Hey everybody,

been a little while since I've updated, but I was really busy the last couple of weeks. Hopefully that'll tone down a litle bit cause I was starting to get pretty depressed not being able to do what I want to do (which usually is a mix of poker, doing outdoors stuff and hangin out with friends). I had 2 exams and a couple of assignments for my minor that I had to take care off. Eventually I only did 1 exam because I started studying way too late. Would be amazing if I passed it though.

The minor I'm doing is called 'Influencing People: Psychology and Practice', and it's pretty interesting. One of the concepts they talked about was using a decoy with subscriptions. The example they used was with The Economist subscription. When there were only two options: A) 3 months site acces and magazins at home for 50$ or B) 1 year site acces and magazines at home for 175$, roughly 65% chose option A and thus 35% chose option B. However, when they added a decoy option: 1 year site acces, no magazines for 175$ (Obviously noone chooses this) suddenly the roles were reversed. About 65% of the new applications chose option B. The decoy tricked people into thinking that option B was by far the smartest choice. Thought that was cool and explained why things like rapidshare have an option of 5$ for 1 day, or 7$ for a month (not exact numbers).

Poker has been awesome the past 2 months. I'm really happy things turned around immensely: August was my biggest losing month, September my biggest winning month. And Octobre is currently 2nd best. I was a little bit rusty when I started playing after the exams (hadn't played for a week or so), my frequencies were definitely off. It's interesting that being at the top of my game right now means that I am starting to see how ridiculously many mistakes I make. Improving on those points and trusting myself to do something nonstandard when it feels right is going to be hard but should be rewarding.

Life is good, after the exams everything seems twice as fun. I went out with my buddies the past 2 nights and just had a blast. I watched the movie Ip Man (the one that Jeff recommended) and really liked it. It was funny that I could sort of understand the movie without subs (it was Chinese), I feel like understanding the 'tone' made some of the things Ip Man said extra awesome. Wednesday I'll be going to Jackass 3D , I heard good things about it so really curious.

I had some random rungood the other day. I bet 5k on Lesnar, and obviously lost. The next day I checked my bet and it turned out I did something wrong and only bet on 1 slip of 100$. So instead of losing 5k I just lost 100 bucks .

Well this post turned out longer than I thought it'd be, hpefully the next time I update I will have found a new place that I can move in to

doei,

Denny