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June 11, 2009

Actually I haven't booked my flights yet so I don't really know for sure whether it will be 8 or 9. Pretty excited about the run and hope everything goes well. Jschnett apparently got a new place so I'll be hanging out at his place for like a week and then seeing Rise Against on the 26th. After that I'm undecided about whether to head to Vegas for a couple days or to head back to Waterloo, I've been enjoying my time at home a lot but at the same time it would be nice to see everyone for a few days. Last year was ridiculous, I remember walking into the Rio planning to try to keep like a "low profile" and just rail my friends without being noticed(had like a hoodie and hat on, kept my head down mostly) and about 2-3 people from each table came by to say hi. I guess the fact it was the day of the 1k rebuy was probably pretty bad timing since everyone I know ended up playing that tournament and not that many randoms play it.

Other than that I've played a couple days since my last update, nothing great, I played like Sunday, and 2-3 wanna-be tourney sessions for a loss of like ~10k. This Sunday was super lame, I got a really bad headache part way through the day and had to stop registering for tournaments and just prayed to bust out of all my tournaments as soon as possible while still trying not to play terribly. I think next session I play(errr next session where something goes well) I'll try making a couple videos out of it. I haven't made a video series in a little while(although there are some videos that I was a part of coming out in the next couple weeks I think) and should probably get on that.

I got my rakeback from Full Tilt this month and for how little I played, it was pretty shocking how quickly it adds up. I guess I played every or almost every Sunday + like 20 hours of midstakes cash but it was about double what I was expecting.

In the last week I've seen the movies "The Hangover" and "Up" and thought both were pretty awesome, I definitely recommend seeing them both. I usually don't find comedies as funny as most people but I was laughing the whole way through the hangover, and Up did a surprisingly good job of making the 3D aspect add to the movie rather than make it gimmicky.

Oh ya, I recently signed up for twitter, I don't know how much I'll use it this Summer, but I'll basically use it any time I'm playing live tournaments, and maybe even for big online tournaments like WCOOP etc. Heres the link:

twitter.com/mikemcdonald89

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Jun 11, 09 08:47:32

1. don't red pros get %100 rakeback? that might explain why it was more than you expected.

2. have fun in MN. Hopefully I'll run into you guys or something.

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