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Celina left this morning for Macau. She’ll be there for a week, and then spend about 10 days visiting friends in Kuala Lumpur. After that she’ll be going to APPT Manila for roughly another week, meaning she’ll be gone about three and a half weeks in total. It seems unlikely I’ll attend APPT Manila, as it’s a nearly 13 hour plane trip and a low buy in tournament that would take several days of my time, making it a financially –EV trip. I’ve also been told by just about everyone that Manila is a hole and I’m just plain sick of traveling, so I’m sitting this one out and returning to the internet.

As a result, my friend Stevo and I have decided to make a massive volume PLB (points leader board) bet for the month of November. The bet itself isn’t anything giant, loser buys dinner at winners choice restaurant, but we’ll be making a number of wagers on other volume related accomplishments including most final tables, most wins, and most final table bubbles. With no girlfriend, no legitimate social life, and no other responsibilities I think we’re going to see a pretty epic month of volume.

I’ll be up at 7am every day and probably playing until around 6pm. I’ll get to sleep around 10pm. I’m going to purchase a new monitor to make this all more comfortable and I imagine I’ll be playing about 15 tables at a time for as long as possible every day across eight or nine different sites.

The rest of my time will be spent dieting and exercising. I’ve been off my ultra strict diet for about two weeks now, something that ends tonight. I had one last enjoyable meal (I ordered Indian obviously) and starting tomorrow I won’t be enjoying anything in the way of food for a solid two months. I’ll be in the gym five days a week instead of my current three and the other two days I’ll be using a jump rope on my balcony to continue burning calories. The roughly two months I devoted to this kind of thing previous to going off my diet got me in respectable shape, which hasn’t been reversed much at all since my lapse so I hope to springboard straight back into progress.

Essentially my life will be operating like a robot for a month. I imagine I’ll be doing quite a bit of writing and of course, video game playing. If people in Melbourne I know want to swing by and visit these days that’d be great, I’ll be hanging and grilling on my porch pretty often and human interaction will be healthy after so much workaholism. I imagine this sort of living seems pretty disgusting to most, but I’m honestly very excited for it. I love having a strict routine to keep my diet and exercise in line, and I haven’t been able to put in a truly great month of online volume in a very long time.

My goal for the month, outside beating the living shit of Stevo, is to make $100,000 USD. If the AUD holds at its current level that’ll be a month worth slight more than $150,000. With the economy the way it is I’ve become increasingly paranoid about a potential down turn in online pokers popularity (though in all honesty it seems extremely unlikely to be anything major) so I’m eager to generate as much money as fast as possible. I’m also considering turning the ‘Things it took me a while to learn’ series into a book on tournament strategy and adding a ton of content. I’m not really sure; I’ve got some time to think about it all. Were I to ever actually bother writing a proper book I’d prefer something more humorous or autobiographical (such as the Around the World blog) but the articles have laid such a solid blue print for a book that it seems like the easiest route. I don’t particularly care about the financial success of the book, so long as people found it useful and I felt like I’d put something of quality together with my time. We’ll see.