Appreciate the feedback guys. I don’t have an established hourly rate yet as I have probably only 50ish hours live at the moment. Started good but last three trips haven’t been as good. I lied and went last night, in for $260 and out for $147. Once again, I started strong to get up several hundred dollars until the cards dried up. I lost a tough hand where I flopped nut straight and villain flopped the second nut straight only to backdoor flush me. That was the start of the trickle down. Overall I think my play was still decent considering I didn’t lose all of my money, only a bit. I think there were several spots I only lost the minimum. The table was kind of ****ty but I feel like my game in straddled pots needs work. I think I was probably playing too loose in the blinds and also putting myself in bad spots OOP
Sadly I haven’t been studying recently. I want to finish this project for coach first so then I can move on with my life. Of course I am procrastinating, only have myself to blame. Today I wanted to work on the project but instead I watched
Scream, the first half of
Call Me By Your Name,
The Big Short (10/10 amazing movie), and an HBO documentary on drinking.
Red Dead Redemption 2 just came out and I’ve also really wanted to play
Kingdom Come: Deliverance since it came out but I know that both would be a waste of hundreds of hours. After the documentary tonight I unplugged the TV and XBOX and put them both in the corner of my room instead of next to my bed. It’s an easy thing to hook up again, but I really do need to focus and the TV is not helping. I keep wanting to move forward on this project but I keep finding ways to waste time. It’s a load of bull**** on my part, but hopefully I can turn it around here
I also had a huge bag of chips and a litre of Diet Pepsi tonight. Definitely not the most disciplined. At least on the physical health front I’ve been crushing it lately so I don’t feel so bad about that. Moderation never killed anyone. I think
So yeah. Coach’s project needs to be my priority. Like I said, I was chipping away at it but I just need to sit my ass down and commit to working through it all. Once I’m done that, the plan is to study and play. I know I’m a profitable player at $1/$2, but there’s still much room for improvement. Time to stop wasting my time and just do the work.
Funnily enough, I’ve also been wasting time by reading a book on how not to waste time called
The War of Art. It’s meant for the writer that doesn’t write, but can really apply to any creative or ambitious endeavour you just neglect undergoing. Which has been my motif for much of the past years. I don’t want to be that person and I think I’m getting better about it. I finally got started on physical fitness which took forever for me to do, but now I’m finally doing it. Yesterday I walked 15km according to my phone, mostly on the mail grind. Sweat like crazy. A lot of this stuff is still overwhelming, but I think the 220 by 2019 is well within reach. If I had to pick one life goal to accomplish, including poker, writing, or social related things, I think the weight loss is the most important one for me right now. Happy grinding everyone, hope to start doing the work tomorrow