Maybe getting some exercise in has tipped me over the threshold to post twice a month. For about one week now I've been following along to an app for "The Scientific 7 Minute Workout". I'd read about this workout about six months ago and had been inspired enough to print off a page with a diagram of the exercises that make up this workout. However, just seeing the diagram on my wall every day wasn't enough to tip me over the threshold and get me exercising. About a week ago I decided to see if I could find a visual aid - maybe a youtube video or an app that I could exercise along to. And I found one. App now loaded to my iPad and about seven episodes of High Intensity Interval Training later I think that I might be able to keep this exercise thing going. My goal is to take this form of exercise once per day on five days out of seven.
Poker wise July looks like it is going to be a break-evenish sort of month. Thanks in part to a cash in last night's $100 tournament at Sky City Casino. Last night was one of those nights where I took the bus to the Casino, this time thanks to not receiving the car rego reminder in time to pay the rego online and have a valid rego sticker for the car. Running deep meant I missed the last bus home. And while I cashed and could have paid for a taxi easily enough, chose to be a nit, and walked the seven to eight kilometers between the Casino and home. Once again I offered up thanks on the walk home to the surgeon who operated on my left knee two years ago and fixed the damage that I'd inflicted on my knee while skiing in 2012.
Wednesday, July 29, 2015
Tuesday, July 21, 2015
Months have passed. Weekly reminders keep coming in to write a blog post and I keep ignoring them. Until today.
Probably three months of break-even poker, one month of small loss and two months of quite large losses. The losses can be attributed to bad play and some variance (getting it in good but being sucked out on by the River).
On some days I feel like a better player than six months ago. And on others, like today, when I play my "D" game, pretty crap.
I engaged the coaching services of Andrew Brokos in late April as a ploy to make myself work on my game. And to some degree that worked in terms of improving some aspects of my game. Andrew's coaching was interrupted by Pokerstars SCOOP series in May and the WSOP in May/June/July. I believe that I have an hour or so left in the contracted coaching so will have another session where I will have to explain my poor results. (Blush). Though when I'm playing on the internet I do get distracted by shiny internet baubles and quite often don't have my "A" or "B" game going. In general terms, while playing live my game has improved. Not perfect. But improved. With quite a lot of improvement left to happen. I suspect the lack of distraction by shiny internet baubles in live play means I can play better live than online.
In family related matters, son #1 is halfway through his second year of his Engineering degree. Working hard. Being far more mature than I was at his age. Has now had a lady friend for about a year with four or five days recently spent in Rotorua with his lady friend during semester break.
Son #2 is halfway through his last year at high school and has a plan for next year.
Probably three months of break-even poker, one month of small loss and two months of quite large losses. The losses can be attributed to bad play and some variance (getting it in good but being sucked out on by the River).
On some days I feel like a better player than six months ago. And on others, like today, when I play my "D" game, pretty crap.
I engaged the coaching services of Andrew Brokos in late April as a ploy to make myself work on my game. And to some degree that worked in terms of improving some aspects of my game. Andrew's coaching was interrupted by Pokerstars SCOOP series in May and the WSOP in May/June/July. I believe that I have an hour or so left in the contracted coaching so will have another session where I will have to explain my poor results. (Blush). Though when I'm playing on the internet I do get distracted by shiny internet baubles and quite often don't have my "A" or "B" game going. In general terms, while playing live my game has improved. Not perfect. But improved. With quite a lot of improvement left to happen. I suspect the lack of distraction by shiny internet baubles in live play means I can play better live than online.
In family related matters, son #1 is halfway through his second year of his Engineering degree. Working hard. Being far more mature than I was at his age. Has now had a lady friend for about a year with four or five days recently spent in Rotorua with his lady friend during semester break.
Son #2 is halfway through his last year at high school and has a plan for next year.
- put himself through a bar tending course
- get a job and save up some money
- travel to Europe. In particular Germany (for Octoberfest) and Scotland (For Scottish New Year celebrations)
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