If you read my introduction, you remember I was going to put my pick up skills to work for the first time.

The scene: A new years eve party in a nice hotel consisting of 250-300 21-27 year olds. Open bar, band, a DJ inbetween sets, dancing, dress to impress. It was a great party.

I rolled in with my buddy and we were meeting some old female friends from high school there. I spent the first hour or so just catching up with old friends which was nice to do finally. I decided it was time to make some approaches and left the bar area and went into the main room where everyone was hanging out. Surprisingly I had no AA (I thought I would).

My first approach
4 set: HB6 HB7 HB 7.5 and guy. Decided to start off with an opinion opener. I casually walked near them and opened over my shoulder
me: "Hey guys, real quick, my friend and I were just having a discussion and I wanted to get your opinion. What do you think of facial hair on guys our age?"
HBs: depends what it is, looks good if its nicely groomed, had an EX BF who had a lot and I hated it blah blah blah (this actually got them interested and we talked for a few mins). I then just kind of froze up and didn't know what to throw in after that. So I AFC'ed made small talk and exited the set.

I was just happy to successfully approach and open! It felt great.

Went back to hang out with the old female friends. Was introduced to a HB 7 which I found to be quite attractive. We shook hands, introduced ourselves.

me: "wow thats a really nice ring, but it looks huge on your hand!"...kind of a neg I guess? she laughed so I guess it was OK. We then talked about college a little bit. Then I decided to play the 5 questions game with her (loser had to go get the next round of drinks). Worked like a charm! haha she loved it.
HB: You are so much fun! I want to play another game like that!
Me: Now dont get greedy, I usually don't perform for free...how bout that drink?! lol
HB: haha sure thing I'll go get it now.

While she went to grab a couple drinks I went back to talking with my friends. She came back and pulled me aside

HB: So, do you have a girlfriend?
me: Well actually at the moment I am single
HB: good so am I!
I was really thrown off by this! It definitely was IOI to me, right? What are some good answers for this? It caught me out of nowhere.

Now that I can see she is interested I really just start having fun with it!
her: would you mind if I danced with my friends (female) for a little while?
asking my permission. I think this is a good thing?
me: sure go ahead.
HB: feel free to come join when you finish that drink.
me: Yeah I will...but you probably won't be able to keep up with me out there (CF way of saying this)
HB: oh yea? its on!
she grabbed my arm and we went out and had some fun on the dance floor for a good while. Getting lots of IOIs on the dance floor.

Now I am thinking in my mind "wow she really likes me...I think its time to make a move"

So we take a break and sit at a table. I run the trust test on her. Shes giggling and loving the mystery of it. she looks me in the eye and says "You are so much different then every other boring guy out there." I could tell by her tone and the way she was looking at me it was time...
Her hands are still on top of mine and I just blurt out "ON a scale of 1-10 how good of a kisser are you?"
HB: 10 (in a sexy voice)
me: prove it.
Go in for the kiss and SCORE! she kisses back. I pull back. SHE comes back in for another one. It was great.

She had a hotel room with a bunch of her friends (cheap young ppl cram 10 ppl in a room) and invited me to stay. But didn't do anything more than kissing the rest of the night since so many people around.

So that was that. A great start for me I would say!I know I need to work on just being more smooth, CF, quick witted, and playful. The dancing was a great kino escalator I think.

I know there is so much more I can do better. I could tell there were just times I didn't know what to do next just because I read so much information. So I probably threw routines etc in places they shouldn't have been.

What do you guys think?

Great stuff man. I really liked your use of the C+F lines. I cant really see anything to give advice on other than just keep up the good work. Dont worry if you crash n burned with the 4 set. Atleast you opened. Most guys like myself have problems with opening bigger sets solo. But it was good to see how you ran game on the HB7. Negged at the right times, recognized the IOIs, and when she asked you for permission to dance. You didnt act needy, which was the perfect way to respond. And most importantly you recognized the right time to close, and did it smoothly. Keep it up man.

For your first time I would say this is definitely a success. Good job bro. Now you gotta put your skills to the test when it's not NYE!

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Thanks man. Now like you said I have to work on the cold approaches as HBs aren't always going to be introduced to me like that

Definitely! I'm sure the whole "its new years eve and I want a guy to kiss" etc thing played a role with the HB. Hoping to get some club game in during the next week.

Great man.. Good post.

nice reading!

Appriciate all the feedback guys, this seems like a great place! Can't wait to post more FRs.

But does anybody have a good answer to "do you have a gf"?...I thought I did OK with it, but just simply saying "no" seems like of AFC. Gotta be some good C+F answers out there

This is what I heard about the GF question... If you answer yes then she will most likely not want to waste anymore effort trying to get with you as you are taken already. On the other hand if you answer no then she will think you can't get a GF. Instead just try to leave the question unanswered. For instance just come up with something funny like "No I'm still searching for my soul mate." or tell her you have 8 girl friends and ask her if she wants to be one of them. Basically just try to leave the question unanswered.

This is not my own ideas btw, it is information taken from a video off artofthepickup[dot]com. Although I can't post links as I don't have 5 posts yet.

Good job yes, but not success. Hotel room? I'm assuming you two were making out on the bed? How far do you live from the Hotel? Dude -- You should taken her either to your place or hotel room.

Its not success until you put the P in the V. I also don't usually kiss the girl until I get her alone as then I can escalate right to fucking her without stopping or worrying about interruptions.

This way you are addressing various emotional needs she has including upholding her reputation as a women (so she doesn't look like a SLUT to her friends).

That is my game. You play it however you want.

This is what I was thinking myself. I tried to answer in a sense that made it seem that I do have gf's but just not at the moment. I like your idea of just not answering the question directly though. I will try that next time

Out of town so no place. Bunch of ppl sharing hotel room. All those little details were not in place for it to happen that night. That's OK though. I think we have different views of success. As I improve my game with practice more will HBs will come.