Congrats and i hope u had an awesome bday man!

Thanks guys, Birthday was pretty weird tbh, couldn't eat anything i wanted too started the day with broccoli, avocado and lean mince and 45 minutes cardio. Just felt incredibly low on energy all day long, really struggling to even walk lol

Thank ****ing God this diet is only until Wednesday....

Update time please I am running out of threads to read on 2+2.

agreed :P

Haha sorry guys, it has been a while once again, i'm getting pretty poor at this huh :O

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So basically poker has been going awfully for a while, pretty sure i'm on a streak or 6/7 losing days right night, barely made any money last month, and i'm down this month. Albeit with a slightly positive evbb/100 which is at least something. I've dropped the amount of tables that i play and i'm working on my game a lot again to try and turn things around, i stagnated in this area for some time but now i'm ready to hit it hard again and learn some new stuff So hopefully won't be a breakeven donk for toooo much longer......But only time will tell

wrt bodybuilding after my first show i went on to lose another 11lbs for the British final which was just 2 weeks later, unfortunately i lost faarr too much weight in those 2 weeks worrying about getting lean enough and i actually lost too much weight. I looked really flat on stage and kinda thin tbh My diet and cardio routine was too extreme and i paid the price i didn't make the top 6!! But i really wasn't too dishearted as even if i came in, in better shape i still may not have made the top 6 as my class was insane!! loads of top sponsored athletes and guys that get on magazine covers, one guy had his bodybuilding pro card, some pretty serious ****, and there were also 35 guys in my class lol many men on stage

Anyway here's a couple a pics i took at my gym about 2 days after the show when i'd eaten lots of cake and already started to fill back out, i think i gained 10lbs in 2 days lol Dat der cake bulk



Also had my wheels re-done into matt purple on my car the day of the show, was pretty convenient because the guy was only a few mins drive from the theatre in Nottingham. I'm not 100% sold on the colour yet i may change it for something different. But for now at least it's a pretty decent change, and it's not often you see people with purple wheels lol



Also drove down to London the other day because i heard the infamous playboy Alextrev was in town!! So i met up with him the_gecko, xela and the one and only Redbaron for a bloody beautiful hand burger or two Was great to finally them after speaking for so long on forums/skype.

Anyway, i still got about a week to turn this dog**** month into a decent one so let's hope for a nice heater and i'll definitely put in some volume soooo legggoooooo

Of to a big party now to celebrate my mates birthday which should be awesome, GL guys

Still playing up to 3/6? Gl

Hope things turn around on the poker front. Dem latz from the front! GL man

Those rhomboids are crazy, what exercises are you doing to get them like that?

i preferred bigger mike to ripped mike no ****. hope this turn around on the poker front and we have more updates!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InMJopurNTE

I was until a couple weeks ago, lost a few buyins when roll was pretty short for it so dropped it for now
Hah, thanks mate GL to you too
I do dumbbell shrugs seated, i lean slightly forward so they hit my rhomboids as well as traps, i do a similar kinda thing on the smith machine with a barbell too. And then just my normal back training i guess thanks
Haha, you'd be surprised at how many people said that to me tbh, lot's prefer me with a chunk of fat on, good job i'm bulking real hard on cake, chocolate and biscuits right now

I do need to grow dat chest Maybe i should use this routine

Time for the monthly update!

Unfortunately this time it's a sad one, i think October was the first losing month (pre rakeback) for me in about 18 months or so. It obviously didn't help that by the 18th of the month i had played <5k hands total :O mainly because of my diet and hectic lifestyle competing in 2 bodybuilding shows but also pure lazyness!

I played some 200nl ZOOM while getting tables started this month and ran reasonably poorly there i guess over a very small sample but i'm more than 100% sure i'd be a reasonable winner there longterm. But this month my losses really came from tiny samples at 600nl and 500nl ZOOM where i managed to lose ~2.7k EV in like 700 hands lol where i just ran awfully for those small samples and then dropped the limit because my roll is short ish for those stakes anyway.

So here's the months results:



So at least my winrates at my 2 main games 400 and 200 are still decent with EV's of 4.4 and 6.4 but obviously lol samples all round this month.

This month i'm really gonna try my best to play a lot of hours and work on my game a lot, i've dropped the number of tables i play and i'm going over most sessions i play and hands in them.

I also carved a pumpkin for halloween and was pretty impressed with my skilllzzzzzzz take a look tell me what u think:





Anyway, i'm off out now and i'll be back grinding this afternoon to start the month off with some cash games and PCA qualifiers No doubt get mad at loldonkaments and vow never to play them again for the 1 mirrionth time but hey it's worth a shot GLGLGL

Great job at carving. Very impressive.

sick carving mate. I hope u run better this month! GLGLGL

Now that you have a new house have you dispensed with the office?

man thinking about it i don't think i ever carved a pumpkin not sure tho maybe as a kid

I carved a kid once.

I imagine you laughing like your avatar after typing that lol

christmas cactus made my day

Glad i could help mate!! Gotta get in the festive spirit!!

any update OP?

Yes, i am a very, very lazy man who is awful at poker

Yes you are! We need updates

Hey Mike,
Just wanted to say you look awesome! Sorry to hear you lost too much weight for the competition, but hey, it's hard to nail that perfect size on an exact day.