I couldnt do it Stopped registering at 7 for an hours break after playing a £5 bh out where i has 20xbb @100/200. Almost 3 hours of 1 tabling later i bust 9th. Probably the most boring 3 hours of my poker life, god its dull. Haha. Maybe time to find a more exciting passtime. Like birdwatching. The feathery type. I couldnt face the mega stack (or any other poker) after that. Maybe next week. Tired smiley. Posted by DOHHHHHHH
Lost count how many times back in the day I'd have 1 table left in a session with 20bb and you'd say 'get re-regging' and I'd say nahhh I might bust in 5 mins then be annoyed I'm in a bunch of comps at level 1 and not wanting to be, and inevitably I'd end up 1tabling for hours.
Not a dig, just funny how the tables have turned. Get re-regginggg, especially at 7pm, jesus At least I used to wait till like midnight before I tried to get out of re-regging.
Don't blame you for giving the megastack a miss, looks like a horror comp even for me, and I have a much higher tolerance than you for overly deep comps.
glgl with the MTTs, never in doubt that you will do well.
Still 30 mins to go like atm but would love to see Chelsea draw here and drop more points. If they do it'll mean there's much more of a legit shot at a fight for the title... although City winning would mean you owe Don a tenner, right?
I'm about to start negotiations with Aussie to add 250-400 gtd stuff to poker superhero.
Sky poker will have a new best player
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Morning all. It's been ages hasnt it.
March, as usual with me nowardays, had a few ups and downs, but overall it was a good month.
Cliffs
- Had first appointment with a fatigue specialist at the hospital, over 2 years after initially taking the problem to my GP.
No good, but I am one appointment (9th April) away from a referral to a specialist fatigue clinic, which is exciting.
- I've entered my 3rd official Half Marathon, the North Lincolnshire half marathon in early May.
29 quid to run around roads I can run any other time for nowt.
- Running/Fitness is okay, at least volume wise. I walked 70 miles in 7 days mid month. But then I got man flu 2 days after which kept me off the running grind for a good week.
When I returned I was struggling to run 3, then 5, then 6 miles, and latterly last wednesday I set out to run 8 miles but had to stop after 7 because I was out on my feet.
So alot of work to do to get back into half marathon shape in the next 4 and a half weeks.
- Weight is holding steady at 15st 2. Still down around 8 or 9 lbs on the year and almost 5 stone since 1/1/2016'.
- It was a fully dry month, until Friday when I went out for a game of darts, and I hit my first ever 180! Which was very exciting.
Although I lost the leg coz I missed 372 darts at double.
- I played for the first time all month on Friday afternoon and won 3 out of 10 mtts! Whilst final tabling 2 others, 2nd and 4th. for a £350 day! That was exciting too.
It's made me want to play again today too, which isn't so exciting. We'll see ......
- I gave blood for the 2nd time. Which isn't so exciting on it's own but it did mean I got to eat a chocolate biscuit for the first time all year.
As they forced me to.
No really they did.
I went with a penguin.
Tough choice when faced with penguins, clubs and bourbons and you've not eaten any of em in ages.
Bourbons were too high in calories or they'd have won easy.
Obsessed.
- I dont think anything else happened. I slept loads. Didn't really go anywhere or do anything I dont think.
Nope.
Boring life is boring.
I'm okay with it though,
Looking forward to a nice summer this year, it'll be the first one in ages where i've been in decent shape mentally and physically at the same time.
Lots of training, lots of runs, maybe abit of travelling home and abroad. Im thinking of finding a cricket team who are desperate enough to have me, having not played in 10 years.
I took the dogs to a big enclosure a few weeks back to have a run around off the lead.
Whilst I was there I did a mini training session of my own, running around with them and then setting up some sprints for an interval session.
At the end to warm down I marked out 22 yards, and decided to steal one of their tennis balls and turn my arm over, like I say for the first time in 10 years.
The enclosure was really big, about the same size of a cricket pitch with 6 foot fences all the way around.
So I marked out a little bit of a run up and waddled in to bowl a few balls.
Just off a few paces at first.
Went okay. Very very stiff and it felt really un-natural but they were landing somewhere near where I wanted them to.
Then I decided for old times sake to mark out my full run and charge in and channel my inner Shoaib Akhtar.
Good 16 and half stride run up, big jump at the crease, releasing from 6 and a half foot, trying to bang it in back of a length.
And the tennis ball sailed over the 6 foot fence, out of the enclosure and I ended up stood with my hands on my hips looking round to make sure nobody saw it, embarassed that i'd lost the dogs ball.
there isn't a webpage for this particular bit of analysis so i took this snapshot.
well done. you are the 5th best at reaching the final quarter of major tournaments in 2017.
i saw your note about giving blood. reminds me to go back. i gave blood for the first time last year and went with the idea that i would do it every week. i didn't know it is a quarterly thing. time to return.
Often boring is good - "may you live in interesting times" as the ancient Chinese curse goes... anyway your update wasn't boring, they never are. Run good this Summer!
So, I've kind of stopped playing poker altogether.
Not a conscious decision at all, it's just not happened.
I guess as I've been rebuilding my life, making new friends and even re-making some old ones, getting new hobbies and sleeping 12+ hours a day I've had less and less time to do things, and as a result poker has began to miss out.
I've been looking in on the forum occasionally to see whats going on, but only 6 or 7 times this last month.
Makes a change from the old days when I was refreshing and posting on the forum 6 or 7 times an hour.
It doesn't seem the best place to be posting and reading at the moment.
Alot of tedious threads/posts that I would once get involved in or even start myself that are just boring and repetative and pretty sad.
But that's no excuse for my lack of updates here.
I appreciate all the help forumers have given me on here over the last couple of years, readers have definitely played a huge part in helping me achieve some recent goals.
So apologies for neglecting the thread, I haven't gone all big time or anything and I do remember all the help you guys have given me in so many different ways, so I'm going to make a real effort to get back in to posting more and letting you know whats going on. (tbh it isn't alot haha).
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So tomorrow is my first proper race of 2017.
Its the North Lincolnshire half marathon in Scunthorpe.
I've been working really really hard over this last month or so to get myself in shape.
I'd say im somewhere near the shape I was in when I ran my last half marathon last halloween and clocked 2h13m.
The aim is to match that and hopefully beat it this time.
I have a pal whos half marathon PB is 2h7m so my tentative goal is to hit that, but i'll be happy with anything around that area.
I don't think I could have prepared any better, I'm the lightest I've been all year @ 14st 13lbs, I feel fit, healthy, no niggles or aches or anything, well rested....
All that's left to do is stuff my face and slob in front of the footy this afternoon.
After the race tomorrow I have booked a few days away, only local this time in Bridlington starting next Sunday.
I have cooking facilities in the accomodation this time, and great walk/run routes along the beaches and clifftops around the coast so there's no excuse to not stay in good shape and maintain fitness throughout the summer.
My goal for the year is to run a sub 2 hour half marathon.
I don't know how realistic that is, but it doesn't really matter.
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re Health...
I've finally been referred from my GP to a specialist at the hospital...
Who in turn has referred me to a specialist fatigue facility outside of the NHS, and I'm awaiting contact from them.
Things are no better on that front, in the words of Sean Paul it's still a Daily Struggle.
Winning more battles than I'm losing with it at the moment though, and hopefully one day I'll wake up and not have to fight it anymore.
Fingers x'd.
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Can't wait for race day tomorrow.
Bring it on
Apologies again for neglecting the thread, I can't fix the forum but as TK always says it is what you make it, so I'll try harder to do my own little bit and get this going again.
I do enjoy it, love reading everyones replies and inter-acting with people who post. So we're back.
And i just played 5 HU sngs @ €4 level whilst writing this and won 3 lost 2 so I'm clearly still one of the best players about if not the best.
Hope all are well, race result to be posted tomorrow afto!
And yes, this Forum - our Forum - is what players make it. It's been very sad to see some of the stuff on the forum recently. Still, everyone can see - or ought to be able to see - why other sites no longer have "tied" poker forums.
And of course if Sky decided to close this one, those who seem intent on destroying it with their sheer stupidity & short-sightedness will be the first to complain.
Good to see you back on and glad to see a generally positive update.
Hope you get that final answer you need to get to the bottom of the fatigue issues but overall VWP.
Not that VWP does your story justice - truly amazing lifestyle changes.
How are the dogs?
I know the forum has its poorer moments but overall it's the main reason I stick around here (even though like you I have hardly opened a table in the past month or so).
GL with the race tommorow Dohhhh - Poker is always you can come back to - It sounds like your living a much healthier and better life now. I,m trying to keep fit myself. Still finding running the hardest thing to get into. I,m doing all kinds of sports and gym stuff but running seems to shatter me more than anything and still smoking really doesn,t help although i have cut down
You definitely have the ability to run a sub-2 later in 2017. I know that based on some of the training runs I've seen you share on social media. If you want it enough you'll do it (barring an injury/illness bad beat).
By the way, each pound of unnecessary weight lost takes about half a minute off your half-marathon time. Food for thought
After a chaotic morning where I lost a tyre on the motorway and had to run half a mile just to make the start line I clocked an unofficial time of 2h 4mins 44 seconds. Which is an 8 minute PB.
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hi jj
here's something for you. Q1 2017.
there isn't a webpage for this particular bit of analysis so i took this snapshot.
well done. you are the 5th best at reaching the final quarter of major tournaments in 2017.
i saw your note about giving blood. reminds me to go back. i gave blood for the first time last year and went with the idea that i would do it every week. i didn't know it is a quarterly thing. time to return.
Welcome back JJ, & good luck tomorrow.
And yes, this Forum - our Forum - is what players make it. It's been very sad to see some of the stuff on the forum recently. Still, everyone can see - or ought to be able to see - why other sites no longer have "tied" poker forums.
And of course if Sky decided to close this one, those who seem intent on destroying it with their sheer stupidity & short-sightedness will be the first to complain.
By the way, each pound of unnecessary weight lost takes about half a minute off your half-marathon time. Food for thought