I've never had a blog before and tbh never really wanted one because I'm not into the whole bragging about poker wins/whining about loses thing. But I LOVE reading blogs and do so semi-religiously. (If you have a blog on here or CR, chances are I'm an avid reader of it.) So yeah, I have decided to give back to the poker community a little bit and chronicle my degenerate college life into text for the whole interweb to read.

Here goes nothing........

My name is Ryan and I am an 18 year old rising college freshman at UNC. I am originally from THE boring ass farm state of Ohio but moved to North Carolina about 3 years ago and am loving every minute of it. In Ohio, my main focuses in life were wrestling and football. I was absolutely consumed by those two sports from 7th-10th grade. I will never forget my first year of wrestling in 7th grade. My record was like 2-17(lol) and I always did terrible at meets and tournaments. I had no clue what was wrong with me, I just couldn't win a match. So I was pretty much traumatized and hated wrestling at the end of my 7th grade season. And yet, I was so intrigued at how some of the kids I was wrestling were so good and I was so bad. Therefore, I made up my mind that I wanted to stop losing at this stupid sport and prove to everyone(see: myself) that I was somebody. That summer going into my 8th grade year was the most life changing experience of my life. I was so focused on winning(or rather not losing) that I went to about 4 different camps that summer and lifted/trained in my spare time for the whole 3 months of summer and up until the beginning of wrestling season in October. Needless to say, I went 20-2 my 8th grade year and won the following awards in my conference: Most pins, Most nearfalls, Most takedowns, Most improved, and 125lbs and under MVP. Then in my freshman year I wrestled at the 112lbs. varsity weight class and went 24-6, got 1st at sectionals, 2nd at Districts, and 4th at the State Championships for the 112 pound weight class. I felt like I was on top of the world because I had shattered my goal to at least be a winning wrestler in high school and instead WAS THE 4TH BEST WRESTLER at my weight class/division in the STATE.

Then, my world came crashing down all in one night.......

This is probably getting too tl;dr so I think I'll leave you guys with that and finish my "autobiography" in a later entry.


Peace for now