I recently did my post Aussie Millions numbers for my deal with Timex. Going into the Aussie Millions I was in fact not the player with the largest make up, and there was another threatening behind me, though with the guy in the lead making a solid cash in EPT Dortmund I may have overtaken him now. For the time being the make up’o meter grand total sits at….$121,122 US dollars.

Seeing as I don’t have any very serious live poker series coming up until the World Series in June-July I can’t imagine that number will change all that much unless I get very lucky in one of the small APPT events leading up or the $2500 Hachem deep stack series coming up next week. Outside that there’s not enough opportunities to think I can take a major dent out. Not that Timex minds of course, having just won something like 1.3 million fucking dollars over in Germany I’m pretty sure he’s way to busy running around the hallways of his mansion screaming “I’M RICH, I’M RICH! HAHAHAHAHA!” then diving into a pool filled with 100’s to be bothered by my miniscule losses.

Outside the make up I added up my finances and came up a few thousand shorter than I thought there’d be. To be honest that vacation was likely a bad idea, and the more I think about it the more I realize I really hate being away from poker/my computer/the internet/easy access to Asian food for that much time. I really need to be concentrating on rebuilding my bankroll after having broke off with Rob (my original online backer) and the expenses that live poker incurs. This time last year I did nothing but hide out in an apartment in the middle of nowhere in Shanghai playing online poker all day with nothing to distract me. That seems like a good idea at this point since I made a ton of money over that period and this time I’ll get to keep all of it. Unfortunately, it is going to be required of me to do some more serious travel previous to the WSOP, which is a whole other potential nightmare.

As a result I’m forcing myself into a pretty grueling routine for both poker and my health. From the point I wrote the blog entry ‘Hey Fatass’ up until I went to Macau my fitness level had done nothing but get better and I was really starting to feel like my old self. After all the travel and big dinners with friends and nights of casual drinking I’ve now slipped into arguably the worst shape of my life and I’m not going to tolerate it. From now on my routine looks something like:
Up at 10am, go running for ~20 minutes. Get home, do abdominal routine.
10:30am, shower, have breakfeast.
11am through ~8pm, play poker. Try to win money.
8pm, hit the gym for an hour.
9pm, have dinner.
After dinner I’m free to do as I like, and I imagine I’ll mostly do something like see movies, study poker, or write. I need to be asleep by 1am in order to get an appropriate and healthy amount of sleep. I’m not going to let any late nights, travel, or desire for enormous Indian restaurant meals get in the way of this. I’m going to get in much better shape and I’m going to push my bankroll over the six figure mark. And one of these days I’m actually going to get rid of that make up.

This is odd. I almost never write a real blog entry, the kind where I ramble about what I’ve been doing with my life and what I’ll be doing upcoming. For the last week I’ve been on vacation in the Gold Coast and an island off Brisbane. It was pretty good though to be honest I don’t much like being away from poker, my computer, and my favorite Asian restaurants that long. I arranged it so I got back in time for the FTOPS which starts up tomorrow morning. I got home from the vacation and found out my new horse Charlie has won something like $8000 on the stake I gave him, essentially doubling the roll I gave him only a few weeks ago. I also managed to sneak in a few tournaments during the break since I’m incapable of going entirely without, and in my one day of play managed to win about $4,000.

Meanwhile I’ve been asked to come do guest videos at Pokersavvy where fellow MTTC’ers Jurollo and Ansky put up videos. I’m pretty excited to get involved with a training site as I feel like that seems like the next logical step in providing education to the poker community, though I’ll still put out the things it took me a while to learn articles for free.

The Joe Hachem deep stacked series is coming up as well, and the $2500 two day 6 max is one of my most anticipated events of the entire poker year considering how soft the field promises to be and the awesome structure that goes along with it. That’s a week from today and hopefully I finally run good in a liveament without a Q3s related implosion.

Outside that the reception to my JJ diaries parody article has been pretty good, but outside doing another ‘upcoming live poker article’ I doubt I’ll be doing anything really satirical or parody angled for a little while since I can kind of feel the well running dry on funny ideas. I’m also attempting to write my entire Aussie Millions trip report into one weaving story, a trip report epic if you will, called ‘There Will Be Spew’. I’m about a quarter done at this point, though I have a lot of time to write coming up since I won’t be doing any travel for two months. Outside that I’ll be doing a lot of online play, posting on 2+2, strategy writing, and of all things, updating this blog with more real blog entries. How odd.