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Anyways.

Poker has been going great for me so far this year besides the fact I have played a truly hilarious 89.7 hours. I switched over to 6-max $30 hypers to end 2011/start 2012 and have been enjoying them, probably because I am running ridiculously hot. I'm not sure why I decided to start playing them, just for shoots and giggles really. I realized quickly that I wasn't very good at them and put in loads of hours studying all sorts of hands. I put in more hours studying in January than any time I ever have in my poker life. Even my school life, but that isn't anything too special.

There is a lot of push among the regs to add more buyins to the hypers which would likely be a good thing for most regs allowing them to hit SNE a lot easier. Pokerstars has been delaying big time due to the fact that more hypers may do some damage to the rest of the sng environment. I'm not too concerned about it, I'd just like a decision to be made soon so I can get a good idea of what I will do for the rest of the year because as it stands I feel I could branch out into multiple sng formats depending on what happens.

After adding rb value and a lucky bink for $1700 in the Battle of the Planets triple shootout I managed to have my best month ever. I'm not so sure February will get a sniff of January since I've only played 13 hours, l o l.

The weather on Vancouver Island has been so nice lately and I recently bought my golf membership so the urgency to grind is low, but I am going to make sure I get some decent hours in before the weather gets really good. I'll feel like a doofus if for some reason I'm forced to play 120 hours in June.

It wasn't a New Year's resolution, but I made a conscious effort this year to avoid making crappy excuses for missing the gym because missing 1 day can quickly snowball into being 30 pounds overweight, weak, and out of shape. (Hi). Besides missing a workout during my gf's extended birthday weekend I am on my 6th straight week of the gym. I'm doing Starting Strength and I like it a lot. It's designed so that every workout you lift more than before, and comprised of squats, deadlifts, overhead press, and bench press. It's getting to the point where if I keep going for another 2-3 months I'll actually start to feel proud of myself for how much I'm lifting. Some people seemed to be concerned that lifting weights will make me too big and bulky to properly play golf, but I'd need to eat 6k+ calories a day, lift much heavier, and then not do any of the mobility exercises that I regularly do. So don't worry everyone, I intend to be fat and weak for a while yet.

I'm excited to have golf back in my life, and excited to keep making improvements in my game and attitude that have already begun. At times my swing/ball striking is the best it's ever been, the main problem with that is that it is approximately 3% of the time. I'm happy to know it's there, and am doing great work to improve it when it's at its worst. I have my coach to thank for that, as well as helping to make me less of a headcase on the putting green. I've also been listening to some old sessions that I had with Jared Tendler and realized I didn't fully resolve any of my past issues on the golf course, so I have been paying a lot of attention to my attitude and making it better with a main focus to actually resolve them. The main issues are anger, too high of expectations, and wanting to walk off the golf course and spend 3 weeks in my bed. I know now why these things occur so as long as I nip them in the bud when they occur I can be well on my way. :D