I'm 2 to Schneider's right stacking newly acquired chips
It's from 8minutes, 6seconds until 8minutes, 29 seconds.
Those new sunglasses... are now paid for. BWAHA.
That should actually give you a good idea where I was at before starting my p90x prop. Just a little too much meat on my bones
Really close to getting sub-170 lbs, plus I uploaded part 1 of my 4-part tournament series. All in all a good week! Running like crap in internet pokers to start September, but thanks to rakeback I'm only down a wee bit.
August results were just okay. I made about 5k at live poker and only a few thousand at internet poker. There was a bunch of time lost to the moving process, and too many hours spent playing poker that was not my bread and butter. As a result I lost a bunch of hours to breakeven activity (eg 1/2 PLO shallow instead of rush .5/1, and random shottaking at 5/10NL and 25/50 mix after some
So 20 days in and I've lost about 6 pounds. It's kinda sporadic though, the day-to-day weigh-ins have a lot of variance due to water weight. I have been taking pictures of myself every 10 days however, and in the first 20 days there are definitive changes. My upper body has actual tone developing, and there's a lot less roundness in my neck and stomach. I know that coming out of highschool I weighed around 145 and even though I felt normal everyone around me thought I was too skinny and never bothered to say anything... Seeing my old drivers license you could tell I was just rail thin. So While 170 is a much better weight than 180, I think ultimately something in the ballpark of 155 to 160 is going to be optimal, and hopefully I can accomplish that before the end of the year.
I'm realizing that nutrition is ultimately the deciding factor in how much bodyfat I shed. My best weeks have come when I've been stringent about my nutrition. Namely keeping my carbs low, eating enough veggies, and eating ~170g of protein daily (my current'ish bodyweight).
Once you do that for a week or so, I've noticed that the day-to-day appetite is less intense, or rather I feel less of a need to snack in between meals. I dunno if that's normal or not, what I do know is that there's definitely a calorie deficit which leads to weight loss but I don't know the appropriate pace right now. I would pay good money to have someone telling me exact portions to eat; as is I'm just eating when hungry and making sure I'm eating to my standards. There are reasons to worry with something like this, though, because I know this is the kinda attitude that can lead to people getting eating disorders. A kid losing weight sees the progress he makes after a few weeks of not eating enough and decides to eat even less, and it spirals downward.
I haven't had anything like this happen so far but there have been days where I've eaten breakfast and done my protein shake and find myself not eating anything until dinner. There's something fundamentally wrong with that, I just need to make sure I'm getting enough meals in my system so I can lose the weight in a better fashion. This is another reason I need to be waking up at 8am and not 2pm, because it's a lot easier to realize what times I need to be eating which meals, since my brain is better wired for that schedule. It's hard to remember what counts as dinnertime when you woke up in the early afternoon. Sometimes I like being a poker player because I can wake up whenever the f*ck I want fully rested, but it means I'm less productive day-to-day. C'est la vie I guess.
We have our personal chef for those 4 dinners a week, and for the remaining dinners and lunches I'm looking to use the leftover tupperware to store food in large quantities. Tomorrow's goal is to cook some turkey chili and store it in tupperware, and gauge how much I'd need for a week's worth of food. The nice thing about being a poker pro is that I'll have all the time in the world to do the cooking that needs to be done, so I'll look to add in some stuff as I go along but turkey chili is a decent enough start.
p90x has gotten progressively easier as far as the tough workouts go, but I'm about to hit week 4 which is the period where my body is given something of a rest, and all of the workouts are more geared towards stretching and rewiring. I'm gonna work especially hard to keep my diet in check during this week (may add some cardio to help produce a calorie deficit) because the p90x workouts probably won't be burning many calories. plyo has become my 2nd worst workout, and now yoga is king. it's just 90 minutes of feeling uncomfortable, and I loathe it. I will soon come to respect it, though. It's gonna take months however.
Poker continues to go well, I had a rather swingy week. I ran like electric jesus in the 25/50 7game, then I ran like AIDS in the same game while having a massive downswing in PLO. Fortunately I just stuck it out and replaced the mix games with RUSH plo (my basement as far as poker bankroll management goes) and ran better. the nutrition and the p90x have actually sorta screwed with my poker work-ethic (waking up in the early afternoon doesnt help either), and for september I'm gonna aim to wake up in the mornings, immediately do p90x, then do my pokering during daytime. then do a nap on the deck, then leave the rest of the day to myself. if I can do that every day in September, I'll consider it a successful month. I really ought to post a bounty on myself only playing PLO for September, but I enjoy mixed games too much but will look to keep it to $600 buyins and below... sometimes the 1k buyins are really juicy, but I haven't run amazing in them and when you dont have the right amount of confidence then you're better off grinding the smallstakes.
Overall August was a swingy month, both with the p90x and with the poker, but overall I profited very nicely and made modest gains with my health. I still need to work on my cooking abilities and I need to get a new wardrobe at some point, but since most of my life between now and when p90x is over is gonna be foul bachelor frog material, I'm not too concerned about not having some fresh threads, as they'd say on Jersey Shore.
Anyhow, it's off to bed, in the morning I will get some ingredients for that mean turkey Chili and I will be starting my new video series, Ninja Style. Hopefully look to get 4 videos out of it, I've mentioned it in prior blog entries but my day-to-day has kept me from doing the video how I want it. My computer is in a grindstation office with my 3 roomies, and I've deduced that the only way I can do this particular video is by waking up early in the morning. Future videos will have to be done on the laptop (and if I'm smart, future poker playing aswell. I'd have to be retarded playing poker on my desktop some days when it's perfectly nice to sit on my deck. lawl).
That's a lot of words without pictures, and me being a visual thinker I must include a youtube. Here you go...
note: it has "The Wire" spoilers, so dont click if u havent watched the series, DERP.
I didn't die 9 days in, so that's a start. 10% is finished and I've showed some good progress so far. All the details posted in my thread in the Leggo OffTopic forum.
This last week or two our place has either had to go a week without internet or TV, its been kinda brutal but it's whatever. When we didn't have any internet I just played a bunch of poker at the Palomar and ran pretty good, and now without TV until Sunday I think I'll cope.
Beyond that I'd say life is pretty goddam boring at the moment. I'm mostly focusing on p90x and not ruining my diet (been close a few times, fu Doritos). An average day (hopefully) is waking up at 8am, breakfast, p90x at 9am, rush poker until lunch, eat lunch, then either do f*ck all for the rest of the day or hit up the Palomar. At some point when the internet fully works at our place I'll look to add Modern Warfare 2 to that schedule.
At some point I'm going to make those tournament videos but I've been lazy. I deserve a solid berating from Probability & Vitas.
I'm on pace to post a pretty sweet month thanks to Palomar rungood, I haven't played nearly enough rush PLO but I've run good enough at 1/2 PLO (omg shot-taking!) to compensate. Each day I'm just looking to accomplish a few house-oriented things and beyond that just p90x and poker. And hopefully more tanning.
I do plan on hitting up Colorado for the UGA/Colorado football game, and probably Georgia for thanksgiving, but beyond that I'm gonna keep the focus. 9 days down, 81 days to go!
So tomorrow it starts again, round 2 of attempting p90x. I'm confident that this time I will succeed. I'm about 50% more in shape than last go round, and I'll have all the tools necessary at my disposal. I also have a bounty that says I can never drink coca-cola until I complete it, and some other bounties on the day-to-day challenge bits with 2p2er shpankoh.
The fitness part will be brutal, the nutrition will be less brutal. I'm just going to focus on eating clean, no processed carbs, no fast food. Just focusing on lean meats, veggies, fruits, and whole grain. I'm also limiting my beverage intake to just water and 5 hour energy (or the random sugarfree redbull if I'm out drinking and need a chaser).
I'm posting my log here largely to keep myself accountable.
Additionally I'm almost moved in and will be making vids within the next day or two. I would have made one sooner but one of the roomies has a friend in town and he's using the couch near the workstation to sleep on and since my usual videomaking time is in the wee hours I dont want to wake him up.
After a couple weeks of grinding out the paperwork, meetings, inspections, blahblah... finally moved in!
This will be a great environment, I am super happy about this place. 4b/4b condo, and it has a deck the size of a tennis court, about 10 stories up. Amazing views of balboa park, downtown SD, naval base, airport, mission bay, and Hillcrest. We turned one of the living rooms into a grindstation.
Look at how awesome my new home gym is gonna be, I can knock out two life philosophies at once, gym and tanning (and the maid takes care of laundry obv). Just kidding, those arent my philosophies, but with Jersey Shore back on it's fun to pretend. I think my true philosophies will be Gym/Tan/Poker. Cant wait for my p90x bounty to start.
So going into the WSOP I was pretty tilted at my inconsistency this year. I would play midstakes cash, win 5k, then lose 5k at PLO. I'd grind out 5k at 1/2NL, then lose 5k at highstakes mix. I'd win 5k at PLO, then lose 5k in tournaments. I'd win some in live tournaments and action-buying, then I'd lose some. At a certain point I felt like I wasn't approaching things like a professional (more like a live poker degen or something) and vowed post-WSOP to stick to the same games and grind it out, little by little. I missed a week of grinding because of the WSOP Main (but hey that was a pretty good week to miss grinding thanks to the mincash heyooo), but still managed to log 74 hours and here were my results:
100PLO: 42k hands, $4400 winnings, ev of $2000 (ptbb 10.5, evptbb 5)
200NL: 22k hands, $350 winnings, ev of $700 (ptbb 0.8, evptbb 1.6)
Overall: 64k hands, $4750 winnings, ev of $2700
Throw in the rakeback and I made $6500 over about 74 hours of play, which is a pretty solid hourly when you run whitehot at PLO. My last session of the month was 6 hours and I made 20 buyins, decent little heater (that should help explain the massive over-ev for PLO)
There are obviously better months to be had by Leggo pros, but mine is mine and I'm happy about it. I'm gonna freeroll on a bunch of online MTTs in the next couple of months (FTOPS+WCOOP) so there won't be any worries of losing my modest gains on some lotto ticket donkaments =)
I'm still waiting for a good time to make my Leggo videos. My temporary desk is in the middle of the house I'm crashing at, and there's not really any time in the day to make a video. Either there's commotion going on in the background or someone is sleeping on the nearby couch. Hopefully I'll be at my new place within a week, fingers crossed! Pics to come.
My august goals are to make $1k a week in rakeback. I'm averaging about $350 a week in rakeback and I'm gonna want to step it up if I'm gonna do my grinder retribution thing.
I'm actually really happy with my soda bounty so far. I have gone multiple days without even thinking about coke. Way better about it this time than bounties past, where I'd be tweaking like a crack addict.
And that's pretty much what's up with me since the main event. Next blog should come when I'm at the new place. 1 timeeeee.
My new musical preference is "Kush and OJ" by Wiz Khalifa. There are so many gems in this mixtape that I stumbled on a few days ago. Basically every song talks about smoking weed, I dont smoke weed, but f*ck it every song is awesome.
So I drove back to SD on the 15th or so and have been chilling there for almost a week. Once again I'm in limbo in between leases and am crashing on the couch of some friends place, and am spending most of my time looking for places to rent with JonnyCosmo, GoGators86, and A2SteakSauce. This is pretty amusing if you know UB/AP regs at all, because my old SD roomie Carrotsnake (who is now back in Atlanta) battle with them on the interwebs on the regular. We are pretty close to locking up a really cool place, so if and when that happens I'll post pics obv.
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I have spent the last month or so grinding a specific gametype and I'm averaging about $100/hour over my first 35,000 hands, so I'm gonna keep doing that until I've played a few hundred thousand hands at that limit. I told myself once I'd find a gametype I'd consistently win at I'd bleed that game dry, and that's more or less what I'm doing. I'd say more but I don't wanna jinx myself, so no graphs for a little bit, sorry. Sadly that means a lot less tournaments. Tournaments just don't really fit in with that kind of gameplan, given they require more hours for a return that isn't consistent enough for my liking. I will probably look to play FTOPS/WCOOP on some kind of freeroll but beyond that I'm gonna just continue my grind.
I do have some good news wrt tournament videos, tho; I finished 12th in a random rush $50 tournament on FTP a week ago (I couldn't help regging a rush tournament, they finish so much quicker) and I recorded most of it, so it could be good for 3 or 4 vids. I think it shows off my ninja style pretty well.
The program takes your database and assigns colors on FTP/Stars given the rules you assign, ie someone with really nitty preflop stats could be yellow, someone really loose could be purple, etc etc. There are obviously tons more things you can do with the program, but I'm a simpleton so there.
If that sounds like something you'd like to implement throughout your HEM database then enjoy!
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I put a rather big bounty on myself a couple days ago, no soda until I complete p90x. This one is kinda sick because I don't even think I'm starting p90x until I move into my new place, which could be as late as mid-August. I will be working out on the regular with JonnyCosmo in the meantime, but basically I'm gonna vanquish the skinnyfat once and for all, and it will be glorious.
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Lastly some songs I've been listening to lately. peace!
Had a rather terrible table draw with some bigstacks to my left that were doing some unorthodox things so I nitted it up until ITM
then with 300k at 3k/6k and a ubernitty image I open AQdd otb, good kid in SB flats and BB vamo vamo who won the $2500NL to end the series overcalls BB
flop Qs9s2c, 52k in pot and 280k eff, SB checks and the vamovamo donkleads 40k.
I conclude jamming is the optimal play, so I do so. SB folds, and the vamovamo starts talking to himself for a solid 45 seconds saying "I cant fold this I cant fold this, this is so sick so sick so sick"
Then he calls with 22. I am drawing dead. But wait I hit a queen on the turn! But I brick the river.
