Hey everybody, I'm new to this and to the game in general. I'm reading The Game for the second time now and highlighting all of the important parts, and I am on the virge of buying more books that can help my game. Last night I went to the club with my friends, (a college town bar,) and I used the routine I practiced over and over again. I am not a shy guy, so after a couple of drinks I had no problem opening, (or trying to open) a 2 or 3 set. I was actually more successful than I planned to be. I opened my sets with either the jeleous girlfriend routine, or a routine that I came up with that is me telling girls that my younger sister asked me to buy her and her friends some alcohol, and what I should do about it. After that I transitioned to the best friends test, which worked on about half of the girls, and left the other half confused. (I know it's not the routine, I'm sure I messed it up somehow.) After that I bullshat my way threw the C shaped and U shaped smile routine, and this was actually more successful that I thought it would be, especially since I really had no idea what I was talking about. It was after I was done with that that the trouble began. When I arrived to the set I gave myself a time restraint so it was easy to bail out, but I felt like on some instances I was close but I had no idea where to go from there. Somehow I got lucky at the end of the night and went back to this girl's place, but I think half of how that happened was the game, and the other half was me being myself. Also, she was friends with a friends friend, so I don't even feel like i picked her up. Anyways, if you guys could give me some advice on my game with what I told you, that would be awesome. Alright thanks guys,

Xave

Well if you have no problem opening, after that you need to find either common ground to spark conversation or have stories to tell to keep them interested. This part is the easy part, you just need to converse. If you're lacking things to talk about; then you'd better work on that before trying to pickup women.

Thanks for the tip.....I wasn't sure if I was supposed to phase shift or just make small talk and tell stories or what. I guess that is what I was doing when I was "being myself" with that other girl, and maybe that's why that one worked out. I'll keep that in mind for next time.
Thanks,

Xave

That's the problem I'm running into. I'm guessing the answer is to just read the group and keep things interesting while not seeming like you're trying to hang around.