So I’ve played about 20.000 hands in the past 7 days. I’ve been grindin’ a lot of hands since I came back from my vacation. I am pretty happy with how things are going right now. I’m playing a lot of hands, it’s not going really bad. I am planning most my sessions for the week, and try to keep myself to play at those times I planned them on. This way when I am not playing poker, my life isn’t consumed by it. Of course I take time to analyze my handhistories, read forums and watch pokervidz. But when I am not improving my game or playing, I have spare time! Which I spent going to the gym, playing Paintball and watching series (season 5 of 24 right now) and spending time with my friends, girlfriend and dog. The first few months when I started going pro my  life was really consumed by poker. I’d play online a lot of afternoons and visit life games in the evening.  When I wasn’t playing I was looking for a live game or I was starting up my laptop to play some hands online. This was probably very frustrating for my girlfriend, because I wasn’t spending much time with her. But now I play more hands a week and have more spare time! So I am pretty happy with my poker life and my private life J

Because I’ve been playing a lot of hands the past few weeks, my arm starts to hurt after a few thousand hands a day. I try to stretch before and after sessions, but I can feel it is pretty sensitive all the time. Even after I take a break of 2 days, it is still pretty sensitive. So I am not sure what I can do about this. I’m going to ask some trainer at my gym if I can exercise my lower arm to make it stronger. I am hoping he can help me out, I don’t want to be stuck with RSI and become a full time life poker player. Spending all those hours away from home. So this kind of worries me at the moment.

The WCOOP started on stars, and I might be tempted to play 1 or 2 tournaments. I have to think about this though, because I don’t want to play tournaments long nights and sleep in late. This will effect my handrate on the cashgames. So I am hoping I can find some tournaments which start at a European friendly time J

My vid just came online, I hope you enjoy watching it! You can PM me with feedback and I would appreciate that!

Also I know I said I would try to analyze a hand every blog, but I don’t really have the time for it now. So I apologize if you were looking forward to that.

Greetz, Morten