Finally got back to the Woods today after a week absence, as I've been making excuses not to go pretty much every day since last Monday.
Anyway, went today, hit the +$250 mark within an hour, and pretty much chilled for the next 4 hours. Finished up $235 for a nice start to the week.
Might pull the double and go tomorrow, since Wednesday I'm headed to an improve show my roommate is teching at the Improve Asylum and Thursday is me bdayyy. Birthday's are overrated but I can still use it as an excuse to hang out with good friends and drink more than I should.
And Friday is...well, Friday (tough to get a bus to the casino on Fridays also, since it's the end of the work week and peeps are looking for a way to let off some steam built up since the beginning of the week). Saturday is my joint partyyyy with my friend Jen...so psyched. Another short "work" week...have to make the most of it tomorrow I suppose...wish me luck at the tables!
Also recently (i.e. today), having second (or third...) thoughts about LA. There are so many things I want to do...but is LA really the place? Maybe I need to go somewhere my friends aren't...New York? Toronto? Abroad? I don't really care about money so my options are more open...
Today's been really nostalgic for me. I don't have regrets (except ONE, which I have told no one), but for some reason today I've been thinking a lot about my college life and relationships. I should say "relationship" (singular) since I've only been in one real relationship in college (and that one was short-lived). Anyway, it's been a weird few days.
I've been thinking a lot about life. About what I want to do for the rest of mine. And I've come to realize all of the things I want to do in my lifetime and how little I've done already...why must things like money, lust, apathy and hate get in the way of the great things people could achieve for the world?
I won't stray too deep into this line of thought, but what I'm getting at is that there are a lot of things that are fucked up about this world--and there are so few people alive willing to stand up to these deceptions. I want to be one of those people. I have been blind and apathetic my whole life, but I just now am starting to realize the things I can accomplish if only I set my mind to them...
Now I just need to figure out where to start...
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7/07/2009
7/02/2009
Lazy lazy lazy
I've found excuses not to go to Foxwoods the past few days..
Tuesday I told myself I'd get things done around here (did not). Wednesday I had plans that night so wasn't worth taking the 1030 bus (9am bus was tooo early). Ironically, did get some things done yesterday.
Told myself I'm definitely going today, but woke up pleasantly with a thunderstorm raging outside my windows and thought, 'hey! it's not safe to take a bus in this weather!'
I think the motivation problem lies in the bus rides, not me not wanting to play cards. See, there are only buses from Boston at 9am, 1030am, 1230pm and 2pm, and it's a 2-hour trek to the Woods. The morning buses are hard for me to make, but when I take the later buses I don't get home until midnight (or 7am the next morning...). Not a fan of those hours. Need to start getting on a regular sleeping schedule I think....or at least a regular wake-up schedule.
Oh well, definitely going tomorrow...right?
(I do love a good morning thunderstorm complete with wind and rain though)
Tuesday I told myself I'd get things done around here (did not). Wednesday I had plans that night so wasn't worth taking the 1030 bus (9am bus was tooo early). Ironically, did get some things done yesterday.
Told myself I'm definitely going today, but woke up pleasantly with a thunderstorm raging outside my windows and thought, 'hey! it's not safe to take a bus in this weather!'
I think the motivation problem lies in the bus rides, not me not wanting to play cards. See, there are only buses from Boston at 9am, 1030am, 1230pm and 2pm, and it's a 2-hour trek to the Woods. The morning buses are hard for me to make, but when I take the later buses I don't get home until midnight (or 7am the next morning...). Not a fan of those hours. Need to start getting on a regular sleeping schedule I think....or at least a regular wake-up schedule.
Oh well, definitely going tomorrow...right?
(I do love a good morning thunderstorm complete with wind and rain though)
7/01/2009
Recap: Last two weeks
So let me take a brief moment to recap the action (as poker players say) of the last few weeks:
-6/9/09: First day of the new "job" started off great. Made some big hands and was up over $400 in under three hours. I finished the day up a solid $375.
-6/10/09: Day two was a lot slower...slow table, boring players. Finally won a decent pot towards the end when I flopped two queens with king-queen to crack someone's pocket aces. Managed to finish up $75 or so.
Unfortunately...well, maybe not unfortunately...I had to take a week hiatus from the tables to go to the beach with my extended fam.
-6/23/09: First day back in the poker room went pretty badly. I was down $150 in less than two hours and decided to play a tournament with a $120 buy-in. 155 players entered, and the top 15 finishers would be paid $1000 even. After a shitty run of cards, I finished 17th, two off the money with $0 to show for it. An hour later and $40 lost at the blackjack tables, I was down over $300. It was well past midnight at this point and the next bus wasn't til 4:30 in the morning, so I went back to the cash tables. Finally found some good fortune and cut my losses to just over $100. First day in the negative.
-6/29/09: And that brings me to yesterday...well yesterday was a roller-coaster. At my first table, not much going and was down $50 after several hours. Took a dinner break and sat down at a new table. Doing pretty well, and thought I'd call it a night up $70 or so on the night, since my bus was leaving in 10 minutes. Decided to play ONE MORE HAND. Famous last words--but in this case in a good way. Called a raise with Ace-six and flopped three 6's (667). Guy bet $25, I raise to $75, he calls. Turn is an 8. I bet all in for $150, and he calls right away. He has 45 and turned a straight to my set. River is the last 6. I make quads and take down the $500+ pot. Gotta get lucky sometimes I guess...bad play on my part, but I'll take it.
At this point I should have left, since the bus left in 5 minutes, but in poker it's really rude to win a giant pot and leave right away, especially if you had to get lucky to do it...so I decided to stick around until the 4:30am bus. I was up $350 at this point. Thennn I ran really bad over the next several hours and dropped almost $300. At my low point, I folded a big draw on the river to an all in bet bcus the odds weren't quite right...turns out I would have hit my flush and won a $600 pot to put me up over $500. Alas, that's how it works sometimes. It was a fine fold, but I was now only up $60 on the night after having been up $350 at my high point. Luckily I managed to finish strong and played my best hand of the night to get some back. After all the ups and downs, managed to post a decent win, going home in the wee hours of the morning up $170.
***
So, after four days "at the office", I've done pretty decent. Probably shouldn't have played that tournament, but I've still posted positive numbers in three of the four days. Made $520 or so in total, which means about $130 a day...that's a lot more than I'd be making working a 9-to-5 temp job at $9 an hour, that's for sure. So far so good. Keep you updated.
-6/9/09: First day of the new "job" started off great. Made some big hands and was up over $400 in under three hours. I finished the day up a solid $375.
-6/10/09: Day two was a lot slower...slow table, boring players. Finally won a decent pot towards the end when I flopped two queens with king-queen to crack someone's pocket aces. Managed to finish up $75 or so.
Unfortunately...well, maybe not unfortunately...I had to take a week hiatus from the tables to go to the beach with my extended fam.
-6/23/09: First day back in the poker room went pretty badly. I was down $150 in less than two hours and decided to play a tournament with a $120 buy-in. 155 players entered, and the top 15 finishers would be paid $1000 even. After a shitty run of cards, I finished 17th, two off the money with $0 to show for it. An hour later and $40 lost at the blackjack tables, I was down over $300. It was well past midnight at this point and the next bus wasn't til 4:30 in the morning, so I went back to the cash tables. Finally found some good fortune and cut my losses to just over $100. First day in the negative.
-6/29/09: And that brings me to yesterday...well yesterday was a roller-coaster. At my first table, not much going and was down $50 after several hours. Took a dinner break and sat down at a new table. Doing pretty well, and thought I'd call it a night up $70 or so on the night, since my bus was leaving in 10 minutes. Decided to play ONE MORE HAND. Famous last words--but in this case in a good way. Called a raise with Ace-six and flopped three 6's (667). Guy bet $25, I raise to $75, he calls. Turn is an 8. I bet all in for $150, and he calls right away. He has 45 and turned a straight to my set. River is the last 6. I make quads and take down the $500+ pot. Gotta get lucky sometimes I guess...bad play on my part, but I'll take it.
At this point I should have left, since the bus left in 5 minutes, but in poker it's really rude to win a giant pot and leave right away, especially if you had to get lucky to do it...so I decided to stick around until the 4:30am bus. I was up $350 at this point. Thennn I ran really bad over the next several hours and dropped almost $300. At my low point, I folded a big draw on the river to an all in bet bcus the odds weren't quite right...turns out I would have hit my flush and won a $600 pot to put me up over $500. Alas, that's how it works sometimes. It was a fine fold, but I was now only up $60 on the night after having been up $350 at my high point. Luckily I managed to finish strong and played my best hand of the night to get some back. After all the ups and downs, managed to post a decent win, going home in the wee hours of the morning up $170.
***
So, after four days "at the office", I've done pretty decent. Probably shouldn't have played that tournament, but I've still posted positive numbers in three of the four days. Made $520 or so in total, which means about $130 a day...that's a lot more than I'd be making working a 9-to-5 temp job at $9 an hour, that's for sure. So far so good. Keep you updated.
6/30/2009
What is "The Anti-9to5"?
Welllll, welcome all to my newly created blog, The Anti-9to5.
I created this blog to document my displeasure with and refusal to immerse myself in the so-called "working world". Since I graduated last December with a very practical degree in Film Production, I moved back to Boston and tried temping for a while. These temp jobs, for the most part, were your very basic office related positions, or "9 to 5's".
Of course, all of these positions were part-time or contract-based, but I quickly grew tired and annoyed working these low-paying, thankless positions.
I want to be a filmmaker. Of course, what this means is that I won't be able to make money from my chosen profession for...well, a good long while. Combine that with this newly found independence following graduation (which includes such perks as paying for my own rent and the advent of $90k+ worth of lone payments to deal with come July) and you can see how my options become very thin.
What I should be doing is sucking it up, taking whatever regular paying position I can get to just pay the bills, and all the while work my ass off in my own time looking for the first full-time position I can find....
Yep, tried that. Hated that. Soooo, I recently decided to try my hand making money doing something I actually enjoy: Poker. Yes yes, that popular gambling game that so many people attribute any success in to luck. Fortunately, poker is in fact a game of skill, and it is possible to utilize that skill to make money.
And thus, a couple weeks ago I started making regular pilgrimages to the Foxwoods Casino in nearby CT to play poker...and make some money doing it to pay the bills.
What I hope to show in this blog is that it's possible to make money and have success in the "working world" without subjecting yourself to "doing time" working shitty jobs until the time comes where you can catch your break. Sure it's a risk, but hey, it's just money, right? As far as I'm concerned, there are a whole lot more important things in this world than money.
And that's kind of the ironic thing about poker: it's all about money, but it's not about the importance of money. You just can't play poker if you value your money too much, since it's that money that you're putting at risk.
For the rest of the Summer, before I move out to LA in September--Hell or high water (i.e. whether or not I have a job or the money)--I'm going to say "fuck you" to those low-pay, demoralizing temp/office jobs and make money the one way I actually can that still lets me maintain my dignity and happiness. So fuck you corporate world! I make my own hours now.
Well, that ends my lengthy introduction to this blog. I hope you'll follow along with me as I blog my exploits and success (or lack of success) while trying to make a temporary living in an unorthodox way. Enjoy!
**Forewarning: this isn't a poker blog, but I will be blogging a lot about poker, since, well...I'm playing poker at a casino 4-5 times a week. So be prepared for poker terminology and ranting about my daily ups and downs in the following months--I'll try my best to keep it to a minimum.
I created this blog to document my displeasure with and refusal to immerse myself in the so-called "working world". Since I graduated last December with a very practical degree in Film Production, I moved back to Boston and tried temping for a while. These temp jobs, for the most part, were your very basic office related positions, or "9 to 5's".
Of course, all of these positions were part-time or contract-based, but I quickly grew tired and annoyed working these low-paying, thankless positions.
I want to be a filmmaker. Of course, what this means is that I won't be able to make money from my chosen profession for...well, a good long while. Combine that with this newly found independence following graduation (which includes such perks as paying for my own rent and the advent of $90k+ worth of lone payments to deal with come July) and you can see how my options become very thin.
What I should be doing is sucking it up, taking whatever regular paying position I can get to just pay the bills, and all the while work my ass off in my own time looking for the first full-time position I can find....
Yep, tried that. Hated that. Soooo, I recently decided to try my hand making money doing something I actually enjoy: Poker. Yes yes, that popular gambling game that so many people attribute any success in to luck. Fortunately, poker is in fact a game of skill, and it is possible to utilize that skill to make money.
And thus, a couple weeks ago I started making regular pilgrimages to the Foxwoods Casino in nearby CT to play poker...and make some money doing it to pay the bills.
What I hope to show in this blog is that it's possible to make money and have success in the "working world" without subjecting yourself to "doing time" working shitty jobs until the time comes where you can catch your break. Sure it's a risk, but hey, it's just money, right? As far as I'm concerned, there are a whole lot more important things in this world than money.
And that's kind of the ironic thing about poker: it's all about money, but it's not about the importance of money. You just can't play poker if you value your money too much, since it's that money that you're putting at risk.
For the rest of the Summer, before I move out to LA in September--Hell or high water (i.e. whether or not I have a job or the money)--I'm going to say "fuck you" to those low-pay, demoralizing temp/office jobs and make money the one way I actually can that still lets me maintain my dignity and happiness. So fuck you corporate world! I make my own hours now.
Well, that ends my lengthy introduction to this blog. I hope you'll follow along with me as I blog my exploits and success (or lack of success) while trying to make a temporary living in an unorthodox way. Enjoy!
**Forewarning: this isn't a poker blog, but I will be blogging a lot about poker, since, well...I'm playing poker at a casino 4-5 times a week. So be prepared for poker terminology and ranting about my daily ups and downs in the following months--I'll try my best to keep it to a minimum.
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