Howdy strangers

Sorry for not posting in a while, my life is kinda hectic right now. I am currently living between two cities (well actually one city and one town) that are about 200 miles apart (thats 320 km for you Euros.) The reason for my doing this is because I have recently befriended Tony Popejoy through a friend from 2p2. My friend from 2p2 knows that I am somewhat knowledgeable on computers and referred me to Tony to get him a kick ass poker pc. I decided to build him one on Ebay that is totally loaded. For monitors, I got him a Dell 30" 3007wfp monitor and a rotated 20' 2001fp monitor that combine for roughly 42' of desktop space. I was also supposed to get him acclimated to online play since he really has no experience doing it. To make a long story short, Tony and I hit it off immediately and I am now living at his house teaching him how to play online, while he coaches me in mtts. Both of us had a difficult 2007 so we are basically striving towards similar goals. Both of us are out of shape (Tony had gastric bypass a year ago and has lost 250 lbs and is now down to 250, I am currently at 275ish and could stand to lose 50 lbs.) and Tony just kicked a bad painkiller habit while I had a very rough financial year in 2006 and 2007. Basically, we are both working on a 4 month plan that involves both of us grinding a ton of hands in an effort that culminates at the 08 WSOP. We are also looking to get in shape together (he has lost most of the weight, however, his muscles are majorly atrophied and he could do well to do some sculpting.)

Meanwhile, I am still in school in Columbus (Tony lives in Kokomo IN) one night a week. I stay with my cousins on Tuesday and Wednesday nights, and those are basically my weekends which is fine considering that I don't party as much as I used to. Either way, the last few days have been dedicated to school, so I didn't get a lot of time to grind til today. What a monster day it was. I played a total of 2795 hands for a net profit of $738 plus another $75 or so in rb. With the exception of some spew that I ended up getting to work in my favor, I played unbelievably tonight. I am really starting to get sick good at this game. On another note, 100 nl has gotten soooo much easier lately it seems. There is no shortage of 50+ vpip players that have no problems sitting with $150+ As far as my pre Vegas hands goal, I am currently at 8848 hands, +$1674 ($195 of which is rb.) I am definitely happy with it, and given that I am playing on Tony's 30' I can 6 table pretty easily so I should be able to knock out 3k hands a day pretty easily while I am here. I have a final exam in my Finance class (all my classes meet 4 hours one night per week for 6 week periods) and a pretty big project, so I doubt that I will get in many hands towards the middle of next week. If I can get 3k hands Friday, Saturday, Sun, and Mon, that will put me at 21k hands. I think a good goal would be to get to 23k hands by the time I go to bed Tuesday morning. That way, I can primarily focus on school Tues-Thurs and possibly get 1k hands in each night. Then I can get 2k on the 15th and 16th which will get me to 30k for the month.

I do have a few interesting hands from this evening, but I'm getting tired, I will edit them into this post tomorrow morning (well, afternoon actually.)