From Walmart Worker to Walmart Wizard
02-13-2017
, 02:07 AM
Well guys, it's that time of the week where I put on some Bon Iver and mellow myself out with a post in here.
Wasn't really sure if I had anything much to write about this week as I've covered a lot of ground thus far in 2017 with topics that cross my mind a lot. So I went out for a nice midnight stroll in the barren streets of Waterloo, in the rather frigid January air, and waited for something to come to mind...
So first things first, I turn 25 years old in a few hours. Wrapping up my 24th year on this planet feels pretty weird. If statistics/averages hold true I'm probably somewhere around the ~1/3rd of my life expectancy point. One could argue that I'm near the segway of turning from youth/young adult to adult. I remember when I was 19 I was having a conversation with a random 25 year old. He basically said that 25 is the year in his life when reality started to set in. The people around him really started to grow up and do stuff (get married, have kids, get really good jobs etc) and the consequences of the choices people made in previous years really were really beginning to become apparent. For example those who spewed all their money on booze and drugs/did't work hard at something were really falling behind those who made better decisions. Anyways, that was just a random tangent that I recalled, and seemed fitting as I turn 25 tomorrow
I've sort of seen that start to ring true in my life, but again, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. One guy might be married/have a nice family/drive a nice car but by no means is he more successful than a guy who chooses a different path in which he himself desires.
I did some self reflection on the first 6 weeks of this year and feeling disappointed. It's pretty easy to get down at this time of year in Canada as the weather is cold and ****ty, and there isn't much sunshine. Was trying to think wtf is wrong with me for not busting my ass to achieve my goals so far this year. I know what my goals and plan of action are...why can't I just do it? I thought maybe if I go on a nice vacation somewhere warm and get my mind off things/maybe if I do this/maybe if I do that....nahh **** that! It's time to stop putting in excuses and man up and face some of this ****! Me putting in a 3/10 effort isn't because I haven't been on vacation, or because the weather is cold...it's because I haven't disciplined myself. Self discipline is like a muscle, it gets stronger the more you use it. Right now I'm rocking a spaghetti like wet noodle self discipline muscle. That changes now.
That's enough ranting about that. I hate putting the negativity in here but I need to be real and hold myself accountable for when my effort is unacceptable.
Progress Report:
Health:
Workouts Completed this week: (2/6)
Times leaving diet guidelines: 4
20 Minute Meditation Session: 6/7
Books Read: 1/1
Body Weight +/-: -7 lbs. (since beginning of year)
Wealth:
Training Videos Watched: 1/1
Hours in the lab: 0/2
Sessions played: 3/4
Hours put into researching new avenues of revenue generation: 10
Weekly Proft: +5091
https://gyazo.com/a04d9fcded6fae5f173225006d672c0d
Yearly Profit: +3452
https://gyazo.com/dc6f8d7f93a5adf498480fdff587ccf3
Live Poker Profit This Year: +2095
Book Review: I read "A Random Walk Down Wall Street" by Burton Malkiel. Perhaps, I didn't enjoy it that much as I was obliged to read it and I had to read 500 pages of it within a 12 hour window. I guess there was some interesting lessons/view points within it. For one, the author mentions how humans always want to assign causality to events and statistics. For example a study where he flipped a coin several times and recorded the results (heads= +1, tails= -1)...and showed a graph of this. The graph showed natural upswings and downswings and looked like that of a typical stock. He then pretended the graph was that of a real company and showed it to a few investors. They obviously went ape **** and wanted to buy up as much of the stock as they could (he just wanted to show how variance can effect the mind). He talks more about the stock market and how if you look at any given stock, you can find a pattern that it would have followed at some point. If you applied that in the long run it wouldn't hold true. Moreover, he says that short term investing to get rich quick is dangerous, but the stock market yields a long term return greater than almost any savings account. (Not sure if I wrote that clearly lol).
Story of leaving comfort zone: Bleh, wish I had something cool/interesting to write about lol. I'll make up for that next week.
Hands:
https://www.boomplayer.com/22704481_4A673BF70A
this was an annoying spot. I talk poker with the villain regularly and actually looked over one of his hh's the other day. Given some reads I exploitatively flatted pre. I'm pretty sure my line is good right? I was thinking from his perspective on what the optimal line is to get max value?
https://www.boomplayer.com/22704046_8D2FC3C85D
can never beat D diggler99 in a hand. not sure if raising flop is ok, I'll have some bluffs here too so raising the nut 10 maybe isnt horrible.
Random Rant of the Week:
Not really sure how I ended up reading about this study this week...but it's called the Dunning-Kruger Effect. Basically the results of this study demonstrated a cognitive bias in which people with low ability suffer from illusory superiority, and people with high ability actually underestimate their abilities. From what I gather, it is about "you don't know what you don't know", which causes people with low ability to believe they are superior to everyone else, because they don't understand that others are on a higher level...because they don't know that level exists.
We see this in poker every day. In fact, it's probably one of the only reasons we can actually make money in poker. Probably somewhere around 90% of poker players over estimate their ability compared to the fields they play in. I don't know how many guys I've heard tell me that they are super +EV in the hot 109, or the BB 215 or w/e. Or even the old guys at the live tables who tell me im a spew monkey ace master. I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of guys truly believed that the only thing separating them from Fedor Holz would be a tonne of run good and a little bit of hard work.
One thing I've noticed is that weaker poker players are often one track minded when it comes to talking strategy. They are thinking 1 play is superior to another play always, and they will try to defend their line, rather than accepting their can be multiple solutions. I guess in poker it's good to not have a polarized train of thought and be open to different suggestions and view points. Probably the best players I've met have this mentality.
RANT OVER
phew, that was a lot of **** to talk about. Tomorrow I won't be treating myself to a nice birthday dinner and cake etc... I'll be treating myself to chicken breast/broccoli/water...my body deserves clean fuel and that's what I need to be happy in the long run. Time to start changing my mentality.
Thanks for listening to me ranting
Best of luck this week my hombres
"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." MLK JR.
Wasn't really sure if I had anything much to write about this week as I've covered a lot of ground thus far in 2017 with topics that cross my mind a lot. So I went out for a nice midnight stroll in the barren streets of Waterloo, in the rather frigid January air, and waited for something to come to mind...
So first things first, I turn 25 years old in a few hours. Wrapping up my 24th year on this planet feels pretty weird. If statistics/averages hold true I'm probably somewhere around the ~1/3rd of my life expectancy point. One could argue that I'm near the segway of turning from youth/young adult to adult. I remember when I was 19 I was having a conversation with a random 25 year old. He basically said that 25 is the year in his life when reality started to set in. The people around him really started to grow up and do stuff (get married, have kids, get really good jobs etc) and the consequences of the choices people made in previous years really were really beginning to become apparent. For example those who spewed all their money on booze and drugs/did't work hard at something were really falling behind those who made better decisions. Anyways, that was just a random tangent that I recalled, and seemed fitting as I turn 25 tomorrow
I've sort of seen that start to ring true in my life, but again, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. One guy might be married/have a nice family/drive a nice car but by no means is he more successful than a guy who chooses a different path in which he himself desires.I did some self reflection on the first 6 weeks of this year and feeling disappointed. It's pretty easy to get down at this time of year in Canada as the weather is cold and ****ty, and there isn't much sunshine. Was trying to think wtf is wrong with me for not busting my ass to achieve my goals so far this year. I know what my goals and plan of action are...why can't I just do it? I thought maybe if I go on a nice vacation somewhere warm and get my mind off things/maybe if I do this/maybe if I do that....nahh **** that! It's time to stop putting in excuses and man up and face some of this ****! Me putting in a 3/10 effort isn't because I haven't been on vacation, or because the weather is cold...it's because I haven't disciplined myself. Self discipline is like a muscle, it gets stronger the more you use it. Right now I'm rocking a spaghetti like wet noodle self discipline muscle. That changes now.
That's enough ranting about that. I hate putting the negativity in here but I need to be real and hold myself accountable for when my effort is unacceptable.
Progress Report:
Health:
Workouts Completed this week: (2/6)
Times leaving diet guidelines: 4
20 Minute Meditation Session: 6/7
Books Read: 1/1
Body Weight +/-: -7 lbs. (since beginning of year)
Wealth:
Training Videos Watched: 1/1
Hours in the lab: 0/2
Sessions played: 3/4
Hours put into researching new avenues of revenue generation: 10
Weekly Proft: +5091
https://gyazo.com/a04d9fcded6fae5f173225006d672c0d
Yearly Profit: +3452
https://gyazo.com/dc6f8d7f93a5adf498480fdff587ccf3
Live Poker Profit This Year: +2095
Book Review: I read "A Random Walk Down Wall Street" by Burton Malkiel. Perhaps, I didn't enjoy it that much as I was obliged to read it and I had to read 500 pages of it within a 12 hour window. I guess there was some interesting lessons/view points within it. For one, the author mentions how humans always want to assign causality to events and statistics. For example a study where he flipped a coin several times and recorded the results (heads= +1, tails= -1)...and showed a graph of this. The graph showed natural upswings and downswings and looked like that of a typical stock. He then pretended the graph was that of a real company and showed it to a few investors. They obviously went ape **** and wanted to buy up as much of the stock as they could (he just wanted to show how variance can effect the mind). He talks more about the stock market and how if you look at any given stock, you can find a pattern that it would have followed at some point. If you applied that in the long run it wouldn't hold true. Moreover, he says that short term investing to get rich quick is dangerous, but the stock market yields a long term return greater than almost any savings account. (Not sure if I wrote that clearly lol).
Story of leaving comfort zone: Bleh, wish I had something cool/interesting to write about lol. I'll make up for that next week.
Hands:
https://www.boomplayer.com/22704481_4A673BF70A
this was an annoying spot. I talk poker with the villain regularly and actually looked over one of his hh's the other day. Given some reads I exploitatively flatted pre. I'm pretty sure my line is good right? I was thinking from his perspective on what the optimal line is to get max value?
https://www.boomplayer.com/22704046_8D2FC3C85D
can never beat D diggler99 in a hand. not sure if raising flop is ok, I'll have some bluffs here too so raising the nut 10 maybe isnt horrible.
Random Rant of the Week:
Not really sure how I ended up reading about this study this week...but it's called the Dunning-Kruger Effect. Basically the results of this study demonstrated a cognitive bias in which people with low ability suffer from illusory superiority, and people with high ability actually underestimate their abilities. From what I gather, it is about "you don't know what you don't know", which causes people with low ability to believe they are superior to everyone else, because they don't understand that others are on a higher level...because they don't know that level exists.
We see this in poker every day. In fact, it's probably one of the only reasons we can actually make money in poker. Probably somewhere around 90% of poker players over estimate their ability compared to the fields they play in. I don't know how many guys I've heard tell me that they are super +EV in the hot 109, or the BB 215 or w/e. Or even the old guys at the live tables who tell me im a spew monkey ace master. I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of guys truly believed that the only thing separating them from Fedor Holz would be a tonne of run good and a little bit of hard work.
One thing I've noticed is that weaker poker players are often one track minded when it comes to talking strategy. They are thinking 1 play is superior to another play always, and they will try to defend their line, rather than accepting their can be multiple solutions. I guess in poker it's good to not have a polarized train of thought and be open to different suggestions and view points. Probably the best players I've met have this mentality.
RANT OVER
phew, that was a lot of **** to talk about. Tomorrow I won't be treating myself to a nice birthday dinner and cake etc... I'll be treating myself to chicken breast/broccoli/water...my body deserves clean fuel and that's what I need to be happy in the long run. Time to start changing my mentality.
Thanks for listening to me ranting
Best of luck this week my hombres"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." MLK JR.
02-13-2017
, 02:51 AM
02-13-2017
, 08:14 PM
Nice post man, especially that last part in regards the the Kruger effect.
And don't forget that edge we gain mentally when consistently putting good fuel in the body and training like a beast, even just the placebo effect
Set that bar high!
Happy Birthday dude! keep up the good work
And don't forget that edge we gain mentally when consistently putting good fuel in the body and training like a beast, even just the placebo effect
Set that bar high!
Happy Birthday dude! keep up the good work
02-14-2017
, 01:38 AM
Quote:
Another great update! Thoroughly enjoying them. Part about the stocks seems about right. It's also known as the fama-french theory which suggests that it is impossible to find patterns in past results and stocks therefore follow a 'random walk' (and thus are consistent with the eficient market hypothesis) however it is evidenced based on historical results that stocks do indeed have a higher yield, however this obviously comes with a lot more volatility compared to for example bonds/savings account.
Quote:
Nice post man, especially that last part in regards the the Kruger effect.
And don't forget that edge we gain mentally when consistently putting good fuel in the body and training like a beast, even just the placebo effect
Set that bar high!
Happy Birthday dude! keep up the good work
And don't forget that edge we gain mentally when consistently putting good fuel in the body and training like a beast, even just the placebo effect
Set that bar high!
Happy Birthday dude! keep up the good work
02-20-2017
, 05:55 AM
02-20-2017
, 07:12 PM
02-20-2017
, 11:32 PM
02-24-2017
, 03:35 AM
can't sleep right now so need something to lul me to bed.
other than the live grind have only played 2 sessions online this week. won some random 22 prog last night for ~2k but thats about it. i think my focus has been really high and i've been working on some non standard bluff lines that seem to be ravaging thus far. im not turning into some psycho aggro maniac or anything but just working on having more bluffs in some certain spots+having more value lines as well (if that makes sense).
it's starting to fester more and more in my head about what to do after i'm done with poker and this is a huge grey area for a lot of us i feel. i'm 25 now..i definitely have a lot of things going for me but i feel the opportunity cost of playing poker is relatively high right now. basically every day i devote to poker is a day lost towards working towards another cause. when i was in school the whole point of poker was for the greater good of my life path. moreover, paying for my education so that i could one day get a good job etc etc. well now that i've got my education and here i am...still playing poker...
what's the purpose of playing poker now? to pay my bills/build up my net worth? to distract me from a lot of stuff that is dearly important to me? to stop me from giving up on something that I've been so passionate about/dedicated so many fkn hours towards? not sure how fulfilled i am with this anymore. i enjoy dedicating time to it and grinding...but it just kind of feels, for a lack of a better term...empty?
by no means do i want this to be a whiny post but in one way or another it's probably something a lot of us will have to face in coming years. just looking at the landscape of the ecosystem now things are looking quite desiccate. i want to keep things honest in here and elaborate on some of my genuine thoughts that cross my mind on a semi daily basis. poker has taught me so many valuable lessons and i'm so grateful that i found it for a plethora of reasons.
thanks for reading this bedtime rant. will be back for update on sunday as per usual
other than the live grind have only played 2 sessions online this week. won some random 22 prog last night for ~2k but thats about it. i think my focus has been really high and i've been working on some non standard bluff lines that seem to be ravaging thus far. im not turning into some psycho aggro maniac or anything but just working on having more bluffs in some certain spots+having more value lines as well (if that makes sense).
it's starting to fester more and more in my head about what to do after i'm done with poker and this is a huge grey area for a lot of us i feel. i'm 25 now..i definitely have a lot of things going for me but i feel the opportunity cost of playing poker is relatively high right now. basically every day i devote to poker is a day lost towards working towards another cause. when i was in school the whole point of poker was for the greater good of my life path. moreover, paying for my education so that i could one day get a good job etc etc. well now that i've got my education and here i am...still playing poker...
what's the purpose of playing poker now? to pay my bills/build up my net worth? to distract me from a lot of stuff that is dearly important to me? to stop me from giving up on something that I've been so passionate about/dedicated so many fkn hours towards? not sure how fulfilled i am with this anymore. i enjoy dedicating time to it and grinding...but it just kind of feels, for a lack of a better term...empty?
by no means do i want this to be a whiny post but in one way or another it's probably something a lot of us will have to face in coming years. just looking at the landscape of the ecosystem now things are looking quite desiccate. i want to keep things honest in here and elaborate on some of my genuine thoughts that cross my mind on a semi daily basis. poker has taught me so many valuable lessons and i'm so grateful that i found it for a plethora of reasons.
thanks for reading this bedtime rant. will be back for update on sunday as per usual
02-27-2017
, 03:22 AM
yaooooooo!
It's that time of the week where I splurge my weekly update into this thread, so here we go:
This week was pretty mediocre in terms of progress. Played a few sessions online and also ran deepish in the 2.5k Fallsview Classic event in Niagara Falls. The weather is starting to look slightly nicer here and some of the snow has melted which made going on my daily walks a bit more pleasant. One thing I never considered before buying my place is that there is a nice major body of water quite close to me which allows for some nice walking scenery (along with fishing/swimming/canoeing in the summer).
Progress Report:
Health:
Workouts Completed this week: (3/6)
Times leaving diet guidelines: 4
20 Minute Meditation Session: 1/7
Books Read: 0/1
Body Weight +/-: -8 lbs. (since beginning of year)
Wealth:
Training Videos Watched: 1/1
Hours in the lab: 0/2
Sessions played: 4/4
Hours put into researching new avenues of revenue generation: 0
Weekly Proft: -1470
Yearly Profit: -403
https://gyazo.com/f47b52563198beb6f898a747484bcf64
Live Poker Profit This Year: +4818
Book Review: Bleh, hate to say it but I was way too busy this week to read. Well, I'm sure I could have found the time for it as I found a plethora of time to do other dumb ****. Anyways, I'll talk about something of interest from the little reading I did do this week. So the other day I just had some random thoughts about existentialism and the universe etc...(totally sober fwiw) Randomly started just doing some googling about the universe and the chances of extraterrestrial beings. Came across this thing called "The Drake Equation" which basically is a mathematical formula developed to estimate the chances of life in our universe (other than on Earth). Imo the universe is far too big for there not to be other life, and it would probably be naive to think we're the only ones. I'd just say there is probably close to a 0% chance that I'll ever get to see life from another planet in my lifetime, due to some slight logistical complications involving distance etc
Story of leaving comfort zone: Nothing overly relevant worth writing about this week.
Random Rant of the Week:
As I was sitting there clicking buttons towards the end of my Sunday session and one tabling the 11$ Sunday Wrapup (kid has heart) I couldn't stop thinking about how bad I ran today/this year and how this can't really be controlled. The logical and rational part of my brain says: Mike, this is completely standard deviation/variance of tournament poker (the same as when I've binked), just keep making good decisions and the law of large numbers will suggest that your true ROI will be obtained in the long run. The **** sapiens part of my brain is probably better illustrated with an image: https://gyazo.com/cd6b8fc714a15142510f97e378be38d7
Moreover, something that separates a lot of the good players from the Germans in this game is the ability to set aside the natural primal instincts that we possess as people. When we were being made way back in the day we weren't designed to play strategic card games risking large amounts of currency. (I mean great players btw). In the environment we formed in, I believe the plains of Africa, we were designed to avoid danger/reproduce/protect our young/and just be social beings. The issue with this in the modern society, and in poker: our monkey minds sometimes override our logical modern society minds. We're designed to be results oriented, to feel good, to like winning, to have a fight/flight response, and to be socially accepted. Where does this play into the daily grind? Well we need to convince ourselves to be content with losing days when we play well, when we win big we need bigger scores to give the same amount of dopamine hit, when an opponent wins a battle against us we have the instant urge to "get him back", we might not want other high value tribe members (top regs) to think our lines are spewy or bad/ so we revert to a perhaps lower EV nitty line.
Anyways, that's just a random thought that I had this week. Poker is such a fascinating game because it is a battle with ourselves just as much as it is anyone else.
Just texted a few of my close friends and explained to them not to ask me to go out for food for the next upcoming weeks. Restocked my refrigerator with health food and made a big schedule for the upcoming week w/ workouts and grind schedule. Feeling motivated heading into this week and want to start grinding like a mad man. Ideally, I build up a big BR online so that I can have a big SCOOP/travel somewhere and live in a SCOOP house.
As usual, I appreciate the reads/posts. Best of luck this week let's get'em!!!
"The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason." -Charles Darwin
It's that time of the week where I splurge my weekly update into this thread, so here we go:
This week was pretty mediocre in terms of progress. Played a few sessions online and also ran deepish in the 2.5k Fallsview Classic event in Niagara Falls. The weather is starting to look slightly nicer here and some of the snow has melted which made going on my daily walks a bit more pleasant. One thing I never considered before buying my place is that there is a nice major body of water quite close to me which allows for some nice walking scenery (along with fishing/swimming/canoeing in the summer).
Progress Report:
Health:
Workouts Completed this week: (3/6)
Times leaving diet guidelines: 4
20 Minute Meditation Session: 1/7
Books Read: 0/1
Body Weight +/-: -8 lbs. (since beginning of year)
Wealth:
Training Videos Watched: 1/1
Hours in the lab: 0/2
Sessions played: 4/4
Hours put into researching new avenues of revenue generation: 0
Weekly Proft: -1470
Yearly Profit: -403
https://gyazo.com/f47b52563198beb6f898a747484bcf64
Live Poker Profit This Year: +4818
Book Review: Bleh, hate to say it but I was way too busy this week to read. Well, I'm sure I could have found the time for it as I found a plethora of time to do other dumb ****. Anyways, I'll talk about something of interest from the little reading I did do this week. So the other day I just had some random thoughts about existentialism and the universe etc...(totally sober fwiw
) Randomly started just doing some googling about the universe and the chances of extraterrestrial beings. Came across this thing called "The Drake Equation" which basically is a mathematical formula developed to estimate the chances of life in our universe (other than on Earth). Imo the universe is far too big for there not to be other life, and it would probably be naive to think we're the only ones. I'd just say there is probably close to a 0% chance that I'll ever get to see life from another planet in my lifetime, due to some slight logistical complications involving distance etc Story of leaving comfort zone: Nothing overly relevant worth writing about this week.
Random Rant of the Week:
As I was sitting there clicking buttons towards the end of my Sunday session and one tabling the 11$ Sunday Wrapup (kid has heart) I couldn't stop thinking about how bad I ran today/this year and how this can't really be controlled. The logical and rational part of my brain says: Mike, this is completely standard deviation/variance of tournament poker (the same as when I've binked), just keep making good decisions and the law of large numbers will suggest that your true ROI will be obtained in the long run. The **** sapiens part of my brain is probably better illustrated with an image: https://gyazo.com/cd6b8fc714a15142510f97e378be38d7
Moreover, something that separates a lot of the good players from the Germans in this game is the ability to set aside the natural primal instincts that we possess as people. When we were being made way back in the day we weren't designed to play strategic card games risking large amounts of currency. (I mean great players btw). In the environment we formed in, I believe the plains of Africa, we were designed to avoid danger/reproduce/protect our young/and just be social beings. The issue with this in the modern society, and in poker: our monkey minds sometimes override our logical modern society minds. We're designed to be results oriented, to feel good, to like winning, to have a fight/flight response, and to be socially accepted. Where does this play into the daily grind? Well we need to convince ourselves to be content with losing days when we play well, when we win big we need bigger scores to give the same amount of dopamine hit, when an opponent wins a battle against us we have the instant urge to "get him back", we might not want other high value tribe members (top regs) to think our lines are spewy or bad/ so we revert to a perhaps lower EV nitty line.
Anyways, that's just a random thought that I had this week. Poker is such a fascinating game because it is a battle with ourselves just as much as it is anyone else.
Just texted a few of my close friends and explained to them not to ask me to go out for food for the next upcoming weeks. Restocked my refrigerator with health food and made a big schedule for the upcoming week w/ workouts and grind schedule. Feeling motivated heading into this week and want to start grinding like a mad man. Ideally, I build up a big BR online so that I can have a big SCOOP/travel somewhere and live in a SCOOP house.
As usual, I appreciate the reads/posts. Best of luck this week let's get'em!!!
"The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason." -Charles Darwin
03-03-2017
, 04:41 AM
Grinding heavy 4 days in a row certainly can't be optimal? I'd think by Day 3 you would just start feeling burned out and the quality of your decisions deteriorates by a lot. As long as everything is on point in how you're approaching things, there's nothing to worry about
Definitely agree that when in downswings we question ourselves a lot more and that's really where it's easier to find leaks etc. When we are winning, running hot, we just assume everything we are doing is correct and question ourselves a lot less, which is kind of what leads to downswings and then upswings again lol.
Glgl Sunday, enjoy the next couple days off.
Definitely agree that when in downswings we question ourselves a lot more and that's really where it's easier to find leaks etc. When we are winning, running hot, we just assume everything we are doing is correct and question ourselves a lot less, which is kind of what leads to downswings and then upswings again lol.
Glgl Sunday, enjoy the next couple days off.
03-06-2017
, 03:27 AM
Sup regs,
Feeling in a rather "indifferent" type of mood right now. Rather mellow and weirdly enough not a whole lot running through my mind for once. Here's the weekly Sunday update:
Progress Report:
Health:
Workouts Completed this week: (4/6)
Times leaving diet guidelines: 1
20 Minute Meditation Session: 4/7
Books Read: .5/1
Body Weight +/-: -10 lbs. (since beginning of year)
Wealth:
Training Videos Watched: 1/1
Hours in the lab: 2/2
Sessions played: 5/4
Hours put into researching new avenues of revenue generation: 0
Weekly Proft: -5335
Yearly Profit: -5497
https://gyazo.com/f47b52563198beb6f898a747484bcf64
Live Poker Profit This Year: +5318
Book Review: Took a good chunk out of "Billions and Billions" by Carl Sagan this week. Thus far is a very interesting book that I believe he wrote on his death bed. So far it's talked a lot about big concepts involving the universe, life, and the world. Will talk more in depth next week.
Story of Leaving Comfort Zone: Forcing myself to go for 2 walks daily. Regardless if it's -30 degrees and hideous outside or +30 degrees and gorgeous. Usually have been trying to do one in the morning before my session and one late at night after grinding or before bed or w/e. Despite the weather being extremely frigid I really enjoy the time every day to reflect/prepare or whatever. Not to mention it's good to get the blood flowing and a little light cardio a couple times a day. This is barely out of my comfort zone though as I actually find it quite comforting most of the time...I can do better next week.
Random Rant of the Week:
Weirdly enough not a whole lot has come to my mind this week. I've been super focused on my diet and grinding. This week was my biggest loss this year but I feel great about it. My motivation is peaking for the first time in probably ~6 months and I've slung some really good volume! Yeah, I've ran absolutely horrendous but eventually the law of large numbers suggests that making profitable decisions over the long run will yield profits.
I think I mentioned before that my friend who is a power lifter/ poker player/ lifestyle coach has been coming over for sessions during the week. This is really good because he answers a lot of my questions regarding fitness + helps hold me accountable with my diet or w/e when playing. For example I'm not going to want to eat pizza if he is sitting beside me eating a bowl of steamed broccoli and chicken breast. It's also good to run hands by each other and talk poker with other people that understand our day to day lives a little better.
I guess this brings me to something that I've been realizing more and more over the previous years: who we choose to surround ourselves with has a massive rub-off effect on who we become. Long story short: if people aren't treating you the way that you deserve to be treated or helping you move in a positive direction: it's important to not allocate a lot of time to them. If they are causing you anxiety/stress/negativity etc. don't tolerate that ****. Hold people close to you in your life with a high standard, and return them that favour. It's vital to have each other's best interests in mind and look out for each other. I've made the commitment to strive to be a more positive influence on the people I spend my time with and hopefully they will do the same for me.
Here's a great podcast episode I listened to this week:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_P55Bexc5s
I love Joe Rogan's realness. This is a guy on a higher paradigm than most people in the world. I feel like his understanding of life and his perspectives are superior. (Only listened to a couple episodes he could be a moron idk.)
Hands: Decided not to talk about hands anymore. For obvious reasons it's not good to post my thoughts on exploitative lines etc on a public forum because you guys can completely reck me in some spots if you know I have a huge imbalance
Let's have a great week everyone and make some nice progress!!!
"The superior man is the providence of the inferior. He is eyes for the blind, strength for the weak, and a shield for the defenseless. He stands erect by bending above the fallen. He rises by lifting others." -Robert Green Ingersoll
Feeling in a rather "indifferent" type of mood right now. Rather mellow and weirdly enough not a whole lot running through my mind for once. Here's the weekly Sunday update:
Progress Report:
Health:
Workouts Completed this week: (4/6)
Times leaving diet guidelines: 1
20 Minute Meditation Session: 4/7
Books Read: .5/1
Body Weight +/-: -10 lbs. (since beginning of year)
Wealth:
Training Videos Watched: 1/1
Hours in the lab: 2/2
Sessions played: 5/4
Hours put into researching new avenues of revenue generation: 0
Weekly Proft: -5335
Yearly Profit: -5497
https://gyazo.com/f47b52563198beb6f898a747484bcf64
Live Poker Profit This Year: +5318
Book Review: Took a good chunk out of "Billions and Billions" by Carl Sagan this week. Thus far is a very interesting book that I believe he wrote on his death bed. So far it's talked a lot about big concepts involving the universe, life, and the world. Will talk more in depth next week.
Story of Leaving Comfort Zone: Forcing myself to go for 2 walks daily. Regardless if it's -30 degrees and hideous outside or +30 degrees and gorgeous. Usually have been trying to do one in the morning before my session and one late at night after grinding or before bed or w/e. Despite the weather being extremely frigid I really enjoy the time every day to reflect/prepare or whatever. Not to mention it's good to get the blood flowing and a little light cardio a couple times a day. This is barely out of my comfort zone though as I actually find it quite comforting most of the time...I can do better next week.
Random Rant of the Week:
Weirdly enough not a whole lot has come to my mind this week. I've been super focused on my diet and grinding. This week was my biggest loss this year but I feel great about it. My motivation is peaking for the first time in probably ~6 months and I've slung some really good volume! Yeah, I've ran absolutely horrendous but eventually the law of large numbers suggests that making profitable decisions over the long run will yield profits.
I think I mentioned before that my friend who is a power lifter/ poker player/ lifestyle coach has been coming over for sessions during the week. This is really good because he answers a lot of my questions regarding fitness + helps hold me accountable with my diet or w/e when playing. For example I'm not going to want to eat pizza if he is sitting beside me eating a bowl of steamed broccoli and chicken breast. It's also good to run hands by each other and talk poker with other people that understand our day to day lives a little better.
I guess this brings me to something that I've been realizing more and more over the previous years: who we choose to surround ourselves with has a massive rub-off effect on who we become. Long story short: if people aren't treating you the way that you deserve to be treated or helping you move in a positive direction: it's important to not allocate a lot of time to them. If they are causing you anxiety/stress/negativity etc. don't tolerate that ****. Hold people close to you in your life with a high standard, and return them that favour. It's vital to have each other's best interests in mind and look out for each other. I've made the commitment to strive to be a more positive influence on the people I spend my time with and hopefully they will do the same for me.
Here's a great podcast episode I listened to this week:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_P55Bexc5s
I love Joe Rogan's realness. This is a guy on a higher paradigm than most people in the world. I feel like his understanding of life and his perspectives are superior. (Only listened to a couple episodes he could be a moron idk.)
Hands: Decided not to talk about hands anymore. For obvious reasons it's not good to post my thoughts on exploitative lines etc on a public forum because you guys can completely reck me in some spots if you know I have a huge imbalance
Let's have a great week everyone and make some nice progress!!!
"The superior man is the providence of the inferior. He is eyes for the blind, strength for the weak, and a shield for the defenseless. He stands erect by bending above the fallen. He rises by lifting others." -Robert Green Ingersoll
03-06-2017
, 07:38 AM
Keep up the updates champ.
I kind of think to the poster above that it almost certainly correlates to how where we cant stop thinking of playing and then after a mass few weeks we become burnt out somewhat and the sense of not thinking is quite relieving.
Sometimes as a poker player we have to push ourselves to the limits. Mtts can be damn draining mentally and physcially if you play 5 x 12 hour days (human body is not designed to sit for long periods we know this though.
Id say that the feeling you have at the moment is good mate in that u can take a few horrid sessions. You know it will turn around.
Will have a read of this billions and billions
Keep up with the fitness . Eat well. Realx.
I kind of think to the poster above that it almost certainly correlates to how where we cant stop thinking of playing and then after a mass few weeks we become burnt out somewhat and the sense of not thinking is quite relieving.
Sometimes as a poker player we have to push ourselves to the limits. Mtts can be damn draining mentally and physcially if you play 5 x 12 hour days (human body is not designed to sit for long periods we know this though.
Id say that the feeling you have at the moment is good mate in that u can take a few horrid sessions. You know it will turn around.
Will have a read of this billions and billions
Keep up with the fitness . Eat well. Realx.