End of month update for you guys. Basically had one of my best months so far playing poker. Online volume was very good considering that I’ve been quite busy taking on additional students and that has cut into my playing time quite a bit and that I also played quite a bit of live poker at the start of the month.
I’m at a point where I’m quite happy with where I am financially, I’m very grateful to have the opportunity to play everyday and just enjoy the whole process and worry less about the finances. Poker has afforded me a lot of freedom and while I could just spend my time playing video games or something, I know that I want to be continuing to optimise the efficiency and effectiveness of my hours.
What does this mean for me in regard to how I want to spend my time?
I’ll be prioritising poker for specific periods of time throughout the day when the traffic/game quality is at it’s peak. This means that when less games are running or they aren’t as good, I’ll be spending that time doing something else… i.e. meditating, exercising, coaching, studying poker, learning some new skills etc.
I think the main thing that many of the players who grind lower stakes for a long time neglect that they could be allocating way more time to improving rather than grinding and that this would help them out more in the longer term. Winrate improvements and the ability to play higher stakes in the future offsets the amount you might be currently making. In addition to this, there are things outside of poker that can contribute a large amount to increasing winrate. Mental game, overall happiness and health are vital to playing at/getting to a high level. I notice whenever I get less sleep than ideal, I perform worse at the tables. Same thing happens when I play way too much volume and neglect exercising. So fixing these things can do way more than grinding more hours.