BTW.... I would rather stick a hot poker in my eye than grind LIVE poker full time. Staring at a DEALER and glancing back and forth between 4-6 DIMWITS ON MY TABLE for hours on end. Waiting and waiting TO PLAY 15 HANDS PER HOUR. OPEN LIMPING EVERY HAND. UHG! Not for me.

Thanks homies. <3

Cheers, Mike. I appreciate that. Was also pretty lucky to get out when I did, nothing more, nothing less. Luck.

Also I remember people saying my coffee expenses are way too high when I made my last PGC thread hahah. Thing is, I'm extremely picky re coffee. If it's not barista made, I don't enjoy it half as much. But maybe I should invest in a cheap coffee machine now that I have my own place.

Will keep an eye out for a cheap one next time I'm at the shops.

Yeah I got out at 15k. Still have like $4k in BTC/ETH but will just hodl til the price is a bit better.

Yeah my issue re getting Pio right now is that I am not convinced I'll benefit a huge amount from it. The reason being, the games I'm playing in are full of 58/8, 35/25, and 14/12 guys - mostly Chinamen taking weird lines with weird hands. Very difficult for me to solve for these ranges and I think my time initially will be better spent coming up with solid overall strategies against each of these player types and then adjusting to the fact that there's an ante etc.

But I will definitely get it, sooner or later.

Ty ty!!!

Yeah man and if I was grinding on Stars or even Ignition, I would 100% have snap bought Pio right from the get go. But as I mentioned above, I'm going to spend most of my time figure out software, figuring out population, and then adjusting to weird lines from a very passive player pool.

Yeah I'd initially planned on getting back into Crypto sooner rather than later but due to the nature of these clubs, I have to split my bankroll out across a number of accounts and so I don't really have much money lying around that could be in crypto. Maybe toward the end of the year if things go well.

Hahah mate I love that ****. I love being comfortable at home, not waiting on wait lists, not having drunkards screaming and shouting on a Friday/Saturday night. "Waiting for people to act" is a hundred times worse in live poker obviously because online you can just look at another table. There's no boring bits basically.

I hope so too! I'm hoping I don't get too tilted with the dodgy software.

Yeah pretty much my thoughts exactly. The average "reg" in these games is very different to your average Stars reg. And I think my overall strategy will be extremely exploitative.

I also got a system error every time I tried to install Hand2Note and couldn't figure out how to get that software working on my PC. So I've literally just reinstalled Windows and hopefully I get it sorted quickly. Because I may well need that converter as you say!

I'm not sure how beneficial Pio would be since it's so difficult to put in accurate ranges for my villains. I know it'd definitely help at least somewhat though, which is why I want to get it.

Good to have you in here bruv. <3

Thank you!

No greens whatsoever. I know that's real bad but I really cbf cooking anymore. I was talking to mum last week and she said she'd cook me up proper meals once a week if I paid for the ingredients and containers. I snapcalled obv so hopefully that kicks off shortly and I'm able to get a bit more variety in the diet.

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Plans for the forthcoming week - 12/02-19/02

Okay so obv we need 60 hours of poker in. I want a minimum of 52 of those hours to be volume and then the remainder to be study/review. Here's the breakdown.

Monday - {errands: sign up for gym, call Optus and have them set up internet, buy a new mouse - my current one is wiggin out on Windows 10}, I'm also going to try get up early-ish to reset my body clock (woke up at 6pm today, whoops). Will also shoot for 8 hours volume and 1 hour review/study today.
Tuesday - 9 hours play, 1 hour review/study
Wednesday - 9 hours play, 1 hour review/study
Thursday - 9 hours play, 1 hour review/study
Friday - DAY OFF | PARTY | DRINKING | FRIENDS | CHEAT MEAL
Saturday - 9 hours play, 1 hour review/study
Sunday - 9 hours play, 2 hours review/study

That'll look like 53 hours volume and 7 hours review/study for a total of 60 hours. I also want to get in the gym each day this week excluding Friday. This will be difficult for sure but I'm keen to throw myself right into the deep end.

In gl

reading your write up is actually really motivating lol. regarding food it could be a good idea to pre cook some meals on ur offday sometime in the future to save money and get proper nutrition. also i dont think anyone's mentioned it and you probably have some idea but grinding 9 hours online is not the same as grinding 9 hours live. you will face something like 20-30x more decisions over the time frame playing online and it can be mentally draining

Naaah, mate 4 tables of Zoom is actually so fun. Get into heaps of interesting spots and you're actually playing real poker. LLSNL is mostly boring ABC lines because they're the most profitable.

I think it's kind of hard not to start off with a highly XPLO strat in general. Like opening 5x and playing ABC vs the passive tards and then a bit more balanced vs the guys with more normal looking stats. Frankly, I'm not sure what's the best approach at this point in time. I will get Pio eventually though and I know it'll definitely be beneficial - I just think slightly less beneficial in the games I play.

<3

Yeah I really can't argue with that at all and this is basically my position at this point in time.

Yeah it's not for everyone hah :')

Cheers Mas <3

I'm glad. But yes, you're absolutely right re that. I'm actually very nervous about the forthcoming month. Grinding 9+ hours a day WILL be a ***** slog but hopefully it expedites the process of getting my leg up on these games and I can work at a slower pace when I'm established at 400NL.

Nice layout of the thread. Subbing! Good luck on your goals, I hope you smash it!

Touche

15 per hour is a bit of an exaggeration though.

In

RE: Coffee expenses. Unless you're getting lattes, etc, the differences between average home coffee and barista made are 1) High quality freshly ground beans, and 2) Coffee that hasn't been sitting on a hotplate getting burnt.

Your solution is to order high quality beans (IDK what is good in Oz. you might have to work through a few before you find your go-to), buy a cheap coffee grinder so you can grind fresh for every pot, and (most importantly) get a thermal carafe coffee maker, not one with a warmer. Once you have those three things, you'll be making barista quality coffee at home for a fraction of the cost.

cool thread meale, gl mate

I'm intrigued by the whole mechanics of an Aussie pro grinding online. Are there any other similar pgc's running at the moment?? I've got a whole heap of questions, but I guess if you are going to posting HH, some of them will be answered pretty soon anyway.

Good luck of course.

My bad, it's just hard to compute when someone points at what you feel is your biggest time saver for casual hh checkup and suggests it's a time drain. But let's agree to disagree, back to lurking, gl Meale!

in, gl!

good luck mang. I really miss playing on line. I love the sterility of it. No BS - no energy suck of the casino environment, no venom from the bitter regs, etc.

As others have mentioned the online grind is much more fatiguing that live (although you are young so yer brain prolly can handle it more than my old rusted out one)

best wishes

Sub'd GLGL

Good luck!

In! gl bro will be following.

Good luck!

Solid looking place man, here we go!

subbing of course - crush it bro!

good luck meale, just make sure you put in your study time and results will come!

Get an aeropress, make your own coffee, save literally hundred bucks a month
Buy the Monin syrups and you basically have your own Starbucks coffee all year round

Subbed and gl

really interesting, will be following. good luck!

is that pppoker? and have you been making money on there? Friend of mine got me into it seems relatively soft for the most part. Easy way to get that 220$ if you ask me Best of luck will be following.