Shuffling Through Things Keeping Me In High Spirits

Lots of good things have happened this week, not all related to poker. Today I ran 2km in about 10 minutes which is my best time so far. I did 4km the day before for the first time, maybe ever in about 22 minutes. Had to stop twice, but felt pretty good doing it. I bought an ipod shuffle today just so I don't have to run with my ipod touch. Kinda annoying to have it rattling around in my pocket and the shuffle was $60 and clips onto a shirt, so that's very handy. The 10k run is on Sunday and it's definitely happening way too soon. I could probably do 5km for sure, 10 is a little much, but going to give it my best shot. I've only really been training the last 3 weeks and I've missed some days. Still I'm glad that I'm trying and setting time aside to do this.

I got a lot of positive feedback from my BJ stories, so I'm going to try to do one a week at the least. Hard to sit down and write for an hour. Sometimes I feel like it, other times, I don't.

I've run well the last 2 games and in the last 330 games, I've made about $4500 which is great. After March's $2/game, I deserve some run goodness. I got annoyed a few times when I made some meh folds and gave ppl too much credit. Also I lost a few HU which tilted me a bit. I need to take my ego out of the game. I can't stand losing to monkeys HU when I have them so many times. I am feeling like I am understanding stack distribution a lot better this month and have studied call ranges much more. Saving hands is very valuable.

Coaching is going well. Doing some stuff for sngmentors and some stuff privately. I'm impressed by a lot of these guys who don't have tons of experience, but they play well enough. Some of them have just jumped into 45s and they understand things that took me months to figure out. Granted I taught some of it to them, but people like reasons and jbrown are impressing me every single day. Going to be great when they finish up their contracts and we can bring them on as coaches. 

There's a big emphasis on adding a lot of tables, but people forget that they might be costing themselves money by adding too many in, rather than trying to focus on getting better at understanding various spots. That's just not something that happens if you are 20 tabling and are relatively new. I got my coaching points payout for sngmentors this week too which was nice. $2200. I put in a lot of work, but I know that these students will keep getting better and better and the arrangement will start favouring the backers even more. 

I also got my US tax refund for my May 2008 Foxwoods 10k win. Got the full amount for $3k and only cost $150 for the refund agency that I hired to do almost all of the work.

I looked through my itunes at some of my fav bands and looked for new stuff. Found a few CDs and am going to enjoy listening to that. Just listened to the new Cursive, Silversun Pickups and a few Mogwai ones I hadn't heard and I am liking them. A lot of CDs you need a couple listens to really get into the songs though. Nothing was really memorable, but it gets catchy if you give them a chance.

I'm moving up on many sharkscope leaderboards. Their 45 man tracking still seems to work great. Once they update, I should be near the top 5 for 4-6 table, any stakes profit. Also in top 10 for 16-35 total profit 4-6 tables. We have a private leaderboard for Turbogrinders which has some sick guys on it and I'll be in the top 3. Possible top 2, depending on how shen did. Obv course cardlo is still at least 14k past us lol. The kid runs sickly good, but understands the game so well.

All and all, it's been a very good week. I kinda feel meh'ish at times. Maybe a little bit of burnout. I love studying the game, maybe not so much playing 30+ hours a week. It's so much better than anything else I'd be doing so I have to look at it that way. Need to power through and get some good volume before Vegas. Going to save time for more of the little things though.

Thanks for reading and hope you're enjoying this. We're nearing 20k hits since I put in that counter. Glad to see the blog is gaining popularity.