So a bunch of great things have been happening lately, and the best one's don't even have to do with poker! I have been helping a few students and they're already showing lots of improvement and winning more... sweet. I've been making about $1.75/hand in my last 40k hands, which is pretty close to what my "ultimate goal" has been for some time.

I use the quotation marks there not like someone like Greg would use them (I have a reason), but because there is no ultimate goal for people like us, motivated poker players. I'm going to become extremely comfortable with 2knl and 2k deep and eventually not so freaked out when I take shots at 5k. Anyways, I don't want to talk about poker so much in this blog post other than saying that it's going well and I'm feeling good about my game, still discovering new things to talk about with my close poker buddies.

My girlfriend is coming to stay with me very soon. She lives in Australia and it's been waaaaay too long since I've seen her. I have some surprises in store for the occasion that I can't mention because there's a decent chance that she may read this! Only one more week and we'll be hanging

I'm about to go down to Chapel Hill to help my friend from high school, Greg (different Greg than mynmsgreg), break down some of his crappy old furniture to toss out because Good Will won't take it. After that, Greg, hopefully mynmsgreg, Jon, Will, and I are going to Greg's lake house. The pics I have of this place are on my old old lap top, so who knows where that's at. Suffice it to say that this place is like heaven on earth. It's a huge 7 bedroom house with a gym, a pool, a deck, a guest house, plasma tv in every room, a meteor room, a room in which to play music (sound proof obv), a sick 6-handed poker table (tyty), a pool table, jet skis, speed boat, tubes, it's on the water... I could go on. I'll definitely take some pictures when I'm there this time because I can't just tease you guys with a few words about how awesome it is there. I also have some friends who have a house around there, so praps some major partying is in order?

Like I said in my last blog post, I've been reading some of the Four Hour Work Week, it's a pretty interesting read that challenges lots of the preconceptions about the social status quo, but we wouldn't know anything about that (right?). So needless to say, some of it is definitely about what we've all been working towards, freedom to do whatever we want, whenever we want, however we want. The most interesting take on the whole rat-race is that it's often associated with being rich as hell. It makes me realize that the lifestyle I currently live, I basically do anything I want to do all the time and still have plenty of extra money in the bank (because I've been saving up to invest in some real estate).

So the grand finale of this entry is that I'm saying fuck you saving and buying a used Maserati Quattroporte, a 4.2L V8 6-speed beast.


So hopefully things continue on pace with how they're going now. I figure worst case, I'll sell it. But this is basically my dream car. I'll have plenty of money after buying it, it'll help build my credit history, something that's a nightmare to get started for the self-employed, and it's going to be freaking great. I toyed with the idea of a custom plate, but I think that would just lead to keyings and bricks being thrown. I'm going to try to make an official offer on it in about 3-4 days, so *fingers crosses* and I'll see you guys soon to update you on how all these great plans unravel!

-Reid