Leaving for mexico tomorrow, can't wait to get away from the cold of the Netherlands.
Going for about 6 weeks and hopefully just have a great time but can't imagine that not happening!

Sofar the new year has started of pretty good for me, lost about 14 pounds in the first month and have about 40 more to go. Wanted to have that done by the end of the year but maybe I should adjust my target to july or something.

Everything else is still very much uncertain for me this year because it depends so much on whether or not the house I live in sells. This month we did have some viewers so hopefully that will work out.

And now as for every trip I'm thinking about what the hell I'm forgetting this time, hopefully nothing important but usually when you have your passport/creditcard/phone you will survive!

Guess I better start packing.
Robin out.

As most people I've made some resolutions for this year, which is probably a good thing since apparently people who make resolutions are 12 times more likely to achieve them then people that don't make resolutions (what? if you have no resolutions you always achieve it them??!).

Probably the most influental resolution is that I've started following the Paleo Diet. A couple of my friends recommended it and I decided to just give it a shot and see how it goes. The main thing is that I'm no longer allowed to eat carbs and sugar. I'm still reading up on the whole diet thing but will probably just follow it and look at the results.

This is the paleo food-chart:


I will post some before/after pictures after a month and see what it has done to me.
For more info on the Paleo diet

I might expand more about the diet in a future blog but first I'd need to know more about it.

Anyway, the rest of my time I've been spending on 9gag.com which is a truly amazing site. I've wasted o so many hours reading the pics/posts... be carefull, once you go you can't go back!

Some examples:




Anyway, so many great things are posted, also some bad posts but they can't be all good.

Robin out.

I won't be posting my goals for next year but it comes down to the same ones I have every year play more poker, lose lots of weight and a couple of minor things.

And try to not have this happen again:


Because this is so me, I always postpone everything I can and I'm trying to make 2012 a hardworking me so in 2013 future me can be happy w/ the 2012 work.

Have fun with the last few days of 2011!
Robin out.

Can't believe that 2011 is almost over already.
I'm trying to recall what I did this year (currently reading about about memory, will get to that later) and it looks like I had a fairly mellow year.

Didn't travel that much and only a couple of short trips (bahama's, ski-holiday, bike to berlin). So what have I been doing with the extra time I've had back home. Well it turns out not much, watched an awful lot of tvshows, played some games and have gotten into reading books. Halfway through the year I thought about quitting poker but looks like I'm not ready to give it up yet. It just gives so much freedom almost no other job can give.

I've always been fairly lazy about playing poker and putting in volume and am great at making plans to improve it but suck at following through with it.
For 2012 I'm already making lots of plans and am trying to find ways to force myself to keep them. It will most likely involve lots of (penalty-)bets. However I also hope to finally sell the house so I can travel more again.




I've started playing some StarCraft2 but I suck horribly at it sofar, probably because I've not played it that much yet and suck at using hotkeys. I like 2v2 the most sofar but can't play more then 2-3 games in a row without getting enough of it. It is weird because I enjoy watching matches of other players possibly more then playing myself. Then again I also enjoy watching Curtains video's about chess despite not having played more then 10 games in my entire life. If you want to play vs me sent me a PM with your SC2 info to add, but like I said I'm still absolutely terrible.



In other news, the weightloss is going terrible, mostly because I wasn't really that motivated to lose weight and combine that with me re-injuring my foot it just wasn't happening. I started to enjoy going on some walks listening to audiobooks (just started in Robert Jordan's "Wheel of Time" series), however the weather has gone to shit so much I don't really wanna go out much at the moment. Will be alot better when I get to a warmer country. I also suck at eating healthy because I just like to snack alot and eat unhealthy dinners to much. I also have trouble coming up with healthy things to eat that I really like so maybe I'll have to force myself to eat things for a while to enjoy them.



One of the things I currently absolutely don't want to eat is fish, the smell of it makes me nauseous and the taste much more. But if you eat it daily for a couple of weeks you should start to like it (or least that's what I've been told), so I'm deciding if I want to learn to eat fish because I do feel that I'm missing out on alot of good food by not liking fish. If anybody has advice/tips for me on this let me know.



Like I said earlier I've been reading alot more then I used to (well in highschool I didn't read anything so not hard to start reading more than that). Because there are just so many books in the world nowadays if I don't like a book after 50 pages I will simply just quit it while before I made myself finish them and this system works really well for me. The last couple of books that I read and really enjoyed:
- The Name of the Wind & The Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss (can't wait for the 3rd part), they are fantasy books but the writing style is so amazing that I just couldn't put them down (read the first book in 18 hours straight until I finished at 8 in the morning).
- The Lost City of Z , if you like reading about explorers you'll enjoy this book because it covers how the amazon was explored and contact was made with the tribes and what kind of hell living in the amazon is. It made me not wanna go to the amazon because I'm not a fan of bugs and well the amazon is a bug-infested place.

The book I'm currently reading is:


Sofar I'm really liking it (am about halfway through), my memory for this is terrible and this gives some interesting ideas on how to improve it. It also gives a decent amount of backstory on memory-competitions and the usage of memory before books could be used as an aid.


The last couple of night I've had kindof a crazy sleep schedule, the last 3 days I've had 6 blocks of sleep consisting of 2-6 hours per block. Not really a big fan of this yet, I feel a little bit more tired then usual (but all hours combined I've slept about 6 hours less then I normally would in those 3 days). So I will try to go back to just 'normal' hours.



I think I've covered most of the things I wanted to blog about but since my memory is not yet trained some things might have slipped, only time will tell.
Robin out

I accidentally deleted everything on my iphone including all numbers. That was not smart.
Time to start with a clean slate I guess...

Also had my computer crash which took me a while to get up and running again and it looks like for some reason my external HD also crashed and is unrecoverable which means I lose about 500 gigs of data incl vids/photos/docs. Sofar it only wants to format but hopefully I can get a way to recover that data.

I guess I've had better nights ;-) But then again sometimes it's nice to start fresh, now all I have to do is sell the house and start fresh again.

I can always fall back on this diagram:



Time to go sleep.
Robin out.

I've decided to get my eyes lasered, there seem to be a number of options but I got an offer on IntraLasik which seems to be the safest and have the best results.

For information on the difference between LASIK and IntraLASIK Click here

(in picture form)


I was pretty hesistant to get this done because my vision is not that terrible (I can fairly easily live without glasses but need them when sitting behind my computer (which I do like almost the entire day ). But with this method it seems that the risk is really minimal, hopefully run good at life :-).

Robin out.

Not really got any big news but figured that it was a while since my last post and just giving an update on things in life. I'm back to playing squash which is great, still have to take it somewhat easy to make sure I don't get the same injury again. It is also a lot harder when you've gained 30+ pounds to run smoothly across the court.

The weightloss is going okish, sofar lost about 3 pounds, but hopefully that will get better once I get to play more often and longer, still have trouble not eating to much unhealthy food but think I'm doing pretty decent and eating lots of fruit and not a lot of cookies/chips/chocolate.

In poker I'm having one of the worst months I've ever had so it's time for a break again, luckily I had a pretty decent month last month so I can take the hit but it sucks to see so much of your money go to other players. Well not much I can do about it anymore, just hope things will change and I can start winning again, pretty sure 5/10 is rigged though ;-)

Finally decided to drop some of the terrible shows I was still watching every week.. some of the new comedies where just becoming unwatchable... and I still watch alot of terrible shows (walking dead, terrable nova, HIMYM).

Must say that I haven't seen any movies in the last few months and it doesn't seem like there are many good new ones out, so if you have any new movie recommendations let me know!

Robin out.

Since I have been unable to play any sports in the last few months due to injury I've gained a substantial amount of weight. So now I will be trying to lose this weight again.

Starting tomorrow back to eating healthy and playing sports again! So hopefully I'll be able to lose about 50 pounds in 6 months, we'll see how it goes since I'm a sucker for unhealthy easy food.

In poker related news, I managed to actually win the bet from last month and play 100K hands, it was definately tougher then I expected and because I only play 6-8 tables it took me a total of 180 hours. What motivated me the most was that I didn't want to lose the bets I made (Even though they were not for alot of mone). I started of running terrible but luckily it did turn around a little at the end!

It also motivated me to keep on playing higher volume then before (but definately not this much), so it turned out pretty great.

In house-related news things are still terrible, there has been absolutely no interest despite the low price and it doesn't look like it will change soon so I'm postponing all my travelplans till I sell the house which will unfortunately take longer then I hoped but I'm fairly flexibel so it's not a big problem.

Now it's time to relax a bit and watch some tv-shows, read some books and possibly play some poker...
Robin out.

Things aren't really going that great this month pokerwise. Trying to put in the most volume ever in a month but after 50K hands I'm hovering around $0. It sucks to run so terrible but as a pokerplayer you just gotta take it and try not to let it affect you. However after the 10th day of running into monsters I ended up spewing a bit and made a retarded bluff 300BB deep. So it's time I give myself a little break and won't be playing today or tomorrow. Just pretending everything in the last 2 weeks just didn't happen and that my month starts on sunday

I still have 50K hands to play this month which should keep me really busy because it will take me 88,8 hours if they go as fast as the last 50K hands. It's a good thing I have some bets on this otherwise I would've been on a weeklong break already and sometimes it's just good to put some volume in, at least there is still rakeback ;-).

I think I do really like playing alot, although it would be alot better if I was also winning money, I will probably take it pretty easy next month because I have to lose some serious weight and when I'm losing weight I'm not always in a good playing mood. Hopefully I will also be able to play sports again and my injury won't come back.

Overall I will probably need to lose about 40-50 pounds... I won't be able to make that in 1 month, but will def get a good start on it!

I wanted to say that I really liked this season of breaking bad. I thought it was one of the best seasons of any tv-show that I've ever seen and if you haven't seen it you really should. I have no idea how they're going to make another 16 episodes next season but I guess we'll find out!


One of the best supporting actors, if he doesn't win an emmy for this then there is no justice!

I've also finally started watching


I heard it was not as good as Band of Brothers but as long as it's half as good I'm happy. Sofar pretty bloody and makes me happy I've never been in a war!

For now I'm going to try to finally beat the last 2 levels of the impossible game (iphone app, download if you haven't already).

One last thing is that I wanted to post was a video I came across which has an amazing song clicky .

I've heard that song about 100 times already and still love it!

Robin out.

Well after about 4 days of non-stop grinding I remembered why they call it grinding :/. I doubt I will play as much in the future as I've got planned this month.

Been running pretty terrible sofar but hopefully that will even itself out before the end of the month and if not well then I can just be a rakeback pro ;-)

Because I suck at playing lots of hands I made a sidebet about the number of hands with 6 people. Even though I'm ahead of schedule none of them wanted out of the bet :/ Most even wanted to up the bet-amount.. but fuck that!

I'm pretty confident that I will end up finishing the bet, the only thing currently in my way is the construction workers who decided to drill away the entire wall next to my house each morning at 8 am :/

I also recommend the following show (it's a little bit like early seasons of 24 but obviously different, with a great cast):


Sofar only 1 episode has aired but that one was really good! Def a must watch!

Robin out.