Thanks Shelly <3
Honestly, the feast didn't taste as good as I imagined it would. I think the guilt of my diet sucking for about 2 weeks is catching up with me WCOOP will test my nutritional heart for sure!

Shelly, how's your cash grind going?

Also isn't it weird that the WINTER Championship of online Poker is one week away?

I've still got two fans out ffs

Oh man, sorry that I'm late to the party but just saw this thread now.

1) In for the shredding posts/progress, need to get on that here
2) Awesome wedding pics, congrats!

3) Def not impossible, I'm at ~10,500 now (3500 MTT SNGs)
4) GL in COOPs!

Thanks Aaron!! Yeh, my diet sucked last week so much. Was just a bit of everything and not quite enough self control. To rectify this I will be fasting for around 36 hours tomorrow and then eating OMAD Tuesday, Wed, Thurs with hitting gym every day.

Yeh, I like the pics too <3 cheers!

Your volume is outstanding, you help me realise that it can be possible. I'm deffo gunna put in decent vol. this year, I don't think i'll manage 10k but I will just make sure each month is decent!

And yes!! I think this COOP gunna be a corker, I just FEEL IT! Hope you have a great one too. Lets do it!

Todays grind started pretty amazing, stacks in everything but in the end finished pretty disappointingly unfortunately. This was the bitter one:



Gotta say it didn't feel like much of a deepstack, obv everyone starts with 1000000000BB and then 90mins later everyone has 20BB. lol

Back OTG Tuesday 9am and I'm should be 24+ hours fasted by then.

Hope everyone reading this had a good sunday.


Solidbowl

subbed, gl Pete and congrats on the wedding.

thanks big tunna!! hope you are well

Had to look up what 'OMAD' meant and now I'll start using that term in my own life. Was basically on that diet when I was living in Thailand from Dec-March and at the tail end of that trip, I was the leanest I've ever been. And then I moved back to Canada.

I obviously could have stayed on the same regimen, but it's so damn hard when I live with my GF and she's not interested the 'OMAD' diet. So I started to eat "socially" again, had less time for the gym, and have put on 10 pounds since March. Feelsfatman. But the past week has been great and I'm on an OMAD type diet, capping out at two meals/2000 calories. Will stop clogging up your thread and keep my fitness updates in mine.

So you didn't eat for 36 consecutive hours? Wat. How were energy levels, what types of "foods" are acceptable? Water, coffee, calorie free beverages, certain vegetables?

Also wanna hear more about the grind.

ok so your pretty experience with eating infrequently per day then. Yeh totally get what your saying, it takes a lot of effort for sure and willpower to just not eat when it seems so attractive to do so! lol feelsfatman dont worry mate, you'll get shredded again in no time I know it Good that your back on track at this time before WCOOP cos its gotta help tons to go into WCOOP in a good rythm. My diet sucked last week or so like I said so trying to get back now, especially as it's going to be 10x harder during WCOOP.

I planned on not eating for 36 hrs yeh which is just basically not eating for one day. I've done it a bunch and its surprisingly easy and I always feel amazing waking up that next day after eating nothing the day before. However, this monday i didn't follow through cos I just got hungrier than I expected to.

To answer your question as to what is "allowed" it depends what you are going for. If you solely focused on the calorie aspect of things, you can still have coffee tea etc during this time with minimal milk. However, this obv isn't recommended, last time I drank coffee at the tail end of a fast (just after I broke it) the caffeine seemed to hit me SUPER hard and I was crazy awake hyper for the rest of the day and night.

As to what I think is optimal during a 24hr+ fast, I believe we should be drinking water with sodium chloride + potassium in it. This does a few things:

1. Helps maintain electroyle balance
2. Hydrates you more efficiently (you don't piss out all your electrolytes now)
3. Preps the stomach for food
4. Gives you the energy you need to function and exercise

Obv you have to be careful with mixing the salts with the water but essentially you want to mix it up with the water in such a way that you consume the salts throughout the duration of the day *DO NOT DOWN HIGH CONCENTRATED SALT WATER IN LARGE QUANTITIES*

But until you try a somewhat extended fast with salt water you won't realise how good you feel during a fast (and the after) and you will be stunned how much energy you feel you have during it too.

Grind is going pretty well. I am now streaming regularly which I feel is making me work harder and better. I feel like thinking out loud about the hands I play prevents autopilot and aids my thought processes.

I'm gunna stream until I have a good reason not to as I'm finding it fun and I feel its helping me play well and even improving my volume. Obv I can't compete with the big streamers but I don't care about that at all, cos that's not the point.

Overall, I feel well prepped for WCOOP and im super pumped for it. And its my 30th birthday on Sunday.

Yes. Of course I am grinding.

I am cool remember.

Wednesday was pretty weird. I made 4 Ft's but couldn't close any out.

One the FT of this Bounty Builder after 4 interesting pre flop spots I had this massive cognitive dissonance afterwards which haunted me for over 24 hours. I spent the whole time thinking about whether I should have called or folded etc etc. Does not normally get to me that badly but fortunately now this feeling has completely passed.

I guess I am a total bowl for not knowing that HRC actually has a model for calculating bounties at FTs.

I spent over 24 hours trying to make my own model in excel with some success but part of the issue was actually trying to organise my thoughts in an adequately logical manner which would allow me to make certain assumptions like HRC has made.

I find it super interesting what HRC has come up with but the good news is that now I will stop obsessing about trying to make my own bounty model now that I know I can run stuff in HRC satisfied that the assumptions it makes are reasonable enough for my brain to accept.

Anyway, to prevent future doubts from getting me down and to stay sharp I will make this following promise to myself. In keeping with my current "study on the job" approach I will:

Run at least 2 Bounty Builder FT spots every day during WCOOP and at least 1 c_EV spot.

This should be enough to keep my confidence from dropping, enough to stay sharp and little enough for it to be realistic to achieve during the incredibly long and exhausting WCOOP days.

After tiding up a few things with my stream I am now signing off from poker until Sunday to spend the rest of today and the whole of tomorrow taking a complete break from poker and to spend some quality time with my wife for my 30th birthday.

I am feeling incredibly prepared now. I could not have given poker any more effort than I have since getting married 2 months ago and I am extremely looking forward to grinding hard and well for the next 2 weeks. I have a feeling that something great is about to happen!

I wish you all the best of luck too and hope you are all well.

See you all on Sunday.

GL in WCOOP Solid, I have a good feeling for you too.

Cheers mate :d

streaming now on twitch for a huge super tuesday 12hr + grind. come join the fun

tough day yesterday but already hit a short gym session had a quick sauna and now back otg and streaming. lfg

Guess I need to get some kind of closure on the day. Been up for 22 hrs now and just finished a 17 hour grind.

Had a bunch of stacks all day in good things and also a ton of interesting hands imo.

Sattied into the $530 twice and then got into two hands v the same villain I assumed was a reg. 2nd hand happened either 2 hands later or next orbit (cant remeber)

https://www.boomplayer.com/28654246_A245EC91BD

https://www.boomplayer.com/28654321_E1F5E20F0D

would appreciate thoughts on these hands to see if u guess would do smth diff?

Ended up running v well in the Battle Royale and coming 8th.



At this point in time I'm still emotional AF but can't help feeling regret that I made one or 2 sizeable mistakes. The one that sticks out is this:

OR is afaik a rec and 3bttor is reg with $850ish bounty. I had 8 seconds timebank and just went with what my gut said.

https://www.boomplayer.com/28659899_8B92C3A071

Obv would have felt like a boss if it gets through, and now I just think: "punt, punt, it was a punt, Pete you punted hard. you blew it"

as you can see, I am in no way capable of being constructive right now and the emotional is just torturing me as I get that feeling you all know too well from MTTs which is can be one of failure.

Anyway, while this is super whiney, part of me writing this is to prove to myself that even after a run like this, i'm not gunna just turn of PC and forget the day. I have hands I want to review and I need to report this because as wierd as I feel now, I KNOW how damn hard I've been working lately, and regardless of how badly I played some spots, the majority of what I did in that MTT was pretty decent.

Big shoutout to our friend lolchippr0n (one_time) who busted in 21st. He joined my table and for some reason I went into a phase of about 20 mins total brain wetfart. Felt like I didn't really know what I was doing. But i'm only human so Im not gunna let myself feel bad about that. As the intensity increased I think my brain just started firing a bit oddly.

Anyway fortunately for me and unfortunately for him, i managed to flop TWO SETS V HIM. The second one I just flopped a boat like nothing. I remember peeling pre (which seemed probably a bit lossey goosey) and as I peeled I knew I HAD NO ****ING IDEA WHAT MY OWN RANGE WAS. sigh

Erm, yeh. I got refocused soon after that I think. this will probs turn out to be an embarrassing read cos its just an MTT and BBs are wierd right?

Conclusion, I'm happy with my overall days play. VERY happy, I gave 1100% and am AWARE of most of the spots where I potentially mistepped. And I will work on them in future #tomorrow

This silly post needs a little more context for my emotion. Here is a hand from the FT.

https://www.boomplayer.com/28660032_F19D5A283B

And this is my final hand. Even I am finding this a little funy now

https://clips.twitch.tv/RacyStrangeTarsierCopyThis



Tomorrow, I get up, go to gym, review hands from today. AND THEN I GRIND.

GL me sleeping. thanks for reading

GG mate, thanks for the shoutout

Fwiw the hands look fine to me, I would open the A9o in the bounty spot in stead of limp to avoid getting piled on as often (though it's always gonna be very tricky). Like, I think leaving our range 'uncapped' (stupid use of the word here since we have incentive to be bat**** wide) is nice in a way that we don't have to share our equity with 76o type stuff from people behind and don't end up in this spot where it's kinda gross to call off but it's tough to ever fold. We can of course limp QQ+ as well (maybe even a bit wider in terms of traps) so in that sense we are uncapped but I think just opening those is very fine too

Might look at the first KK hand in PIO, seems pretty interesting. Ofc it's pretty tough to nail down the SB coldcalling range

Thanks for the great input mate. If you do find the time to PIO the KK one, id be extremely interested to see what you come up with

But thanks again for the support even after your run bad and i wish you the best of luck in wcoop. <3

Yesterday I was running off a very small number of sleep hours and in the end the grind was sensibly short. Had a few nice ITMs to make the day around BE.

Today (brag) I managed over 9 hours sleep! I woke up feeling so refreshed it was great. Just got back from the gym where I deadlifted, squatted and then came home.

Warning: wcoop induced tl;dr

Refreshed or otherwise I still had some various poker throughts flowing through my brain while at the gym. While I'm not sure productive this I, I'm still gunna blog it.

I'm not sure if this is some sort of paranoia or what, but I do have the impression - or maybe it's an anxiety (because I am prone to anxiety in relation to thoughts and worrying about the future. I don't have anxiety in social scenarios or anything like that. I can spend hours or even longer worrying if I MIGHT have chipped a bit of my favourite mug etc)

yeh so I have been getting this impression/worry that other poker players impression of me is that I am arrogant and think that I am one of the best players around. Maybe its a streaming based anxiety? I don't think I specifically care whether ppl think I suck or am great but I'm a little bothered If ppl think I have a massively inflated opinion of myself. I need to set the record straight here.

Here are some facts. I absolutely do not think I am a top player. There are many better, many many better, and much better than me at that. I don't put in the best volume. I don't have the best mental game. I am not the most naturally talented poker player

I get worried when I think about running deep in WCOOPs etc and even other tournies and getting to these situations where the players on my table are so good I am the spot. This has obv happened before and will again. This upsets me because I know it to be true.

So if this is all silly anxiety then great, but I still worry that I have given off this impression somehow.

THIS is what I believe.
Almost every game I am in I am +EV. I have a sound understanding of theory and am confident that I do not make gigantic mistakes frequently in the same sort of situation. I work hard at improving and I am working harder than I used to. I am putting in more hours than I used to. I am doing my best. I am an honest person.

So that's me.

Gunna start the stream soon so it would be cool to see some of you in there to give me some love as for some reason I feel a little low today. If you do read this and drop by say so in chat cos id appreciate that

Sometimes I like the idea of going for a walk and finding some old lady with a dog or just a random person and chatting to them about things and sharing things as a form of self therapy etc etc. I've guessed there are benefits to opening up to ppl who do not know you. Guess ive sort of done this here a little.

just read this back.... just any of this make ANY sense?



hope you are all well. and GL everyone tonight in WCOOP

hey man, i've just read last couple of posts so I'll respond to random couple hands/things

i agree with lolchip for A9o - is better to open to clear some equity since vs limp toooo many things are profitable to limp behind.

I really didn't like that KJs 4b on FT for couple of reasons. I dont think people with 35bb will go OOL there with 3bets (since OR can 4b jam a looooot), and while OR being a rec makes it a little bit less worse I really don't like the hand we chose for it ( it blocks JJ/AK/(KQs could also be in his 3b range vs rec there imo and it's snapfold vs 4b) and thats the 'value' part of his 3b range that will have aweful time facing 4b here ). Some A5ss seems like the best 4b bluff here considering blocking potential and equity vs gii range. Overall I'm not the guy that thinks a lot about balancing and not overdoing something but if we do it with KJs I guess we're doing it lil bit too much even for my taste.

As for the thinking about what other regs think, I guess that's just massive waste of time to be thinking about (and mental game leak obv). EV doesn't care about opinions, and by thinking that you're the spot and what they think you're basicly losing more ( f*iiing ego thing). Just do your best, play your best solid abc game without much adjusting and you'll be fine. When you play with best of them, think about it in constructive way. Mark the hands, look em up, think about why they're doing what they're doing. Consider playing in tough lineups as learning and a way to actually acquire some future EV.

Anyway, don't wanna hijack the thread, just wanted to put my 2c here as I really enjoy reading your thread and these were couple of things that I wanted to address. GL for the rest of the WCOOP!

yoyo thanks for the 2cs mate!! I think you make very good and extremely valid points 0% hijack! Yeh I think you are spot on, if I am doing it with KJs i think i probably am a doing it a little too much too. But the way you thought about that spot is prolly how I should be too.

My last post was deffo a mental leak issue+WCOOP stress mublings. Only thing I will say is that I play the good guys enough not to have to alter my game selection in order to "play v them more for future ev etc" but you are not to know that so i still appreciate your input.

moving on from my ramble the bad news is that my mental game was not strong today. I let one hand get to me a LOT. it was 90% feel sorry for myself for the runout and 10% angry that I might have mistepped.

im gunna post the hand for hope of getting some contructive crit. about the hand.

While this sounds like i am moaning a lot rofl I am TRYING to report my day rather than moan. I am feeling pretty good now as I finish off my last table but feel obliged to report that my head was out the game for about 1hr after this hand. Feels bad, but im trying to keep a handle on it! and once again, this is my attempt of accountability. If i report back here every day saying my head is out the game then I know I need to prioritise the issue. However, i dont think this is the case: I think overall its rare I get emotionally affected during a session and during WCOOP I think im allowed a little slack. and I cant feel too bad atm, my WCOOP EV bb/100 is over 9 from 15k hands

this is the $215 phase v winning mid stakes reg

https://www.weaktight.com/h/5b92e5e2d39043e5558b45ae


My guesses is that this rvr is a pretty low EV spot for us, I guess we can snapped sometimes and get folds by a decent about of hands we beat. xc seems very meh after turn sizing/ xf doesnt seems ideal with QQ.

so yeh jamming isnt like super high EV (espeically if there are 16 whole combos of AT in there)

my in hand musings were simply I felt jamming was higher EV than x/f or x/c. at the same time, if ATo gets to flop.... theres gotta be enough getting to rvr to allow me to value?

this I will be PIOing tomorrow anyway. gl me guessing IP peel range tho

I was a grump cnut on stream today so to make up for it, on sunday I will be a jolly farmer and give you my most positive ness.

ty guys

disclaimer: this is not solver solution. i really want to x call this combo w/o diamond otr rather than jam it since i see 100% of his diamonds peeling flop vs this 27% otf(which I like) and turn for obvious reasons. we'll lose vs Tx/JJ and dwe wont get value from 77-99 anyway, but if we jam we give him really easy decision to fold with his busted draws while if we check he can stick some of those in.

cheers nomalice yep, totally get what you are saying!

Running the sim now... something interesting came up... OTT we have some hands like like to jam for 2x pot: KQ, QQ QJ and AJ

As played... OTR at equilibrium, our blast offs, are: JJ, QQ, KK, KQ, KJ, AJ(50%), JT,

our checks: AA AJ(50%) AK, AQ, and our other bluffier give ups

pretty interesting hand to look at in theory, and i dont feel to be in a position to do any real nodelocking here.

So yeh, just reviewed 3 or 4 hands now. some basic shove fold and now im getting OTG and firing up stream!

GL everyone today, I feel good!

Damn, I felt pretty good about my QQ no diamond check after nomalice agreed with it

tehe, yeh but thats at equilibrium and it did make some "funny" assumptions about IP

so today i was quite brutally penetrated.

bricked 2k on stars i think. literally nothing worth reviewing iirc. the only good thanks that happened were making day 2 Phase $22 with medium stack and then i got 26th in a Party 100k GTD, which just feels massively facepalm. another day of collecting a negative salary.

overall im actually feeling pretty decent and think i played ok today especially in the bigger pots even though i think i did a few wierd preflop things.

im gunna start the grind AS EARLY as i can tomorrow. hope you guys had a good sunday

Oh man, that is so good, definitely going to steal it.

Yesterday recap:

Had very little sleep but still managed to hit the gym and get OTG within 90mins of waking. My routine of exercise everyday and no alcohol during WCOOP seems to be working for my mental health and making me just feel decent in general.

So i got OTG.... it was over a 13hr grind a think and over a 12 hr stream. Its a little burry now, but I remember it gradually picking up pace and building stacks in a bunch of stuff untill I had 5 great stacks going.

Then I had the worst hour ever.

Then I got the chip lead in the $44 BB with about 20 left and also the chiplead in the $22 Mini Monday 6Max.

Finished in 15th in the $44 and like 80th in the 6max. was a super disappointing but on the whole I think i played pretty decent!

managed to mark about 7 hands for review which I will do so before tomorrow. (taking today off after some good talks with abarone about day selection etc)

So basically today off, thurs off, and then grinding wed, fri, sat, sun, mon, tues

its my day off now, but I appear to be balls deep into PIO.




Im gunna get em tho. im gunna get em good.

that qq seems like a hand which really wants to get in a lot of money as quick as possible, so i wouldn't be surprised if solvers already size up flop too with our combo (along with jacks & at for value then i'd assume) ? did you remember or save the sim?

I remeber it a little yes but didnt save. However, I only allowed for one flop size. I cannot dissagree with your assumption about QQ prefering a larger size OTF, seems very reasonable.

Is this is spot where youd recommend making it a 2 street hand (with this hand) and size up flop hoping to shove turn??

I fired everything/most things again today and pretty much gg'ed everything. Got off to a great start in the 215$ 8max getting up to 200k and t1k. I then ran KK into AA BVB for 100BB v a good aggro reg.

I got like 12th in the early 109 battle royale, ran AK on Kxx flop 20bb eff into AA in the 215 battle royale and then lost AK v AJ for the rest.

got 2 tables left and idk if in firing the late battle royale. EVb/100 at 6.6 fir WCOOP so far. really hoping I can do something with these last few days.