my roommate mines various coins and in the end uses exchanges to convert them to BTC before selling for cash. with the abundance of people mining now you need to be able to assess the value of different crypto coins and trade them.

what is your value raising range then? mine would certainly be way wider than yours evidently, which would, in theory, open up my bluffing range. think you are allowing far too much equity realization for your opponents if you are flatting even like 1/4th of the hands you mentioned. I would be raising any top pair combination versus a BB flatting range and rightfully so. The board crushes our range and he has a wide flatting range in BB. sets and top two pair combinations have to be bet some of the time to, preferably a lot IMO. If we have read villain donks a lot of one pair combinations, flatting some of those hands gets better(he is the effective stack, not versus you but versus the third party), we can start trapping his one pair combinations. But, if he is doing this with draws and combination draws we are just unnecessarily letting him realize too much equity(when flatting the combos you stated +you have range advantage) and we still have a third party behind, in which case, the pot is now larger when we flat, incentivizing the third party to perhaps come along or get fancy. You named a ton of hands that were in your flop calling range and then you stated you didn't have a flop calling value range, ha, so I'm not sure what to think.

interesting. yeah it appears like everybody and his dog is doing this now. do u have any more information on it? ie anything that would be good for a beginner to read or w/e


well, let's just say we won't be put in this situation very often at all (20bb flats and then we face a donk lead from bb on this texture) so it's really tough to determine exactly what my ranges are. I agree we allow too much equity realization by flatting but at the same time I do think the 20bb caller will smash this board a lot and will jam or fold a high frequency so i do think we can call a little more than usual (with traps and hands that need more protection). (ie he prob jams open enders/top pairs/flush draws almost always), in a vacuum, I want to say im balanced here etc but i really dont think it matters vs this type of monkey and we can take a max. exploitative line...we just need to put the idea in his head that we do have a big value range here, whether i do or not is up for him to decide, and it looks like he may have decided correctly...this time

PS: one other thing that I wanted to add is that it generally sucks bluffing when flush draws miss because everyone all of a sudden becomes 2rich2fold. in other words, they just say "ahh he could have a busted flush draw so i call". Even though I have 0 flush draws in this spot because I would raise gii on flop, it was probably a lot of his logic behind calling. It's funny though when people perceive your range as nuts or nothing and then u show up with a 2nd pair value jam and they call u with A high etc

reddit has a lot of decent subreddits on GPU mining if that's what you're interested in. if you're looking for information about trading crypto currencies i don't really have anything, but you could start by looking at the charts of the most popular coins to get familiar with their growth or lack of.

cool thanks i will have a good read this week

Howdy, hope everyone had a good week. Just got back from my weekly Sunday Cooldown activity which happened to be fishing and exploring the river next to my place. I didn't factor it in hugely when looking at places to live but I will say I'm very grateful that I have a nice place in nature that I can go to fish/canoe/walk/adventure. It's quite therapeutic after a day of mental turmoil to go and watch the river flow. Had an ok week, did quite a bit of grinding, went camping for a night on Lake Erie, messed around on a couple jet skis with a friend, went out for a night on the town Saturday night, played a nice sesh today, and that's what brings me here for: you guessed it; the weekly update.

Health:

Workouts Completed this week: (3/4)
Times leaving diet guidelines: 4
20 Minute Meditation Session: 6/7
Books Read: 1/1
Body Weight +/-: -18 lbs. (since beginning of year)

Wealth:

Training Videos Watched: 0/1
Hours in the lab: 0/2
Sessions played: 4/4
Hours put into researching new avenues of revenue generation:4
Weekly Proft: For some reason scope is down for me so can't check. Probably slightly losing
Yearly Profit: same as above
Live Poker Profit This Year: +9 963

Book Review:
Finished "The Subtle Art of Not Giving a ****" today. Overall, it was a very interesting read and quite enjoyable. It's a pretty quick read (prob only took me 4 hours or so) and I'd highly recommend it. The author talks a lot about the illusions and deceptions that our society has about happiness and well-being. I'll just talk briefly about a few of the points that I enjoyed (and more in depth about one during the weekly rant):

1. Part of living a great life involves taking responsibility for everything that happens to us regardless of if we are at fault or not. In other words, we choose how we react and deal with something. This creates a sense of empowerment and aids in living a fulfilled life.
2. Everything in life has problems. Every path you choose will bring problems. However, some problems are better than others. For example if your dating life sucks you might have issues with loneliness. If you have an amazing dating life you might have issues with managing all your partners/scheduling etc.
3. The key to living a great life is only giving a **** about the things that align with your personal values.
4. Teachings in self-help community tell you to visualize success or who you want to be/what you need to have etc... This directs your thinking to what you don't have, who you aren't etc. By training your brain to "only be happy when I have x", when you obtain "x" you will only be happy when you obtain "y".
5. The crisis that the first world society is facing nowadays is no longer about lack of resources. The crisis is about an abundance of resources and delusional mindsets make our lives very ambiguous. We don't know what to give a **** about.
6. Desiring a more positive experience is a NEGATIVE experience. Paradoxically, accepting our negative experience is a POSITIVE experience.
7. With great responsibility comes great power. Contrary to the famous quote from Spiderman.
8. For progression, our minds are designed to create problems. When problems exist, we find solutions and grow. This is sometimes why even the most perfect people are depressed.
9. Happiness is found in solving problems. Not avoiding them. So many things in our society are designed to distract us from problem solving and actually deter us from solving them.
10. Almost all of us are average at most things. Think about a natural distribution. If we push ourselves to be the best at everything it will bring mental turmoil because it is simply not possibly. Being elite at something requires a tonne of dedication and sometimes god given talents.
11. Everything we see are extremities. In the news we only see the best and worst of society. We only see the best of people's lives on social media. In the era of instafame it's easy to drive ourselves insane playing the comparison game.
12. Mass exposure to marketing and media is screwing up the perceptions people have of themselves or whom they should be.
13. The more uncomfortable the answer, the more likely it is to be true.
14. Pleasure is a mirage. Research shows that people who focus gaining pleasure are riddled with anxiety and depression. Think about the drug addict who chased pleasure or the fat man who ate himself to death.
15. When we choose our problems we feel empowered. When we feel they are forced upon us we dislike them. Think about if you decide you want a stake in poker because you have an opportunity to be with great players/coaches and move up stakes vs. you are FORCED to get a stake because you are broke.
16. Certainty is the enemy of growth.
17. Investing deeply in one person, place, thing heavily gives us depth. However, we might miss the variety or choice of many of the above...a lack of breadth.
18. The only way to be comfortable with death is to understand and see yourself as something bigger than yourself. To contribute to some larger entity.

-Sorry got a little carried away there. Compared some of my notes to a cliff notes of someone else and lots of his points actually reminded me of stuff I liked in the book.

Hands:
https://www.boomplayer.com/24515371_09BCD717FC
near bubble lol. i think i have exactly 0 bluffs here 10 off ITM even though I prob have Q10cc etc by the river given his flop lead size. Cashed the SM 2 weeks in a row and SW woot woot
https://www.boomplayer.com/24511092_2BC2BD16DF
this was also near the bubble. knew this felt like a huge mistake not jamming the turn. just hate getting snapped by a fish who has 10x or smth on the turn. oh well i guess checking and realizing equity cant be bad+possibly bluff catching A high on some rivs
https://www.boomplayer.com/24509925_235221B1BE
this hand generated quite a lot of discussion in strategy chat. i feel like we should be betting flop and jamming turn quite a bit (especially vs a weak player) because we have AA KK QQ whereas he is more weighted towards medium pairs and draws. others are saying check flop bet turn bet river (which i think is sort of bad).., i think if we check we go into bluff catching mode because 0 over pairs check flop...we really can't rep a whole lot. idk what u guys think?

https://www.boomplayer.com/24509533_BFF8CD3749
lol such a stupid hand. just exploit folded on river presumably he never has a bluff (wp him if he does)...idk if good but decided a small blocker bet on turn that can get value from other pairs and A high then i can check riv as opposed to facing a big bet.

Random Rant of the Week

This is actually gonna be 2 parts because there was 2 things I found very intriguing/thought provoking this week.

What do you want in life? What do a lot of people you know in life want? To financially free? To have a beautiful wife/husband who also is an amazing person? Have a nice home? Have a well paying job you enjoy?

The reason I ask these questions is because I had a bit of a realization whilst reading the book above. It is not what we want that determines what we get...it is what we are willing to suffer for. Let me explain.

NHL Player: If your goal is to become an NHL hockey player it is likely because you want to play a sport for a living, want the fortune and fame, or the puck bunnies. Wouldn't most of us want that? The thing that separates the guys who are successful in this is how much they are willing to suffer (and god given talent). All the dreamers want the fortune and fame but are they willing to bust their ass in the gym every morning? Deal with all of the PR bs that athletes face? Spend their weekends working on their craft as opposed to spending it partying with their friends?

To have a high paying career: They want the nice car, home, and corner office. Are they willing to endure the countless hours staying late, sitting in traffic, the patience to obtain the social suave to climb the corporate ladder, or having high stress/pressure when they try to take a weekend off?

Professional Poker Player: They want the freedom to set their own hours, the traveling, the glory, the money, the bracelet etc...Are they willing to sacrifice the painstaking 6 figure downswings? Hand history reviews to the early hours? Running sims until their computer blows up? Grinding 15 hour days because of the uncertainty of tournaments?

Hopefully these scenarios help illustrate that it is not what we WANT in life it is what we are willing to SUFFER for. Those who don't give a **** about the struggles in the way of their dreams will achieve them.

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The next thing I got was some really good advice from a friend (who he says he got from a friend). We were talking a little bit about women and relationships and how to have an abundance/high quality relationships. The advice he said was "to have a great relationship you need to have a great relationship with yourself. Spend a lot of time going on dates with yourself and doing the things you love. You will grow a lot as a person and become far more attractive to potential partners.

Don't think I need to elaborate too much on that. I really think it is great advice. Sometimes working on yourself is the best thing you can do and is often for the better. There was times when my dating life sucked and I would get fairly bummed out about it (still isn't great). Just know it's almost a blessing to be single and have the time to learn about yourself/hit the gym/meditate/eat well/travel/learn/grown...in the long run you will be a much more attractive partner and have much healthier relationships. I haven't won any majors lately so that statement might not have very much credit hahah...I do strongly believe in it though.


Anyways my homies, that is all for now. Actually about to head out for my nightly walk now (did it in reverse order this week.) Gonna do a hike tomorrow morning and then grinding HARD mon-thurs and sunday this week...really feel it's time to start winning some d0nut$. Thanks for the love/comments/follows so far this year guys. Really keeps me motivated to stick with this when I know there is people out there cheering me on.

“Everything worthwhile in life is won through surmounting the associated negative experience. Any attempt to escape the negative, to avoid it or quash it or silence it, only backfires. The avoidance of suffering is a form of suffering. The avoidance of struggle is a struggle. The denial of failure is a failure. Hiding what is shameful is itself a form of shame.
Pain is an inextricable thread in the fabric of life, and to tear it out is not only impossible, but destructive: attempting to tear it out unravels everything else with it. To try to avoid pain is to give too many ****s about pain. In contrast, if you’re able to not give a **** about the pain, you become unstoppable." -Mark Manson

k9=bet fold seems ok, but i think ill bet bigger turn and then smaller(45-55%) on river
AA= ill play it same, JT is very atrocious call imo and idont think that you shouldn have flushes in your range, in villain spot i probaly just give up on turn and if i am planing to call off river i think is better to shove ourselfs (sometimes we get hero folds QQ+, sometimes we get hero calls 77-TT)
AQ= i am probaly just giving up when all bricks because i dont expect that he will take that line and fold with pair and e are beating alll the draws
KK = i think vs unknowns as played (multiway) i 4bet gii tight range

AJs inSM = lol nh
AJs in WU = is ugly before buble, i probably just jam it pre, as played is ugly i think both jaming on turn or ch/decide river is ok imo (because is buble, if not i think jaming turn is far betetr then ch behind)
AA= hm i dont like it, i will probably ch flop(we cant gii vs flushes because we are bloking Adx and we kinda have only 2 street value max on that board), or turn as played on flop or bet bigger and then ch river behind, as played on turn i will probably just hero if villain is unknown because from my experience unknowns shove rivers with nuts and take weird lines like this with random hands
AK= i think with short BB we can also flat sometimes, as played think is standard without reads, weak players dont fold overpairs/pairs because you obv have AK when you 3bet

Hand 1: wp by you obv, by him not so much would probably bet turn a bit bigger to set up riverjam

Hand 2: Would go a bit smaller on the flop, don't mind checking back turn at all since the 8 kinda smacks his range and we can just realize our heaps of equity and tiny bit of sdv by checking especially close to the bubble. Could jam some weaker clubs or something but think this hand works better as a check. Of course it hurts when seeing his hand at showdown but I think this is wp

Hand 3: Would just bet 1/3 otf since I would assume pairs are never x/f and anything else we either deny equity against by just betting small and making his QJs or whatever fold or he is x/jamming sth like 99/TT otf. Don't think we can really leverage our high overpairs vs his mid overpairs range advantage by bluffing twice here bc we are kind of shallow/spr is low. Wouldn't really mind checking back flop either though to realize equity vs pairs that can x/jam flop and we have to b/f against with two overs +bdfd. Think the best line to take is pretty dependant on what he opens and how much he folds to 3b, if he is very wide I like betting 1/3 flop and going from there. If he is tightish (clearly not) I would x back flop and expect to show down a lot vs worse Ahi type hands or get x/jammed on which sucks. Wouldn't jam turn as played since I think folding out pairs is pretty ambitious. Sucks that he has this hand which he would likely fold vs turnbomb but what can you do


Hand 4: Not sure what you accomplish by betting turn for this sizing. Would x back turn and evaluate river. If he is wide pre with opening/calling 3b then we might be able to call down river but if he's tight pre I think we can just fold AdAx and feel fine about it (depending on sizing i guess). We can comfortably valuebet when he checks to us otr and ott we don't really need protection and don't have a hand to vbet 3 streets with anyway. As played, I would be more likely to fold to the turnraise (but not gon' be able to do it) than to the riverbet since I would expect him to jam river really, really often and want to fold vs that which makes calling turnraise seem kind of silly. Otr as played I would commend him for his excellent sizing and pay it off

GL, I like the effort you put in to your updates

*will reevaluate this post tomorrow bc started drinking after fkn sunday session

1 (AJo): not much to say

2 (AJs): preflop and flop are fine. i'd say i'm jamming pre more often than not especially given the stacks at your table. on turn generally want to be jamming here. i don't think checking is especially bad given the money is approaching.

3 (AKs): preflop is fine. flop sizing should be smaller imo. on turn it's std to check given SPR. checking river too. i don't really like the line x flop, bet turn, bet river. we cap our range pretty hard when we check flop.

4 (AA): preflop sizing seems like exploit. i size a bit bigger here with bluffs and value (even with one 20bb stack behind). flop is fine. turn i check here a lot. some villians i will continue betting. once i call turn i'm calling that size river bet.

hey guys thanks very much for the great analysis. i'm bringing all those hands to an hh review on friday and will be very handy to consider all the diff lines/adv/disadvs etc

on a side note today i've got a prop bet that kicked off @ 9 am this morning. it's gonna go until august 8th (4 weeks exactly) and is live until the end or until one of us messes up. If one of us happens to mess up we will pay the agreed upon $ amount to the other guy (only if he completes the 4 week challenge without error). Here are the parameters:

1. You must go to the gym 4x/week and show receipts on snapchat.

2. No pizza allowed. To be honest I wanted something a little more difficult (ie no fast food or something) but all good pizza is a good start and I'm gonna try to not eat fast food either.

Should be relatively easy to complete this for both of us. I thought it would be a good idea to post it in here and update on snap as I go...that way I hold myself accountable ever further.

PS: bubbled 4 ft's yesterday which was painful. I can find light in the fact that I'm at least getting deep in stuff now and running a little bit better (still pretty bad though). Ended up taking 2nd in 22 prog. to save the day. Feeling great and back for more after a nice gym session today. LEGGO

Another losing day at the tables (although small). Feels good to be cashing stuff and I have been very productive off the tables this week which is a win in itself. The basic day is looking like:
-wake up around 10 am
-make breakfast/mess around for a bit
-head to the gym around 11 am-noon
-head back to my place and make small lunch/snack
-do errands etc
-start the grind around 2 or 3 pm and go til around 1 am
-nightly walk for 30-60 mins
-meditate and fall asleep

Due to the nature of Canadian seasonality Saturdays/Fridays have been reserved for summer destinations/hanging out with friends/a few drinks. The schedule is obviously very simple but quite productive towards my long term goals (maximizing health, wealth, relationships, and happiness.) Just a matter of really sticking to the plan/staying disciplined. It really feels like everything is coming together slowly but surely and I've noticed significant changes in my attitude/mindset in everyday life. For example there have been a lot of mental blockages I've had in regards to certain tasks/happenings in everday life that are seeming to disappear bit by bit. Still a long, long way to go but gonna enjoy every minute of it

Here's a couple hands from my last few sessions:

https://www.boomplayer.com/24539497_A62EC6A2C0
here's a fun one when I was bored and punting a bit after my sesh haha

https://www.boomplayer.com/24538574_F43A6DF6B4
i hate bounty builders. such an awkward spot i guess given how wide ranges are in these its fine to just jam it in.

https://www.boomplayer.com/24536792_7762BF0070
bleh this sucked. villain is loose/reg fish. i might just start ripping these spots in pre flop or flatting. I find 3 betting OOP just sucks cuz when facing a 4 bet we puke/call and when they flat we are just in so many weird spots...i guess we print when we out kick them etc. should i x/j flop ever? i hate jamming turn but meh sorta have to as played

https://www.boomplayer.com/24536695_C042553EA5
lol pretty stubborn from a supposed ok reg here. hes like 27/19 or so over a big sample and i assume he c bets close to 100% on this board.. i guess when he bet/snaps A6o we print but vs population idk whats best line here? sucks jamming and being dead vs their value range.

https://www.boomplayer.com/24536103_004D4ACFD5
not sure i like this but have been experimenting with having bluff ranges in these spots. its easy to find value combos but bluff combos are a little more tricky because in general we check to the aggressor

https://www.boomplayer.com/24534646_80085CE4A9
prob iight?


Anyways guys, been a long day and it's time for me to catch some z's. Peace.

2 (KQo): playing about the same. given the situation, the sizing of COs bet and the flatting of BB, jamming prob best at this stack depth.

3 (AQo): since this is an spko, jamming pre vs a loose opener is going to show a profit at around 33bb in these positions. flatting prob the second best option. as played i would make flop bet a touch bigger, like 36k-38k. turn jam is best play.

4 (54s): playing this hand the same at this stack depth vs described villian.

5 (QTo): you picked a fine bluff combo here. 2 of your straight outs aren't clean anymore and only have Q high. other good bluff combos for turn are naked Ah.

6 (QJs): yup wp.

Hey man, would you mind posting the HH into the converter rather than boom. Makes it easier to view via the app.

@ wrs: agree with all of that ty for your thoughts. someone ran that AQ through some solvers etc and it looks like jamming pre is probably the best option. was doing some thinking and possibly 3 betting on the smaller side could actually quite valuable in these spots (as villain will prob peel 100% and we can outkick him lots when we make pair, pot doesnt get bloated).

@mick: i'll see what i can do even though im a noob on forums and don't even know how to post a pic on here

Hey man,

Having a bit of a tough week myself on and off the tables..

I am constantly reading ur updates and i found very interesting the thoughts about the book u read and "what u wanna be doing in life"..

Regarding the hands i like ur plays and mostly aggree with them.

Two hands I wouldnt see myself following the same action are:

45s hand: i cant imagine my self c/j here although after ur analysis seems correct play. I most proly c/c the spot, dun know if its best though (protection, villain type).

QT hand: i like this line a lot, although maybe I size a bit bigger the lead OTT, otherwise i can definately see myself playing the same way. OTR sometimes i miss pulling the trigger and abandon the hand, though i like your analysis also having a bluff range here.

Tnx 4 keeping this thread alive, helps me maybe even more than i thought, since in my bad days, as these past 3, i find some strength in the thought of coming here and read 1-2 threads like yours + update mine.

If u think u have spare time at all, as i understand its hard and valuable, feel free to comment on some hands i post in my journey (although not much atm but keep including and studying).

Best of luck in the next battles!

I will be following

Cheers buddy!

PS: Dont mean to start a confrontation or anything with any1 but i personally enjoy/prefer the "boom" format of HHs.

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KQ- Cbet buddy, vs unknown random btn clickers is best because you are going to cotrol sizings etc decide do you want to barell so r runouts etc etc, in genreral i think vs random btn clickers expesialy in PKOs is best to have the beting lead on your side brcause u get more info that way imo
As played I would not jam flop because i expect 0 FEQ

AQ- althought i think both flatin and shoving has its value i think 3 bet to max 3,5x imo in this spot is best and most profitabele option, as played with your combo and that SPR i am ok to ch flop and barel turns shove rivers, or ch shove flop

54hh- i am not jaming flop, i never jam 2 there, i dont have overpairs, so i think jaming is kinda bad because when we got called we are dead or best fliping, and we can make some better hands fold till river with diffrent lines, like leading some turn jaming rivers, overbeting rivers, x/r some turn or rivers etc etc

QT- i dint like it you are just random cliking btns imo, vs utg range i think we should ether x/r ai, or call flop hope turn goes x/x end maybe maybe then shove/bet some river BUT to do that i like/prefer to have at least Qh/Th in my hand so i can block some of his flush combos, with your hand we are blocking nothing and you probably make him fold Ahx or smth like that, i really dont like this hand

QJs - ok i guess w/e, i am cheking back turns some times you are getting max one more street value most of the times and he is folding his air/pp , and it sucks for your Ax/ draws/pp combos if you always bet Jx/33 there right?

hey man, thanks for the kind words i appreciate that. i also appreciate the guys following along and helping keep things alive as it feels weird just making updates etc and no responses (even though I would keep updating regardless but it would definitely affect the quality.) sorry to hear you are having a tough week. here's a good speech that might help cheer u up

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF8uR6Z6KLc

cheers and ty for your thoughts on the hands.

@re8uz i'll hit you up with my thoughts on skype (tyvm for yours)

Hey guys, thought I would check in before heading into the weekend. Been a very good productive week thus far and I'm quite happy with that. I'll elaborate more in the weekly update. I've still been running really bad on the grind but I've taken some steps to alleviate some of the negative variance:
-Started playing regularly on other sites
-Keeping table counts reasonable
-Cut out dick swing games on PS where ROI low/variance high
-Selling a decent chunk of myself most sessions
-Working to improve and get edge as high as possible
-Putting in more volume off peak

It sucks with all of these changes that PS has made with rakeback because essentially rakeback is nil as of now. The whole thing with the chests seems quite conniving. Basically, just a huge rakeback reduction disguised by a magical chest. I've yet to discover a chest with more than ~2$ in it and the majority are around 50 cents. Perhaps I am running bad. Then again, rakeback in the past has always been on a system of: "you put in x and you get y back at an agreed upon rate." Now, the rate is essentially 20% of what it used to be and it's quite variable. Maybe the chest idea is far better/attractive for recs and I could get behind that idea if need be...only if it was the same EV. Anyways, this is the environment we have to deal with and I could sit here whining about it until the sun comes up. I'm doing whatever I can within my control to maximize EV and if that means playing less on PS or even finding other ventures outside of poker it might be for the best anyways.

I'm excited for this weekend and the rest of the summer (have quite a few good things planned for both). Next session will be on Sunday and I'll be here as per usual with the weekly update. Cheers mateys!

Hi guys,

So first of all, that was my most productive week of 2017 in relation to progress towards my long term goals. Finally got my ass back in the gym and between that + my gym prop bet has really given me some motivation. Hate to be that guy on snapchat posting gym updates but I find this really helps me hold myself accountable knowing that people are spectating the prop bet. I feel keeping on point in the gym has really motivated me to keep a clean diet as well. Who wants to eat a cheeseburger after an hour of cardio and make it all go to waste?

Aside from that, yesterday was an awesome day. 3 friends and I bought tubes from Walmart and drifted down the river next to my place for a few hours. In addition to being super relaxing while floating down a lazy river and shooting the **** with good friends, it was amazing to see how cool the nature gets just right outside of the city. Saw lots of herons, eagles, deer, fish, and untouched river banks. Anyways, grinded hard this week and I feel like a better person at the conclusion of this week. Went for my cooldown beer with a grinder friend @ beertown and drummed up some (what I think is) good content for this weekly update.



Health:

Workouts Completed this week: (4/4)
Times leaving diet guidelines: 3
20 Minute Meditation Session: 4/7
Books Read: 0/1
Body Weight +/-: -21 lbs. (since beginning of year)

Wealth:

Training Videos Watched: 0/1
Hours in the lab: 0/2
Sessions played: 4/4
Hours put into researching new avenues of revenue generation:1
Weekly Proft: +372
Yearly Profit: +28 287
Live Poker Profit This Year: +9 963

Book Review:
Didn't have time to read this week. I've been recommended "Think and Grow Rich" by several people. Will delve into it tomorrow and post my notes next weekend.


Hands:
https://www.boomplayer.com/24591546_4B96B3200D
not sure how i feel about this. it's vs a guy who im pretty sure is in bitb and i have as good reg and pretty aggro. sucks when we get snapped by over pairs but we do have ok equity when called and i think we can make him fold his equity share a lot. thoughts?

https://www.boomplayer.com/24586954_2AED784DD9
thoughts on over betting river here? anyone take a diff line?

https://www.boomplayer.com/24582806_074652776A
feel i should check at some point

https://www.boomplayer.com/24561366_4C73DB31FF
hate calling on FT here but guy was just such a blaster and had like 500 bounty or smth.

https://www.boomplayer.com/24560920_46577FB6D0
money bubble vs loose/passiv fish. he showed k10.

Random Rant of the Week

Take the next 15 seconds to look around you and count how many "green" things you can see. When completed, tell me: how many "blue" things did you see?

What I want to talk about this week is perhaps one of the most crucial things I've learned in the past ~1 year that has shifted my perspective on life completely. This is essentially a variation of the self-serving bias (or opposite of it whatever that is called.)

Moreover, the way we choose to view and interpret the world is often how we see the world as our truth. In other words, what you look to believe in the world, you will find. If you are looking for supporting evidence that you are a loser and everyone hates you...you will find it. Similar to how a racist might come across a thousand amazing black people but will hate them all because one who committed a crime against him. We are constantly searching for evidence to support our beliefs, and have an intense focus on that evidence.

Can you see how this could turn into a downward spiral? If you are looking for supporting beliefs that you aren't worthy of attractive women, or that you aren't worthy of a high paying job, or being elite in poker...you will find that evidence. After constantly proof these beliefs become further cemented and deep. This can really mess up our minds and be a great barrier to achieving things in regards to: dating high quality women, getting high paying jobs we enjoy, or crushing it in poker.

Amazingly enough, we can totally change our beliefs system and change what we focus on. Instead of thinking of all the reasons why someone wouldn't want to talk to you, think about the reasons they would. Instead of finding evidence why you shouldn't hit the gym, find evidence why you should. By constantly catching that negative voice in my head I've really began to notice significant improvements in my confidence and my presence around other people. Things are really coming together.

In times where I can be completely honest with myself, there was a decent amount of time where I really just wasn't feeling a whole lot of anything. Just going through the motions everyday and really struggling to feel positive emotion. By constantly working to cement positive self-beliefs, they manifest themselves into a mindset. I think it's largely due to exercise and a reasonably healthy diet+constant focus on mindset+surrounding myself with good positive people/ignoring negative ones has really helped me feel alive again. Thanks for reading.

-Mike

PS: I promise this will be the LAST time I whine about this lol. So in a chat group today a guy posted a screenshot of his whale/deposit factory/cell phone grinder friend who got 1k from a chest. I joked that PS probably rigs the chests to give higher odds to net depositors and screws over all the regs. A chat of 50 guys and nobody has won more than 100$, yet 1 fish who opens 1 chest gets 1k.

The funny part about this is that it is true. Apparently PS gives higher odds based on different factors. I think we can basically chalk this up as "rakeback is virtually done". It is quite sneaky (well not really) how PS disguised a MASSIVE rb cut by randomized chests. Essentially, giving discriminatory pricing towards regs and giving whales an advantage on them. The term "leveling the playing field" comes to mind.

Remember that frog analogy? A frog put in hot water will jump out. Whereas, a frog put in cool water slowly heating up will stay there until it boils to death. I feel this is similar. Luckily, the burners have been lit right under our asses and we can abruptly jump ship and be forced to grow and innovate. Maybe all this is a blessing in disguise...


"With integrity, you have nothing to fear, since you have nothing to hide. With integrity, you will do the right thing, so you will have no guilt." -Zig Ziglar

Solid update, in my old city I used to float down the river every summer- tons of fun drinking and shooting the **** + very relaxing.

Don't apologize about whining about amaya, I think everyone should be doing their part to whine as much as possible to spread the word about the absolute **** way they are treating their dedicated/loyal customers -> everyone in general (even if fish get a better % chance at higher rewards in chest, Amaya still tries its hardest to make it super hard to see how much they cut rewards unless you specifically search out a 2+2 post in one of two ~100 page threads where someone calculates the $ev per chest. Similar to how when beat the clock came out they had the rake per game hidden from main 'BTC lobby' + how they did not anounce a lot of random mtt rake increases except maybe a small 2+2 post that maybe 1% of fish will read.


sry my 2c rant as well a little carried away

About rake back i want to say this
Do we get rake back at live venues?? Do we get our expenses covered ( travel,accommodation,food etc)



On the other side who the **** figure out that online MTTs should be raked at 10% ????
I can understand why live tournaments are raked 10% ( dealers/staff need to get their pay checks, rent for venues etc etc) although i cant see difference between 1k+100$ vs 5k+300$ in real cost( imo 5k+300$ logically have less expenses => less players,less dealers,less tables,less space needed., less hours played etc compared to 1k+100$ tournament expenses) but w/e if u dont like it you dont go and play and thats it

But i can never understand why online mtt with 1k runners is raked 100+9$ and other with 7k+ is raked 10+1$... what different biger expenses (9x time more) has runing 1k players 100+9$ online MTT vs 7k players 10+1$??? that's what is bugging me and makes me wonder how stupid we are


AT THE END OF THE DAY WE ALL (AS CUSTOMERS) VOTE WITH OUR WALLETS

Been a while since I visited this thread. You really inspire me man. Just a lowly micro grinder while working full-time. Would love to maybe grab a pint with you in the future if your ever up my way in Kitchener. Wish you all the best in your journey.

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@treadlightly: yeah as you can tell i'm very frustrated as well with all of the changes. it's clear that PS just doesn't want high net winning players to have a substantial edge on others and giving them less rb and making formats with far less edge are the first stepping stones. it's sad that this is the same company where I purchased a VIP trip to Germany to see U2 for my father and I with my hard earned FPPs that is now offering me essentially pennies on my consumer $. The changes to the rb model are essentially the inverse of what made PS very successful in the first place. I don't know about you but seeing the guys in the spotlight on PS back in the day who made the poker dream come true is what I aspired to be. If I wanted to just gamble I'd just go to the pits. This game needs "sickos" at the top of the pyramid to keep $ coming in at the bottom. With less $ to be made prizepools will shrink and fish will be further disincentivized to play. BUT we can use this uncertainty to grow and expand our horizons...I think it's very important to not overlook that. Anyways, no use wasting time and energy ranting about this anymore because we can't unscramble eggs. Just need to adapt and innovate.

@re8uz: the last part of your post is all we need to worry about. play the games on PS that still bring good value/cut out the ones that don't. replace with games that yield higher value on other sites. if they want to set an unreasonable price for their service/pull the rug out from the feet of loyal customers then so be it...time will tell how that business model works out for them.

@gimbz: thanks for the kind words glad to see you get some value out of the thread. yeah we could meet up for a pint sometime (even though its weird that you might know a tonne about me and i know 0 about you haha)


Grinded my ass off again today guys and got grossed out so hard deep in the 109 monday 6m. Feeling good and getting some deep runs. Was frustrated af after my session and came up with the idea that I should go for a midnight gym session. In that same scenario in the past I've fixed that ****ty mood with junk food/alcohol/video games etc (which actually cause more long term frustration)...very GTO if you can get in the habit of doing something positive for yourself when you are in a negative mood.

here's a good tune: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhIL8H2P1Jk

Grinding hard again tomorrow might update with some hands etc if i cba

Just took 3rd in 109 Mini ST for ~10k. Lost a pretty devastating suckout for a few k payjump and a hu match vs a weak opponent. Taking the day off tomorrow and will also take some time to post a few hands from the tourney+some thoughts/maybe some other random stuff as per.

Played some of my best poker all tourney and although I hate losing I know I'll wake up tomorrow quite happy with everything day off+gym tomorrow...looking forward to it.

WE WILL NOT GIVE UP...WE WILL KEEP GRIND...ON THE MUTHAFKN MIND