GoldStar and Degen Challenge

I got GoldStar last night. Plan to maintain it for a month or two then go for Platinum when I move up to 110s.

Started playing 55s for good a few days ago too. 15-7 so far at those since the permanent move.

I feel I've been playing really good poker as of late, I just need to play more.

I sealcoated my first driveways of the year yesterday too. They came out nicely and this year should be pretty smooth for my business with my new tank/trailer and a year of experience for myself and my primary worker. I am also not going to have to work as hard as last year as I will have 2 workers on regular days, 3 workers on big parking lots. Mostly supervising and helping out with smaller stuff. I still have a lot of work to do with the business but it feels good that I finally got to start.

On other news, I'm moving into the new place the 6th I believe. Still hashing out the details of what is going to go on with the second bedroom there. I'm sticking to my contention that it should be my office and have plans to put a desk with my computer and all that stuff in it as well as a couch. My girlfriend's father would like to put a bed in there and make it a guest bedroom so his drunk ass can sleep there when he's in town. I maintain that he can continue to sleep on a couch/futon/daybed. We'll see where this goes, he is already buying me a replacement desk because my current desk is "too bulky." My girlfriend agrees and I am fine with upgrading to a nice L-shaped desk. I'll post pics of the new place when I move in.

From the 14th-21st+ my girlfriend will be at Loyola Hospital getting a kidney transplant. I will likely be at the hospital/nearby for most of those days and driving back and forth on all other days. I'm not sealcoating during the transplant and will be playing poker with all my downtime, depending on how things are going. Overall unless there are complications I should get a lot of games in that week. I'm sure I'll be drinking a lot with my girlfriend's father as well and eating a lot of food. It will likely be a very up and down week in terms of emotion/stress but I should be playing well when I do play because I don't play when I'm tired/stressed/unhappy.

Now to the degen-challenge. A degenerate gambler I know turned 50 bucks into something like 5500 playing way above his bankroll limits in the last week. He finally paid back my friend a stake of like 400 bucks and he owed another guy I know 100 bucks. He sent the 100 to me and the guy told me to just try to turn it into more money. I've always had a rough idea of an extremely aggressive HU challenge that I wanted to try, I think now is the perfect time.

I'm only using this 100 bucks for the challenge. I'm starting with 33s and when I reach 3 buyins for the next level HU I am moving up. So when I hit 150 I'll play 55s, when I hit 300 I'll move up to 110s, etc. If I am ever under 3 buyins I will move down until I have 3 buyins for the next highest level and so on. Hopefully I can not run horrible like I have at the 33s since starting this (won first one, lost 3 then won one more to survive) and I can catch a heater and run with it. We'll see, I will update this daily until I've either made some ridiculous amount of money or busted the 100 bucks. Hopefully I can get through the 55s tomorrow so I can start at 110s for June (vpps obv).

The same degen that ran that money up also hosted a little private HU MTT today. I went 2-1 and lost to Crounder in the finals. I ran TT into JJ within the first 5 hands, I was hungry and gambled willingly and lost. There were 6 people in it, so Crounder and another player got a first round bye. I won my two matches very quickly against the degen and dboy from 2+2 (so is Crounder). The tourney was set up in a fucked up payout so 3-4th got 18 bucks for a profit of negative 4 dollars. Second place got 30 bucks so I made 8 bucks. Crounder got 56 bucks for first I believe.

That's about it for now, Crounder is going to do this challenge too. I'll try to update with his status as well as mine each day.

Bankroll $3,097.88