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Ah, it’s been awhile since I’ve updated. I’ve had chances to update, but I didn’t really feel like I had much to write about, or wanted to write.

As a couple of you know, on January 14 this year, shortly after I had my Fulltilt roll transferred to PokerStars and started making money again, my account was frozen. Apparently I had made a huge huge huge mistake trusting a poster on 2+2, and made a trade of 602.83$ of FTP cash for the same amount on PStars. I had researched him, looked at past posts, and past transactions, and he seemed to be a very reputable poster and trader. He has had many transfers for months that were completed without any trouble, so I decided to trust him. We traded funds, and everything was fine for a couple days. Then 1/14 rolls around and find my account frozen. After ~2 weeks of agonizingly emailing PStars and FullTilt every damn day trying to somehow retrieve my money, I receieved this message 4 days ago:

Hello Perry,Thank you for your email.

Unfortunately our decision on this matter is also final. The funds you
received from ‘hootie nugs’ have been seized as they were fraudulent.

We have contacted full tilt on more than one occasion regarding this matter
and they advised us that they are still investigating this matter.

In the meantime, I suggest you read through our terms and conditions
regarding our transfer policy. This can be found at :
http://www.pokerstars.com/poker/room/tos/ section 5.3 and I would like to
emphasize on a particular section which clearly stated :

“The following terms and conditions also apply to the Real Money Transfer
facility:

1. PokerStars reserves the right to decline any account transfer requests
or to overturn any account transfer upon suspicion of breach of any of the
Terms and Conditions by the sender or receiver.”

And in your case, the sender was in serious breach of our Terms and
Conditions and the money has been seized due to the fraudulent activity that
occurred.
What a bad beat.

Anyways, that left me with 131$ left in the account (originally 231, but I owed someone money and sent them 100 before I lost anymore). It was a huge blow to my BR (I was left with ~15% of it) and I felt absolutely crushed. I was depressed, but tried my hardest to take comfort in the fact that I still had something manageable and playable. Many thanks to my wonderful Michee and Tom for keeping my head up and optimistic at all times.

So began the 10NL grind w/ 13 BI’s.

In return for getting screwed over like I did, Pokerstars has graciously allowed me to run well after the incident. Over the next few days I played what I felt like was my B/A game coupled with the ridiculously bad players at 10NL, I’ve made HUGE HUGE progress and ran it up to over 500 in just a couple days. Today I took my first shot at 25NL and made almost 6 buyins. The roll is back up over 600, and I my confidence is just bursting. Haha after reading Joe’s recent entry (which can be found here: ohboyohboi.wordpress.com), I guess I shouldn’t let that get to my head, and always always always keep thinking and striving to improve my game. One big thing I’ve noticed recently is that I have no brakes and need to remember to change gears. I’ve been trying to value bet waaaay too light, and a couple players have picked up on that and I’ve gotten my ass pwned by checkraises on the river.

I have only made the first step forward towards my goal for the year of being rolled comfortably for 1/2 and 10k profit, and have a long long ways to go ahead of me. My passion for poker never ceases, and I ache to play much higher and much, much better. I have been downloading deuces cracked videos lately, reading forums, articles, going over my hands over and over again, talking to friends about hands and all things poker in general, and having a blast learning + playing.

One thing that has been on my mind lately is how I am allocating my time. Recently I have become very busy and am pretty positive my time management and prioritizing is askew.
I am taking 5 courses at MC this semester (16 credit hours) and have loadssss to study. I also have loadssss of poker I want to play, loadssss of time I want to spend with my lovely girlfriend Michelle, and loadssss of time I want sleeping. I wish I could operate on 4 hours (or less) of sleep like Tom, but I can’t. I’ve never tried energy drinks, any pills, and I hate coffee so I’m not sure how those would help. I haven’t been working out at all lately and my stamina has gone down the tubes (not to mention muscle mass) and have been requiring much more rest. I am very uncomfortable when running on 6 hours of sleep a day, and it bothers me how I need so much rest because I want to spend more time doing the things I want to do. Not that I don’t want to sleep…I love sleeping, and I love dreaming, but I just don’t seem to be able to find enough time in a day for what I want to get done. Hopefully I get a working schedule set out for myself.

On a side note, I’ve begun playing live again. It’s refreshing after spending so many hours online. I am currently getting staked at the Yao House playing 1/2. I can only play Friday+Saturday nights at school, so I pretty much only play once a week. I ran horribad on the first night and dropped 300$. The next week I managed to be +200$, and I hope to erase the rest of my deficit the next time I go. It’s fun playing live, but not as many friends go to the game anyways. I often find myself with nobody to talk to, and that’s not fun. Most of the people that played there last week were old chinese luckboxes with loaded pockets. Hopefully I can convince some more friends to attend to make it more enjoyable