It's still slightly uncomfortable, but i can finally type w/ two hands again! I figured I'd celebrate by doing a written blog. It's weird how even just moving my fingers or my wrist I still feel it in my shoulder. It's been nearly 3 months since I've typed properly, but I still seem to go at a decent speed.... beats one hand anyway .

My work ethic seems to be much better lately. Since I forced myself to play poker again, I've slowly been improving. I did take yesterday off, which I allow once/week. I got kind of sick from some food I ordered, and figured I'd rest up before the weekend grind.

I moved up to 10nl today, after an afternoon session of 4nl (hardly any 10nl 6max was going.) I ended up tilting in my 4nl session. I went to go eat something, clear my head, watched a video, and I was good to go. It resulted in winning over 4bi's at 10nl to give me a +$36 for the day. I ran pretty well, but I'm still happy w/ the way I played, and obv with the result.

Tomorrow I plan on playing 2-3hrs again, and probably Sunday as well. I think my goal will be to put in higher volume during the weekend, and take Wednesday or Thursday off to relax. I feel like watching a video really gets my brain thinking about poker, so I'm going to try and do that every day.

Other than poker there's not much to update on. I don't really go out anymore. I don't have too many friends here now, which was hard at first. Now that I'm playing poker again though, it's a little easier. I have enough that if I really wanted to go out, I could round up a crowd. I pretty much wake up, watch a lil tv, go eat, watch a poker vid, play poker, eat, play another session, and then wrap up the night by watching tv or talking to my U.S friends.

That's about it, I think I'll be able to drive in another week or two. My shoulder seems to be able to move lil bit more every day. I've been doing exercises i've found on youtube, since the docs here didn't tell me about any therapy or whatevs. I think i'll do a mix of written and video blogs from here on out. pz out

one week since i stopped being super lazy, i talk about the results so far.

http://youtu.be/_lUZ7mQnCjg

I talk about my plans on how to play poker again. I played a 1hr session just now and didn't tilt despite things not going my way. I'm feeling pretty good, and confident i can do everything i say in the video.

http://youtu.be/0YYqFEojbkc

Been nearly 2 months since i mentioned poker in my "poker" blog. I still can't really type, so you'll have to forgive me for putting out so many video logs. This one my hair looks terrible so u can at least laugh at that.

http://youtu.be/l7fGiIGDDYE

watching tv, rant about dumb ppl.

http://youtu.be/_EXlDhRQZ2w

Another vlog updating about my motorbike accident and status.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=n7BmF3Zds30

Just did my first video blog, turned out ok for a rookie imo. Since I can't embed vids i will just post the link.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtNls0VgsUQ

Yurk23 started some interest in doing a NCAA Bracket pool this year, and I've set up a league on Yahoo. Any Leggo member can join for $10. More details can be found here (post #15-16). Right now we have about 6 ppl committed to signing up, and likely a few more on the way.

In robbyd86 news, not too much happening. I decided to take care of a lot of things this week (well, some i had to). I finally got my 3rd dose of Twinrix (hep a+b) taken care of, that was about 1 month overdue, and I'm hoping they did it right (Thai hospitals worry me). I did all my immigration stuff and don't have to go back until June 11th. Also don't have to pay anymore fees until September 20th (if I stay that long) which is nice. I'm going to try and schedule a dental cleaning this week as well. I haven't been to the dentist since high school (8 yrs ago), and it's cheap here, so I need to get that done.

Poker hasn't gone well. I ran super bad, then played really bad (standard after runbad). As Matt pointed out I was folding away too much EV in spots. I've started playing less and studying more. Watching some vids, and doing some sweats. Things should turn around soon

I've been grinding pretty hard the last few days, unfortunately it hasn't worked out so well, but I'm keeping my chin up. I had a 7BI under EV day on Sunday which really sucked, then followed it up with more run bad yesterday.


I'm taking today off and just going to relax. Not missing much EV since it's Tuesday anyways. The games seem ridic soft, and I've just been nitting it up as you can see from my stats. It's amazing the plays regs make on me, in spots where I'm bluffing <2%. I've enjoyed playing again and even though I'm losing, it hasn't seemed to dampen my spirit quite yet.

Life has been wonderful these past few months. I'm hoping to maintain this lifestyle for many months (possibly years) to come. I'm going to try hard to stay in Thailand for a while. It seems doable, the biggest obstacle will be coming up with $800 for another visa in September. It just seems like my quality of life is way higher here. I'd be super busto living in the states right now, and I'd also be living with my parents.

That's it for now. NBA.TV has not been working and it's spoiled some great games/sweats for me. I haven't watched as much TV lately, so I have few ratings of shows. The new Archer season is decent, Modern Family has been awesome lately, and Big Bang Theory is pretty hit or miss this season. If you take Leonard out of Big Bang Theory (or make him a small role) and just have it be the Sheldon show, it'd be great.

My sleep schedule this last week was all over the place. It wasn't b/c of alcohol (only drank semi-heavily once), but I just seemed to get tired at different times. One day it was 11am-4pm, then 12am-3pm, then 7am-12pm.... idk it was crazy. I actually felt good and happy the entire week though so it's whatever. I've decided to try and have some structure, at least during the week when I have to get my ass in class for two days. So Monday-Friday I want to wake up by noon (not super strict obv).

I've been playing pool slightly less, just because it gets expensive buying drinks all night. I still go out often, but I go out at 10-11pm instead of starting at 8pm. I've been going for some nice walks, recently by the river which is fun. Also been trying to accomplish at least one task per day, which seems to help me not feel like a lazy POS. Even if it's something simple like paying a power bill or taking the trash out, it seems to help. I think I saw a video blog about that somewhere. Other than that I've just been playing poker and hanging out.

I went on a little motorbike ride with Matt and Jordan today. It was a lot of fun, and we haven't done much lately, so it was nice to get out. We went to Doi Suthep which is a temple up the mountain a little ways. I've been there before, but it's a nice ride and the climate is much better high in the mountains. Right now it's pretty hot during the day (around the mid 90's F), and as you can see lots of smog.



This picture was taken at the same location when I first got here about 5 months ago.



We also stopped at a waterfall that I hadn't seen before.



If you can see, on the right hand side there was a kind of sort of path to hike up the side of the waterfall, which I decided to take. I took a few pics around the area, but it was hard to get in position for good shots.

This one was at the very top (or at least as high as I ventured)


This was on my way back down


I actually fell shortly afterwards. Matt and Jordan were looking away at the time, but turned around once they heard me falling and I was pretty much at the bottom lol. I wasn't hurt or anything, it was only about 15-20 feet. I got a little too confident bouncing from rock to rock and slipped on a wet one, then rode a few branches down. I was actually surprised I wasn't hurt (few scratches), I was a lil scared when I first started going down, but somehow managed to avoid getting rocks and branches stuck up my ass or falling on my head. Also got close to falling in the water which may have been worse.

Poker Update
I've enjoyed playing poker for the first time in a while this week. I can finally see myself putting in more hours and being happy about it. That said, I'm still not going to go crazy, and will probably play between 30-40k hands/month. So far I've put in around 16k for February, but I didn't play at all until the 11th I believe. I'm up a few BI's right now (would be way more w/o 50nl shot), nothing too exciting.

I haven't really been posting in the strategy forums recently. The main reason is I believe what I'm doing is working, and I don't really want to be swayed from that. Sometimes I get into a debate/discussion and I start second guessing myself at the tables. That's fine if I'm losing or don't think I'm playing well, but when I'm playing well/winning, I just prefer to keep on keeping on. I'm still around all the other forums a lot and am happy to reply if ppl pm/skype me HH's.

So this is long enough, but it's been a while since I've put some effort into a blog. I've got Thai class tomorrow which I've been slacking on a bit so I feel obligated to go. I will probably just watch a lil TV and go to bed. I plan on putting in some decent poker volume the next few days (like 2-3hr days lol).