Ok, so decided to go to Prague in the end, flying private for first time ever going there which will be an experience and most likely flying ryanair back haha.
Friday/Saturday I will be chilling out completely. Sunday is the stars 50k which I'm really looking forward to, and then the next day is Party 25k which I'm looking forward to aswell.
I'll most likely stay and play the main event, but depending how I'm feeling may just come back home after the 2 highrollers.
Christmas will be great, biggest one I've had probably, both sides of the family coming to stay for a few days. My birthday is on the 30th and then afer New Year's eve will hopefully be ready for big 2018!
I'll update my goals to show where I'm at now.
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Originally Posted by OurSurveySays
Introduction
Goals for 2018
It sounds strange doing "2018 goals" when October has barely past, but for what I want to achieve in 2018 I need to plan in advance and get ready. Previously I would sit at my keyboard on December 31st, hungover from my birthday the day before and scramble down the most generic goals (go to gym 2x/week, study x/week etc etc) I am not going to set a minimum or maximum amount of tournaments that I will play, or a minimum or maximum amount of hours I will study.
Pre 2018 Short term
- Create a planner for 2018 schedule of tournaments I will go to
- Hire an assistant to do the following things:
- Make sure every week fresh healthy food is delivered to home address
- Make sure when I go to live tournaments flights are booked in advance
- Make sure airbnbs are booked in advance for all live tournaments to ensure best quality/price
- Make sure fresh/healthy food is delivered to airbnb in advance
- Have a gym or sports options closeby ready and booked
I decided against this after listening to people, I will do most of it myself and we hired a company called Leverage that you pay monthly fee to and they will do any task you need basically, I use it with euro/elmerixx so works well and next year will use it a lot I think
- Hire an intern to work on the following things:
- Continue building the "P-Files" to a way more advanced level
Have been doing this and its been going AMAZING, really, really happy with this, I can't go into big detail on it, but I'm sure its as advanced as whats out there atm.
These goals are kind of more long term but will see where they are at atm.
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Originally Posted by OurSurveySays
2018 Medium Term
- At December 31st 2018 be 100% sure that I have done everything in power to have the highest perceived (in my own opinion) roi in any tournament that I will register
I am working much harder than I imagined, im grinding strategy every day very hard, both with horses and by myself. I understand ICM really well through reptition. This is nothing to brag about, ICM is 90% reptition which is something a monkey can do, there is about 10% that population don't know and I'm kind of lucky that people around me work hard too to find those stuff. So I'm happy to say I think I'm good at ICM, but far from proud or braggy about it as its literally just like reading a book at university, not much skill about it at all. Startegically there are things I'm doing very different now to how I did 6 months ot 12 months ago, its kind of weird, you always think you're at a level where there won't be that much difference in your play by the time the next series comes around and then you study something and you're like fakkkkkkkk Hopefully I think this at least 3-4 times in 2018.
- At December 31st 2018 be confident I am in the top 20 online MTT regs
I actually thought this may be something that I would maybe slip up on, but this HR series was really fun. I had deep runs in so much stuff and got good stacks and felt really confident. Lots will be down to variance, but I felt that between me/sam/tomi we are very comfortable in any online field atm, hopefully its the same this time next year.
- In December play a football match and it be completely obvious that I am the fittest on the pitch (currently bottom 10% for sure)
I bought a gym standard tredmill last week and the goal is to just use it for 10-20 minutes a day, building up a little bit of fitness and more importantly routine. I've been way too busy to play any football because of HR series and now Prague, but 2018 the goal has to be to play 2x/week.
- Launch bitB in at least 5 different new countries
Currently 20% of the way there (Hungary) and speaking with three other big/important countries, so this ones looking good
- Launch bitB in at least 2 different new game types
Launched spin n go's this month and hopefully next month cash games will be ready
- When my friends ask each other where should they deposit to have a little gamble online for the answer to be partypoker.
Haha this one is interesting. On one hand we have a ****ing amazing tournament running now, I designed the structure which I genuinely believe is the best one theres ever been in high stakes online tournament, but on the other hand there was a huge **** up with the software which got a lot of bad press, deservedly so. Next year is a very big year!
- For regs to speak about where they are going to grind "Powerfest" next month rather than "SCOOP/WCOOP"
[COLOR="red"]I believe powerfest will be bigger than TCOOP in January[/COLOR
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2019 Long term
- Have a clear vision what I want to do for the next 5 years.
I've been questioning my position in poker a lot recently. Like do I want to be so much in the limelight, have a huge stable, be an ambassador for a site. I have no idea really. The poker community really is quite toxic at times, theres so much **** that goes around and I remember being exactly like this previously. I was so so so negative, I wanted to see the worst in everybody, I loved that Daniel Negreanu was getting a lot of ****, I loved seeing Jason Mo calling people bad regs or idiots on Joe Ingram podcast. I probably woke up and went to NVG looking/hoping for controversy and to see people fail, and thinking back to that its 1) Really sad I was ever like that but 2) Its really good that I've been able to learn from it.
I actually like to see the positives in people, theres a few examples in bitB a lot of people may think somebody is really bad and in the past I would 100% of jumped on the bandwagon, but I actually try and think the opposite now, even when it might sometimes be wrong that actually these guys could be very good at other things that justifies for some technical flaws and thus rois are the same which is all that matters at the end of the day.
There is lots of reasons why I'd like to just end everything, have no stable, have no ambassador role, no blog, just quietly learning and playing series and some live tournaments, it would make things a lot less stressful (I actually just found a grey hair in my beard, the night after the whole twittergate/party thing WTF?! HAHA) but there is actually lots of good ways and reasons to stay.
1- I think that I can have a positive influence in terms of how poker progresses over the next years, I think I can help with party and encourage everybody in every tournament to run
- Button ante
- 100bb maximum start stacks
- Shot clocks
This would help amateurs so much, they would have lower loss rates (their avg all in equity at 250bb stacks is 0-10% vs say 50bb stacks where its like 35-45 or whatever) and it would make poker a lot more fun again. I used to ****ing love poker, I couldn sleep the night before the tournament, I would be ther 30 minutes early and wait for the screen to see the table draw and get excited etc, now most people are still fast asleep in bed by the time the 2nd level has started. People come late, show up, try and spin up a stack and if it doesn't go well nvm, they cba playing 300bb no ante poker 1st level in a tournament where pots mean nothing, that needs to change I think. Online I want to keep helping to ensure there won't be a monopoly never gets created and that other sites battle with party for clear number 2 spot over next 12 months which will make everything really healthy and positive
2- With staking, I really, really love seeing people develop/learn under our guidance and become richer both in terms of money but in terms of happiness and experiences. I'm going to partner and maybe create a poker travelling/helping grinders out company that I won't look to profit from at all that helps low/mid stakes grinders move abroad and get experiences whilst grinding. Being 23 and living in Costa Rica or Budapest or wherever else is so so cool and no job/university etc will compensate for the stuff I want to see my players experience. From this month I am changing completely how I do all of my coaching with the guys, I have a brand new system that others are not using and I think is way more beneficial, it lets me build more of a relationship with the guy and have a better understanding of where hes at and where he wants to be at moving forward. I like that a lot.
Alright will do an update from Prague from the $50k and $25k. Anything else people would want me to write about? I will have bunch of off time relaxing.
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