Do you have unusual sleeping hours? 2am is late for the avg person

Sleep at 2am wake up at 10am...

I strongly suggest you re-evaluate this. So many rich people (not just poker players) go broke because they lack the correct mindset regarding their funds. You are in a fantastic position to become very wealthy at a very young age, and money comes easily to you at the moment. However, there is no guarantee that will always be the case. For that reason alone, it would be smart to have a backup account - a fund that, no matter what happens with regards to variance, legislation, shady business dealings, crazy roulette benders etc, you can rely on that money to sustain your current lifestyle for a significant amount of time (or possibly in your situation...for the rest of your life).

Seeing as you are capable of turning $200k into $5k in the span of a few hours, I strongly suggest that you filter a percentage of your cashouts into a separate fund that you vow to never touch for the purposes of poker or gambling. The right mindset provides so much more financial security than a huge expected $/hr because you have complete control over that thought process (whereas tons of other factors beyond your control effect your expected income). Having a backup account in the event that you go on a crazy drunken roulette bender, or something terrible and unexpected happens to your poker career, is one of the smartest things you can do (especially because you are obviously making a LOT more money than you currently spend).

Having a backup account/rainy day funds is a huge indicator of a responsible person, and one who is likely to become wealthy and STAY wealthy. Viewing the majority of your money as part of your bankroll might not be a horrible thing, but it is definitely in your best interest to have a percentage of your net worth that you are not willing to lose.

Awesome thread. I particularly enjoy the HH.
GL bud.

Thanks for your wise words, they are very much appreciated and I will definitely take them on board for the future. I suppose when I meant that statement I just considered that as I have around 200 buyins for the game I most often play, and 400 for the one I play the second most, I have money in my bank that I never touch or need to deposit into poker sites. I suppose the difference is I considered my 'bankroll' my net worth, and obviously you consider them different - and now after thinking about it - I do too.


Thanks, glad you enjoy. I think some people may disagree with what I say, and think to themselves 'this guy is talking ****' - But people have asked what goes through my mind when I play interesting hands where spots arise that may not do for players playing lower or trying to learn the game - so hopefully what I said makes sense and they can understand why I play certain hands the way I do and benefit from it in the future.

Off to Barcelona for 10 days today, there is a poker tournement being hosted there by Paradise Poker this weekend which I like to play. I know quite a few of the other Paradise players and that's the poker site which has rewarded me the most over my poker career so always nice to see the managers etc

Laptop is packed so maybe 1000 hands a day will be taking place instead of the usual 5000.

Excellent thread.

Have a good time in Spain!

Why can't he have Q9/flushdraw @ flop?

gud ruk in spain!

Nice updates keep them coming

I think it's cool that you post your thought processes on a lot of hands. It's certainly not 2p2 standard thinking which is great because it gives us a different perspective. Gl with the operation!

Ipoker has all this and u can get really good rewards even paid weekly

Im convinced this is because he doesnt use a hud,and had all of your card runner training that you have all had.

Thinking "outside of the box".

His results speak for themselves...

Any thoughts on this?

WHats your win rate at 5/10 on boss btw coops?

That hand was completely opponent related. I have never seen him slowplay a made hand or nut flushdraw on the flop. He has always got it in - and therefore eliminating a number of hands he could have otherwise had.

If it was vs someone who actually varied the way they played the flop, then I would be maybe less inclined to make that move. Although the opponent in question is definitely one of the biggest winners that I play with though, I'd say that is a big leak in his game.

Well as my database and the rest of my computer got completely wiped around April this year time I don't have many hands on Boss.

On Boss I have 34,525 hands and my winrate is 18.02bb/100 (lol). At 5/10 i've played just 13,204 hands and winrate is 5.81bb/100.

And yeah, thinking outside the box is the way forward imo!

Ok played a bit this holiday and winnings at the moment stand at: + £46,882.

Want to get to £50k mark soon and be 10% of the way there...


Btw for some reason I couldn't post on the first day I arrive in Barca, but now it turns out I can so will update on a daily basis from now on... Off to the beach now!

I could go another year unemployed on that

gg

To continue this...

Day 11 (20th of July): + £5,866
Day 12: + £1,109
Day 13: + £10,274
Day 14: - £2,951
Day 15: + £262
Day 16: + £5,115
Day 17: + £503

Profit after Day 17: + £48,700

u beating regs or is there fish playin so high?

aweseome thread!! keep crushing btw on which skins are you playing ongame?

One or two fish swimming at 1 and 2k recently on afew sites, but mostly playing with regs as I always miss the tables

Ok gtg out for dinner etc, day 17 comes to a close with a day's profit of: + £4,107.

Winnings after Day 17: + £52,305.

Over 10% of the challenge complete

loving this thread. keep it going coopah! good luck!

This is a very interesting thread, I really hope you can make it! But wouldnt it be nice with a hud sometimes ? Especially the function where you can sort there handranges ? It isn´t that easy to remember always.

Keep crushing!

swick wife man. thats like a lifetimes work for some ppl.

About you running under EV all the time: I'm pretty sure it used to be a problem with importing hands played on Boss network, where all ins you won wouldn't show you running above EV because they didn't show your opponents hand. Not sure if they fixed this error but if they didn't it would explain why HEM keeps saying you run under EV.

But keep up the good work, very inspiring stuff!

Hmmm I don't like the idea of using a Hud to use to make decisions on a hand happening now which uses the data of past hands.

Yeah on boss that is right, but as maybe just 5% of my hands are played on boss then it's kinda zzzz after a while.