Taking a day off from poker today so I figured I might as well post a long overdue update.

Been home for about two weeks now. After coming from the fast paced Vegas lifestyle, living at home has been a nice change of pace. I'm quite happy with how it's working out so far.

Over the last couple years, I've come to learn that balance is the most important key to success as a poker player. Eating home cooked meals, helping my mom around the house, playing video games with my sisters, all these fairly standard/normal family things should help keep me balanced. At this point in my life, this is exactly what I'm looking for. I'm very optimistic about the coming months. I'll be free of all distractions and can really dedicate myself to both studying and grinding lots of hours.

Vegas was pretty lowkey this year, much different than in years past. Our house was fairly far from the strip and we only had two cars, so we ended up spending the majority of time at the house. This was cool by me since I had already experienced the hotels and the general degeneracy of the strip. As shown in Probability's blog, the house was pretty sweet. I already knew Crispy, Nuey, Jeff, and Jaymes before Vegas but the new guys, David, Brad, and Greg were all chill and fit in right away, which made for a great group. Was also nice seeing Tri and Reefy again who I had previously roomed with in Mexico.

While I was out in Vegas, I was hooping pretty much every day at 24 hr fitness. My game has severely deteriorated over the years, but I still love to play. The highlight of the trip was beating Ae Jones, Anksy, and the Ashman in 5 on 5. I shot and played terribly but I did manage to hit the game winning 3 after several failed attempts. I think everyone in our house considers those guys to be poker legends/role models, so beating them in any competitive endeavor was pretty sweet. I think we cared much more about winning then they did, but whatever, it was still pretty cool beating a team of millionaires.

Poker had been going pretty well, until the last couple of days. The pattern has been crushing 100-400NL and then getting crushed at my limited shots at 600 and 1KNL. I had my worst losing day yesterday which obviously sucked, but felt like I handled it pretty well. All in all though, I'm pretty happy with my progress. I haven't been putting in that much volume, so my results haven't been super stellar, but my hourly is right around $75, which I'm pretty happy with.

That's all I got for now. Heading to Miami for 4th of July weekend with some friends so pretty excited for that. Later all and gl in Vegas/donkaments in July