Thanks bro, gl to you too. Haven't seen you at tables lately, what you up to these days?

Back on that real-life grind

Haha, back in the real world. Gl with everything.

Alright, so I have a pretty solid shot at my first Triple Crown in the next few days. I've won two $10k prizepool tourneys since Thursday, so I have until Wednesday to win another one. I probably won't be playing Tuesday, so I have three sessions basically. Twice now in the last 3 months I've been one coinflip away from securing a Crown, so let's pull it off this time!

GLGLGLGL for Sunday all!

You're a sicko Matt. GL for the sunday grind!

gogogo win that triple baby!

Obviously you have to sit to my left in the 8r.

p.s. stop 3bing me.

GL man! You seem like a very wise grinder.

I see you're deep in two 8$, gogogo triple crown

Actually I need to win one on .fr, 888 or Party for the crown but ty anyway!

hehe sorry, but since you're on FT right now anyway, GL. Ship it

3rd place congrats

Thanks guys, just realised I didn't post in here for a couple days. Played short sessions the last 2 nights, nothing major happening except I just got 16th in the Big 109 today. Won a lot of flips to get there but lost a big JJ<AK to bust. Meh.

any chance of a 2013 graph?

u still play less tables? coz i think i see u like everyday on atleast 3 diff sites :P

and nice post about the artist/poker thing, when i was younger i wanted to become a writer and was quite decent at it and v creative, poker kinda numbed that, which i regret sometimes. the day i started playing poker seriously/professionally my "lyrical persona" (as i found out there is no such word/translation of the german version in the english language) kinda died and i def hope i can get back in the groove w my creativity when im older/quit poker

keep up the grind! gl

Sure thing. Here's my 2013 to date:



Pretty happy with it for sure. Things going very well.

I do still play only 12 tables, I occasionally load a few more than that if its a Sunday and I feel like there's stuff I can't miss, but on any given weekday I don't go over 12. I do spread out across a lot of sites so I end up varying my schedule from day to day, depending on what time I start and how quickly I bust stuff. I just get 12 tables up quickly once I start and then fill up slots once I bust. It works great with 3 monitors because I can run 4 tables on each screen with minimal overlap.

Yeah, been thinking a little more about that artistry stuff lately too, taking this week off from poker as I'm going home to see the family on Thursday and coming back Sunday, so I'm gonna do some writing over the next couple of days. I definitely feel like poker has made me a more emotionally conservative person, which is going to hurt me in future. As much as I love poker, I look forward to the day when I can see it as a hobby and not just as my main form of income.

I've been finding lately that the MTT grind is having a real effect on my personal life, too. My sleep pattern is really irregular and sometimes I get very little sleep at all (today I couldn't sleep, ended up going to the gym at 7am after being awake since midday Sunday, napped for 2hrs from midday-2pm and been awake since), and as a result it's really hard to plan my gym trips and keep myself healthy. It's also harder to plan my (limited) social life as I frequently have to say no to hanging out with friends if it's 7pm and I just started an MTT session. I'm thinking pretty seriously about moving out of MTTs at the end of this year, just to give me a little more flexibility in that area - it would almost certainly be a move to cash games if I did make it. One thing I'm learning lately is that my physical and emotional health has to come first at all times, before I even consider any demands that poker might make on me.

Anyways moertel, hit me up via PM if you wanna discuss any of this stuff and I'll give you my Skype. My creative side was pretty much asleep for like 5-10years until recently so I might have some tips on how to get back into it if you're interested.

Hey, gl once more! Could you post a pic of your setup? It's always nice to see a grinders station.

Sick 2013 graph, continue crushing!
Poker<<<<<< Real life/family/health. Always imo. But it sounds like you already know that glgl Ginger

Solid graph man, keep up the good work!

what time do you usually start your sessions? and how many hours on avg would you say you reg for?

Been meaning to do this for ages actually. Will do it next week sometime, need to clear the place up a little and my Xbox (which lives just next to my grind station) is being fixed right now so I'll post once I get it back, just so you can see the whole thing.
Yeah, absolutely. I'm not broke any more so putting pressure on myself to grind out 80hr weeks just isn't necessary or healthy.
I usually end up starting around 6pm these days, but that's only because my sleep pattern is messed up and I end up sleeping from 4am-12pm and then hitting the gym for a couple hours in the afternoon. Ideally I'd start a little earlier. I reg until around midnight, although not usually much after 10pm beyond some Stars turbos. It's a way lower-volume schedule than I used to play, but I play way better now. On Sundays I usually start with the Sunday Kickoff at 1pm and reg right through till about midnight or 1am though, gotta get that value on Sundays.

Any chance you're goin to wsop this summer?

Probably like, <10%. If I won a ****load of money between now and May I might consider heading over for like a week just to play an event or two, but I have almost no live poker experience so I feel like doing it without at least preparing/selling pieces/making a concerted effort to not suck at live poker would probably just be burning money. Not to mention, I've never even been to the US before, let alone Vegas, so I feel like I'd prefer to leave the WSOP until next year at least. Could change though, I have a buddy here who's a giant poker fish but wants to go to Vegas and play a WSOP event so maybe I can convince him to take a trip out there.

OK, well if you decide to go PM me. I'm probably gonna be out there most or all of the time.

Sweet, yeah I will do. Thanks man. GL!

Subbed gl from a fellow Brit

Interesting that you say poker made you more emotionally conservative, most pro poker players turn into egotistical fktards. Or maybe they already were and they gravitate towards poker.

Btw not casting dispersions at all because you don't seem like a fktard at all, just found it interesting