BEEN AWHILE...
May 11, 2009 – 10:05AMSo I never really got a chance to wrap up April. I only ended up making ~13.5k (inc rakeback, etc) but I guess I can't be too unhappy considering I only played ~ 2 weeks worth of hands (80kish). It put me to up over 100k on the year which is pretty cool, and that also means i'm on track for my monetary 2009 goal 1/3rd of the way through.
After the month was officially over I took the first 2 days of May off and hung out with friends. On Fri May 1 I ended up going go kart racing for the first time which was a pretty interesting experience. I did 2 races and I was terrible but atleast I didn't finish last in either of them. There was this really tough hairpin turn on the track that basically either had me crashing into the wall while turning or slowing down to the point where I was almost stopped to make it through unscathed. I never got a handle on that turn despite going through it 20 times (each race is 10 laps) and so I didn't have a shot to win either race.
On Sat May 2 I went into Boston for one of my friends birthday and to also catch game 7 of the Celtics - Bulls series. Even though it was only a 1st round series, it was definitely the best series game for game I've ever seen. All the bars were pretty much packed in Boston and the first place we went to watch the game didn't have any tables so we ended up standing around near a tv for the first half before we called around and finally found a cool place that had a massive projection screen tv and seating that wasn't completely packed. After that we just headed out to another bar and hung out for a bit and then went home relatively early (2 am?).
First week or so of poker in May has pretty much sucked. I'm running at around 1.5ptbb over 30k hands so far but i've run really really poorly so i'm praying it'll just pass soon. Between the start to this month and not putting in much volume last month I could really use a nice heater to get me back into the full time grind. I also joined a gym and got a personal trainer for a few months so I'm pretty excited about that. Looking forward to getting my ass kicked by weights and pounding protein shakes everyday.