Converted HH :

Sick thread! 420 blaze it like a boss! Keep it up

Asj was rep'in the J5, hero should have folded

Jackson 5 suited!


edit: therefore easy fold

What happened to the updates!

This! Asj are you on hiatus ?

Having some scheduling issues so haven't been able to grind much. It is tough in this timezone, but I usually manage. Probably played 2 or 3 sessions since last update and lost pretty large each time. Hopefully be back for this coming weekend!

Yes please come back soon! I cannot manage my progress so I at least want to see your updates where you actually won smth!

I blame the clown who said ASJMTTPOKER was "variance free" (or something like that )

Where you at asj? Thought you'd be taking down some MM8 events?

Hopefully be back next Thursday.. Not much I can do about it unfortunately.

we waiting..............

This was one of my favourite threads, please don't let it die :'(

BRING IT HOME ASJ!

Ok, I should be back now

Legitimately not sure what my bankroll was at when I stopped playing, and there have been transfers in and out over the last month that would take me a while to calculate. Sharkscope says I'm up around $4200 since the start of the challenge however that was usually between +$500 and +$1000 of my actual bankroll, therefore im resetting it to $3500.

gl errybody for the weekend

Glad to see you back. Are you sticking to a buy-in limit with $3.5k?

probably everything up to $33 with a couple of slightly higher ones mixed in

Yeah good luck back otg. Don't you find it hard to put volume in for aus/nz times? Or are you just getting up earlier?

Yeah I pretty much flip my schedule when im grinding and wake up around midnight. It has never really been a problem for me untill recently, thus the large period of absence. Still sorta struggling with it atm so I'll prob be playing shorter sessions/fewer days. Doing alot of thinking about this issue but there aren't really any perfect solutions.

Can't you play early mornings and late nights?
I play after 9pm and 7am and find good traffic even on the Euro sites.

sorry i'm a little confused by what you mean, could you explain further?

Do you mean playing 2 shorter sessions each day?
or alternating between 2 different start times depending on other factors (daily life)?

both sound like fine short term solutions however I can see alot of issues and there's no way these system can be long run optimal

This.

But i guess it wouldn't work for you since i only play 4ish days a week and have a flexible schedule with uni and my job

Ya, as a full time grinder there are certain ingredients that are very important for reaching an optimal schedule

a consistent sleep schedule (being tired while playing is bad, really bad)
a consistent grind schedule
playing ALOT (6-7 days a week, 12+ hours a day)
playing the best tournaments available
wanting to play every day that you play (i think its better to take a day off than force yourself to play if you are not feeling it)

so for me, after a few years of experience and schedule tweaking, this had lead to last minute registering the big 33 around 11.45pm and then playing everything from there untill the hot 44 at 10.30am (times change with day light saving obv). Some of the earlier stuff is skippable for sure but there comes a point in the schedule (around the hot 33, 2.30am) where the value in peak-time grinding cannot be made up for in off-peak games.
I'm almost certain my results would be nowhere near what they are if I had not been grinding this schedule for the last 2 years or so.

so yeah, there are pretty much 2 solutions that have the least negative consequences imo:
Grinding this schedule from here and being a night-grinder vampire
or Relocating

I guess both options are pretty *****y unless you're wanting to relocate anyway.

And welcome to the life of aus/nz players haha. I've always figured that softness off playing the off peak makes up for the value you miss In playing on peak.... But you're more experienced in schedules so I should prob start getting up earlier... Definitely sucks not being able to swap your sleep schedules around to fit the good stuff