CARDRUNNERS

My life, my thoughts, my poker.

My life:

Ran 5K today in a blistering time of 20:50 which is 50 seconds faster than my time on Wednsday. I have to be honest....I was shocked. I finished ahead of my friend for the first time ever since we've been running together. I had planned on a goal of 21 minutes to shoot for during the actual race on the 16th.

I think it was a combination of 2 things that improved my time so markedly......A)The stopping of the other types of workouts I was doing and B) really focusing on my stride, moving my arms, and staying loose while running.

Today was actually the easiest time I've had since I started training for the race.

I think I want to shoot for a faster goal now since I've acheived under 21 minutes already. I am going to see how I do on Mondays run and make a decision after I see how much I improve on my time.

Got "Tour de Life" from Amazon yesterday "from coma to competition"....about a pro rider whom has a crash during a race, falls into a coma, is told he will never walk again and gets back to competitive riding with a goal of winning the Tour de France. The person whom the book is about also has a physical defect which almost makes him handicapped. I got the book for this reason....When I read something about an individual like this.....I get ashamed of myself for not doing more in my life. I get embarrassed when I want to lazy it up and accept mediocrity when I think about people like this.

I'm looking into seeing a "Life coach" which seems to be a "en vogue" thing to do with business individuals these days. I am interested in seeing one for one reason and one reason only....I am not self motivated like the people I admire. Individuals whom make/have made a difference in the lives of others...whether it be one person or thousands. I can't seem to find one that would fit what I am looking for. I need a male coach. I need someone who is going to call me out and not accept any bullshit from me. Someone whom is going to tell it to me like it is and not worry about me telling them to go ice fishing and fall in. Still looking....

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I'm liking this song lately...video is a little ghey, but the song is one I've been listening to.....it's on my training mix in my ipod.

My thoughts:

I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career.

I've lost almost 300 games.

26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed.

I've failed over and over and over again in my life.

And that is why I succeed.

One of my favorite quotes...courtesy of Michael Jordan.

My poker:

Not a ton of time put into it lately.

Took 4th in a $10 horse tourney on stars last night.

Cashed in the $3 rebuy on stars.

I've been thinking about setting a goal in regards to my playing...I am unsure as to what the goal would be.

I'd be open to suggestions if anyone has any.

Thanks for reading.

Anthony

The Poker Mindset (the book) speaks of not setting monetary goals.  Instead to set goals such as 'Play X amount of hands this month',  'Im going to Final Table a WSOP event in my life'.  ...  Goals that won't stress you out in the shortterm and make you do bad things or force things, but are great for your long term.   Goals such as I will make 3 buyins today can be bad as you might be up 2.5 buyins and wont quit cuz you are not at your goal and then you end up losing more money due to changes in the game, or you becoming tired or whatever the key factor is.

For the most part I agree with this philosophy.  However, I also believe Monetary goals are ok if they are not for one specific session or really difficult to achieve.   Why put pressure on yourself when its not needed.  Instead, use it as a motivational tool.

That brings me to my Goal.  I originally put this goal up for two reasons.  One, to make money.  Two, to motivate myself to playing more volume.   I normally work 40hrs a week and play maybe 15k hands a month on average.    With work out of the way this week, I was able to put in the volume needed.   And this goal was suppose to kick me in the ass to do so.  And I did, I played 30k hands in roughly 9 days.   And I still went out and had a social life.  Not limiting myself to poker only.  Which included not playing Saturday day/night nor all of Sunday.

I came home tonight about 7pm, $1200 away from my goal.  I wasn't in the mood to play.  Long day today as well so i'm kind of tired.   I chose to use the Poker Mindset for today, for right now, not to play.  Not to chase my goal of $10k in 10 days.  Not to play when I'm probably not going to play my A game.  So I accept failure in not completing my goal while embracing all the success that this goal has brought to me.

Total results for the 10 day period - 9 days played:

2/4 Cash games: +$8772.35      3.6ptbb/100  (low for me, but due to table increase)

MTT: Approximately:+$4k

RakeBack:  Approximately + $1k

Total just shy of 14k overall.

Here is a graph of my 2/4 games including 6max and HU.  Interesting 9 days starting -3.5k the first day and having an almost 3k tilt session day8. 

So whats next you ask?  A nice fat withdrawal.  Time to remind myself why I play this game.  Other wise its back to work (tell me why do I work again) so I will be playing less-to-nonexistant during the week and a decent volume on the weekends.

I will continue to play more 2/4 for now even though I'm overrolled.  Maybe playing the higher games when they are superfishy.  

Another thing is FTOPs.  I will probably be playing Fri/Sat/Sun.    I am also interested in playing the $2600 2 day event.   I have played it before and would like to play it again.  However, I dont think I want to pony up the $2600 so I will attempt to satelitte into it.   I would also be willing to sell slices (say $500 each) of my action if people are interested.   The event had a 1st prize just shy of Half Million last time...   PM on CR if interested.

GL on the tables.