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United Kingdom. Sep 27 2009 09:20. Posts 5070

Hi there! Poker seems to be going well just lately. I just finished up my 2nd session of the day, finishing up about 2.6k, and I won about 400 or so in the first session despite being down about 6k and semi-tilted not long into the session. I've played about 2.6k hands in the last couple of days which is quite a lot for me and the swings have been pretty wild. I've not been doing well in terms of All in EV, worst of it was probably losing a 420bb pot AA vs QQ all in preflop against a fish who 4bet to 60big blinds and tanked before calling the shove, but I've still been having reasonable results as of late which is a good sign.

I'm beginning to enjoy poker once again, and it certainly helps that I'm bored of pretty much every game I own right now. StarCraft, WoW, Diablo2, some PS3 games, all of them are boring to me now and right now I'm playing poker with focus, I'm thinking about each situation more clearly than I have in pretty much anytime in the past year and it feels great.

Here are the stats and graph thus far for the month:

As you can see there are a few 200NL hands, that's because I made a 50 minute 4 tabling video on FTP. Currently I haven't added sound to it though so I probably won't be releasing it for a while but I've talked about releasing a video a few times in previous blogs in the past and never got around to it for whatever reason, but finally I've got one recorded, I just need to record audio over the top. Whenever I tried making them in the past I tried to do live audio with 4 tables and it was just too much action to talk about so now that I can actually record over the top, pause the video and talk about situations it should turn out pretty well when I get around to doing it.

Outside of poker I've pretty much been a hermit in the last month or so. Apart from my birthday on the 8th, a friends birthday a few days after that and going to watch K1 WGP Seoul yesterday I've done nothing but workout, poker, eat and sleep. I'm perfectly happy with that though as playing as much poker as possible and getting fitter are my main ambitions right now. I have missed a few days at the gym here and there, particularly on weekends or days when my girlfriend doesn't work, and we end up going into couch potato mode. I feel like I have definitely made a little bit of progress at the gym though, I feel like I've lost a little bit of fat and my cardio ability has improved a fair bit. In terms of size and strength I can't see any noticable gains, but I'm ok with that because the main focuses right now are fat loss and endurance. I haven't got my body composition retested because it hasn't quite been 1 month just yet but in a week or so I'll get that rechecked and have some numbers to compare myself then with myself 1 month ago and hopefully see that decent progress is being made numerically.

Time for some food now, hopefully next blog post I'll have that video done and uploaded and hopefully some continued success to report.

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One day good. One day bad. And some days, even hope

Uptown . Sep 27 2009 09:36. Posts 3557

GLHF~

Half Pot!

mikeymoo Canada. Sep 27 2009 11:15. Posts 988

Excellent work.
Thanks for all the help in the low stakes forum, too.

o_O

nicksson Sweden. Sep 27 2009 12:12. Posts 4662

you wont gain size while losing fat

Newblish Canada. Sep 27 2009 12:26. Posts 560

can my next blog post be a featured blog post?

Loco Canada. Sep 27 2009 12:28. Posts 20968

On September 27 2009 11:26 Newblish wrote:
can my next blog post be a featured blog post?

pretty sure you can't

grats midian. good to see you put some more effort into it.

fuck I should just sell some of my Pokemon cards, if no one stakes that is what I will have to do - lostaccount

Luna_Bluffgood Germany. Sep 27 2009 12:33. Posts 1220

dont worry

fifa 10 will be there soon

dahornnn United Kingdom. Sep 27 2009 12:54. Posts 693

ur sick sir, glglgllgl

k2o4 United States. Sep 27 2009 13:49. Posts 4803

Sounds like my life except you make lots of money at poker and I have been breaking even. But the working out / spending time with GF routine is similar to mine right now, hehe. It's actually a nice feeling to have exercise added to my life again. I bet you feel the same.

InnovativeYogis.com

Newblish Canada. Sep 27 2009 14:57. Posts 560

On September 27 2009 11:28 Loco wrote:

Show nested quote +
On September 27 2009 11:26 Newblish wrote:
can my next blog post be a featured blog post?

pretty sure you can't

grats midian. good to see you put some more effort into it.

dont want to anyway, just wondering what makes one person more deserving of it than others :d

jasper5408 United States. Sep 27 2009 16:07. Posts 820

On September 27 2009 13:57 Newblish wrote:

Show nested quote +
On September 27 2009 11:28 Loco wrote:

On September 27 2009 11:26 Newblish wrote:
can my next blog post be a featured blog post?

pretty sure you can't

grats midian. good to see you put some more effort into it.

dont want to anyway, just wondering what makes one person more deserving of it than others :d

you have to be shexy

Loco Canada. Sep 27 2009 16:20. Posts 20968

fuck I should just sell some of my Pokemon cards, if no one stakes that is what I will have to do - lostaccount

Twisted

Netherlands. Sep 27 2009 21:12. Posts 10422

Good going Jam.

terrybunny19240 United States. Sep 27 2009 21:27. Posts 13829

Luna_Bluffgood Germany. Sep 28 2009 02:19. Posts 1220

CruiseR Poland. Sep 28 2009 20:40. Posts 682

lol almost 35/30

def super sick

EscapingR Netherlands. Sep 29 2009 10:11. Posts 2353

omg how do you get a red line like that? lol