Making the move to Cali. Life/poker update

So it's been awhile since I have posted a new blog so I wanted to share some updates on my life. After the series I finished the drive out to orange county, CA and have been living with mike and jake for a few weeks. I am currently in a hotel in newport beach for the week until I can hopefully find an apartment for a month before moving in with doc sands and/or pokerjamers in september. I haven't been playing a ton of mtt's since vegas as I am still on a slight burnout but I have been putting in a lot of hours at the cash tables online. I've had some good success so far as I continue to learn from my mistakes every day.

I put in a session at commerce the other day with mike, jake and his buddy whitey. I sat with 3k at 10/20 and doubled up the first hand qq against a missed combo draw so that was pretty sick. I got in a couple questionable spots that I think I misplayed that cost me a lot of money that I'll share. I raised to 70 utg 6 handed with TT and both blinds called. The flop came JT9 rainbow and the sb immediately led out for 200. Kind of a weird spot I decided to raise to 550, didn't really like my raise size after I did it, i thought i shoulda made it more. He called. Turn was a brick 5 or 2, and he checked. I really thought about checking behind for deception/ pot control/ maybe catch a bluff on the end type reasons but i decided to bet 950 and he shoved for 2700 more and i reluctantly called knowing it probably wasn't a good call and he showed up with Q8 for a straight and I didn't catch up. That hurt a lot since I was playing in higher stakes cash games than i'm used to. Didn't buy in more and I had about 1500 left and I just grinded it back up to about 4k until getting coolered a8 to 88 on a A83 flop against a donkey, he check raised me on the flop and i just called, turn J and i called 600 again and he bet 1200 on a 6 river with 800 behind and I thought I was losing value against worse 2 pairs so i shoved, hating my shove in hindsight.

The 2/4-5/10 6max games online have been treating me well, i've profited probably 10-12k in the last 3 weeks, although I did get all in on the flop last night with JJ against 66 on a QJ6 and he turned a 6 for a significant pot lol, but I guess those happen once in awhile.

I actually got up at 8 this morning to grab some complimentary breakfast with apple downstairs and then we walked on the beach for awhile, really relaxing. I could definitely get used to living on the beach for the next 10 months thats for sure. Newport beach is beautiful, I hope I can make it my home and find a good place for atleast the next year.

Hoping to get back into a tourney grind with upcoming ftops and wcoop series so that should be exciting, I'll probably take a break for a few days before thats starts and hopefully find some good plans for my birthday next sunday.

-TT