Sunday 25 September 2011

Primal sit n go's

First post in around 6 weeks, just been letting my head clear after my Dad died. I hadn't fully realised just how massive a part of my life he was, some peoples parents are on the periphary of their lives but my Dad was a central figure, a supportive pillar and the foundation of my life. Dads death coincided with my step daughter Kirsty moving out of my house to start a new life with her boyfriend in a lovely house they are renting across town, this has resulted in me being alone and sometimes feeling very alone for the first time in my life.

In the 2 months since Dads death I have played a minimal amount of poker and done a massive amount of eating and boozing resulting in me topping the scales the heaviest I have ever been and this makes me feel shite, I feel sluggish, tired and unattractive. To combat this I've been on a diet of sorts for the last week I'm following Marks Sisson's Primal Blueprint a link to his website is here   http://www.marksdailyapple.com I'm really happy with the results so far 7lb lost in 7 days.


Ive been going the gym 3 times per week for the last fortnight or so but just doing cardio, however I'm going to pump iron this week for the first time since I injured my neck and shoulder in the car crash I had in april this year. I had been getting really great results following a program called Stronglifts 5x5  http://stronglifts.com and I'm going to throw myself headlong back into the program and I'm expecting excellent results coupling the primal/caveman nutrition plan with stronglifts.



On the poker front micro cash games became to much of a grind as I was experiencing a 60k hand break even run and for the life of me even at 10NL didn't feel I had enough of an edge on my opponents and poker was just becoming a tedious grind. I decided just for a change to play $5 10 man turbo sit n go's on ipoker just to freshen myself up and started to have a bit of success although over a tiny sample size. I've rekindled my enthusiasm for the game and definately feel I have an edge over a lot of the players on ipoker @ $5 single table sitngo's both turbo and regular. Ive also been playing turbo multi table sitngo's on Pokerstars mainly the 45 man and 180 man, comically I seem to bust out just before the final table in around 11th or 12th places but the more of these I play the more confidence I get and it wont be long before I start taking these games down. Below is my HEM graph for my 10 man ipoker sit n go's its a very small sample and may be affected by "positive" variance, however its giving me confidence that I can beat these games long term.