Recounting his progress over the last seven months, Jaime Staples said he put on 15 pounds in the week following the last bet.

With time running out, Staples recorded a recent Skype conversation with his personal trainer who gave a pessimistic summary of his chances.

In closing his video update, Staples apologized for falling off the wagon and potentially sticking his brother with half the loss, but he also said the bet is about more than money at this point.

Instead of trying to wither up to less than lbs. Anyone have a contact for him? Maybe I could swap for some poker lessons….

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Update update update! It's important that at least weekly you update me, the rest of the panel more on that later and the people following along on how your progress is going.

We will officially be collecting these updates on Twitter using the hashtag myultimatesweat , but feel free to share them on other platforms -- Youtube, Instagram, Twitch, Facebook, Snapchat, a blog, etc.

Make sure to let us know where we can follow along! It's October 8th and the deadline is here. The challenge is over and it's time to collect your results and let people know how you did.

Record a 90 second or less video summing up the process, and your results. What was the experience like?

What did you learn and where do you go from here? You must submit your final video update by October 15th.

In the next two days by October 17th , I will select five finalists. I wake up and I do sort of a work grind before I start streaming.

Then, I have my coffee and just talk to people, like you talk to anyone. After that, there is more work grind. It is really nothing too special — just waking up in the morning.

Streaming some poker live on Twitch Come hang! Why should I tune in to watch you? I give people a brutally honest look at what my life is like as a professional poker player.

It is actual reality of what my life is and I think it is more engaging as opposed to the produced reality you find on TV.

When you fully brick a Sunday tournament schedule poker pokergifs twitch twitchpoker pic. Part of your work is to help people to improve their poker game.

What helps you improve your own game? It has changed over the time. Now, the most useful in terms of money and time spent is doing simulations.

Using tools like ICMizer. What makes me feel good in life is working towards the goal and achieving it.

I follow you on Twitch and every time you go live I get an email. That happens almost every day. Watch out, PokerStaples is live!

How often do you stream? I stream six days a week. The work around streaming takes a lot of time. You stream for eight hours and then there is around five hours a day of other stuff that goes into it.

It is really hard to set that specific goal. Results are variable. Just hit 3,, views on Twitch. I owe it all to you all. Liba Foord is a freelance writer and journalist from the Czech Republic.

Liba started working in the poker industry in and has participated in numerous projects providing live coverage, translations, and consultancy services.

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Jaime Staples is a Canadian professional poker player and Twitch stage-harual.com was born on May 27th, in Lethbridge, Canada.. For most of his career, he’s been playing online MTT’s on PokerStars under the screen name “jaimestaples”, where he’s won over $K. However, with his signing with partypoker, he’s putting more volume in on his partypoker account – where he has the same. Hello everyone! My name is Jaime Staples and I'm a professional tournament poker player. Follow me as I move my way up the poker world! Jaime_Staples streams live on Twitch! Check out their videos, sign up to chat, and join their community.