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Originally Posted by mypokerphd
Hi JoshNRuse, great thread!! I'm fairly new to poker and got to say your journey to SNE last year was really inspiring. I've been playing poker for 9 months and I just joined Stars about 2 weeks ago. I'd like to become a SNE RB grinder and i'd like to specialize in 6max hyperturbos as well because of potentially high volume and also less postflop play, which might give me a better chance against experienced regs. I've so far been experimenting different approaches 6-tabling on PS 6max $3.50 Hyper with a small bankroll of $100, i managed 270 games before i got broke. I know it sounds really bad but don't worry i know more than anyone that i'm still a fish. there's still a lot i need to learn like ICM (which i currently don't understand), hand selection (ranges) and bubble play. My plan is to spend the rest of this year studying hyperturbo strategies and occasionally stabbing the PS $7, $15, up to $60 to get a feel of my progress. I hope that by end of year, I'll at least be in position to be a break even player so that come Jan 2014 I can start my grind. So the summary of my goal is "to start shooting for SNE from Jan 2014 by 6-tabling the 6max $60 hyperturbo for 10hrs/day (4hr-4hr-2hr sessions) at 6 days/week (assuming I can achieve ROI =0% preRB and assuming traffic is good - this works out to something like 24games/hour).
Now that you know a bit of my background i hope you're now well positioned to answer a few questions I've got for you guys:
Q1: Will a bankroll of 200 buy-ins ($12 000) be sufficient to cushion downswings at the $60 buy-in?
Q2: How difficult is it to beat the $60 level? I will study a lot before January ( i'm actually completing my PhD in engineering) so studying is 2nd nature, but from your experience, how treacherous is this level?
Q3: I heard about sngwiz, stove and TN2 but exactly which software tools will be a must for me?
Q4: Are there training sites out there specifically for STT hyperturbos or ebooks/ etc?
I know this is very long and maybe not to the point but any helpful (and honest) answers will be greatly appreciated. many thanks in advance.
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Originally Posted by Dochrohan
200 buy/ins is not enough.
the $60 level is very difficult and will require some intense studying to become capable of reaching that level in under a year.
ICMizer over wiz
Yes, I would use google
let the others answer in more detail, sorry, I´m lazy at the moment and a bit busy.
Yea Doch is right, I doubt you'll be skilled enough to beat the $60s by the start of next yr. Its taken me a long time to get to where I am today, and I'm still not even that good.
6 tabling 10 hrs a day 6 days a week would also be a super withered way to get SNE, most people can pound out the #'s and they look like they won't be that hard to do, but when you start doing it day in and day out, it's not easy.
Also no idea on training site vids, never have used a training site before. If someone is out there making 6m hyper vids though, they aren't a good reg; that's all I can say.
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Originally Posted by bumpking
This snippet really jumped out at me bro. There should never be anything more important in your life than your health. Hopefully you will learn this relatively soon, but if not you will learn it the hard way when it's too late.
Make a list of all those things that you've ranked over your health at different times in the past couple of years. Not to be morbid, but how many of those things could you do when you're really sick, dying, or dead? Have you read Wizardofaahs stuff? Super motivating!
Super proud of you to take some time off and to do this 10-day program. Grind the ***t out of this program!!!
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Originally Posted by boliver
yeah man sometimes it takes a ****ty life event to make you realize how important health is, just hoping you get healthy before anything bad happens to you. I'm sure josh has had plenty of people throughout his life berating him about health for the last 20 years and it prob goes in one ear and out the other alot of the time, but I think ur def starting to realize the importance of it and that's awesome.
feel better, look better, play better, sex better. some downsides are that its more expensive (dont think you give a ****), can take up alot of time, feel a bit ostracized from friends that eat like ****, and obv ur gonna miss eating 20 oz steaks wrapped in bacon and all the convenient processed food. really think it'll lead to a world of difference in how much you enjoy life if you get really into it though, best of luck man!
weeee freeroll ship! highlight of my sunday (hungover, sick, tired, no bananas, lost the $$ies, food delivery took 3 hours, slept PAST BOP freeroll, howwww? end rant)
lbc.boliverrrrrrrrr
Thx both of you for the posts. Yea I've def had people telling me about health over the years, but honestly at home, my parents don't live that healthy of a lifestyle (both well overweight although they've both been losing some weight the past year which is cool), and so I just naturally started eating/living that way.
Bumpking, yea I'll definitely have to have a longer think about that, maybe that can be my first sort of 'mediation/spiritual' exercise I do; past reflection or something like that. People get in their heads what they think meditation and spirituality mean, but to me anything I can do to get myself to start thinking and bettering myself will be a good start!
Boliver, the main downsides for me (you know I don't give a **** about cost/money in general) are that I don't know how to cook which limits my healthy options, but moreover, I don't know how to shop (especially in mexico) for healthy, organic products. After this 10 days if I continue to have this girl cook the majority of my meals for me, I'm going to see if it's possible to have her start teaching me a bit about that stuff, but that's in the future and I'm just focused on getting through these 10 days as of right now.
Heh (dance) for making your Sundayfunday better, also missed BoP freeroll...the tickets are really starting to pile up haha.
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Originally Posted by ONLYRAISEAA
yeah feel you there bud, also getting to the point where not taking care of myself is showing it's bad results...
had a pretty shocking wakeup when a good friend of mine basically burned out / had some real bad health issues because of his eating habits and too much stress/work.
sounds like a really hard program, I'd struggle pretty bad with that tbh. even not blazing for a couple of days seems like a nightmare to me nowadays, problem is I won't start a diet while still getting stoned as that's pretty much impossible imo. #firstworldproblems
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Originally Posted by SawyerAnthony
I've never done drugs in my life and rarely drink, I'm actually underweight even though most of my food is junk. My sleeping habits are the worst I have ever seen for someone that isn't diagnosed as an insomniac. My work is stressful at many times.
What happened to your friend?
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Originally Posted by ONLYRAISEAA
Hard to tell, they still don't really know. He just woke up one night and his heart was raging. Doctors said he could've died if he didn't go to the hospital. They're still not sure what it is, probably stomach problems he always had + really stressy and unhealty lifestyle (studying + working and always wanting to be on the top)
he changed all his eating habits, lost like 10kg, does sport at least 3 times a week and goes to yoga/breathing training or smth like that.
I for my part have that sleeping apnoe, smoke 1 1/2 packs of cigs a day, 10g weed/week and eat pretty unhealthy. Go to the gym like once every two weeks so I'm transforming into a tragedy tbh gained way too much the last 6 months and need to do something about it (rain)
Damn 1.5 packs a day (rain), I was up to half a pack a day and was getting mad at myself for that.
Well when you're ready to try to make a change, hopefully I can help, I have to make the change myself first
. Vamossss
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Just woke up, slept in a bit late but not real worried about that. It's 6am right now, so I'm planning on putting in a nice sized session and then I have bfast being delivered about 8:30am-9am and will eat and then probably get in another short session.
Probably see how I'm feeling at that point, but planning on going out and playing tennis and maybe taking a jog/walk on the beach. Might have to come back and take a short nap pending on my energy level, but am planning on putting in at least 1 session during the early-late afternoon.
Will post how day 1 of the detox goes at the end of the day; for the time being here's an updated VPP count and a MTD graph; gla today!
Edit: Just signed into my acct and noticed I won $725 off the BoP this week (dance)
VPPs: 841860.04