Soooooooooooo ****ing oi, played 23hrs of the last 36 hours, 200+ regspeed MTTs. Broke even at 5ABI and Stars gave me $3.40 from the 25 chests that I'd been awarded over the first 3 weeks. Can't breathe
3 weeks into the challenge (I started on Sunday the 1st) bankroll is at 2000€ and change. By stakes rough guesstimate (will do exact figures later)
2€ MTTs (including scattered 1€ and 3€ ones here too) up ~500 buyins
5€ MTTs up 200 buyins
10€ MTTs down 50 buyins
13evBB/100 so far over infinite hands. One 500€ score, one 180€ score, one 120€ score and not sure if there are any other 3-figure ones.
Profit prob 80% NLHE 15% PLO8 5% PLO.
135 hours played total and 45ish in the lab. Had to learn from scratch again but feeling pretty competent now so hopefully get to spend a little less time in front of the computer.
Definitely starting to crack mentally and physically, when I look in the mirror I look like I've been awake for a week straight, I'm too weak to go to the gym, I tried going today but I just turned around because I didn't feel like lifting a thing. Been doing 3x gym or climbing, 1x swimming per week up until the last few days when I've completely dropped the ball grinding 3x 11h+ sessions in 4 days and switching my sleeping pattern by 12 hours. There's absolutely no chance I can keep this up for much longer so I really hope 10s start working out better and I can play/study less and still make good enough hourly to win the bet. I don't know how you sickos do this on a daily basis, after 3 weeks I'm like a walking zombie.
Think I'm 60%ish to succeed now but that doesn't account for health/mental health issues etc which are probably reasonably likely to hit me at some point. I feel like the next 3 months are going to be hard as **** and I really wish I hadn't done this stupid bet because fml.
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Originally Posted by blakkman08
Haha OP has like in the good ol days
#gottahaveheart
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Originally Posted by insomniac86
GL
The more days you play the better you will play. You will probably have to fight through the first couple of weeks where it sounds as though you will be very rusty. After that you'll be fine.
Very doable, its just a motivation issue.
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Originally Posted by insomniac86
I assume if you lose the initial 500 thats GG? (sorry if this has been covered)
Sorry for double post, 30min limit
Thanks, yeah I noticed the same -- I was super rusty for maybe 2 weeks but now I feel very sharp overall from playing almost every day. Yeah if I lose it all once it's gg. As long as I have a combined balance of 1€ or more I'm allowed to play freerolls tho.
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Originally Posted by jdawg91
Meant to post first day the thread existed, but glgl with this Chuck. Much <3
Thanks my man, wish I had your skills so I could just complete this in one day playing hypers
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Originally Posted by 99PROBLEMSS
great thread and good luck
TY
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Originally Posted by royalhd
Wow. This thread very, very much resonates with me. Except that I already have the day job but I hate it, and am thinking and daydreaming hard about giving (mtt) poker one last shot. Same age as you so that pressure starting to count as well If not for myself then for my girlfriend.
I do miss the poker days back then, feeling like a boss (have to admit now I was very mediocre at best). I'm afraid I'm just hanging on to something like a degen or trying to chase a feeling that I can't seem to find anywhere else, but I have to know for sure. But to mix in mtts with my job would be close to impossible.
One question : what Sims are you running exactly?
Very best of luck to you. I'm very happy to have found this thread at this time. Go push yourself!
Yeah I don't think it's worth it to be honest, poker is starting to be a bit of a pipedream for all but the best of us (most likely myself included in the pipedream category), and it takes its toll on your life/health/sanity so it's really just not worth it unless you're doing well. And I kinda feel like if it was going to happen it would've happened already (again including myself here as well) -- it's better to just look forward and stop second-guessing your decisions. I find it incredibly unlikely that quitting poker to get a job can be a bad idea for 99,999% of people. But I know that's much easier to say when it's not about your own life. I still think I'm reasonably likely to call it quits too even if I win the bet. Just can't deal with this **** anymore
I'm studying 1 hour of HRC every day, 1 hr of Pio every day, now switching to more Pio and less HRC since I feel pretty competent at short stacks now after 2 weeks of super intense HRC grinding. I still run all the interesting spots tho that I encounter. Watching a couple of hours of vids per day too but admittedly that's sort of just pseudo-studying at this point as I don't have time or energy to really really focus on videos too most of the time after already having played 12 hours+running sims 2-3 hours on top of that.
tl;dr this prop bet sucks. Sorry if that ramble made no sense, I'm so tired I can't check for spelling errors. Also I did a parttimepoker podcast where I talked about this bet and the WSOP me bubble spew hand from this year, I think it's up somewhere now