please have a webcam set up if you think something similar will happen to you at your desk while you finish

also how long did it take you to relocate after bf? gl with the end of the year

You're the man, GL hope you finish strong pumping out the last few vpp's!

I flew to Vancouver about 20 days after Black Friday to open some bank accounts/scout it out (thanks Sippin for helping with info on neighborhoods), rented a place in late May, and drove up to start grinding that June 1st.

Semi-beat, spent most of the first month playing on Full Tilt.





Pearl Jam played ~3 hours 20 minutes Thursday night in San Diego. And they pretty much just played straight through (mostly), instead of Eddie killing the flow by rambling about something every two songs. Which means the show ****ing rocked.

Seeing them again tomorrow night in Oakland. Fingers crossed on another great show.

Sounds sick, <3 Pearljam and haven't yet gotten to see them in concert

Any awesome turkey day plans or spending it grinding in the Mexico ? Gogogo, homestretch of vpps!

Gramps are you going to do a PGC thread in 2014???

I'll probably update this thread from time-to-time in 2014. Definitely helps with being/staying accountable for (realistic) goals you set.

Oakland concert only lasted about 3 hours 15 min, what a disappointment.

Lol, and downstairs right now my 70+ year-old parents are having a conversation about NJ intrastate poker and the casinos/competition there (though it'd be better with Pokerstars), how California b/c of the Democratic super-majority intrastate poker here will be controlled by the Tribes and bad for competition/players/system, the need for international player pools, etc.

I'm upstairs and not a part of this convo in any way.

lol awesome

I wont 2.5 million:





Had to be a newb and play over 2.5 milly even, just in case I put up a good BOP score. Denied, but nice problem to have at the end of the year after some fun downswings.

Gonna finally set up my new computer tomorrow and play around with it a little bit in some games, then be done til the start of the new year. GL to all the grinders remaining.

Laterrrrrr

Congrats and enjoy your holiday and see you in 2014

YTD obv

A lot less sexy than the 1st half of the year. Something about playing a ton of longer sessions w/too many tables in reg-fested games. I'll post a garph by the end of the year.

Somebody replies a little fast for my old reflexes.

Gl finishing up, the late games/traffic actually seemed a bit "normal" finally (I.e. in a good way).

just powered thru this in bed. awesome stuff. inspiration for sure.

Way to go! Really enjoy following the thread -- 2014 please.

Congrats Gramps, you're the man. Very very bad MS Paint skills though .

grats!

seems like you had a pretty nice year, well done and gl in 2014!

Grats

YE graph? Gotta show the youngins how to do it.

I hope you at least bought my thread a few drinks first. But...thanks.

Tyty, I'll probably update this thread once in a while, but am going to go back to flying under the radar (mostly) in 2014. At least after the first several months.

I'd make a joke about massively under-repping my MSPaint range, but you have to show a hint of potential, of which my complete lack of skills is incapable of showcasing

I'll read that first line in voice-tone that you'd hear at a golf tournament right after Tiger, et. al. unleashed a 300+ yard drive.

Gracias, I'm sure we'll all be clicking buttons against each other plenty in 2014

Danke



My HM2 green line is a bit too high there - it was way off being too low, plus some other reports got goofy, so I un-installed and reinstalled a different version. Now the green line is a bit too high (redline the same), but it's less off than PT4 (waayy too low), and I now have the HM1 version that doesn't work for redline (so my replayer will work).... Blah, blah, think the graph above, while still off, is the "most correct" of the ones I have.

Games started getting super-reggy around September. I was also a bit behind pace (for days I intended to play coming down the stretch w the trips/breaks I had planned) and recognized that scaling back to ~2.25 million might be wise...but I reallllyy wanted to hit my volume goal I'd settled on in the 1st half of the year. I put a big emphasis on setting a lofty, yet attainable process goal this year, and felt sacking up and pushing through was worth it long run/non-monetary wise. Maybe not the wisest decision in a vacuum, but exception to the normal rule felt right.

For 2014, I'm going to change up my work/process goals a bit based on the experience of 2013. Still going to work hard, but dialing it back, just a bit.

-Now that I'm comfortably settled in SD (*fingers crossed Mexican Senate*), I want a little more life balance while still taking advantage of the poker opportunities out there. Commuting/playing a number of consecutive days just gets me a bit more out of whack mentally (for both poker and non-poker stuff) than the old days of waking up in the morning and turning on the computer. Living and working on different sides of the border, I can't play 3-4 two-hour sessions spread throughout the day anymore, staying fresher vs. one super-long session.

So...I'm settling for a goal of 2 million VPPs in 2014.

-I plan to take 3 days off from playing poker each week. Probably going to play all day Sunday (plan on doing the MTT + SNG select grind those days), then Monday/Wednesday/Friday. Put several hours of review in on those off days while engaging in a bunch of other activities, and let my brain recover. Rinse and repeat.

-Of course, like everything in poker, it depends. Will have to see how things progress as I go, but that's the rough outline of it. The quality of my online play and my language/communication skills away from the computer should both be better off for it.

I'll post a freeroll before the end of the year. Going to alter a version of what I was planning (but didn't carry out) to start 2013. In the 1st 3 months of 2014 I'm going to play 5k games of buyin <$10 (mostly 9-max hypers, reuby 180s, and some Turbo/Hyper MTTs). The "game" is simply to see how much I can make from them. I'll be mixing in all the normal buyins I play while this challenge is going on, hence spreading it out over 3 months. Since my normal games will probably suck during this time period, it won't hurt to be more selective there.

Oh, and SS results below for the year: (70% RB - think that's about what you get for 2.5 million VPPs starting as SNE?)

Such a legend, Grats and bol in 2014

good job, nice year

just wow. what a grinder

Very impressive year. Congrats sir!