So I haven't posted to my blog for a few weeks. I kept on telling myself I was going to put in an awesome TR for my uNL 2+2 meet up in SC, but I never got around to doing it, so I just kept on pushing back updating my blog.

But anyways, I'll give a quick overview of my last two weeks (mainly poker related).

Thursday the 4th I left my college in southern VA to drive 8 hours to SC to meet up with some 2+2ers I talk to in the micro-stakes forum and over AIM. The drive there sucked since I had to go by myself, and I lost my ipod right as I was leaving so I was stuck listening to some old CDs the whole way there. Grabbed a few 5 hour energy shots, and took to the road, making only 2 gas/food stops.

When getting to SC I met thac, LetMeLive, kaz2107, and bobboufl11 that first night. We hung around the house chatting it up (with some of kaz's IRL roomies too) and grinding a little bit of poker, until late when we decided to head to IHOP for some food. We crammed 6 of us into a car (throwing thac in the trunk) and had a fun little breakfast at IHOP, where our service sucked, and made half of us feel like **** the next day.

(LetMeLive)



(Thac in the trunk)


That night I stayed up pretty late grinding, then eventually railed LML and helped him out a little as he took a 200nl shot on stars. I think he ended up around a buy in, but felt like we were playing pretty optimally. Went to bed that morning around 9AM after saying good morning to my girlfriend over AIM.



Day 2

After getting about 3 hours of sleep and being woken up around noon we started the preparations for that night's party. We headed out to buy some alcohol from the liquor store, and picking up a keg for the party. I don't really drink all too often, but I had a good ol' time drinking that night.





(jello shots)



I bought a camera only a few days ago with intentions of documenting my SC trip. As I drank more and more, I turned into a human strobelight taking pictures.

As the party started filling up I met BevilTheDevil (2+2) who's also a pretty awesome guy. I continued drinking waiting for pjo336, and Dawade to make their appearance at the party. As soon as pjo got there we started hanging out a little and drinking. We talk quite a bit online, and we were immediately pretty chill IRL, so that was really awesome. Wade came in a few hours later, offered me some Jagermeister, and I don't remember too much after that for a few hours.

Sometime in that time period I started calling up my girlfriend while drinking, and apparently while on the phone I was the sweetest guy in the world while drunk, and also made a whole bunch of drunken poker analogies to my girlfriend (lol?). PJo lit some incenses on fire, and I took a whole bunch more pictures until the party died down.

(me and PJo)


(PJo lighting stuff on fire)


(2+2, kaz, wade, thac)


(me on the phone with girlfriend)


(hanging out afterwards)




While still pretty drunk I decided it'd be fun to play poker, but didn't want to actually risk any of my money, so I played a few $5 sit and gos, and then 25NL. At 25nl I played a very ABC 42/37 style with about a 27% 3b over 1k hands. I would open shove PF and on the flop with a huuuge range, and made some pretty fun plays when shoving T6s PF into AA 150 BB deep and sucking out, then flopping the nut flush against a nit and proceeding to slowroll him (sorry poker gods, I wouldn't do it while sober, I swear).



The next day we bought some more alcohol for a smaller 2nd party, but I had already decided I didn't want to drink again since I had to make an 8 hour drive back to school and study for a final when I got back. So the 2nd night me pjo, thac, and then random friends came to hang out mostly sober while a smaller party went on. Wade was drinking pretty much from waking up til sleep, and got pretty crazy, freestyling about internet poker (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_axKGAAtXU - amaaazing), and just being wade.

(wade and LML 2nd night)




All in all I had an amazing time in South Carolina, and definitely want to hang out with these guys again (and I will in my next blog update ). I'll leave you with some more random SC trip pictures.

(kaz LML)


(kaz thac)


(wade freestyling)


(thac's jokes do not amuse pjo)


(me, wade, wade's roommate, and kaz)