Hi, at first - nice thread, inspired me to buy the book Deep work and it's nuts. Thanks for that.

This can't be good. Even in the book there's written that you cannot switch between activities from minute to minute and assume that you will be concentrated for the latter one. That also applies to sleeping.

If you finish your session ang go to bed right after that (or few minutes after), your brain is still in very active mode and you won't be able to fall asleep well.


I agree with the advice that you should go for a walk - or lay on your beach or do whatever relaxing activity you want. Just try turning off your brain.


Another big thing is a PC programme called f.lux. It "warms" colors on your screen and it should be more easy to fall asleep afterwards. The reason is that the blue (cold) light that is produced by our devices and some lamps gives our eyes impression that it's still daylight and our brain processes it as we should still be woken up even if it's 2 AM.

Straddle exclusively. They've always just seemed better/people play worse in em. I buy in for 100bb (100 straddles) because my games don't really play deep and it'd be a waste of chips.

Glad you picked up the book mate. And actually really appreciate your post. It's currently 1am and I've just finished playing. My eyes have been struggling with the glare from the screen for the past two hours. I'm definitely going to give that f.lux a download right now. Unfortunately there's no where really to go for a walk around here but I might try do something non-screen related for next 30 mins and see if that makes much of an impact.

If I don't sleep in I can usually have 60-90 mins free time before bed that I can use to do whatever... in future I'll make this a no-screen time and see if that helps it. Although lately I've been sleeping in 30 mins in the morning and then cramming late at night to get to bed on time. :/

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Daily Update - Tuesday 09/10

Was a wild night last night out on the town with a fellow 2+2er... We went for beers on soi 7 (madness that place) before hitting Walking St. Met with a Tinder bird who my friend and I are still unsure as to whether she's a freelancer or not... I wasn't really prepared to pay her though and thought we were just hanging out / doin drinks.



I have a thing for the darker skinned girlies with nice legs. Anyway, we end up at iBar with her friends, we've met a middle aged Aussie veterinarian who had barfined 5 gogo dancers and taken em to ibar with him lmfao. Absolute nutter but biggest baller i've seen in a while.

Anyway, night ended better than expected. Girl didn't ask me for money but she asked me to film me ****ing her ass doggystyle? Still not sure if hooker/hybrid or just some insane nympho but pleased with the result.

Anyway, after getting rid of her, I went to the bank and finally managed to get a fkn Thai bank account opened after being rejected by 4 separate banks. Means I won't have to fork out $10 fee every time I use an ATM here and should make paying rent easier too.

Today's half-day results:



I'm off to bed now/shortly. Going to force myself to get out of bed at 10am tomorrow. I'm not going to enjoy that one bit but need to be more disciplined re schedule.

Sooo where is the video? Really nice thread btw

Damn could of just rested the camera on her @ss as it's so flat...who needs a fkn tripod these days anyway.

^ ahaha most bitter post of all time

glgl sir!

Amazing thread, keep up the good work and fun pictured updates!

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TBH it's pretty hard to tell from that photo... She definitely had more of an ass than most of the girls I've found around here. It's actually quite the pity - I am madly into Asian chicks but am definitely a booty man over tits anyday. Just happen to live in a country full of Asian chicks with no ass :')

The African freelancers out here definitely fill a need in the marketplace. :')

<3

Cheers m8

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Daily Update - Wed 10 Oct



Had a shocker today. Only like 2 buyins down on EV, but felt overall pretty crappy. This one was pretty brutal vs fish 200bb deep.

Hand Information
No Limit, 4 BB (7 handed).
Hand History converter courtesy of pokerhandreplays.com

Table Information
Seat: 1 2927116417 ($2358) Big Blind
Seat: 2 3922358388 ($1046)
Seat: 4 Hero ($2149)
Seat: 5 3513726768 ($2524)
Seat: 6 2716881174 ($947)
Seat: 7 2016523371 ($2991) Dealer
Seat: 8 3595757152 ($1134) Small Blind
Dealt to Hero
**

Preflop (Pot:6)
Hero****RAISE $35
3513726768****RAISE $100
2716881174****FOLD
2016523371****FOLD
3595757152****FOLD
2927116417****FOLD
3922358388****FOLD
Hero****CALL $65

Flop(Pot: $206)
***

Hero****CHECK
3513726768****BET $152
Hero****RAISE $471
3513726768****RAISE $1348
Hero****ALL-IN
3513726768****CALL $699

Turn(Pot: $4454)
****


River(Pot: $4454)
*****

Showdown:
Hero SHOWS
**
3513726768 SHOWS
**
3513726768**wins the pot: $4454

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Sorry for the aids HH conversion but no easier way I can see to post PM hands from HEM.

First half of the day I was really happy with staying disciplined and applying my strategy but it definitely got a little slack towards the end and I remember punting 1 stack for sure. Needs to be better.

Good news is I'm on schedule for the day, it's currently 11pm. I'm going to finish up here now and then go for a walk prob on beach road. Clear my head and cut myself off from technology.

Head up mate, you'll come good and the hard work will pay off without doubt.

BTW, anyone else find leg tats on girls a major turn off?

yo meale, a little off topic but

get off that melatonin sh*t man. wake up earlier, work out harder, time restrict caffiene intake, anything but that fake melatonin garbage! i took that crap for a little bit, but the best way to fall asleep at night is grinding harder during the day. plus, you really going to take health and lifestyle advice from brokenstars?

Yes. Feel the same
Bang bang!...

Yeeep, just waiting for this variance to end. Still waiting. :') I'm pretty neutral on the leg tats. Some are decent I guess.

Yeah I'm acutally not going to take it tonight. It keeps waking me up too early and that's tilting tf outta me. Grinding harder during the day isn't really an option: I play 7 hours a day and workout for ~90 minutes which is a lot more than most people. :/

Hhaha, dude's up $100k and just got married, can't be that bad right!?

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Daily Update - Thur 11 Oct




Another brutal day. Just lost every cooler over and over again. Got rivered like 10 times in big pots, absolutely rigged day. Set under set, overpair under overpair, flopped top set twice and was somehow outflopped twice as well, etc. Just standard stuff.

Played fairly well overall which I'm fairly happy about. There was one hand that I thought I could have folded and was pretty unhappy about but other than that, just lolvariance.

Gonna cook some dinner and then go for a walk/explore somewhere out here in naklua. It's 10:45 now and I wanna be in bed by 1, so I wanna do what I did yesterday again and finish all my screen-interaction as early as possible. Not going to take melatonin tonight as I find it keeps waking me up very early - hopefully I'll sleep in til my alarm goes off at 10am tomorrow. We'll see.

Leg day and another 4k hands tomorrow.

Sick volume as always.

Are you much of a reader? Try reading a couple of chapters of a book (not poker related) with minimal light - I find it helps loads and takes your mind off poker and reflecting on bad days which definitely effects your sleep IMO. Plenty of places in SE Asia that have second hand book shops in which you can also trade in ones you've read too.

in glgl bossman! how are you finding adjusting to these games, feel comfortable in them yet?

I've been a terrible reader my whole life but these past two-three years I've been working on it and slowly getting better. I'm actually planning on reading for 20 mins or so before bed tonight instead of going for a walk. =]

The games are really good, I've just been getting destroyed by coolers literally over and over again. That said, tonight's session was half decent.

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Daily Update - Fri 12 Oct




TBH today was another annoying as fk day. Started out very poorly getting coolered over and over again. This is a pretty good example...

Hand Information
No Limit, 4 BB (6 handed).
Hand History converter courtesy of pokerhandreplays.com

Table Information
Seat: 1 1196147472 ($907) Dealer
Seat: 2 1372874 ($246) Small Blind
Seat: 3 3490929369 ($2507) Big Blind
Seat: 4 1085909003 ($1765)
Seat: 6 3183618864 ($1360)
Seat: 8 hero ($1324)
Dealt to hero
**

Preflop (Pot:6)
3183618864****FOLD
hero****RAISE $29
1196147472****FOLD
1372874****FOLD
3490929369****RAISE $103
1085909003****CALL $95
hero****CALL $74

Flop(Pot: $307)
***

3490929369****CHECK
1085909003****CHECK
hero****CHECK

Turn(Pot: $307)
****

3490929369****BET $211
1085909003****FOLD
hero****RAISE $580
3490929369****CALL $369

River(Pot: $1467)
*****

3490929369****CHECK
hero****ALL-IN
3490929369****CALL $640
Showdown:
3490929369 SHOWS
**
hero SHOWS
**
3490929369**wins the pot: $1467


Anyway, lost like 6 buyins this morning and then tonight was the complete opposite. Felt like the player pool I knew. I won over 10 buyins in tonight's session - that graph missed a 3k pot I won.

Was nice getting a taste of the good old days before this downswing where I could actually win pots though. Loads of punting going on in the pool.

Anywho, it's pretty late now. I'm going to make some food and then head to bed. Rest day tomorrow so I'll prob sleep in 1 hour and then chill by the pool/go for a swim for a bit before playing.

Daily Update - Sat 13/10



Another okay day today. Managed to hit some flops. Exhibit A:



Shoulda stayed a live pro and done this in Sydney for ~$100k...

It's late asfk now, just finished an 8 hour grind. Very tired and eyes are fried from this screen. I've also had something stuck in my eye for the past two days... Think some dust or some **** from using the motorbike with no visor on. I bought an eye bath thing today and it's doing ****all to help. Think my eye is gg.

Tomorrow is the final day of the week. Going to look to put in another solid 7 hours and finish the week strong before day off on Monday.

Gl all.

Sounds like you might have scratched your eye :/ If so usually takes a few days to heal with minimal agitation

Really insane volume, wish I had that work ethic.

Whats total +/- $ atm? On course for the goal? Still early days though obv.

BTW on the HUD - 48 | 18 and 61 | 20 are those VPIP & PFR? If so I might have to look into that staking deal sooner rather than later. xD

Yeah I had thought so too. But come to think of it, it's been fine for the past few hours. I flipped my upper eyelid up and did another eye bath and think it's all G now.

Total +- is abysmal. It's actually pretty depressing. I think I'm right around even in terms of EV, but running chunks under that. Also, yes, your eyes don't deceive you, those stats are accurate. :')

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Daily Update - Sunday 14 Oct



If you look verryy closely, you'll see I got stacked my very first hand today. Here's what happened.

MP opens, CO calls, BTN calls, hero overcalls SB w 99.
Flop A92r
VERY FIRST HAND, I actually let out a cheer thinking today would be a good day :')
PFR cbets, one of the IP cold callers calls, hero overcalls
Turn Ko
xxx
River K
Hero checks, PFR checks, CCer bets 2/3 pot, I jam, fold CCer calls. Has AK. Would have been totally cool with that except for the fact this mfer had the audacity to cold call AK pre CO vs MP. SMH -_-

Bunch more coolers today. Did not feel good. Small volume today because I only needed to play a few hours to hit my volume quota for the week.

Week Review - 08/10-14/10



I haven't had many losing weeks playing on Pokermaster, especially not playing this volume. I payed 4,450 in rake on top of that graph, so this was definitely a losing week. I've not been coolered so much in my life.

It's actually very frustrating, coming off the back of a big losing streak at 5/10/20, to continue losing in much easier games. But I guess that's just poker.

Anyway, pleased with the volume. Played for 1 day, 16 hours, and 28 minutes.

Looking ahead now at next week... First thing's first, I see a few unread PMs, so I'll definitely get round to those tomorrow as well as Skype. I apologise to everyone who I've kept waiting re that stuff.

I have a mate flying in from Vietnam on Friday who's going to be staying with me for a bit. MTT player so we'll probably play pretty opposite schedules. I do still want to play 40 hours though so I need to make sure we don't end up out drinking every fkn night like we do back in Aus when on tour. :')

Anyway, gameplan for tomorrow is to sus out my schedule and how I'm going to position these 40 hours of gameplay given my mate's going to be arriving on Friday. I am also going to record a 2 hour (maybe longer) video of me reviewing hands in HEM2. I'll post it here when I'm done. Find this is a real good way of objectively assessing the damage.

RN I'm going to go for a walk and relax.

Here's to a winning 20k hands next week!!!

Lmfao. Nice work man. I'm proud of you haha.

My girlfriend is also pretty nympho, but she's never asked me to film her That's incredible.

Keep up the hard work and enjoy your stay in Thailand.

sick work habits.

Can u tell me which chinese sites are possible to play with hem2?

Tnx and GL

:')

Hahah it's pretty wild out here man. Like I did okay with the ladies back in Aus but it's nothing compared to this place. Pattaya feels like there's 8 chicks for every 1 guy and they all want to **** you. And largely that's true because the girls come from their villages to work here, and most girls are hookers.

It's a pretty confronting experience, walking down soi 6 or 7 or LK metro or SOI bua khao - FK even on walking Street last night I got groped by 3 different ladyboys. Absolute madness.


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Skype: info@harveymeale.com if you wanna chat more.

Hand Review vod is done!



Currently being processed but should be at that link shortly. I also fk'd up and accidentally included my second screen. Will fix that for next review next week.

Next monday I'll look to do another review vid, same as this one, hopefully some more hands. Will look to get one of the lads on Skype to jump in on a call to make it more interesting.

Basically, cliffs from those hands - everything was pretty standard, there was two hands that I felt I folded river vs aggression when I shouldn't have and I need to be more mindful/better at bluff catching in some spots.

RN I'm downing an Asahi and about to go pick up this bird and go drink at a bar/play pool/chill. She's a heart broken freeelancer looking for a boyfriend (?) so I'm gonna see if I can't freeroll her coming back to my place tonight.

Let's quickly review last week's goals...

[X] - 40 Hours volume - There is legit no excuse for me not to do this this week. Absolutely have to start hitting this number consistently. - Blitzed it, could have done more too!
[X] - List down adjustments/trouble spots during session and review quickly after each day is done - need to be less of a payoff wizard is basically my only instruction that I've gleaned from this past session! - Didn't really list down any trouble spots, because there wasn't any that I could see... I tagged 466 hands this week though and reviewed a few of them today though so that's definitely worth something.
[X] - No email, messenger, Skype, Line, etc until day off - Have been slacking with this this week. Need to get back on top. - Killed it, have been really disciplined this past week. I must admit it got pretty tempting last night to check phone, but I waited til today which is great.
[X] - 30 Min hand review session - Will do this tomorrow, doubt it'll take 30 mins but I need to clarify some of these spots in my mind. - Killed it, it's on YouTube.
[X] - Gym consistency - Gym has been unwavering since I've started this thread, haven't missed a session and I intend on keeping it that way. - Also been killing it. Still haven't missed a session. Numbers are going up consistently now too. Last push session I put up PRs on ALL my lifts, incline bench, DB shoulder press, felt super strong. And today I did pull, supinated single arm preacher curls, reeeeally reaally strong and heavy ass weight. Super happy with everything gym wise.
[X] - Improve sleep - This will basically be a function of ensuring I have no email/messenger/etc distracting me late at night as well as mucking around with melatonin dosages. - Got tf off melatonin because it kept waking me up too early, have felt past few days sleep has been MUCH better. Not waking up feeling refreshed yet but feel as though overall I've got more hours per night.

So in every aspect last week was a resounding success. Of course, not winning any money kinda sucked, but that'll happen every so often. As long as I'm killing the gym, killing the volume, I really struggle to see how I'll fail.

Gameplan for this coming week... Tomorrow is going to be hit and miss - it's leg day and I'm probably going to be hungover... Going to try not to sleep in too long, force myself into the gym, lift some heavy ass weights, and then hopefully plug 4 hours of volume (I think 2x 2 hour sessions) in the evening.

I'm going to try play as much as possible early in the week, prob 8 hours each wed and thur and then depending on when my mate arrives, another 8 on either Friday or Saturday, and we'll look to hit the town on Friday or Sat night for beers. Will go all out on one night on the weekend anyway, and then play catch up Sunday and grind Monday/Tues.

Been talking to this bird from Tinder, she's 30 and has a kid but is absolutely stunning... Seems super cool and is keen to hang out on the weekend. So like the good pal I am, I'm arranging me + my mate, + her and her mate to go do drinks on this weekend. One on the right/middle/left



Hopefully at least 1 solid degen story from the weekend. Usually I take Monday off and consider that the start of the week, but because I'm moving things around re when my friend arrives, going to probably revisit this on Thursday/Friday next week.

Goals:

[ ] - 40 hours between tomorrow and Monday next week... (half day on Wed, full day thur, full/zero day fri/sat, sun full day, mon full day), will probably translate to about 8 hours a day or so.
[ ] - Maintain solid gym effort

That's it folks! And FFS pray that OP wins some fkn money this week!

Good luck on the felt & with the tinder girl(s) this week... Better smash at least one of the goals, pun intended.