I'm about to go to bed but wanted to post the recap of my recent weekend.

Quick Intro - My ex and I broke up four months ago. I still have to talk to her now and again (she is paying me back for a loan). I talked to her Thursday via email don't know if this affected my mind set.

I'm up in New York on business and three of my friends came in from various parts to have a good weekend. This is our weekend.

Friday night - We are at the hotel until around 9 pm. We end up at my friend's cousin's housewarming party. There are 4 girls (hb 6 - hb 9.5). We mingle a little bit and do the introduction thing. My two friends play beer pong and I just stand watching (lame......but didn't really know what to do.) When not just standing around I'm counting the cards (making sure there are 52 cards) and looking at their dice.

After the pong game I go outside with my friend who smokes a cig. I hype myself back up and head back inside. By this point more girls are there and each of us are able to mingle a little bit. My routine for the most part is teasing them (for example at one point I tell I girl to stop taking pictures of me because I'm a model). For the rest of the night my friends and I are talking to each other or opening sets with the girls there.

My self assessment - Not talking to enough girls. Not finding hooking points and keeping conversations going.

Saturday - Walk around China town. I didn't notice any chance for day game.

In the evening we go out for dinner and there is a table of 20 girls. My friend suggests buying the table a bottle of wine. Me thinking it's NYC tell him don't do it....nothing will come of it. I tell him I'll buy the bottle of wine if he gets a kiss out of it, if not he has to pay for it. He doesn't end up buying the bottle. In fact, we get a table right to the girls and he won't even talk to them (and this is a guy who has had sex with 20+ girls...that's alot for a guy like me).

So we don't up those girls but on our way to another bar we see a bacheloretter party (at least 10 girls). I make a comment and soon we each of my friends and I are talking to them. But we soon get to the bar and we have to separate (lost opportunity).

We then end up at an irish pub. I end up opening an hb 8. It wasn't going well but I ended up asking her about wine bottle situation above. She wasn't feeling it, but I think I could have talked to her friends for awhile. She soon excused her self (seems her boyfriend came) and that was the end.

For what it's worth she thought the wine presumptious...like we were trying to buy her. I was agianst buying the wine for the obvious AFC conitations.

Finally, on my way out I see and hb 7 with a dog. I take out my camera and take a picture while on of my friends opens her (didn't think of this as an opener but wow did it work).

We all go home alone for the second straight night.....

My self assessment - Being out alpha'd. I'm opening the sets but my friends are able to come in quickly (which I like) but soon steal my thuder. How I fix this? I feel like I'm balancing the line between court jester and set opener.