So I haven't really been blogging that much / at all lately. I'm not really sure why, I think it's because I was trying to foster some poker discussion here and become a leggopoker video maker or just kind of get my name out there.

Barring some FTP sponsorship, I basically stopped caring about both of those things completely for a few reasons on which I'd rather not elaborate.

Anyways... I had my best month this June, pulling in just over $40K. $2Knl is going well and I can certainly tell that most people who play it are terrible, including myself. So it's exciting to be playing at what is the highest limit running on stars and FTP a lot of the time and still see much room for improvement across the board. It really makes me want to learn more.

Another cool thing about that is that I used to just watch 3-4 videos of other people playing a week, and now I play most of those guys and realize that everyone just learned from everyone else and so they spatter off the same things everyone else has already said.

That said, Phil Galfond's videos are amazing and have certainly helped me get better and, more importantly, know how to get better.

Yesterday, was the 5k buy in 6max event here in Las Vegas and I feel like I played pretty great except for a few tiny bet sizing mistakes because to be honest, and it's sad, I get excited when I'm about to double through a Euro donk deep stacked and live. In the tourney, my first table, on which I was the one seat, featured none other than Rich, aka nutsinho, in the 3 seat. It was pretty funny because he and I had just met on this trip and had been hanging out a decent amount with a lot of the other guys in my house. He sweated me in some drunk and goes and I've sweated him online some. So I think we both had a tiny idea about how the other one played, even though we'd never played online cash together, and he probably didn't think that I knew too much about his game. We ended up staying out of each others' ways mostly and tried to take advantage of this German dude who was 3 betting probably somewhere in the neighborhood of 25% and opening tons, who people know, but I don't because I basically never follow the donkament scene.

There is a pic of this guy on my twitter (shootaaa for those interested). He was reading fairytales the entire time and it was pretty obvious to both of us when he had what he had I would imagine. I tried to float and then bluff some stars pro guy who ended up checking and calling trips twice on the turn and river versus me after he opened utg on T63r T 2. So that was sad and I was down to about 5k at 100/200. I 4 bet shoved KQo over this Belgian guy who was playing ok, but he kept telling me how scared money he was and that he satellited into the event. A great guy, but definitely not the best thing to tell someone at a tourney and not adjust to it IMO. After that, I restole vs the stars guy once and Rich busted in the meantime. The gentleman who replaced Rich was a most welcome replacement (because Rich is good and this guy was godawful). He was limp calling tons and obviously the German dude was having a field day with him by isoing him preflop tons.

The hand: at 150/300, the fish open limps, German guy makes it 800, good knowledgeable younger dude who looked like he was from Northeastern US makes it 2300 and I jam A5o in the SB for ~9k. It folds to the German who is basically giving me a look like lol I have 88 you bastard and I know what you're doing, but it's a lot of chips and he folds. Then the other dude hems and haws for probably about a minute and a half, both shuffling his cards around and grabbing his chips, indicating his indecisiveness. Finally he calls with TT, whoops. A in the window... weee.

I'm up to around 23k and see a flop in a reraised pot vs the donk with KQ on KQ9 rainbow and he bet/3 bets AQ into me. A turn, he screams and runs around. I shake his hand and give him the obligatory 'must be nice' and say gl to everyone.

It was sooooo disappointing to bust there because the table thought I was the hugest donk of donks and anytime I had a pair I was going to get some insane value, especially with a stack that would've been about 2x average at the time.

Other than that, I'm waiting for my Aussie GF to come give me a visit, I've got the Fee's aids I think and I've been trying to rest up (I just slept 13hrs!?), and I decided not to move to San Diego with Craig. My decision about SD was mainly because I didn't know the area well enough to move there. It's a pretty nice place that Craig and I went to visit a week or so ago, but I just don't think I'm ready to commit to anything like that. I still have at least 2 more months at my place in NC. In the meantime, I think I'm going to be scoping out places with Greg (the mymnsgreg). I really think Tahoe is a great option because of it's beauty, size, the fact that some of it is in Nevada (taxes wee), and that we could go snowboarding a ton during the season.

I'm really looking forward to boarding with all the guys a ton this Winter, in fact, I probably chat about it too much! I'm hoping to hit up Switzerland, maybe New Zealand, if I can get a few buds who are willing to cope with that flight, and Canada. Colorado and Vermont are also pretty solid options.

I still want my Masserati Quattroporte, but first things first is that I'm going to get into some real estate investing. I plan on using a ton of my bank role now for traveling expenses and to play 2k and hopefully 5k by the end of the year, if things keep going well in the next few months, But I think getting into the market, especially now, with 20 or 30k down on a place or two would be a pretty solid idea.

It's certainly tempting to insta ship a sweet car and decent place wherever (being nearly busto afterwards obv), but I'm sticking with my plan. Somebody was giving me crap about being a life nit (lol) the other day and I just wanted to say that I've seen some people more aggressive with poker move up and be fairly successful, having pretty huge swings overall since they may not have been totally ready for that limit, and I've seen plenty of people fall by the wayside and try to regrind their roll back at 200nl. It's been a fairly consistent climb to where I am now, and all I'm hoping for now is that it continues and I'm beating 5knl in the next 4-5 months. GL guys, thanks for reading this. IDK if I'll be updating semi-regularly, but it's entirely possible since I'm in Vegas now and hilarious shit always happens here.

Take care & GL.

-Reid