Good work as always!

Haha much appreciated my friend. Crazy to think I've been in Mexico for over 8 years now. It's home to me now and I highly doubt I ever leave the area.

GL in 2020

Thanks much! Hope to spice up the blog a bit again in 2020 but we'll see, I'm just a boring old man now . GL in 2020 as well!

I'm going to just c/p exactly what Igor wrote me. So nothing he can do at this time and it's a PP issue. It's on the list of things to bring up to PP Dev/tech team in January to see if there's anything they can do.


Hi
Sorry, but I don't know how to fix it.
You can try to use a virtual stack mode instead (see Stack 22 config in Table manager for example).
It works like stack, but in fact there is only one table on a screen at a time, and all other tables are behind an egde of screen, so these other tables don't have a chance to pop up.
Use it with 'Options / Popup table whenever action is required' if you need automatically table switching


It looks like this and it has also table miniatures. You can make them small if you don't want to see them



Jdawg91poker.com
ah okay, not going to really work for me as I'm mixing PS and PP together. sucks that there is no way around this. this is due to something with the PP software then ?

Igor, 10:47 AM
yes partypoker works by this way and I don't know how to fix it


Thanks broski. GL in 2020 as well!

Thanks mate! GLGL 2020

Thanks much! Same to you, GL in 2020!

Thanks, hope all is well with you! Was talking about our Susannahs dinner a bit back with someone. So many damn years ago already

Thanks mate! GL in 2020

I tryyyy! GL out there in 2020


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Thanks everyone for all the kind words, it always is much appreciated. Love waking up to responses in my PGC and starting my day off with a big smile at the PC

Had a huuuge shitshow on Sunday. For the 2nd time in the past week, I had a bunch of tables and my monitors just turned off. In a panic, I kept turning the PC on and off trying to get it to work. Got back in time to save a few games on my side laptop but stilll lost a bunch of money due to that issue.

I ended up calling my computer tech and he ended up making a house call, bringing his wife and kids and all as they were already on their way to family lunch/dinner in Rosarito from Tijuana lol. My video card was GG and he ended up giving me a really good one. IDR the name of it but he said it's better than a gaming one and it's something that many architects use for example. Besides that, I did some damage when I was spazz turning the PC on and off and we're going to have to reinstall the OS. My PC is stable enough now to be able to grind but yea, post Winter Series or maybe even before, he'll end up coming out and fixing that and I also bought a new 1TB SSD so he'll install it as well.

Ended up missing ~2 hours of the grind but got back and won some money back. Annoying to have something like that happen on such an important Sunday, but what can ya do yaknowww

Circled part I'm pretty sure is when the screens went black while I had 20 tables or whatever lol
















Ended up celebrating New Year with my friends on Sun night as Ruseman and Shana and Jessica and my neighbor John and another local I see at the brewery all the time all went to the brewery to have some drinks and food. Ended up drinking wayyy too much and then also went with some of the workers from the brewery over to Solazo Bar afterwards to have a few more beers. Was a really fun night and I'm glad I got to have the night out, but it did **** me on the PP LB grind as I missed the Monday grind.

Yesterday I was with Vivi and it was our super chill New Years together. We were actually celebrating some good news at dinner though as we're about 95% sure we found her a new place to live that is about 15 mins (8-10 mins if I drive lol) from my place and we'll finally be living in the same city and everything. She has a meeting in ~30 mins with the office and realtor but she loved the condo and loved the place. I actually knew she would as it is the same place that Ruseman lives so there's a decent chance she'll be Ruse's neighbor and living like 3 floors above him hehe

We're both quite excited about it though. Really starting the new decade off with a bang! Her son goes to one of the best schools in the country in the very northern part of Rosarito and so this move will actually be a lot better for her in terms of getting him to school. Her current house is up on dirt roads and any time it rains, she literally cannot leave her house as it's just a big shitshow of mud. Once she's done with her current school course, she also plans to do the next part (hair/beard trimming/etc here in Rosarito so that her life will completely be in Rosarito, same as myself. She currently has to go to downtown Tijuana which is a real shitshow of traffic and quite far away. The move definitely will be better for all 3 of us in all regards and yea, excited about it!

Anywayyy, before getting too ahead of myself, let's first see how the meeting goes today and see if she'll actually be taking this place! I am going to hit the study grind all afternoon and then have a massage in a few hours. Hoping there are no fireworks going off at my place but I'm sure that will never happen...we'll see if I can manage to get some solid sleep as I'm exhausted!

Happy New Year to everyone

Sick thread.

Total rake paid in 2019? Total number of hands?

What about lifetime?

I mix many sites also, on my single laptop monitor, so the stacking system cant be used unfortunately. Looks like it would be nice though.

I figured it would be a party issue, they simply have a bad hand queuing system. As for the taking focus stuff i'm guessing some kind of 'takefocus()' function gets called upon table open. All they have to do is delete that line of code in the right places to stop it.

Anyway, the "urgent table" hotkey is working a treat. So much better, thanks.

GL in 2020!

Happy New Years! Well done this year!

The best thing Party can do to tempt players from Stars is to add a multi currency cashier. It's very convenient to avoid 3rd party online banks/accounts to convert between game currency and your national currency.

Complete smash. Great year Jdawg - the dedication to your craft is paying off bigly. Congrats bud

Weird I haven't posted in this thread! Awesome stuff man, love checking in here to see what real heart for the grind, discipline and work ethic looks like. Keep killing it in 2020

Hey dude,

The SNG promo on Party looks great but I feel the low tier of $1000 is far too little in comparison to the Mid tier which is 5x bigger.

$2000 would be much greater incentive for playing 1000+ games in a week.

Sup guys, first full post of 2020 to come tomorrow post grind if I get the chance! Been super busy as always and have not had the chance to reply to everyone; that will happen tomorrow!

I'll just share this....very weird to not be lighting up ALL the SS LBs on my slayerv1fan PS account! But got some PP SS stars going











Tomorrow will be a first for me...a Sunday session that is just on PP with no PS games planned :O. No Sunday hyper sat + mtt session. Going to try to pass and catch riffle to get 3rd place on the high LB and am guaranteed to finish 3rd on the highroller LB...not too bad considering I missed the grind Mon + Tues and was busy this week with Vivi and the new condo and etc









Haven't had enough room to even add any PS games in the past 2 days....really great to see the PP action exploding though!

This is how the action looked basicallly all of today. PS with 1-5 games running at $50+ and PP with 15-25 games running

LUL that action lookin' juicy!

Who would have thought a bit of Rakeback would revive SNGs ;D.

The SNG Mid LB hasnt updated since December 25th, looks like it bugged out, low updates and obv high+ does too.

Congrats man. Your work ethic is impressive! Gl in 2020

dope to see the hard work paying off on party. remember talking to you about it like 6 months back when you were just starting to play a little bit there and trying to convince other regs to join. cool to see the action already far surpassing stars. keep it up man, gl in 2020

Hey man, congrats on the year and here’s to an even better 2020! Cool news about your lady too. Nice to hear some positive industry change as well, even though I just play cash it’s nice to see some sites doing at least something for regs amidst the sea of negative changes.

IIRC we are about the same age; time to really start putting health as a priority, esp given the sedentary nature of our profession.

My $.02 - there are a ton of fitness professionals on instagram now (a lot of BS ones but a lot of great ones too), people who for decent prices will come up with a personalized fitness/diet plan to help you lose the weight that you want to. 30 lbs is eeeeeeeaasy to lose over the course of a year, with just some small adjustments. I used an IG trainer I found to help me pack on muscle this last year for jiu jitsu and it was extremely motivating/effective. I had a weekly sheet to fill out and he would respond in Loom video format every week after our weekly checkin, and would answer whatever other questions or issues I came up with during the week. I’m sure you don’t care to just get a bunch of unsolicited advice in here but i just wanted to let you know what worked for me.

Anyways awesome job brother, might be driving down Baja this year and if I do I’ll hit you up for sure. Peace

Hello mate. Big fan of your work. You are an inspiration for me as a poker player(sick sick sick sick work ethic). I saw in one of your posts that u had some anxiety related with neck/back pain. I have these issues for almost 1 year now. Looking for any tips about how to fix them. Its becomes better for a few days and then it comes back again. Can you share any tips on how you fix or plan to fix them? Thank you in advance.

My 1st post in PGC.GJ on not quitting after so many hours(days).
The difference between the weak and the good player is that the good one is pushing just a little bit more.And you ARE pushing.
GL in 2020.I wish you good health.The rest will come.

/Offtopic @isildurrrr92 I had back problems too and when I bought Herman Miller Aeron(used),I forgot about them.Best chair ever.Can be found for 300-400$(£300)used in excellent condition.Bought mine from UK.

Hope today will finally be the long overdue response to everyone and update!

Absolutely behind on everything besides my volume on the tables, but I'll get into that later today

Here's the action PP vs PS right now

How many hands+hours did you play total in 2019? I think you might be the highest volume human by quite a bit.

is the PP sng promotion running indefinitely? I couldn't find an end date on the site

I played like 2.5-3million hands and about 1700 hours in 2019, definitely nowhere even close to the most hours played. There has to be seriously a few hundred people that play more hours online than I do (think about MTT players specifically)....I just grind very efficiently and am always tabling hard and so it looks like I grind way more than I actually do.

No idea on lifetime # of hands, obviously a lot . Lifetime rake on PS is 2.7million or so, #4 all time I believe.

Yea the issue has been brought up to the DEV team, not sure if it's going to be something that is fixable or if it's a deeply rooted issue in the code/software.

That urgent table hotkey definitely the nuts and now with more experience I can anticipate when the new tables are going to steal focus and I basically never misclick.

Thx mate, you as well!

Thanks much! GL in 2020

Is this not already a thing on PP? I feel like when I send xfers to people that it goes into their own currency (Canadians to Canadian $'s, some euro players to Euros, etc)

Thx much my friend! I need to start posting over in your thread more often, lets getem in 2020!

Haha no worries mate, I think I've only posted in your thread once in the past 1+ year as well and I read every update. Lets gooo in 2020

Yea I agree with you and it is something that Misha and I are working on. We would like the promo to grow and we have some ideas on what needs to change/be done to do so but everything takes time

Yea dev and promo team also know about this bug and are trying to fix it. It's annoying that everything can't just get fixed right away but they are super overworked and then a lot of people were out of the office due to the holidays and etc . Hopefully it'll all be tracking correctly this next week.

Really promising to see this action though

Thanks much mate and GL to you as well!

Sup bro. Yea I remember those chats at the brewery and Ollies all those months ago. I'm actually mad at you as I heard you and the BF were at the brewery not too long ago and I didn't even get a damn invite! The **** is that

GL this year and hope we get to meet up soon

Hey thanks for writing this all up, I appreciate it. I might take your advice and seek some help out somewhere but for the exact moment I'm just doing my own thing and think it'll work out pretty well. I think once I want to get back into a bit of a heavier workout routine that I will end up finding some assistance though

If you come through the area, definitely hit me up as I'd love to meet up with ya! GL in 2020 and I hope you continue to blog and don't close up the ole PGC

Heyo I sware I'm going to PM you back when I get the chance to do so. Honestly for me just over time my anxiety and panic attacks have become less and less and it doesn't pop up as often. I think one of the biggest reasons I'm improving is the fact I've been doing a lot more stretching and light exercise. Losing some weight has obv taken some of the strain off of my back as well which of course has to help everything. But yea, unfortunately I don't really have any specific tips.

Heyo was good to chat to you for a few mins on skype last night and I wish you luck in 2020

It is running through the end of January at least. My own opinion is that if the traffic continues to rise and more players end up showing up to play (both regs and recs) that they will continue to offer the promo. But we players need to do our job and support the site!



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Okayyyy, so that took some time and I'm still way behind on my studying so I'm probably not going to actually do a poker update (plus I'm not really ready to do a poker update yet as I need to be more organized giving no HUD/tracker and SS doesn't track SKO results correctly ) and will instead just do a quick life/Vivi update.

So Vivi and I went to look at that condo last Monday and as I expected, she loved it. Is a perfect 2 bed/2 bath place with the balcony and all. The thing I love most about that place though is all the amenities as they have a restaurant that has a big ass pool in front of it, beach access, another big pool and a few areas of jacuzzis and then a few kids play areas/playgrounds and tennis courts + basketball. Vivi's son is gonna love it there, the same as he loves where I live, also due to all the amenities.

We paid 1st + security deposit and I believe she'll get the keys on Saturday. I think she'll be here with me on Friday afternoon until Saturday morning and then leave from my place and drop by there to get them. She's obv been super busy throwing out stuff and washing clothes and packing up her house. We have to make a few small repairs at her place, the biggest being 1 of the boilers, and then we plan to rent out her house. For the exact moment it's a bit expensive for me as I'm paying my rent + her rent + her house + her school + her sons school. But hopefully within 2 months her house will be rented out and I'm hoping that if all goes well for about a year, that she'll be ready for us to live together. One step at a time though


Hopefully photos to come once she is moved in






On another topic, Vivi has been feeling super shitty for the past months and overall has had a bad like last 15 months of health going back to when she ****ed up her ankle and was on crutches for like 4 months. She has battled thyroid issues and extremely low blood pressure her entire life and it actually makes it such that she needs to eat a lot and be able to work out a lot or else she gets sucked up and feels shitty. So not being able to go to the gym for the past year has been killing her and she's ready to get going again within the next month. Anyway, she found out that she has anemia and is now having to take vitamins and meds for that. She's also having to have some acupuncture done to relieve some tension in her head; she has like little balls built up on her head which is kind of ****ed up.

She sent me her pic of when she got cupped and then had the needles in her from the acupuncture. Was funny as about as she was getting home and sending me the pics is right when Shana was arriving for a massage and I told her I'd send her a picture of how ****ing red and nasty the cupping is on me

Here's the 2 of us

Vivi



Me



She was obv like OMG when she saw how red mine get lulz














Yea so anyway, I'm going to get back to the study grind. Hoping to get far enough ahead on the high leaderboard where I will be able to only play 200s+ on PP on Sunday (highrolller LB) and then play a hyper sat + mtt session on PS as it will be ME Sunday of the Winter Series and that $530 ME should create some really nice EV for me!

Vivi started back up with her school today and then her son starts back up tomorrow so it's back to a more normal schedule for a while. This is from last night; her god daughter visited with her for 2 days and Vivi needed to practice on her and then also let her do some makeup on Vivi hehe. This little girl has had a pretty rough life, nowhere near as bad as Vivi's childhood(Vivi still has the 2nd worst life story I've heard from all the people I've met here...many people are pretty damaged down here which is sad ), but I'm still always super happy when she gets to escape her hell and chill with Vivi for a while. Speaking of god daughters, I ought to check up on my own god daughter! About to send a message as soon as I finish this post lol










Anyway poker update to come next time. I basically need to organize some sort of spreadsheet so I can post an update on my DCE (Diamond Club Elite) chase/rake amount and then also accurately show you guys a breakdown of all the RB related equity that I've received so we have some sort of idea on how I am doing on the tables haha

GLA on the grind!

Okay guys, I got around to making a little spreadsheet so that we can track things a bit more easily!

Let's talk about this DCE grind for a bit. $200k rake (vs $182k for SNE in the SNE days) required to hit it. Here is the breakdown of rakeback/bonuses
-40% weekly cashback
-15% extra through 'exclusive marketing deal' with Universal/PP

-$10,000 bonus when you hit $100k rake (DC)
-$20,000 bonus when you hit $200k rake (DCE)

Also when you hit $200k rake
-$10,300 Millions online ticket
-$16,000 CPP package

Should equal about 85% RB or so

Plus SNG Leaderboards/other promotions



I came up with needing $700 rake per day which is based on grinding 290 days in the year which works out to 1.5 off days per week and 2 weeks of vacation (50 year week)

This is potentially reasonable if I basically just grind PP all year long, but it becomes a bit trickier if I end up grinding COOP/series hyper sats and only play $200s+ on PP during those times. At this point I'm just unsure of what the highest EV is. I think that due to me currently being able to control my results more or less on the 50/100 board that it is better to just grind basically 100% PP and get ahead of DCE pace if possible and etc.



That's enough for now, at least I have something set up for us

YTD Rake: $5445 / $200,000
Pace (@$700 Rake/day) : $4900
YTD Rakeback: $4904.86











Oh and this weeks high and highroller standings at the moment

Decent action on PP yesterday and actually the biggest day in terms of brand new recs/semi regs that I had never ever played with before. That again is the most important thing in terms of long term growth....need new recs and semi regs and MTT players that play SNGs and etc to fill in games.

I managed to rake about $850 yesterday which is pretty nice given that Wednesday is usually a slow day. Again, any day that I'm getting more than my $700/day target when the HS games are not running (only 1 500 went off) is really great IMO.


Getting ready to start in about 30 mins or so I believe, we'll see what the action looks like today! I believe tomorrow I'm going to get off to a late start so I do not expect to hit my rake target but we'll see what happens.

Remember that my SS graph is a bit off as the SKOs do not track 100% accurately at the moment. But I'll still start posting them as it gives everyone an idea of ~ what I've won





The action yesterday

Lol 0 games runnning 50+ on PS right now :O

GLA today!

I always presumed if Pokerstars marketshare started going down it would simply bring back reasonable rakeback to get players back - but with the upcoming merger with Flutter (who will be majority shaareholders) maybe not. JDawg you expecting Pokerstars to do anything(positive) regarding RB ? Or just keep staus quo?