just a quickie ...

just felt like posting before i put in a session, idk why. here it goes ...

working out: i managed to run enough to burn off 211 calories in 20 minutes (almost 2 miles) AFTER drinking ~2 1/2 beers half an hour earlier. this is really just a brag post, lol. i don't recommend it though, my tummy wasn't exceptionally happy.

personal life: lol, this is the last thing i want to think about right now. in a way it's going well, but it's taking a really weird path. it's confusing, spence knows all about it. i'm pretty sure she just needs/wants space for a little bit and i'm should be good at doing that because that's generally what i asked for from caroline, so yea. we'll figure out what's going on sometime next week hopefully.

poker: bankroll kept hitting around 2k, so i decided to take a shot at 100NL. first sessions didn't go so hot, down 2.5 buyins at 6max. it was just coolers though, ran AK into AA twice pre, got JJ in against AQ and it didn't hold and other stuff like that. played a little HU 100NL session as well and was up around 80 so not so bad. should have been more but i dropped a buy in like an idiot, should have only lost around 25 on the hand. hopefully i can keep up playing 100NL, idk what it is but i like it a lot better. i don't think it's my ego because shoving around $50 isn't anything to sneeze at, especially to all of my friends, but $100 just seems like a much rounder number and the bet sizing becomes whole dollars instead of bet sizing involving quarters. it just annoys me to be betting quarter amounts all the time.
so yea, the plan is stay at 100NL unless i drop below 1500, then i'd have to go back down to 50. i'll make this poker thing work some day i hope :)

oh yea, that reminds me. i just wanted to do a quick budget thing to see how much money i would need to be making from poker to be able to move out by staying at islands and being a semi-professional player. this is all speculation and just curiously, i'm in no means saying that i plan on trying this anytime soon nor do i even have the desire. relying on money from poker is very scary to me right now.

income from islands:

monday st3 - avg 50
tuesday st4 - avg 35
wed st2 - avg 75
fri st? - avg 60
sun st4 - avg 70

total weekly tips = 290 x 4 = 1160

checks = 300 ... 1460 income on average from islands/mo

cost of living --

car+insurance 350
gas 250
food 350
cell 30
CR/gym 65
CC 100
random 100
fun 100
rent 700

total : 2045

diffrence is 2045 - 1460 = 585

this budget would keep my living VERY tight, there's actually some stuff i didn't even add in there (ie: internet, cable) and i made the numbers for food/fun/rent pretty liberal. so yea, i need to get a better paying job or just make more at islands :) not to mention i need to pay for school and save up for london. mehhh, hopefully i'll be a bit more financially stable in 2009.

ok, time for a session.

-geoff