Nothing wrong with sleeping 6 hours a night everyone functions differently

Actually he only sleeps 5hrs/day afaik

Out of those two, definitely A is more important. Cbetting will happen way more often than 3betting. If B was preflop, then I would say preflop is more important.

Definitely cbetting this flop. Dry board and plenty of better hands will fold such as KQ, KJ, 55-88. Plus you have backdoor draws that you can barrel on the turn (Any diamond, T, K, or 8). Assuming CO is a decent reg, CO continuing range on this board is AT-AQ, 99, A9, TT-JJ and maybe some weaker suited Aces. A good amount of these hands should fold the river to a triple barrel, especially on good run outs for your hand.

Yh that is pretty much the maximum (unless I got drunk!). It took me some research and time to get from sleeping around 8 hours a night down to 5 hours but I have never used an alarm to wake up (since working on my sleep) and I sleep like a machine!! If I did not find this extra 2.5 hours per day (than my previous lifestyle) then I would have not much chance of achieving the growth I aspire to in life.

Thanks for input, that makes sense.
And thx for help on that HH.

KP how did you research being able to sleep better?

Good question...

I will tell you WHY it came about first. One of my main interests is finding out why some people are fulfilled in life and why others (most?) are not (I am not saying "unhappy" here just not fulfilled). Whilst studying this subject I discovered repeatedly that people who seem fulfilled in their life are continually growing. This is one of my definitions of success - fulfilment through continued growth.

In danger of getting tl;dr.... I spoke to and researched hundreds of fullfilled/successful people and I would say over 80% of them talked about how reducing their sleep and/or being more resourceful with their awake time was a big contributing factor in their story. So I decided I needed to do this and then started finding out how they did it and what they did to get there.

Then I copied them!

But I also did some research (just reading as many books/articles as possible) on how we can sleep better thereby reducing quantity of sleep needed and also researched if it was at all dangerous.

It amazed me how little the world actually knows about sleep.

I think most big achievers have awesome time management skills.

Hope that helps, fire away for more info if wanted (don't want to bore!).

Haha I could read about it all day but I dont want to take the piss, thanks a lot ill do some reading about it

Well if I can help at all feel free to PM me. I am willing to try and help anyone who wants to have a better life.

Schedule and Goals Update - 24.01.2013

Did not play last night. Sorting my tax issue took hours (which is ridiculous). Watched some of Alan Jackson's 3 betting video and will continue to watch it through (not going to study it hardcore yet as still deciding 3b v cbet!).

Schedule 24th January 2014


08.00 - 12.00 = Too much on at work!
12.00 - 14.00 = Post marked hands (tonnes!).
14.00 - 16.00 = Catch up with group, comment on TPSP hands.
21.00 - 22.00 = Hopefully rail staker. If not watch AJ 3b video.
22.00 - 23.00 = At the tables.
04.30 - 05.00 = Train.
05.10 - 05.15 = Do poker warm-up, read goals etc.
05.15 - 06.40 = At the tables.

Goal 1 - Play 65 hours in January - Played 52.1 hours which is 80.2% of target, month is 75.8% old, 2 hours 48 mins ahead!!

Goal 2 - Post weekly review to group -NFP. Chris's play video is posted and ready to do. Just need to plan in...

Goal 3 - Post all marked hands to blog and Skype group - Done! (No replies yet though )

Goal 4 - Comment on all of friends' hands in Skype Group (unless day off) - Done!

Goal 5 - Get the book "No Bulls**t Six Max Poker" to level of unconscious competence - Goal complete. For next few days look into 3betting and cbetting before going hard core on one or the other!

Goal 6 - Read The Mental Game Of Poker 2 - N.F.P. Page 149 of 191 (78.0%) 4 pages ahead.

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6 x
0 x

Lost some time so was glad had some in the bank!

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Session



Already felt better in cbet and 3bet situations. I would guess i am about 2% towards being decent though!!!

To cbet or not (that is the only question!).

Hi guys, I appreciate that these hands are probably very simple to you but would you please help me by just answering yes or no? If you have time to offer a quick explanation too that's great but no worries if not.

Thanks very much.

Mine #249 - CBETTING? (WT)

Mine #250 - CBETTING? (WT)

Mine #251 - CBETTING? (WT)

Mine #252 - CBETTING? (WT)

Mine #253 - CBETTING? (WT)

#249 - Cbetting this and barrelling lots of runouts.

#250 - Cbetting and barrelling any club, J, Q, K or A.

#251 - Probably cbetting this. Not barrelling much ott.

#252 - Meh. Probably cbetting, and checking back lots of our A high hands.

#253 - Cbetting. Barrelling hearts, K or A.

249: Cbet vs basically every opponents
250: Cbet, and then fold to a raise
251: maybe not. Villain looks passive and I probably have the best hand. Hoping to x/x to the river.
252: Cbet.
253: Cbet.

Session



Felt really solid (for me!) these two sessions.

(Not updating goals as its weekend ffs!)

Big pots...


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Hand 3: JQo
Care to explain your thinking process?


Flop: CBet to fold pp
Turn: we got st8 draw.... and to fold floating range.
River:.....??

I dont know why you barrel river? Villain range mostly Ax and I myself never fold top pair to normal size bet on the river. (I'm calling station, fwiw)

I actually made huge mistake that has been pointed out to me straight away.

I did not notice the river paired the board.

It seems other than that its ok as villain will struggle to call down 3 streets with AJ and AQ here.

KP24 I think villain will call you down all day with AQ and AJ here. you could easily be betting worse when you raise from the CO? Though we could perhaps expect a 3bet from those hands sometimes from the BB? On the river I think he's calling most A for the chop at worst - would need to overbet river I reckon and even then a lot of villains will call.

Weekly Progress Update 27.01.2014

Profit/loss for week = - $43.69


Graph for week



Comments:
Meh results but progress is still excellent. Good work in Skype group and with HH reviews. Goals going well too so keep this up and it will all come good!!

Schedule 27th January 2014


08.00 - 09.30 = Post weekly progress update.
19.30 - 10.30 = Post marked hands.
10.30 - 17.00 = Catch up with group, comment on TPSP and 2+2 hands.
19.45 - 20.30 = Finish reviewing Chris's video.
20.30 - 22.30 = At the tables.
04.30 - 05.00 = Train.
05.10 - 05.15 = Do poker warm-up, read goals etc.
05.15 - 06.40 = At the tables.

Goal 1 - Play 65 hours in January - Played 54.9 hours which is 84.5% of target, month is 85.5% old, 39 mins behing!!

Goal 2 - Post weekly review to group -Done 20 mins of 30 mins, will finish this tonight.

Goal 3 - Post all marked hands to blog and Skype group - Done!

Goal 4 - Comment on all of friends' hands in Skype Group (unless day off) - Done!

Goal 5 - Get the book "No Bulls**t Six Max Poker" to level of unconscious competence - Goal complete. For next few days look into 3betting and cbetting before going hard core on one or the other! Have got lots of material now, thanks for helping me out people!

Goal 6 - Read The Mental Game Of Poker 2 - Page 164 of 191 (85.9%) 1 page ahead.

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5 x
1 x

Lost some time and have fallen slightly behind but this should not be a problem. Used time well and found lots of resources to study 3 betting and cbetting which I am going to hit VERY hard over next few weeks.

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Session

HH Work - 27.01.2014

Mine #254 - Cbet AA on KT4tt in 4bet pot? (WT)
Mine #255 - KK overpair raised in 3way pot by 23/13 - too nitty to fold? (WT)

254: yes, 3.5$. his range is QQ, AK pretty much always
255: foldings

what that man said^

254: 3.5-4 no big deal either way

Excellent blog, good to see someone that's got the right idea about being a student of the game rather than just mindlessly grinding to some arbitrary monetary/volume goals. Like the idea of how you post hands without cluttering up the thread with them - I might steal that idea!

254: You can go small on 3 streets ($3.50, $6, $11) or check back turn and try to get stacks in over 2 streets ($7, $13.50). The advantage of that would be inducing Villain into bluffing or calling down lighter, and it's not like you're scared of any turn cards really. Going for 3 streets is prob more standard though.

255: Just fold. He's gonna have a set/2pr/straight a ton and even though he will have some semibluffs, it's hardly ever just a bare draw, he's going to have at least overcard+FD, pair+FD, FD+SD, pr+SD+FD etc. You're OOP, are going to hate about half the deck, and not even feel comfortable if it's a complete blank like 2 and he bets again.

Hey guys!

Got some pretty serious problems at work at the moment that are taking up masses of my resources.

I have played a few hours last two days and studied some more Alan Jackson stuff so its not all on hold!

Ran like Usain too....

Monday Session




Tuesday Session



(Best day contender for me)

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I can't really spare the time to do full update on my goals right now but I think I am behind on hours played and fallen behind on MGOP2. Bit crap this has happened at end of the month but that's the way things go, you have to have some flexibility sometimes. There is still a chance I will complete those goals, just depends how things go.

GL all!

Cool blog, inspiring and I wish you GL in your goals ... I'm currently at 10NL

- How big a skill difference is there between 10 & 25?
- Do you still see the same amount of fishes popping up at the tables?