Riding

We went riding again today. We went to a ski village called Villars. It was much better then portes du soleil, which was the first place we went to. Villars was much smaller and less steep. The trails also were groomed which made the riding much easier. Hitting big snow mounds and needing to carve didn't work too well for me the first day we went. Needless to say I had a blast today.

I was way too pooped to play any poker last night and as much as I want to get a session in right now I'm pretty exhausted from the day out so I think I'll be waiting until I get back to Ct to play any poker. Plus playing in Swizterland at 10pm it's only 4 pm EST and the games aren't nearly as good as they are at night time.

I finally got my grades last night. A, A-, A-, B. Ship it dean's list 4 semesters in a row. I really hope I can graduate cum laude.

Happy new years

The past few days have been pretty non stop for me. We took the train up to Zweissman, which wasn't as far as Interlaken but it was an amazing ride. We stopped and had lunch in the town then headed back home. Then we had dinner shortly after and started drinking. We tried to go to Lausanne for the night but couldn't find a bar that was open that we wanted to go to since it was a Sunday night. We headed back to Montreux and ended up at a bar down there. Good times.

Last night we spent the night in Geneva for new years. It was awesome and we had a great hotel. They set us up with dinner at an awesome restaurant and we had raclette, which is like fondue, and pasta and fish. We then started to drink alot after dinner and went to the party for new years in old town of Geneva. There were probably about 500 people in the small area we were in and after midnight people started popping champagne everywhere. Of course I had a bottle of Moet as well. Then,, unfortunatley after we were leaving we realized Melissa's wallet was gone out of her bag. She lost about 300$, her credit cards, and license.

Today has been a mellow day and later will be some poker, 100NL unfortunately.

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