impressive ROI over the time man. great job !

both your work ethic and business model are spot-on imo, combining medium stakes / small fields with coaching / vids for a free-variance grind, can`t fail.

best of luck in 2015, hope you achieve your goals.

(yn)

Ha thx man you have done ok yourself

I am going to be playing a bit more peak/shot takes at higher stuff.

I think I can be certain I am a solid winner at the mid stakes and like you say I think my set up is quite good.

Best of luck to you as well my friend this year

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On a hiatus.. final year at college in psychology once I qualify i'm going back to midstakes MTTs, if the games seem good i'll play online again for a year (looking to become a music therapist would have to do a masters course).

How many hours a night do you sleep usually? Are you still off coffee?

Cool mate glad your doing something you love at uni

We arw going to duerdy's maybe in April you should see if you could make it.

I sleep prob 8-9 hrs most days sometimes 10hrs once a week maybe 6/7hrs (when I get up with kids)

Yes I am still drinking coffee 4 smallish cups a day on average

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in again. gl hero, always loved your threads.

Thx man gl to you as well

Today was a slightly frustrating day.

I had some custom hud stats built for turbos and was pretty excited to use them.

They were definitely worthwhile and turbos were going great. I was 2/22 in a 30$ 6 max and then pt4 had a issue and my whole comp froze.

It's never happened before to me and I ended up rebooting. By the time I had the issue sorted and everything back up etc I was 11/11

Was playing really really well till that point and took be about 30 mins till break to get into the right mindset again

I got 5th in ftp 50fo, raise/called TT could not beat 88 for chiplead

Got 3rd in 40 turbo on 888 just lost some ft flips and got 6th in ftp 26fo maybe made one mistake which seems to be a leak of mine.

Took a line which is nearly always value versus a reg who was just so bad and could not hand read with one of my bluffs and also sized it to small as well to lose a bunch of chip's.

Lastly got 25th or something like that in big 33 which is the most frustrating as it's one of the biggest tournaments of my day session in terms of prizepool

Overall playing very well this month so far evbb/100 is about 20 for the month and double digit post ante as well

Looking forward to tomorrows session and Sunday will be playing late again as it's the 9 mil anniversary

great to see you starting to post again...When you posted on Tiltbook I followed you there too...will follow here for sure....good luck!!!!

Thanks man

I gave up on tiltbook when I kept getting spammed about staking people

Will do a weekly update later today

A pretty frustrating Sunday. A few deep runs again and played ok overall, very well pre ante and post ante seemed to ok one hand definitely didn't like my line but overall was good

Got 15th in the Turbo mega deep AKs could not get there v 66 for top 3 stack and there was a nice 20k up top

Month to date below is my bb/100 which is looking decent. Pre ante is really good at about 20 and post ante is 5bb ev (actual 3).




However, I don't feel I am quite in the zone in most of sessions (sundays I have been). Getting super frustrated with what I consider bad plays (from villains) which is ridiculous. I should be happy when I see a nit min cold 4 bets OOP off a 30bb stack that I can hero fold some hands for example. Or when villain peels a huge 3b OOP with A5o

So due to this frustration I am going to book a few more sessions with Elliot roe who I did some work with at the back end of last year as I am not playing A+ game when in these moods.

Also personally am not happy with my routine, I have got out of the habit of working out and putting in some mediation before sessions. My general pre-game routine seems out of sync.

Also since I have cut down coaching a touch I am going to put some serious leg work back into some study 4/5hrs a week is not enough if I want to crack the tougher games.

Ahhhh yes, the Turbo Mega Deep.
Sick mtt as esssentially when you're 3 tables out you literally are just a few holds away from a huge score!
The blinds get so shallow you just have to hope the RNG decides it's your day!

So some updates from last week.

In general feeling much better about my game and mental state. For the first time in forever I picked up my kettle bells and did a work out.

It really really hurt (and did for days after), but worked wonders snapped me out of a bad mood and just energised me somewhat.

I put in some good study on a couple of spots, and then opened up a can of worms and found about 5 more things/leaks I think I have that need to be plugged.

Results wise up to Sunday was kind of frustrating, I won the Mama KO on FTP on Thursday and played the endgame pretty well. Experimented with some new spots/line and ranges and I think they worked really well in general.

Friday grind was pretty frustrating, got 3rd in FTP 50 turbo redic spot where a rec player flats A7o to a 12bb jam and then a 30bb iso jam and wins v AK,

4th in the Early fiddy on FTP after playing pretty well FT and applying great pressure lost a bunch with KQs v AK in a 3b pot (Kxx flop) and then 99 v 88 lost for the bust hand

10th in some 25fo bowl comp and 15th or something in 22 turbo 6 max on stars just losing them 80/20s etc

However, kept positive by working on life so to speak. Started listening to podcasts again and finished off listening to a epic Hardcore History podcasts on WW1 which was excellent and also the Tim Ferris podcast I really enjoy. Listened to a great episode with Tony Robbins who is a performance management specialist. He has worked with Bill Clinton, Oprah, Andre Agassi as well as a lot of hedge fund manager types.

Was very good and helped me once again get into the right mindset for the weekend.


Sunday session was pretty good, I only played a couple of majors and alongside it a bunch of midstakes stuff. Ended up with a bunch of nice deep runs and cashes

Last 100 of the ipoker major, 10th in the turbo Fiddy on FTP AQo v TT for 2x chip lead to bust. Also took 9th in the Grand Sunday on ipoker which was a great tourn I have never played before (2 entries to that as well).

Lastly we ended up shipping the Sunday Phoenix rebuy in ipoker for about $3.6k went into the FT as the short stack after taking a nasty beat with KK v A7s all in pre. Lucky for us we are buffyslayer1 and ran like god at the FT wining a bunch of huge pots when behind AT v KK, AJo v KK, ATs v KK as well

The dynamic was really interesting 3 handed as the CL had tons of chips for the whole FT. I had been pretty active v him sucked out once and also doubled huge with T7s v QT on a T7x flop where he got in 40bb in on the flop.

Then this beauty of a hand


$14k/$28k Ante $2.8k No Limit Holdem
iPoker3 Players
Hand Conversion Powered by WeakTight.com poker hands converter
Stacks:
BTN Lebronprojekt ($735k) 26bb
SB g3r4rdOx ($974k) 35bb
BB Hero ($1,506k) 54bb
Pre-Flop: (50k, 3 players) Hero is BB A K

Lebronprojekt calls $28k, g3r4rdOx folds, Hero raises to $100k, Lebronprojekt raises to $732k, Hero calls $632k
Main Pot : ($7,395k) Lebronprojekt: +$1042252.40 EV (24.00%)
Hero: +$4887475.60 EV (76.00%)

Flop: A 6 9 ($1,543k, 2 players)
Main Pot : ($7,395k) Lebronprojekt: +$258813.10 EV (3.50%)
Hero: +$7135846.90 EV (96.50%)
Turn: 9 ($1,543k, 2)
Main Pot : ($7,395k) Lebronprojekt: +$0.00 EV (0.00%)
Hero: +$7394660.00 EV (100.00%)

River: 5 ($1,543k, 2)
Main Pot : ($7,395k) Lebronprojekt: +$0.00 EV (0.00%)
Hero: +$7394660.00 EV (100.00%)
Final Pot: $1,487k
Hero shows
A K
Lebronprojekt shows
8 K
Hero wins $1,487k (net +$752k)
Lebronprojekt lost $735k

I think villain was somewhat annoyed by my general agression and having lost the chip lead a orbit early. He even said a few choice words in chat prior to this epic spew!


After this HU was difficult for my opponent as we have him outchipped, and didn't take long to ship.

So brings me to a nice point this month where hopefully I can put in some more work on ranges. Get on top of the 1 million other jobs I have to do at the moment and then play as well in the rest of my sessions

So last week was again a relatively good one.

Thursday session was pretty annoying I think I cashed in 8/25 tournaments I played and overall was pretty happy with how I played and was not down to much on the day. Essentially got coolered or was very short going into the last few tables of a few and lost in standard spots.

I took Friday off kind off as I had family over Saturday morning and I desperately needed to catch up on all my students’ notes plus also work on a few spots.

Went into Sunday feeling pretty decent, made a early FT in a 55fo on FTP and was pretty tilted I didn't win going in 1/9. Due to the clocks changing that tournament has become more of a bowl (than it was already) and only 8 paid.

Took what I thought was a great ICM bomb spots where I ripped 25bb over a btn open 8 left 7 pay and there was a 14bb stack at the table. Villain a reg who is seems is not aware of ICM snapped AJo. So in the end we both end up making errors and gifting equity to the short stack and everyone else at the table

To give you a idea since this comes up a lot his range should only be this if I were to jam atc



Obv we are not jamming anywhere close to this range


So anyway after this we are back in the pack and maybe the spot was to thin and I should have 3b/f. Just seemed like a great spot since he 'should' not be able to call that wide on the exact bubble.

Anyway played decently in the session but was down to last 2 tables quicker than I would have liked. Luckily for us, we played well and ran well and ended up with deep runs in the bigger 44 and Sunday Kick off.

Despite getting a brutal beat with 77 on an AJ7ss flop losing flop all in to QJss and being I think something like 25/25 somehow managed to nurse a 12bb stack and maintain that last place standing all the way until the FT where we picked up chips just before the FT.

The FT had a couple of good players at it, Asjbaaaf and pads (both have threads I think) and a bunch of bad regs/randoms (well random to me )

One slightly strange and unbelievable spot came up which basically dictated the play for the rest of the FT. I can't get the hand to convert properly for some reason (and hide the replay so if anyone knows please let me know)

Essentially MP opens 55bb stack, MP+1 flats (70bb) I squeeze in the CO.

OR flats the squeeze, the flatter back raises. He reps nothing with this really very unlikely he has a monster in this spot we are deep no short stacks behind either, plus he had a very high 3b overall

I fold the OR now rips and the back raiser snaps off with 88 he is getting nearly 2-1 but it’s a FT and the OR range is redic strong for this line. Flops a set versus AK and now has 120bb or something.

I haven't checked the ICM of the spot or anything but I would imagine calling off with 88 is criminal in that spot. Looks like intuitively something like a JJ/AKs spot maybe inc AKo if villain (OR jams AQs sometimes there)

I like the way OR played AK in that spot actually he gets the most FE and induces some worse hands to do something. 88 play seems somewhat ambitious to be honest but it did give villain to a giant chip lead which he used quite well. Essentially opened every pot and put all the mid stacks including myself under a ton of pressure.

Ended up like most at the table blinding down and just looking for spots to shove and re-shove with FE but pretty hampered almost the entire FT was a short stack of between 8-12bb about.

We ICM ladder our way from 8/9 to 4th in the end and considering the table position (huge chip leader in front of us opening every pot and the shorties behind) was relatively happy with 4th.

In the kick off think I misplayed a couple of hands semi-deep, one was minor basically c bet a flop I nearly always check fold but, was doing a sweat with Daryl (talked about hands after they were played ofc) and it kind of put me off being asked random questions about how I play my range or just general stuff. Very hard to get into flow/zone of whatever I find when talking to someone at the same time. The fact I made such a basic error (funny enough most people auto c bet as well) semi tilted me as well.

I don't think I will do one again, I have tried them a lot of times now both as teacher and student and I just think they are the worst way of doing any kind of coaching plus can damage the actual session in progress. Maybe there is a effective way of doing them but, I have tried a few methods and they just don’t work well .

Other mistake was in a 3b pot I bet v small with a OESD intending to jam turn against a regfish, instead got a huge check jam which I was not prepared for. Ended up folding as don't think I was getting quite the right price to call off. In retrospect even though I would be betting all my value range the same size, I should have adjusted to this guy and only really induced with the sizing I picked and to hell with balance.

So overall a decent enough Sunday could have been huge, but I think that’s 4 Sundays in a row where I have had super deep runs and or results.

Year to date has started to pick up, not happy with the ROI but it is getting back to where it should be

Cool update buffy. You're a boss

Not really sure why but felt like a small update

Been working hard on self improvement, managed to work out for 3 days in row and feel really good for it loads more energy.

It's also made me to random jobs round the house that I am normally very lazy at doing, mowing lawn, cleaning out fish tank etc.
I have also managed to listen to 2/3 podcasts which is one of my favourite ways of relaxing and taking in new information.

The Tim Ferris podcasts (author of the 4hr working week) has had a couple of really interesting guests on it. A English guy pretty eccentric (of course) talking about memory and developing it etc plus a math guy (can't recall the name) talking about probabilities (in a interesting way) and how it effects everyday life (poker gets a mention)

Plus I found Elliot roe who I have done a few sessions with has a podcast out which is great and I listened to a episode with Daniel Dvoress the run it once video producer which was pretty decent for a first episode of a podcast

I have also started to read Game of thrones again in prep for the new season out in the spring. Hopefully I get time to re-read all the books then watch the series all again before it comes out.

On the poker front an average session today, was down on the day. Played ok I think overall not A game not in the zone but a solid B+ day. Variance took its course in the deep runs I had 78ss on a JT9ss flop in a 3b pot somehow lost Last 14 of the twister 55fo and lost JJ v 77 for chip lead 10 left in the 33 cube on stars. I think i had 3/4 other deeps but don't recall too much.


Overall feeling really good at the moment and looking to continue with the momentum and keep improving both on and off the tables

Subbed. GLGLGL

Thread doesn't get enough love or replies. Really enjoying following your grind!

Thx mate

Will try and keep up at least 2 updates a week.

If anyone wants anything in particular from this thread or me happy to answer here

Might post a few more interesting hands as well or spots I have worked on a bit

Very nice thread, good luck on ur grind, subbed!

Thread is a solid 6/10. Deffo subbed. GL!

Dam note to self must try harder lol

Nice read, Subbed. glgl

needs moar hands
gl for the year, lots of lve

Tim ferrisss podcast sounds cool gonna get on that. Line this up as one to listen to v cool how its recorded http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fU-itRs7hY

Radio lab is awesome. Dem poor goats tho.