back at my 2nd home

Hollaaaa

Dal and I got in to Dartmouth late last night due to some transportation difficulties, but we're here and set up. We're living at axa, we played a little pong last night-- dal is pretty sick for his first real game. I'm looking forward to enjoying some good weather while it lasts, hanging out with friends, showing prospective rushes the house, and general rage. Most of my good friends aren't on campus yet, but I'll see them in the next few days as classes start on wednesday or thursday.

Damn i'm glad to not have classes, haha. I need to do this more often.

Poker's been going well, I think i'll be able to move up limits pretty fast again and start making some real $$. It is kinda fun just beating up on terrible players at low limits though.

Anyways, we've finally done laundry, so I'm gonna give Dal a tour of campus and grab some food from food court or the hop or something.
Most of all, its good to be back here.

Happy birthday Grandma,

Andrew

In San Francisco

Hola

I'm here in Mountain View with Dallas... James is at work, but he's been an excellent host-- cooking dinner for us, hanging out with us, and yesterday he led our tour of San Francisco. We hit up Yank Sing, probably the best Dim Sum in the country, then walked across the city to North Bay and Ghiradelli Square where we had baller ice-cream and milkshakes. I love San Francisco, definitely my current favorite city in the U.S.

Our first night in, we went to Santa Clara where we partied with Ben and some random girls Dallas knew. We'll probably go back tomorrow night (Tuesday), though we have no real plans for tonight. We've been kinda relaxing all day, but I think I'd like to go hang out somewhere tonight.

In poker news, I started playing a little bit on my new site, and pulled in about 3k. Did a little coaching earlier today too, that was fun. Its actually really enjoyable to help somebody understand this game a little bit more, simply because I like poker a lot, and I understand it more than most.... its a nice thing to get paid for giving back to people in the same position I was in a year ago.

Poker subject of the day by the way:
TABLE SELECTION
TAG's are going to shuffle money around. Not-TAG's are going to lose it. You chose who you're going to play against. Sure, as you go up, the ratio of TAG's to not-TAG's gets pretty bad. So, don't play so many tables at high limits, don't play as often, keep killing the games for relatively low variance. I'll probably talk about this more, I just haven't thought about it fully yet.

Anyways, hit us up in San Francisco.

ML
A

PS: Good luck recovering from your surgery grandma! I love you!

Holla from LA

I'm just kickin it here down at Pomona College in LA, staying with my age-old friend Zach. Zach lived on my street growing up, we first started being friends at age 4. So, its been a long time. Currently he is a dominant baseball player on pomona-pitzer, played in the Washington summer league and put up all star numbers, and is looking at having a huge season this year.

Pomona is beautiful-- palm trees, swimming pools, beach volleyball courts, big fountains, and wide open green spaces. Why the f*ck didnt I apply here? What an awesome place to go to school.
Dallas, my travel partner, was feeling ill the day we were supposed to fly, so he gets here in a few hours today instead of two days ago. That's alright, I'm looking forward to having him join me. We may go into LA, we may hang at Pomona the rest of the time... Zach may even come to San Francisco with us. I hope he does--that sort of spontaneous thing is basically what this trip is all about.

One unexpected and fun part of being at Pomona is being able to see Jori at Scripps. Jori and I met at summer camp (HVC) when we were twelve and have been able to stay in touch off and on for the last 8 years. She is great and I've gotten a chance to hang out with her some. She met all of Zach's Pomona friends last night at Zach's birthday dinner (at the Red Robin obv) and had a good time. Now all she needs to do is meet Bill once he gets back from Scotland! Although I'll have a chance to see Bill before she does, i'm heading to Edinburgh before too long homie!

Alright, thats all for now, new videos to be uploaded to facebook shortly.

peaceeee

Andrew

ps- poker article coming your way later this week

Two Days to Go

before all these shananigans (sp?) get started.
This blog is to let me give written updates as to what I'm doing throughout the trip. I'll describe the things we see and the people we meet. I'll also talk from time to time about poker, gambling theory, and different ideas that I've been having. Mostly though, it'll be the front-to-back story of a normal guy who won some money and is now going to blow it in the name of being young.

So far I have:
-Bought plane tickets across the U.S., into Costa Rica, from Costa Rica to London, and from Rome to Portland.
-Bought a dope backpack and all kinds of supplies
-Figured out both my video camera, my digital camera, and my video editing software
-Made a facebook group to document the trip with videos and photos
-Visited Seattle for Adam's 21st and saw John Legend, Lupe Fiasco (sucked), and Wu Tang live. Tonight I'm probably seeing Girl Talk and Ghostface (again).

Now I need to line up contact info for all my friends we'll be seeing across the world and actually pack my bags.

Then, first stop:
Monday, Sept 10: Los Angeles

By the way-- if you have any sweet tips about traveling through Costa Rica, any advice on whether to use buses, trains, or planes in Europe, or any favorite locations throughout the European continent, send them my way at andrew.seidman@dartmouth.edu

Good luck and talk to you soon,
Andrew