Had a long frustrating Monday grind yesterday. I played 41 tournaments and cashed 9 I believe, finishing final two tables…I think in three different tournaments. Couldn’t final table anything or put anything together.
I played on Merge for the first time. Got close in their high roller tournament. I really like the structure of that thing, and how they give half the prize pool to first. That’s what I like to see. I either win tournaments or flame out, so a higher 13th place pay out doesn’t really do a ton for me. I mean, I guess each system is just different, but I miss the days Stars payouts really made me salivate. Now this 20% for first and paying a third of the field stuff…its good for Stars, to just continue to keep a little money in everyone’s account so they can rake us forever, but its not helping me make money.
It feels good to get on one new site. Hopefully will have six more here within the next couple months. I’m looking forward to building my big grind cave, and hopefully moving up the rankings. Just gotta balance actual grinding with working with the sites. There seems to be a lot more verification for a pseudo Costa Rican.
It just feels good to grind at home, getting lessons in every morning to start my left brain up, getting a run through the foothills and farmland, playing with my dog, grinding sixteen tables. I can’t wait till I can play the biggest tournaments on every site, with my tricked out HUD, and just having 7k in buy-ins every day.
The family vacation rested me up to. Going to try and upload more pics to Facebook now that the uploader doesn’t make me want to pull out my hair. We went on a boat and chilled on a lake on Sunday, was real chill.
My girlfriend and I watched a movie in the mountain cabin there. It was called Lilya 4Ever. It was about a girl in Russia whose orphaned…and yeah, it was some City of God hard shit. Definitely recommended for anyone who wants to see the not-so-lovely parts of the rest of the world. Flick stayed with me the rest of the day.
I also finished this book Emergency by Neil Strauss , the author of The Game. He matured slightly, writing a book on his attempt to gear up for an economic and social collapse, after watching what happened with 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina. He walks you through his journey to getting a second passport, setting up a foreign bank account, stocking up on reserves, learning how to get a knife through security, going through combat training, surviving in the forest with close to nothing, learning how to fend off attack dogs, taking a class on how to hot wire a car and pick locks, and tons of other really interesting things. Of course, the book can’t teach you how to do all of this, so its just kind of a primer on everything following Neil’s journey, and I got bored during parts, but it definitely was an interesting read.
Only problem was the book made me feel like a colossal pussy. I did work as a commercial fisherman and not live in some great areas, and played poker games with drug dealers, and survived a few fights, but…I couldn’t do anything in this book. I don’t even drive anything but a scooter. It made me wonder what the hell I would do if some natural disaster ripped through my neck of the woods. I wouldn’t be prepared at all. Unfortunately I don’t have the time to obsess over that. Well, things seem pretty stable anyway. And my home is a fortress. The book did give me a lot of ideas for classes I wanted to take over the next ten years.
