Road Trip

Just a few more errands like transferring the cable account and giving my key to Aaron before I load the car and drive back home. As you can see, it's about 1,315 miles. I plan to make a stop for the night around Bristol, TN about 55% of the way there. I bought a few audiobooks for the ride: Grisham's The Partner and a story about the collapse of enron. Start to finish, it's about 18 hours of listening time. I've never had an audiobook experience so we'll see. If it starts putting me to sleep, it'll back back to classic rock and Howard Stern.

Graduation

Today, I completed Tulane's Freeman School of Busineses Master of Finance program by graduating along with fellow MFINS, MBAs, and MACCTs. The ceremonies, the Unified Ceremony in the Superdome and the Freeman Ceremony in Mcalister Auditorium were bittersweet. Today marked the end of the New Orleans chapter of my life. On Monday, I pack up the car and drive back to New York City for the summer and beyond. Tulane and New Orleans have taught me so much about life, and I plan to visit in the future to remember some of the great times.

Since I'll no longer be living in New Orleans, I'll obviously have to retitle the blog from "Tough Life in the Big Easy" to something that better describes what is up.

WSOP New Orleans

The World Series of Poker is in town this week, and so far I've played in four events. I've cashed in 2 of them, finishing fourth in the Pot Limit Omaha with Rebuys tournament for 5k and change.

Live tournaments are tough because the most important plays you make in the tournament should you make it that far, occur after playing for nearly twelve hours. In the first event I made a huge error costing me all my chips, finishing just short of the final table with 1st place winning $50k.

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