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The final night of grinding was fitting... after about 600 hands I was ready to run into traffic. But all's well that ends well, {acronym Renton hates}

I may keep updating this as the next 4 weeks should have some good life changes... This past week I ran roughly 2.3 miles on 3 different occasions and lifted weights as well. I weigh roughly 220 at the current time, and expect to drop at least 10 pounds in the next 4-5 weeks. I realize that might seem like a lot, but I'm nearly 100% sedintary so a dramatic upswing in exercise should see some serious changes.

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Well, one week of no poker pretty much sucks. I cracked a bit yesterday and hopped on IRC just because I miss all the humorous chatter, and busy irl kept me from the gym most of the week. I did get in a 2.6 mi run this morning, followed by an ass-kicking circuit workout. I'm going to be focusing a LOT on back, core and legs; more than I ever have in the weight room.

I hit 215lbs for the first time in 6 years earlier this week. My weight tends to fluctuate by 5 lbs from day to day, but 215 is a new low in a long while. I'd like to see me get down to 205 or so.. but if I'm actively lifting weights.. it's going to be hard to get below that. The cool thing is.. I'm not really looking to my body weight to tell me about my fitness. It's not a productive way to measure my success. I'm going to look at distance per run, and # of workouts I get in per week.

Diet-wise, most of the food I eat is quite healthy. We simply don't buy junk food of any kind at the grocery store and we don't eat out very often; so we eat food that we have and I just need to constantly work on eating less per meal (especially dinner) and not snacking in the evening.

I have a couple of books I'm planning on reading, a paper, and a grant to write. Plenty of things to take up poker time, I just miss the chat.

Well tomorrow is May 1. So my self-ban from poker is over... not really sure what that means for me. I'm not going to be restarting my massive multi-tabling of full ring. Although I am a winning player at 100nl... i just can't do it anymore. I've specified why in previous posts, so I won't revisit it... but I feel like I have roughly 3 options:
- Do I convert my cash games to something like 1-2 times per week 6m and HU play with ~1 hour type sessions?

- Do I abandon cash play all together and just aim to play a few ftr mtt's now and again?

- Or do I just stop playing online poker completely...

I've been thinking about this for a month and I just can't decide. I'll update as I think about this more...

So after a great deal of thinking.. It's quite obvious I have an inability to choose healthy options (exercise, sleep, reading, time with wife, or spending time with irl friends) over playing poker and a number of other unhealthy choices.

I've spent the last 4 years (4-year anniversary in 12 days), comparing my success and failures against individuals who for the most part have more flexible time constraints in real life. With two small kids, wife, and, what should be a pretty time-intensive full-time job (faculty member at research-intensive school), my free time is very limited. On average, I should get ~1 hour per evening, and if I choose to play poker, I'm choosing NOT to get exercise, play guitar, read, etc. A more balanced individual might be able to only play 30min and then stop, or play once or twice per month, but I tend toward compulsive behavior quite easily. By opening the door to playing sometimes I frequently make bad decisions of when it is or not appropriate to play.

If any are curious, this isn't a decision based on poker play; that is, I'm still playing as good/bad as I always have. I tried to switch to hu and 6m on FTP, so I wouldn't have as much external pressure to keep Supernova Status on Stars... but that really didn't change anything. So that's all I got for now.

BR: $0.

=( Good luck in the rlz sir. I hope you find what you're looking for.

Hmm, so I've thought of bumping this several times, and although I don't have much going on I thought I'd post a couple of things.

Having quit in June, I didn't play a single hand for nearly 3 months. I only had $.70 in my account, but due to a few long overdue pay backs from neverbeg (or parttimepoker i guess)... somewhere around the end of August I had $45. So I thought, why not, let's play some $2nl for fun.

If you like whopper jr.'s $2nl is quite entertaining. It's easy to see why people can print money at $2nl and not at $5nl, though. Yes, people are uber-retarded at both... but there are far more "any two will do retards" to nut campers at $2nl than $5nl. You can "learn" to play a winning style @ 2nl that is way to loose and involves going to showdown too often with weak holdings and will lose you money at any higher stake.

I've considered asking for a stake vs. just grinding up myself. Although it's tempting to secure a stake for all my play, I just don't see myself playing that much. I don't really want to be responsible for anyone else's money or feel like I need to play with any kind of frequency.

In terms of a plan, I'm going to stick with 4-tabling 6m... playing 20m, 210 fpp sats to the Sunday 1/4 million as I go. I will move up stakes when i get 12 buyins for the next level and move down if I drop to 9 buyins at my current stake.

It's aggressive, but I was a long time (albeit small) winner at 20-tabling $100nl fr... so I'm adequate at many of things most n00bs are not... though I have lots to learn about playing 6m obv. I likely will wait for 15 buyins for 50NL and 20 buyins for 100NL... and 50 for 200nl.. but let's be serious, that is likely never to happen.

ge00fish and bb microstakes brm is ftw. i have no doubt u will robusto with this guaranteed winning strategery

I love it! Back from the dead like every other "I quit"er out there. Congrats on the comeback.

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