Hello Again PG@Cers,

I won't go into a long intro as I've already done it a few times here http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/17...014-a-1407157/ , here http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/17...o-2-a-1284141/ , and here http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/17...maths-1341223/ so for cliffs I'll just say that I'm super freaking old (just turned 35), have 2 amazing kids (1.5 yr old girl and almost a boy nearly 5) and I've been playing for a living for about 10 years now. Having kids has changed my life in many more ways than I expected and it has certainly changed the way I approach playing poker for a living. At the moment I am playing 6max and HU on Bovada and Seals with clubs 400-1.5kish nl (playing for BTC on seals makes that vary) but mostly 1k nl on Bovada.

My goals for 2015 are similar to last years but with a few adjustments and hopefully less fail . Last year was actually a very good year for me but it's hard not to let the most recent results ring the loudest. The last half of the year I really slipped in completing my goals and December was the worst month I've ever had. I took the last couple weeks off in December and am ready to get back into full work mode.

Weekly goals for 2015

1. Average 900 hands per day (6300 per week or 328500 in 2015).
Last year I my goal was 800 per day (292000 for the year) and I ended up with about 250000 hands.

2. Run 3x (2+ miles) I can sub some other form of cardio exercise for 1 run per week. I was really good about this for the first half of the year but brought the average down to 70% or so towards the end.

3. 3 workouts
ATM 3 different isometric workouts that another 2p2er/personal trainer set me up with. Was about 75% for this last year

4. 3 yogas (20 minute min)
This was probably the only goal that I hit near 100% last year.

5. 1.5 hrs of study
This can be watching a vid, reviewing sessions or reading. This wasn't one of my goals from the start last year and I'd say I spent 15 min or less per week studying on average

6. Post 1 hand
I introduced this goal at some point last year and ended up posting a whopping 1 hand I think. I don't like posting hands but I know it will be good for me and have the added benefit of making the thread slightly less boring.

7. No alcohol at least 3 nights per week I made a vague rule about drinking last year and didn't stick to it at all. I end up having a couple beers or some whisky almost every night and while I don't drink excessively it's just a really bad habit for me for a number of reasons. I you craft beer and whisky but...It's expensive, unhealthy, and it makes it much less likely that Ill feel up to an evening session if I have even one drink w/ dinner. Which brings me to my next goal...

8. Work at least one night session This is essential if I want to hit my hands goal. I am otherwise just working 10ish-430pm 5 days a week and that hasn't been getting me there when I have breaks for lunch and my other work goals.

9. Post a full list of goals complete/incomplete each week
I know it's not terribly exciting but it will help me with accountability and you guys can exact revenge for the boring content by laying into me if and when I slack off.

No total profit goal this year. I told myself and wrote at the beginning of the other threads that I was just putting up loose $ goals and that the most important thing is taking care of the things I CAN control but it's hard for me to not let that $ goal get to my head. I'm moving back to my ghetto hand written calendar style for marking goals. The app thing wasn't working for me. Ill be posting weekly graphs as usual. I think that about covers it and I certainly hope so as this became much longer than I intended.

Best of luck to you all in 2015! Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand go!



* The term is used very loosely here and may or may not contain any actual adventures.

i cant believe i get to be first!!! GL man keep up the good work

subbed, gl in 2015!

In!

I forgot

10. PPA daily action plan at least 4 times per week

Thanks Guys!

Ready to start the first weeks grind early in the morning tomorrow.

In the spirit of me being a robot for needing 300 rules to organize and optimize my work year and because these guys are great...

GLGLGL!!

"This is the job that people die for... I hope you're ready for the next stage".



GL in 2015

Gl bro!

Cheers! GL to you both this year! Well, maybe go easy on the luck when I am working my nightshifts though, Irishman, but otherwise crush.
Ha, VWP! GL2U2

Week 1

Average 900 hands per day [] Thought I was well over my req's and didn't see till last night that I only was if including two sessions before officially starting.

Run 3x (2+ miles) [X] A bit rough getting back to this after a long break, especially in 10 degree f wind chill weather but got'em done. Subbed a discgolf round in for one of them as has been permitted by my gracious boss and through one of my best rounds in years.

Onion: New Study Finds Running For 20 Minutes Each Day Could Add Years Of Soreness To Life.
Confirmed.

3 workouts [X]

3 yogas [X]

1.5 hrs of study [X] Watched a couple run it once vids and read some Mental Game of Poker.

Post 1 hand [X] Will have it up later today. Since there is delay on getting HH's I'm just going to post hand from previous week each week.

No alcohol at least 3 nights per week [X] Crushed it on top of not drinking at all for first full week of year.

Work at least one night session [X]

Post a full list of goals complete/incomplete each week [X] Duh

PPA daily action plan at least 4 times per week [X]

Pretty solid week results wise. All I had to do was run 8.5k over EV . After dropping 25ish below at the end of last year I will gladly take it, though.

Girraffe



Not feeling very focused, possibly due to being up for hours into the night with a screaming toddler, so I quit morning session early and am gonna get some exercise and/or hit up a coffee shop and study a bit and try to get back to it at the end of the day so I can maximize precious nanny time. Supposed to be cold n rainy most of the week here so its gonna be fun getting in the runs...

solid week. Keep it up

Killing it so far! Look at all those checkmarks!

Lol, thanks man.
Check marks [X]

TY, Sir. Ill try. If I can just maintain this rungood I will be 440k above EV by the end of the year FTW .

What's your wife's work situation? Are you pulling in all the bacon or are you the stay at home poker dad while your wife brings in some solid as well. Not sure which would be more impressive, the latter is kind of a daydream of mine.

[converted_hand][hand_history]Poker Stars, $5/$10 No Limit Hold'em Cash, 6 Players
Poker Tools Powered By Holdem Manager - The Ultimate Poker Software Suite. View Hand #34070291

CO: $1,067 (106.7 bb)
BTN: $1,000 (100 bb)
SB: $774.38 (77.4 bb)
Hero (BB): $1,030 (103 bb)
UTG: $977.67 (97.8 bb)
MP: $1,056.70 (105.7 bb)

Preflop: Hero is BB with 8 9
2 folds, CO raises to $30, 2 folds, Hero raises to $95, CO calls $65

Flop: ($195) 9 2 J (2 players)
Hero checks, CO checks

Turn: ($195) 8 (2 players)
Hero bets $155, CO calls $155

River: ($505) K (2 players)
Hero checks, CO bets $817 and is all-in, Hero ???


For a couple of years of toddlerdom with our first kid I was much more on the stay at home poker dad (Naptime Hustla) side and she was having to work 60+hr weeks to get some very good experience in her first job out of Vet school. ATM she is working part time (2 days per week) to not miss as much of that period with our second and to spend more time with our first before he starts into Kinderdarden.

Poker is a great gig for doing the stay at home thing but it can be surprisingly tough/stressful to try to get in sessions during naptimes or after the kid is asleep and still stay on your A game. Often your sleep levels are lower, stress levels higher, and patience meter is running low and then you have to start pretty immediately into playing if you want to get some good hours in which is not what most poker players are used to.

You have kid/s already and are hoping to switch to poker from other job or...

What does your average day look like?

Meant to state that this is Bovada hand (anon) with only 50 or so hands vs villain who seems regish and hasn't made any overbets yet.

and meant to have a "?" at end there.

id fold.

Hey - that hand was me.

Son of a... NH!

Got a bit carried away with the gifs during a session! In translation:

Kids usually wake us around 7 these days which is awesome compared to previous phases. Get them dressed, fed, lunches ready for school, etc,... which is usually chaos. I drive them and get back around 930, hand off the youngest to my wife and go straight to the grind until 1230 or so. Then its some combo of run, workout, lunch. Get back to the work cave 2-230 and grind till 430. 20 min yoga. Hang out with family, eat dinner, start getting the kids ready for bed around 730 or so and do that for the next 2 hrs . Have a couple drinks hanging out with the wife and crash around 11. Rinse and repeat for the 5 weekdays.

Nice thread man gonna keep an eye on this 1 I just started a ft job gonna grind when possible and I have kids as well so kinda nice seeing this stuff. Gl on your grind this year (I'm also a Us grinder)

Apparently, I would too but I think it is pretty bad. I'm near the top of my range here so if I am folding my 2p here then I am basically folding 100% of the time I check this river and Farmslicer is printing money off of my weak tight ass.

At first I thought bet looks very FOS and why would villain be taking this line with any very strong hand. Sets are either betting flop or raising turn unless he on the rare occasion gets here w/ KK after just flatting my 3b but knowing that the Kings are locked up and my line looks so weak would size much smaller. Same logic for KJ. QsT and an oddly played flopped nut flush are the only value hands that make sense to me. Then I froze up trying and failing to find enough hands that call my turn bet and want to turn their hand into an over bet river bluff. But again if I am folding this hand he should be turning all hands into bluff . The canidates that weren't popping out to me at the time that now make sense though are 7s7x, As8, As9, AsT, AT w/out spade (Hand he did actually have ), AsQ, maybe even turning TT into bluff.

Hard to know when you are playing against an agro/good enough opponent on Bovada with the anon tables. I think I've too often been defaulting into thinking that my opponents there are not terribly strong and that's never a good assumption to start out with (whether it's true or not). You'll play much better if you assume villain is good until you observe otherwise and adjust accordingly.

Thanks, man. Were you playing poker full time before getting the ft(fulltime?) job? Best of luck to you as well!

I think some of my range is correct here. The As8/9/T hands most would fold pre (or 4bet) or bet the flop. Can't really have sets, but hands like KJ, 88, QT, flopped flushes make sense. As for hands that would turn into bluff - T8/T9 suited, maybe TT, AxQs, AT not many really. The thing that might flip it to a call is whether you think i'm jamming worse for thin value like KQ, KT on the river or checking those back.

Anyways, gl this year man. I'll be in your boat relatively shortly with kid(s) and playing poker so def will be following.

Yeah, I meant to say the same about the A8/9 hands and they are even less likely since I'm blocking. Forgot about 8Ts and 9Ts, which only have a few combos (8c9c, 8sTs, 9dTd and 9cTc) since I block, good candidates for river bluff.

I think most villains are only occasionally checking back flopped nut flush and perhaps sometimes QTs and KTs but would still bet those most of the time and very rarely/never checking back any lower flushes.

Maybe on non anon tables one might have to construct a shoving range where they are including value shove (1.6x pot) hands like KQ/KT but seems psychotic to me here, no? See no point in just making a standard 2/3 pot type bet here with those? Maybe just me being small minded. I really don't know. Overbets still break this dinosaur's brain.

Another question is whether or not I should check this river. Part of the value and my reason for checking was to pick up bluffs from pair and straight/flush draw type hands and probably pick up some value bets from KQ/T which makes it seem pretty terrible to then fold but again overbet broke my brain.


Thanks for the gl, hand, and input! But, with kid(s) (twins implied?) on the way soon GL2U! May your soon to be sleep deprived, testosterone reduced, cortisol increased brain only show signs of compromise when we are sharing a table. You are in for a hell of a ride.