So today was the first day a golf course opened up here in the province, so my boss asked me if I was up for a round. I figured "Hey, 2 degrees celcius, snow in the bunkers, why the hell would'nt I want to swing a metal stick at a frozen white rock for a few hours?" It really wasnt that bad after about 4 holes when my hands went completely numb and I could no longer feel the vibrations, or how the club face was angled...but whatever. We actually were only the third group out for the start of the season, so the manager took our picture to hang on the clubhouse wall for the year, so yeah, im kind of a big deal. lolz.

Played a decent number of sngs the last couple of days with bad beats absolutely killing me. I was one outed twice and also split a pot with QQ to JJ aipf when the board ran KKK Q K. This kind of shit is getting insanely frustrating but there's not a whole lot that can be done except ride it out. It just sucks bc lately it seems like all the sngs are filled with donks and wannabe grinders who have no clue and i'm unable to take advantage due to some sick beats. I refuse for it to take the wind out of my sails though, so we'll see if in the next couple days I cant recoup some lost magic.

Theres an end-of-season hockey party tommorow so Ill end up playing an afternoon game then get drunk off my ass, so that should be fun times, but ill let you all in on that later

Anyways, gl at the tables.

Mark

Ok..So here's the deal with regards to this blog. My full intention was to blog everyday, this goal however, like so many ive set in my poker career has been unrealistic. This probably had to due with starting it at the worst possible time of the year in final exam time and combining that with a couple resignations from work + a minor promotion has totally made the past month absolutely crazy busy. But now, fuck all that and lets get back to poker.

Im not going to set any goals or anything like that, but I will set a couple of restrictions to my playing habits.

1. STICK TO WHAT I KNOW!!!

I don't know cash games. There, I said it. However, I will continue to play 50nl when im bored of the sng grind. But not much, as I am sacrificing $$$ when I do this. I'll play the scattered <30$ mtt but only again as a boredom breaker.

2. Not to mess around with my roll.

Im comfortable with my roll. In saying this, I won't shoot myself in the foot by withdrawing any of it to pay for anything. PERIOD. I cringe to think of the amount of my roll ive squandared in the past and the limits i know could be playing at if it were not for periodic withdrawals.

That's it. 2 rules. Simple enough right? We'll see. Historically I'm bad at this shit, but I'm more focused on making the right decisions, both poker management wise and game wise than ive ever been.

Life-wise, exams are over!!!! so let's play some cards (best kgb accent applied)

as a side note, calling for you life with T8 soooted on the bubble with 2 short stacks remaining is not even borderline retarded, its completely and utterly stupid. Don't do it.

That is all.

Mark

Ok, so yesterday ended up being the most uneventful poker day ever. Played maybe 15 sngs and ended up like 75 bucks...so no ground really gained there. However, Ryan has been tearing up some of the 45 man sngs that run on full tilt, so theres some good news in it all. Today i'm gonna see if i can sqeeze in 20 or so more sngs before I have to head off to work. Im crazy-pressed for time though with the semester winding down really quickly, classes finish next friday and then im done on the 17th!! COMMENCE THE SUMMER! In the meantime i have 2 papers due friday, a deferred mid-term from when I went to the Dominican to write tommorow that i am not prepped for at all, and I have to work every single day for the next 5 days...Its all good though, im sure ill manage. I always do.

I am really excited about the summer poker prospects. Myself, Ryan, and a couple of our buddies intend on makin a decent run at building a solid roll to play some live events, take a couple casino trips etc... The house is free later next month for a couple weeks so between having the gf stay here and the guys crashing in the basement, should be able to have some crazy sessions. For now though i'll let y'all go and do what you do, I gotta finish this chapter on Canadian charter law...sigh...

GL

Mark

So this is my first blog entry. I'm going to attempt to use this daily as a motivator for playing (and hopefully winning). I figured that with the release of Will Ferrell's new movie I'd name the first in honor of his hilarious comic achievment. I guess i'll provide the standard background crap we've all come to expect from blogging, then let you guys in on the fantastically riveting details of my poker life. I will try to keep this short and sweet, god knows drawn out shit about people's lives is boring as hell. Then I'll add some poker stuff and voila! youve got my first blog

So basically I'm a university student 1 year away from graduating with a degree in poli-sci and hoping then to go onto law. I split my income-generating efforts between sales at a cell phone company (which I actually kinda like, and the commission is pretty solid) and poker. That's pretty much my life in a nutshell, work, school, poker and my gf, who ive been with over 2 years and thank god supports my poker fiendishness.

Poker-wise i've been at this game for about 7 or 8 years, pretty much since the beginning of high school, and its allowed me to do some pretty fun stuff in the last few years. Basically, im a sng player, with a 15% roi over a few thousand sngs with my avg stake being about 50 bucks. So I know what im doing there for the most part. I've got another buddy whose about as much of a fiend as I am, and we've pretty much read every book, played a ton live/online yadda yadda yadda think we're stars lol. But seriously, we just look to make a sick income for univeristy students by sitting on our asses. We're both looking to make the transition a bit more to cash games (hence the CR sub) so we'll see how that goes.

Anyways, plans for this blog are to let you guys in on some of the fun times etc.. and see where that goes. For today I simply plan on playin maybe 20 sngs before I've got to head back to school for a couple international/canadian law courses and hopefully win more than I lose.

Cheers,

Mark