First Post

Hey guys,
A lot of the guys I talk poker with have blogs (Reasons, Amerzel, etc) so I'm jumping on the bandwagon. A little bit about me:

I'm a sophomore in college debating between studying math, philosophy, or both. I'm working with some guys on sngmentors and plan on focusing on 180 man sng's. I play varsity squash at my college (top 15 in the country) and devote a lot of time to that during the schoolyear.

Onto the more interesting things:

I've been trying to decide between math and phil for a while now. I only need 5 more classes for phil but they're ones that I'm not super excited about (think ancient phil, early modern phil, logic, and two others). I'd rather take some higher level/more interesting phil courses. For instance, one of the foremost experts in the world on philosophy of mind teaches at my school and I'd love to take his class on it. I know some of you may be thinking "Just major in phil, ldo" but it's not that simple. I have to consider my future prospects as well and it's way easier to go from a reasonable phil background to grad school in philosophy than it is for someone who hasn't majored in math to go to grad school in math.

On the other hand, I only need six more classes for math but they're gonna be hard. Really hard. I have to take the 2nd hardest undergrad math class as one of the requirements for the degree along with 5 other electives (and these won't be a walk in the park either). But I like math, I'm reasonably good at it, and a math degree would be a really valuable asset down the line. I don't mean just for graduate school but for anything employment-related. It'd be tough to get into a banking/consulting/optimization job with a phil degree.

I'm sure I'll figure it out soon (I have to declare within the week) so we'll see.

I'm on spring break atm so I'm hanging out in FL. It hasn't been a great break though because I have a ton of work looming over me. Something like two math psets, two math midterms, and a phil paper coming up in the two weeks after I get back to school.

I'm sure you guys aren't reading to hear about school-related stuff, so here's some poker stuff:

I've been playing the 2/180s and 7/180s lately because long term I'll have the highest $/game in 180s ($12s+). Variance is pretty gross but over the last 200 games, I'm up 300 which isn't great but I've been playing mainly 2/180s (they load much faster) although I'm sure I've been running under expectation. I'd expect to be at around 150% roi long term at the 2/180s.

I haven't had much time to play on break and I don't play at school because work rapes me so I'm really looking forward to the summer. When I get back to school (in about five days), I'll only have 3 weeks of class left, then 11 days of reading period, then exams. Summer's just around the corner.

I also recently cashed out 2k for a new desktop pc and a 30" monitor. Can't wait.

Thanks for reading,
Yodaddy