My first.....

$1k day. Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee. Looool.

I know it's really not that big of an accomplishment, it's just something I've been so close to achieving and it feels good to finally get it. This past week has been insane, although I'm not playing bad, I definately feel like I'm on a upswing. I'm also opening up my game preflop, and post flop vs. regs.

Among other firsts, I finally built up the courage to 24 table. After a couple hours I didn't even notice the difference. I just have to be careful when I'm opening/closing new tables because sometimes action freezes and then I start to sit out. I also put in my first 10k hand session today which I've been wanting to do forever. I am trying to get Supernova as quickly as my schedule/lifestyle allows so boosting my avg #/hands to 10k will definitely help that cause. It took about 7 hours which wasn't bad at all considering I started at noon. When I move back home I can really see myself waking up at 9 or 10AM and playing till 4PM. I enjoy that kind of structure which was one of the reasons why I quit playing tournaments. It also helps that I been soul crushing since that always helps motivate the grinder within.

Yesterday I had my usual hockey practice. Our normal gym was booked up so we had to move to another one where the school plays their big games on. It was on some NBA, hardwood, don't get the floors dirty type shit lol. Because it was reading week not everybody showed up but we had enough to spend a half an hour on offense vs. defense drills, and then a mini game for the rest of the time.

I forgot to mention that at the fundraiser two weeks back, one of my team mates brought a lady friend that was very attractive. Before I left to run my cash game she was following me around, telling me to show her around the bar etc. That same lady friend was there at the practice so I felt pressure to perform well on the court. Pun intended Lololol. But see my whole thinking and how I approach things is double sided. On one hand I am weary of these flirtatious women, their signals are misleading and often lead nowhere. I feel I am above that and I can find a respectable women. On the other hand I feel that I am young and, like my postflop game, I should loosen up IRL and stop nut peddling. Sometimes I feel like I am 50 and should be looking into some retirement plans or some shit. Anyhow I jokingly told my friend after practice to tell her to holler at me as I had my head down dragging myself to the dungeon to grind LOL. I'm obv kidding about the dungeon part, kinda.

Sorry for that tangent. Was practice a success? Yes and no. I had some really sick goals but also I been trying to work on my passing skills. This week we tried to focus on a technique called cycling. That's where players pass the ball at the opponents end of the court as they wait for there to be a opening on net. It's purpose is to keep the ball in our possession and run the clock down. For this to work you have to really trust your teammates abilities and I can't say that I totally do just yet. Some of them suck, but most importantly many of them do not have the dedication or desire to win like I do. I just feel like come tournament time, if you don't have the fire inside your going to crumble and shrivel up on the court. I guess we'll have to see. The crumby part of practice was the last 5 minutes. There has been a lot of politicking going on between Kyle (my good friend/team mate) and the captain and coach of the team. In the last 5 minutes, I rammed into Kyle full force and he got injured pretty bad cause it was the third time I did it that practice. In a fit of rage he flipped on the referee because he did not give me a penalty for the other two times. Tempers flared and Kyle said some shit which resulted in both parties storming out of the gym saying they were going to quit the team. Obviously not going to happen but it really just put a damper on the practice as a whole. I got to see Kyle today and he was fine so I was happy about that.

Anyhow tomorrow I'm going to my city's rival University (Ottawa U) to participate in a Psychology study that has to do with elements of decision making in Poker. I believe it's for her dissertation so I'm really excited for it. I'm going to do another 10k hand session when I get back and hopefully continue with the success I'm having. I'm going back home for 4 days for the rest of reading week just to chill. Because of reading week there will be no Wednesday night cash game.

I have also taken the time to post up the new episode of High Stakes Poker Season 6. I hope you all enjoy it and GL at the tables!