i mean you're doing ok, but strat wise you should be folding more from th..... LIMIT THE SPACE! =p my gf was cut off from more "decorating" 4 things ago. went from 0 things to 9 in my room in about 3 months.

glad to see you're still crushing it, through a mutual friend you almost got me into the merge sng grind in like 2012, wish i had followed up more! glgl

been a minute since I last checked in!

Looks like things are going well, saw the apt tour and it's solid. Your big screen running pio looked boss too.

Keep it up buddy and make the most out of that view/beach.

When playing the 16 man sats how do you organise your tables?

I am assuming you stack so how do you know if you are at the first table or the final table of the 16 man? I assume the shoving and calling ranges change quite a bit depending on if you are in chip EV mode on the first table or ICM mode on the final table.

Thanks

Incredible graphs.

Hahah that's funny. It's okay though, I actually feel better about my place and the energy in here since some redecorating has begun!

The Merge grind was so great for that short while, especially if you had a sick RB account. I remember my first month playing just $2s and $5s until the last 2 days of the month, when I added some $10s, I made like $8k playing a $4 abi . Those were the damn days

Glad all is well, I remember interactions with you in LSMTT/MTSNG and maybe MSMTT IIRC!



Hey mate, I keep meaning to catch up on your PGC as well; I've just been too busy! I'm assuming you've continued updating it, I'm going to go read as soon as I'm done with this post.

Thanks much, all is confirmed well in my world, just taking it 1 day at a time .

I'll record and upload the start of my session tomorrow, quick little video and first one showing my screen while playing in many many yearsa haha! But yea, I have everything separated and do a combo of stack and manual tiling

Will be a fun short vid and I can have it edited into the OP as it's a common question I get asked anytime I'm with Bfizz11 on the TK twitch channel



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Before getting into the poker part of the update, just wanted to post a few more photos. My chica got back from her vacation down south in Mazatlan, Sinaloa where she was visiting her comadre and the new twins and also celebrating her birthday. She got back into town super early on Friday morning after the 27 hour bus ride (brutal lol) back home, and on Saturday she cruised over to return my suitcase that she borrowed, along with surprising me with a few little gifts from her vacay and a super bomb octupus and shrimp aguachile that she picked up from her favorite spot on her way over.













She also brought a gift for Bfizz11's GF Fernanda, that was quite nice of her. It's awesome that those 2 quickly hit it off, especially now that Bfizz and I live just 2 floors apart and are together at some point each day.

Speaking of Bfizz and Fernanda, this was an awesome picture from the day before they left for vacation. Vivi has her big pitbull that I've posted a few pics of so her son was not phased at all by Junior and Alex and was loving their energy. The pups were loving him as well!












I might have a few more pics to post as she's spending the night tonight and is planning to show me all her pics/vids/etc from the trip


This is from her birthday dinner


And something she sent me, dat booty . Bad quality but w/e

Whoops accidentally clicked enter/post when I was finishing up the above part. Will just post the poker part of the update in a new post






poker part
I put up a solid Sunday grind. Unfortunately it ended quite poorly with a bad run at 25bb at the very end of the day, along with losing a pot for 2.5x chips as 2nd place on the F2Ts of the Sunday Warmup and going from top 10 in chips to out of the Bounty 530 with like 70ish left...was not the most fun 1.5 hours!


Boom straight down!













That DS also led to me losing my #1 spot on the overall SS LB for the moment!



SS LBs update while we're on the topic!















It's okay though, just gotta keep on trucking per the usual. It'll be interesting to see how the 25bb games are during WCOOP. I could definitely see myself grinding less 25bb if the game quality isn't great and just putting full effort into the 6m and 16m sat grind. Per the usual I'll just see how the games are and always make adjustments on the fly to attempt to have the highest EV possible


The sat grind however has been going well. I have to try to find some time to look at some more 6max and 16m FT spots today. There's a few specific situations that I want to look into further to make sure what I've been doing is actually good...would be good to confirm that before WCOOP starts

EV however has been quite solid at 6m this month, meaning that in all likelihood most of my adjustments have been good.

Filtered for $74s and under, so that's quite the nice avg roi
















I'll wrap up this post with finally updating the challenge numbers, I'm curious to see how far behind I am!

Challenge Stats: Started Dec 25th with the Winter Festival
Days Completed: 246
Games Played: 178,049
300k game pace: 198,387 (based on 372 days, Dec 25, 2017-Dec 31, 2018)

Challenge Graph













RB Info: Going to try my best to actually track my RB this year. Note that RB earned between Dec 25th and Dec 31st was not tracked as I did not start this until Jan 1st. For that reason, This info will be based solely on 2018 games played to get an accurate RB %

Stars Coins: 165,000 ($1650 Value)
Cash+$Ts: $3320.25
Tourney Tix: $1079.5

-SNG Challenge: $3740 worth of tickets
-Collectibles: $98
-Pokerstars.com $500 chest
https://gyazo.com/cc88cb1420dac21f04124ebb05f756fc
-Football chests: $51


Total RB=$10438.75

Rake Paid in 2018=$152,082
RB %=6.86%






Gla on the tables!

I wanna join turbo kings

Mine is lower than their promised 4,2%. I'm sure they lost that minimum 4,2% after chest v2 (I'm remembering them caming up with "improved chest" aka v2 somewhere and probably not making it up). Last 50k games since v2 it's been 3,1%, overall 4,0%.

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I'll record and upload the start of my session tomorrow, quick little video and first one showing my screen while playing in many many yearsa haha! But yea, I have everything separated and do a combo of stack and manual tiling

Will be a fun short vid and I can have it edited into the OP as it's a common question I get asked anytime I'm with Bfizz11 on the TK twitch channel

Thanks you're the best.

Whenever I type "Turbo Kings" into the search on Twitch I can't find the channel. Any idea why this is? Did I miss the stream when you were playing live?

Lmao nice, Gl during COOP/powerfest m8

Gotta message the TK facebook account if you wanted to apply!

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Heyo, so I actually recorded for about 15 minutes yesterday. I'd say it's a solid 15 minute watch, I get into small amounts of strategy, there's some 25bb action, get to hear a couple IRL stories, and ofc the poker related content!

If you want to jump straight into the action, 1:30ish is when I have a few tables going and I go over my layout; I'd say the full 15 minute watch is decent though

Click here to go to google drive upload of the recorded session
https://drive.google.com/open?id=11S...9BuaRYVcp6ngAd

screencap:








My setup
-ABS Vortex Desktop: Upgraded to 64GB ram, upgraded video card, upgraded HD that it came with
-40" 4k Curved main monitor
-30" Dell 2nd monitor
-Geekdesk sit/stand desk
-Herman Miller chair










Edit: Just snapped a couple pics right now of the setup too

dual monitor is the most underrated/most essential thing ever, even outside of poker. i can never go back. had 3 screens and 2 comps during the grind days. im preeeeetty sure we had the same merge affiliate, wish i made more of an effort there.

a couple years ago i spent a few months in "treat yo self" mode, and splurged on a chair. embody >>>>>> aeron and i was dead set on an aeron when i went to a showroom store. i ended up getting one off cl for $700 with the thicker fabric (forget the name they use), almost went to NYC to get the dream colors.

https://www.puretrak.com/products/pu...ming-mouse-pad

you wont regret it.

oh, and id love to see a task manager ss while you are in full work mode. 64gb ram is absurd lol. with an ssd and 16gb id be surprised if it were ever over 50% ram usage

thanks Josh for adding this to 2p2 and kind of cool to look into a professional grind setup

Solid setup. Just chimes in to say still following along and definitely one of my favorite threads.
Work ethic unmatched

nice screen buddy

glgl

TN could do the registering for you if just wanna sit everything in your favs. You're probably used to it but the lobby on the main screen look like a big distraction to me

Thanks so much for taking the time to upload that video.

Looks like you're back on top of the Sharkscope leaderboard.

Best of luck during WCOOP!

People seriously underestimate their computer/desk setup for Poker. Makes so much difference having a fast/comfortable setup with nice peripherals etc.

When your spending so long in front of your PC, and relying on it so much to play poker you need to drop some coin on making sure it's up to scratch. The amount of people I have seen playing on a ****ty $400 dell from Best-Buy is insane.

gl during wcoop hope it goes well jdawg!

Yea man, I agree with you all the way @ monitor. I could never go back to a **** setup, although even pre BF I was using multiple monitors and I really don't understand how a lot of people grind on their withered ass setups. I'll have to check out those chairs and actually I ended up ordering 2 mousepads from the above link so thanks much for that.

I've actually been having Windows issues on and off for a long time so even though my task manager says memory % used etc is super low, I've been dealing with some lag the past days...quite tilting to say the least. Comp tech was on again today messing with more settings



Yea no problem, was a cool video to do anyway

(hifive) thanks much. Haha yea, sometimes feels like nobody is reading when I don't get responses, but then I realize that I read a ton of PGC's and hardly post

Hehe right back at ya m8 . Gl during the series'

Haha I prefer to manually reg because I'm game/lobby selecting the whole time during peak when I don't have enough table space to play everything. Has always been much more efficient for me and leads to max ev imo

Heyoo, yea took back that top spot! Thanks much, gl to you as well

Yea definitely, people also underestimate things like their bed and their bed sheets etc. Getting a good night's sleep is so important and most people are supremely nitty when it comes to spending money on things like that. Ruseman is a huge nit in every regard but is finally coming around to my line of thought.

I actually just got new bed sheets, the set cost $400. Vivi was astounded at how nice they were and how comfortably she slept etc. And Shana, my massage therapist, came in and said 'wow, you have rich people sheets now'

Thanks boss, you as well!


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Have a quick minute before getting a massage, so figured I would post a quick update.

Played nearly 6000 games the first 4 days of the series, had about 5000 after last night's huge grind. Looking forward to putting in a big grind again tomorrow, Friday will be a bit shorter and then big grind on Sat + Sun.

It has been strangely chilly in the morning at my place, so much so that the other morning I was actually grinding in my thick jacket and had a blanket on met etc. I was chatting with Vivi and she didn't believe me as she was wearing a summer blouse over there in TJ and said she was too warm if anything...lol that part of the chatlog and my ridiculous mug that got sent in the video I took













We're hoping to go out for a lobster dinner over in Puerto Nuevo (~8 mins south of my place, famous lobster village of the area) on Friday night after the grind. This past Friday night we went out with Shana, her fiance Hazan and the 3 kids to Sin Fronteras Cerveceria (Brewery/craft beer spot with sick view) to enjoy some craft beers and listen to a pretty solid band. Afterwards we headed over to close down Ollies Pizza which was amazing as always.

Even though I suck at taking pics/vids, I should start at least posting some info/pics of spots I go to. Will have to try to remember to take some pics at Puerto Nuevo if we end up going!

Link to that craft beer spot, it's about 3 minutes south of my place
https://www.sinfronterasbrewing.com/


Tap beer selection. Tons of other bottles + mixed drinks + sangrias/wine etc available at the attached restaurant/bar














Anywayyyy, graphs below, going to run a few sims before my massage. Haven't been sleeping for ****, hoping I can finally catch up a bit tonight. GLA on the grind

WCOOP Graph




Challenge Graph




Overall SS LB

good choice on the mousepads but compared to the one you have, one is probably close to 4x the area lol. think you said you have the aeron already? embody in another herman miller, i thought it was wayyyyy more comfortable. less office-y. if you decide to get one, def go for the thicker fabric upgrade.

Yea, lenballs had the huge area mousepad too and it looked really sweet, so I'm quite excited for it! And yea, I already have an aeron, but if I decide to upgrade in the future, I will give that other one a look for sure, I have it bookmarked.



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Had another solid day on the tables today. Had a huge roller coaster ride in the last hour, but am a top 15 stack going into day 2 of the $215 4max. Lost a flip to have like 1.7million, ran it back to like 1.5million, down to 500kish, back to 1.5millish and end the day at 1.3mil or whatever haha.

Should be insane having it restart (4handed) at the same exact time that the 55 and 530 3max psko turbo zoom event starts lmao. Will be a huge ****show on my screen, will definitely be cutting a lot of sats to the $55 and making sure I stay within a mostly reasonable table count.









14+ hours into the session and this is my last table, $215 late thrill, would be nice to do a little somethin in it















My assistant Susy just hit me up and said she was heading over to drop Fernanda off and was wondering what I wanted from Starbucks and if I wanted tacos or not . Haven't drank any coffee in 2018, literally not once, so I'm looking forward to this

Here's the graph of today and an updated WCOOP graph, legggo tomorrow, hoping for something cool to happen in the $215 4max and then celebratory dinner with Vivi

Jprinter91

Hehe (flex)



FT time over here, would be a nice one to close out

good luck ship it sir!!!!!

GL Jdawg!