Finally back home in Wisconsin. It's really nice to be back, however I had a really good time in Vegas. It was great meeting a lot of people, playing a lot of poker, and I loved the nightlife. I'm actually thinking about buying a house in Vegas, but that probably won't be for awhile yet, as I am trying to buy a condo here in Milwaukee first.

My car's audio decided to just stop working BEFORE I made the drive. Somehow I ghetto-rigged my speakers and an ipod with like 1/5 of the battery. We used this ipod (without charging it) for like 20 hours straight. It finally died about an hour before I got home. I have no idea how this is possible. i have never had an ipod that could even last a full charge for that long. Anyways, the drive home went smooth, had a friend fly down to help me out with the drive. I ended up getting home at like 330am yesterday morning. I had way too much coffee and I couldn't sleep when I got home and ended up staying up until noon when finally I crashed. Somehow I was on like 60 hours with 4 hours of sleep or something.

I've been very productive in the short time I've been home, but seem to be running bad (in all things). My bank is being retarded once again and has taken over a MONTH to get me a new check card, after I asked for it to be expedited. This is really really irritating when it is my only card. So I went to the bank 10 minutes after it opened, waited 20 minutes in line, and the lady asks 'when did you request a new card?'. I'm like, 'actually it's been over a month ago'. Then she tilted on me because she said 'actually' didn't work for her. I'm the one who gets screwed over by my bank and I get treated like ****? Finally she sees my checking account balance and she started acting real nice. It's annoying always being treated like crap in situations like this just because I'm young. Looks like it's time to get a new bank because I've had a ton of problems with mine and I'm done with it. (end bank rant)

I took my car in to get it's audio fixed and it's all under warranty so I'm happy about that, however it's going to be a week Poker has been going well lately. Swingy, but well. Vegas went something like, run at 41% w$@sd for 35k hands breaking even. Then all of a sudden a 250k weekend. Cool. Get home, play a bit and I'm back to 37% w@sd for 2k hands and stuck 40k. I think I have been so swingy lately because I've been playing more HU and very short games. I've been really happy with my very short game, but haven't played 6max as much just because there are so few games running at 25/50 +. I'm hoping to put in another 20k hands this month. I'm very against setting monetary goals now because I think it's bad for my game. I never think of how much I'm up or down on the day, and usually don't check my cashier or PT until after the session, and I really don't want to start. I just want 20k hands of 25/50+ on my A game, and that is all I can ever aim for.

I'm actually going to miss lollapalooza this year I'll be going on a cruise with my family in early-mid August. Too bad because the lineup looked amazing. I'd recommend checking it out if you can make it to Chicago.

I'm not really sure what I am going to do the next 6-12 months+. I'll probably be staying in Wisconsin until it gets cold, then move to another country again, but haven't really narrowed it down yet.

The next few months I should be back on the grind. I'm hoping to crush my yearly goal of $1mil and am on pace so far. I want to put in a lot more hands the next 6 months, keep working out and eating well, and am looking forward to buying a condo (really excited about this, it's fun).

I'm sure you all have heard all the Favre rumors floating around. Brett seriously can't make up his mind for the life of him. His indecisiveness for the last 5 years is almost comical. Doesn't seem like Packers are going to let him go and are actually pursuing legal action against the Vikings for trying to Favre about playing while he was under contract. It will be really interesting to see what happens with this. I love Favre (obviously, I'm from WI), but I would HAAAAAAATE to see him playing in a Bears or, even worse, a Vikings uniform.

Looks like I've written my first book.

Ben