So, after a few days of procrastinating, I've decided to get with it and begin a blog. A lot's going on in my life right now and it'll give me some satisfaction to have a record of these days and happenings in addition to a place to vent about and share what's up with my poker "career."

To introduce myself: I'm 25, living in Odessa, Ukraine, grinding $1/2 trying to break into MSNL. I'm getting married next month to a wonderful Ukranian girl whom I met while working in Alaska a few summers back, and we're planning a sweet honeymoon trip to Amsterdam and Paris for July. Tonight we're going to the capital city of Ukraine, Kiev, so that I can get a Certificate of Freedom to Marry, for which I have to swear to some official that I'm legally eligible to marry, in other words, that I'm single. Depending on when the trains are running, I should be back early Saturday morning (locally) / late Friday US. It'll be good to have a short break from poker, since I'm so caught up in the daily grind (~2000 hands/day avg.) and I've had a few rough sessions this week, one in which I dropped $1300 @ $1/2 and another where I lost ~$1000 +-. For the month I'm up ~$4000 and I've earned maybe $1000 in rakeback, hoping to net, altogether, $11k by June 1.

I guess that does it for the intro. I'll post more after next session, including some graphs and PT shots.