Poker Journal Day 25
Day 25, March 19th: Did work on the book in the morning (aka post 2pm, though I wake up at 1pm but spend the first hour working out) and in the evening. I edited and fixed what I wrote last night as much of it was transcribing and rewording ElkY’s stuff and I was typing a mile a minute. In the evening I wrote a section about “having a plan” that took the idea from the “Things it took me a while to learn” article I wrote on it then built upon the idea considerably.
In the evening we went to a basketball game in Nelson, about an hour away. Lately I find that I don’t feel anywhere near as social as usual, and I passed the game (which was a blow out) away mostly spaced out. I spend most of my days alone in my room or the gym and walk around the house with my Ipod in at almost all times. Lee is often busy doing work for the retreat and I’m left to my own devices, but it’s in a state of solitude. Keeping my head so much in my work has a way of, as I described before, “melting my brain”, and when I’m not typing, or thinking about how to phrase something, or debating whether we’re giving optimal advice, or editing, or proof reading, I just want to switch my brain off, not think, and give it some time to rest. I miss my girlfriend quite a bit. I call her in the late evenings some times and do what I can to be an entertaining conversation, but my head is all poker at the moment and she doesn’t play, so I wind up trying to make her do a lot of the talking. One of the ways I can tell my recent conversion to a permanent polyamorous mind set is correct is that I actually feel like calling my girlfriend just to chat. When I was monogamous I never felt like doing that. My thoughts on the subject are enormous and I’m still doing research on the matter, so I’ll write further about it at another time and in a more appropriate place than a poker entry.
I’m majorly looking forward to the tournament in Auckland; I’m so ready to play. I’ve also come up with an idea on how to improve my game over the following months and make some cool videos. I’m on good terms or owed favors with a ton of guys in poker whose game I really respect, so I’ve started asking them if they don’t mind doing a HH review+coaching session with me over Skype while I record it on Camtasia. For some reason my zeal for trying to make myself as sharp as possible for the upcoming WSOP seems to know no bounds. I anticipate showing up cut to shreds, kicking ass at pick up, and with my poker game as modern, aggressive, and focused as I can make it. This is the first time I can remember giving this much of a shit in several years.