Orlando + My first big tournament cash

Well, I officially made my first withdrawal from my online poker funds! I have never made a withdrawal before, because my poker funds tend to be a 'seperate' entity from my every day life. But recently I have been doing quite well and I wanted to reward myself my first (of many hopefully right?) purchases.

Amy and I had wanted to go to Orlando for a while now, She had never been to Disney World before and I have not in like 8yrs so we decided to check out any deals/packages to Orlando! We started our search in Dec, but never really got anything going beyond just looking at hotels, prices etc. When January rolled around we began hunting for a good package more aggresively and we ended up finally finding a package we liked!

We got a 6 day trip staying at the Sheraton Vistana Resort, which is supposed to be like a nice little townhouse type hotel room i think. These are the pictures we got from the website, so i hope our rooms look like that otherwise we totally got shafted!



Thats the main living space area..its got its own kitchen and stuff, its kind of like a little townhouse I guess for the two of us. I highly doubt we are ever staying home and cooking, but its always an option right!



Bedroom... nuff said




This is the overview of the whole resort, its got a realy nice pool (i think even two?) in the centre, and the hotel rooms surrounding it is like townhouse-like... the resort actually looks very nice imo!





This is just a nice picture of the pool area!



Another picture of the outside of the resort.

Anyways, our trip is booked from April 27th to May 2nd and the price of airfare + hotel is like 700$. That is quite a steal of a price because the prices of hotels+airfare to places within Disney World is approximately 1K-1.2K! Even the places that were outside the resort which were at least 4 star hotels cost around 900$ (can't settle for less than 4 stars for ballers like us!).

In addition to hotel+airfare, we also ended up getting daily passes to Magic Kingdom, Epcott and Hollywood Studios which cost about 300$ per person. So in total the trip so far is looking to cost about 1K, which ain't bad at all. Of course there is still alot of other expenses still unaccounted for such as food and shopping (obv), but I estimate the whole trip will probably cost me around 1.5Kish. It should be a very good time and I am totally excited! I think those 6 days will be the only 6 days in my life where I dont have grind on my mind!!

Anyways, onto the poker related content. Last night I ended up playing the FTP daily doubles just for fun, and I ended up going ridiculously deep in one of them. I played until 2:30am and after a very long battle i finished 3rd for 1K! It was such a rollercoaster ride - and a lot of fun! I still really suck at tournaments, but its just a nice change of pace from cash games. As I said before, one of my goals this year is to work on my tournament game and a nice cash like this definately helps me build my confidence and skillz. That is basically it for now! This week I havn't been playing too much, but I anticipate once the weekend comes around things will pick up and grind will come back into my mind!