I have to check, but I believe I am a few dollars up for 2019 in my poker
endeavors. I am hopeful to make up my lifetime deficit by restricting myself to
tournament play, for the most part.
I have invested in the stock market, am looking to take an existing business
in a whole new direction and am still pursue my writing dreams in the process.
Early February is a busy time of year for me, so it was hard to get into it
during our local WSOP here in Milwaukee, at the Potawatomi Casino.
On top of that, it is a time of year where expenses rise due to Winter
conditions. It lowers our bottom line making me more risk adverse. Still I made
some reasonable attempts during the WSOP and came out in the money once.
Pocket deuces came through for me again. Against pocket aces!
One aspect of poker needs to be understood here. At a final table, in the
money already, I was the low stack and doubled up against the button on my big
blind.
I was still the low stack. The guy on the button to my big blind received
several walks when he was big blind; receiving blinds and antes. So was the
table working against the small stack by beefing up the button to my big blind?
I think so.
The WSOP staff came by a couple times and said something to a couple of the
players here and there including to the button of my big blind. I could not tell
you what they said, but I know they have seen it all and do not tolerate
shenanigans. If there is anything off in a game they will pick up upon it and
act accordingly. These are serious professionals whether on the WSOP or in the
poker room. It is one place I need not worry that any questionable play will be
condemned according to professional standards.
Unlike at Badger Poker. I have written my experiences with them in the past
and would never recommend that organization to anyone.
Early in the same game I saw two guys sitting close to each other with only
five players at the table. I looked at their faces and thought, ‘They could be
related.’ Then I looked at their hands. Absolutely identical. If not brothers
surely cousins. Just some table dynamics one needs to be aware of.
My greatest revelation this time around at the WSOP is in regards to fat
adaptation. I am not talking being fat with cash, or holding the largest stack,
but about taking in the majority of your calories day by day in the form of
healthy fats; meat, butter, olive oil, coconut oil, etc.
When you are fat adapted you do not get hungry. In fact when you are burning
fat you get stronger and smarter, more alert. How else would our ancestors have
survived if not able to amp it up a bit when they needed to find food because
they were running low?
Getting off the carbohydrates and added sugars is also a great way to improve
mood; stay on an even keel when the bad beats just don’t stop coming.
I experienced all these great benefits during my long hours at the table and
hope you, any of my readers can take up this diet and find the health and
happiness it can instill.
And it will make you a more formidable player, not to mention durable.
Most all the great poker players keep themselves in great shape. It can get
grueling as you most likely know.
Yes, I ended up in the emergency room with sugar issues. I rejected insulin
or any other medication and found my healing on YouTube.
The healthy keto diet is low carb and consists of 75% of your calories coming
from fats, 5% from carbohydrates. (fats are more calorie dense than carbs or
meat) The carnivore diet, which is becoming popular among people in the search
for a healthy lifestyle through looking to ancestral and indigenous eating
habits recommends up to 80% of your calories coming from fats.
I also do intermittent fasting (eating within an eight hour window daily).
This is how a body heals though your doctor’s eyes will bug out if you tell them
you are fasting.
They do not want you to become healthy, they say they have a pill for
that.
If you want to call these diets fads I have no time to argue, but I see these
as quests for a healthy lifestyle amidst a recommended standard American diet
that leads to diabetes and chronic illness as well as heart disease.
Any study trying to show increased meat or fat consumption in one’s diet
leads to heart disease includes data showing that not only meat or fat was
increased, but also sugar, often in the form of high fructose corn syrup.
Fructose is the absolute worse sugar you can be consuming, particularly when
processed. Any data that does not fit the desired result, that red meat and fat
are bad, is often excluded.
I wish you all health and happiness as well as large stacks of fat. I will
leave you with some links so you can look into this yourself.
Dr. Berg has over 2 million followers and decades of experience in treating
clients successfully. Keto
Basics
Dr. Jason Fung is a master communicator and expert extraordinaire. Intermittent Fasting
Thomas DeLauer; his story on YouTube’s #1 fitness channel. Personal Testimony
Your common everyday meat
eater.
Here is a before and after. The before, the vegetable Police is a vegan. The
after, after he turned carnivore during an extended trip to Thailand where he
tried to go to a fruit based vegan diet. Check out the noticeable
differences.
Before After
Stay healthy my friends. I hope to post at least annually after the WSOP here
in Milwaukee. Of course I will post anything of significance in the
meantime.
