So much has happened I don't even know where to start, perhaps where we left off...
Austin
Came here to Velocity Diet with John and Neil. It's hard, intense and is how I got into shape so fast. I have a lot of respect for them undertaking the journey, its not easy. Our days consisted of working out, 5 protein shakes, massive grinding and just having fun. Walking the dogs and the lake were highlights as well as the whole foods meal, yum! I think I left Austin in the green by a few hundred bucks but had some decent 1k ish up and down swings while here (shrugs) Went back to Houston to pack for.....
Coachella
To be honest with you, these may have been 3 of the best days of my life. We arrived to collect our wristbands only to learn we had backstage, sick. Everyday was amazing and I will truly treasure my time there. I have to leave a little mystery and some of it I can't tell but I will say this. I met lots of famous people, hung out backstage and truly wished the time would never end. My serotonin levels and dead nerve endings might have something different to say but that's neither here nor there : )
Houston...Wait....Huh?
If you remember the last blog we were planning on staying in L.A. till that weekend and going to Vegas for a wedding. Well after Coachella, I needed to go home. I didn't and couldn't stay in Cali as I was beyond well done. That Monday I camped at LAX for 30 ish hours and felt like Tom Hanks in Terminal. Came home for a few days and that weekend we went......
to be continued
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Monday, March 29, 2010
Bitch I'm on my grind!!
LIFE:
Been really good and I can't complain. John Mayer was good but he shorted me on songs I wanted to hear. SXSW was super sick fun and the whole week I was hungover every morning and out of the gym. I had a freaking blasty blast though with so many good friends I hadn't seen in a long time. Highlights were partying with Meriweather at an open bar party at the Driskill hotel. Barcelona 2 nights in a row and telling them how much I loved them while drunk. Muse in the lawn with a bunch of people and the poor girl who scaled the wall only to jump back down to help her friend who fell. Minus the bear right in front the night before I left. I'm actually heading back to Austin today to hang with J0hndayt0n and Neil_Rick and just bring it! They decided to do the Velocity Diet that I had done and I decided to go train with them and help them out and stay focused. I will be dieting and training sick hard with them which I'm really excited about. I'm going to do a harder version of the advanced velocity diet. Will be good to have us all dieting and training hard helping each other stay focused and motivated. The diet is not easy and I have mad respect for them doing it! So Austin for me will be working out hard, no drinking, no cheat food, reading, hiking and grinding sick hard. Been working on my 100 things to do list and here are 25 of them.
1. be nicer to my loved ones and friends and make an effort to treat everyone fairly
2. say what I truly feel in the moment, there's not much time left
3. make a minimum of 150k this year playing poker.
4. meet with the artist in Austin this week and get my sleeve done before my birthday
5. get to my ideal lean state and not be so hard on myself about eating/drink
6. skydive
7. get back into some form of martial arts and/or Yoga
8. purchase a home/condo and pay for the mortgage with money not from my playing
9. become an ebay powerseller again and maintain a steady side income from that
10. coach poker and help others become better players
11. find her and start building something together, whatever it may be
12. get back into music and recording (must play a show or record something this year)
13. redo my digidesign pro tools certification
14. take guitar lessons from a beast
15. volunteer my time to help and/or teach people
16. give a homeless person money and/or help when they actually need it
17. start painting/drawing again
18. read before bed and try and read a book a week
19. try to be more humble and kill the ego (hard being a leo and a poker player)
20. hire a cash game coach
21. celebrate my birthday in Vegas with her and close friends (bellagio/venetian suite)
22. invest 1/3 of my profits every month in something (gold,stocks etc etc)
23. get involved with real estate, I know too many people in it not to.
24. do it right in Vegas this summer and grind harder, less lighting money on fire
25. smile at people who walk by and who look like they could use one
POKER
I have worked really hard on my game since coming back from bfizz11's house. I review hands daily, think about spots and try and focus hard and learn from my mistakes. I didn't met my 10k in a month goal but we did really well and will take the current results. Below is my updated graph of slightly under a month of play. Including some live tournaments I pwned, I'm up a lil over 6k total in 27 days. I ran pretty bad last week but kept my head up and stayed on my grind. Once in Austin I will put in even more volume as I will have no distractions and plan on making sure April is a 10k month even with taking off time for Coachella. Also while in L.A. for the festival I plan on playing some live cash and checking out Commerce and after that head to Vegas for a wedding and grind some there. Sky is truly the limit and I'm so on my grind!
Happy Trails!
Been really good and I can't complain. John Mayer was good but he shorted me on songs I wanted to hear. SXSW was super sick fun and the whole week I was hungover every morning and out of the gym. I had a freaking blasty blast though with so many good friends I hadn't seen in a long time. Highlights were partying with Meriweather at an open bar party at the Driskill hotel. Barcelona 2 nights in a row and telling them how much I loved them while drunk. Muse in the lawn with a bunch of people and the poor girl who scaled the wall only to jump back down to help her friend who fell. Minus the bear right in front the night before I left. I'm actually heading back to Austin today to hang with J0hndayt0n and Neil_Rick and just bring it! They decided to do the Velocity Diet that I had done and I decided to go train with them and help them out and stay focused. I will be dieting and training sick hard with them which I'm really excited about. I'm going to do a harder version of the advanced velocity diet. Will be good to have us all dieting and training hard helping each other stay focused and motivated. The diet is not easy and I have mad respect for them doing it! So Austin for me will be working out hard, no drinking, no cheat food, reading, hiking and grinding sick hard. Been working on my 100 things to do list and here are 25 of them.
1. be nicer to my loved ones and friends and make an effort to treat everyone fairly
2. say what I truly feel in the moment, there's not much time left
3. make a minimum of 150k this year playing poker.
4. meet with the artist in Austin this week and get my sleeve done before my birthday
5. get to my ideal lean state and not be so hard on myself about eating/drink
6. skydive
7. get back into some form of martial arts and/or Yoga
8. purchase a home/condo and pay for the mortgage with money not from my playing
9. become an ebay powerseller again and maintain a steady side income from that
10. coach poker and help others become better players
11. find her and start building something together, whatever it may be
12. get back into music and recording (must play a show or record something this year)
13. redo my digidesign pro tools certification
14. take guitar lessons from a beast
15. volunteer my time to help and/or teach people
16. give a homeless person money and/or help when they actually need it
17. start painting/drawing again
18. read before bed and try and read a book a week
19. try to be more humble and kill the ego (hard being a leo and a poker player)
20. hire a cash game coach
21. celebrate my birthday in Vegas with her and close friends (bellagio/venetian suite)
22. invest 1/3 of my profits every month in something (gold,stocks etc etc)
23. get involved with real estate, I know too many people in it not to.
24. do it right in Vegas this summer and grind harder, less lighting money on fire
25. smile at people who walk by and who look like they could use one
POKER
I have worked really hard on my game since coming back from bfizz11's house. I review hands daily, think about spots and try and focus hard and learn from my mistakes. I didn't met my 10k in a month goal but we did really well and will take the current results. Below is my updated graph of slightly under a month of play. Including some live tournaments I pwned, I'm up a lil over 6k total in 27 days. I ran pretty bad last week but kept my head up and stayed on my grind. Once in Austin I will put in even more volume as I will have no distractions and plan on making sure April is a 10k month even with taking off time for Coachella. Also while in L.A. for the festival I plan on playing some live cash and checking out Commerce and after that head to Vegas for a wedding and grind some there. Sky is truly the limit and I'm so on my grind!
Happy Trails!
Thursday, March 4, 2010
Update has been coming for quite some time as lots has been going on. Blog will remain a mix of life and poker so I hope it remains entertaining for you, the reader.
LIFE
I'm in such a good place right now, I'm blessed. This weekend is John Mayer, 5th row! Just booked a trip with some friends to Coachella in a RV! Starting to look into going to Costa Rica and looking at booking the summer in Vegas for WSOP again. My workout routine is stagnant as I've plateaued and I hurt myself. I'm resting and redesigning it yet again. This next one is going to be a leaning, strength, MMA inspired type training. I'm as big as I would like to be now it's just all about strength, speed and lean. I also decided I'm staying here in Houston and I'm starting to look at places. I'm also working on a 100 things to do this year list which I will be posting soon. Poker is just the main focus right now, one of the goals is at least a $150k year.
I have to say that I'm very thankful to be in the spot I am. Everything I choose is in my grasp and I need only work hard to attain it.
POKER
I finally went to stay with bfizz11 last month and had a great time. When I arrived in Dallas/Fort Worth it snowed inches which for Texas, is amazing! Since we were snowed in we did nothing but focus on poker with a little mix of partying thrown in. Brian (Bfizz11) is currently #1 on the pokerstars tournament leader board. His protege, Kyle (I GRIND THIS) is also ranked #4 currently. Let's just say that being snowed in for days with these two will get you crushing tournament poker and a little hungover : )
I did my best to put in a lot of games a day, ask Brian questions, watch him play and review hands with him. Putting a lot more effort into the time away from the tables and reviewing my sessions has been huge for me. I left up a few hundred bucks from the trip, nothing special. My computer also got a virus and made it unusable so the last few days I focused on a few games and watching Brian play.
Since being back I have been having wonderful results. I got 6th in the 11 rebuy for just under 3k and have had decent results at sitngos as well. I lost my result from Bfizz11 house but since I started playing back in Houston I'm up just under 4k. Sharkscope seems to be missing some of my results in tournaments so I had to start using poker tracker and tournament updater which is very helpful. This is my graph after 9 days of playing since Bfizz bootcamp.
I'm proud of myself and the work I'm putting into my game. The goal is to have a minimum 10k month every month for the rest of the year. I just need to put in the hours and the results will happen.
Happy Trails
LIFE
I'm in such a good place right now, I'm blessed. This weekend is John Mayer, 5th row! Just booked a trip with some friends to Coachella in a RV! Starting to look into going to Costa Rica and looking at booking the summer in Vegas for WSOP again. My workout routine is stagnant as I've plateaued and I hurt myself. I'm resting and redesigning it yet again. This next one is going to be a leaning, strength, MMA inspired type training. I'm as big as I would like to be now it's just all about strength, speed and lean. I also decided I'm staying here in Houston and I'm starting to look at places. I'm also working on a 100 things to do this year list which I will be posting soon. Poker is just the main focus right now, one of the goals is at least a $150k year.
I have to say that I'm very thankful to be in the spot I am. Everything I choose is in my grasp and I need only work hard to attain it.
POKER
I finally went to stay with bfizz11 last month and had a great time. When I arrived in Dallas/Fort Worth it snowed inches which for Texas, is amazing! Since we were snowed in we did nothing but focus on poker with a little mix of partying thrown in. Brian (Bfizz11) is currently #1 on the pokerstars tournament leader board. His protege, Kyle (I GRIND THIS) is also ranked #4 currently. Let's just say that being snowed in for days with these two will get you crushing tournament poker and a little hungover : )
I did my best to put in a lot of games a day, ask Brian questions, watch him play and review hands with him. Putting a lot more effort into the time away from the tables and reviewing my sessions has been huge for me. I left up a few hundred bucks from the trip, nothing special. My computer also got a virus and made it unusable so the last few days I focused on a few games and watching Brian play.
Since being back I have been having wonderful results. I got 6th in the 11 rebuy for just under 3k and have had decent results at sitngos as well. I lost my result from Bfizz11 house but since I started playing back in Houston I'm up just under 4k. Sharkscope seems to be missing some of my results in tournaments so I had to start using poker tracker and tournament updater which is very helpful. This is my graph after 9 days of playing since Bfizz bootcamp.
I'm proud of myself and the work I'm putting into my game. The goal is to have a minimum 10k month every month for the rest of the year. I just need to put in the hours and the results will happen.
Happy Trails
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