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Just left my 6 figure job to pursue poker for the next 6 months - WSOP - The Dream! Just left my 6 figure job to pursue poker for the next 6 months - WSOP - The Dream!

04-06-2016 , 11:09 AM
Just started my online session. You can follow along on Twitch!

https://www.twitch.tv/dolphinny5
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04-06-2016 , 11:35 PM
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Originally Posted by dolphiNny5
Taking tomorrow off will be using Tuesdays to study
What does your study process look like? Any chance you could save your streams on Twitch to the VoD section?
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04-07-2016 , 11:20 AM
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Originally Posted by havedeckwilltravel
What does your study process look like? Any chance you could save your streams on Twitch to the VoD section?
On Tuesdays my study time is usually having a 1 on 1 session with my coach for an hour and I will take some time to review some key or unsure hands before our session so I can bring it up to him. Other than that, I will browse 2+2 and watch other ppl's stream on Twitch (preferably tonkaa's) and try to pick up on some tendencies of what people are doing in the mid stake games.

Once I get into a regular streaming schedule, I will definitely look at putting videos on VoD section. My intended schedule is to play online Monday, Wed, Thurs, Fri, Sunday but I really won't be playing much online this week. Playing the live series Main Event today and if I happen to make day 2 (which I think I should and will) then day 2 will be on Sunday. But next week I will start going with my intended normal schedule and start streaming more.
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04-08-2016 , 12:37 AM
Today I opt to play day 1A of the WPT DSPT event here in Edmonton. It was pretty annoying to begin with as i was pretty much card dead for the first 4 hours but was able to win some small pots here and there and got up to 28k. And of course the time that I picked up AK with about 40bb deep I got it all in against AA on a A55 board which basically sent me to super short stack and I bust shoving T9s UTG for about 8 bbs. I think the most annoying part about it is that I was really looking forward to this series but I just couldn't get anything going in all the events I played.

Live poker is awesome I sure miss it and I am so ready to put in 12-14 hours come WSOP time which will be the next time that I play live poker. I am going to start playing online again starting tomorrow with a small morning schedule and then full on schedule starting next Monday.

My daily schedule when I play online is to wake up at 8am, go to the gym and be home all ready by 9:30am to fire up the tables. I need to start getting my body used to this routine and start treating online poker more seriously and the first step to that is to be disciplined with my schedule. I look forward to posting some deep runs here very soon!
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04-08-2016 , 12:51 AM
Excited for your journey! Unfortunately I can't watch your streams on weekdays but will drop by on weekends if you are streaming. Good luck on your grind!
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04-13-2016 , 11:35 PM
It's been couple days since I post an update but I finally can get my schedule back to what I want it to be. I have decided to only start streaming couple hours after I start since I don't want streaming to take away any focus from my games and will only want to stream when my table count is low. I usually have about 6-8 tables loaded up throughout the morning so ideally will start streaming when table count is down to 4 and of course when I am deep in tournaments too.

Today was horrible on the felt! I lost literally every flips that I got into and decided to not reg the higher buyin games (b109, 109bb, b55) to soften the blow and will be back tomorrow. But that's what I expect too! I am prepared that there is a chance that I will be bricking a lot since MTTs have high variance but as long as I am playing good then I am happy with my day. I always try to remind myself that I am living my dream right now by playing poker so I need to appreciate this time because I know it is pretty much once in a lifetime thing for me.

I will be back tomorrow to grind and hopefully put up a good score and get a chance to stream some sick runs!
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04-18-2016 , 12:27 AM
How's the grind going OP?
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05-02-2016 , 06:40 PM
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Originally Posted by havedeckwilltravel
How's the grind going OP?
Hey sorry its been a while since I updated as there really hasn't been much worthy to update. I've had multiple close calls in the past week and FT bubble twice with about 5-8k up top. Other than that I have been losing minimal but am on a 2 day win streak so things are starting to turn! I am basically down from the live events and maybe down $500 from online poker which isn't all too bad. But definitely didn't have the start I envisioned!

I've decided to ditch the twitch idea since it takes up way too much of my focus when I am playing and feel that playing 6 tables max is my peak for focus. I've had weekly lesson with Grayson and feel that my game is sharp right now just haven't been winning the flips needed late in the game.

I am very excited for this month since it will be a full online poker grinding month before WSOP next month. I basically have that set as well since I have about 25-30% sold of the action I wanted to sell so just hoping to get a good month going before WSOP!
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