Since my last update I have played ALOT of poker, and I'm ***** loving it. Tbh I feel like I'm crushing even more than my results show bc all my rungood has been funneling itself into the small buyins where I simply plow thru the field uncontested at the end of the night to either save the day or go up small. I hit the 10k+ bankroll milestone before this past Sunday so I got to play 215's on ACR and the 250 on Pokerbros (which I sell for to make them ~$100 buyin). I went ahead and bubbled ALL OF THEM in brutal fashion but all I could do was tip my cap to those prankster poker gods, and I should've expected something like that cuz they love to pull this kinda silliness. A long time ago, prob when I was 15 or 16 I realized that this kinda stuff was going to keep happening to me, as someone who likes to push the boundaries of bankroll management and general shot taking, so I just decided that I was going to take all losses ESPECIALLY the painful ones not just in-stride but also fit them into a story that works for me and is empowering. It's the trick that wins them over and then they can't help but make it rain rungood for you - yes, they do play favorites. I'm only half kidding btw.

A friend (BobbyPeru of this forum actually) showed me this guy beezgamble's thread in which I found a supernugget of wisdom just from his OP that reminded me of something absolutely crucial when it comes to running up a roll which is...VISION. You have to have vision, and you have to plan in regular activities which are proof and support of your belief that you can actually achieve what you're aiming for. Here it is, right in his standard list of poker goals

Bankrolls
Bovada:1.15k
Bol:1.2k
Acr:1.5k

Poker Goals: [Actions]
Build from 3k bankroll to 50k+. [play 400 mtts/month]
Play live mtts
Play every venom. [fire 500$ in venom satties every month]
Study 6 hours/week [Run 30 hrc sims/week + watch training videos 5 hours]

And no surprise, he recently got 6th in the venom for a massive uptick. Lucky? Nope. He planned it right into his future! And the proof is right there in his first post, after which his subconscious mind began drawing that reality towards him as day after day the goal became more and more a part of how he saw himself and what he was excited about. So of course I immediately started playing the $66 satellites to 630's on ACR and shipped one to enter the 630 PKO 6max PLO $30k every Sunday. It ended quickly, but it runs every Sunday along with a 630 $500k and a 630 NL PKO $100k which I am very VERY eager to play bc I am a goddamn monster at PKOs. There's also a 1050 PKO $250k that looks awesome, and of course the 2650 venom every few months which I won a seat into in that crazy soft $95 20 seat gtd satty where 70% of your table is sitting out for the first 3hrs until they're blinded out bc they don't even know they're registered in it or don't care. It's a funky dynamic early with the few living players at your table but I really nailed it in this one.

Here's a link to his thread if anyone's interested:
https://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/1...start-1793012/

Speaking of goals, I posted some last Sunday which were
- always sweat before playing
- always meditate before playing
- start waking up at 10am

The first two I'm solid on, especially the meditation bc I know it's super important to lock in that higher frequency before engaging in an activity which will try it's best to test my mindset.

But the 10am thing I totally punted, bc I felt I NEEDED to mash poker and not care what time it was or when I would go to sleep or wake up (note the 19hr session in the excel sheet followed by a 14hr) and holy **** am I glad I did.

I do Dr Joe Dispenza meditations btw if anyone here is familiar with them or w/ his content. His meds are more like subconscious reprogramming and bodywork than a typical zen meditation where you observe your thoughts as being "not you." Will prob talk more about that in future posts. The 10am wakeup thing I completely punted but I did it consciously - it didn't feel right. I knew I needed to simply play, and play heaps, but I didn't know exactly why I just knew I was having a lot of fun playing these massive tourney days with 29 total in a day followed by 41 and then another 41. Yesterday I discovered the "why" that this felt right...something unlocked inside me or "woke up" as Rey Skywalker says in the greatest and most epic movie series of all time. It happened while playing the early regfest ACR schedule with all the eastern Europeans playing, I just went pure animal mode in all spots and at all times out of nowhere w/out any conscious effort to up my aggression or change anything. Another coinciding factor was at that point it was my 4th or 5th tourney session after putting into practice my new limp strat from 10-30bb, and I started to feel very confident in that as well. It was inspired by the MTT version of GTO Wizard where they have sims for w/ limps and w/out limps.



I studied both w/ and w/out, noting the EVs of certain hands and the differences between the strategies, poking and prodding as I love to do w/ GTOW in order to tease out the likely principles behind the solutions, and my own ideas started to develop for how it could work in practice given how the games play and how players are likely to react. I won't go into it rn, mainly bc I wanna get after it and grind this early ACR sched again to continue sharpening the blade so I'm max ready for Sunday, but for now I'll summarize by saying

• How the HELL are more players not doing this?

• It's SO tricky to play against.

• This is the future of high level MTT strategy.

• I limped HJ with 22bb and the action's on you in the SB w/ A8s and 18bb. What you gonna do? What if you have 66, or A4s, or 87s, or AKo? You might think the AKo is an easy raise PF, and it is, but now play it OOP vs my limp/call range (which mixes every hand AA-, AKs-) at a tricky depth in a spot you have ZERO experience in and certainly no MASS DATA ANALYSIS Evernote documents that you share with your stupid CFP who also tell you to probe 100% of turns after flop xx. GLHF and GTFO.

Yeah they're super cringe, and this angle of targeting the emotions of ppl struggling just 100x's that.

I absolutely love NL, but what I'm finding from playing HEAPS of MTTs recently is that maybe I love tournament NL and not 6max cash so much. Although, if it was a straddle game I think that would change everything. Just something to mix it up every now and then like bomb pots really add a lot to the experience for me.

LOL, spot on!

Yup, we could prob even add to the "minimum effective self-maintenance" list
- move your body and sweat/stretch it out
- meditate
- talk to someone regularly so you're in touch with yourself and your thoughts, and can express them in a space which is different than that which you get from the people close to you. Over time we develop routines and habits of interacting with those we're familiar that may hinder full expression. A neutral person is awesome, and I tend to feel more expansive after each session.