My heads up 2-7 triple draw 10 whiskey challenge offer still stands


I've listened to a handful of DGAF podcasts. I stopped because I don't play no limit cash and so listening to hands isn't my cup of tea. Love the guy, I've read his thread like 5 times and his ideas on how to make games good changed my entire approach to live poker. Hope he makes it big.


Much easier to be chill when you have a lifetime of crushing and you also have hundreds of people paying you $100 a month. Which is why the dream from here on out for me is to be a rec player with plenty of income to never have to worry about losing.

I've been watching people playing on GG and the software looks amazing.

Canada is inevitable, just a matter of when.

Update: I just looked through all my hands at 1-2 PLO on Bovada and realized that I'm paying 12bb/100 in rake at those stakes, playing fairly close to GTO open ranges. How the hell does anyone make money in online poker these days?

I sacrifice regular software crashes and no integrity for 27% rakeback on ACR.

Rake is pretty high everywhere but the games are still very beatable (havnt played on Bovada but assume its similar). glgl enjoying the updates!

I feel the same about HHs (where I zone out, which is more an effect of being TOO LONG in the game/not gaining anything from the strat part), but I do find the tune of his voice to be soothing which, when you always use podcasts for the online grind like I do, the latter actually becomes quite important as I find myself only listening to roughly 30% of any of the audio info at hand regardless


You will obviously find yourself with a myriad of new online options when you move to the Great North Any dates in mind for the move?

Almost End of July Update

Poker

I'm about to clear my lofty PLO volume goal for the month of another 1000 hands. The rec player life is truly upon us now.

I'm not sure if I've reviewed 100% of my preflop decisions for these hands using PLO Matrix, but if I missed any it wasn't intentional and I've definitely reviewed at least 90% of them. The good news is that after looking at a couple thousand preflop spots, and having hold card access on Bovada, I feel like I'm almost never missing profitable opens and opening too wide pretty infrequently as well. Three betting is still a little murky in certain spots, but I'm starting to understand the shape of how the charts like to stack hands up and feeling like I see patterns in what components it values better than I did before.

Today I played 3 tables for the first time, and it felt pretty smooth in terms of making clean preflop decisions so I feel like I've leveled up in that regard.

Business

Business is booming. With some solid networking and great results from the first wave of clients I've worked with, demand has gone way up and I'm now able to give myself a 50% raise while still feeling completely confident that I'm overdelivering to anyone who works with me. I've had to cap the number of people I can work with at one time, which means that at this exact moment in time I have an actual waiting list. Definitely celebrating that.

Poker with Presence is approaching 400 copies sold, and social media and my email list are both growing slowly but surely. It feels good to look back at where I was in March with all this, and see how fast it's all grown. It's a role I've invested lots of time and money into being prepared for over the past 8+ years, and getting to now enjoy the success is pretty sweet.

Seems pretty in line with my experience of you

Rake is high, no rakeback, the software is clunky and makes it hard to play multiple tables, all of which makes the action pretty amazing. Glad you're enjoying.

I basically have zero ability to put anything on while I play that isn't music that I'm already familiar with. I basically can't comprehend anything in a podcast or movie if I'm playing poker, even live poker. Pretty crazy how people are wired differently.

The pandemic border closure stuff complicates the move since only my wife is a citizen and I'm not. Need to figure some logistics out around when we could actually do it, but I'm certain someday we will have a beer or meal together somewhere up north.

End of Month Update

Overall very happy with how the month went. The life of a rec player continues with this type of volume:



Now that is truly living the dream right there. I joked with my friends earlier tonight that once I sign two more coaching clients I'll move up to 2-5. Zero pressure to actually win x dollars at 200 before moving up, fantastic.

Played another 5-6 sessions of our private 13 game mix and won a little, no real news there. Pretty sure I'm missing an occasional subtle spot a slight bit more than I used to, but my level of study and experience in mix will always make me a winner in mid to high stakes live games so it's whatever. If I need to dust off some old spreadsheets or review my old coaching videos later I can do that.

In terms of study progress, I probably did better than I thought I would. Reviewed almost if not every hand I played preflop, watched more than a handful of theory and sweat videos on the Jnandez site, and had a quick bit of coaching on a certain spot last week. I could tell in my session tonight that I'm substantially more confident in my postflop play with choosing cbet and turn barrel candidates than I was a week ago.

For August:

- Review at least another 1k hands of preflop play using PLO Matrix
- Watch more videos and keep learning that way.
- Sign at least two more clients to my waiting list so I can move up to 2-5

Good luck everyone.

Has studying always been a pleasure for you? From the tune of your message/dedication to coaching and whatnot, it seems to be... Am just curious, as studying has always been my achilles heel... In fact, pretty much all my poker success can be attributed to my mental game, as I never got any coaching neither, nor spoke a ton with high profile crushers.

It's not that I love studying all that much, it's more that over the years I've realized that I'm just not that good at figuring stuff out on my own, but I am quite good at absorbing things that other people have figured out and making them my own, so that just became my default way of doing things and I enjoy the results of it very much. I think a lot of people show up expecting mental game coaching to fix their problems when in reality they just haven't worked out all the gray areas of their strategy yet, so I'm always quick to make sure they know how important it is.

I definitely think you're the exception to the rule, with much of that due to all the meditation work you've done over the decades and probably also from having more of a problem-solving oriented mind than I and many others possess. But even with all that being true it's likely you'd have made it here sooner with the help of a coach who had already done all the work.

Cooling Down

As I've had a lot of new clients come in recently, I've been spending a lot of time working with them to come up with a proper post-game routine. I think the key elements of a proper cool down are:

- you have no resistance to doing
- it allows you to express what's inside you
- it gives you a feeling of completion from this session, so that your energy and attention can move into whatever you're doing next

A lot of the suggestions for post-game routines I've seen emphasize the act of processing, summarizing what happened, and writing down how you felt during the session, how you think you played, etc. If you've ever read the book Stumbling on Happiness, you'd know that this type of exercise is basically worthless, the reason being that humans are incapable of accurately describing their emotions and states of mind about an activity as soon as the activity ends. Once you finish playing poker, and kind of summary about how you felt while you were playing is going to be partly filled in by projection.

So knowing that, the only things I want my clients to do after they finish a session are express, feel the energy complete, and then write down the tangible things they'd like to have completed before they play again, anything from buying groceries, to calling mom, to looking at specific hands. When you've got all this down, you're ready to go into the rest of your day, and you won't suffer from your mind being somewhere else from your body throughout the day, which tends to generate terrible results with spouses and partners from my own personal experience.

Poker Updates

I'm still good at all limit games, and I'm still enjoying getting better at PLO. Didn't have as much time to learn new things last week but this week I'll definitely get more hands and videos in.

Here's the biggest pot I won last week:

Ignition - $2 PL Hi (6 max) - Omaha Hi - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

MP: 42.64 BB
CO: 97.77 BB
BTN: 109.41 BB
SB: 118.94 BB
Hero (BB): 97 BB
UTG: 192.28 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, Hero posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) CO has J 8 6 Q

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has K J A Q

UTG calls 1 BB, MP raises to 4.5 BB, CO calls 4.5 BB, fold, SB calls 4 BB, Hero raises to 23.5 BB, fold, MP calls 19 BB, CO calls 19 BB, fold

Flop: (76 BB, 3 players) 2 A 5
Hero bets 73.5 BB and is all-in, fold, CO calls 73.5 BB

Turn: (223 BB, 2 players) 6

River: (223 BB, 2 players) T

CO shows J 8 6 Q (One Pair, Sixes)
(Pre 36%, Flop 5%, Turn 13%)
Hero wins 221 BB

And here's a hand that I thought I played well that worked out in my favor, but if this was terrible please let me know:

Ignition - $2 PL Hi (6 max) - Omaha Hi - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

UTG: 101.62 BB
MP: 83.11 BB
CO: 72.5 BB
BTN: 68.33 BB
SB: 35.5 BB
Hero (BB): 100 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, Hero posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) UTG has 8 Q 9 4

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) MP has 2 T A J

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) CO has K A 6 3

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) BTN has 4 K J 8

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) SB has T T 9 2

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has 7 6 6 5

fold, fold, CO raises to 3.5 BB, fold, fold, Hero calls 2.5 BB

Flop: (7.5 BB, 2 players) 3 9 8
Hero checks, CO checks

Turn: (7.5 BB, 2 players) A
Hero checks, CO bets 5.35 BB, Hero raises to 23.16 BB, fold

Hero wins 17.29 BB

Here's a Twitter thread I really enjoyed. It's about Josh Waitzkin, who wrote The Art of Learning, a book I've probably read 7-8 times since I first bought it in 2008:

https://twitter.com/george__mack/sta...06014746558471

One of my favorite parts about the way Waitzkin operates is that he doesn't try to skip steps. If he's learning a new skill, whether it's in chess or martial arts, he makes sure that he doesn't just learn it, he drills it into his psyche front to back, end to end, from all different directions. Only when he completely understands a chess position all the way through does he start to even consider what happens next.

I think a lot of people in poker try to skip to the end sooner than they should, and it leads to a lot of spots where you "kind of know" what's going on, but not quite enough to reliably make the best play in the biggest moments. People then blame it on choking or lack of presence, but in reality they just didn't understand the spot, and the game overall, well enough on a fundamental level.

As the Bruce Lee quote goes: "I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times."

Applying this to my current studies, it's a reminder that before I start going down the road of improving my turn and river play in PLO, I probably need to do at least another 2-3 rounds of work on preflop opens, 3bet, and big blind defense (the what is getting pretty close to optimal, the "why" still needs some work), and flop cbet and defense strategy. Only then should I start to venture into the world of turns and rivers. No need to rush into things that are going to be built on a shaky foundation anyway.

Hope you all run well in August.

On Following Your Dreams

A few years ago I heard about this guy named Cal Newport. He wrote a book called Deep Work that I got a lot out of, and every time his name pops up I notice he's written a new book that everyone is saying great things about.

A couple years ago I heard him talking about the premise of one of his books, So Good They Can't Ignore You. For this one he went around interviewing people in all sorts of professions asking them about their story, and whether or not they found deep levels of happiness in their work.

The main takeaway: humans are terrible at predicting what will make them happy. The number one predictor of whether someone ended up being happy in their work or not is how deeply they immersed themselves into mastering what they were doing. It didn't matter one bit what the actual activity was, only whether or not they fully invested into becoming masterful at it. People who "followed their dreams" but didn't invest completely into mastery often end up quitting and doing something else entirely, while many who enter into something they don't feel too passionate about, but work to improve each day, end up growing that passion for what they do over time and feel great satisfaction in their work.

This reminds me a lot of times in which I was very happy playing poker versus times where I was not. When I was fully invested in getting better each day, I was always happy, and never questioned why I was playing. It was only in the stretches where I stopped focusing on improving, and only cared about the money, when I would say things like "I don't feel passionate about it anymore."

Ever since hearing about this idea a couple years ago I made it a point to always be getting moving toward mastery in whatever field I'm working in, and it's made a big difference for me over time.

Hope this touches home for some of you out there who are having trouble "finding your passion." It will likely work out much better if you just pick something, then give it your all.

Thanks for sharing. I liked the above tweet.

I feel like I'm always in "poker mode" and as such am never truly dialed in nor fully motivated.

Gonna try to give myself some days/weeks where I completely put poker aside and come back with a fresh mindset and recharged batteries.

Interesting! This guy talks about balance being the most important about being happy in life and not going overboard for too long in one direction. Do you think it would be possible to focus on one thing and still keep an eye out on the sweet spot?

See: https://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2020...he-sweet-spot/

In The Art of Learning Waitzkin heavily endorses high intensity interval training as a way to train your body go 100%, which then forces it to go into a full recovery state. The mind follows the body, and eventually learns how to do this on its own in things like chess or poker. I definitely felt like I was my sharpest mentally when I played tennis and we ran wind sprints for 30 minutes at the end of every training day, and also a few years ago when my trainer had me doing all sorts of high intensity exercises. Definitely worth looking into if you feel like you're never able to fully flip the switch off.

A good reminder for me to get back into it, thanks.


Funny that you mention MMM, my sister loves that guy and he probably lives like 30 minutes from my house.

I think in that article he's describing a certain type of person who keeps pushing through discomfort because they don't really know what else to do. And while that's definitely a thing, there are also tons of people out there who just love to build companies, crush poker, or whatever else you can think of, and it truly just makes them happy. And they're often able to stay healthy and prioritize their relationships with the people they care about most in the midst of all that they give to their pursuits of excellence.

I certainly hope to ascend to Elliot Roe-like levels in terms of the results, reputation, and income that he's been able to generate. I also feel like I'll be able to put in all the time needed to do this, while growing closer to my loved ones and staying healthy and active along the way. If I sense that things are getting out of balance, I trust myself to be able to step back and recalibrate. When you do something that satisfies you deeply and feels good each day, it should in theory make the other parts of your life better too and I see no reason to slow the train down in the name of a vague notion of needing "balance."

But for those who are using work or other things as a way of not facing uncomfortable realities in their life, he definitely makes a good point.

Mid Month Updates

Poker

I felt like I hit a bit of a wall this week in terms of my growth in PLO, but I can see that it was more a function of getting put into more difficult post flop spots than I had been in the previous weeks. Seeing as how I've mostly been studying the preflop and flop game tree, I'm not too worried about this as I know I'll eventually learn what's what on turns and rivers later.

I'll continue my plan of studying flop almost exclusively in addition to reviewing my preflop decisions in comparison to PLO Matrix solutions with the caveat of adjusting the ranges a bit to exploit over and under folds. At 200PLO it primarily looks like 3/4/5 betting tighter because people under open, and folding more to 3 and 4 bets preflop than the chart says because people's ranges are too heavily weighted toward AAxx.

A big learning from the week was seeing how little value the low to medium rundown-ish type hands seem to have in the SB vs BB formation. I was shocked to see that PLO Matrix open folds a hand like 9764ds in the SB when folded to. It makes sense that high cardedness is valued much more short handed and out of position, but that seemed extreme to me. If anyone wants to tell me more about the theory of this I'd love to hear.

Business

Business remains good, I'm seeing 5 clients 2-3 times a week along with all the independent work I'm doing with Poker Detox. Good times there getting to take a leadership position in a company that's doing so well in the online poker community.

I'm building out a Poker with Presence app on a platform called Learnistic that allows people like me to have their own high quality app at a very reasonable cost. The upside is that I get an app that runs at a higher level than most, with unlimited content I can upload, with payment systems already integrated, in a system that's going to be constantly updated and supported without my needing to pay extra over time for it at $100/month. The only tradeoff I'm making for getting all that at that price is that the app is only accessible through their app, it won't be public in the app store. Seeing as how I can just use my email list to show people how to get my app, and that I'm not ready to pay something like 25k to have someone build me something of this quality, I'm very happy to make this trade.

I read recently that almost all content now is being consumed on phones, which makes sense because almost nobody ever goes anywhere without their phone anymore, and almost nobody is able to sit or stand around for too long without some sort of stimulation anymore. So having a dependable, cost effective place where I can put out free and paid content should serve me quite well in the coming years.

Other than that, I'm working on making sure people on Twitter see me write something useful at least a couple times a week, which helps grow the email list, which is eventually how sales are made and clients are won over. I also spent some time last week adding testimonials to my website which I hope will both get a higher email opt in along with more people booking initial consultations with me. I don't see how that could not be good.

Overall happy with progress on all fronts, and aside from getting smashed in by MountainsPLZ and friends last night in our mix game, all is well in my current poker and business life.

I've been working really hard on my "make the best hand" strategy, thanks for noticing! I seem to have forgotten it during today's MTT grind unfortunately...

I'm not going to write a long piece on building your customer base as you can just ask if interested in my opinion/methods, but good to see you on the right track and I agree with your strategies. Best wishes to your continued success in your business (and continued donations in mix).

You need to practice your draw-4 technique more often, practice makes perfect...

Quick update: I know I'm getting old because I'm really getting into productivity with regards to scheduling, setting tasks, and finding more efficient ways to get stuff done. I have so many projects I want to put into the world, and I want to get them out as soon as I can because I love them all. And so I am now a productivity junkie. Will share some of the fun things I've learned soon.

750-ish hands of PLO so far this month, almost all have been checked using Matrix, I seem to have most trouble opening from the cutoff, where I can't seem to intuitively predict what the shape of the open range will look like as well as I can in the other spots. SB 3bet/cold call probably needs some work too, but it can pretty sufficiently be summed up with, "fold almost everything."

Thanks man, looking forward to hitting you up for free advice on how to sell things to people with lots of money.

My D5 game is on point, that's all I care about. 4 is for nits.

Yes, for sure, and I realize that like in many fields, guidance from someone more experienced is (almost) always the way to go

Just as a side-note : I was listening to Mason Malmuth on the Chip Race podcast this week, and man is the guy antiquated - as to not use boomer - when it comes to understanding the importance of mental game I mean, his opinion is coming from a theoratical POV and not from a HS crusher, but man is it ever cringe-worthy and ignorant af Anyhow, worth the listen for the lols

A bit of fun and a big honor:

Poker with Presence was nominated for a list of best poker books, and is currently going head to head on Twitter versus Poker and Pop Culture for the next day or so to see if it can advance to the next round. If you enjoyed my work I'd love a vote in my favor here:

https://twitter.com/CPGPodcast/statu...41275405152261

He's a nice guy and I've defended him more than just about anyone over the years because I do think sometimes people try to blame mistakes on mental game when they just haven't studied enough. Having said that, yeah, he's not a high stakes player and poker has changed a lot since the 80s.

Some updates:

I won the Twitter poll last week which buys me another round of free publicity up against either Jonathan Little or Phil Hellmuth which is good for the brand. Poker with Presence has now coasted past 400 copies sold, and we've settled into selling a couple books a day now on average without any big publicity boosts. The target goal of 500 copies by the end of year seems likely, which I'm very happy about. Client work is going well, generating big results and I've updated my testimonial pages to boost the likelihood that random visitors to my site will either subscribe to my daily email list or book an initial consult with me.

In PLO land I've broken even for the month so far over about 1k hands at 200 on Bovada. My preflop game and flop cbet strategies are feeling pretty good, so I'm ready to start going into a little more postflop theory. I think I'm going to switch from JNandez to RIO next month just to change things up, and in the meantime I'll try to watch 5-6 more videos before the subscription runs out. I'm finding that the JN Discord channel isn't particularly helpful in that their coaches who make the actual videos don't really respond to any hand histories, and I'm never really sure if the people replying to me are any good or not.

A couple hands:

This one just to show you what the games are like:

Ignition - $2 PL Hi (6 max) - Omaha Hi - 4 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BB: 100 BB
CO: 149.14 BB
BTN: 172.34 BB
Hero (SB): 141.96 BB

Hero posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) BB has 5 6 5 2

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) CO has A 5 5 T

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) BTN has 7 4 9 4

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has K J T Q

CO raises to 3.5 BB, BTN calls 3.5 BB, Hero calls 3 BB, BB raises to 17.5 BB, CO calls 14 BB, fold, Hero calls 14 BB

Flop: (56 BB, 3 players) 6 J 3
Hero checks, BB bets 27.25 BB, fold, Hero raises to 124.46 BB and is all-in, BB calls 55.25 BB and is all-in

Turn: (221 BB, 2 players) 4

River: (221 BB, 2 players) Q

BB shows 5 6 5 2 (Straight, Six High)
(Pre 39%, Flop 34%, Turn 100%)
BB wins 219.5 BB

And this one I just had no idea if I was supposed to stack off on the flop or not. Heads up I obviously never fold but here with a player left to act I don't know, but it's small stakes so my tendency is to just shrug and call:

Ignition - $2 PL Hi (6 max) - Omaha Hi - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

SB: 103.91 BB
BB: 28.89 BB
UTG: 121.63 BB
MP: 50 BB
CO: 110.96 BB
Hero (BTN): 91.5 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) SB has 4 A 6 6

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) BB has 3 5 Q 8

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) UTG has 7 5 8 A

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) MP has 2 5 T T

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) CO has J 9 K Q

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has A T 3 A

UTG calls 1 BB, MP calls 1 BB, CO raises to 5.5 BB, Hero raises to 20 BB, fold, BB calls 19 BB, UTG calls 19 BB, fold, CO calls 14.5 BB

Flop: (81.5 BB, 4 players) 9 4 K
BB checks, UTG checks, CO bets 79.5 BB, Hero calls 71.5 BB and is all-in, fold, fold

Turn: (224.5 BB, 2 players) Q

River: (224.5 BB, 2 players) T

CO shows J 9 K Q (Straight, King High)
(Pre 59%, Flop 82%, Turn 79%)
CO wins 222.5 BB

My book is somehow neck and neck with Jonathan Little's book, Cashing the Main Event, in this GOAT poker book Twitter contest. If you feel like supporting my work, a couple button clicks would be greatly appreciated:

https://twitter.com/CPGPodcast/statu...09911160889344

Quick brag, I saw that he's cashed the main event once in probably 15 tries, and I'm 3 for 6. Just saying.

Fun with Productivity

Since I'm playing less and less poker and relying more on getting actual things done, I'm learning a lot about human behavior and how it relates to productivity. It's pretty cool and I'm getting a lot more done in a day than I ever used to before.

1. I used to work off of a list, because I once heard that it's good to have a list. What I've found that works much better is something called "time blocking" where instead of just having a giant list of things to do, I block out actual time in my calendar to do whatever task I feel needs to be done. This way I'm not spending time staring at the list because I already know what task I'll be doing at say, 1pm tomorrow.

2. I'm slowly learning the value of dumping whatever is in my brain onto a notepad as soon as it comes into my thoughts. This allows me to stop having to use brain energy to keep all these thoughts in my neurons throughout the day so my brain can relax and more creative thoughts can keep flowing. I write daily emails to my email list, and I can't tell you how many great email topics and ideas have gotten lost into the void because I didn't write them down the minute they appeared in my mind. Probably over 100.

This is how I'm approaching learning PLO now as well. When I watch videos or play sessions, I open a notepad on the side of my screen and just type in whatever thoughts are going through me. This way I'm able to catalog my reactions in real time to go through later.

3. I'm finding a lot of value in breaking down tasks into smaller bites by just thinking about "the next step." So instead of writing down "Make library of audio guides to go with Poker with Presence," the only thing I write down on my task list is "choose the next script to write." Once I finish that, the next thing I would put on my task list is "record the script" and after I finished that it would say "edit out the false starts" and then "send recording to Jonathan on Fiverr to improve sound quality." This gets much better results than looking at the project as a whole and also allows me to celebrate all the small wins along the way rather than waiting till the end to know I've taken lots of good steps.

Hope you all are enjoying the ramblings of an old man learning how to be productive in the non-poker world. Will have PLO updates at the end of the month.

Poker with Presence did somehow manage to defeat Jonathan Little and his army of Twitter followers. Big thanks to anyone out there who voted for me. Another small win on the path to bigger things in business.

August Recap

Poker

I played around 30 hours this month, about 12 hours of PLO and 18 hours of mix and both went well.

PLO for the month:



I played almost all my hands the first 2.5 weeks of the month then got real busy and barely made it to 1k hands. I need to review the last 250 or so preflop spots and I'll do that tonight to complete this arc of study. Overall I'm happy with my preflop play now, I'll probably keep PLO Matrix and review all my preflop spots for September and then stop doing that going forward.

I watched probably 7-8 JNandez videos taking notes on the fly. Tonight when I review my preflop spots I'll also review the notes, try and tie all my thoughts together with regards to what I learned this month, and call it a wrap.

This next month I'll switch to a Run it Once subscription and start listening to some other voices to see where it goes. I have a few more days on this subscription though so I'll see what I can get in. Right now my focus has been on 3bet pots as the preflop aggressor, ideally I'll watch a couple about 3bet pots as the preflop caller before moving over to RIO

Business

Poker with Presence went down to Qui Nguyen's autobiography in the Twitter book contest, which is fitting because his 2016 main event final table performance was an epic demonstration of the power of presence. He clearly wasn't as technically skilled as his opponents but just overwhelmed them by locking in to the moment and knowing exactly how far he could take things. With some fortunate distribution to go with it he's got something nobody can ever take away.

Aside from that bit of fun, things continue to go well. I tidied up my website, added testimonials, and it feels better to me now. I hit a lull for a few weeks on signing new clients but that spell has been broken and I'm also going to be partnering with a beast of a high stakes player soon to offer a combo package of high-end technical and mental game coaching for players looking to break through to high-stakes.

Also my app went live this week. I'm still testing out the platform and loading content on there slowly, but the platform feels incredibly solid and easy to use. I'll be able to load as many videos, audios, PDF, or any other media file I want, protect what I want to protect with a paywall, and also do subscription services where people purchase things inside the app as well. The audio and video files I've loaded up all play very smoothly so I'm impressed and the price can't be beat.

If anyone wants to beta-test for me, hit me up and I'll get you set up to access all the content I've got on there right now.

Productivity remains high and each day I'm excited to do more to put my stuff out into the world. Good times.