Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Loving Life

Finally a happy blog post. At 1:30AM on Sunday, June 7th, I was smiling uncontrollably. I finally did it. I broke my 6 month downswing, and finally won a big tournament. I won the $150R for a little over $61K, basically clearing my makeup for Matt. It felt absolutely amazing. I don't think I've even been happier in poker. The funny thing is, I didn't really profit off of it. It still felt really amazing and I'm much more upbeat now. I have a feeling the next couple months are going to be great.

I have a pretty booked schedule for the upcoming week. Somehow I managed to get 12 hours of community service from school for pulling a cell phone out of my pocket to check the time. It's my second offense of getting my phone taken away, so it's an automatic 3-day suspension. Since it's finals, they can't suspend me so I do community service instead. I'd honestly rather be suspended but whatever. Today I had finals from 8-11, then made up my Gym final that I missed, and did 1 hour of community service. I have to do 11 more hours, which means doing 4 tomorrow and 7 on Friday. Friday is going to suck, but at least it's the last time I have to set foot in that god awful school for another three months.

Back on the positive side of things, I'm leaving for Vegas on Monday. It should be amazingly fun and I'm really looking forward to it. I'm staying with my friend Wesley (w33ktight) and a few others in a beautiful house. I know tons of people that are going to be there, and I'm a sucker for a really good steak which happen to be abundant in Vegas. Getting away from the house/everyday stresses of life will be cool too. Should be really relaxing and fun.

Finals are coming to a close on Thursday as well. Everything seems to be coming together just in time for Summer which is the best time. The overall run good switch has been turned on and seems to be in full force. Everything just seems to be working out. I had two finals today, English and Biology. I had absolutely no idea what I was doing on Bio final, but managed to lucksack a 73% on it. Honestly I thought there was no way I was passing. I literally had no idea how to answer most of the questions but guessed my way to a C. Going to pull off a B in that class somehow overall. My English final was great as well. I wasn't at school for one of the stories that the Final asked about. There were 12 questions about that one story out of 100 questions. I managed to get an 86% on the final and should get an A in the class. Ship the run good!

Here's a screenshot of my win for good measure/brags:

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Hopefully this keeps up and I continue to do well. I feel better than ever and I'm super motivated to make something happen this Summer. I also plan on having a ton of fun outside of poker. I definitely am going to be exercising much more, and starting to work out and play more basketball. I really love playing sports and haven't played that much since I started taking poker seriously. I definitely miss it a ton.

Thanks for reading!

-Brandon