Poker
August is in the books and with that my first month back playing "real poker", not that Chinese nonsense, in about 2 years. I'm missing a bunch of hands in the below graph because I forgot to change my alias when saving the graph and now I'm on a different PC, but the $ value is about the same anyway, think it was $1k more actually and prob another 5-15k hands.
Even though you can't see it (because it's on my other alias), the first week I spent at 200NL was actually pretty turbulent. I honestly had no idea how to play 6max and basically punted a lot while adjusting to the unfamiliar format. Some of the hands I brought to coaching sessions were down right embarrassing. But it didn't take long for me to get the gist of things and a bit of pleasant variance made August a very nice transition month for me. Graph below is all 200nl.
GL all you mothefkers playing the WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS may all of us win the main event.
At the end of the month I jumped into some 500nl games with about a 8 buyin shot. I lost 4 buyins so far but I'm hoping I can make this shot stick and can play 500 as my main game going forward because the ~9bb/100 in rake at 200nl is kind of absurd.
Fitness/Health
Three days ago I finally deadlifted 200kg for the first time. It was not a pretty rep but it was a deadlift. Super ***** stoked to have hit that milestone especially since this past month I've been experimenting with removing caffeine completely from my diet to improve my sleep quality. The quarter life of caffeine is 12 hours so if you have a cup of coffee at 9am it's the same as having a quarter cup of coffee at 9pm which I figured was likely having an impact on my sleep.
Needless to say, removing all caffeine from my diet made absolutely no change to my shite sleep quality and all it did was make my workouts absolutely piss weak - not having a pre workout really makes a huge difference for me, and I've decided that I'll be taking pre workout again because if I can't get good sleep regardless I may as well have good workouts.
Partying/Degenning
I've basically been on a 3 day bender recently. The turnover rate of Thai girls my room has been seeing lately is absurd and yesterday after a friend's birthday party I decided it would be a terrific idea to drop acid at about 6am, and then I ended up walking home mostly tripping still in the afternoon.
Went out drinking/partying probably 2-3 too many times this month. And I say this **** every month but September-November I'm really going to try pull my head in on that front.
September
Planning on playing a bunch of WCOOP this month, basically just all the $55s and $109s depending on start time and whatnot. I am still in the process of figuring out how playing MTTs everyday is going to affect my gym/sleep/study schedule and so I'm not really going to set any volume goals for Sept, but if I can keep these girls out of the penthouse, stay relatively sober, and still hit the gym, it'll be a good month.
PS still have a room available in the penthouse, 20k baht til March.
Gl all <3