Solid month Jay, although I'm guessing your more excited by the sports betting

GL with your goals this year! I play a similar schedule to you and see you a lot at the tables. Will be following this for sure!

Kinda just wanna post here once a week, but the world doesn't live in Philippine time so i'll get to the comments/questions.

Hah, thanks for the compliment, but this months results is more down to absurd run good in mid – high turbos and hypers. EG. The whole of last year I made 1 final table of a $82 hyper (got 6th), this month I’ve won 3 and got a 3rd, lucky me.

hiya, they were the good old days, good to see lots of the guys there have gone to great things.

havn't had one for a while, guess i'm due. Had a 5k break even stretch last year, where i busto'd my roll and had to rebuild through mttsngs. Since then worst downers been 5k.

End of the month dont want to post daily swings.

Wrote out my sports story in my last thread.

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/sh...&postcount=154

the devil it can be, lol, see what happened in last time i was betting (link above).

thanks mate, great recent score



Setups changed a bit from that pic, i tile up to 20 in the middle screen, excess tables tile onto the right screen. I keep Chrome and all the main lobbys up on the right screen.

On the left i either stream the golf, or keep up the betting markets just to sweat / keep an eye on it. I'll also cascade all the lobbys of tournaments i want to play but registration hasn't opened yet here.

RE: Stack and Tile, you must have it set up wrong. I have it setup so i press start, when a table pops, S&T moves it to the next available slot. I'll only retile (click stop then start) if i'm changing grid layout (12 to 20) or a table occasionally doesn't get initialy "caught" by stack and tile, you shouldn't need to do it everytime a table pops up.

I personally love stack and tile and has enabled me to multitable much more efficiently, couldn't play without it and well worth the price.

Besides stack and tile i have the usual software, table ninja, custom title bar, hem2.

haha, funny u say that, in an ideal world i wouldn't have to grind poker as much so i could work on it full time again. HOWEVER, i'm making way more money in poker right now so i'm probably only assigning about 10-15% of my time working on my sports, the rest reviewing and grinding poker.

Hopefully as my sports roll grows, i'll be earning more to justify working more on it.

thanks, gl to you to.

Your sports betting history was a very interesting read. You should offer golf betting coaching

Glad you enjoyed it.

Month Review

Last 3 Days Update

Had to get 3 solid days of play in to make my volume goal. Had a great first session +9k or so. The last 2 days have been really tough, i'm mentally exhausted from playing so much poker this month and was punting stacks all over the place yesterday. Today played better but i just wanted the session to end, ran ok and won 1.5k or something. Really tired so i wont be playing / reviewing any poker until monday when i'll get back to work.

Cashes Over $1k

1st PS $109 Turbo $5500ish
2nd PS $109 Turbo $3400ish
3rd PS $82 Hyper $1950
Chopped Full Tilt $26 $1080



Month



Pace

$ Pace = $13061 : Me = $37555
Games Pace = 1306 : Me = 1524

Goals

[] 1500 Games

[] No Booze in January

Got a case of...



ready to go in the freezer. Everyone in my house also took january off the booze so NYE style countdown about to happen in 10 mins.

Really happy with the month, obv results wise and that i stuck to my targets set in the thread and got everything done.

Back monday with golf results and February goals.

GLA!

Very solid graph, respect! The $109t is threating you good sir. Hopefully you stop running hot against me next month tho
Glgl

Pretty sick! GJ

Jesus man, just seen those graphs. How the **** do you make $40k in a month at a $40 ABI over 1500 games? Amazing man, great effort.

wow dude, nice month! late to the party but subbed, keep it up

sick month man. glglgl this month

Looking at your graph i had to go to sharkscope and filter everything to be sure i see right and my eyes are ok. Like how the hell do you manage it to look like sng graph haha what an awesome work true inspiration keep it trucking.

ty! i probably ran hot against everyone last month, so not just u, heres to another month of it!

Cheers guys.

Hah, idk, extreme run good on the upper end of my buyins. 1500 games is really a lot for me in terms of hours its one of the highest i've done in a month. The 1500 made up of;

277 MTTSNGS
143 Hyper MTTS
412 Turbo MTTS
769 Reg Speeds / Deepstacks

Its all the reg speeds that keep my variance low.

Week 5 Update

Poker

Havn't played any poker as been off. Actually need to take next 4 days off as its my fiances birthday and shes got some days off. A weeks break after last month can't do any harm tho. Will give me a chance to reset and not get ahead of myself. Will be fired up to play by friday or so as I'll need to be really ready mentally to give it my all when playing for $1k scores and stuff.

Also my internet has been getting little dodgy with a few cut offs so getting ADSL installed to go alongside my cable for peace of mind.

Pace

$ Pace = $14383 : Me = $37447
Games Pace = 1438 : Me = 1531

Golf Betting

European Tour

Scot, Stephen Gallacher held off South African's Richard Sterne by 3 shots to win one of golfs most stoopidest lookin trophys at the Dubai Desert Classic.



Win Market: +$1054
Other Markets: +$2055

Lee Westwood looked in good nik to tied 5th in his first competative tournament of the year. Has had a recent caddy change, split ways with his swing coach and uprooted his life to florida in a bid to try to get a major this year. Interesting to see how he'll do playing with his dad next week at Pebble beach on PGA Tour.

PGA Tour

It was the Phil Mickleson show at the Waste Management Phoenix Open at TPC Scotsdale. In round 1 he lipped out a put for a 59, he then held the lead throughout the tournament to win by 4 strokes from Brandt Snedeker.



Win Market: +$250
Other Markets: +$947

Should be a really great US Masters this year with Tiger and Phil firing on all cylinders not to mention great recent performances from Dustin Johnson and Charl Schwartzel and a few others + Rory will start playing in a couple of weeks.

Overall

Great Week with the leaderboards shaping in favorable positions for me. Am running good.



All Markets: +$4313

Goals

Last Week:

[] Finish 2nd HH Review i'm doing.

Febuary Goals

Poker

[] 1200 Games
[] 900 Scheduled Games

Fitness

[] Gym 6 Times
[] 3 Sessions With Trainer

Adding fitness goals to make sure i workout a bit more to stop me getting fatigued at the end of sessions like i did last month. I prefer to go gym infrequently but do 2 hour sessions. I will also need to organise my time a bit better this month as i had to get my volume in the last couple of days in Jan so wasn't able to workout at that time.

I can't believe I missed this for a month. Glgl this year Jay! Couple golf questions for ya:

What kind of things are you looking for when betting? I would guess it would be recent data from past weeks, historical data, and knowing the course (whats important: GIR/up-n-down/etc) and finding out those stats.

Do you have an automated way to weight these things or do you plug stuff into a spreadsheet and assign your own weights to formulas?

Last question is what is the learning curve like? What kind of hourly can you expect in your first 3months? Barriers of entry?

Can't wait for this thread to develop.

Jaime

Good luck, followed your thread last year. Its crazy how consistent you are. Your results are amazing. What are your poker study habits? How do you constantly improve and stay on top of your game?

Wow, i have never seen this thread either :/ strange, GL man, i enjoyed last years one and as i am a massive golf nerd i've got a feeling i'll enjoy this one even more. GL

GL OP followed you're thread from last year also!

Just want to post in it once a week so it doesn't become a distraction, these updates take long enough as it is. so it'll be lurking around page 10 or so for most of the week.

Great to have you guys onboard this year also.

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Week 6 Update

Poker

Kinda a frustrating week.

Started playing again Thursday, with a slightly fuzzy head from GF's birthday celebrations. I felt pretty rusty, decisions took longer and wasn't able to multi-table as well after a week off. Ended up tilting pretty badly after i punted my stack HU vs a reg in a 10r on 888. I remember shouting "**** YOU, I ****ING HATE THAT GUY, ****ING ****" etc. Lost like $500 that session.

Friday, did a longer review of my play the day before, but was similar ****, rusty and tilty. Won like $500

Saturday, monster 12 hour session culmilating with 7th in the $22 Saturday 6max for like $600 which was really frustrating as i had a big stack but kinda blew it vs a maniac never folding whale from Tunisia. He wasn't folding anything but i over adjusted and ended up playing too tight only value betting and he adjusted to my strat. He also had some wierd bluffs in him which made him tricky to play. I had him on my right for about 4 hours. He ran exceptionally well but i was disappointed to lose the chiplead and miss out on the final table. Won like $1.5k.

I didn't Tilt on saturday tho. I made sure to put up "post-it" style notes on spare screen space to remember to reset my brain. Sometimes the intensity of mass multi-tabling for hours can get to you and you forget where you are and why your doing what your doing. Saturdays reminder was like the one in "Mental Game of Poker".



Sunday, set up my golf bets and did my review like everyday. But when it came to playing i just didn't feel like it and took a day off.


Cashes Over $1k

1st Merge $30r $1400ish

Week & Month Graph



BodyClock

My bodyclocks been getting later and later, so i think i'm at the point where i gotta spin it around the clock again and work nights for a bit. I hate waking up at 1 - 2pm everday but cannot sleep at night.

I've also started to become a bit of a variance nit, so i think its good for me to break out of that and play some mid-high peak time mtts, could be a big downswing for next update but am ready mentally, its all variance anyway.

Pace

$ Pace = $17260 : Me = $39107
Game Pace = 1726 : Me = 1780

Golf Betting

European Tour

European Tour now heads back to South Africa for a couple of very weak field tournaments while all the big names head to America in preparation for the World Golf Championships. This week was the Joburg Open.

It was a 2 Horse Race going into the final day with 2 South Africans, Richard Sterne (-$500) and Trevor Fisher Jnr (+$4000) 5 Shots Clear of third place. Trevor Fisher Jnr needed a win to claim a european tour card and it was a make a break round for him (pictured below);



But it all got a bit much and he ****ed it shooting +2 and Sterne went on to win by 7 Shots. Place Markets also went pretty ****ty, bad tourney.

Win Market: -$501
Other Markets: -$698

PGA Tour

2 Things that annoy me when it comes to golf betting: 1 is Pro-Am's, watching C List celeb's hacking around tough golf courses is frustrating when you've got money riding on it. The other thing is multi-course events which makes the betting much more fiddly. The AT&T Pro Am @ Pebble Beach is both. This weeks betting would have been actually been great if it wasn't for this guy...



Lots of my favoured golfers finished top 5 / top 10 but Snedeker just too much for all of em.

Win Market: -$794
Other Markets: +$900

Champions Tour

Good Old Rocco (HERO) crushes the old guys on his debut in the Champions Tour.



Win Market: +$547

OVERALL

First Losing Week of the Year, it actually went really badly so pleased that i only lost $500 so still confident overall on how its all working.



Think i'm gonna top up my Sports roll a bit this week and bump it up to $18k so that i feel its still progressing.

Overall: -$546

Goals

February Goals

Poker

[] 1200 Total Games - (250)
[] 900 Scheduled Games - (218)

Fitness

[] Gym 6 Times - (1)
[] 3 Sessions With Trainer - (0)

Smoking

[] Make A Plan How To Reduce Smoking Starting In March <-- My lungs cant handle smoking every sync break and i'm gonna have to reduce it, but its so ingrained i can't think of a good option yet, but posting this is a start!

GLA!

Nice thread, subscribed

Any chance you could pick a hand that you did this for and walk us through it?

Great

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Week 7 Update

Poker

So have righted my bodyclock perfectly, went to bed at 8pm last night and woke up feeling fesh at 5am today, so i am awake for the hours of productivity Lets see how long i can stay here.

As i've been awake at all kinds of silly hours had nothing to do so just been grinding non stop playing a lot of peak time mtts, results overall have been really good, playing a mixture of C+ to A- game.

Cashes Over $1k

Lots of them as playing peak time and much higher ABI

3rd $55r Party - $3800
1st $82r Revolution - $3200<-- **Double**
1st $82r Merge - $2800 <-- Did the double on these yesterday first time i played them
3rd $82 Hyper PS - $2300 <-- Made huge icm mistake to not finish 2nd due to mass multitabling and couldn't calculate stacks in my head quick enough before i timed out. Lesson learned.
1st $33 1r1a Turbo Merge - $2300
8th $109 "The Big" PS - $2280
1st $33r Party - $2200
2nd $215 Deepstack Revolution - $2250
1st $33r Full Tilt - $2050
1st 20e 1r1a 6max Micrograming - 1800e
3rd $22r Action Hour 6max PS - $1800
1st $109 Turbo Merge - $1700
1st $109 Revolution - $1600
5th $215 "Pacific Rim" PS - $1500
4th $33 1r1a PS - $1200
7th $109r 6max FullTilt - $1100

Week



Month



Pace

$ Pace = $20547 : Me = $57795
Volume Pace = 2054 : Me = 2294

Game Selection

After playing some mid / high peak time mtts i've realised game selection is pretty important during this time. I've been working on a spreadsheet looking at all the tournaments that i've played this week looking at the sharkscope average ability score. Each tournament will be rated based on a more complex version of this formula;

Tournament Score = Buyin * (Ability Over Field - Rake : Buyin Ratio)

Once i get it finished the end result hopefully will look like this;

Inputs:

Start Time of Session
End Time Of Session
Number Of Tournaments Want To Play = (X)

Proccess:

Find all the tournaments within timeframe, compute a score for each one

Output:

Spits Out the top (X) tournaments which to register in your session


Golf Betting

Havn't watched much golf as grinding so much.

European Tour -$321

Darren Fichardt held off a very weak field to win the African Open.



PGA Tour $1114

John Merrick (-$154) Saved my ass beating Charlie Beljan (-$2100) in a playoff for his first victory on tour vs a strong field at the Northern Trust Open @ Riviera.



Champions Tour -$291

Typical German Efficiency as Langer wins another Champions Tour event at the Ace Group Classic.



Overall $502

Small profit for the week, feel like my model needs some more work, but time best spent grinding right now.



WGC Matchplay this week. I'll need to create a new simulator for matchplay if i'm going to bet on it. Only have 2 days before it starts, so may do it or not bother and just take a week off.

Goals

February Goals

Poker

[] 1200 Total Games - (764)
[] 900 Scheduled Games - (624)

Fitness

[] Gym 6 Times - (3)
[] 3 Sessions With Trainer - (0)

Smoking

[] Make A Plan How To Reduce Smoking Starting In March (No Plan Yet)

I don't even play MTTs, but I'm very intrigued by your approach to your game and this thread. I'm subbed, looking forward to seeing you crushing this year.

Incredible work jay

Wow, thats alot of well paid FT's!

Not easy at all grinding from the Philippines due to the timezone so this is pretty cool and inspiring.

Subbed and GL!

+1 sicko! glgl