So I was going to barely play more poker for the summer... I had deposited 100$ since I had some spare money due to full time working. I played some 6$/11$ HU, but like less than 8 over the 4 days where I actually had money in my roll.
Saturday morning, after my night shift, I learnt I wouldn't get any more hours at work. Basically, it was an unofficial way of firing me.
Few hours later, I decided to play some more HU, ended down about 10$, but decided to enter the 11$ turbo 25k guaranteed, which i've won, my irl friend won, and that I FTed before also.
So yeah, I came pretty close to winning it, and got 1.3k, which lowered the financial pressure I just got that morning.
Now, I'm thinking of going back to full time poker for the summer, because I still have plans for school in september, but yeah I'm going to restart grinding for at least a week or 2 and see what happends.
May be I will find time to play more in June
May be I will play better than this month
May zerg is a nit
May onnaise is a godsend for the college student
May flowers aren't happening in Alberta
May is the month of the following graph: http://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/0da8bc4d6bdd0154c0057c670cadc90c.png
May you all be blessed with luck at the tables, and
May this June be filled with joy.
Science suggests that telling people about your goals increases your chance of success.*
So:
In June I'll be on the grind. Shooting for a monetary goal:+ Show Spoiler +
$10k
Its concrete, and it incentivies me correctly: I must play Tip-top poker AND high volume to win this much in the month.
Variance is going to make it unachievable in some 30% of possible month-outcomes. So I expect to fail about 30% of the time just based on randomness. But its still the best type of goal I can imagine; for example, with a number-of-hands goal it's easy to autopilot and play pretty bad. Winrate over a certain sample goal is also apt to be abused. Are there any other kind of goals are there that are measurable; time dependant?
Anyway, obviously I'm wanting to sling mad volume and fat stack benjies, for this I need to whip up incredible focus: focus that will keep me keen to play, and focus that will keep me always thinking of how to make the most EV+ play.
I like to make concrete plans, and avoid anything with the wishy-washy weakness of “just trying harder” The plan for now: 1
Record in google calendar what I have done during the day. A kind of brief diary, this will be in the back of my mind when I am procrastinating by refresting LP and checking the ROFL thread for updates only to find another text post. If I waste half an hour pissing around, then I'm going to have to write that down: this does have a real damping effect on procrastiniation - I've done it before when studying. Also, by avoiding planning out my day in unreasonable detail, I avoid stressing myself when things don't go to plan, and I keep the power of freedom, which leads to efficiency.
It's easy to see if I have been keeping to this: a quick look through google calender will let me know if I am achieving laying this foundation subgoal. 2
Another key to my person getting as much cash out of the virtual felt as possible is an NLP concept: Frame control. This isn't some wishful thinking 'the secret' self-deception (thats been secentifically proven counter-effective). Its just means that I will be using whatever phrases on post-it notes, durrr challenge videos, aejones podcasts, neitzsche chapters, or nolan-blog-archive fire jams that will boost me up into that gritty prize-fighting state. When I sit down at the table, I want to be there to crush that specific guy sitting across from me, using all the information flowing from the table and the best concepts I have to maximise my winning.
An example frame is something like "I just bench pressed the world". I'll keep it flexible so it doesn't stale out on me. This is not a great subgoal because its not measurable, it's just something I will have to record how well I feel I am doing in G-calender: at least there will be a little specifying there. 3
Another prong is to have some social pressure to motivate me, and also to keep my ideas from flying off into la-la land. For the first week: posting articles, cardrunner-video-notes, concepts, session reviews and whatever else will improve my skill and schema. First week shapening the saw, then reduce to a post per week. Total ten posts over the month.
This is a specific subgoal, only trouble is that it's hard to pin down a measure for quality, number of words just leads to waffle. I guess something that takes about 3 minutes for the reader to get through.
OK, enough waffle. I Promise shorter and sweeter next time LP.
"I do not exhort you to work but to battle! I do not exhort you to peace but to victory. may your work be a battle! may your peace be a victory!"
* "Self-Reinfoircement effects: an artifact of social setting?" journal of applied behaviour analysis, vol 18, 1985
Well may ended up being I think my best month so far in 180's. Unfortunately I didn't put in nearly enough volume as I would like.. Oh well though atleast I ran good for my lil volume. Going to vegas next month not sure how long ill be there. Probably going to be playing a few venetians and maybe a 1k wsop I dunno I'll see. Its up to my staker though :D
I'm having to work 12 hour days every day at the burger bar I've started, but I was running out of money so I pulled an all-nighter, just like that. yay!
Been mixing NL10 and NL25 and I can't beat NL10 anymore for some reason, down around 80$ over 6k hands. Im doing well in NL25 though, up 290$ in just over 15k hands. Didn't play much due to my thesis and shit, and dont think ill be playing much more next month.
June goals:
- rape my upcomming finals
- rape NL25
my half year:
+5700
- 600 on another site
= about 5k total
2010 goals:
1. become a winning 200nl reg -> on track
2. make average 2k per month (24k) -> not on track, but still achievable
3. be taking shots at 400nl by end of year -> on track
4. get to c+ on iccup -> cannot login to iccup anymore, might be ip banned even though i've never hacked -_- fml
Anyone here play at Foxwoods regularly? I play 1/2nl and 2/5nl there fairly often and will be playing the memorial day tournaments (one of my friends offered to stake me). Was just wondering who else was gonna be there. I know a ton of people there and we could smoke / chill / discuss poker. Lemme know!
Here's Kanye's first single off his new album. I don't think it's finished cuz he sounds like a prepubescent teen to me. What do you think?
I play on a 17" laptop, so I play with the tables overlapping. It's very annoying most of the time. What size monitor do I need to get to not have any overlap.
I was planning on just ordering a monitor w/ FPPs. Has anyone done this before? If so, how long does the monitor take to ship?
Read my last blog post + comments. I didn't know of the results of the fight at that time and therefore was incapable of spoilers for anyone. That I happened to pick 2/3 or 3/4 was just luck. Thought it was obvious from context of "my picks" that I was making picks late without knowledge of who had won.
edit: I guess it is hard to read into the fact that I didn't know the results and was making picks. Sorry bros. Must have been shocked when + Show Spoiler +
That's right time for the world series of bloggin'
I'm actually pretty ecstatic right now. This is my 3rd WSOP and my first event of the 3rd year...and I finally made my first dinner break of a preliminary event. So yeah, that's pretty awesome. Along with my first dinner break, i made it to day 2 of the same tourney (Event 3 $1k). I'm short though, 20k going into 500-1,000. They cut through like 90% of the day 1a starting field i think so who knows where we're gonna be after day 1b plays through. I'll let you know after monday.
Online poker has been meh. 3rd'd a low scoop for 10k which didn't break me even on the series by far...AND i didn't get another one of those shiny watches...
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