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LemOn[5thF] Czech Republic. Oct 21 2014 14:35. Posts 15163 | | |
Hey guys, It's been over a month since last update.
September was well...less than stellar. The heater had to end at some point though, it was a blast during the summer though, drinking multiple times per week, holiday, gym almost daily.
This is September:
65 hours is something I got somehow used to but is awfully low of course.
Oh well at least I managed to
Join a gym
-7 mnutes from my flat, there's multiple climbing walls, training area, and it's in a squash centre with squash, table tennis, tanning beds  ...all a man needs
It's like $25/month too, and I've been going 5x per week on average.
Be ill for over half the time
Yeah I have a cold since like the first day I arrived in here, can't shake that sun'bitch got almost used to it now.
workouts
The thing about Prague is that there's all I need, loving the variety so far. There's the same organized group as in my last town that do street workouts, help local communities etc. There are people that are trying to excercise, don't drink live by solid principles like no violence, drugs etc. have goals. A lot of people are really young there so I definitely want to stay involved. What's not so good about Prague is the distances and how fragmented stuff is - the last town I was in had 100k people, everyone exercised in the same place at the same time where here it takes me even 70 minutes to get to training and people keep switching, creating small groups etc. Everything is way less personal and tight-nit in other words.
Restarted meditation+ mindfullness
Yeah so last time I really got to Zen and philosophy it turned into a huge clusterfuck where I started to read about science, Buddhism, thought about perspective and meaning of life, and the irrelevance of our day to day lives and goals and I realized that I had to stop.
In today's world filled with petty goals and arbitrary values you kind of have to give in, chase the illusions and create your own and use and manipulate your ego into wanting things as opposed to just trying to be a realist and switching the ego off.
Nevertheless, I got back to meditation, joined a local non religious one first and it was boring and ppl were really at the start of it all so I went to Zen instead, listened to Tommy Angelo's eight fold path on Mindfulness some 8 times but I've decided that this time around I will use meditation for the practical use of calming my mind, understanding feelings, and focusing on the present moment, and completely drop the philosophical part and searching for the meaning of self.
There's nothing as great as taking a bad beat 5 times in a row, closing eyes, mindfully counting to 10 and not giving a fuck about it all of a sudden 
Floorball
I immediately joined a local club's reserve team and trained 2x per week. I was immediately noticed and was asked if I'd join em for first team practice sometimes.
To be honest this is one of the things I am unsure about. Training takes me from about 7:30pm to 11:30pm 2x per week in the reserve team, every other weekend I'd have a day or two with games, and the first team practices even more than that. It also tires me out quite a bit and since I am a goalkeeper the social contact is not as great as during street workouts, and not as time effective as the gym. Still it's something I am good at so will probably keep going on and off. It's not a priority for me though.
Poker
Because of the heater my development's stalled a bit. Really I had a blast drinking a ton working on fitness, doing floorball, family etc. but theose 60 ish hrs per month became norm. Which was fine when I took it as holiday, abysmal when I want to get better and make this a proper career since I wasn't learning very much at all either.
I was spewing since the move, and was playing rly well before it but kinda forgot a lot of what I was doing well, started losing and spewing in Prague. There's tons of thing I need to learn, I revisited Mathematics of poker, started watching videos again, posting hands as you have noticed and was talking to some great people from LP - I am really grateful for every comment you have, even when I am tilted and reply with a dickish attitude. I watched a video on RiO, Uri Peleg said it in his strategy battle, Tommy Angelo stresses this but humility and being able to step back and evaluate what others are saying instead of automatically defending yourself is still one of the things I struggle with. But hey, that's because I am human 
I moved down to 16 cause of cashouts+badrun but now im back at 25, dabbling into zoom again.
From now on I will prioritize poker a lot more, so far I had lots going on, I had often just 1-2 full days for poker gym and learning per week - super low of course.
My sleep regime got distorted, was ill, a lot etc. So considering all that, fuck it... I did pretty well :D
The expenses are higher in Prague and I'm starting to think about the future too so I am putting my foot on the pedal and Poker will be the highest of my priorities again, and I will treat most choices as poker choices - what'll make me a better player, starting from exercise, what I eat, what I watch how much I sleep etc.
Especially Nutrition and the timing of it will be my focus. So far I have been very roughly focusing on macros, healthy options etc. But Lefort's reply made me rly think
I read neuroposychology of poker and the importance of balancing serotonin dopamine etc. because of mood and focus and what you eat and how much has a large impact on those
+ blood sugar levels need to be balanced.
If you guys have any tips on not only how to eat healthy, but how to time specific macros and foods for a 10am gym, 12:00-23:00 grind and learning schedule I'd greatly appreciate it.
Also I might do a video or a coaching sesh for POkerstrategy soon, that'd be awesome. Even tho with the downer and focusing on life instead of poker past few months I lack the confidence that I'd be able to give people much
gf
She found my blog. Oops. It's really strange now- for over 10 years the Starcraft and poker worlds have been completely separate from that thing people call real life. So it was sort of my diary where I could spew whatever I wanted and nobody in real life would find out. My last GFs or anyone else didn't give a toss about what I do really, so it's kind of flattering but also means no more secrets from the dirty corner of my mind, sorry boys
On the bright side we had lots of fun reading through Floofy's posts though you are a genius sir.
It's not the easiest thing in the world to get schedules aligned, she's busy and so am I with the evening activities. On the other hand, I really like the fact that she's successful and has lots going on and I don't have to feel that I'm neglecting her or anything when I focus on poker and exercise - It seems +EV for sure, we do stuff that I would hardly do alone that take my mind off the grind, e.g. went for a "blind exhibition" in complete darkness where a blind person (or so he claimed ) takes you on a tour across a flat, street etc,, did some fun stuff like dinner parties, food festival, table tennis, now spent 2 full days without any poker or computer in her village.. It's fun planning stuff, and even when poker wasn't going my way I felt great in life cause of gym, and stuff we do together.
Old article
I re-read article from Somnius recently that I changed up for LP couple years back before I quit poker check it out if you missed it back then:
http://www.liquidpoker.net/blog/viewblog.php?id=933717
Our objective now is to make the best decision on every action in every hand, and continuously strive, both on and off the tables, to ensure we accomplish that task to the best of our ability. By altering our definition of success and consistently improving, increasing and diversifying our efforts, we can reach new heights.
I think I have been focusing too much on making my life great through poker, and poker went a bit too much in the background, and now it's time to tip the balance poker's way once more. But hey- still a good read if you are on the grind too much side of the fence.
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dogmeat Czech Republic. Oct 21 2014 16:02. Posts 6374 | | | |
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r0mx0 Slovakia. Oct 21 2014 16:15. Posts 1580 | | |
 ahhaah rememebr this one
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LemOn[5thF] Czech Republic. Oct 21 2014 16:25. Posts 15163 | | | |
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Joe Czech Republic. Oct 21 2014 18:27. Posts 5987 | | | |
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| there is a light at the end of the tunnel... (but sometimes the tunnel is long and deep as hell) | Last edit: 21/10/2014 18:32 |
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Joe Czech Republic. Oct 21 2014 18:31. Posts 5987 | | |
| | On October 21 2014 13:35 LemOn[5thF] wrote:
workouts
The thing about Prague is that there's all I need, loving the variety so far. There's the same organized group as in my last town that do street workouts, help local communities etc. There are people that are trying to excercise, don't drink live by solid principles like no violence, drugs etc. have goals. A lot of people are really young there so I definitely want to stay involved.
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Just out of curiosity: what is the group called? And how exactly is the group involved in helping local communities?
Also, for nutritions, an interesting book you might like to read: Primal Blueprint. It doesnt give answers to specifics like meal timing (which I dont think is very important btw), but still quite interesting. |
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| there is a light at the end of the tunnel... (but sometimes the tunnel is long and deep as hell) | Last edit: 21/10/2014 18:33 |
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hiems United States. Oct 21 2014 19:52. Posts 2979 | | |
Real housewives of Prague feat. Lemon. |
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hiems United States. Oct 21 2014 20:00. Posts 2979 | | | |
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| I beat Loco!!! [img]https://i.imgur.com/wkwWj2d.png[/img] | Last edit: 21/10/2014 20:00 |
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napoleono Romania. Oct 22 2014 03:10. Posts 771 | | |
No new pics of gf....
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LemOn[5thF] Czech Republic. Oct 22 2014 05:38. Posts 15163 | | |
| | On October 21 2014 17:31 Joe wrote:
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On October 21 2014 13:35 LemOn[5thF] wrote:
workouts
The thing about Prague is that there's all I need, loving the variety so far. There's the same organized group as in my last town that do street workouts, help local communities etc. There are people that are trying to excercise, don't drink live by solid principles like no violence, drugs etc. have goals. A lot of people are really young there so I definitely want to stay involved.
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Just out of curiosity: what is the group called? And how exactly is the group involved in helping local communities?
Also, for nutritions, an interesting book you might like to read: Primal Blueprint. It doesnt give answers to specifics like meal timing (which I dont think is very important btw), but still quite interesting.
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It's Seberevolta
They organize workouts, go to schools to give talks+exhibitions, do stuff like collections for stray dogs etc. and the guy behind it wants to shift young people from drugs and drinking towards exercising |
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dogmeat Czech Republic. Oct 22 2014 11:54. Posts 6374 | | |
when i m on low carb diet -> ragetilting
when on carbs -> sleepy -> ragetilting |
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PuertoRican United States. Oct 22 2014 15:23. Posts 13044 | | |
4/5 stars, due to you letting your girlfriend find out about your blog... |
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ggplz Sweden. Oct 22 2014 18:21. Posts 16784 | | |
Fun read. Sick chromestar t-shirt, haha :D |
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| if poker is dangerous to them i would rank sports betting as a Kodiak grizzly bear who smells blood after you just threw a javelin into his cub - RaiNKhAN | Last edit: 22/10/2014 19:04 |
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