So I've decided to start a blog of sorts on here. Courtiebee is skeptical that I'll keep this going. Probably because I never really keep anything like this going. She's pretty much correct but we'll see how long we can roll with this.

Short(ish) bio:

I'm a 24 (25 in a few weeks) year old male who's originally from upstate redneck Pennsylvania. For those who aren't familiar, upstate Pennsylvania is the land time forgot. That area was majorly dependent on coal and steel and those two industries are just in the shitter.

My life was going in a pretty awful direction until I met my future wife on here. She is of course the famous mod courtiebee. I started talking to her on January 29th, 2006, met her on December 29th of the same year and we've been dating ever since. It hasn't been easy, it hasn't always been fun, but ultimate it's the most fulfilling decision I've ever made in my life. I chose to take a pretty tough path that has challenged me in more ways than one but I think has lead to improvement of my life and as a person. We're going to get married in June and I couldn't be happier about it. So now I spend most of my time in the Vancouver, BC area with her.

ONTO CONTENT OF BLOG AND CURRENT TIME STUFF.

I am a full time donkamenter in the low and midstakes level on Poker Stars and Full Tilt Poker. dthorne04 on Stars, educated idiot on full tilt poker. Yes, my FTP name is mega douche but I was like 19 and thought it was cool. FML. Guess I'll have to become a red pro someday. I can join the cast of roughly 200 pros who are on there.

I start this blog at the worst statistical time of my poker career. I'm on like a -325 to -350 ABI downswing over 2k MTTs that started in October. It has not been fun. There were 10 day stints in November and December where I didn't play for the holidays/traveling etc.

I feel like it's kind of cool that I can start this blog at a time where one might think it's a low point in my career. However, I look at it as an opportunity to document the climb out of downswingville and the triumphant return to profittown. Keeping perspective is important as well because at the end of the day I'm playing a card game rather than working a job that does absolutely to further my life goals and provides me no fulfillment.

Courtney's en route to PCA so I'm going to just grind hard the next four days. Like 200 MTTs.

Also, I share a blog with her as she mentioned in her operation. donkeybrains.wordpress.com ftw.

BYE NOW