Palm the Joker

Coming up on the end of the quarter here at Northwestern, only have 1 paper and 2 finals left to do, and that’ll all be finished up by Monday. That is, assuming I can finish this paper without shooting myself in the face first. At my best, I’m terrible about getting these big writing assignments done, and right now I’m absolutely worthless because I’m too excited for Vegas and the WSOP. Instead of doing any research or actually writing or anything, I’ve spent my time reading every blog and TR on the internet from people who are ballin’ it up in LV right now. Also wasted a bunch of time intensely sweating bilbo-san from SSNL in the 2k NLHE because I had 20% of him. He turned in a solid performance, eventually busting in 74th, good for $6k. Ship the piece! I’m still a net loser in staking though…

So while I’m super excited to fly out to Vegas, I’m not going to be shipping out of Evanston the moment I’m done with finals. All my friends are about to graduate, so this is pretty much the last time we’ll be able to hang out together. It’s kinda sad that these two opportunities conflict, but I think I’m going to strike the right balance by leaving on the 15th. I’ll miss graduation, but that shit is boring anyway, and I’ll get to play in the $1500 NLHE event on the 16th. My plan is to make a deep run there, so I can bankroll myself for a bunch of the other WSOPs later on. EZ GAME

Writing this up has made me even more eager to be done with schoolwork. Once it’s all done, I’ll pretty much have a week to party here and a whole month to gamboool/party in Vegas! My life is sweet.

In terms of results, May finished very strong after I binked a $10k day in the midstakes cash games on FTP. I was around +$12k for the month, so I obviously needed that brief monster heater. I’ve only played one session so far in June, and finished down 3.6 or so. Bilbo’s cash helped me recover a bit, but I’m still in the red for the month. Maybe I’ll get a chance to grind some more before hitting LV, but I’m not counting on it.

One last note: I bought a new laptop yesterday, suitable for travelling and grinding. It’s from the Sony Vaio line and has pretty decent specs including a 16.4" 1080p screen. Not quite as good as the full 1900×1200 but I guess it’ll look nice for watching movies. I’ve downloaded basic stuff like Chrome already, but I’m still going to have to do some more prep before I go. Gotta load up HEM, all my music, all poker sites, etc. Fun, easy task I don’t mind seeing on my to-do list.

Okay, that’s all. PEACE