Hey man, can definitely relate to emotions being numbed after a lot of experience in playing online poker. Like any habit, once you continue doing something over and over, it is going to continue to stick. These habits can carry over to other things in our lives besides poker as well.

That is why in the early parts of our poker career, we tend to be very tilt-prone, results oriented, and too focused on short term results. In the beginnings of our poker careers, we have not seen a significant number of hands, so our minds can only judge off what we see in a very small sample size. Eventually we build up a sample and realize the crazy **** we see, the large $EV suckouts we give and receive, are all bound to happen at some points in a large sample size of hands.

In the early parts of my career, the littlest bad beat would tilt the **** out of me and if I made a bad play and still received a favorable outcome, I would sort of convince myself my play wasn't that bad lol. Present day it's the opposite, if I take any type of bad beat, I'm able to shake it off immediately and even just laugh it off at times. What really tilts me present day is when I actually do make a mistake, whether the eventual outcome is favorable or not. This comes from more experience and understanding variance/poker is a long term game.

Hands....

Q8s - Wp, can't figure out why he'd click it back there OTT blocking your bluffs lol.

99 - 4B jamming if button has a competent 3B% from button and BB is a fish. As played I think we have to sigh shove the river and hope he's good enough to fold Ax here.

55 - I hate isoing small PPs here, especially against 2 whales who are unlikely to limp/fold. I'd rather just limp behind and setmine. Unless we are 100bbs+ deep here I'd rather not iso. Likely just folding to the limp/raise. Population is rarely bluffing in these spots and you have to fold pretty much every flop that doesn't contain a 5 or is 234, 467, 346.

Q8 - Sizing smaller OTT (10k) to set up a larger river bet. Obv have to barrel it off when the diamond hits.

AQ - I like the river sizing if this hand is vs a reg. Population is overcalling with A high type hands in these spots because of this new ultra-modern concept called "pot odds" vs smaller sizings here. Going 7k allows you to blow V off these types of hands with your bluffs, while he'll still call all Qx hands. Vs a fish I'd go much smaller (2k) with everything I bet here.

I'm basically Bartolo Colon at this point. I may be old and out of shape, but I know that if I just keep going out there and throwing strikes it will all be ok.

@trent: thanks for your thoughts man. completely agree with your thoughts on all the hands as well. I think in terms of poker it's really good to suppress emotions and think like a robot...that's what i always wanted it's more the carry-over into real life that I need to work on.

@tapirboy: hahaha good analogy. jaromir jagr is another one

hey guys so tonight I'm going to go do some life enjoying activities with a few friends....tomorrow is gonna be a big session...then right after the session I'm driving 2 hours north to go play a 300$ bowl comp tourney that is on Monday morning.

I know I've been slacking a lot with the updates in the past month or so but things have been absurdly busy. I'm going to put off doing this weeks update til Tuesday as I want to make sure I can allot 100% of my focus to putting in a strong session online tomorrow and then driving up to Barrie. @ Trent bad news for you buddy you won't be getting 100$ richer because I finished my book yesterday Will have some interesting pointers from it as well in the update.

I'll leave you guys with a very inspiring article written by one of my childhood sports role models (I was a catcher too in baseball like him). Enjoy!

https://www.theplayerstribune.com/jo...-younger-self/

Doh haha! Glad you ended up finishing the book this week though, whenever there is monetary incentive we tend to get motivated pretty quickly.

Hope your session went well today and gl in the liveament tomorrow. Enjoyed reading the link you posted!

F_uck this gave me goosbumps and i have never even step foot at a baseball stadium in my life (being European baseball is not THE most popular sport ).

Tnx 4 this share i really enjoyed it and glgl @ the live timby!

Sup d00ds, been a long week. This year has been going by so quickly that I'm losing track of everything lol. I've been slacking on the updates lately so gonna try and put in a good one!


Health:

Workouts Completed this week: (3/4)
Times leaving diet guidelines: 3
20 Minute Meditation Session: 5/7
Books Read: 1/1
Body Weight +/-: -27 lbs. (since beginning of year)

Wealth:

Training Videos Watched: 0/1
Hours in the lab: 0/2
Sessions played: 3/4
Hours put into researching new avenues of revenue generation:1
Weekly Proft: cant check until i renew scope
Yearly Profit: around 30k
Live Poker Profit This Year: +9 338

Book Review:

So I knew I had to read a book this week and I wouldn't have a lot of time at all. Found a book by Tony Robbins called "Awaken the Giant Within". I've actually been less interested in "self help" books of late because they tend to usually just have a few extremely good points and a tonne of filler for the most part. This book was nice and condensed/to the point and provided lots of good points...many of which were similar to the last book I read "The Subtle Art of Not Giving a ****".

The title of the book relates to the idea that all humans have an inner giant and capacity to live amazing lives. However, they often make themselves victim to circumstance and tend to "go with the flow" and let the river take them where it may.

One of the key points in this book is emphasizing the power of decision, and how it really influences our lives. Whether we know it or not, every single thing we do is the result of a decision. He outlines that most people know what to do, they just don't do what they know. It is in our moments of decision that our destiny is shaped. Every decision that we make is based on either A) Seeking Pleasure or B) Avoiding Pain. We will go through great extents to avoid pain or seek pleasure, and often the time when people decide to change it is because the pain of staying the same outweighed the pain it would take to change.

Tony outlines some good ideas which I will briefly highlight:
-Our will power/discipline is much like a muscle. You have to strengthen this muscle by exercising it. If you allow yourself to give in it becomes weaker.
-It's the stuff we do consistently that shapes our lives...not once in a while. ie habit.
-If we want to make a change we have to change our beliefs system...that we are certain about the change.
-Most of our decisions are focused upon what will create pleasure or avoid pain in the short term...not the long term.
-We aren't driven by reality. We're driven by our perception of it.

There was lots more good content in that book but I'll stop there for now. You can say what you want about Tony Robbins (good or bad it's probably true), but that's a good quick motivational book.

Hands:

Live Hand: Playing 5/10 1k deep eff. 6 handed. Button opens to 35$, I hold 99 in the SB and decide to flat (should prob 3 bet), BB makes it 180$, BTN flats. Like a fish I jam all in and BB isos JJ and I lose. No matter what option I chose it felt gross/wrong. I think in these live games I can just find an exploit fold.

Live Tourney Hand: BB 300 I'm around 30 BBs eff. 3 MP limpers, I limp SB w/ 65o BB checks...FLOP: 66Jr... I lead 700, BB flats, guy in MP flats. Turn is 8x, I bet 2400, BB makes it 6400, MP guy jams....I sigh fold (thinking there's no way I'm good here). BB has 67o, other guy has J8....river 5...FML

https://www.boomplayer.com/25200159_225406C6C2
hand is vs. a fish, i wanted to bluff jam so fkn badly lol. double barreling here is questionable but with certain reads on the fish i think its ok.

https://www.boomplayer.com/25199953_7452D25494
vs aggro guy. I question the profitability of calling these type of hands pre flop. idk thoughts?

https://www.boomplayer.com/25199924_4E10056EFE
had no reads on the villain at the time and was new to table. very shocked he shows up with 66 here and i have no idea wtf he doing. felt so gross folding turn but i feel almost all players are over pair heavy thre.


Random Rant of the Week

I feel like I've maybe been focusing on a certain genre of topics in these rants so I feel like I should mix it up a little bit and maybe talk about something a little different this week. I'll begin with a little story:

So one of my best friends and I were sitting in one of our first business classes together in University (believe it was Management 100 or smth), our Professor was telling us about this class called "Policy" that is the final competition for graduating business students. It's basically a class where you are assembled into teams of 6 and assigned a "Case Study" in which at the end of the term you present your case solution to a team of "experts". The teams are ranked/graded and competing for the number one spot that rewards some nice prizes. At the end of that first class I told him "we're gonna win that in 4 years."

Fast forward to our graduation year and we were in the class together. (Not to mention, I was extremely close to getting kicked out of Uni on probably ~3 different occasions). We were sitting with our team at the start of the semester getting briefed on our case: "Provide Strategic Recommendations for McDonalds." Was obviously more complex than that but for simplicity sake I'll leave it there. The company was in the midst of another losing quarter at the time and experiencing tonnes of negative consumer feedback.

Our first instinct was to start looking for more ways to grow the company and provide to a larger target market(s). ie: provide vegetarian options, offer more products, expand McCafe, change worker policies etc.

One late night in the library after heaps of research and grinding as a team, one of our team mates asked the question "guys, what is McDonalds core competencies?" We came up with the answer: quick service, homogeonized products (the same everywhere), and value.

When you look at it this way, McDonald's is doing everything that compromises their core competencies: adding complex gourmet menu items, expanding McCafe and trying to become a Starbucks and fast food joint at the same time, trying to add "healthy" options.

One of the issues in business is that often if you are not growing you are dying. The problem was that in order to expand, McDonalds was compromising their existing loyal customer base: wait times were increasing drastically, prices were increasing, and the simplicity of McDonalds was decreasing.

There is fierce competition in fast food, minimum wages are increasing, the public has a generally better knowledge of nutrition, and many other factors create a climate for razor thin profit margins.

Our solution was essentially to: simplify the menu to speed up service and cut costs, only offer the quick and easy breakfast items and coffee, and a few other small things (obviously in more detail). Keep service quick, provide good/quick value to customers.

Anyways, come judgement day we did our 1 hour presentation with advanced analytics for all of the different sectors of the company (HR, Finance, Marketing etc). Suprisingly, the judges LOVED our solution and said in the many years this was one of the top presentations they had seen. At the final winner's announcement (we won) it was no suprise that all of the other teams had chosen to expand/grow/over complicate things.
I may have been a fairly mediocre student through uni (that's giving me a lot of credit) but I'll always remember rising to the occasion and shipping that timbey with my team.


I'm not sure why I felt like telling that story/ranting about that it's probably quite boring/irrelevant for most of you. But meh, maybe you can find a way to apply that to something irl, or maybe some Amaya rep will read this and cringe


The Weekly Forecast:
This week we're looking at a heavy chance of big WCOOP sessions, followed by hopefully showers of workouts and healthy eating. Maybe a date or two as well with a lady. I feel very inspired to keep grind on the mind and keep working hard @ this ****. The fire is starting to burn again...it's been a mere candle for a while now...Thanks for reading and GL this week...LFG!


"A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided." -Tony Robbins

by the way trent/scarecrow, im glad u boys enjoyed the read...here's actually one other one by him as well if you liked the first

https://www.theplayerstribune.com/20...t-of-catching/

Hi friends. Just forced myself into a midnight gym session as I've been putting in zombie hours with poker and other miscellaneous things this week. The only down side to that is it brings me to 1:32 A.M. wide awake staring at this computer screen. Figured I would stop in for a little update/writing to help ease me to sleep. After all, I can stay up late tonight because I'm taking the day off tomorrow (and I actually feel like I deserve it ).

WCOOP: So far I've put in reasonable volume. I've had 1-2 other regs over at my place grinding most sessions which helps for motivation and helps keep the grind fun. Not to mention they are both very GTO guys in terms of health so it's cool that we stock up on some healthy foods and get in walks before/after our sessions.

Thus far I've yet to bink a tourney or really even come close. Yesterday I got ~75th in a pretty deep run in the 215 zoom 6m and also got 75th/18k runners in the 11$ bowl. It feels good to get some nice runs in to help with confidence. I'm feeling way better about my game in the past week or two and have made 4 super key adjustments that I believe are going to help big time. Along with confidence for me comes the courage to run that big bluff on the river, or put the cape on, or any of that type of jazz. Long story short, I feel really good about my game right now and I'm really enjoying the grind. Sorry I don't feel like posting any hands atm

A Small Rant:

So I may have mentioned that ~2 weeks ago I was having a small talk with a guy who I would consider to be top ~20 in online MTTs and asking him for a bit of advice. Aside from looking through my database and giving me some possible frequency improvements I could make, he gave me a very good and helpful piece of advice that I've taken to heart...something along the lines of: "you seem to be very talented and have a lot of potential, but I really think you could improve your mindset, that would make a huge difference." (or something like that).

It's weird that sometimes we need someone who is elite or way above us in a topic to ingest their advice. I could have even told myself this. ****, I've even admitted it to myself before. For some reason, this blunt advice really hit home with me.

I think when I've put in so much volume in poker the mistakes that I make nowadays are seldom like "colossal blowups" but are more merely taking a B or C option when I could take an A option. However, the result of taking lesser options in the long run compounds on itself. For example today I was final ~15 in a small bowl FO and some nitty reg who just kept coolering me and playing back (having the goods every time) 3 bet my c/o open on the button. He was playing about 80bbs and I was playing about 30 (after he coolered me down from 100). By this point I was so frustrated and in the back of my head I was thinking that this guy is a nit but he just keeps playing back and he can't have it everytime. I justified that if he has AQ AK/or some bluffs I print by jamming. Ofc he snapped JJ and rip tourney life. I also 4 bet ripped A7s 4 handed on a FT bubble as well today and got snapped by AJ (co vs btn again). These plays print with certain dynamics and it's easy when tilted to talk myself into doing those plays.

The sad news is that this kind of behaviour is synonymous with bad and mediocre regs. ie just justifying not being able to fold hands or w/e because we lack discipline. If a guy never 3 bet bluffs, we don't have to 4 bet bluff. Very simple in theory, very difficult in practise. Why am I check/raise/running it in multi way pots in live 2/5 games with gut shots vs calling stations? I'm bored, tilted, and stuck...I can justify the play and maybe it's great vs. great thinking players...but vs. these window lickers it's clearly a C level play.

It's always through my downswings/tough times in poker where I put in the most work but in those same times I also lose a lot of the confidence, feel anxious when deep, and just feel unsure of everything. I'm aware of the fact that it needs improvement and I really want to commit to improving mindset in all aspects of life, not just poker.

Here's what I plan to focus on as far as poker goes (will talk about life mindset goals on Sunday update):
-Really just work to embrace and understand variance. Worry about the EV of lines and not the results. After large volume things always gravitate towards the EV. I don't want to get pissed off at variance and post bad beats or whine anymore. *makes mental note to keep this under control*
-Meditate with the "Primed Mind app" before every session and do normal meditation on off days.
-Try to be aware of mindset leaks that I have and write them down and seek solutions.

That's all I got for now boys. Time to catch some Z's and take a day or two off and rest....will be back to kick ass on Sunday.

Da game of poker....such a complex game, so many aspects one should should master...

I am lucky to have some poker buddies and i specificly remember a conversation with 1 of them like couple of years ago when heading to some local live timby..

We were discussing about how a guy we knew played quite well, some can say very well at his A game, only to just tilt super hard when sth unfortunate happens and then just simply NEVER recover mentally and obv inevitably bust the tourneys he played.

At the time i was like " damn man its a pitty xxxxx plays this good and just cant have at all mental strength bla bla".

My buddy replied " well, being a good poker player means u are good at many things. Its not just hand reading, or know when to bluff/vbet etc. If u dont have it all u cant be or called good. Its not a pitty, he s just not that good man."

That was kinda not the reaction i was expecting obv and got me thinking back then, made me see some things differently and see the big picture. Sometimes most obvious things aren't this obvious.

Anyways just felt like posting when i read ur post. Hope mine make some sense as well..

Glgl sundayz buddy, outworked me on the late night gym session there...

thanks dude for your post. yeah im pretty sure i understand what u mean haha. there's so many aspects that are needed for a player to be successful in poker: strong mental game, talent, skill, BR management, irl money management, discipline, the ability to perform under pressure etc etc etc

its funny that usually we just judge guys primarily on results (although there is a direct correlation between all of the above and long term results)


well guys, it's been quite a while since I've had a good score. I think I need to snap the spell tomorrow and win something or make some day 2's. Gonna do a meditation session right now before bed and then get a really good night sleep and hit the grind hard in the morning. decided I'm gonna go to a live tourney on Wednesday and then on Thursday gonna head down to 'murica for a live series/tourney/cash with a few friends. Sucks I'm prob gonna miss the latter bit of WCOOP but I'm chasing EV not jackpots for now. (maybe my assessment of EVs is wrong)


May the rungood be with all of you tomorrow. Bless up.

made day 2 of 27 prog COOP guys it resumes @ 7 am so gonna postpone the weekly update til tomorrow evening. Feeling really good about my play today and going in 3/104 so hopefully can put together a well focused/well played tourney tomorrow and let the chips fall where they may.

will be back tomorrow with some hands and weekly update. GN and GL.

Good Luck !

GL TID man!

Glgl amigo!!!

JEEZ that was a nice 9! Take it down

Good luck! TID.

On a side note, I downloaded the 'Calm' app on my phone that you spoke of earlier in this thread, and it's pretty great. So thanks for that.

welp can't win em' all. (8th)

showed up for work and despite everything that happened in that tourney i think i played fairly well. got super card dead towards the end short handed and blinds kept ramping up/short stacks never busting.

one hand was super dumb i forgot to save the boom. aggro reg opens c/o to 2.2x, i 3 bet to like 3.7x his open or somethign he flats. flop K26ssx...i c bet 33% with 9s9x he calls. Turn is As, and i really think I should jam here for a lot of reasons, but decided to check. River is 10x....i bluff jammed....he used all his time bank and called KJo no spade.

pretty fkn cringey especially when he was guy that eventually would cooler me on FT to bust.

anyways thats a little whine out of the way. the result kinda sucks but I can find solace in the fact that I ft'd a WCOOP and really felt like I played super solid. I'll be back tonight for my weekly update and will post some hands. Now it's time for a lil rest and relaxation and some Monday night football later tonight.

Thanks for all the love guys.

@ MRW: good to hear you are enjoying it. meditation is a great habit to get into and the biggest benefits are experienced after repeated use for a decent amount of time.

Health:

Workouts Completed this week: (2/4)
Times leaving diet guidelines: 4
20 Minute Meditation Session: 3/7
Books Read: 0/1
Body Weight +/-: -28 lbs. (since beginning of year)

Wealth:

Training Videos Watched: 0/1
Hours in the lab: 1/2
Sessions played: 4/4
Hours put into researching new avenues of revenue generation:1
Weekly Proft: cant check until i renew scope
Yearly Profit: around 30k
Live Poker Profit This Year: +9 338

Book Review:

Way too busy between WCOOP and everything else now to read. Will be catching up on reading after the series.

Hands:

https://www.boomplayer.com/25295296_D66A45754E
vs aggro brazillian. think he was getting out of line hence the line i took. theres a non zero chance i had the best hand and it sucks as QJ blocks some of the main combos im trying to fold out. felt inclined to bluff river as its tough for me to have anything other than value here. I guess QJ/Q10 get to the river as played.

https://www.boomplayer.com/25294080_EA1215B6A5
had some exploit reads here to make this super thin call down. i think his line could be somewhat good if he balances it with over pairs (although my inkling is that he prob does not). i also think like AK or a wheel ace w/ bdfds is a much better combo to pick to do this with.

Random Rant of the Week

Tonight I watched the Monday Night Football game of the Lions vs. the NY Giants. I believe on paper the Giants might be a better team but they were missing the presence of some key players+some key players played like garbage on the field. Overall, it was a very poor performance from the whole squad.

The thing that shocked me (and gave me the idea for this week's rant) was listening to the press conference after the game. When asked what went wrong for the team the coach of the Giants was essentially slandering his quarterback and putting the lion's (no pun intended) share of the blame on him. Not an exact quote: "You would expect a veteran quarterback would be able to count down the play clock and call for the snap. We would have had a chance if we got that ball off etc etc etc". The coach was essentially roasting his own QB to the media and press. Keep in mind that QB is highly respected brother of Peyton Manning, Eli Manning (36 y/o).

Perhaps this is my judgement but I think this type of behaviour from a professional coach is an absolute embarassment. This brings me to the topic of this week's rant: Manning (also no pun intended) the **** Up.

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It's funny when we're kids that often we're taught that everyone is a winner or our excuses for lack of production are often understood or do not reap consequences. Or we still lack the maturity that we blame others for our mistakes or misfortunes. The thing about becoming an adult is that when we don't deliver, there is nobody there to hold our hand. We just didn't deliver. End of story.

Even at the professional level, we still see these childish traits seep through once in a while (like we did today with the Giants coach.) When you are the leader of a team you do not throw your team mate under the bus and blame them for the loss. You win and lose together as a team.

Anyways, I can't keep my eyes open but here's a few things that are quality traits in mature people that I try my best to emulate (and still fail sometimes )

-When things get tough they push through it.
-They do not blame other people or events for their misfortunes.
-Focused on bringing others up with them...not squashing them down.
-They do what is at their deepest importance without caving to temptation/distraction.
-Have a genuine interest in the success of others.
-Stay true to themselves.
-Be there to protect/help others if need be. Putting others ahead of themselves.
-Loyalty/Honesty/Respect
-Looking to correct their flaws not dwell upon them.
-Standing up for themselves and their people.
-Taking the high road.
-Cutting negative influences out of their lives and focusing on obtaining positive ones.

Like I said, I fail at so many of those just as much as the next guy...but those are what I strive for. Just a list I made up on the spot by the way, likely missing quite a few good points.

Anyways guys, this week I'm serving up a couple big sessions of WCOOP, playing a live tourney Wednesday, possibly going for a live series on Thursday or grinding WCOOP all weekend. Regardless, I'm bringing my A game and going to put a heavy week in the gym. Thanks for reading and GL this week!


"I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious." -Vince Lombardi

99 hand vs flop x/r. Reads are extremely important when making calls like this. I think many players will bet TT-QQ otf.
When they do balance with over pairs what line do you expect them to take ott.(obviously not 507k)

List on quality traits of mature people are things all of us could relate to and improve towards every day.

Gl during the rest of the series.

Yeah I agree. Getting these calls wrong when we have 0 equity is an absolute DISASTER for our bottom line in the long run. For example making thin river calls when the villain is never having a worse hand than ours is soooo costly. In the above hand I think the average villain will basically never have a bluff here. I had to make this call down for exploitative reasons vs. this specific villain, but most of the time I'm snap folding river.


Today was yet another well focused and hard fought day at the tables with nothing but Sklansky $ to show for it. It's amazing how literally every flip I get into I just get flopped dead every time Here's a couple hands of interest from today:

https://www.boomplayer.com/25317526_D96B9888FF
this was with about 27 left in the tourney. Villain had a 25$ bounty on his head. i felt like I was cruising nicely in this tourney and 1 tabled it for quite some time. I HATE taking thin spots like this especially in soft fields but when the villain is an aggro tard brazillian it pains me to fold 55. Presumably his jamming range contains all the smaller pairs and A2-A5s etc as well as suited connectors. Idk maybe I should just pass on this type of spot and just exploit him by opening a very tight range or possibly having a limping range (which I believe could be quite good the way the games are progressing) Meh, what do you guys think?

https://www.boomplayer.com/25317364_E009FC701F
this hand was lol. im not sure how good my turn lead is, probably not good tbh as he checks behind a lot of hands on flop that I'm drawing very thin against and the K is a very good card for that range. The objective was to make him fold pocket pairs (which apparently is a failure). When river came I checked to induce bluffs which could be bad because I think I need to extract value from all his 2 pair combos and 9x.

https://www.boomplayer.com/25313139_6917AE10B0
very weird hand. maybe i should check flop? I feel 6x is very rare here and there are several worse Kx combos and pairs that can float. Turn sucks. His check on the river is somewhat lol although theres a good chance I find the fold button.

https://www.boomplayer.com/25311773_98EAAB0A0D
we cant ever spite call river can we?


Anyways, tomorrow I have a live tourney like ~600$ buy in or something with 90 runners. Basically a small MTTSNG which are somewhat of my strong suit, especially when playing vs. window lickers. Although the grind was tough I ate 100% clean today and got in a sweet gym session. The small wins are helping me to keep my head up through dire times online. GN

GL in the liveament tomorrow man. (y)

55 - Always calling in a knockout tourney, especially due to the topheavy payout structure if he shoves A2s-A5s/22-44.

KQ - Checking flop, we don't get value from too much worse and our hand doesn't need much protection. Turn is really weird, I think I sigh fold unless button is a fish on the looser side.

33 - Calling flop, exploit fold river. If V has 67 here he earned it.

How has drinking lemon water and taking cold showers regularly affected the way you feel in the morning?

@trent: thanks for your thoughts m8 i agree like most of the time liveament was alright. played well but strcuture wasnt great. ended up defending getting in Q10 vs AA on QT4 and losing.

@ MRW: i actually did this only for a week or two near the start of the year. in terms of lemon water i try to mix it in once in a while when I can remember. they say there is quite a bit of benefit for cold showers: https://gyazo.com/0b873975a3be6e39c1893d9015115e3c

the idea where I got it from was through a small talk where the speaker was talking about how cold showers are very good for our health and just the fact that we know we have the will power to do something we are uncomfortable with in the morning is a big booster for our self-esteem/confidence and ability to do other tasks (on top of all the other benefits listed above). not to mention there is studies that show hot showers/baths can have some very negative effects on men. long story short i felt I had more will power during the day and felt good knowing i was doing something good for myself that was uncomfortable. didn't do it long enough to report long term results however.

lemon water: didn't notice really anything but according to research here are a few benefits: https://draxe.com/benefits-of-lemon-water/

the good news: we made it through to another day 2 (215 8m). feeling super good about my game right now and things are coming together at the right time.

the bad news: lost this chip lead pot right at the end of day 1.
https://www.boomplayer.com/25344855_6640CDBEE8
meh not much i can do really other than possibly size a tad bigger pre.


the game plan for tomorrow: get a good night sleep, take it easy during the day and stay in the right head space. then bringing my A game and A mindset and will let the chips fall where they may (hopefully to me )


GN