man after reading this whole well i gotta say ur a true legend for having a fulltime job, going to school and getting ELITE. mad respect

I can really only comment on the past year or so because before that I was playing tournies. The one thing I have noticed (someone else said this earlier in the Stars regs thread) is that the cash game is just way more aggro these days. None of the nits are nits anymore and I see more and more people every day make a play I didn't think they were capable of.

The play is just way better these days.

Nope, I don't teach.

Oh man, songs is just way too hard. I'm going to do albums instead. (No Greatests hits allowed obv)

Blood Sugar Sex Magik - Red Hot Chili Peppers
Physical Graffiti - Led Zeppelin
The Chronic - Dr. Dre
And Justice for All - Metallica
Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd
Live Art - Bela Fleck and the Flecktones
Blind Melon - Blind Melon
E1999 Eternal - Bone Thugs
Closer to Home - Grand Funk Railroad
Appetite for Destruction - Guns N Roses
Are You Experienced - Jimi Hendrix
Zoso - Led Zeppelin
Tribute - Ozzy Ozzbourne and Randy Rhoads
The Story of the Ghost - Phish
Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine
Siamese Dream - Smashnig Pumpkins
Texas Flood - Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble
Core - Stone Temple Pilots
40 oz to Freedom - Sublime
Animals - Pink Floyd
Van Halen - Van Halen

12 hour sessions:


But lol at playing my A game the whole way. I play my A game like probably around 10% of the time. The good news is that I play my B+ game 89% of the time.

Depends on my stack size but I'm calling with any gutter with an over and just about any pair.

I think tournament players (the good ones) read hands as well as cash players. I do think in general that the play is better at the cash level because we spend so much more time than them playing with 100+ BBs. I will also say that I think the top 1% of cash game players online are more skilled than the top 1% of MTT players. That of course, is pure speculation and opinion.

~90%

Won, like 6k I think. Lost=16k.

Yes, it was agx. He used to three bet the sht out of me. I thought he was some crazy aggro maniac but every time I looked him up he had KK+. Then I realized he was just a nit who happened to get KK every time i had QQ.

I think the most defining hand I can think of was earlier this year (at work, can't get the HH). I three bet Marccus to 10x with AK vs his CO raise and he called in position. and the flop came K66. I bet like 66 bucks or something. The turn came like a 5 or something and checked (to tarp obv). Marc, being the SOB that he is, checked back. The river came K and I bet like 150 and he shoved over the top of me. I called and he had JJ. My original thought was "lol, what a donkey." Then I realized later what had happened. That hand really helped my progression into thinking a lot more deeply about the game. I will try to pull up this HH later.

I would say at least a couple more years. But likely much longer than that.

1. I used to trade. I decided I would add more value by being a developer. We market make equity options. I traded Metal and Industrial stocks originally. Then I got moved to the Biotech book of stock options. Basically these are the most annoy securities ever. You basically have to sell the sh*t out of them and just pray that they don't come out with a breakthrough drug. It was so stressful trading that book. They basically let me do whatever I want there so I told my boss I was going to focus on the programming part of the job. I basically write code and oversee project completion for the most part now. My job really is awesome.

2. I am generally really tired when I play, which is why I rarely bring my A game. I am motivated because I am extremely competitive, like to the point where it is a character flaw. I am also an action junkie so I like need my fix of gamble for the day. I get my motivation from money, and my hard work ethic comes from my parents. I remember when my mom started her company, she would work like 18 hours a day. But I basically have a combination of grinding genes and character flaws that makes me maniacal enough to actually do what I'm doing.

3. I actually used to need like 8 hours every night or I was in bad shape for the day. My body just adjusted and now I never get more than 6, except once in a while I will get home from work and just go to bed and sleep for like 12 hours. I'm kind of like a poker bear.

4. All I can say is that if you're going for elite or want to play a certain amount that you need to plan very carefully. Whether you break it down by week or month or whatever, you need to plan for when you are going to miss days. Like I know that I need to get 21k every week. If I don't play a lot during the week I will grind all weekend to make up for it.

Man, I haven't had chips ahoy in so long. I remember I used to get the chewy kind when I was younger so I gotta go chewy here.

Nope.

I would like to start analyzing my game this way, but I almost never do this currently. I just get better by playing and talking strat w/ players.

Yes, always music. Check out my top 20 albums a few posts ago.

No, I can grind to any music I like. Interesting question though.

That is tough, if I can choose a concert I will go with Lollapalooza 2008. If I can't choose a festival I will say Rage Against the Machine at Alpine Valley. If anyone has been there it is basically just this huge hill. Well it rained for 3 days straight before this show. The venue basically turned into a huge mudslide and everyone was going nuts. It was so fun, and the band was awesome.

Brunettes.

She was cool man. I ended up drinking til like 10 btw. We started at 9 a.m.

props jim i think you're one of the few who knows what the deal really is with all of this

Can you expand on this some more?

He turned a hand with a ton of showdown value into a bluff. Calling is profitable there vs me probably (maybe not at the time). But my line looked weak and definately not like AK. It looks like a scared QQ imo, and I am almost positive that is what Marccus put me on. So instead of calling he shoves to get me to fold QQ or AA which I have there a lot.

It was one of those "Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, I see what you did there" moments. It was just a really sick play, a play I was not capable of making at the time.

sorry wasnt meant as a brag or self-promition. I dont think I am actually going to beat 10/20 just foolishly play it when I shouldnt. I should be grinding what your grinding.

I really admire your ability to grind despite all thats going in your life.