First things first! Poker!
Not much change dollar wise so far! Unfortunately not a drastic change volume wise either! Pretty on/off month for me starting with a poor week due to illness then a poor week due to celebrating my 23rd birthday. Cant be too upset though as EV was good, I got plenty of study in whilst I wasn't grinding and I had a hell of a week celebrating my birthday with friends and family. Very happy with quality of study over the past 4 weeks and forever plugging those ICM errors (still a massive fish)! Close to break even post rakeback but it still hurts a little knowing I haven't actually made a penny from poker yet this year... Maybe I should have got a proper job after all.... Or maybe stars should just stop toying with me and give me a sodding break :)
In other news I decided seeing as I spend so much time in the house I may as well make a little extra use of it. Two things I feel I have let slip a little over the past couple of years are reading and watching films. Haven't read more than a handful of books in the past few years and that is something I'm really not very proud of so starting this month I decided to at least consciously attempt to read a lot more. I've started reading 'Death by black hole' by Neill Degrasse Tyson as I'm a bit of a sucker for anything space related and am so far really enjoying doing so. Won't go into any real detail as I could babble on for hours but if there are any fellow space enthusiasts out there this book is a must have for relative noobs or newcomers to the concepts of quantum and astro physics such as travelling at the speed of light or relativity.
Now 'watching films' to most 'normal' people wouldn't really seem a task worthy of special effort but I've always been a huge movie nerd and up until relatively recently have striven to constantly expand my inner movie catalogue. Basically I f***ing love watching films. I'll honestly watch absolutely anything but it really goes without saying that I appreciate much more movies that don't need to entirely rely on explosions, tits and ridiculous plot to keep their audience engaged (although on occasion these kinds of films really do hit the spot!). Since I've been slacking on the film watching front I've amassed quite a substantial 'to-see' list and I plan on watching at least 20 new/impressive films a month from now on.
So far this month I've had the pleasure of watching;
(Ratings as what I've given them on IMDB)
-JOE (6.5/10)
-ANTICHRIST (9/10)
-MUD (7/10)
-KORENGAL (6.510)
-ETERNAL SUNSHINE ON THE SPOTLESS MIND(5/10- Unfortunately I didn't particularly enjoy this one)
-APOCALYPSE NOW (9.5/10)
-MOON (8.5/10)
-SUPER 8 (8/10)
Id love to go into more individual depth about each of these as a number of them really do deserve it but I fear I may lose a number of my readers forever from lack of interest or general boredom :). I'm seriously considering starting a seperate film related blog in the near future. I'll keep you posted for anybody who is interested.
Lastly but not least! A good friend of mine has just set up a new website specialising in poker related travel. Basically the site covers absolutely everything from grind houses/tournament accommodation to casino reviews to mindset vacations with professional life coaches and everything in-between!
Apart from all of the travel chat he's also working on a community where you'll get answers on all your poker/travel questions, meet other poker players worldwide, find poker houses and more.
Please take a look and any feedback I'll get straight back to my mate!
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Thanks again for stopping by and having a read! Good luck at the tables!
