Subbed..hope you running good bud..gl gl

Cant have bs here. This forum is for mathnerds only, mind u. We cant have laughter and ****. ITS SERIOUS MAN, CMON! The hell u thinkin.

Shame if there are to be no updates here any more, I enjoyed following this thread from time to time.

FWIW I am not certain but I doubt there is a problem with you continuing to post here on your new account. There's a difference between having a previously banned account and an "IP ban / ban on sight" person, and I shouldn't think you've pissed people off enough to fall in to the latter category quite yet. But maybe, idk what you did to get banned in the first place GL in the future regardless.

what happened btw

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Cheers Dave, will happily continue to update in this topic, will also update the new blog a couple times each month for the non 2+2'ers.

@uhrenknecht, there really wasn't an interesting story behind it. I said something about the chinese running our governments, which set some people off.

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As my best month ever is over, it's time for me to set up some goals for the future.

I've really gotten into a good rythm as I posted last week, and I'm looking to continue that way.

Goals for September

- Stick to my grinding schedule (roughly 50-60 games per day, 21abi)
- Play the schedule 4 times per week
- Review DB every week to monitor progression
- Go to the gym/swim before every session
- Attend thai school 2x/week
- read at least 1 book per week (Didn't manage 2 books because of a lack of time)

Week schedule:

Monday - Day off + Thai school
Tuesday - Grind
Wednesday - Day off, Reviewing + thai school
Thursday - Grind
Friday - Grind
Saturday - Day off, no poker.
Sunday - Grind


Europe

So I'm pretty sure that I'll be spending november & december in Europe (taking my gf as well if she gets her visa), seeing family/friends and playing some live tournaments.
Not sure yet which series I'll play exactly but pretty excited to get to play some live poker again.

New update

https://mistermj.me/

More Poker Equals More Days Off


In my last update on the 2+2 forums I showed my schedule that I’m planning to stick to for the upcoming months:

Monday – Day off + Thai school
Tuesday – Grind
Wednesday – Day off, Reviewing + thai school
Thursday – Grind
Friday – Grind
Saturday – Day off, no poker.
Sunday – Grind

As you can see it means that I’m only playing 4 days per week (As opposed to the previous 5/6 days) and I’m taking 3 days off.

There was of course the possibility that I’d end up playing significantly less due to playing fewer sessions, but the opposite is true.

Volume

So far this month I’ve played 5 sessions, over the course of which I’ve played nearly 300 games. To put this in perspective, previously I’d average less than 700 games per month despite often playing well over 20 days.
Cutting the amount of days that I play has given me the option to grind longer sessions as I don’t have to worry about having to get up in time to grind the next day, and besides that I now have significantly more free time to enjoy other things in life.

Results

Since my 12.000$ score I’ve been on a bit of a down swing, but it’s barely been 3 weeks so it’s pretty standard. I have however decided to quit playing the top of my buy-in range (55$ games) earlier this week until I get back some momentum.



On the bright side, my chipEV has increased significantly. Last month my chipEV was at a disappointing 3, but so far this month I’m sitting on 11. Definitely feel like I’ve been playing a lot better recently so I hope I can keep this up.



Pictures

The main request I always get is to post more pictures of life here, but unfortunately I’m a massive slacker when it comes to that stuff. I’ve been taking it pretty easy lately so I don’t have that much to share, however here’s some pics from my recent trip to Malaysia.

The Hotel:


So our hotel had a Shopping centre underneath it, which contained a theme park which was pretty cool. Unfortunately the quality of my pictures sucked so I took some from the internet.



Lastly, I was asked several times what books I’ve been reading lately, so here’s some of the books that I’ve read/am reading over the last couple of months.
books



Spending

Another question that I get a lot is ‘how much does it cost to live in Thailand?’, For months I’ve been giving estimates but I got curious myself so this month I’m keeping track of everything that I pay for with cash. The currency in the spreadsheet is in Thai Baht, the conversions are roughly:

$ = ÷35
€ = ÷40
£ = ÷45

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets...czo/edit#gid=0[/QUOTE]

Had my worst sunday of the year yesterday.

Started out pretty well, got 2 fts that I wasnt able to close (7th & 9th), during this time my stomach already seemed upset but I got a bunch of thai meds and figured Id get through the night. Around 1am it got really bad however, so had to play the last 4 hours feeling absolutely sh*t and trying to stay awake.

In hindsight I definitely regret not just quitting early on when I started to feel sick, but I guess I learned my lesson.
Obv had a horrible night and still feeling bad so skipping thai Class today, meaning I'm now 1/3 for attendance, that sounds familiar

Got in nearly 60 games which is pretty decent, down about 600$ thanks to the ft's that saved me.

Hey all, just finished a 13 hour session, came in 2nd in the big 33 for ~1.3k, bricked most other games. Played 2 sessions this week, about 120 games total and 1.2kish up so that's pretty sweet.

However ever since sunday I've been having constant stomach aches and nausea so I'm heading to the hospital for a checkup tomorrow. Not sure if/how much I'll grind over the weekend, it'll depend on how I feel. At least I'm already near 500 games for the month so I don't have to worry about falling short on volume.

Early sunday today. Started grinding early in the morning as I'm still sick and I want to avoid getting tired when grinding at night. Managed to get in 65 games just playing during the day which is pretty great, had a lot of deep runs but besides a ship in the 12$ catfish for 500$ I didn't get any scores, up around 100$ for the day.

Went to see the doctor last friday, probably salmonella so I got meds for 5 days, pain should be gone sometime next week.

Gl today

Thanks

So I still haven't fully recovered, but I'm off my meds and started working out again. Ever since I got sick I've started my grinds a lot earlier to avoid a bad rythm, and that's been going pretty well for me. Will probably continue starting around this time (8am-ish), until I feel more like starting a bit later in the day. In the end it doesn't really matter what times i grind as long as I play 50+ games, 4 days a week off-peak.

So Yesterday I started my sunday grind at around 9am and had a pretty good day, as I started off with some nice runs:

2nd 22$ MegaStack Turbo ACR - 700$
2nd 22$ MegaStack Hyper ACR - 750$
5th B16.50$ - 410$
7th BB44 - 500$



One of the advantages of playing early is that I get to add some games on ACR, definitely liking that site



My evBB is going pretty well this month, last month I was at 3 and this month I'm sitting around 8, definitely feeling confident about my game, there's still definitely room for improving my focus tho.



Tonight I'm going to Thai school again, quite enjoying myself there actually. It's also just nice to get out of the house more often.

Tomorrow morning I might skip on the grind as I'll be getting up early to watch the first debate, I'll see how I feel.

New Blog Update https://mistermj.me/

Hey guys,

Halfway through the month I figured I'd write a little update. Been a really good month this way game/volume-wise. I've already played 560 games this month, while having played 9 sessions. Really happy that I'm able to get so much volume in, since It's a massive improvement from where I was a couple of months ago:

May: 653 games
June: 588 games
July: 662 games
August: 853 games
September: 931 games

Pretty confident that I can get in 1k+ games at this point.
As for my winrate, it's been hovering between 8-10 evbb/100.

This months results



Also, did I mention that I love ACR?



On a different note, flying to europe on november 1st (until mid-jan) so pretty excited about that. Not sure how much volume I'll be able to get in while there since my gf is coming along and I'll be doing some trips/playing live as well, but I'll probably aim to still get 750ish games in per month.

Hey guys,

Woke up a couple of hours ago after an 18hr sunday session, feels good to be playing longer session. Been a pretty good recent couple of weeks, my volume goal was to get 1k games this month and I'm currently over 900, which means I'll smash my volume goal.

Also been analysing my results per site a bit more, seems like I'm doing much worse on 888 than any other site (both in evbb and results). It could partially be due to a lack of focus, but I've noticed that many players on my stakes (11$-55$) have much lower roi's on 888 than on other sites. I've already been cutting out the higher end of my bi's and some deep-stacks there due to the ****ty hourly, and I'll try to continue move away from 888 as much as possible.

As for my results, nothing special this month. Didn't manage to bink any nice scores but had a bunch of smaller ft's where I cashed 500-1.5k, so still hanging around breakeven.



My winrate is still on a steady 9 after 75k games, feels good to see it steadily improving.

Hey all,

Been a month since my last update as I really haven't come around to updating since I got to Europe. Been busy seeing friends/family, playing sports, playing some live poker, and squeezing in an MTT session whenever I got the time.
Results-wise this last week has been pretty good to me as I've shipped the 50e Primetime on winamax for €2.6k and last night I came in second in the 44$ Bounty Builder for $6.1k
Below are my overall results for the month:



Got in about 520 MTT's this month, with 2-3 sessions to go I'll get over 600 total which is on par with my expectations.

My end of the year update, rest of the pictures are on the blog - http://mistermj.me

My 2016

Hey guys,

Haven’t been updating at all lately, but I figured I’d close off the year with a final big post that summarises the my journey in 2016.
January – Moving to Thailand.

The first month was an exciting one right away. Late in 2015 I decided that I’d give Thailand a try after having lived on Malta for 3 months. Around the same time I quit Spins and decided to jump into mtt’s after having binked 2 live hyper Mtt’s. So I packed my bags & moved into a hotel in the outskirts of Bangkok, starting my grind with a 4000$ roll for poker. I then set the following goals for the year:

[ ] Win $100k
[ ] Prove to be a winning player at stakes up to 215$

The first month of grinding went very well, I played up to 22$ and sometimes 33$ games, selling action in order to play higher games on a daily basis. Since I woke up early (before 5am) because of my jet lag every morning, I stuck with grinding early mornings for the first month. Almost everyday I got up, got breakfast at 7/11 & then grinded from my bed until sometime in the afternoon.



All with all it was a strange first month, in which I made about 4000$. My lifestyle however was horrendous in hindsight (Little entertainment, horrible sleep-rythm and poor setup), but I enjoyed it at the time.

Just an example from a previous post of mine of how terrible my mindset was:

Last night I had <4h of sleep, got up to grind at 2am and the session went damn awful.
I always have trouble letting poker go after it went really sh*t, and today was an extreme example of that. Basically planned on sleeping all afternoon to catch up for the last night, but when I finally got to close my eyes I woke up to my phones alarm 20 minutes later which was on for whatever reason.
After that I couldn’t go back to sleep anymore so at a quarter past 6pm I decided to make a little schedule to sell % for and started playing at 7pm.

Febuary – May, Joining Apex Staking

Halfway through February I was doing pretty well, but I had started the year with quite a small bankroll, both for poker and my life. After having a bad experience with my previous stable I was very hesitant of joining another one, but after several conversations with my current coach I decided to join Apex Staking. The deal at the time included all Mtt’s up to 33$ and regular Group + 1 on 1 coaching sessions.
As it turned out the timing was great, since right after I joined I went into a nearly 10k$ downswing. For 3 and a half months I grinded inside the studio apartment I rented without any results. It was quite frustrating to see the red numbers increase week by week, especially because I had so little previous experience with mtt’s. In the end it seems to have been a great to join the stable, since it left me no other option than to improve my game and grind it out.




June – A New Apartment and a New Beginning
While being nearly 10k$ in make-up, I had just started adding 44$ games to my schedule. It seemed to pay off quite fast since I won a 44$ Bounty Builder early in June which allowed me to pay off all my Make Up. Right after the bink I went to visit my family back in The Netherlands for 2 weeks, while I was there I got another decent score in a 44$ tournament, followed by another one when I got back to Thailand.
It was at this time as well that I started looking for a new apartment since the previous one was very cheap (125$/month), but also very small and inconvenient. First I considered moving to Koh Samui, a Thai Island, but after visiting it I didn’t feel like I wanted to live there, it was still a nice trip tho.





So when my gf and I got back from Samui I went to visit some apartments, both in the outskirts and nearer to the centre of Bangkok. I ended up going with one in the outskirts since I didn’t want to live in a touristy area, to this date I’m still very happy with the decision. The apartment has a Tesco and a big shopping centre right next to it and is roughly 20 minutes from the City Center.





July-August – Time for an upswing

Having just moved to a new apartment and being free of make up for the first time since February it really felt like a fresh start. I had spent a lot of time studying in the previous months so now it was time to get my grind on and turn those hours into money. Even tho I had a rough start, near the end of July the best month of my short career commenced. From July 24th – August 24th I won $19,647, when I add up the little bit of RB that I get as an MTT player it made for a 20k$ month. Since I had virtually no cashouts since I moved to Thailand this gave me a huge bankroll boost and a much better perspective of the future.

September-October

This was by far the best period for me in terms of volume and life balance. I played over 2000 games in the 2 months, of which 1200 just in the month of October. Besides the volume I managed to stick to the same schedule for the whole period, and since I didn’t go on any trips in the period it was just a solid 2 months of making volume and balancing life.
Unfortunately this didn’t lead to any results however, since I ended up making just a little over 300$ in the 2 months.

November-December

As I wanted to do some travelling with my gf in Europe and didn’t feel like waiting until summer, I figured I’d spend the last 2 months of the year In Europe. It’s been a busy 2 months with little poker (1300 games total), but I had a great time so it was worth playing a bit less poker for a while.





In the meantime I also ran pretty good in the few games that I played, everything combined I managed to make a little over 10k$ in my time in Europe.
Summary of 2016

All with all it was a pretty amazing year for me. Poker-wise it’s been a huge step up, both in understanding of the game and in results, and my life has also dramatically improved. I feel much happier and have a much clearer view of where and who I want to be in life. I’ve learned a lot and met a lot of great people, definitely feel blessed to have had so many great times and experiences.

As for my goals, they were very lofty and unfortunately I couldn’t live up to them:

[ ] Win $100k – My sharkscope currently shows 32.600$ excluding Rakeback.



[ ] Prove to be a winning player at stakes up to 215$ – I changed my goals from moving up as fast as possible to grinding out a more steady profit at lower stakes. Right now I’m playing all games up to 55$, so I still have a long way to go to grind 215$ games on a daily basis.

However, despite failing my initial goals I definitely don’t view the last year as a failure in any way.

Biggest Scores of the year

1. $11,979 – $22 Double Deuce – 22/08
2. $7,732 – $44 Bounty Builder – 04/06
3. $6,099 – $44 Bounty Builder – 24/11
4. $5,269 – $33 TPSKO – 19/12
5. €4,186 – €50 Sunday Warmup – 28/11

2017 – The 100k$ goal

I’m currently in Warsaw to celebrate New Years, when I get back to Holland I’ll spend the last 2 weeks playing a bit of poker and seeing friends before I head back to Thailand.
Back in Thailand I’ll pick up my old schedule again, which means getting up early and grinding during the day, 4 or 5 days a week. I’m hoping to add higher stakes, up to the 109’s, sometime in the near future since there’s a handful of soft ones in my schedule, and then I’ll probably try to grind those games out for the rest of the year trying to maximise my ROI with some peak-grinding during big series.

As I’m currently up over 40k$ over the last 6 months, I still have a (delayed) shot at getting 100k$ in 12 months time (June ’16-June ’17). It’s still a long shot but I’m very motivated to give it my best, to be continued…



Oh and have a good NYE guys, hope you all have a great 2017��

V nice recap. Great to read about the improvements and the delayed 100k sounds fun. Hopefully good things will follow up in 2017, best of luck.

Interesting and inspiring thread, gl in 2017!

Cheers guys

My non-results goals for 2017:

[ ] Play 12.000 games
[ ] Have an average ROI of 33%+
[ ] Have an 8+ evBB total for the year, regardless the stakes I play
[ ] Go to the gym at least 3 times a week when at home in Bangkok, no excuses.
[ ] Eat healthier, cut down massively on sweets, chocolate, sugar in general.
[ ] Read 25 books minimum

Nice start of the year, got unlucky when 3-handed, but what can you do.

Best of luck in 2017 sir!

Gl this year! Good to see airdraken still grinding hard

Solid goals, gl with them. What kind of books are you reading?

Thanks all!

Quite a variety of them, from fiction to books on economics, here's my current to-read list:

Girl on the train - Paula Hawkins
A canticle for Leibowitz - Walter M. Miller Jr.
basic economics - Thomas Sowell
The unmaking of a major - William F. Buckley Jr.
Evil: Inside human violence and cruelty - Roy Baumeister
Henry's demons - Patrick Cockburn
Secondhand Time - Svetlana
I Am Charlotte Simmons - Tom Wolfe
The Devil's Delusion - David Berlinski
Churchill - Martin gilbert
the commanding heights - Daniel Yergin and Joseph Stanislaw
The rage against god - Peter Hitchens
It can't happen here - Sinclair Lewis
based on a true story (audiobook)
Losing my virginity - Richard Branson
The upside of inequality - Edward Conard