frosty's blog

I didn’t really get started playing poker this year until the last week of February and after 5 winning sessions in a row, 1 fairly big losing session put me right back where I started the month/year. I’m not sure if there are discrepancies between HEM and Stars or if my balance has just slightly shifted due to euro-dollar exchange rates but the bottom line is that I’m up about 1.5 buy-ins at 100nl. Here’s what HEM says though and it’s close enough:

That last session was pretty much just a case of anything that could go wrong did go wrong. I was out about $500 in EV but aside from that, the coolers were just relentless…I’d like to post some hands but I’ve been having issues converting the HH’s on the new site (issue currently being looked into and should be solved soon). It’s all good though, I’m not too upset because Feb was pretty much a warm-up for me and the real grind will start in March (tomorrow). I’m going to start by playing 7000 hands each day with about 14-16 tables of 100nl and 2-4 midstakes tables running during my sessions. I’m going to try my best to break up the 7K hands into two 3500 hand sessions and wake up early enough to get everything done by 3-4pm. I feel very motivated right now to keep a strict routine and play well at the tables so I think that I’ll be able to stick to my schedule at least for a while! I also did some work on my HUD last night and added a bunch of stats that I think will be useful…I feel like I definitely under-utilize my HUD right now and that’s something that I want to fix quickly-at least I’ll have about 200,000 hands to practice with the new alterations in March!

Away from the tables, things have been iffy. I made a pretty big mistake two Fridays ago that I don’t want to talk about but let’s just say that it was the last straw that made me go in for a lonnng overdue STI test lol. It’s actually not very lol at all but by nothing short of a miracle the tests came back clean, which is a nice relief for now but I think it’s time that I stop pushing my luck here…AA is only going to hold up so many times etc. It’s kind of to the point where I can’t really trust myself to make favourable decisions when I’m drunk anymore so about a week ago I decided to not drink for a month. Unfortunately, that only lasted for about 1 week because I headed over to Victoria this past weekend and proceeded to drink a few beers before heading out to a bar/club. I drank a few more beers at the bar, followed by some tequila shots that were given to me and the next thing I know I’m cutting up the dance floor and throwing some mad shapes. It didn’t take long before I started dancing with some chick and the next thing that I know I’m making out with her on the dance floor despite a couple of severe red flags. Red flag number one was that she approached me in the first place, which is a little desperate but like whatever but red flag number two was pretty bad. At some point the fact that I play poker for a living was mentioned and her immediate response was “ok, this might sound a bit weird but are you the guy that I’ve been talking to at plentyoffish.com?!” So this is the kind of girl that I’m dealing with, even though she was pretty good looking…nice boobs and good body and seemed pretty cool. Obviously I’m on the island just for the night so no real relationship is going to happen here but at this point it’s getting late, I’m pretty drunk and am very interested in hooking up with her even though this situation is exactly what I told myself that I would avoid! So the bar ends up closing at around 2 and the lights come on and I’m standing behind my girl with my arms around her. All of a sudden 6 black guys come up out of nowhere and start hitting on her and I’m like wtf? I make a bold stand and luckily they don’t call my bluff and I take her outside…I guess a bit of a backstory is that I’m here with 3 guy friends (Iain, Jarnael, Spencer) and 2 girlfirends and she’s here with 4 other friends and it’s one of their Bdays. Basically, the whole group is standing outside and I ask my girl if she wants to come watch a movie with me even though I had no idea where I was even staying for the night. She seems interested but is hesitant to leave her friends. Oh yeah, one of her friends is really into Spencer at this point too. After asking me where I’m staying and going back and forth a bit she eventually agrees to come back with me if her friend is also going back with Spencer. To my amazement, Spencer wants none of it and apparently has the highest standards in the world b/c the girl that liked him was pretty hot. Now her friends are really pressuring her to leave with them so she takes my phone and puts her number in it and takes off with her friends.

Now I’m in a really bad mood and am pretty upset with Spencer. I’m walking with Jarn, Iain, Spencer and the two girls still unsure of where I’m going to spend the night. We all jump in a cab and head to Iain’s brother’s place, which is apparently vacant and has room for 2 people. Iain and one of the girls get out and I’m apparently headed back to Courntey’s place (the other girl) with Jarn and Spence. On my way, the girl from the bar starts texting me and suddenly has a change of heart and wants to come home withe me afterall lol.

Well, at this point I’m thinking that it’s far too late and impossible to meet up with her so I tell her it’s not going to happen. Instead, Coutney offers me a pitty cuddle in her bed, which I jump all over and we head back to her place. When all was said and done, Jarn and Spence ended up spooning on a pull-out bed and I ended up with a platonic cuddle with Courtney (she has a bf…). One night stand avoided! As mad as I was at Spencer at night I was equally happy with him in the morning for pulling the chute on the whole situation.

Yeah, there’s been a ton of ridiculous nights similar to these over the past several months but for various reasons I’ve left them outta the ol’ blog. Regardless, I really am going to make a series effort to not drink for a while in hopes of landing a gf in the near future. It will be really easy to hold my drinking to 1 night a week and as long as I keep it under control for that night I shouldn’t find myself in bad situations. Sigh, we’ll see…

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