Obviously brain damaged.

Yep, I did 6 last night and felt it worked a bit better - probably having a coffee at 4 in the Arvo fkd me more than it should have.

5% of nothing is still nothing haha, hopefully I can put up some better numbers than that though :s

As I said, no desk in my condo and no homeware places would sell a desk I could fit two monitors and a keyboard on. The 1.3k one is almost too small as it is :')

Yep, I'll hit ya up on Monday M8.

Yeah that's bad news. I've got 30 pills tho and see if this bottle makes any difference.

"Monday - Off
Tuesday - 4 hours"

Did you thought about: Monday - 4 hours, Tuesday - Off... grinding the first half of a regular schedule on Monday, than go party hard and tuesday sleep long and do other stuff/chores?

1.3k for a desk is crazy, There is no homepro in Pattaya? Just buy 2 cheap ones if they are not big enough. Or get it from Lazarda, they will deliver and have hundreds of desks.

Wouldn't buying a $100 or hell even a $300 dollar desk (which is quite alot for a desk), be better?

Seems a bit excessive to me lol.

eh? you can buy a 2 metre desk in ikea for $300 so i would expect thailand to have some really cheap ****., how big do you need? I don't think ive ever even see a $1300 desk before. Does it make coffee for you as well or something? What are you going to do with it when you leave thailand? you aint a baller yet.

Desk obv comes with a lady to sit under it for a daily bj

subbed! glgl

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Yeah that's actually a decent idea. I'm happy for my day off to be anything from Monday-Thursday, it'll change. But the main point is that I have 1 full day off and one half day.

I went to 3 Homepros! They didn't have anything usable. Was super tilting too because on their website they had a reasonable selection but the actual stores had nothing I could use.

I wasn't aware Lazada did desks.

Ideally, yes. But the desks here are built for tiny people and I wanted to make sure I was comfortable. If there was a $500 option that was reasonable I would have snapcalled.

Yeah, if only there was a ***** IKEA in this country lol.

This!

Cheers Ben

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Another quick update. I've been 8 tabling 2/4/8 on PM all afternoon. Then the power went out. Super annoying because idk whether my spreadsheet will still have session results. And I'll have to dig them out tonight to make sure everything's square. The power outages here are kind of tiltingly frequent. Wasn't even a storm tonight, sht just cacked itself.

Anyways I've taken this opportunity to head to my favourite restaurant for dinner. $3.50 chicken fried rice lfg.

Poker Grandmaster is the absolute nuts as well folks. 8 tabling with PGM + Minion is sooo smooth. I'm actually going to see about getting a third monitor so I can add a couple more tables and have room for PGM.

Will update with session results and whatnot tonight. Nice to see 2/4/8 still as juicy as it was when I left it last!

I paid $26 for my computer desk here in Manila. Can be used as a standing or sitting desk. Just saying.

I commend you. I really do.

1) dual monitor is absolutely necessary for 8 table?
2) how to get PGM?

Class thread so far m8, 2 pages in and buying that book, working out how to make my life more structured (work, poker, gym, football) and sack off notifications - if anything’s important they can call me. Will have to fit some time for the gf in there too.

GL

It's more or less a necessity, yeah. Max you can really tile on my 28" 4k monitor is 5 without having to squint too hard. So I currently have 3 on other screen + PGM/spreadsheet. There really isn't much room. If I can figure out how to plug a third monitor into my GPU, I'll just get a cheapie 24" thing so I can have 5+5 tables on the main two monitors + a screen for PGM.

https://pokergrandmaster.net --> obv I'm not an affiliate but I simply recommend the fk outta this software.

Appreciate that my man. <3 Definitely grab the book - I've read tons of self-help/personal development type **** over the past few years and this one has definitely had the biggest impact on my life, without a doubt.

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Daily Update - Sat 06/10



Feels so good to finally be able to post a HEM2 graph again! Only thing is, this graph is basically completely inaccurate. The results are completely out of whack in terms of $ and bbs (because the straddle confuses it somewhat). It's not as simple as dividing by 2 either. But it gives you a feel for how the session went.

I'd post actual results $-wise with this graph, but I'll have to wait til the morning to grab the results from the power outage earlier.

Session was okaaay... Ran JJ into QQ twice and AK into AA, no preflop coolers went my way. But plenty of dumb sht happening all over the place which makes me very confident there's still a ton of money in these games.

8 Tabling an absolute breeze. Was even boring at times waiting for action. Have Minion/PGM pushing hotkeys via my mouse, so it's like the good old Zoom days where you can hover over table and click a mouse button to fast fold, call, etc. Going to speak to the boss in a week or so regarding getting a couple more accounts so I can 10 table. I figure adding 2 accounts should increase my hourly by 25% assuming the winrate drop off is negligible - seems +EV overall.

I also need to get back to my normal schedule of 1 hour 45 min sessions. Today I did 1x 3 hour 20 min + a 2 hour 40 min session. I find my concentration is very good over long sessions but my eyes kind of start to hurt a bit.

I'll keep it to the 1.75 hour sessions from here on in to make sure I hit my volume targets.

Last day of the week tomorrow. Gym + 7 hours volume and I'll call it a week.

I bought a kitchen table for my desk and it's perfect. Solid wood and probably like 5x3.5 or 5x4

this thread is really inspiring i will bookmark this as a reminder to what i am working towards props dude

Yeah, that's a decent option as well. I just gave up in the end after going to prob 5 or so furniture/home shops.

Awesome to hear mate. Although in fairness, I've not made any money yet. :')

Daily Update - Sunday 07/10



So the above is basically correct except instead of $ it's RMB. So I lost 5k RMB today. It also doesn't include rake, so it's not entirely accurate but I'll keep this graph format for now. Also noticed a couple bigish winning pots were exported with errors and didn't show up on here.

I keep getting coolered preflop the last two days. Havne't won a single allin with AK pre, and just getting pipped in a bunch of spots pre.

On that note though, I definitely need to do some work re-adjusting to the metagame of 2/4/8 PM. There was a spot today where I wanted to fold QQ pre and if I was playing A game I would have. This coming week I'm going to have to make sure I'm doing all of these exploitative folds every time, not just sometimes.

I've marked a few of these spots for review tomorrow. Will call it a week here. Here's this week's PM volume...



Actual profit after rake is about -$17.

Goals for Week 08/10-14/10

[ ] - 40 Hours volume - There is legit no excuse for me not to do this this week. Absolutely have to start hitting this number consistently.
[ ] - 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!
[ ] - No email, messenger, Skype, Line, etc until day off - Have been slacking with this this week. Need to get back on top.
[ ] - 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.
[ ] - 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.
[ ] - 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.

That's it. Should be easy. I'm excited for my first full week back grinding 2/4/8. Should hit 20k hands this week easy.

Monday off tomorrow. Going to hit it up with some birdy I found on Tinder. I know for a fact that if I go out drinking/clubbing trying to impress a girl I'll punt off way too many stacks so I'm going to take my cards out of my wallet and prob only give myself $80 or something. See if we can ball on a budget tomorrow night.

Don't know how I only just found this! Subbed, GLGL

Melatonin is worthless if you're going to sleep at the same hour everyday, which is what everyone with sleep problems should be doing.
My advice is go out for a walk or exercice after waking up every morning and get some sunlight early, and at night 2 hours before bedtime don't watch the computer and cell phone/tablet. Read a book or listen to some music, TV is also fine if you're not too close to the screen.

Cursed myself because for this entire week I fall asleep at the normal time but then wake up like 20 minutes later and am wide awake for the next 3 hours and then end up getting only 4 hours of sleep.

lol, ive played 10k hands of these fake sites so far and this is exactly how i feel

if only there was somewhere to run back to

<3

Yeah you're probably right tbh. I go to the gym for 2 hours in the AM every day. I can't switch off technology 2 hours before bed because I'm playing. I would if I could.

Hahah ****. Yeah i've found I'm waking up really early each morning on Melatonin. Like 7am on the dot each day. And then just snooze til 10am alarm but feel hell tired by that stage.

Yeah sht did me head in Glad to be back on PM. You ever play on PM? It's very very different to the other apps imo.

Are you playing straddle or non-straddle games?

What do you think are more profitable?

What adjustments would you recommend for straddle games?

Do you buy-in for 200bb?