pic of girlfriend or didn't happen

Agree so much on the office thing. I think the space you 'work' in determines your productivity a lot. If you feel completely comfortable, but at the same time super driven because it's your 'Grind space' then it makes a huge difference.

when I feel myself lacking motivation I usually switch it up a bit. Usually just change desktop backgrounds or play with some display settings or something and you feel like you're kinda starting a new chapter. Helps me a lot.

Also one thing that helps me loads when I am working from home or grinding is having a couple of candles lit - sounds really gay but keeps me in the zone. lol

pads if you wish to make a fitness/healthy/body development goals probpet hit me up (fun one, not looking to get millions on it lol) and just to get extra motivation

I just switched up my office set up to a sit/stand desk and the motivation you gain from a change is huge. Definitely a nice mental boost.

gl with all the fitness stuff, i'm currently 50 days into a no drink bet. Looking to get fit again for 2018 football over here in Canada.

I ll definitely do less than 1500 m on a treadmill this year so props post make this year than last please k thanks

Good day 1!

Woke up decent time, had a nice sleep. Did 3km on tredmill (was way tougher than I expected jeez ) studied for 2 hours, had a nice lunch and then got into the grind. Had bunch of really nice runs and was at B+ game all day. Have this really fun sweat for tomorrow.



Tomorrow will try and basically do exactly the same as today.

One thing I'm struggling with is keeping focus. Like if I have less than 10 tables I just feel like I am basically not playing anything, and when less than 4 tables I just feel like its aggggessss between every action. I generally act very quick when its my decisions, but I am on discord etc too much for sure, but I feel like I can get to B+ game talking a lot to people, discussing spots etc, it makes me feel more focused and kind of present at the tables even though I'm on discord. I actually feel like it makes me think about every spot a lot deeper than if I was just grinding with everything closed.

Anyway, probably 1 table this tournament tomorrow and add more when I bust.

Was looking at houses in the area to buy/rent etc, always enjoy just looking around and Demetri send me this one:

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-...-61636672.html

How sick is this for London? I don't actually think its THAT expensive. Like a downsized version of this would be the nuts.

That's around the corner from where my family is from, seems about right for the area.

It has good links to London and in a very affluent part of the country.

There's a ton of nice properties around that area going towards West London that are only a 20-30 min train to central.

Dem lawn stripes tho

Pads,

I was just reading Dnegs blog about his ROI in the past few years, one thing I noticed that was weird was that he said he'll sell 50% of the $1m One Drop but at Zero Markup.

I find it really strange that someone like Dnegs would sell at zero markup. Is that just because he wants to help out some friends that like a sweat, or does he believe he has a negative ROI in that tourney?

Also, will you be playing that?

I'm most interested in the p files! Surely players are improving and changing their games quite frequently so it becomes out of date in the same way one hud stats are a bit pointless?

A way to encourage participation in the hand histories etc. on here would be to PM people the boss you have on them in your files maybe? Or are you just focusing on the high roller players in these files?

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Had some pretty nice runs

2nd in bb530 for 25k



7th in 2k for 20k



3rd Party 530 for $4.5k



Day 2 in the Super Tuesday, deepish run but couldnt get to last few tables.

Had nice stacks all over today and felt great.

Will keep posting lobby pics, think its easier to visualize and better to look at than just posting txt.

Will most likely take tomorrow off, but if I feel great then will play a lateish session.

Running wise, did 1.6km today haha, any little bit helps even when tired, 5km is v difficult for me atm, but will get there.

Lots and lots of study hours so far, so thats great.

The rake is big, so hard for people to be profitable in the field.

Imagine going out of your way to learn English, you think you're doing alright and then you're confronted with a group of Geordies.

Congratulations for this blog PADS!!
I'm from Brazil and speak very bad english,but I will make an effort to accompany you!

The 530 Bounty Builder Final Table it was very difficult.

#nit

Played 2 short sessions last 2 days.

Made day 2 in $530 4max, lost huge cooler last hand of day for the chiplead,but wte, have nice stack



Had nice run in the 1k yesterday too, was 1/15, but masuronike did what masuronike does! Gave him some **** in the chatbox, but was just good fun.



Other half has some special thing planned tomororow, so have 5 hours sleep now, big day and then come back and try and close this out.

gl this weekend.

Been hectic couple of weeks, everything going really well though.

I've studied 45 hours so far this year which is definitely most I've done in such a short span.

Poker has been going ok, ran poorly last couple of Sundays, but lots of runs, sweats, stacks, thats all you can ask for really.

bitB having lots of exciting things happening, launching, coming to fruition, all good there.

Life not as healthy last few days, will improve this week that.

Ran really poorly today and that used to really effect me on Sundays, my last table I had unfortunate result and just said "sometimes its not your day" and closed the sites and did cool down.

Really looking forward to this year, feels so good to be so motivated, have back of my mind always to go into crypto and learn and try and crush there, but its just hard to do both so will keep focusing on poker for now.

Hey bud, just wanna say your PG&C inspired me to start my own and hope one day to be up to BitB standard, is there any way you prep going into a study session or just sit down and force yourself to do it?

hey pads, Can i pay the tournaments for Milions @rozvadov with my partypoker account?(like Stars)

Hey Pads,

Loving the thread as ever. Just started from the beginning today.

I read some of your comments on post #185 on here about the rake in micros.

Given you’re now somebody who can help shape this at PP, I wondered if you’d checked out what site’s like Natural8 are doing to tackle this.

They offer T$ builder tournaments to micro players.

“Our T$ Builder poker tournament series is here. T$ Builder tournaments charge no fee whatsoever. 100% of the buy-in amount goes straight to the prize pool.”

Also, some good arguments have been made in the Party tournament thread about how having met exit points at the $22 level would support micro players more than the current structure.

But if a derail...so apologies...

Will you do a write-up of Powerfest sometime soon? Seems like you've had quite a few deep runs/FTs. GL now at the FT of 46-H

Incredible day pads, gg wp!

The last 2 weeks have been mental! Absolutely mental mental crazy. I travelled to Gibraltar to represent bitB with a very exciting new business adventure, we find out some news today about funding, but even if we don't get it there should be very easy to get as new business model we have made is very lucrative. I was supposed to be grinding every day for the challenge we had in bitB, basically hue competitive leaderboard.

I started off with a bunch of big FTs and runs, but then had to leave to Gibraltar, do lots of presentations, meetings etc and fell out of sync, because I was meeting people during business hours my sleeping clock was that of a muggle and thus struggled to grind when I came back. I spent every day studying tonnes and working on lots of different areas of the game.

I played 2-3 tables on Friday night, getting 2nd in a tournament for $35k and 4th in another for $5k, probably punted the 3rd

Was looking forward to playing today so so much, woke up at 8am unfortunately which is really the worst thing that can happen on a Sunday. Decided to just be up early with the family, went for drive in new car we bought last week (I need to get license ASAP!) ((don't worry i wasn't driving!)) then went for Sunday roast, watched the Newcastle game then the Spurs game, it got to 6pm and I should start grinding, but took approach that it will be super long day so best to just get a power nap in. I slept for an hour and then was ready to go.

Throughout the whole session I listened to 80 seconds of a Harry Styles song on random repeat mixed with silence was a little bit strange haha. Ended up having stacks all over the place, I was deep in the $1k and I was replying to a horse on discord with like 14 left and crazy guy opened and I thought I had Aces, I wrote back on discord and in that time worked out flatting was the highest ev play here, I flat and then see I have AK which is not the hand i wanted to flat with! End up losing a little in the hand, but could have been pivotal spot.

Ended up coming 9th in the $1k for $7k, had some other runs s530, party main, hotter 215 and few other good runs but managed to close the session out winning the Party HR for $208k.

Feels really nice to run good, played well, but of course to win any tournament, even a 1 table SNG you gotta run better than the others.

I have loved playing these series so much, the big prize pools, competition is just really motivating for me. I went for dinner with a good friend who is just transitioning out of poker, he basically hates the game and doesn't mentally stimulate him anymore, I've gone through some ups and downs with poker over the last 10 years, but before this weekend (and obviously still) I haven't loved poker as much as I do currently.

I feel like theres something mentally that I'm not allowing to get into my conscious mind. After the 3 big wins in Vegas last year the end of 2017 was kinda lined up to go travel, huge Macau tournaments, huge Montenegro HR series, big PartyPoker series in Russia, PokerMasters in Vegas, other Vegas HR series like 5 diamond, people probably think looking at hendon mob that I just bricked everything which is kinda normal, but for some reason I just didn't go, I still don't really know why I didn't go, why I'm not in Australia now, why I didn't go to PCA. I know that live poker is way better suited to me than online and I'm a lot more competent there, I know I can sell action to any of these tournaments to different investors and getting there/hotels/flights etc isn't problem, but for some reason I basically didn't let myself even think about going. Anybody have any reason they think this could be? I'm obviously busy with bitB and really enjoy that responsibility and not being able to just be on the road and actually have roles and responsibilities, but it feels like something is very odd that I wouldn't chase the run after the summer heater.

I'm just checking my diary and I actually went to 3 stops after Vegas

Barcelona - Deep run in the biggest main event of the year, big controversy on feature table

GUKPT Grand Finale - Made the final table

Prague - 3rd for $75k

So it has nothing to do with running bad, if anything every stop I went to after Vegas I ran over expectation. Maybe its something from Barcelona and the whole angleshoot thing that I just want to stay a little more out of the live limelight, I really don't know, I think I've probably tried to stay away from even thinking about it, but having Rozvadov coming up in a couple of days, there is amazing schedule and I didn't even book flights yet and lying in bed today I though hmm why haven't I done that? Actually why aren't I in Australia? Why didn't I go to PCA? Why didn't i go to Party Punta Cana etc.

Something strange


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We're going on bootcamp with the guys again next month. Fun video (skip to 0:50 onwards) https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6-...42TFViTE0/view of last time in the restaurant!

Anything changed at home that makes you more subconsciously attached?

I haven't played live for like 3 months, last time I played live made my biggest live score (which was pretty huge money to me at the time), and the same tournament again was at my local cardroom this weekend - had been telling myself and my family all week I was gonna play, and Friday came which was Day 1B and I was just not excited to go and play at all. I was just too attached to spending time at home with my Wife and kid...