[FONT=Verdana]"Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration and inspiration."[/FONT]
I havent played poker in a week, School has been super busy and I can finally work out again so the free time I have had has been spent in the gym. I am very excited to play tommorrow and I plan on crushing everything in site. Its crazy how busy ive been , over the last 6 years Ive really had nothing to do. I kind of did what I felt like doing every day. Now its a class at 8, meeting at 12, phone call before they close, run to the post office, email professors.. hurry up get home eat dinner, go study, try to get a work out in.. next day get up try to do it all over again. Its just absolutely crazy to me how busy ive been, but it feels really good. I have a sense of accomplishment at the end of each day, knowing I am pursuing something that is very important to me. Nothing will come between myself and any goal I may have.. My girlfriend told me 6 am workouts wont happen. The next day I was up at 5am getting ready to go to the gym. I was probably too excited because its been a month and went way too hard on my legs. I can barely walk, but its a good feeling because it means I got a killer workout in. I'm so excited to play tommorrow, Lets make some money.

I started school on Monday and I can honestly say i've read more in the first 2 days then I did in my previous 4 years of college. In fact I don't think I opened up a text book the first go around. I'm excited about absorbing as much information on a daily basis as possible and staying ahead in every class and just absolutely crushing this time. I had a 1.8 gpa at my last university attended and I honestly believe I will get a 4.0 this semester. I am going to do everything in my power to do my absolute best. I am just trying to be a sponge in every class, and soaking up everything possible to better myself for the future. I think the same needs to be done with poker. Whether you are a beginner, intermediate or seasoned pro.. you need to be a sponge and just walk around and soak up as much information as possible. Whether its forums, friends, coaching, videos, or just playing the game.. try to learn a few things each day and implement them into your game. This past Sunday session of mine was horrible. I honestly believed that I ran horrible and played to the best of my ability. The only thing is that I wrote down alot of my bustout hands so I could go back later and look at them when I wasnt playing multiple tables, or tilted , or win-tilted. After looking back at the hands later and thinking about the hands critically, I played them downright awful. I didn't run horrible after all, my mind was trying to tell me that I was to make me feel better but once you look at things later on you realize they aren't as they seem. I can't go back and change the mistake I made that cost me the tourney and potentially thousands of dollars, but I can correct that mistake and learn from it and hopefully advance as a player. I had a good week last week, I final tabled a bunch of tourneys and each tourney that I final tabled I went back in the next day and looked at everything and saw where I could have done something different/ better, I sent the hand history off to a few friends to critique and then started up my session. I highly recommend looking over previous hands before you start your next days session as opposed to after a session. Usually by the end of a session i'm too tilted/ high from the rush of going deep/ winning a tourney to really think clear and concise. The next day your mind has had a chance to reload and replenish that desire to get better. Thats all for now, I have school in 8 hours.

Also, I am taking Eng Comp this semester so expect my blogs to get exponentially better in the next few months.

- Doubles00ted

I'm trying a new thing where I only allow myself to play 8 tables, the results have been excellent. When I began the year I was trying to mass table, it wasnt working out. I probably played 250 hours in January and made like 250 dollars. When I have < 8 tables It really gives me an opportunity to focus on playing well and building stacks rather then auto piloting tourney after tourney. Tonight I was playing well/ running well and took 3rd in the 33r 6 max ( I kind of choked this one away because I took a bad beat in the 55 1r 1a ft at hte same time. I have the HH's saved so i'll go over them when i'm fresh tommorrow and see if I can find some spots I messed up/ played well. After I busted all the later stuff I had the Nightly 70 grand left, I entered a few other turbos because I was bored and entered the 75 15k gtd Turbo on Stars that starts at midnight est. I won it in June when I was in Vegas and I was lucky enough to take it down again tonight. I'm moving to Akron this weekend to go back to school which starts Monday but my goal today was to try to win a triple crown( I have been so locked in lately that I felt I could do it all in one day). The only problem is UB only has 5 or 6 10k gtd+ tourneys a day so you really have to get lucky in something to have a chance. I took 10th in the turbo 75 on UB which was my closest run of the night on UB. I plan on playing FTP/UB and some Stars for fillers and If I can win something on FTP or UB tommorrow i'm going to bust it out hard on Sat/Sund. I finally cracked the yearly top 150 on Stars and hopefully I can stay in the top 150 for the rest of the year. In 08 and 09 I finished right around 250th, 2007 I think I made the top 150 but that was massively inflated because I won the SM. I start school Mond but if i'm 2/3rds of the way there I will find time to try to get my first Triple crown. It seems that since poker is no longer the sole purpose of my life.. i'm able to just crush when I do play. I think the last 5-6 years poker has been everything to me, I've finally learned to have a life outside of poker and that has made me a better player/better person. One of my friends tonight said " screw goin back to school, you are killin it" which I replied " nah I wont do well if I dont have other things in my life". Balance is so important, do some other fun things with your life besides poker, I lost valuable social time when I was younger because of poker when I probably would have made more money if I balanced my life and did more things to improve myself as a person rather then my pokerself.