House Hunting and Poker Update
So it’s been a while since my last post. Here are some things that have been going on.
My search for a home continues. I have looked at hundreds of homes online, and probably 50+ in person. I’ve put an offer in on two different houses, but neither worked out. The second house didn’t work out because the sellers refuse to go below their asking AND they won’t give any closing help. They are clearly clueless to the current housing market. And so after that deal falling through, I’m back at square one. Still looking for a nice house in a nice neighborhood. I’m homeless on August 28th, but my friend has kindly offered to let me stay with him until the end of September. That gives me about 7 weeks.
That same friend and I recently launched our poker coaching site, www.2ndnutz.com. Check it out if you’re interested in affordable poker coaching!
I had a couple rough sessions at 200NL last month which resulted in my first losing month. On the bright side, I’ve completely erased that month’s debt and then some in the first 5 days of this month. I’m going to try to put in at least 10k hands this month (barring buying a new home getting in the way) and I’m already at 3k hands so that is going well. I’ve been playing some Limit Omaha 8 or Better and the players at the lower stakes are pretty bad. I enjoy playing it to break up the grind of NLHE, but it is far less profitable. I’m trying to become a decent player in the mixed games so that I can tackle the very soft 7/8 game mix profitably. I feel comfortable playing NLHE, LHE, Stud, O8, and Razz. I need to work on my Stud8 and PLO game though. It’s shocking how bad I am at PLO. I recently started playing HU as well and may continue to do so. Finished up 5 buyins last night as I just sat there and watched fish after fish sit down and hand me their money. Once my roll gets a bit higher I’m going to start taking more shots at 200NL. I felt good playing it last time, but I just took some sick beats to 2 outers in several massive pots. I know I can beat it, but I’m practicing good bankroll management before I take another shot. I’m not going to stay at 100NL forever though…
So all-in-all, poker is going well. House hunting is not. I can’t wait to find a place to live so that I can be done with it all. Also, once I get a place, I plan on building a nice poker office with a 24″ monitor (and a 2nd 24″ monitor to be added later via my Full Tilt points). It will be a nice change from playing on my 15″ laptop screen everyday.
Hey, I really enjoy keeping up with what people have to think about poker and all sorts of the news.I’ll be popping by in several days to check what else you have to say.