World records, girls and poker sucks atm

First off, congrats to my boy ChicagoJoey for breaking the world record for playing the most hands in 1 day as well as MAKING A PROFIT!!! He made ~30k ish on the side from the prop bet as well. I was fortunate enough to make a little money off the bet as well and I also helped him out the entire day playing mod in the chat/cam room, handling questions from bettors and helping with basic things such as food and fluids, lol. The record Joey set was broke a couple days later by Chiren but Chiren barely made any money and has since lost a ton of money attempting to play 1 million hands in one month.

Which brings me to this whole Pokerstars Pro fiasco that Chiren has created. For those who don't know Chiren80/Athene (World of Warcraft) screen name created his own PR campaign to achieve supernova elite on Pokerstars, which is worth ~$110k for the first year, as well as play 1 million hands to get attention and bring new poker players to Pokerstars. Long story short, we found out that Pokerstars said they never received his application to which he responded that he will be going to the Isle of Mann (HQ for Stars) to personally hand in his application. Now many people, not I, think this is some massive level and PR stunt by Pokerstars to promote the site and that Chiren has already been confirmed as an online pro for pokerstars, which is supposed to equal ~40k a year in incentives.

Whether you are a nut hugging WoW tard or a poker player that has basically no poker respect for Chiren, what he is/has done the past few months as far as bringing new players into the game can only be a positive. I personally do not think he deserves to be a online pro as he is not good at poker at all and is nothing above the true definition of a rakeback pro. However poker playing aside I definitely think that some site, maybe not Stars, should hire him to do PR campaigns/stunts as he has a huge following (I've heard ~1 million youtube subscribers alone) from the online gaming community. With that being said, I have mad respect for his grinding ability has he's played over twice the amount of hands I have this year and his overall goal of bringing new people into poker, whether its for selfish reasons or not, is a good one for the game of poker.

And for the record I do not think it is some massive level from Chiren and Stars. I think Stars does not want someone like Chiren, who could possibly be a loose cannon representing them on the business side of things. It's sort of a catch 22 because if Stars makes a breakeven grinder such as Chiren a pro I think it sends a bad message to the poker community but Chirens gamer followers believe this guy is the second coming. Therefore whatever site would sign some sort of promotional contract with him will definetly benefit from countless amounts of new deposits/players and influx of new fairly new poker players that will most likely be mindless grinders such as Chiren, that will in turn generate a ton of money in rake for some site.

Also, if Chiren continues to go for the 1 million hands, which I no longer think he will since the 1 million hands things was a promotion to get online pro in the first place. Joey has assured me that he will be breaking Chiren's daily record as well as playing more hands in 1 month than him as well. This I am 100% certain of and am very confident that Joey could/will set a record that may never be broken.

Girls.....fml am I right?!?!

As I am slowly getting adjusted to living where it never snows or enters the 40 degree climate. I am finding a sort of new unsuspecting problem in the form of spending the night with girls and having nothing happening. I've now spent the night with 2 different girls since moving out here in which NOTHING happened, I mean seriously wtf.......I didn't make a move and either did the girl and I'm just completely dumbfounded. And no these girls were not hideous, filthy etc.....It just didn't really cross my mind to fool around with them. I mean in the past I would have snap fooled around with them and not thought twice about it but I just don't even think about it while its happening.

I mean everyone knows when a girl comes over to watch a movie AT NIGHT or you go out with a girl and get drunk as well as all her roommates being gone its a lock right??? Especially when you are invited into bed at the end of the night. I mean wtf....all I can do is wonder wtf after the fact. Is something wrong with me, is it mental, an attraction thing or should I just donate my penis to someone who could use it?!?! Either way I'm determined to not let this happen again as maybe its just some mental block due to past girls or whatever. I'm not about to become a monk and give up using my penis so why not have fun. I mean that is part of why I moved out here in the first place, yet I'm not capitalizing on the situations that get handed to me.......sigh

Poker can pretty much blow me. I have basically switched over to 6 max for good and am loving it. However it obviously brings a little more variance and for someone who runs worse than most people imagine to, has not been fun. The past 3-4 months I've ran a steady 15-30 buyins below ev and its getting fucking old. Plain and simple. It cracks me up to read posts about guys losing 3 hands in a session with a set, an overpair and some guy sucking out to hit a gutshot straight....LOL welcome to every single fucking session of the past few months for me. I am not being bitter and just saying I run bad blah blah either. I know I haven't been playing well either but this running awful shit is really getting old. Anyone and everyone who sweats me happens to point out every time, "Man you run fucking terrible!" I just want to sit down and start booking wins and banging out hands but its tough to do so when I sit down and am snap down 2-3 buyins in ev every other sesh or so. It has really beaten me down and my tolerance for variance is basically non existant at this point.

With that being said however I haven't lessened my aggression or anything and have been playing more optimal since switching over to 6 max accompanied by only playing 10-12 tables anymore. I have officially become burntout on full ring and have always liked 6 max much better anyways. 6 max also allows for a higher win rate, an equal amount of hands per hour, with less tables, so more concentration and helps your poker game overall much more than full ring does. I am going to stick with 6 max for a long time I believe and also have some staking deals that I have to decide on. The staking offers are for starting at 50nl and then moving to 100 asap as long as my play dictates.

Also my first year playing poker for a living is approaching and I have nothing but happiness looking back. Although, I will say I am disappointed with myself as I did not push myself the past 3-4 months like I wanted to but many life changes took place and that effected me moreso than I originally imagined.

Over the next few weeks I will think a little more about the first year and maybe put together some sort of poo-bah post in regards to my first year playing for a living. Not something that is like "hey im such a baller blah blah" but some things on bankroll management, money management outside of poker as well various other important concepts that I seem to be asked frequently about when it comes to playing poker for a living.