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great! no bolding though bro <33

thanks the great

thanks man, yeh always fun to post the journey, i like to read back old blogs and see my state of mind/rational at the time

send me a dm buddy, thanks for reaching out, at very least will look at 5 hh's of yours no matter if we agree something or not

thanks man! i kinda meant more like is it big, do lots of people come etc, never really hard of this one before

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for anybody that I would ever want to respect me, telling them I pay somebody $10/hour would really not be the top 100 things I would want to boast about. Its really not baller at all. I have said before that I've failed with being efficient with it, getting somebody to help out who does this properly/full time will 1) Save me some time, time = money and this isn't for one trip, hopefully could use same person for long time and 2) Means that I stick to the goals.

For example, if I say I'll do it myself, I'll get somewhere, be super tired, forget, be lazy, have meetings, miss it etc etc, if its somebodies responsibility to make sure everything is sorted, I will be forced to eat better, spend less money etc.

I had talk with some friends about getting cleaner recently, they thought it was excessive/unnecessary etc, I can't believe that they don't value their own time at more than $10/hour, my cleaner comes once/week for 5+ hours, I pay $50, is that baller? NOT AT ALL! Is it efficient? Absolutely, in that time I am usually being very effective and hard working, hopefully making way more than the $50 in ev.

I know you wanted to hate etc, but its actually something I think is an interesting topic, does anybody think I'm very off here?

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thanks!

great, will get back to you soon

thanks ZiMa

**** it, I'm out of it. Will post about it soon.

I'm interested to hear more about your running career.

I was a bit of gun as a teenager. I ran 2:02 for 800m as a 14 year old.

Subscribed, I have always enjoyed reading your threads, Patrick!

One day in assembly the PE teacher said who wants to go and run tomorrow in the city championships, I used to love doing things and putting myself forward.

I go to the championships the next day and I am the smallest person by a long long way, I am wearing clog big football boots, baggy shorts and a football shirt. Everybody else is in running spikes and these tiny running shorts. Maybe 300+ people? Im not sure how many, anyway it was maybe 5 miles or something and I ended up coming 2nd to one of my good friends.

It was very weird, nobody had ever told me I could run, I had no idea, I was not quick at all, in football I played very static, I played centre mid and just got the ball and played as a playmaker. I literally never dribbled with the ball once in 5 years of playing football, just wasn't how I played, never sprinted behind defence etc. So it was just a massive shock. I was signed up to 3 different football academies and would play for a Sunday team and train for them too, I was basically playing football 6x a week so just was naturally fit.

I went to the counties, which is like all the people who were top 10 in their city and I came 3rd, I was like wtf. Ended up joining local running club, I was just the anti stereotypical runner, small, stocky, the coaches actually really hated me and were pretty out of line a lot of the time, but I just turned up 2x/week and ran. I started to run the longest distance track there was for my age which was 1500, I won the city and the county races and then went to a bigger one, not sure exactly what it was but it was very competitive. I warmed up well now, I remember that very well, my football coach was close to myself and my family and he was the manager of the Newcastle football team that I was captain of at the time, the other kids were very arrogant and messing about etc, but I did a really good warm up with him. Anyway, I run a really good race, 100m to go and I am way in front, 50m to go and this kid is chasing me, 30m to go he's getting close, 20m to go I can hear him, 10m to go I can smell him, 5 metres to go I have tanked out, I turn around to see where he is and as my head goes back his goes forward and he wins. It was quite surreal actually, like something from a movie.

I carried on running, I remember going to one race which was like national cross country, I didn't eat the day before or breakfast, didn't sleep well, ran and came like 100th or something which was pretty tilting. Next month I went to another championships and ran 3000m, I was on lap 5 or something and I was just bored out of my mind, I didn't enjoy it at all anymore and I think I came 3rd or something and after the race I just didn't run competitively again.

I was playing football more seriously now, I now realised that I could run a lot and was fit and in matches my style kind of changed a lot, I was doing a lot of box to box and behind defences running etc. We had a game against a really good team and it was my job to man mark this kid called Dean Critchlow who was really good, I man marked him all game which is kind of a weird thing for a 15 year old to do as that doesn't really happen, but I loved it and he couldn't really get away from me. Next week we play Liverpool in Quarter finals of the national cup, my job was to man mark this kid called Charlie Barnett, he was captian of Liverpool, I was captain of Newcastle, 2 days before the game they were writing that I might be the next Alan Shearer or something. haha just found the article, 14 years ago?! jesus christ!!!!!! http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/...shearo-1602686

Anyway, huge build up to the game, I lined up, shook the guys hand at kick off, straight after kick off I just ignored the ball and followed him, he laughed, 90 minutes later he had absolutely crushed me, they beat us 5-0 and the difference between the two of us in quality was really huge. Everybody after the game was sure he would be the next big big thing in English football, but after a quick google check https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charli...tt_(footballer)

he has not really done that much. I was sure of it at the time he would be future England captain.

At uni I never ran at all, over the years I have gotten less and less fit, but the goal is to rectify that. It really is very depressing playing football and being one of the unfittest guys after my history, but thats all history is, something in the past, and thats the best thing about the future, you can make of it whatever you want.

Great start to the blog will be in to follow and love and hate all your posts at the same time I will say that your past blogs in a weird way have been really inspiring so thanks for sharing bud vamos

MCOP is ****. dont come.

subbd gl with your journey

definitely think your thinking is on point about the paying for the cleaner and paying for some help to organize your schedule/life. especially for someone in your position who either has a very high ev from spending that time working or using that time to relax instead of doing chores you don't want to do. hiring a maid to come clean sounds extravagant on the surface but when you actually think about how much it costs and how much time it saves you it's a no brainer.

Maid legit most +ev regular thing ever

First of all, you have solid reasons why certain people could help you with different aspects, so no it's not weird at all to consider it. If people tell you it is, then I think it has more to do with their personal situation or subjective view over things, rather than thinking about your situation and try to have an open mind.

I had the same discussion a while back about cleaners etc. I'm super happy that back then I finally decided to get one. In fact, not only I'm really happy about it, the cleaner feels the same since she can make more hours now and really needs the money. Most grindhouses I've seen are a complete mess too and many poker players still eat super unhealthy, whatever works for someone to improve these things should be done immediately.

I think hiring people to help yourself improving certain aspects of your life should be a snap call. When you are in a place where your hours can be spent really valuable, it's kind of stupid to spent a lot of time on things which others can easily do for you or help you with. As long as you know how stuff works and have it done yourself, I don't really see a reason why you should keep doing it just because it seems ballerish/arrogant if you wouldn't. Knowing what's going on is a good thing tho. I think stuff like personal trainers can be really nice, you don't only have a responsibility to yourself, but also your trainer etc. Improving your EV in work/life just by a very small margin should pay for itself immediately in the environment we work in.

For me personally booking flights would never be something I consider to let someone else do, since it's so easy and takes 5min and can be done when you decide to go on the trip. It also doesn't prevent you from rage quitting Vegas just because you feel like leaving at that moment. It's not that you would stay because of that assistants work, you would just book a flight at that moment anyway lol. Booking Airbnb's / getting food sorted can be a bit more time consuming, so yea you could def consider to let someone else figure that out for you. I only don't really see it taking many hours on a weekly basis, isn't there someone in your group/network who would be happy to help you with it for a small reward in coaching or whatever? Seems like a real assistant for just ordering food, booking a few Airbnbs/flights is a bit too much? At least for sure try out what works for you, and don't be afraid to try things which other people might have a biased opinion on imo.

GL! Will be following

$10/hr for maid seems insane cheap, esp in London?

Wow thanks for the long post dude. From my experience between ages 10-16, Natural Ability goes a long long way in athletics. I didn't train very hard either. It's only once you get to the last couple of years in school do people really start to train seriously.

Subbed. Look forward to following this thru 2018!


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Super glad i found this! You probably inspire more people than u are actually aware off!

This may be super super easy or "cant compare these two" kind of questions to answer but:

Is it more fullfiling to watch your students/friends succeed big time AFTER you have already been successfull, OR the process of making it even bigger?

I mean i can only imagine myself after facing so much success in my life, to kinda have enormous rush of fullfilment if i see others have success and be genuinly happy and i have helped in many ways for that achievement.

Just a random thought that came in my mind while i was reading this whole thread, so i just got it down here

Best of luck in 2018. I obv will be following this

Cheers m8!

Yeah between 10-16 the talented ones will have very big edge on others even if they dont train hard. I just played only in amateur leagues, but 99% of the guys who scored 50+ in a season at young age and did not work hard later, did not even start later in the first teams...One of my best friend at 14-15 years old he was winning national/county running competitions and played in first team( it was really funny that time he was just way faster than the adult ones)..only few years later 18-20 he wasn't anymore special.. He was just talented and very fast, but he did not put in the work later. Reality can be fast. ( i can see some similarities in poker, the big winners before 2010 who were talented, but now they are nowhere)

No punta cana this year?

A bit surprised at maid / PA discussion....seems super obvious that it's really +ev (@ maid specifically).

My PA does the maid duties too so it's great, just 1 person to deal with. $100/week and she does
-full cleaning once per week in the condo. Does lot of small cleaning when here the other times
-laundry, bedding, towels etc
-brings healthy food 2-3x per week. very important as otherwise i eat super ****ty
-pays all my bills (here in Mexico its difficult to get auto payment/online payment set up so still have to run the paper bill that shows up in the mail to the place to pay)

Also if anything random comes up, she handles it. Dryer went out, she got in contact with the owners of my place and they all dealt with it. I'm not capable of answering the door while grinding so she arranged delivery for a day/time she knew she'd be at my house working.

She even has a visa for the US and has crossed to go get parts for my truck. Anything I need done, she goes and does it.

I'm left with only needing to focus on poker. All for $100/week. The EV difference is insane, gain so much by having her work for me. Has to be much larger difference for someone like pads too.




To you guys who don't have maid/cleaner, you just clean yourself? How dirty is your place on average? Most poker players houses/condos/whatever that I've been to that don't have a maid are pretty dirty and nothing even close to compared to my house, which is almost always neat, organized and clean.

Obv a crazy easy decision in Mexico as it's so cheap. Imagine stuff is more expensive in London as I know it's a bit more expensive even here in CT. But still in total agreement. Super +ev and especially for someone like Pads where the money is a non issue and his time is valuable and even if he isn't spending that time actively making money it's still more +ev to be able to relax than to have to vacuum or whatever else.

Subbed, Glgl! Long time lurker on your previous threads but will try and be a bit more interactive on this one!

Do PP organise your trips for their events? In any case as others have said hiring an assistant seems a good idea, especially if as you say you are disorganised. It may not be a full time job for that person so you may want to consider sharing with other live regs?

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really? ok cool thanks!

Yeah I mean I think cleaner is obv a slam dunk, more the life organiser which is up for debate.

Hey, thanks for post. I usually end up booking flights on phone etc and the sites are smart and for some reason charge me 20% more than others get the prices for, I think its because of booking business to fly to America they absolute do my balls. I think that when you pay somebody $10-$20/hour only need to make sure one flight doesn't get overcharged/year to make it all +Ev.

£9, I usually round up to the nearest 20. So for 6 hours would give £80 (i know maths lol)

thanks skillz


Thanks for the post.

I get most of my happiness now from seeing horses who were in a really tough spot, needing loans, trying hard, coming to all coachings etc that just always run bad to run really good. Or meeting somebody for first time at a trip, seeing how young/naive they are etc and then see their growth over the next few months. In Marbella we had a bootcamp, there was a guy called Lucas who booked his trip to Spain 1 month too early and left to the airport, in America they have the dates back to front like 4/5 and 5/4 etc. Anyway, we met him and really liked him, very young, very nice guy, funny/smart etc. We were really drunk on the last night and some of the guys wanted to go to strip club, Lucas had a girlfriend and is very loyal, he was in tier 8 and we suggested he comes to the strip club and we move him to tier 7 (we were going to do it anyway) anyway he said no, no I will get there through hard work. He has done well since and actually won the partypoker online pro sponsorship from winning tournament of champions at powerfest. I went home early with him that night and he crushed me at fifa, but he taught me the R1 pass, since then got a lot better at fifa and looking forward to competitive match vs him next time.

Yeh the guys that actually made it were the guys who trained very hard. People like Jordan Henderson, I used to play vs him and he wasnt amazing, but he trained so so so hard and just made it through hard work rather than ability.

I'm very against getting people to do multiple tasks for you, most people get fired/leave a job eventually, if you rely on somebody for multiple things then when they leave you're ****ed.

Yes, be more active! No, I don't like them to organise because typically I loved the freedom of just booking last minute, staying where I want etc.

how many super tuesdays you won this week m9?

best of luck, will be following!

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I loved the running/football anecdote. Good luck for the rest of this year, and have a great 2018!

Cleaner/Gardener or any time consuming task where someone can do a better job than you could is a no-brainer , but for booking flights just baffles me. You’d have to inform whoever was doing it the dates and place, and then there’d be a bit of to and fro as there might be options. You can do it yourself in half the time (online, not phone lol) with less hassle. Just use Skyscanner or equivalent and it gives you all the options straight away. Same for air bnb, you know what you want out the trip (to be near casino, or amenities like cafe/bars) , so by the time you’d dictated all that to an assistant you could have booked somewhere yourself and learned a bit about the city too (if you didn’t know it already).

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Not sure paying a salary of a PA is the most cost effective way to have all your food amd travel stuff sorted out. Sounds like you'd have to fork out a good chunk more than $50k P/A for one of these guys. IMO just coming up with a diet plan, knowing intrinsically what sorts of food you should be eating at what time of day and then doing it yourself, although it'd be a big change, probably a fairly good way to go about it.

Also keen to learn more about this BitB thing, sounds really good.

All the best!