Hey, sup everybody? Had an awesome holiday in Tenerife. We did a lot of bike riding & some relaxing in the afternoons. Weather was nice, somewhat windy sometimes, but in general very good. Because my friend had over 1000km's in the legs already, while I only had 150, I struggled lots during the first days. However, I progressed pretty fast and towards the end of the week I was at an ok'ish level. We did 400km's, had 10k height metres in just 5 days of bike riding. We also went up to the 'famous' El Teide vulcano, which was the longest climb I've ever did. Starting from the bottom, it was over 50km's of climbing, as we went from sea level to 2400 metres. Had a pretty good day fortunately, and only finished +- 10 minutes behind my friend after a 4 hour long climb.
Amazing view just a few km's before we reached the top. At least, the 'reachable' top bc there was a cable lift to get you up from 2400m to 3500m.
Some more beauty shots.
Poker-wise I'm in a weird place atm. Make-up is highest ever, motivation is pretty low, and I have a lot of stuff for school coming up as well. First exam is within 6 weeks, and I have done **** so far. Pbb will have to start studying within one of the next weeks. It's weird but good I guess, but I didn't miss poker for one second during my holiday, and I believe this is like the first time since ever. I don't know what I am going to do to be honest. I feel like there are plenty of other things I want to pursue at the moment, and grinding hard isn't just one of them at the moment. Might feel different in a few weeks, but I sincerely doubt it to be honest. Only gonna play if I really really really feel like doing so, and obviously on sundays, bc all the money is there. Will try to keep my game sharp by reviewing a bunch though in order to be well prepared for upcoming scoop. scoop will be interesting, pbb gonna 4/6 table max bc of the amount of study I'll have to do. I guess time will tell us.
In other news, I've played a live cashgame session on saturday, and I've managed to win my biggest pot live as well. Only needed a 2 outer, after getting it in with KK vs AA & another unknown hand to scoop the 1800eu pot. Skillgame much. Still pretty much hate live cashgames though, they are just so booooring in general. Might play some more in the future though. The prospect of actually earning some money with poker in contrast to mtt's now is worth it I guess.
Played a relatively small session yesterday. Bricked most of it, a few mincashes, a few semi-deep runs, the usual stuff. I rekt a reg pretty bad on Ipoker though, even after having zero timebank due to an earlier computer crash
not sure wtf he was doing though.
Going to pursue a lot of cycling, trying to hit the gym 3 times a week, and try to get in a reasonable shape. Playing with the idea of driving up to the ventoux/stelvio in July/august/september and smashing my personal record on one of these mountains. Might even do some kind of cycling holiday again in the Dolomites/Alps during summer or whatever, not sure but would like to have a goal if I'm going to do a lot of bike riding. Really looking forward to it though, especially with the weather getting better and better now.
That's about it for now, thanks for bearing with my rambling again.