LOL old man nit gonna old man nit

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I would only take Duke's side if he would actually allow me to help him turn off the ever-present massive spew...

WUG Duke?

Big problem though is that he doesn't like "old" people

Good question. I won't be stiffing them so I reached out to Duke so we can figure it out.



Some of the hands I get something out of rehashing.


All are welcome on Team Cuse. Young, old, men, women, all races and creeds. Bring us your tired and poor! Come root for the winning side.

I don't so much care who wins, I just want to see some good butthurt after a winner emerges.

1000 hours with part-time play...this is going to be a really long prop bet.

The formula you have mastered for your write ups is incredible. I feel like im actually at the casino and playing with you. If it doesn't take that long for you to write up then it's no big deal. If it's cutting into your volume then post after your trip is done.

This seems likely.


Yeah its going to take months, maybe even a year. I imagine the trash talk and excitement will die down for a while then pick back up.


Thanks... For now I'm just going to be aware of it and see how long I spend. I can never really go straight to sleep after a session so I try to unload my thoughts and write up sessions. At the same time, I don't want to cut into my sleep.

I cant imagine the JT being close to marginal, even with meta considerations, which I dont think you should be worrying about with a 5k roll, imo.

Still love the writeups and subscribed to this thread.

Keep in mind he only slightly over minraised. I was getting 111 to 35 or almost 3.2 to 1, plus implied odds. I'm going to win big pots when I outflop him and steal when an overcard to his pair hits.

Ok how do I not spew?

This prop bet will help me control my spew demon I think but maybe I'm not the one that needs to worry about that. I don't remember ever calling a cold 4bet with JTo in my life

J8os, tho.

Way different to be the cold 4better than to be the caller

IDK just don't...don't play 2+ levels ahead of fish?

Good advice. Idk if you read my thread but I had a discussion in there with some people about literally never bluffing. Besides for things like cbetting and squeezing, I think this would be a good short term solution for me

This is going to be a huge problem. It's going to give someone a big advantage unless you both eschew your own threads and posting your win rates.

1,000 hours = about 25 weeks for or less for a pro, which Duke tries to be. If one of you is going to play part-time and it takes 50 weeks (20 hrs/week) then in six months, the part-timer will know exactly where he stands and whether he needs to win more or protect the win rate over the rest of the year.

I don't think it's a big issue. For example, if I tried to sit on a lead for the last 100 hours even and cost myself $5 an hour, I offset the bet. On the other hand if I'm behind I'm certainly not going to start gambling it up in -EV spots for a prop bet that's only one buyin at 2/5 and less than two at 1/2.

I bust your balls but yeah this is basically true...I think I pretty well crush for a rec player and I would guess 85-90% of my profits come from value betting better than most in the reg pool not bluffing (other than semi-bluffing, c-bets, etc).

meh the bet is 1 2/5 BI...if it provides motivation to play better or put in hours all this nittery is really just NBD IMO

Wait, thought it was unpossible to bluff in plolololololol even if you wanted to.

It looks like Duke tips on way fewer pots than I do so we're going to have to account for that too. I already track them so it's no big deal.

Smart thinking.

I'm leaning toward team cuse. Gotta love callin a 4bet with JT. That takes huevos senor. Takes huevos.

Welcome to Team Cuse! Gotta have huevos. Necesitas huevos. Big orange huevos.

In Family Guy Joe's voice: LETS DO IT!

I worked a bit on my June stats and goals recap and July plan earlier. My schedule is coming together and I'm making a couple key adjustments and planning major July volume. I'll have that finished this evening. For now it's a nap (got up at 3:45am for work) and then USA/Belgium.

I BELIEVE THAT WE WILL WIN!

June Recap and July Goals – “Men lie, women lie, numbers don’t.”

Well, it’s that time again.

Live Cash Results in June (1/2): +$414 (54 hours)
June Live Hourly (1/2): $7.69/hr
Online Tournament Hours in June: 28

Bankroll: $5,000 (approx)

Charts

June


Year to Date at 1/2 NL


Original Big Goals:

[X] Goal #1: Bankroll at $4,000 on 1/23

[X] Goal #2: Bankroll at 8,000 by March 31

[X] Goal #3: Winrate of $30/hr over first 300 hours at ½

[ ] Goal #4: Bankroll at $50,000 by 12/31

It’s basically like this… If I run slightly above neutral and play 150 hours/month, I have a fighting chance at 50K by 12/31.

[X] Goal #5: Play a WSOP Event in 2014.

[X]Goal #6: Satellite into the WSOP Main Event (I’ll allot a thousand or two to this if things are going well)

I came oh so painfully close to getting both of these, but it’s going to make it that much sweeter when it happens next year.

So I’m basically down to the one most important goal out of the bunch, and I’ve whiffed everything else. It’s frustrating, but I’ve been in a good mindset lately so I’m not going to dwell on it just because it’s monthly recap time.

June Goals

Poker in blue, health in green, life balance in red.

So my broadcasting schedule went from 75 hours to about 115 hours, which cost me 40 hours. It also threw my sleep schedule for a loop. At one point due to insomnia caused by my changing shift work, I was up for 50 of 54 hours. Thus, on two days where I worked 5 hours each, I was completely useless trying desperately to sleep and it cost me another 10-12 hours of productivity each day, then I slept all day the next day to catch up, so there’s another 16 hours of productivity down the drain…

So I worked about 40 extra hours, and lost 40 more for sleep issues. That’s the most glaring example, but there were a couple of others. Basically the sleep issue and work added that I couldn’t turn down totally sabotaged any chance at meeting my poker and business goals. That said, I still should have gotten more work in on both.

I’m considering going to a full-time schedule of waking up in the middle of the night just to avoid the changing sleep schedule, but it seems like a total waste on days where I am not working a morning shift. I worked two this week, I’ve got one next week, and 1-3 the following week, which is still up in the air. Do I totally overhaul my sleep schedule for 1-2 days a week? One option would be to wake up at 6am every day, and make my normal day 6am to 10pm. When I have to work an early morning, it would be a less severe adjustment, but I’d miss out on poker games in the profitable hours of 10pm-3am.

For next month I’m going to try to split the difference. There will be a couple of stretches of 4-6 days where I stick to the middle of the night wakeups to avoid going back and forth multiple times. This will mean some playing time in middle of the night poker games, which I could see being really +EV or really –EV, I don’t know.

This is what I wrote last month:

“I'm simplifying this to the most important ones, and going for 100% success on the June goals.”

I got 0%, and I’m pissed about it. I intend to hit it out of the park this month.

[82/120] Play 120 Hours of Poker

Playing online tournaments cut into my live volume, which kept those hours really low. I don’t plan to play any live tournaments in July, but I may play a few online. There are some tournament series going on that might be worthwhile. Still, I am going to try to avoid too much of that as well. I need to get my volume up.

[X] Weight at 215
[0/10] Gym 10 Times
[0/3] RFLP – 3 Cycles

I didn’t get to the gym at all. Realistically I could have gone three or four times, but the change to my schedule impacted that a lot. RFLP just wasn’t sustainable with my sleep schedule, so I switched to a normal, healthy diet. I actually gained weight this month, though, as I ate HORRIBLY on days I was up at 3:45 am. It’s like night and day the difference in my eating habits when I get a normal night’s sleep and when I don’t, which I know they’ve done a lot of research on. I’m back up to 250 as of this morning.

It’s incredibly frustrating to work hard for a few days, lose a few pounds, then have a couple of days of shift work insomnia and gain five pounds.

[5/115] Spend 115 Hours Working on Launching an Online Business
[20%] Re-read 4 Hour Work Week

I only got a little start on this, but I’m going to make it a more minor goal in July.

So, I was aiming for 100% of my goals and I got 0%. Disgraceful. I really need to get the sleep thing settled down to stop derailing me.

July Goals

I’m going to have right around 100 hours of broadcasting this month. I’m also in the mix for a full-time broadcasting job that would ironically allow me to play MORE live by setting me up on a really ideal, consistent schedule and allowing me to relocate near a casino. I think I’d be able to play about 35-45 hours a week if I got the job.

[ ] Play 150 Hours of Poker

I don’t like to set winrate goals, but I intend to get to 9K this month and be ready to take my next 2/5 shot. That’s going to require beating my volume a bit, and running a little hot. I intend to win like $25/hr and that’s certainly realistic over that sample size if I play my A game.

[ ] Weight at 230
[ ] Work Out at Gym 8 Times

This is kind of simple. I will go to the gym a lot, I’ll golf a couple of times, and I’ll stay active. I’ll eat a “regular” healthy diet, which means focusing on a lot of paleo-type foods.

[ ] Spend 40 Hours Working on Launching an Online Business
[ ] Finish Re-reading 4 Hour Work Week

I pulled back on the online business work so that I can really focus on poker volume this month and make the gym a bigger priority too. I’m trying to plan less around days I have broadcasting, which should make it have less of an impact on my plans and goals. Last month I was aiming for like 235 hours of poker/business and got to 83… This time I’m aiming for 190 hours total and I intend to exceed it.

Overall Thoughts

I was so excited about June and it went so poorly for me, which is upsetting. I think I’m making good adjustments to start hitting my goals by continuing to narrow my focus. I have always been the type to aim really high at a bunch of different things and spread myself too thin. I think now I’ve got a narrow enough focus.

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