Might be going to NZ next Xmas break. If so, just looking for a summer trip that won't break the bank cuz that one will be uggggly

Banff is a bit touristy but Lake Louise has a few good hikes, horseback riding, canoeing, is close to glacier national park, etc. Apparently the cool kids hang out in Canmore. Also total diva hotel right on Lake Louise. Calgary stampede in July so you can get your redneck on.

I'm pretty sure that I have come across you... GL!

That escalated quickly.

LOL There goes my subconscious again......

Hah maybe!
Where do you play and what game(s)?

Pretty sure the only thing that'll be cheaper going to vancouver vs NZ is the airfare

I guess i might be slightly biased vs vancouver because i've been too many times, driving there is a nightmare, poker blows, and almost impossible to do anything touristy because eeeeveryone goes there in the summer so it's super busy everywhere. (Sea)food's pretty good though and very nice city too.

If you haven't been there before, you'll probably enjoy it, but really do try to check out banff and jasper if you can.

At Sands for the past 3 years at 2/5. If you solely play 5/10 then I will shut up. I'll dabble in limit 3/6 if it runs and I want to kill myself slowly.

derp

i play 2/5 occasionally, mostly 5/T but haven't been at sands in a long, long time

Alright then, nevermind.

Happy new year

Thanks for following along over the last year and half. Will do an end of year update as well as some 2016 stuff either later tonight or soon.

Happy New Year!

Holy ****, that's some impressive cooking! I'm super jealous!

TY!

If none of my career options work out at least I can fall back on being a housewife

Are you in the market? What are the minimum benefits that you require? Is a sleeping bag in the basement good enough or are you one of those that wants a mattress with a bed frame?

Housewife was a career goal in 1950, not today.

Rest of 2015

I played very little poker (relatively speaking) at the end of 2015 for reasons that will follow in the next post on 2016.

I got to play in some really good T/25 games. I ran good walking into them at the right times and book a decent winner overall. Every time I play these bigger games I realize how much 5/T can be a reg fest in comparison. That's not to say 5/T is more tough, but the player types that I have seen at T/25 can often make that game MUCH, much better than any 5/T running at the same time (with the one exception of MDL, almost always play the 5/T there imo ). From what I've seen, 80% of people who play T/25 are 1) very wealth rec-reg players who aren't drunken spew whales, but have massive leaks and play much deeper. They generally avoid lower stakes because they want a more exclusive environment free of people who complain needlessly about losing a 60/40 pot of $100. They tend to over value their hands when they hit something but generally don't triple barrel bluff. 2) hot shot (tourney) pros who lagtarded/binked their way up the stakes and play much less solid than the pros peddling/grinding it out at 5/T or below, and 3) random degen/whales that either win 20k+ or lose 20k+. Of course there are many decent players who play at those stake, but if at least 50% (give or take, depending on how bad they are) of the players in your T/20+ games don't fall into those 3 categories, then you are probably game selecting wrong.

Won a bit in 5/T, still have a ton of stuff to learn but it seems like I might not have time to do all the studying at least for the foreseeable future. This makes me hesitant to put in more hours because I don't like to spend time on things where I KNOW my ev is not maxed and where increasing it is not unreasonable.

Only played 2/5 a few times but ran pretty good overall. Owned a bad pro once for a lot of chips but then got owned by an even worse one the next time

Think I posted plenty of non-poker updates already so I'll just keep this one strictly poker related.

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Speaking of not having enough time to study, I do think that it's not impossible to put in like 30min-1h every few days (and even that would go a long way vs. nothing). I feel like I'm not using my time efficiently though - eg. I like to take my time getting up every day (like spending an hour on my phone), which is one of my biggest time leak.

Do you guys have any tips that you do, or plan to do, to help you maximize your time in getting things done, when you are not on a routine schedule that forces you to be in places at certain times?

You have literally described me playing T/25

1, 2, 3, or all of the above?

Hmmmm is that an offer chick?

Snowball: I use a program called Evernote, very very useful

Phone can be a huge time leak for me as well. Have you taken any steps to try to remedy this?

I already use that lol and yeah i like it
Nope lol.

I'm not big on social media at all and only look at fb for about ~10 min every two weeks and no idea how snapchat works so thankfully no big leaks there

I also read Quora quite a bit since there is a lot of interesting stuff on it, it's prob one of the sites that I spend the most time on

Think in the end it just comes down to having a good balance with how much time you spend on your phone even if it's for purely silly entertainment stuff

TR incoming?

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