch of fun. It was raining though and super cold so we were frozen in no time and the lifts were literally blocks of ice from the freezing rain. It was so much fun to get back out there since its been 2 years since I've gone riding. I'm really looking forward to riding in Europe. I'm still a little shaky on the board right now but hopefully I'll get the chance to go one more time before I leave for Europe.

On an online note I only played around 3000 hands last month and ended up making around 700$. But I've transfered so much to my friend who keeps going busto. And I keep using that money to pay all my bills.

Online 3528
Live 1585 (damn that 600 for my flight >=0)

Riding

One of the things I'm very excited for while in Europe is going snowboarding. I just went and picked up some new bindings for my board because I bought new boots last year and they didn't fit in the old bindings I have. I'm going to set my deck up today and hopefully if it doesn't rain tomorrow my friends and I will go and do some local riding. It's been really cold here so the mountains have been making snow all week and they just opened up yesterday.

I'm thinking about going to the casino today as well. I'll probably make it down after I set up the board!!

Been a while

Sorry it's been so long. I've never been in the mood recently to write anything.

Schools almost over which is awesome and I think I might pull out some good grades this semester.

Once school is all done I'll be leaving for Europe which will be awesome. We're trying to figure out where to go for new years eve. Hopefully we figure out something awesome to do. I'd really like to do a few days of traveling while we're over there.

Poker has been better. Online I'm doing ok but have had a few bumps in the road. I'm slowly working my live roll back up as well and I'm at 1460 right now. I was down to 1k at one point so it was nice to put together a few winning sessions this weekend. Unfortunately I dropped a 100$ bill out of my pocket last time I was there when I went to get some food. Great time to just throw money away.

I put a bid on a new pair of headphones on Ebay. They are the Bose quiet comfort 3. I used them at Foxwoods for a little while and they are by far the nicest headphones I've ever used. My bid is at 275$ and I hope thats the winning bid because I don't want to pay any more then that. I figure I have to spoil myself at times with this poker money. If I don't, then why in the hell would I be putting myself through all this annoyance =)

I'll try to be more up to date with my next few posts as well.