2009 Poker Aims - We really mean it this time

dK1NG

zuutroy wrote: »

Dunno if its that hard Lloyd. I was v fit as a teenager, but then didnt nothing but play golf for excercise for 7-8 years and I started basically from zero fitness in January, ran 2-3 times a week and was able to do 5 miles easy enough after 2 months. Though I didnt have any weight to lose in the process.

5 miles is eezzyyyy:D, heck I done a marathon with just 13 wks training.

Big difference altogether doing a run AFTER a 1.5k swim followed by a 40k bike ride...

I know I wouldnt be capable of doing one any time soon.


As for my own goals, I will finish my PhD and get a job. I have no poker goals tbh, apart from maybe to try sat into the IO again.

Ace2007

dK1NG wrote: »

5 miles is eezzyyyy:D, heck I done a marathon with just 13 wks training.

Big difference altogether doing a run AFTER a 1.5k swim followed by a 40k bike ride...

I know I wouldnt be capable of doing one any time soon.


As for my own goals, I will finish my PhD and get a job. I have no poker goals tbh, apart from maybe to try sat into the IO again.

gl with that bit -

was talkin to a chap about gettin work in the recession times, and he was sayin that its a great time to further ones education - but by the looks of things your going to get your PhD soon enough - can you get any more qualifications?

El Stuntman

Ace2007 wrote: »

gl with that bit -

was talkin to a chap about gettin work in the recession times, and he was sayin that its a great time to further ones education - but by the looks of things your going to get your PhD soon enough - can you get any more qualifications?

lol, I know people still in college at age 33/34...

zuutroy

El Stuntman wrote: »

lol, I know people still in college at age 33/34...

Getting paid to work in college is pretty awesome

smurph

5starpool wrote: »

If BigDragon can do one.....

Where is that pic of him again?

Although it has to be said I met him a while back and he is a shadow of his former self.... Has lost a huge amount of weight......

sickpuppy

Is there any truth in the matter Big D was just warming up?
To all the knockers jesus theres alot of fat poker players there and anything that gets them getting a bit of exercise is a good thing.
Triathalon would be very tough but something to aim for and abit of cameradery along the way would be great.
Unfortunatley im built for speed not long endurance so ill count myself out.

ollyk1

In the back of my mind I'd like to do a sub five hour marathon this year. Right now I can't even jog without my calves threatening to tear apart from carrying my 18 stone frame. I've been walking 30 miles a week for the last two months and I'm still only scratching the surface.....its a long long road back to fitness.

I'd love to do a small charity prop bet around the Dublin city marathon 2009 all the same.... Say if people were to give me 5/1 on a €200 bet with the money going to the Simon community/SVdeP if I win (i.e. run/jog/walk the course in October 2009 is a sub 5 hour time) and the people can do what they like with my 200 if I don't manage it. Pictures either way.

Lao Lao

ollyk1 wrote: »

In the back of my mind I'd like to do a sub five hour marathon this year. Right now I can't even jog without my calves threatening to tear apart from carrying my 18 stone frame. I've been walking 30 miles a week for the last two months and I'm still only scratching the surface.....its a long long road back to fitness.

I'd love to do a small charity prop bet around the Dublin city marathon 2009 all the same.... Say if people were to give me 5/1 on a €200 bet with the money going to the Simon community/SVdeP if I win (i.e. run/jog/walk the course in October 2009 is a sub 5 hour time) and the people can do what they like with my 200 if I don't manage it. Pictures either way.

Good luck with the training and I hope that you pull it off but tbh, I wouldn't back against you at 5/1. It's 10 months until the Dublin marathon and that is loads of time to be able to prepare you for sub 5 hours

ollyk1

Lao Lao wrote: »

Good luck with the training and I hope that you pull it off but tbh, I wouldn't back against you at 5/1. It's 10 months until the Dublin marathon and that is loads of time to be able to prepare you for sub 5 hours

what price would you take?

Tbh my injury plagued legs (two torn calves in the last few years) and my delay in being able to jog until I've lost at least 2 stone are factors against me. If I was 16 stone or less by the end of April then I'd guess I'd have a decent shout of making it. It took Peter Canavan more then 5 hours to run it this year and I've never been much of a runner so I think its a decent bet tbh Brian.

Thanks for the good wishes.

Lao Lao

ollyk1 wrote: »

what price would you take?

Tbh my injury plagued legs (two torn calves in the last few years) and my delay in being able to jog until I've lost at least 2 stone are factors against me. If I was 16 stone or less by the end of April then I'd guess I'd have a decent shout of making it. It took Peter Canavan more then 5 hours to run it this year and I've never been much of a runner so I think its a decent bet tbh Brian.

Thanks for the good wishes.

Hmmm, me thinks that you are talking up your injuries here :D

Canavan actually did it in just shy of 5 hours but I'm pretty sure that he ran it with 9/10 other lads in aid of 'Spirit of Paul McGirr' and they all stayed together in a pack, not really concentrating on time, just a matter of getting it finished.

Sure, Grethe Bendtsen beat the over 75's record by running it in under 5 hours, surely you can run faster than a 75 year old women Olly :D:D

As it's for charity, I'd offer 2.5/1 and if you lose, the €200 will still go to a charity of my choice. Was it not for charity, I honestly wouldn't back against you full stop. I think sub 5 hours is very doable with 10 months prep time

doke

Can't swim. Can barely cycle either. So no triathlons for me: I'm ridiculously over specialised in the athletics department.

Still, I applaud all those setting themselves exercise goals for this year. For myself, I think 2009 will determine definitively whether it's possible to juggle performing at a reasonably high level internationally in ultrarunning with the degeneracy involved in being a poker player (at this stage, the smart money's on no as I sit here coughing up phlegm).

On the poker front, I think you're all being a little too specific and also unrealistic on your goals. My goal is simply to win the WSOP ME after a marathon headsup battle with nicnicnic overcoming a 15:1 chip deficit only to be sucked out on when it's level after I hit a one outer deuce of diamonds on the river dealt by Lucie from the Fitz.

AdMMM

Last years goal was to deposit enough to play $50NL and do well. Instead I deposited enough to play $20NL but had a donkament score which made me robusto for $50NL. I was ticking away until I withdrew the majority of it to go on holiday and when I got back I just spunked it.

Goals for 2009:
Be rolled (and overly so) for $200NL.
Stop spewing
Perhaps play a live tournament rather than report on them?

Hitchhiker's Guide to...

Goals:

- Play 200k hands at omaha $0.50-$1.00 by end of August
- Make $20,000 / €15,000
- Move back to Ireland to a significant pay-raise position

HIVeindhoven

Goals
Quit poker by the end of the year (preferably after clicking a big donkament but i'll take what i can get)

Not to have an early mid life crisis and run some contrived bollocks like a triathlon.

Carry on eating as much as i want whenever i want and being a lazy trainer yet still managing to have good fitness and not get fat (LOL good metabolismaments)
Somehow start believing in god. I reckon i'd be a much more confident poker player if i knew God was taking time out of micromanaging genocidal bloodbaths in Africa and the Middle-East to spike me middlers in crucial pots.

Conbro

In the back of my mind I'd like to do a sub five hour marathon this year.

Another member of the the Walter Mitty gang. Best of luck Ollie, your going to need it.

YULETIRED

Conbro wrote: »

Another member of the the Walter Mitty gang. Best of luck Ollie, your going to need it.

in fairness anyone could nearly walk a marathon in 4 hrs 59 minutes.....

I've ran 4 , I won't reveal my best time due to doubting guffaws but running 26 miles is no triathlaton , the world and his mother have run the Dublin one........I'd only offer Olly evens on completing it in under 5 hours and it would only be injury that could stop him if he trained for it.

ollyk1

Conbro wrote: »

Another member of the the Walter Mitty gang. Best of luck Ollie, your going to need it.

Ah in fairness Conor I'm not aiming too high. I can walk 6k in 55 minutes twice a day now. My plan is to be able to jog that distance by the end of March in sub 40 minutes. The marathon was something that was just in the back of my mind but if I had a bet on it I fancy I'd get that far.

But I honestly reckoned it was odds against me doing it so its hardly a Walter Mitty view. Although its nice to see people reckon I have a decent chance of managing my goal but I actually am seriously worried about the prospects of injury so I'm going to be very proactive in managing that risk and I just wanted to highlight the issue to others trying something similar.

I don't think I'd manage a triathlon without totally changing and that isn't as easy as flicking a switch as we both unfortunately know. But jogging a marathon isn't the same as doing an above average triathlon.

Anyway if you disagree with me you have my prop bet terms. :P:P

ollyk1

Lao Lao wrote: »

Hmmm, me thinks that you are talking up your injuries here :D

Canavan actually did it in just shy of 5 hours but I'm pretty sure that he ran it with 9/10 other lads in aid of 'Spirit of Paul McGirr' and they all stayed together in a pack, not really concentrating on time, just a matter of getting it finished.

Sure, Grethe Bendtsen beat the over 75's record by running it in under 5 hours, surely you can run faster than a 75 year old women Olly :D:D

As it's for charity, I'd offer 2.5/1 and if you lose, the €200 will still go to a charity of my choice. Was it not for charity, I honestly wouldn't back against you full stop. I think sub 5 hours is very doable with 10 months prep time

I don't want to back you into something that you aren't too interested in gambling on Brian. If you had a strong view that I wouldn't manage it and were only arguing me down to get better terms than I'd actually take your bet (from a purely personal motivation point of view).

Let me know if you seriously want to make the bet at 2.5/1 and you're on.

BigCityBanker

breifne?

Grafter

Is there a thread where I can talk about my 2009 poker goals?

A triathlon that isn't about holdem, omaha and omaha8 seems like too much hard work for me

Lao Lao

ollyk1 wrote: »

I don't want to back you into something that you aren't too interested in gambling on Brian. If you had a strong view that I wouldn't manage it and were only arguing me down to get better terms than I'd actually take your bet (from a purely personal motivation point of view).

Let me know if you seriously want to make the bet at 2.5/1 and you're on.

No not being backed into it at all. It's a great idea and good motivation for you and with the winnings going to charity either way, it's win/win imo. I'm defo good to go at 2.5/1 - my €500 to your €200 but next time I'm in the Fitz, if I see you doing laps of the table inbetween hands, I'll be buying you ice cream and apple tart with chocolate sauce on top

ollyk1

Lao Lao wrote: »

No not being backed into it at all. It's a great idea and good motivation for you and with the winnings going to charity either way, it's win/win imo. I'm defo good to go at 2.5/1 - my €500 to your €200 but next time I'm in the Fitz, if I see you doing laps of the table inbetween hands, I'll be buying you ice cream and apple tart with chocolate sauce on top

Bet accepted so!! I don't think I'll be turning into Phil Laak just yet!! lol

I will run/jog/walk the Dublin Marathon 2009 in under 5 hours. €200 at 2.5/1

My Charity will be SVdeP and the Simon.

Pictures of me in agony and time verification either way will be supplied.

Gulp. :eek::eek::eek:

Killme00

OllyK1 / BCB, you should try this. http://www.cairnscommunications.com/fitness/couch-to-5k.htm
it worked really really well for me.

Conor, relax with the negativity man (its christmas!!). You've seen the shape i was in 6 months ago. I followed the above and i can now run 5k no probs (and i am still pretty rotund and still working on it).


My goals:

Poker:
Learn to enjoy the game again (stolen from kayroo)

Non Poker:
Waste less time cruising on the internet while at work
Enter three bjj competitions
Fight in two MMA fights

kingofqueens

Conbro wrote: »

Another member of the the Walter Mitty gang. Best of luck Ollie, your going to need it.

Conbro wrote: »

Some of the people ****ing on about doing a triathlon have about as much chance as myself of completing one. Delusional meeses indeed.

Conbro wrote: »

lol so whats the lineup then Stephen? Yourself, Noel Hayes and Breiffne ? That'll be a sight to behold.

Conbro wrote: »

Of course, finishing line would be far too ovbvious

Conbro wrote: »

lol you werent so precious and sensitive when you were slapping your c o c k out on the desk in the Jacpot were you? Is there really something offensive about questioning the confidence of a group of people who spend a typical day sitting around playing poker with little or no exercise to complete a high endurane event such as this. Im not going to start getting personal but at least two of the people who put their names forward would be classed as clinically obese. Its the equivalant of someone who has never played poker before in their life backing themselves to beat 1000nl within 3 months. If you want to start getting all high and mighty then you go ahead Stephen, it doesnt bother me. I'm merely stating the obvious.

The Grinch That Stole Christmas...

YULETIRED

kingofqueens wrote: »

The Grinch That Stole Christmas...

naaaw it's called humour.....a grinch would follow them around and trip them up whilst training.............hmmmm perhaps I shouldnt have said that....watch yer step Olly

Lao Lao

ollyk1 wrote: »

Bet accepted so!! I don't think I'll be turning into Phil Laak just yet!! lol

I will run/jog/walk the Dublin Marathon 2009 in under 5 hours. €200 at 2.5/1

My Charity will be SVdeP and the Simon.

Pictures of me in agony and time verification either way will be supplied.

Gulp. :eek::eek::eek:

Excellent stuff. Best of luck with the training (genuine good wishes!) Just for the record, my charity is Focus Ireland

Hectorjelly

Does anyone want to bet that I wont complete a Triathalon next year? Id be happy to take 2:1

tylerdurden94

I wish you all the best Olly in this venture of yours, now if only i could get back to cycling again, oh yeah thats right i have to buy a bike first!

BigCityBanker

Hectorjelly wrote: »

Does anyone want to bet that I wont complete a Triathalon next year? Id be happy to take 2:1

fck sake, id nearly take those odds!

Hectorjelly

Well at one stage Sam was offering to give lengthy odds on anyone from boards finishing one! Im only one person