The Last 2 Weeks (day 28 i think)

The Final 2 Weeks

Day 28 I think

I have gotten a little (thats an understatement) lazy on updating this blog the last 2 weeks. Not much has changed though lately. My days have basically revolved around workouts with Bobby, grinding 5/10nl at tulalip and snoqualmie casinos, and playing golf to get ready for Savages golf tournament next week in Arizona. Im on a good pace to reach my goal to get under 210 by May 31^st. Last saturday I weighed in at 214.5 after starting the goal at 223.5. I have 4.5 pounds to lose in the 2 weeks which if I focus and work hard should be fairly easy to achieve.

My diet has been fairly standardized as the following

breakfast – egg whites with turkey breast and other veggies in it.

Snack – protein shake

lunch – turkey sandwich with cottage cheese

snack – protein bar

Dinner – Chicken with salad

late night – protein shake

Gotten into a fairly consistent routine with the above meals. Currently eating 2 egg whites with artichoke hearts (really good) and sun dried tomatoes and a small bowl of special K cereal. I try to eat bigger breakfasts in the morning in order to fill me up throughout the day.

Poker has been up and down the last week and a half. I had one killer session where I lost 10k up at Tulalip. The 5/10 game there plays big and plays like a 10/25 later at night depending who is there and who is stuck with the straddles and blind raises etc. Other than that though I have come back strong and made about 4500 in my last 2 sessions since then and had 2 winning sessions before that. 

As for workouts, I have been working with Bobby consistently 5-6 days a week while I have been in town. The biggest and best workout we did was the 300 workout last Thursday. This is a grueling 300 rep workout including pullups, deadlifts, box jumps, floor wipers, pushups and dead clean and press. Basically you do 300 reps of these as fast as you can, same thing the actors from the movie 300 did, hence the name. I completed the workout in 33 minutes and 40 seconds which is not bad at all for my first time. 

Really excited today since I am driving up to Vancouver for game 2 of the NHL Western Conference Finals between the Canucks and Sharks! Going to go to the game with NeverScaredB Ben Wilfonsky, recent winner of EPT Berlin. Also plan to get a drink before the game with Greg Muller and Mike and Adam from the Twoplustwo Poker cast so should be a great time! Will only be my 2^nd ever NHL game since we do not have a team here in Seattle, but I do follow the sport a little bit and have been rooting and following the Canucks throughout the playoffs. 

No Days Off day 17-20

No Days Off Days 17-20

Been super busy over the weekend between workouts and grinding poker. Thursday – Sunday morning are when the 5-10 nl game runs almost around the clock at Tulalip casino which is about 45 minutes from my house. I put in 3 sessions totaling about 28 hours in the 3 days so very happy about that. I made about $3500 in that time. Was very very happy with my play throughout the sessions.

My workouts have been going extremely well with Bobby. On thursday after doing 18 sets (3 super sets ) up stairs we ran a mile on the treadmil. I was told to run it as fast as I could and I did just that. I ran a 7:45 mile which is probably a solid 45 seconds faster than I have ever ran. Yesterdays workout was super tough. We started with a Kettle Bell circuit that involved swings, squats and pushups that was very difficult. We then went into doing 3 minutes str8 of prisoner squats where I would do 20 seconds of squats then hold at the bottom for 10 seconds then 20 secs.... O ya forgot to mention we did all this with a 20 lb weight vest on! Then we did 10 minutes on the stair stepper still with the vest on. Finially we ended doing wheelbarrels across the gym. My body is super soar today.

Nutrition is still going super well and cant wait to weigh in saturday to see where I am at. Thursday I weighed in at 217.5 after starting at 223 so we are making some progress although I feel this weeks numbers will be huge.

This is going to be a quick blog cause im about to go workout with Bobby. This week im basically grinding the local games all week until I leave for New Orleans on Sunday for the $1600 and $10k. After NOLA I head straight to Arizona for the golf tournament then off to vegas for the WSOP. We finally booked a house also! 9 of us including Adam Levy, James St Hiliare, Jesse Chini, Ryan Daut, Adam Hui and Ahmit Makajia. I feel we have a very good chance at winning a braclet in that group!

No Days off Day 16

No Days Off Day 16

BACK TO BACK BLOGS WEEEEE!!!

POKER- Nothing poker wise to report yesterday as none of the 5/10nl games run on wednesdays in Seattle. When im at home Sundays and Wednesdays tend to be my days off as games run the rest of the days. Only thing poker wise I did yesterday was look into book stuff for New Orleans circuit. Im trying to decide how long I want to go down there for. I want to grind some prelim events there to try to get some points for the $1 million dollar freeroll, was thinking of heading down Thursday the 12^th and play the $555, $345, $1k, $1600 main and $10,000. If I dont do that ill just fly in Sunday and play the 1600 on Monday. Ill make that decision and book stuff today hopefully, but hotels look scarce in the area.

Nutrition – Another perfect day eating wise!!! I have been trying to eat a bigger breakfast in the mornings in order to fill me up for the rest of the day.

Breakfast – 3 egg whites, turkey breast and tomatoes

½ cup Special K cerial with some banana

Snacks – 2 bars while golfing.. One Cliff bar and one nature vally bar.

Lunch – Protein bar while on way to gym.

Dinner – Chicken w/ veggies and brown rice w/ salad and light dressing.

Late night – 100 cal muscle milk pre packaged protein shake and protein bar

Fitness -

Wow Bobby kicked my ass today. We started off doing a series of jumping exercises and pushups on a speed ladder for about 5-6 minutes. This is a great start in getting your heart rate up. Next, we did Up Downs with a broad jump all the way across the gym, going up and back twice. Following that we did a 90 sec circuit with a medicine ball which involved 30 secs of squatting and throwing the ball as high as I could up against the wall. Then doing side twist tosses against the wall for 30 seconds on each side. Then the hard part began. Using adjustable weight bands I strapped them around my belly and with Bobby giving resistence behind I had to sprint and drag him across the gym and back 3 times. One of the more physically draining things we have down. Finally we made a make shift slead out of 50 lb kettle bells and a coat and I slid it across the gym floor in kind of a mountain climber position. All in all I was beat after this workout and it was a great start back!

Golf! Yesterday I went golfing at Trilogy golf club at Redmond Ridge. My golf game is really coming around lately and my swing felt very very good yesterday. I struggled on the front nine shooting a 48. But I came back strong on the back nine and shot a 40 with all pars and bogeys. I feel the key to my game is keeping the big number out of play. I will be playing very well then have the random triple bogey etc so that is the part I need to work on the most. I also need to work on my iron game a lot. I am very good off the tee and around the greens but struggle greatly with my iron play. Ill try to take a video of my swing this week and post it on here for analysis :D.

Video of the day- I really dont have any ideas here so I need suggestions!!!! All I can say is go watch videos of Michael Pineda, the Mariners new starter. HE IS A BEAST! Reaching triple digits on the gun!

No Days off Day 15

No Days off Day 15

Poker - So yesterday I caught a early flight back from the WPT in Miami, which was awesome. Great location and poker there. I feel that it will be the biggest stop on the WPT in the next couple of years. The trip overall did not go to well. I never got above starting stack in any of the 5 tournaments I played. Also lost money in cash games there. I have not done the official records yet so don’t have a number but it was not a fun trip poker wise. I was suppose to fly back Monday morning but I switched my flight to Tuesday in order to sweat my good friend Allen Bari at the final table. Unfortunately he did not get the result he wanted with a 5^th place finish. Its always fun and motivating though to sweat these final tables and was glad I switched my flight.

Nutrition- the last couple of days on this trip I really slacked off on my diet. I am home in Seattle for 9 days so I have a could chunk of time to focus on my diet and cook my own food. Yesterday was a good day for me eating well.

Breakfast – Bowl of raisin Brand w/ Banana

Snack- Protein bar and Special K 90 cal bar (while on plane).

Lunch – Protein shake and light yogurt

Snack – protein bar

Dinner – Chicken with Mushrooms tomatoes peppers and a salad with light dressing.

I made up 3 more chicken dinners and brown rice last night also so I have those meals already prepped and portioned out which is very good for me.

Workout.

I got a very good workout in last night. I got in 28 sets in just over an hour at the gym. I did Bis/ Tris and Core. I am expecting a very hard workout with Bobby today as the first one back with him always seems to be the toughest.

Biceps – 1) 21's – 7 curls from down to middle position. 7 curls from top to middle position . 7 full length curls

2. Hammer Curls
3. Seated dumbbell incline curls

Triceps 1) Pulldowns

2. Assisted dips
3. Squat kick backs

Core 1) Seated machine weighted crunchs

2. Side oblique raises
3. V side to side medicine ball with a throw
4. Stir the pot planks on exercise ball.

Today no poker games running in seattle so im going golfing, working out, and going to the Mariners game I believe.

Video of the day- Steve Aoki! Saw him last week in concert and he is the shit!

No days off 10-14 May Goals

 

No Days Off Days 10-14

Alright guys my apoligies for lack of updates in the blog. I flew home from Miami yesterday and have a solid 9 days back here in Seattle before New Orleans Circuit event. Gonna try my very best to blog every morning while im back.

Today we are going to do my goals for May as I try to do at the beginning of every month.

POKER

1. In response to my horrendous start of the year (part bad play part bad luck) I am going to drop down in stakes in cash games. I am going to focus soley on 5/10 nl this month for 2 reasons.
   1. I am extremely comfortable at these stakes money wise
   2. I will get some confidence back playing against weaker opponents.
2. I am going to make $20,000 this month playing 5/10 nl. My original goal was $30,000, but I believe that would be unachievable since at the end of this month I will be going to Arizona before the WSOP for Matt Savages golf tournament.
3. I will play 125 hours minimum at 5/10nl. Again this is lower due to the golf tournament, but I don’t mind having smaller goals that I can 100% crush instead of just meet.
4. I am going to write at least 15 blogs this month. That is at least bi-daily, but hopefully every morning. I also want to improve the blog with more photos, media, etc so look forward to that. I am new to this so working on the fly on the blog.

Fitness and Nutrition

1. Continue with my No Days Off workouts. I am back in Seattle until the 12^th so I want to work out every day with Bobby (my trainer) while I am back in Seattle.
2. The goal is still to get below 210, but hopefully lower
3. Blog my food intake everyday.
4. Cutback on liquid calories (beer :D ) a lot. Only day I might be drinking back in Seattle is tomorrow for Cinco De Mayo.

Video of the day today – Its a Party at the DOJ!