Rollin into NY at midnight

What's up crew,

sorry about no recent updates, I was just being lazy I guess while I was hanging out at Dartmouth. For the last couple weeks I've been busy putting rush stuff together for the house, playing a lot of pong, hanging out with friends, and learning a lot about myself and the kinds of people I want to hang out with.
quick note on that-- sometimes what you think you want doesn't jive at all with the kinds of values you actually hold to be important. You have to make a choice between your principles and chasing something that seems worth the chase. I'm pretty sure that in most cases, if you have to be chasing, its not worth the chase. what was crazy for me was that right as I was coming to this cold conclusion, I was realizing that I had some relationships that I took for granted and didn't explore as much as I should have. Maybe if I'd been more principled in the past I'd be in a different spot than I am now.

Haha still, the spot i'm in now isn't too bad--tonight, Kayte drove Dallas and I from Dartmouth to her home in southern Connecticut. It's a beautiful place, we're crashing here and then taking the train into NYC tomorrow where we'll have lunch with the Berger man and hopefully dinner with both Kayte and Rick. I'm psyched to check out Carnegie Deli for lunch to be honest.

Things with Dallas have been great so far, we haven't had any problems and we've just been doing our thing.

Poker, in general, has been good lately. I'm still getting the constant stream of players asking for coaching (which I've been politely declining until I return to a normal schedule). I've been grinding midstakes again and have run up one of my accounts back into the lots-of-thousands category, so that feels pretty good. Rough day today though, took KK vs AA for 1100 at 5/10, took KK vs AQ on KJT for 800 at 3/6, ended up down about 1600. Made a couple bad calls too, but one big time call.

Here's the hand:
I open raise K9cc in the SB, laggro villain calls in the BB. flop is 9s4c3c. I bet, he calls. Turn is a 7s. I bet, he raises. I'm pretty sure he has picked up a draw, I assume a flush draw usually, but he could def have 97s. I think sets are unlikely, as are big pairs, due to the flop action. I decide that he's bluff/semibluffing enough that calling and c/c the river is probably the best play. I call, river card comes down the Jd. I check, he pauses for a few moments, then shoves. At this point his range looks like J9, T8, 97, or missed draws. It's about a PSB to me, we were a little deepstacked. I decided I'm good more than 33% of the time and call. 86o no good sir.

So i'm feeling pretty decent about poker on the day despite the losses and I'm excited to see NYC tomorrow.

Also, Luke sent me some pictures of locations in Costa Rica that look amazing and that aren't too difficult to get to. Excited to be there in only a week!

oh yeah, and Mom- answer your phone. I called you today, call me back I'd love to talk to you.

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