Thanks man

The interest on the credit cards doesn't kick in until January (12 months interest free), so my plan is to build my poker BR as much as possible before then and pay it all off in one big chunk come January!

damn, congrats on the solid score man.

^^ Thank you!

-$70 today

Started out with a 4th place finish for $340 quite early, and didn't really get anything going after. Made some good runs, but ended up being mincashes.

I added the 44s and 55s back to my schedule, so the potential for bigger days is there

Back on the grind tomorrow!

Oh, also got a nice little writing assignment for $120 that I'll do before grinding tomorrow. Always nice to do those because I usually forget about them and find a nice surprise in my paypal account

You da best

Haha thanks. That's actually something I've been thinking about lately.

I really do want to be the best, and it's the first time in my life where I've ever cared/liked something enough to actually put in a ridiculous effort for.

I've been legitimately studying the game for 2-3 hrs/day along with playing 8-10 hrs/day. I'm obsessed with this game and I want to spend every minute of my days maximizing my potential. The best part is that I thoroughly enjoy it.

I'm even considering cancelling my gym membership and buying home equipment to do calisthenics workouts so I can study poker during my workouts and not waste time doing nothing between sets at the gym and driving 15 mins to and from.

I was never really the confident type, but there's no doubt in my mind I will be one of the best players in the world in the future.

Until then, I've got a long way to go

I fear it dose take serious discipline to keep up with work out regime home as compared to gym.

One (local to me) poker pro went down this route. Got a great deal on gym equipment (few months gym fee == cost of equipment >> profit in 4 months) .. BUT and there was a big but.. the eq came without weights, only the brand specific weights would work.. and those were bloody expensive..

You also mentioned about aiming for a new apartment.. Depending on how that plan is progressing.. is it prudent to invest in big/heavy/bulky equipment that adds to effort when time comes to relocate?

Oooh.. nice deal !!

I would advice against this. Several small issues but biggest (as far as I can see your situation) is that it might be too big of an investment for your current situation. Push it forward until you have cleared the CC, Build up good enough BR and perhaps moved (as you were planning to).

PS one pro bought such set as it seemed more cost efficient than gym. Regretfully he got a great deal on a set but ended up paying a very high price as the set required brand specific weights. So if you buy a set take care that you are not victim of angle shoot.

^^ Calisthenics is all bodyweight stuff.. handstand pushups, pullups, etc etc

I'd really just have to get a doorway pullup bar and I'd be set.

My only concern is that I might lose the motivation to keep up on my fitness at home. When you're at the gym, you'll always finish your workout, but it's easy to laze off at home.

I have a tablet that I've considered bringing to the gym to review hands on, but knowing me I would crush it with a dumbbell

-$120 but won a $60 ticket

Got 18th in the 30k on Vada today. I made a questionable play on the final hand, so here it is.

I'm in 6th out of 18 at the time of the hand.

UTG+1 opens, an unknown over 4 hands he is 0/0.

Loose BU flats

I'm in sb with T7dd and the big blind has 1bb left after he put his bb in, so I opt to call getting a very good price.

Flop T63ssd

I check, UTG+1 bets 13k into 43k. My thought here is that he would bet bigger if he had a big hand due to the BU range and my range having a good amount of Tx.

BU folds, I call.

Turn 8h

UTG+1 ramps up his betsize.. bets 43k into 75k. I have 90k left behind. My thought process here says "he knows you're weak when you only call on that flop OOP, so of course he is going to barrel with just about anything, plus he can have a lot of FD's. It doesn't make sense for him to have a big hand because of his flop bet size."

I tank shove my remaining 90k and he snap calls with 66. I guess that's one of the very few hands that will happily bet small on the flop. I didn't really even consider 66, shame on me. Not sure it would have changed my mind, though.

We brick the gutter and bust in 18th.

Pretty easy to be results-oriented about it. Feel like it wasn't terrible, but it was a bit too hero-y.

Definitely learned from it. Expensive mistake, but those are the ones that teach you the most

subbed

Not gonna lie.. busting out of the 30k hurts. I really do think I made a mistake putting my tournament life on the line with THAT hand when I had a great chance of making the FT. As played I should have folded turn.

Can't be making those mistakes in big mtt's like that. 6k for first.

Just venting a bit

I think the part that hurts most is that I don't have a chance to redeem myself RIGHT NOW. It's hard waiting until tomorrow lol.

Sticky note going on my monitor: "DO NOT MAKE A FANCY PLAY. JUST DON'T."

Night!

It's crazy how much a night of sleep can relieve stress. I really don't even care about what happened last night.. already moved on.

Of course my emphasis for today will be to not make fancy plays. Gonna do a little writing exercise as a warmup for my session today. Going to be playing a full 10 hours

Already got about 1.5 hrs of study done. Can't even begin to say how important it is to study the game. It not only makes you better, but you have way more confidence in your game. You know you're making the right plays almost every time because you've studied them.

Back when I wasn't studying very often, I'd have a losing day and totally question myself. "Am I just a fish on a heater?" "Could I really just be a bad player?"

Bit of a rant.. oh well. Time to grind

+280 today

Won about $200 in FR, and made some deepish cashes in the top 18/27, just couldn't get any cards late.

No mistakes today, though

Felt I played really well, and almost got a chance to redeem myself in the 30k.. got 27th.

Feeling as confident as ever.. looking forward to tomorrow already.

Night!

This is why I don't grind MTT's, lots of losing nights, but that one big score is soooo juicy!

-$320 today

An unlucky day in general is all. Made a couple final 18's, just couldn't connect.

My focus at the beginning of the session was pretty lousy.. gotta do some kind of warm up to get myself in the zone.

This chick I'm "seeing" also stormed out on me last night, so that was on my mind just a tad today as well.

I'll do better tomorrow

she's just balancing her reaction range vs. you

so true.. i legit never know if its gonna be a good night or bad one

she's GTO as fk about it

Finished -$70 today

Made 0 final tables, but 4 top 18 finishes

Oh well

I will probably take tomorrow off as I'm gonna hang with my dad for a bit and then clean up my apartment/meal prep for the week.

GL everyone!

good one sir

Just bought this monitor so I can tile 12 tables with no overlap.

Sick of my current set up where I tile 6 (with a bit of overlap) on my TV monitor and stack the rest on my laptop.

I think this is way +EV.

I'm really trying to ramp up the volume in any way I can to maximize my hourly.

Yesterday I played 2 100nl zone tables and 2 100nl FR tables along with all my mtt's. It was constant action with the zone tables up, but I didn't get overwhelmed, so I'm going to keep going with it.

Got in about 4k cash hands total yesterday which can be a big boost to my hourly if I don't get burnt out.

-$440 today.

So my monitor never came today, which is frustrating because I paid for one-day shipping and it said it was out for delivery at 8am.

Poker was also frustrating because I spent too much on buyins today. My comfort level when buying in for $900 worth of tournaments is very low, so I shouldn't be doing it.

The thought of bricking everything and losing almost $1,000 is pretty scary to me. I found myself tilted and thinking worst case scenario while losing my focus. I'm going to limit myself to $600 on Sundays, and $400 on weekdays until I get more a bankroll cushion.

Managed to satty into the 200k and mincash it for $320... that's about the highlight of my day

Gonna go buy some beer.. I was craving a good stout during the latter part of my session.

ah, a stout man...seems we're at ends, unless you also get down with really bitter IPAs too

Oh I do.. imperial stouts and double IPA's all day...

Few of my favorite IPA's are Victory Dirt Wolf, Stone Ruination, and Firestone Union Double Jack to name a few.

Gonna start looking at spots where I'm cbetting in MTT's, both IP and OOP.

From my cash background, I know you've gotta be cbetting a good amount, but something just feels wrong with my cbet frequencies in MTT's.

I'm cbetting boards that I consider "good" cbet boards, only to get floated by sticky fish and lose 10-20% of my stack repeatedly.

I'm going to go through 1,000 instances of cbetting and come up with a better strategy. Going to start now, and I'll keep track of how many instances I study so I can update here. Hoping to get through these 1,000 instances in the next week.

I think I need to focus on one part of my game at a time, and what better spot to look at than one that is so common?

Got the monitor baby!! 12 tiled tables LETS GOOOOOOO



lol doubled up on the top left table w/ AA while i was adjusting stack and tile.

Setting up the monitor to be in its maximum resolution was a real pain since my laptop's graphics card isn't supposed to allow for it, but I checked out some techie forums and after an hour and a half i was able to customize settings to make it happen!

Need to take an hour to relax myself after being so flustered with this, and then I'll be hardcore grinding today