Made 3 bets for total of my 4k, will receive about 15k if I win. I could have gotten way better odds if I wanted to but it wasn’t really about that for me.

90% of the games in graph are accessible
To anyone with google.

I decided to do the challenge because I felt like I hit a speed bump in life where my work ethic was suffering alongside with nothing living healthy. This is a kickstart for myself to take the grind seriously again and ease my way back into lifting seriously/ dieting.

Woop! There it is! First +-3k day. You know it's a good day when you are even up on bros lol.

+4989 after day 6. My initial goal was to make 1k/day and be done after 20 days, so looking a little better again. Funny note, I am actually running pretty poorly since start of challenge. I'm sure some people will comment that that's impossible after being up 15buyins/day, but whatever. Could have been up 40+ easily by now.

Only graph I have is from Ignition so far. Honestly at this point if games stay as they are and I only play 4 tables, I am somewhat convinced my WR can be north of 10bb easily. I'm down roughly $800 for tables 7players and higher, so obviously gotta stick with what I do best /6m.



My delicious meal from today :



And I will leave you all with these two amazing bodybuilding/rap videos from the legend Kali Muscle. Met him IRL once. By amazing I mean they are one of the biggest pieces of ***** I've ever seen, but it somehow still gets me motivated haha.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jjXMksGACc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=485XLD7oPm0&t=144s


GET BIG!REPS!

Side note I doubt that most lifters do high reps as their standard.

Very interesting challenge. You say you felt your work ethic was suffering but also you can't remember the last time you played fewer than 150 hours in a month. What would you consider a standard hard working number of hours in a month and how do you typically structure your day/grind schedule? Best of luck!

I had gotten in the habit of (while still logging plenty of hours) playing suboptimal in different ways. Some examples would be having skype/tg/etc open while playing to deal with some agenting stuff, or to just catch up with friends. Also I would regularly drink a glass or 2 of wine with dinner and then play afterwards, never a good idea.

While the amount of hours played monthly were still higher than 90% of other pro's, the efficiency left much to be desired. So it's that part that I'm fixing.

I do not have a fixed daily schedule, as one of the benefits I enjoy from being my own boss is that if my wife gets off of work unexpectedly or wants to chill in our pool/go to lunch, that I am able to do so. Having said that my daily schedule (during this challenge) consists of waking up around 9-10AM, eating something, grinding for about 2-3 hours and hitting the gym. Get home, post workout meal, grind 4 hours,break again to spend 1/2 hours with family and eat again, do another 3-4hr grind.

Once the challenge is over, my intended schedule will be to wake up around 6-7AM, go to gym, get home and do school stuff for 1/2 hours daily (or do it before going to gym, probably better).Be done with school and gym by +-11AM,, have 12-10PM be my grind hours of about 7-9 hours of playing depending on family schedule etc.

I take one day off a week entirely for family, and spend about 2/3 hours with them daily. Other than that, it's (going to be) grind, gym,diet.

Still deciding on whether I'm going to WSOP this year. My actual passion and specialty is live mtt's ( have over 1MLN in cashes, biggest being about 250k), and my edge in those fields is...decent. If the challenge ends successful I'll probably go for 2/3weeks.

Nice comeback! 4989/200/6=15?? I'm confused.

What did you do with those asparagus? They look soggy and dirty lol.

I don’t know what that math is you did there or what your point is of it.

Asparagus are loaded with Parmesan and placed in oven( my wife and son like it that way).

You're up 4989 and buying in for $200 and you've been playing for six days. I don't see how that is ~15 buy-ins per day. What am I missing?

Ah, no crunch due to being steamed a bit too long in the oven for my taste I guess. Parmesan loaded asparagus is obviously the nuts though. Worth having to hold your nose when you take a piss the next day

Any chance we get any fun hand histories going forward?

I wrote 15 buyins/day as in I made 15 buyins in ONE DAY yesterday despite not running all that great, but that people would obviously have a hard time believing that.

Per your request I'll start regularly doing a HH series called 'The good, the bad and the ugly' featuring a hand I thought I played well, one that I got owned/butchered, and one bad beat for the whinezz.

Ah, got it.

Cool idea! Looking forward to it.

First week/7 days is done. Time for some stats!

Time played: roughly 75 hours.
Amount won/lost: +7323
Hourly rate: $97.64 (not counting any RB)

Breakdown per site:

ACR +229 (quit playing, no meaningful sample)
BOL: -465 (quit playing, no meaningful sample)

BROS: +379 over 23 hours (ship it!).
IGNITION: +2786 over 40 hours.
GLOBAL: +4464 over 40 hours (As there are no HUDS allowed here, this is an approximate which I try to keep track of but it's kind of hard to do.)

One K a day keeps the doctor away! I had mentally told myself before starting that my goal was to make 1k/day and be done after 20 days. Obviously this is very optimistic, but so far so good. I basically was playing breakeven/slightly up for the first 5 days or the week, and I managed to win about 30 buyins in the last 36hours or so. I'll take it. Considered posting pokerbros graph, but there are pretty big differences between my actual winnings and what my HUD is reporting due to anonymous tables not being tracked.

Ignition graph:



For my 'the good, the bad and the ugly' series I present to you:

The good:

https://play.globalpoker.com/hand/61...b77c00019f6c04

Nothing special there but I do like the way I played the hand although it's a bit unconventional

The bad:

https://upswingpoker.com/hand/?pokeit=5e5n6ANO

Regardless of vilain being a fish, you're just always gonna be beat there.

The ugly
(This one will stick with me for a long time.Credit goes out to the legend rytoast,who of course being the scumbag that he is timebanked until the very last second to call):

https://play.globalpoker.com/hand/61...b77c00019f6efe


In non-poker related news, here's 2 pics of my pre and post-workout supplements.

are there no HUDs available on global or is it just not allowed? playing without them having that crutch available is the dream! back to basics, not a competition in analysing statistics in real time.

also, when you post global HHs, please provide them in a text or screenshot format because this is the message i get when visiting the links:
gg!

Another nice day/good start of week 2. Up +9016 after 8 days. Don't want to jinx it but would be pretty epic if I can make it half way through my challenge after 9 days.

Too tired to post anything additionally tonight. Maybe tomorrow.

Old school I like it

+11257 after day 9... Wow wow wow. Did not only already complete 50%, but went over it by quite some margin. AHEAD of schedule for my '1k a day keeps the doctor away' philosophy

Played (way) less today than other days and only logged about 8hours. Not really a big deal, my daily schedule was just kind of all over the place, and my wife wanted to watch a 2hr 'Masterchef' special. The things we do for love...

Gym is going well, have been going almost daily. Have yet to do legs though. Something always seems to come up. I go paddle boarding on Saturday morning 6AM so definitely don't want to do them tomorrow. This weekend I rammed my knee into a table at like 5MPH so my leg was messed up for days.

Been loading/taking the supplements as intended.
Diet has been pretty loose, but that's acceptable at this stage. My 4 month plan is basically:

Lift very heavy and go high in calories until ~ the end of September. No cardio, no abs, just focus on strength and getting my body to work optimally. I have developed some pretty bad habits over the year, and I know that it's been a very long time since my body has functioned 100% as intended. Don't start cutting before you get to a point where you feel everything is in order (healthy appetite regularly, lifting without injuries,...)

In October I will start adding very light/moderate cardio regularly and some abs stuff 2x/week or so. I will still lift pretty heavy, but I will watch my caloric intake a lot more and focus on eating lean and close to my maintenance level/ slight deficit.

November and December will be gradually adding more cardio/abs and cutting calories/carbs as time passes.

So in a nutshell, eating a caloric surplus until September is done, and then 3 months of a caloric deficit+ cardio. This should probably (if performed correctly) get me to lose about 20-30lbs

I have been thinking about how I can give back a little with this challenge, and I'm playing with the idea of:

1. Doing a live grind on Ignition I guess this is kind of live twitch? Does anyone know if you can legally stream Ignition with stats displayed? I also would just want my screen with no audio(no interest in showing my face).

2. Contacting Global/other places to organize a $500 freeroll tourney for anyone IF I successfully complete the challenge. I think I could maybe talk to them and see if they would want to match whatever I'm willing to give, creating a $1000 freeroll or so.

Something to think about...

See ya!

+12449 after day 10... All is good in the land of poker. Have to get up at 4AM to get ready for a 12 mile river paddle(not that far), so won't be back to playing until ~Saturday 3-5PM.

Posting in epic bread to follow along.

GL OP! If I may ask, What do you think of the typical 1/2 NL Reg on Global as compared to the other sites and Bros?

Thanks!

I think the typical 1/2 reg on global seems better than on ignition and bro’s, but bro’s just feels like playing an army of either nit regs or rta regs.

There are a few really solid regs on global 1/2, but most are just your standard ABC 1/2 regs or what you would expect of that in modern games (no creativity, just well memorized ranges and whatnot). I think that might be part of the reason why I often get action in hands, I do quite a few unconventional things (such as open limping a wide range of my button). People rarely respond appropriately to it, and I probably get a few tags labeling me as ‘reg fish’ or something like that.

I've been reading blogs/NVG/PGC on 2p2 for years. This is only my 2nd post and this blog is more than deserving of it, although I don't see anyone giving a s**t about what I have to say. Outstanding performance serious KUDOS, so much for poker is dead. Keep it up brother.

I don't know the legality around twitch streaming on various platforms but a live stream would be epic, it would be best to do it in the next 4-5 days as its looking like this challenge won't last too much longer!!!!!

Keep crushing

+11466/day 11

How many hands you getting in/day op? (Also how many calories? Lol)

Varies wildly since I'm been 4tbaling-9tabling at times. I get in about 8-12 hours daily. So far I got in about 50k hands if I had to guess everything included rough estimate)

Calories vary wildly as well as I'm not controlling diet yet. Just making sure I get 2x50gram protein in in shakes daily, and 1 protein high meal (lean chicken with rice or somethin) so probably averaging about 180 gram protein/day. Calories hard to say given that some days or just 'junk' food days (loaded bagel with turkey breast and swiss cheese for roughly 500cal each) and I am not really counting them. I'd say im eating at about maintenance weight.

This is a pretty good guide to calculate macros if anyone is interested. Obviously it's just a guideline, so be honest with yourself and make adjustments if needed:

https://rippedbody.com/how-to-calcul...ngains-macros/

For anyone interested in intermittent fasting: Martin Berkhan is the GOAT.

+10747 after day 12. Running really poorly last 2 days. Getting owned by regs,recs,variance,....

Stream on twitch....

I've seen some of your posts in other threads. Please stay out of mine. You are either delusional or a troll.

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