the longest part is pt4 going through the tournament summary files, it takes the most time of the import. it's since the pt4 was released and they didn't do anything about it yet, seems like u have to wait through even it sucks so hard

very nice post! also interested to hear about that

year to date

took 3rd in a euro site mtt today to save my day. really embarrassed/ashamed of my attitude and behavior today (not related to my play at all). guess i need this upcoming break a lot more than i thought i did.

will answer questions when i get a chance, but literally feeling like the biggest idiot in the world tonight.

poker is hard enough without going and turning yourself and into the enemy, and today i failed

cliffs/chatlog

good questions

1. i've watched very few tournament videos, and i have to say all but a few of them were a giant waste of time. that's not to say i haven't logged long hours of watching video, i just don't think it's very effective/the material out there is very good. i also dont think there are many coaches who do their job how they should and hold a lot back, (just more upselling to get you to purchase their private coaching), so the value is even further diminished. also the time is better spent studying in another way. i feel watching tournament videos is a pretty archaic way of trying to improve. if you're going to watch videos, i think i learned a lot more about tournament strategy in non-tournament videos. there's some decent cap strategy out there, as well as a lot of stuff in HU sngs that translates very well to MTTs, then a lot of good deepstacked cash material as well. i've watched 0 hours of MTT videos so far in 2013, and would rather spend every hour reviewing my own play, as well as the play of my peers and talking about it. i think the learning process talking about hands is a lot better so long as you can approach your own play with an objective mind, and you have people willing to discuss strategy with you that play differently and/or better than you. i've exposed myself and my game to hundreds of people in the last year (literally), and i think there are little things that i've picked up and added to my game from all over that have made me a much stronger all-around player. you also pick up on and plug leaks that would not have been visible in a video. one more thing worth repeating, reviewing a tournament HH (even one where you win) can be very humbling, and i think that perspective is just what we need sometimes.


2. with the start times in mexico, i try to wake up and get some kind of exercise. i'll grind all day more or less until i'm ready for bed. i dont have a very set regiment for when i study, but i'd say 80% of the time it happens at night. i mark hands for review in pt4 under different categories. i have my tricky PF MTT spots, tricky post flop MTT spots, and then all of my push/fold spots from hypers. i review MTT spots throughout the day/as the week goes on. it's easy to copy the hand from today's hands and upload it into a converter like weaktight.com and send it to people on my skype list. i have 2-3 main people i send hands to, but when i need more advice i'll send it to more people. i review full tournament HHs every few weeks or so, i get the tournament ID #s from sharkscope, find them on my computer and upload into a converter. i try to do this at night as i'm 1-6 tabling, or right when i'm starting up in the morning. as far as push/fold hands, each week (or 2x a week), I have been creating a report of all my marked hands in pt4 and running them all in an ICM program. I usually run between 100-200 hands at a time which takes some time, and i cant do it while playing. but it's ideally boring enough to sit on a laptop and do in bed until i fall asleep. i dont have a tv in my house. i'm not watching any shows or movies or torrents. i dont play any other video games.

as i'm traveling a lot this month, i've saved a bulk of my review for my time on the road. i have over 430 marked ICM hands, as well as 5 full MTT HHs to look over while i'm in Colorado. i'm also looking for other ways to find/review hands by looking at SNGs where I finished on the bubble.

3. the hours are great here. if i want to reg from 109r to 109r, i'm literally "working" a 9-5. the latest i play until is the hot109 (11.30pm). i really wish i could get in the 265ko everyday, but other than that, i'm really enjoying waking up at a normal time, getting my day right, and falling asleep at a normal hour. the euro morning games are good on stars, but i don't mind playing offpeak, and never missing the nightlies. there's so many good tournaments to play now, i dont sweat this tradeoff as much as i used to. i've found a pretty good life/schedule balance where i'm at and it definitely took a while. i used to feel bad for missing certain tournaments, but i've had to realize you just can't play them all. me and renrad have talked about how awesome it would be to hypothetically play poker on a firefighter's schedule (assuming mental fatigue, game falling off, recovery time didnt become a factor), that is playing for 36 hours straight, and taking 48 hours off. there are just so many good games in a 24 hour block, and i think a leak i used to have was trying to fit them all.


4. proximity to good delivery. seriously. cooking? aint nobody got time for that. i have a great relationship with all of the delivery spots around here. might sound unhealthy to eat delivery every day, but kind of just get into the habit of eating the same things, and it's nice to have them prepared and delivered for me at a set time. also when you order enough/tip well, the restaurants around here will make you whatever you want, so i've had a lot of choice/say in what i'm eating each day. the mess is also pretty minimal as i can just throw the box away after. there's so many people in and around our house the amount of stuff we throw away is getting pretty crazy though. i'm far from an environmentalist, but my carbon footprint actually does scare me, and i'll be taking some small steps moving forward to reduce mine. not sure if i'll be reducing the amount of delivery though, it's just too cheap/good/convenient.



5. of course i feel burn out. over the course of the last few years, i've taken close to an entire month off at a time each year, as well as several days mixed throughout the year. i need to get out. i need to travel. i need to get away from poker. i need to reset my mind. some people like to take a few days a week off, i prefer to take my time all at once. that's just how i operate, and to each their own.

i dont do adderall (and rarely drink caffeine now). i took 3-4 adderall in 2012 and each time the comedown was worse and worse, last time being during FTOPS just after turning 24 (i'm too old for this **** now). i also felt like i played great for about 6 hours, but my game dropped off significantly after that. i think i can play longer hours and much better without adderall even though it might help in the short term. i never did much adderall or was a fan of it though. not the upper kind of guy

i'm blazing a lot less than i ever have before. i'm down to under 1g/day smoking for a period over 3 months now.

6. when it comes to saving money and financial advice in general, i'm a pretty bad person to ask. in a situation where the horse is in makeup for a while, him and the backer should be pretty open about finances and try to have a good idea where each other is at. maybe giving the horse some way to make money off the stake, or open up some kind of other income stream. basically he needs to be in a position where he can focus on his game and improving without falling behind in finances. try to prevent complete disaster before it happens, dont let yourself get close to busto, dont start a cycle of borrowing, hold off on big purchases, and hold back a safety net just in case. dont go and create debt just because you're in makeup. if its ever looking too bad, he can always move to a place with a low cost of living (like Mexico )

GL Lipo. You were one of the first poster I recognized and like reading when starting out on 2+2. Play well - run well - rub $$$ on titties

getting a very late start today. woke up and had a lot of stuff to deal with that i've been putting off as far as finalizing plans go. then had to do my monthly laundry duty, get some moolah from my bank, ham+chipotle bagels for the team. did some reading and finally booked all of my flights for the month.

colorado wedsneday morning until next tuesday. the plan is to grind tonight, and all day tomorrow (tuesday), before heading to the border at 1am as to avoid any kind of wait. going to cab it over to the SD airport from the border, and head to my favorite starbucks in the southwest terminal. i have a particular booth i like to sleep in, hoping no one is in MY spot. catching my flight first thing wednesday morning and am looking forward to 6 full days with ZERO online poker. flying back to San Deigo on tuesday morning and meeting my roommate and good friend rat sauce 89 at the airport and planning to be back in rosarito in time to win the super tuesday (assuming i dont ship it tomorrow night )

then headed to a wedding for a friend of mine the last weekend of the month. it's a friday and saturday night thing. i've booked the earliest flight back possible from rural, GA that sunday morning. i'll be leaving at 5.55am EST, and arriving in SD just after 10am PST. That leaves a 1 hour window to get across the border and registered into the sunday warmup. under optimal conditions it's about 45minutes from the airport to my door, but leaves way too much at chance. will probably just have someone pick me up with my laptop+mexican aircard in the car, and switch over when we're outside of Tijuana. either way i should be making it back for the sunday million on time. a friend of mine has offered to crossbook me 1% of myself in the sunday million that day march 31st (uncapped), if i pay upfront. will send my 2.15 and consider it booked. will be great to get back and win more than 1st .

plan to do most of my studying on those 2 trips this month (missing 9 out of the next 20 playing days), but will try to get in what volume i can while i'm in mexico

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyVq--qZVEI

Really good house/deep house plus if you dont like the music the girl in the white top should keep you entertained!

Gl on the grind sir

Jealous that you're getting a break right now b/c hopefully for you this annoying pop-up thing will be solved by the time you get back! Enjoy the time away, we should meet up for dinner sometime when you get back in town.

lucky tunes

managed to sneak into 2nd in an 82 hyper to freeroll my buyins today and guarantee a profit on the short session

congrats dude. hate seeing u on the same table

fantastic, excited to follow this. you're on my "rail list" since years and I really like how you approach life/poker.

glgl

had an awesome trip in colorado. very little poker. bricked 2 365 wsopc events and wish i would not have bothered with live poker at all this trip, because there was so much else to do.

i will say that i was impressed with how well the tournament was run at blackhawk, and especially impressed by how well players were treated. management was awesome, friendly, informative, and generous. i see a bright future for colorado poker if/when the capped bet laws change in cash games and bigger buyins are ran.

i lost an adapter piece to my laptop charger the 3rd day into the trip and didn't get as many HH reviews done as i would have liked, but will just have to make up for it this week while i'm back in mexico.

short day today with terrible results, but looking forward to a good night's sleep and getting back into full-swing tomorrow

random colorado photo from a day of hiking:



thanks for the kind words everyone. glgl

You know you drank at least $365 dollars worth of Blue Moon, so the Circuit BINs weren't a complete bust. #VALUE

Glad you made the journey home in one piece! Cheers.

I wanna grow up and be just like you...thankfully you did not lose your balance...

Best of luck!

Can you have this mentality with online poker?

Every time i shot take at a higher buy in session, you're there every time at my table/s. It's not fair.

Oh snap how did i miss this thread nvm now im in gl mang!

hey lipo gl at tables im in tj mabey see yah around

interesting first few days back. down a few thousand but feel pretty good about my play (have also had a few big FTs that didnt go well, 2 5ths in 109rs). every time i take a short break and come back, i always feel more focused. i wish i could maintain this kind of mindset all the time. not missing many spots, and questioning everything i do, and being able to think it through. definitely finding some interesting spots to bluff, and having some fun battles

about to head to bed. my good friend floes is flying in late tonight for the weekend grind, so want to be good and rested for the early start tomorrow. dont think ive ever had a bad weekend with floes around, and i dont expect this to be any kind of exception.

slow but fun weekend. no scores at all, so just going to continue grinding it out until friday when i fly out of town for 2 days. i'll get somne updated graphs in here later tonight. no real change though. maybe down 10-15k since being back from Colorado

in on first page, just about

get it done son

Nice thread!!!GL!

sorry, been a quiet end of the month. had my CO trip, and then a wedding this past weekend. month of march is over, so it's time to review my goals

-play at LEAST 1000 MTTs
-review at least 15 MTT HHs of my own
-review/exchange at least 5 MTT HHs with other regs
-1000+ ICM/PSM Calcs
-at LEAST 2 database studies with notes
-maintain winning red line in hypers (HU and/or 6max)
-new friends, new ideas


-i played >1000 MTTs
-i reviewed 12 full HHs of my own on a replayer and made notes. also talked over 3 reviews with others
-i didnt review HHs of others this month, but will get some to do this month
-didnt do 1000 ICM/PSM calcs. definitely did over 500
-did a DB study on MTT regs. interesting stuff. i'll do one on some SNG regs to start this month
-well it's an orange line on pt4, but it was positive for the month.
-lots of friends and ideas. had some of the better strategy discussions i've ever had this month

i think i'll be playing more or less a full month this month. there's a chance i'll be heading to weekend2 of coachella, but not sure. going to come up with some april goals and put up a march graph.

how did you end up playing the games that you do now? do you think you are maximising hourly or longevity/enjoyment of your grind? or playing what will be best for the future etc?

what breakdown of game types/stakes do you foresee giving you what %age of VPPs and same for profit.