Friday- Weekend Prelude, Week 5 Body Transformation.

Fridays High Variance Large Player Pool, Tons of Fish.

You know you're a grinder when the only thing you associate with Friday is a larger pool of recreational players a a softer game.

Like every other day a good grind session should be started with a large coffee/energy drink, healthy breakfast, and some exercise to get the blood flowing.

I like the idea of reviewing the goals I have set for the month and planning out a tailored schedule for that day in order to reach my goals.

Let's start with some Hand Histories

Biggest Winning Hand

Bluff Catching For 183$

Running Hot Vs Reg

Winning a Flip; And Then Another Flip; And Then Another; And Then Another;

Biggest Losing Hand vs Fish

Worst Played Hand <One of>

Losing Stack with Set ; And Then Another vs Fish. . .

Getting Owned By Reg Starting Tables

any questions regarding the hands played can be posted in comments. Chances are I may have not played a hand optimally so any insights or critiques is well appreciated- 

Overall day wasn't 'too bad' but was not too great either. Ran into a lot of poor/cooler situations where I lost hands as well as lost EV.

Ran into a lot of lucky situations where I won flips but consistently ran QQ into AA/KK AIPF. . .
This just goes to show that in the short run, EV only tells a part of the story, the story of your hand versus their exact hand.  Not a terrible day either way. . . on the bright side, shouldn't complain. . as pitabread189 points out here




Should be putting in more hands, however decided against it since the ZOOM player pool died out right after the 3:00am- 4:00am- EST promo ended. . . which by coincidence the parts of my graph with the most amount of variance were played between the Happy Hour Times. . . . perhaps a sign that it's not the greatest promotion.

Healthy Living 

Week 6

So after some in-depth thought after my first 4 weeks of cutting down my freshmen 15 and sophomore 25 I figured I will start bulking up a little bit more and throwing on some muscle mass.

I figured since summer is ending soon, as well as my love for food and lack of muscle mass I should work on that. The overall goal is by the end of the year; I will have a 6 month Transformation.

For the time being, will be trying to put on 2-3lbs of solid muscle this month (Realistically 1- 2lbs of fat as well).

For the time being; consuming 2500-3000 calories depending on whether or not I'm working out that day. Lifting weights 3-5x a week. I find that cardio tires me out and doesn't let me perform my best in the gym (depletes glycogen storage)  so will be avoiding running and stick to lighter jogs and walks
instead.

Time Management.

As I have mentioned at the end of my post a couple days ago I decided to write a post regarding this particular topic in question.

A lack of time-management can easily result in depression and regret from not meeting the standards of our potential.

Realistically speaking 24-hours sounds like a very reasonable amount of time; taking account for 8 hours of sleep, 8 hours of work, 3 hours for each meal of the day; this leaves roughly 13 uninterrupted hours for the average person working at home.

Typically speaking; I like to allocate between 1-2 hours a day consciously exercising; in the case where ''power-walking outside'' would be constitute as exercising, whereas walking to the kitchen and back would not. This still leaves me and others alike 10 hours of time to spend.

Time has a tendency to slip away when we are not consciously aware of how much time has gone by; being mentally unaware of what we were doing at a 'specific' time is a key component that lends itself to wasting time.  The first an improvement at anything including time management is to just look it up: a simple google-search of 'Time Management Tips' is effective. Although sometimes we have a rough idea of how to improve a simple thing such as time management, an article that comes into our sight can help re-emphasize the necessity of the issue.

As being 'Good' at anything requires one to be 'borderline obsessed' with that certain topic, professional poker players can easily lend themselves into a wreck of the 'workaholic'.

At the end of the day, we spend time in a manner to bring the maximum amount of happiness per value of time. Being able to manage time well, and make the most efficiency out of it is a key to leading a satisfying journey ; whether it be in 'Life, Poker, Education'.



It's time for us to re-think our old ideas and ways of using/balancing time: . .

Perhaps, that 9th hour of grinding is better spent on studying. . .

Perhaps that 3rd hour of watching a T.V series will be better spent on exercise. . .

Perhaps accomplishing Supernova Elite is more achievable than you realize one would think. . .


Best 10$ I've ever spent on a book:
Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity

Aug1-3 - World War Z, Fireworks, Food, Food,

Wednesday was really my off day that I didn't put in any hands.  On the other hand I did have lots of fun  having this amazing lamb-chops at a restaurant near Coal- Harbour.

Afterwards had a chance to see fireworks with a couple of friends @English Bay.

Also had a chance to rock out the new 'Out Door' pianos near Science World which despite being abused by kids smacking keys randomly. . . is relatively in-tune . . .









A 'Jazz/Blues' band I believe self organized themselves and started playing after I came back from dinner... was quite interesting and spent some time watching them

                                                                                 

                                                                                    Thursday-

World War Z- went to theaters with friend of mine '' as it was her only day off.'' <--- psht. 9-5 jobs ;) .

To those who watch Walking Dead or zombie movies in general it's more or less same story line different actors different plot line kind of.

There were parts of the movie we burst out laughing. . . zombies can sometimes be very. . . 'DERP' & scary at same time.

Friday

._. last set always emphasize on the 'DEAD' in deadlift

Woke up super late as I was out late after fireworks with couple of friends afterwards. Decided to head to the gym and pump some iron and get the blood flowing before grinding it out. 

Since I'm working on a split; the routine for Friday was Back + Biceps. Exercises were; 

Seated Rows; Dumbbell Rows, Chinups, Deadlifts. Around 3-4 sets of each exercise.

In addition to my current 'cutting' diet once a week I do a 'Cheat-Day'/ kind of re-fueling glycogen storages and just helping me mentally deal with such shenanigans.

3 Piece Chicken + Large fries

Rack of Lamb

We start with; Post-Workout Shake, Post- Workout Meal. Post-Post workout meal. 

I think all in all consumed something like; 4k calories this day...

After washing down all those calories with a medium chocolate frosty; we're ready to grind. . . 

NOT.

Sugar/Carb Crashed hard. As you can clearly tell by the graph.

Was on fire mashing buttons and crushing everything in sight until 2/3 through the session when I started crashing, nearing the end of my session was feeling droopy and nearly fell asleep @ the grind station.

Lessons:

Never start grind session from 11pm-5am. . .

Never consume 2k calories just prior to grinding

Never continue grinding when already starting to crash.

Month End Review- July

Month Summary

Goal: 200/345k hands reached 

Hours: 121 hours put in                                         Money: ~7k          

Peak of the month was about half way through the month, at which point I encountered a downswing.

Took half a week off, and slowly climbed back up a tad bit.

Healthy Living

Started the month on Nicotine Patches as a method of trying to quit smoking.

Worked out 4-5x a week with heavy weights. 

Ate "relatively" clean, with the exception of 

Wings night out

Gelato 3-4x a week at most.

All you can eat sushi

A 'July Reflection; August Goals post will be posted tomorrow with in-depth' short comings will be discussed more thoroughly.

Time Management. Tilt Management. Table Selection. Self-Control.