Didnt know about the accident...sad to hear.

Can't and won't say much, just hope for these families to find some kind of peace in the future.

PM'd.

Yeah definitely. Death toll has risen to 16 now and it seems like a small portion of the survivors will be able to walk away from the accident and not be paralyzed or have severe damage. Very sad indeed.

Poker: Shipped 82t, 2nd BB 109 after getting 2 outed by a fishreg twice and then getting coolered several times by him heads up. Game is feeling sooo good atm have found a few things that seem to be working v well against the population tendencies.

Health: Getting some compliments now about fat loss and feeling really good. Amazing how after only 10 days or so drastically reducing carbs and sugars I'm just not getting the same cravings anymore (that I thought were inevitable). Meals have been mostly whole/clean/low carb/low sugar foods that are very easy on the digestive system...very clean energy. I'm feeling much less bloated after meals and eating a lot less naturally. Went out for dinner with some friends and just had chicken/vegetables...they had some potato wedges and garlic bread to share also but I felt 0 temptation to have any of it. Not even sure if it's just placebo/improved will power/or some type of bodily chemical response that's reduced my cravings but I never would have imagined my dietary decision making to be this good.

Gym: Been going 4x/week still and feeling good. Might try to increase the intensity of my workouts a little bit and try to work out a bit longer. Workouts have been fairly basic with about 30 minutes of cardio and then 3-4 sets of 10 reps on 3-4 different exercises every time. Now that I'm ~10 weeks in I think it;s time to step things up a bit.

Plans with poker next few weeks:
-Montreal for the 5300+other good value side events
-Seneca 1k this weekend (perhaps)
-Vegas for as much of WSOP as I can stand (booked flight there and some hotel nights already). Will be an interesting challenge there as it will mark 2 months of the diet and that city REALLY is good at bringing out the inner degen. Whether it's with gambling/drugs/alcohol/women/or just any degenerative behaviour...it will really test you.
-SCOOP! Gonna grind my ass off this series and hopefully take down an event or two.
-Barcelona in August (maybe)


My hands are full with a busy next few months. Gonna take a week of vacation before SCOOP starts and a week after it ends before Vegas. Spending those weekends up at the lake @ my family's new cottage seem appropriate.


Thanks for reading and GL to yalll

This sounds like a really good schedule m8!

Best of luck in Vegas in all fronts

accountability and discipline in this thread, nice. online poker is still confirmed beatable while high though(I'm mostly a weak reg though)

I have been reading a book entitled "Deep Nutrition: Why Your Genes Need Traditional Food."

It has great reviews. I am not that far into it yet but I too have been wanting to make a big improvement in my diet. I do OK to good overall (get a lot of nutrients but I snack a lot and my selections could be better) but I think with more discipline I could see benefits physically and mentally(and my wife loves baking Blueberry-Lemon muffins and stuff). When you start reading about the science behind some of the stuff it is eye-opening. Reading about how vegetable oils hurt our brains and genes, it makes you want to cut them out, the same goes for sugar. Cancerous cells crave and thrive from sugar, it was stated in the book. These bad ingredients literally **** up and confuse our genes/cells, the bad ingredients help attribute to good cells losing their identities, forgetting what they are supposed to do, which leads to tumor/cancer growth(tried to sum it up as best I could). But it is scary to think about it and we as people cannot continue down this path as a whole, we can not continue to pollute future generations with our selfish choices. It all starts at the top though, nutrition needs to be more widespread and talked about, there needs to be more awareness.

To think about some food labels, claiming "heart healthy," "10g of fiber per serving!," etc but then you look at the ingredient list and it's a bunch of words you can't pronounce, the food was machine and man-made, processed maximally; we need to get away from that stuff, and I say that to myself as well, imperfectly. Sickness is not random, strong people are hard to kill, it all starts with what you ingest! I am a huge believer in the idea that a person can not optimize anything until he maximizes his diet. How can you be the best basketball player, poker player, teacher, engineer, person, etc. you can be if you don't start by nourishing your body properly? I don't think you can.

Been enjoying battling you mate, keep up the hustle, im trying to shift a lot of weight myself and find sometimes its really tough to grind after gym or amending diet, something which has gotten better for you over time?

Tonkaa getting crushedddd gl gl

thanks for the post! I'll def check out the book recommendation when I get some time. IMO the whole food thing is one of the biggest epidemics the modern generation will face. It's only been a few years in the grand scheme of the world in which foods have become heavily processed and modified and the whole fast/processed food era is still very very young. Just look at how much the average north american diet and portion sizes have changed over the last 100 years. Not to mention that the foods eaten are likely far different in quality and preservatives (ie a chicken breast 50 years ago was probably much more natural than a chicken breast today). IMO nutrition is the healthiest determinant of a healthy life yet everybody seems grossly uninformed or is just ignorant to it (me included). I'm fairly uneducated like I said but I think sugars and carbs in lower doses and from healthy sources (fruits for example) are probably very healthy in moderation, same with fats. However, trouble arises when it's the processed sugars/fats that really fk up our bodies and hormones. Heard some stat about something like 50% of people in American hospitals are there because of poor diet (diabetes, heart issues, cancer, morbidly obese, etc etc). I'm not saying that bad diet 100% causes those things or that those issues are always preventable...but the chances can be drastically reduced. It's tough though to inform/teach/change the habits of an entire nation that is very entrenched in their ways. ****, it's hard enough even to change myself.

Cheers man I'll address this/tie it in with my next post.


haha pretty tilting ending to that FT but oh well we'll take 3rd after getting 2 outed a bunch of times seems like a decent result. I'll talk more about that A6 hand next post.

Cheers!

Ok to address this a little bit more in depth. That's great that you want to make some changes and improve body composition. I'm obviously no professional and have had a lot of struggles along the way (and still have a long journey ahead of me), but here's some stuff that's helped me get on the right path:

-Made a prop bet with a friend for us both. Take a photo/snapchat for proof that you were in the gym 4x/week (or whatever you feel is a good goal), for 1 month. Breaking things down week by week feels much more attainable. (oh yeah, and measure ur results). If one of you fails to achieve the bet he must pay the other guy. It almost became a competition for me and my friend.

-Focus on going to the gym first thing in the morning. If you postpone to later in the day the guilt/anxiety will bug you all day+you are more likely to skip. It will also help everything else in your day.

-After a few weeks in the gym and eating healthy you will likely see results which will motivate you further as you realize a few small changes make a big difference. The gym at first is a chore, then a habit, then an addiction.

I feel really off/out of sync lately if I don't at least go for a walk or hit the gym first.

Diet: This was the nut toughest thing for me especially as a tourney player because it's so easy to feel miserable all of the time. We sit for long hours, make hundreds of decisions per session, have immense swings, ride an emotional roller coaster, etc etc. After a long tough session of taking it in the ass from Stars all session you don't exactly feel like preparing a salad...you want the greasiest cheeseburger your local city has to offer that can be ready in the next 5 minutes.

I have 2-3 things really motivating me that I put up on my wall to remind me when I feel like slipping up. Maybe it can be your before picture, a nice piece of ass, or a final goal.

Aside from that the diet I'm on I think is very friendly for a guy in my situation who was hooked on trash foods. My cravings have been reduced by ~90% and I still have the outlet one day per week for cheating. I'd actually highly recommend reading "the 4 hour body" by Tim Ferriss.

Just break things up into smaller fragments and it will seem much less over whelming. Ie going to the gym 3x/week doesn't sound bad...going to the gym 150x/year seems much tougher and you are much more likely to fall offthe wagon.

Hope that helped/I actually answered your question/my response got a bit out of hand haha. GLGL

The good news: On a pretty nice heater and it's been a pretty decent last few months. Have a few scores >10k and a few close ones. Getting deep left and right. Today was final 15 in the B109, ripped 30BBs from SB over an MP 3x with TT, guy can't fold the ATo obv. I flopped a flush draw, but here's the case ace on the riverino. Took 3rd in the Hot 55 today after getting 2/3 outed a few times on FT. Ran really good to get to the FT but have ran like sickly bad on FTs lately. Game is on pointttt lately.

The bad news: I'm sitting here whining about running bad on FTs haha but it's tough to chill sometimes. As tourney players nothing ever seems to be enough...we always want more and I always want to win. However, I can't complain as life is going pretty sweet right now

Let's talk about the FT of the hot 55 today. So the streamer tonka was on FT with me and I obviously had his stream up to see what he was up to. I heard him saying he has very nitty stats on me which I took mental note of.

https://gyazo.com/92aa2964c372a6bc282d944d82220f88
I ended up folding here which in hindsight is fairly sub-optimal. Really felt like he isn't jamming light on me here ever given stack sizes and the fact I had been fairly conservative with opens. Also felt like the FT was quite soft and my stack utility was quite nice with 20bbs that I didn't need to take a meh ish spot.He had AJs which is obv a good shove by him. In hindsight I should probably just be open jamming this to avoid ICM disastrous call offs. Oh yeah, he also folded QTs in SB to my BTN open off 17bbs into a 4bb stack. Also in hindsight I should just snap this off but meh I think the EV of all decisions is prob ssomewhat close.


I wish I saved this hand my PT4 is all fkt up right now so can't find it but I'll try to explain it:

Tonka min raises (he is CL with like maybe 40bb), 4 handed from the cutoff. I hold A6o in the BB with ~16bbs. I decided to defend. Flop AhKh3. He c bets like 1/3 pot, I call. Turn is blank 6 or something, he barrels again, I call. River is blank he jams I snap, he had T7hh.

He was saying this is probably very bad not to be jamming pre flop in this spot on stream, maybe it is? Idk my personal reasonings I feel are decent but will look into it some more. On a side note I don't think his bluff combo is all that bad, it's not a big deal to be blocking hearts because i prob just xj all heart draws on flop. I have no idea what he thinks I call twice with and fold river though, possibly QJ i guess. Most of the time I just have AA/some Ax/Kx and I'm planning to station river. Presumably he just discounted all Ax from my pre flop range and figured I would fold some Kx. Anyways GG .

Time for a day or two off and I should be back in business Sunday. Thanks for follwing and GLGL this weekend

GG bro looking good.
I shove pre vs tonka a6o.
Post i dont think he can profitably jam in river blanks although i maybe wrong.
What was his size ott ?

AQ is a fold to me, although against a player like tonkaaaa who will be reshoving much lighter than the average player in this spot, it's a very close spot. I'm surprised tonkaaaa reshoved AJs in this spot for 26bb unless he thinks you're opening ridic wide here. AJs plays a lot better as a flat and avoids a high variance play.

A6o imo, is a shove or fold depending on other stack sizes. A6o is a terrible hand to be playing postflop OOP at low SPR's where you're looking to flop equity/a made hand and x/shove vs a cbet. If ICM factors do not merit shoving in this spot, I'd prefer to let it go and flat A2-A5o. If they do, then reshove.

Keep up the heatttttttttttttt.

Just saw it, subbed ! glgl

fwiw guys in the A6o hand I was 13bbs deep to begin the hand not 16.

@grammen: believe it was like 40% pot on turn or whatever which i think is good vs my stack size with all the hands he chooses to double barrel. tbh when I call twice here I'm def not folding river unless its a card thats like very bad for my range+connects with all his bluffs. I think river jam is fairly bad given this but assume he didnt know much about me going into the FT (he was saying he doesnt have many hands on me and im a nit and dont think he sharkscoped me til later in FT) but yeah when I call twice @ this stack depth i just have 100% hand that call down prob

@trent: yeah i figured AQ is a fold also given ICM implications and how much tighter his shoving range should be. it was not too many hands into the FT and id been fairly tight with opens as I usually am in most instances as CL on FT (trying to run over most FTs just is not good in 2018 for the most part). felt like FT was pretty soft and i didnt just want to flip/get it in vs AK for piles when my ~30bb stack was really nice. obv very exploitable but meh. he also said he had nitty hud stats on me which made me me think his reship range was a lil tighter.

@mister: thanks m8!

supsupsup

Not too much to comment on for the past week. Happy with my performance on all fronts and feel I'm a better person than I was a week ago today. There was a really big ice storm here (for some reason weather still sucks mid April) so I was stranded @ my place for the weekend. Had a few friends visit over the weekend but personally felt it wasnt safe to drive anywhere and all my plans were recreationally based so canceled em. Funny how much you appreciate your freedom when you're strapped down for only 48 hours.

Health: Received a few compliments throughout the week saying I slimmed down a lot which is nice/motivating to hear. Body composition has definitely changed a lot in regards to putting on muscle and losing fat which makes a big difference. Thursday was the first day I cheated on the diet (outside of the determined cheat day) and I made this one count haha. Oh well guess it's natural to **** up once in a while. Overall, got a bunch of good food out of the way on that day and my cheat day haha...shouldn't be much temptation til next Saturday

Wealth: Pokers going really well and I've made a spreadsheet that tracks all my cash flow which I've found has been very motivating in regards to tracking financials/watching . This is quite simple to do and would actually highly recommend it. Only takes a few minutes just list in one column all of your assets and then make it "auto total" that column. beside it make a column with all of your debts and also sum it up. It's really useful to know your cash flow or if you are leaking money anywhere (and track people who owe you $/you owe etc)


Some Random Stuff:

Let's talk a bit of strat? Don't really like talking much strategy but to the loyal readers I don't mind giving a little bit back. This won't be anything ground breaking but understanding this can prob help a few guys quite a bit. Let's talk about opening ranges:

Why are opening ranges important? Well, long story short this is where our strategy tree begins, and where our opponents breakdown of our range begins. Entering the pot with favourable dynamics is imo the most crucial aspect of poker and is often overlooked. If you do not do this you will struggle relentlessly and get exploited all over the map.

I remember back in ~2013 I thought winning in poker was all about running people over and being relentless. Naturally, that's sort of how a normal person would see it. I had opened QTo UTG off of a 30bb stack and ended up getting stacked on a Q9336r board by KQ. My friend told me "it's very hard to show a profit when you enter from EP with such a weak hand that has very bad reverse implied odds vs. villain ranges". Did I listen? Nope. I continued to think I could be some lag-tard and my results continued to be poor.

It took me a very long time to realize that poker is all about entering the pot with favourable dynamics and understanding how my opponent views my range vs. what my actual range is vs. how I can exploit that relationship. Very easy in theory: enter the pot with a range and pre flop strategy that is very tough to exploit (unless we are exploiting). I won't get into post-flop but here's a few tricks I've used to improve my pre-flop game:

1) Work to understand different pre flop ranges @ different stack sizes and when to deviate from them. What does our 15, 20, 30, 40, 50, 100 bb stack opening ranges look like from each position? Why do they look this way?

2) When do we deviate from the GTO opening ranges? Here's a few examples: what are the stack sizes after us? Can they 3b/f? Can they flat? What are the villain tendencies? Will they flat in position a lot? Are they tight? Skill level/tendencies of the BB/BTN? If the BTN is a loose passive fish maybe opening A6o from the CO off 30bb stack isn't very wise. Does our hand contain good blockers when opening off shorter stacks? Any reason people will respond differently to our opens? It's so important to consider this stuff.

3) After we have a thorough grasp on opening ranges we can begin to understand our response to when other players open. I'll leave that one up to you

I know this is just a small piece but if you really want to improve your game I would suggest really nailing pre flop play. In smaller tournaments even if your post flop game is mediocre you can print money by having solid pre flop fundamentals and understanding pre flop exploits.

Anyways, hope that helps someone, but not too much

This week:
-Montreal 1100 and 5300, leaving Friday or Saturday
-Gym 3-4x
-Keep on the diet, even on the road
-Float tank Wendesday
-Enjoy

Thanks for your response mate and been noticing you battling in the zoom streets along with me! my plan is 100z rest of month in prep for scoop, what you say about preflop makes a ton of sense (maybe I shouldn't 4bet AT and punt it in vs you Kappa) but to me I start off pretty strong but seem to open wider as I go on, need to get more disciplined in that.


GLGL in the 5k!

haha yeah ive been occasionally flicking some zoom later in the evenings when it's softer and i have less tourneys running. i vaguely remember the A10 hand but I'm fairly un-studied in zoom so a lot of the stuff I do is prob bad theoretically haha. an Ace is the best card to have for a 4 bet bluff obv

Just got into the 5300 for 109 bucks legoooooo

Got like ~17th in the 1k ST today which sucked but played very well today and booked a winning sesh. Look forward to my day off tomorrow got a lunch planned with a friend/gym/float tank/then I get to have my first game with my beer league floor hockey team WOOOOOOOOOP

gl everyone back thursday

Whaddup whaddup whaddup

Coming in for a quick update because I came home from Montreal for a couple days to refocus myself and get some things done. Heading back there tomorrow or Friday for the 5k main. Here's a quick snapshot of things since my last update:

Diet: Was going great until Montreal for 5 days. It was OK for the most part but not GTO. I made a few poor decisions but most meals were not horrible anyways. I've made some changes for MTL round 2 that will prevent those slip ups.

Workouts: Only got in 1 workout while I was in MTL although it was a really good one. We found a gym right near the playground that we're gonna start hitting up before our tourneys instead of driving all the way into Montreal to Gold's Gym.

Poker: Welp, another top 5% finish in a liveament. Cashed 5500 CAD in the 1100 for ~35th place. Here's a couple hands of interest:

1. Late into Day 1 American High Stakes reg gets moved to my table and is having a few drinks/unsuccessfully fired 2 bullets into 10k so figured he was a little oi to begin with.

I start the hand with 6m stack, he has 2.5m or so. Blinds are 15k/35k. He had been opening like almost ATC fwiw and opened this hand from MP3 to 70k, SB who is a big fish calls, I have 23o in the BB and decided to defend for a few reasons.

FLOP: 345r, Reg bets 90k, SB calls, I raise to 300k, reg calls SB folds.
TURN: 4. I check, reg checks
RIVER: K. I check and reg bets 450k. I think a bit and jam all in. He cringes and goes into the tank forever and calls the clock on himself and ends up calling last second with 74o.

I won't get into any thoughts about his line lol. I guess on the river he has one of his best bluff catchers but tbh he's like almost always drawing dead in this spot and will just see nuts all the time. I would play tonnes of boats like this. Outside of the fact that I think pre is ez fold and flop should probably be a check? Let's not forget he doesn't know who I am or anything about my game and probably just thinks I'm some bad live reg (or else why would he be opening 74o into my BB?)...you ever just gonna see some ****ty live reg have anything but a nut combo here?

I really liked my bluff at the time and vs. a solid thinking player I think it's very good. Maybe the fact he was into the booze and oi makes it slightly worse than normal.

2. Here's a hand that I actually think is sort of bad but ended up working out. Old blaster to my right is telling me this is gonna be the biggest cash of his poker career etc and he seems a little bit nervous although is reluctant to make many pre flop folds.

I started the hand with 3.5m @ BB 100k and he had around 8m. He opens UTG to 225k. I am UTG1 w/ QTss and elected to 3 bet to 650k, he calls.

FLOP: 6s2x4x. He checks and I bet 500k he calls. Turn is Ks he checks and I jammed like ~2.3m or something. He tank folded.

Post flop I believe I played this optimally but pre flop I believe is a big mistake. I have a whole table behind and a hand that doesn't have good blocker effects+is a big equity dog vs a UTG range (although I think his UTG range and BTN range dont vary much).


So yeah, there's 2 hands that happened to be bluffs there. Overall, I'm happy with another deep run and the way things are progressing. Looking forward to the main event. PEACE!

Sup d00ds? Hope everything is going well for y'all. Just got out of my first game with my new ball hockey team and it was awesome. Definitely looking forward to the rest of the season. For some reason the games aren't over until 11 pm and I need to head back to Montreal early tomorrow...here I am at midnight still pretty "alert" from the game so gonna come in for a post in here until the melatonin I pill I just took calms me down.

I want to talk about the reasons why my PGC isn't quite what it used to be or why it has fallen off a little bit this year. I guess the most obvious answer on the surface would be that I've been out "doing it" instead of "talking about it".

However, I want to talk a little bit about the reasons beneath the surface. When I first set out on this journey a few years ago I was in a really dark place and was really just feeling confused about almost everything. I won't get too in depth about some of the demons or struggles that I was facing. I've definitely been fairly open about most of them in my PGC in the past and I'll say that doing so was one of the biggest steps for me in seeking to understand/fix them. It was always really helpful when I had the reassurance or kind words from guys on here that helped sway me in the right direction.

A big turning point I had in my career was about 1 year ago today that I took off for Alberta and visited a friend for a few weeks who I'd met through the 2p2 community. He was dealing with some really difficult times in life as well given that his dad had just committed suicide a few months prior and was dealing with a lot of bs with his work etc. I sort of lived in the basement of him and his gf's house for about a month. Among grinding a tonne/gyming most days/eating healthy (which was so foreign to me for so long) he really had a good influence on me. I saw a guy that dealt with one of the most difficult things I could imagine and still managed to wake up early every morning and stay motivated and stay on his mission in life...and even still had the will to help me and take me under his wing at the gym etc.

After staying at his place for about a month and shipping some donuts during SCOOP I headed for the mountains in Calgary for 10 days. I basically just had a ****ty Airbnb there but got to do some hiking in the mountains and what not. With so much alone time during that whole Alberta trip I had the time to reflect on who I was, who I wanted to be, who I wanted to be surrounded by, and where I wanted to go with my life.

I've come to realize that my experience in life is so heavily influenced by mindset. I've started owning up and facing the demons that once debilitated me from living my life. I spent a lot of time writing about them which helped...but facing them is what cured them.

It's kind of funny that today I was in the gym reflecting on my mindset the first day I stepped back in there. I remember I was so self-conscious about what other people thought etc yet today I was feelin' like a boss in there and really realizing just how far my mindset has come /how much of a difference it makes in my mental well-being.

So yeah, just wanted to say I've come along way. There's still so many miles to go on this journey but the road is getting smoother and I'm enjoying every ****ing second cruising down it. It's important to realize that no road is perfect and there will always be rough patches and occasional crappy weather...how you deal with it is everything.

PS: To everyone devastated by the Leafs game 7 loss tonight I feel you and I'm with you. For every guy that had the mortgage on the game I'm only partially with you . It was no secret all year the leafs had a weak defensive core and that's ultimately what hurt them in the nitty gritty. The team is young and trending upwards. On the bright side Spring is here and hockey is only a game

Bleh, just when it feels like everything is going really well and nothing could go wrong it always seems like **** just has a weird way of "happening".

Was in for 2 bullets in the 5300 main (one was sattied in). I was ok with taking a shot in this series because the value was definitely there. Even though there was lots of good regs in the field there was also heaps of droolers and bad regs/players who would be very easy to play against when deep. Really couldn't manage to get much going as I was running super bad in basically all relevant pots. It's sometimes painful to see players who have likely never ran a sim/watched a training video/done a hh review/or even spent 1% of the time on poker that I have beat me in pots or get the success they don't really deserve. I guess that's part of the beauty of poker and a necessity for the game to exist. If bad players don't have the false sense of security that they win sometimes or believe the facade that they are winning players...they wouldn't play and thus no dead money and we all lose to the rake

Reasonably sour at the moment because my whole schedule and routine has been thrown off course for this series. Have been rather nomadic and diet has been slipping profusely last few days. Additionally, I lost about every relevant pot and the site seemed to "Set me up" ~10 off the money in probably ~10 different tourneys today. It's tough to stay positive when you just get fukt all day long. Oh well, heaps of regs prob had bad days too, and I tried my best.

After grinding a lot of live lately here's a few things I've noticed that really need to be addressed in live poker:

1. The excessive tanking and needless stalling when your decision is obvious. This is absolutely dreadful to deal with at the tables especially from regs. I see these guys defending the BB and then when the action is on them first...they have a good 30 second tank before checking. You know you are going to be checking all of your hands WHY TANK? I get it that guys may want to tank in spots where some of their range will want to tank/think but when your decision is obvious you should not be tanking. If all regs stopped this needless tanking they would see 30% more hands/hour and make it more enjoyable for all. The tanking looks stupid and is bad for the game and gets abused hard.

2. The weird dynamic where guys get jammed on and like to sit there and pretend like they are contemplating a call but just never call. It's ok if you opened 56s on the BTN and got jammed on dude...just make the fold. Don't sit here and waste our time and pretend like you're making a big fold.

3. Sunglasses. This is a bit of a hot take but imo sunglasses should not be allowed at the tables. It gives an unfair advantage because it deters reads and also allows you to look at certain things without others seeing. I guess if you can't beat em' join em'.

4. Staring. This is also a bit of a hot take. I can see why guys stare people down etc but w/e I guess it's fine I just think it's bad for the game and makes recreational players very uncomfortable.

5. Mean Muggin'. Dude just sit down and say hello and be friendly with the players next to you. Sitting there with your hoodie/sunglasses/headphones on is bad for the game. So many regs want to have a conversation and have a good time and it's cringey when they get tuned out. These players are the customers and we should respect them and give them what they want.

6. When a fish does something stupid like flats 34s off 15bb stack in MP vs UTG open and the regs all look at eachother and snicker. A lot of the fish are smart guys outside of poker/can tell what you're laughing at and don't run all the sims etc that we do. It's important to respect them and allow them to play the game they want to play and not scrutinize them for it.

Anyways lads, sorry for the overly negative tone. That's my current mood seeping into my writing. I'll try to end things on a positive note here:

The previous week may have been pretty bad in almost all avenues but I got some valuable learning experience and am ready to jump back on the horse now. This week I am taking off of poker (other than studying a tonne to prep for sCOOP). It's so important to mentally prepare for these series because the mental endurance required is absurd.

So for this week I'm looking forward to: Getting the diet back on track/getting some good workouts in/float tank/poker lab work/floor hockey/hiking/enjoying the Spring weather. I'll be back for SCOOP to kick some ass!

Best of luck everyone and sorry about all the ranting!

Don't apologize for ranting in your PG&C thread, this is the perfect place to do so.

glgl heading into SCOOP.

GL for SCOOP. Nice updates

Good post, i hope all the "regs" will read #1 lol

gl scoop !

This thread always gives me something to think about!

Salute and GL scoop