Things :: Back from dead

Yo. Happy new year, pigs & pigettes.

Since I'm losing my ability to write, and 10 different words are enough for my usual daily talk (not counting "mhm", "doh" and "f" sort of words), I decided to update this blog at least twice a week to get things moving.

Recently I finished my prelast semester at university with pretty good grades. Now in 3.5 months I have to finish my master thesis, and I will be done with studies for good, leaving me much more free time for 'real life' whatever that is.

In poker world I'm in stalmate. Early January was very good, I was running over $10 Sit'n'Goes with ROI more than 150%. Then mid January I started to run very poorly, like, getting AK vs A2 allin preflop and praying for a chop pot, and still not getting there. Then I moved to cash tables for a change, where after good start I did blow off another few hundred bucks. So all in all I was up couple of hundreds up in January and am couple of hundreds down in February leaving myself nearly at starting point.

Worth mentioning was my venture to MTTs last weekend, where out of 3 played tournaments I did run pretty deep in two of them (40th out of 800 in $8 rebuy, and 20th out of 800 in $10 freezout, also was in top 10 with 100 left in another $10 freezout, but busted in ~70). Frustrating thing is that I busted out of all of them getting my chips in being ahead on the flop vs 6outers, and never held up. All those pots might have costed 4figures for me, since final table payouts were pretty good, especially in $8 rebuy (6k for first prize). I should try more MTTs coming weekends.

For the rest of the February I wont try to get creative, just play my daily four $10 SnG's on workdays, and some on weekend as time allows.

When I withdrew all my money from PartyPoker account, I invested them in EasternEurope and Russia funds, also bought some China 3-year bonds lately (bonds which are connected with stocks, ie their expected profitability is much much higher than simple bonds, but its more risk involved). During January my portfolio went up by $100, which is kinda nice.

I think my long term goal should be to be able to retire by the age of 30 :)