Hey Readers,

Another big gap between blog posts, the only person I have to blame for that is me. I now realise why a lot of bloggers start out blogging their hearts out and run out of steam after 6 months, having to constantly update your blog with interesting content can be particularly hard especially if writing isn’t your forte in life.

Poker:

The good run continues, although from what everyone I play with says about me that’s a given. People think I haven’t lost a hand of poker since I started playing years ago . This months graph / results:

An online poker playing friend (pwnchizzle on FTP) has been coming over during the week to grind next to me which has given me some good motivation this month, I have never really played >80k hands of poker in a month, especially at mid stakes games where there is not many games running in the first place. Unfortunately had a bit of a big weekend and am feeling a little under the weather (who would of thought free beer was a bad idea?) so I decided to take a few days off poker to get things back in order.

I have been running particularly well at 600NL and was in contention for whats known as the Ultimate Grinder Leaderboard (tracked by a website called pokertableratings) which basically tracks how much online poker players make across various sites at every level. The standings as of today are as follows:

I don’t think I am going to put in the necessary volume to come first, but it is always nice seeing your name at the top of a list, good motivation to play more. In other news my first online poker instructional video came out on Thursday the 22nd, it is the first video of an 8 part series I am producing for http://www.deucescracked.com/.

I was a little nervous at first recording a video that a lot of people would be seeing, but through the video my confidence picked up and I am happy with the way it turned out. I am going to be producing 1 video a week for the next 7 weeks to be released every Thursday so for the poker players reading this have a watch and give me feedback, it’s always appreciated.

Basketball:

Have still been playing every Tuesday with results polar opposite to my poker results. We played last Tuesday and as I was walking into the rec centre I met an older gentleman that used to play with my dad (who is now 57), apparently they traveled throughout Europe together in their 20′s. We faced his team and they ended up smashing us by about 15 points (first half we were down 35-15 or so). We have lost the last 4 out of 4 weeks with 1 bye which sucks, but is obviously a part of the game  I have to get used to.

We play our last game of the regular season tomorrow night, if we win I think we go through to the final 4 and get to play the finals so heres hoping we play a good game and everyone is in form. I got like 15 points in our last game and hopefully impressed dad’s friend, my classic right handed hook shot to start the game sure put me in the zone for the rest of it. Ended up shooting 6/10 from the free throw line which has been a monster improvement compared to past efforts.

Photography:

A good friend from high school Andreas recently got married to the girl of his dreams (congrats Mr and Mrs WANG ) and I had the chance to take my camera out and get a few photos which was good fun. Was an amazing day weather wise considering the time of year but boy did it get cold outside once the sun went down. A few pics:

Thanks for reading,

Newman.