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My summer was pretty amazing. Life is good. I went out west for a few weeks in June, British Columbia - especially Vancouver - is a lot different than southern Ontario. We met lots of interesting travelers and some amazing stereotypical home-towners. Coming back to Toronto/Waterloo was disheartening. Although I did have a sweet job to look forward to.

My life consisted of teaching golf, playing golf, and chillin' with my g/f. The money was sweet, most of the other instructors complain about the money - but I'm young and a little bit of decent money means a lot :) Although the summer is over... and teaching season is done, now I just work in the proshop... and my g/f is back at school. I'm still a non-student, aimlessly drifting through crazy-ass jobs and people. That's right, I drift through people. But I have some cool prospects for the winter..... so I'm happy.

Since the golf season is basically over, and alanna is crazy busy w/ school, I'm pretty bored. Sooooo...

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I played poker tonight!!! YEAHHHHHHH

If you asked me 2 months ago, I would have said "yeah I am done with online poker, but I'll still play live" - and since then I haven't played any live poker, I no longer even show up to the NL40 game that spawned me.

Tonight I played 6 handed hold'em, $10 buy-in, .25/.50 blinds. I probably played 20-25 hands in just over an hour, lost my $10 and went home.

I'd been putting off doing it, but today I cashed out all of the money I had in online poker rooms, $150 from Mansion poker and about 800 from PokerStars. I honestly don't think I'll be playing any poker online for at least 3-4 months, so no point letting them scoop my interest :P

I also cashed in a couple of my FPPs to buy a black Poker Stars hoodie. I still have a couple thousand FPPs, but maybe in a couple months I'll parlay them into a fortune, or into nothingness.

Regardless, today my life took a step in the right direction :)

So despite my lack of interest in internet poker, I am still donkeying around with live poker, stealing pots, breaking hearts, flipping coins.

Alright, so as usual, my buddies and I play .50/1 NO limit hold'em with a $40 maximum buy-in. I've been running cold the last couple of trips - so where some people would say that luck and patterns have nothing to do with poker, smart people like me would say that poker is all about luck and streaks. I'm not saying you can predict the streaks, but I do know that my mad-skillz will eventually pay off - one big win outta 5, and I"m only down 3K a month... errr or something like that.

So anyways, we played poker on monday (my first day-off since I got home from vancouver)- which was a sweet day - I completed the triathlon of non-athletics: Golf, Pool and Poker.

We golfed in a threesome and tee'd off around 2:00, we were playing skins, $5 per hole, every man for himself, ties are pushed over to the next hole. We are all fairly equally skilled...

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I am finally back in Ontario. I was in Vancouver for just over 2 weeks, it was an amazing trip. Vancouver is the best city I've ever been to, I'm willing to say it's the nicest city in North America.

Since getting home I've played live poker once and haven't even considered playing online. I am disgusted by poker and I don't think I'll ever "care" about poker again.