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When I finally got over the 600 hump in a three game bowling series in my league a couple weeks ago, my friend joked that he thinks bowling performance is a leading indicator for life. So far, he's panned out to be right.

Things have been turning around on a couple fronts. There are some promising developments on the business end and on the dating front. Poker has been neither good nor bad as of late; I haven't been playing for a few weeks now. I'm okay with a bit of an extended break. Poker isn't going anywhere. I'll know when its the right time to get back in the game. Historically, I've always felt so good about my game following a break. I think there's a lot to be said for balance and clearing your head from time to time, a practice that, from my observation, isn't too popular among these young-gun stud poker players.

In a way, I can understand their heavily-weighted-towards-poker existences. There's obviously a lot of direct value added to their lives grinding tournaments all day, every day. But it doesn't come without the risk of being left behind in a lot of other areas of life (most notably, socially).

One poker player who seems to place weight on having a balanced life and is apparently enjoying the dividends of such an existence is Mike McDonald.


For anyone with their head in the sand for the past week, Mike came narrowly close to defending his EPT German Open title before busting out in 5th place this year. Quite an impressive back to back showing in fields of 411 and 667. We're doing an interview with Mike for PokerTips, so look for that in a Sunday or two.

Alright that's all I got for now. Happy St. Patrick's day from this increasingly optimistic ginger.