Updateaments

What's going on world?

I know, I suck at updating my blog. To be honest I wasn't even thinking about the blog but a friend of mine brought it up today and said he'd like an update so I figured I'd get back at it.
Blogger.com has some new layout design thing so I tried tinkering with that and this is what I came up with. Hope you like it :). If not let me know so I can change it to something easier on the eyes.

Not too much has changed in poker since my last update. I still suck at grinding, but I have been putting in some volume over the last couple of days and I hope I continue to do so.
I've said it a zillion times but I hate the fact that I've let so much money just pass me by because I made enough money to pay bills and go out and have fun and was content. Financially I'm fine at the moment as long as the games stay the way they are but you can never be sure of something like that and I really will be kicking myself in the future if something happens and I'm not able to make the kind of money I can make right now. I don't put the same kind of value on money that most people do - I'm young and don't have any real responsibilities (i.e; kids) yet so it's not like I'm really worried about being broke but at the same time I know that I should be saving up.

In some non-poker news I started working out a few months ago (not sure if I mentioned it here or not) and really putting an emphasis on not being such a weak skinny POS. At the time I was 5'9" around 145lbs - I started a program called "Starting Strength" by Mark Rippetoe which is basically a 3x a week program of compound weight lifts (for me: squat, bench, deadlifsts, press, and chinups). I am now sitting around 172lbs. I went from squatting 85lbs (3sets, 5 reps) to squatting 245lbs. The progress was pretty sick and I've gotten a lot of attention and complements (as well as accusations of steroid use, lol) for it lately. It's a really awesome feeling and I'd recommend for anyone to give it a try. A lot of guys I know have been in the gym for years and not seen the results I saw in a few months. If you're interested give me a shout out and I'll answer any questions I can.

OK back to poker. I've been on a bit of a break-even stretch, I think just over 2k games, which is totally standard but it is annoying and it definitely hits your confidence a little bit. I've decided at least for now I'm going to play more $60s and less $236s for a little while to decrease my variance. I'm sure it's a little bit -EV for me to do this short-term but I have a feeling if I crush the 60s and 119s for a while like I know I should then I'll feel better and be able to grind the 119s and 236s more which is definitely +EV long-term.

I've been playing some of the WSOP "Step" tournaments on FTP. I've played a few step 6's and so far have played two step 7's. Both times I lost the step 7s to a guy named jossel - one in 3rd place and one in 4th place (AA < 22 ... sigh). He's a really good player and I actually got to chat with him a bit and seems like a nice guy. I'm going to be playing another one probably tomorrow. It would be a little too nice to snap one of them off for the $12k so I don't think it's going to happen, but I can dream, can't I?

OK hopefully this has caught you guys up to speed. I'll try to update more frequently but for now I'm going to go rent a movie on iTunes and pass out.

Nite.