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so we arrived at ocean's around 9:30ish on thursday. it just wasn't our night. no one really got any good cards except one of five of us. everyone quickly went down $100. i enjoyed their kung pow chicken (recommended by all the rounders), and just sat around for a while as some of them hung on for dear life. then i got bored, and eventually sat down at a 1/2 table buying in at $35. i was down to somewhere near $8, and i made it back to $42. so i lost $93 that night. but i really couldn't help it. i played tight. i just wasn't getting any cards. for the entire night, i think i saw 2 suits in the hole maybe twice for the 2 hours i sat there. i don't even think they were suited. rest of the time, i was just playing cards on the bottom of the list....53 suited....46 suited, J5 suited, etc. so i don't think i played a bad game. i just had a terrible run of cards. still made me question whether i just got lucky last week, or if i'm a descent player. according to brunson, it may take months to years to know the real answer to that question before you can expect to go in and make money every time you play.



friday, i took the day off to take care of my car. i got new wipers, batter, a wash, oil change, and suspension tightened. while they were working on my car, me, ray, and stan went to look at drum sets at guitar center. after that, me and stan went to shop for poker chips. we finally found a place that sold good poker chips. unfortunately, they were overpriced. we found king's casino chips for $1.59 per chip (you can buy it for $1.25+ over the internet). so 500 of those would be eight hundred.....nevermind. way over our budget. they also sold KEM cards...but $50 for the pack of 2....so there's a 100% markup eh? no thanks.



we played a tournament at stan's house on saturday with 8 people. i got first place....and i think i played pretty well. when the blinds were really high, i did a good job defending them almost every time, and i made some killer reads. every time someone called all in, i made the correct call when i called them. i can't say i wasn't sucked out on some of those pots. so with a little bit of luck, saturday at least stopped me from losing interest in the game.



went to sushi deli 2. we played again on saturday, for fun. we would play then show what we folded, and discuss why we played, and what was going on in our heads. i realized that i wasn't betting when i should, and not reading the board as well as i should. i also put too much value on two pairs. a pretty weak hand against straight, flush, and even trips.



came home, did my taxes, and went to sleep around 4:30 am. the turbo tax software is amazing. I didn't even have to fill out my W2 (because UCSD stores it in their database and can look for it with my ssn), or even my name, ssn (stored in my acct from last year), address, or all that stuff. Here's how I did my taxes this year.



I logged into turbotax with my username and password from last year. I typed in how much in interest i paid in student loans. Then my CSN for state. My credit card # to pay for the program, and everything else, I clicked through. Within 15 minutes I was done.



I played on partypoker on sunday night for play money. Turned 100k into 6 million. I played again today, and turned 100k into another 6 million. Stan says I should pick on some people at my own skill level. But picking on people who don't know how to play is so fun. :) There are some good ones too who play patiently. I just target them differently.