Lots of training and Nick Rainey is "godlike"

I have spent about a week catching up on all the training videos at Poker VT - Home , reading the forum at PokerVT Forum , posting insightful and hunourous comments to lots of stuff. Increasing my knowledge and reading my favorite blogs SNG Nick , not a problem . I am also very pleased to say the NICK RAINEY is almost at the end of his prop bet, both in time yet in completion as well, I have spent as much time as possible watching and cheering him on , without neglecting my family and my health of course visiting the batting cage every other day to get ready for the summer's season playing on 2-3 teams this year.
Nick is a true inspiration and has attracted over 100K in bets against him that I am happy to see him win, when he wins, I think he is due for a 24hr nap, when it's all done and he has been officially declared the winner of course. If anybody actually reads my daily updates and didn't get a chance to see the live web cams you may still have a chance if you check out Justin.tv - sng16k's channel: social work or stickam.com/16ksng , you can also read his updates that aren't on his blog at Nick Rainey (sngnick) on Twitter , it has been a long month for Nick and I am kinda glad I missed the first few weeks at my "retreat" as it can get stressful and tense when you really want a person to succeed and the bumps in the road along the way get you a little worried.
The cat was never worried at all and kept giving me looks from above Nick's monitors whenever I would say or type anything in the chat that sounded to be "not positive". On the note I probably have been very distracting with my chatting, but I am sure Nick has clicked "ignore" and muted me a loooong time ago and am not worried that I am bothering him. The cat too sent me and e-mail saying he misses me and as soon as the prop bet is over will be coming home right away, he is anxious to meet the white squirrel and have dinner with him... this makes me wonder if they will be friends or the natural animal instinct will kick in and provide him with a nice meal and a fluffly new "white" coat..? I also look forward to Nick returning to the land of "coaching" and back to his position of the leader of the Rainey Army/Nick Nation as his students and myself miss all of the attention he gives us in his daily forum posts, weekly videos and competitions as well as his skilled ability to teach us all more. Lest we not forget Nick will be playing for me at the final table as I might of still been away on my "retreat" and will ensure my winning the SNG challenge and leading all other PVT members won't be for not as he will take down a nice place for all my efforts. On top of that I am still gonna finally get my chance to play Nick heads up for the FNF week 3 from a while back for a cool $200.
On another note I have been asked many times by many PVT members to play HU as they want a chance to play falenangel "the guy who beat Nick" and see how there skill matches up, I have played a few and luckily won them keeping my status as a solid HU player. Recently a challenge was thrown my way by a member I consider to have a lot of skill in playing poker and wasn't sure if I could pull of a win vs jotagran as we are probably evenly matched and variance, luck of the cards, may play more of a role than skill.
After much persistence on the part of jotagran and lots of discussion around odds and the amount to play for and how many games should be played we have come to a decision. We will play sometime in the next few days with my $40 vs jota's $50 for a best of 7 heads up match on Fulltilt. I am verymuch looking forward to it as I think we have agreed to make it a monthly event for a little while giving us both a chance to improve our game and play somebody who has shown great skill as a member of the PokerVT community. My cat also sent me an e-mail saying ""if the prop bet for Nick isn't over yet, he will take the "spirit flight" here as soon as I am needed for the game and return to Nick afterwards if the prop bet is still on."" I am pleased to hear that as without my coin flipping bonus of +3.3% I don't see how I can continue to "big talk" my beating jotagran in advance.
The white squirrel is great and all but the cat is connected to insight from the great and late Stu U, the greatest poker player (in my mind) that ever played the game.
My poker bankrolls are still the same as the last update give or take a few bucks but will return to playing cash games this week, as soon as I get "bertha" a few days of "antibiotics" My computer has shut itself down 2 times in the last 3 days even after I had a IT guy look it over. :(
I also got caught up on most of my T.V. shows and am happy to see that Lost is still the best show on the air and look forward to it everyweek, it also happens to be on tonight.
Sarah Conner chronicles has also begun to blow my mind with last few weeks going beyound anything I could have foreseen as a viewer.
We won't talk about hereos as it almost is a a point where I watch it just to see if they can catch my interest again, wishing they wouldn't have had the writers strike "mess it up" back in the 2nd season, though it may simply be the writers trying to live up to the competition in Lost.
Lots of movies watched too many to review, nothing too horrible to mention and nothing too great either, movies of extreme calibur only tend to come along every "blue moon" anyway.
My latest read is currently "Fooled by Randomness" by Nassim Nicholas Taleb and I will tell you simply this, if you haven't read it go buy it now and you will thank me for telling you when you are at the end of chapter one, I have yet to finish this book but will be re-reading as soon as I have, in spare time and before bed each night, as it is soo insightful it even helped me to understand things I was neglecting and helped to make me realize a few things about myself.
Best of Luck to all and Thank You for helping my poker insight grow soo much since joining PVT to all the staff and pros, especially Nick in his challenge, Jcarver (though he doesn't know I look up to him-his ego is probably big enough as it is) and Grayson a new coach to the team who's training videos are enough to make me need to watch them at least 3-5 times over get all the knowledge.
Also best of luck to Jotagran in our little HU matches as it will be the begining of us both increasing our skill no mattter who wins, even though the cat assures me it's "in the bag".
Thank you to all who have been following my blog since I started out, it is a journey that has been enlightening if nothing else. Like anybody reads my crap! I simply like to believe that maybe just maybe... ah nah.
Yes I will, maybe, be adding Grayson- aka spacegravey, to my blog on the right side as a blog to follow if he continues to provide great insight and in turn becoming a person I greatly look up too and aspire being as good as him. We'll talk about other pros in the future but Jon Ettinger has also grabbed my attention even if he hands the charts to us on a "silver platter" the insight is great and his ability to articulate has been shocking in the least.
Thank you to the "brains" at PokerVT for ensuring the members keep getting great new content, and to all the staff you correctly put together, the team is amazing and I can't imagine my life right now without it all... most likely still only playing at tigergamming, and not involved with PVT. Yet without the "tiger, my cat" I wouldn't have ever found you and seen my true potential.
Time for everybody reading to give yourself a great big and long pat on the back! Cheers and Shambone!