My name is George and I primarily play small stakes on Stars under you-mad-br0. I also make videos for Cardrunners under the same name, where I've just renewed my contract. I have a degree in economics, which I currently make no use of.

I'm not going to go too much into a backstory, if you google you can find my blog which I update occasionally if you care enough, but I've played small stakes for a while now, and don't really plan/ have any desire to move up much anymore. I find that playing higher tends to impact my day to day life (be it winning or losing), much more than I'd like poker too, and the fact that 10% of your volume can cause such massive swings just isn't for me, but big respect to all the heroes out there who do it. And as the thread title says, people don't seem all too positive about the future of poker at the moment, so I guess it's time to concentrate on being professional and making as much as I can at the stakes I am confident playing.

Whole database atm;



Anyway, the idea of this thread is to motivate me to actually put some hours in to poker instead of just taking it for granted. I'm going to start off with setting some goals for June, inside and outside of poker.

Poker

• 50k hands minimum
• 1 Coaching Video
• No timbeys
• No more than 10k hands at 200z+

Outside of Poker

I'm approx 11 months post ACL and LCL (ligaments in the knee) reconstruction, and finally at the stage where I can start playing sport properly again. So I'll probably be updating a lot with my progress on this too, as I'm hoping to do a ski season in Whistler next year with my gf, so fairly crucial for me to be in peak condition by then.

• At least 30 minutes exercise every day
• Bouldering once a week
• Leg strength work once a week
• Rebounding (mini trampoline) 10mins p day
• Ski once before months end
• 5k in under 20:40

So I'll aim to update daily ala my buddy BenaBadBeat, and provide hh, graphs, and probably whatever exercise I did too to hold myself accountable. Also if anyone wants to follow me on twitter; https://twitter.com/George_ymb
I boom hands fairly often that I find funny.

I'll leave with some pictures from my recent holiday to Crete, and obviously a freeroll;

First five posters ITT get $20 freeroll on my 50k hands in June, next 5 after that get $20 freeroll on the no timbeys goal

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in4$20 too obv

Subbed. This is a good idea, I hope to do a similar sort of challenge regarding poker/non-poker things as well.

Also plan to follow on Twitter for the boom player hands comedy. Glgl

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Nice results and challenges, not rooting against you for the twenty....but ya know, 49.9K hands is a nice number to start with though

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siq results innn

Interesting thread! Gl ! Im watching your cardrunners videos,nice job!

Good luck, will definitely be following this thread

gl will be following!

vamo

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no more than 10k hands at 200z+?... that means you want to be playing most your volume lower or am i missing something?

gl

id assume he means reg tables

ah that makes sense.

gl bro, you were always one of the toughest/annoying.

Good luck George!

Ty guys, you all get the 50k hands freeroll

And thanks, you get the timbey freeroll!

Thanks for the complement, and yeah I meant just don't play too much zoom. I've never really got to grips properly with the dynamic and it just tilts me a bit somehow everytime!

Thanks mate, following your thread too!

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So had a fairly productive day, managed to get 3.5k hands in which is strong volume for me;



Some hands;


Fun fun fun, was very confused when lol 100z guy sizes like this otr and i have the nut flush but what can you do;





When fish don't quite get their freqs right;





This is why you keep some 73s in your UTG range;






Incredibly, vs winning reg;





Vs reg*2, think I made a pretty big mistake here;




For my exercise goal today I went on a run round the golf course, pretty hilly up there so fairly happy with it. Knee still twinges a bit but I'm only just getting back into running so to be expected I guess;



Also IRL news today I watched the Brexit debate and just got absurdly tilted by both sides. Major issue with political system that you are rewarded so hard for saying things that get votes and there's not a big enough disincentive to stop campaign just outright lying about some things. (if the public can't understand the counterproofs, then you'll get away with any claim!)
Obviously I don't know of any better system, and actually enjoyed watching Nicola shut Boris up a couple of times, so guess TV debates do have something going for them.

Also, monthly graph so far;

Gl George thread name

In! Gl boss

Best of luck man!

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Very nice results. Gl for rest of the year and enjoy all my tilty donations!

Also, what % of vol is stars if you don't mind saying?

its a shame you're too much of a pussy to play higher :P Too good for 100. gl

GL ssnl endboss! <3

very smart timbey goal.

gl mate! hope things are good.

Great results. Midstakes not worth the stress for alot of people now and all the cool people are playing small stakes anyway