Hey guys. It's been a while since my last blog post. I know, I know, I'm a lazy piece of shit, I know that. You don't have to be so harsh. You say that, but you still forgive me don't you? Of course you do, because you know there's something here, you can't deny that. You know we have a special connection. I love you. Come here.

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Okay, so to start off let me comment a little on the article I wrote about a month ago about Isildur1. It's been one hell of a ride, but it looks like Isildur's bulldozer may have finally run out of steam. I have no doubt he'll be sticking around in high stakes for a while and will show his face again on Full Tilt, but for now we're probably mostly back to the average buzz of high stakes. And, for those who somehow still seem to be miffed at me about the article I wrote (apparently, there are some), yes I exaggerated for effect, and no I didn't believe everything I wrote. But it turned out to be much more spectacular and digestible that I expected it to be. I was amazed at how many views and how much feedback it got. It even landed me a few interviews and a spot in the 2+2 Pokercast podcast! So, although it certainly was laden with bullshit and hyperbole, I'd say it turned out pretty well, and I want to thank all you chumps to managed to wade through it. :)

In other news, I'm now offering some awesome coaching. It is awesome because I am doing it while exercising on an exercise bike. I was advertising this on 2p2, and I'm going to advertise it here now too (I might post something in the CR forum too), but basically here's how it works. I exercise for an hour in the morning on an exercise bike while using my laptop to sweat you playing poker, talking to you and watching your tables and whatnot. Just like regular coaching except I'm exercising. Right now I'm charging a pretty low rate, $475/hr (updated) and have got quite a number of bookings already just from advertising on 2p2 (it got taken down when the forum got restructured). I just want to emphasize that this ISN'T A JOKE because apparently a lot of people think it is, haha. Here's a picture for the interested:

So, spots are filling up fast but I want to get as many students as I can now so I can figure out how much volume I'll max out at so that I can see how far I can raise rates on this service, as I already have a decent number of applicants. So far everybody has been pleased, so it should work out pretty cool. If you're interested, PM me on Cardrunners or on 2p2.

Uh, let's see, what else. Well, there should be some cool content coming out soon from me for CardRunners, but I gotta keep the hush hush on about that for now. Other than that, not much to report. Poker is going slow but that's to be expected as I'm rebuilding and working my way back up. Hopefully I'll be back in the 25/50 and 50/100 games soon.

Oh, and for any of you who didn't see this, I posted a mushy thread in HSNL a while back that got a lot of nice feedback, so you may be interested if you have a sweettooth for BS: http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/19/high-stakes-pl-nl/poker-awesome-647291/

So, that's all for now. Next time I'll probably have some more interesting content, but thought I should update now and let you guys know that I'm still alive and haven't forgotten about this blog.

Until next time,

Haseeb