Back Online

by xxrod17xx on 09/26/07

Hey guys, I am semi moved into my apartment now and I finally have cable and internet! I obviously have not played any poker and was not able to blog until I was online again. So I guess this blog will consist of an update on how dealers school is going and a little about what my apartment is like.

Basically, I live in this really small, quiet town in a large Victorian house that was changed into 4 different apartments. Mine is on the first floor and its a long rectangle. So the room are not very wide, but the amount of sq. footage that I have is much more than I actually need. I am playing $700/mo. +cable, internet phone ($99/mo.), gas and electric (heat is gas). So I am assuming its going to end up being somewhere around $805-$900/mo. I have a tiny like 13'' T.V. because that was all I needed throughout college and the couch I brought doesn't even fit in the living room lol. I have my poker table in the living room with my tiny T.V. and I just practice dealing for most of the afternoons until class starts at 8pm.

I moved in on Saturday and I live right behind a bar. So I am assuming after my first night alone that the weekends are going to be pretty loud around here at night. I woke up at 3:30am to a bar fight right outside my front door my first night alone. This made me suuuuper uncomfortable for the first few nights, but I am becoming much more comfortable now as the weekday's are very quiet and relaxing. I never thought living alone would be so difficult, but when you live in a town where you literally know not a single person it is quite taxing. I literally spent the first day or so without speaking a single word. I talked to a former roommate yesterday and he is doing the same thing and he put it perfectly he said, "It makes you appreciate everything you had so much more." When I would talk on the phone with parents when I was in college all I wanted to do was get off the phone, but now I truly enjoy speaking to them as well as friends. Anyway, while I am in school I would love to make a little money so I applied to places like Shoprite, Acme, Blockbuster and I hope to hear from them soon so I can like buy food and stuff.

Now, school is awesome! I have a really cool teacher and hes really good as well. I am learning 1-5 stud high right now which is a game I don't normally play so I am learning a little about how stud works. The first night was easy we worked on our pitch a little and we learned the basics of stud and hand rankings. The second night was awesome. We got into the box and went over an entire sequence of how a 7-card stud hand would go from the shuffle to shipping the pot to the winner. There is a special way to do everything and its fun to learn all this new stuff. I am also getting the impression that our teacher (a former poker room manager of a number of rooms in A.C.) is going to be getting all of us auditions which will be great because if we do well we get a job right away maybe. This got me super excited and I am ready to work harder than I have ever worked.

As for poker, I don't sleep well here yet. I don't want to play in the afternoons because the games are so much better at night so I have to get used to coming back from school at about 11pm and feel up to play. I have just been too drained to even try and play my A game so I haven't played a hand it probably a week. I got my first good night of sleep last night (because I drank a little vodka before I went to bed) so we will see how I feel tonight, I would love to put a session in. Alright, good luck at the tables and I hope to find a job so I can afford the gas to dive to the casinos and to school and to work and all that crap every day so I can start updating the A.C. poker room pages. If I don't get a job within a few weeks I will call a connection I have at Caesars and I can possibly get a job doing some bull crap while I am waiting for an audition(s).

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EdmondDantes says

Nice update. FWIW, I became a much better player once I learned how to deal all the games. I'm no expert, mind you, and I'm still inclined to blow off some chips stupidly, but once you've dealt for a while, you really start seeing the rhythms. Expect your own game to improve dramatically. You'll be replacing the 13-inch Sanyo with a 42-inch Sony by year-end!

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