How do you measure productivity as a poker player?by Joeingram1, March 05
I've been thinking about this so much these past couple months but I can't really come up with a good answer that makes me happy about it. The idea of what should we be doing to consider ourselves being productive as a poker player. I think for a long time in my early poker years, I measured this only by did I play alot of hours/hands today, hopefully I won some money. As time went on that started to shift over to have I been winning money which gradually turned into have I been playing well/winning money.
In the past couple months I've been having really great results playing but I feel like I have been not very productive. In the months before that I felt like I was being really productive in terms of putting in the hours but with not so good results. So if you are playing 8-10 hours/day and making a small amount or playing 1-3 hours a day and making a large amount, is one more productive than the other? The only thing that matters for results in poker is making money....I haven't been able to justify working on other things/doing absolutely nothing with my time just because I am having big winning months. I think I feel more happy with myself and feel a better sense of achievement if I struggle for 8-10 hours a day playing. You could then argue, well why don't you just play 8-10 hours a day if you are winning but that is a completely different argument which is much much easier in theory than actuality.
I think you can also take into account how much time you spend working with PPT (poker equity program), reviewing hand histories, watching poker videos, talking poker with friends to decide if you are being productive but the less hours I play in a day the less hours I will work on any of this.
I've been able to be extremely productive outside of poker which could be argued has actually helped me be more productive in a shorter time at poker. There are really so many hours in the day you can spend playing basketball, working out, cooking, doing yoga, practicing dance, playing guitar/piano, stretching. I'm pretty sure I still spend hours and hours a day browsing random things on the internet but I'm not sure I should have expectations on myself to be working on something every minute I am awake. Maybe some mindless browsing is good each day.
If I was a professional live poker player and was trying to figure all of this out I would get sad. For most live players that go to the casino 5-7 times a week for 6+ hours a day... I can't imagine they feel much productivity with any part of there life. Even trying to think about having to do this makes me feel a certain type of way. You could argue that comparing a live poker player profession to many other professions where you get a similar type of feeling and make less money would even be worse. I would agree
This whole idea of productivity is something I never really have given much thought to but I know there are plenty of other poker players out there who probably have and can answer this question much better than I can. Hopefully I'll be able to take away something from someone else out there that I can incorporate into my own mindset.
So it's 10 days out from fight night and I finally have a name of who I'll be facing, a Marcus Radtke. On to more interesting things though I found out that Spike Tv will be recording the event for a possible later air date. Once again SHIT JUST GOT REAL.
What a challenging month this was!
It was so tough that I forgot how to divide paragraphs, so let's use, you know it:boobs! *NOTE: Stuff in spoilers definitely NSFW*
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You know what they say - if you don't face challenges, you never improve.
Winter hit, it was real depressing im not used to this. I got a cold and troubles with my back came back, my tooth got infected and after the cold ended a nasty sinus infection came (EWWW)
that tilted my sleep regime, it was around 4am to 12 at one point. Had to stop weightlifting because it was making me worse in goals and didn't manage to come back to a new routine (have to do high reps low weight, flexibility and balance stuff - way more boring that standard bro stuff). My landlord kept working on the bathroom waking me up at 8am with a drill and had a really bad internet connection at the start of the month. Added to that was a couple -12BI sessions in the month, and a getting raped by super bad regs HU (I lost like 8BI to this -7bb/100 fishreg). And voila - challenging fun stuff was ready to be handled :D http://www.blogcdn.com/slideshows/ima...s/200/246/4/S2002464/original.gif?v=1
My mental game got so weak at one point I started throwing my mouse and broke it, punched a water bottle a few times and neighbors must have thought there's a retarded grizzly bear in the building as I was shouting in disbelief during a few sessions. So yeah the most challenging month so far pretty much.
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All things considered, I love how I handled it and it made me much stronger. Near the end of it when I knew I just cannot lose because withdrawal's coming I did everything to bounce back.
Power walks to nature during the morning, hot baths during the day, I listened to hours of hypnosis by Paul McKenna (positivity - good stuff before sleep), revisited the 7hour seminar by Zig Ziglar on how to stay motivated, came to trainings 40 minutes early to do warmup, stretching and my tai-chi/yoga routine, forced myself to sleep around 1AM even lying in bed for 30 minutes before I fell asleep, went to Sauna twice, started using tomighty to limit my sessions to 1 hour, used the rule that after every suckout stack off I have to close my eyes and do mindful breathing 1-10. http://www.blogcdn.com/slideshows/ima...s/200/246/0/S2002460/original.gif?v=1
I also set a day without poker - Every Monday after weekend push I set up a to-do list of chores and stuff I need to do, and during one Monday I booked 3 doctors, set up a new bank account did shopping for a week, dealt with my health isnsurance, cleaned my room did laundry etc. etc. so I can focus on grind for the rest of the week - something I will keep doing and definitely recommend.
This weekend I was still really on the edge, but especially morning walk and timing sessions with mindful breathing after every suckout made ma manage to drop 5BI in 500 hands and still come back on top without going crazy and managed 7.2hr grind: + Show Spoiler +
mostly micros, I made money at NL50 again but with the issues I had I rly wasnt fit to grind it a ton. http://www.blogcdn.com/slideshows/ima...s/200/246/6/S2002466/original.gif?v=1
I also learned quite a bit - worked on PF ranges vs good aggro regs using Janda's book, Pokerstrategy and watching vids (got access to rio, ivey poker cr dtb, pokerstrategy), discovered that equilab has the same feature as flopzilla (hand strenght distribution on boards for ranges) and started playing with that too. I'm still looking into the whole range control/balance/exploitive/practical application thing and think I have a good grasp of it but March will be all about actually putting in work in practice and breaking down ranges for postflop as well - I started it in February started putting a group together but when I started tilting and throwing my mouse I had to use all my powers to stabilize my mental game and counter the challenges being thrown at me and push my C instead of A game
http://thechive.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/1273833810349.gif?w=244&h=170 March
Tomorrow I go for a health check up for the first time in about 7 years with a list of stuff I need to deal with, will finally get new contact lenses (been wearing 1 month ones for a year now :D) and on 23rd I finally get to go to a dentist - I've been on painkillers for much of February because my tooth has an infected hole in it and hurts as hell. The spring is here so I am finally starting to like this country again. Floorball season ends next week so I will start focusing on physical fitness again as required for poker. Will need to take a hard look at floorball as doing gym stuff for it is less fun that popping bicep curls an pumping bench so im less likely to stick to it. http://thechive.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/1273605571206.gif?w=242&h=362
And as said already - from preflop I'll start looking at postflop and narrowing down ranges v ranges to know what I'm doing and why better. E.G. Gogol's nose video shows you how great it is to know your range how it looks like, amount of combinations in villain's range etc.
Equilab's really good in doing one tree and showing you what different ranges flop but CRev will be a must, just need to scramble moneyz for it and make sure Ill actually put in the work and it'll add to my ev. http://jack.unix.org.au/~brett/gif/boobs.gif
Am I great, or the greatest ever?by HungarianGOD, March 02
Started playing a bit online again so I could continue improving. Running pretty well, I'm pretty much playing like a god. Maybe with some hard work I could get my BB/100 up just a little higher, but my play is pretty much GTO so it can't improve too much. Here's some stats/graphs.
Here is one of the stronger hands I played. It might not look well played, but try not to be results oriented. You can be sure that it was pretty much perfect.
Note flop raise size; not a ton of money left to go in on the turn, but villain doesn't have to fold that often for the turn barrel to be profitable.
Seat 1: j_rogan_ex ($55.83)
Seat 2: HungarianGOD ($9.90)
HungarianGOD posts the small blind of $0.05
j_rogan_ex posts the big blind of $0.10
The button is in seat #2
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to HungarianGOD
HungarianGOD raises to $0.30
j_rogan_ex raises to $1.20
HungarianGOD calls $0.90
*** TURN ***
j_rogan_ex bets $0.10
HungarianGOD calls $0.01, and is all in
Uncalled bet of $0.09 returned to j_rogan_ex
*** RIVER ***
*** SHOW DOWN ***
j_rogan_ex shows (a Pair of Aces +QJ7)
HungarianGOD shows (High Card Ace +QJT7)
j_rogan_ex wins the pot ($19.31)
HungarianGOD adds 10 chips
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $19.8 | Rake $0.49
Board: [4c Qs Ad 6c 7d]
Seat 1: j_rogan_ex showed [Jh Ah] and won ($19.31)
Seat 2: HungarianGOD showed [Tc Js] and lost
Am I great, or the greatest ever?by HungarianGOD, March 02
Started playing a bit online again so I could continue improving. Running pretty well, I'm pretty much playing like a god. Maybe with some hard work I could get my BB/100 up just a little higher, but my play is pretty much GTO so it can't improve too much. Here's some stats/graphs.
Stake Game Hands Hands Won Won My C Won My C All-In Adj BB/100
$0.10NL Holdem 119 54 (45.38%) ($67.69)($67.69) ($47.52) -568.82
Here is one of the stronger hands I played. It might not look well played, but try not to be results oriented. You can be sure that it was pretty much perfect.
Note flop raise size; not a ton of money left to go in on the turn, but villain doesn't have to fold that often for the turn barrel to be profitable.
Seat 1: j_rogan_ex ($55.83)
Seat 2: HungarianGOD ($9.90)
HungarianGOD posts the small blind of $0.05
j_rogan_ex posts the big blind of $0.10
The button is in seat #2
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to HungarianGOD
HungarianGOD raises to $0.30
j_rogan_ex raises to $1.20
HungarianGOD calls $0.90
*** TURN ***
j_rogan_ex bets $0.10
HungarianGOD calls $0.01, and is all in
Uncalled bet of $0.09 returned to j_rogan_ex
*** RIVER ***
*** SHOW DOWN ***
j_rogan_ex shows (a Pair of Aces +QJ7)
HungarianGOD shows (High Card Ace +QJT7)
j_rogan_ex wins the pot ($19.31)
HungarianGOD adds 10 chips
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $19.8 | Rake $0.49
Board: [4c Qs Ad 6c 7d]
Seat 1: j_rogan_ex showed [Jh Ah] and won ($19.31)
Seat 2: HungarianGOD showed [Tc Js] and lost
Am I great, or the greatest ever?by HungarianGOD, March 02
Started playing a bit online again so I could continue improving. Running pretty well, I'm pretty much playing like a god. Maybe with some hard work I could get my BB/100 up just a little higher, but my play is pretty much GTO so it can't improve too much. Here's some stats/graphs.
Stake Game Hands Hands Won Won My C Won My C All-In Adj BB/100
$0.10NL Holdem 119 54 (45.38%) ($67.69)($67.69) ($47.52) -568.82
Here is one of the stronger hands I played. It might not look well played, but try not to be results oriented. You can be sure that it was pretty much perfect.
Note flop raise size; not a ton of money left to go in on the turn, but villain doesn't have to fold that often for the turn barrel to be profitable.
Seat 1: j_rogan_ex ($55.83)
Seat 2: HungarianGOD ($9.90)
HungarianGOD posts the small blind of $0.05
j_rogan_ex posts the big blind of $0.10
The button is in seat #2
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to HungarianGOD
HungarianGOD raises to $0.30
j_rogan_ex raises to $1.20
HungarianGOD calls $0.90
*** TURN ***
j_rogan_ex bets $0.10
HungarianGOD calls $0.01, and is all in
Uncalled bet of $0.09 returned to j_rogan_ex
*** RIVER ***
*** SHOW DOWN ***
j_rogan_ex shows (a Pair of Aces +QJ7)
HungarianGOD shows (High Card Ace +QJT7)
j_rogan_ex wins the pot ($19.31)
HungarianGOD adds 10 chips
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $19.8 | Rake $0.49
Board: [4c Qs Ad 6c 7d]
Seat 1: j_rogan_ex showed [Jh Ah] and won ($19.31)
Seat 2: HungarianGOD showed [Tc Js] and lost
With a new SSD, all the tweaks and PSQLSWTF adjustments, any medium+ size database will induce "not sure if this is 1996 or HM2 was programmed by fuckwads"
I have an MMA fight coming up on March 15th in Petaluma Ca. Anyways today I got a call from one of the organizers and he asked me what entrance music I wanted and I'm totally drawing a blank so if anyone got suggestions toss them my way, if you got a link to the youtube of it even better!
In the near future - vegas and deleware will be playing together compacted legally, with legal cashouts in either state borders. You will have to be in those states (altho you won't have to live there)
New Jersey (AC) will most likely join up....hopefully.
I'm sure bwin.partypoker/borgata will be wanting it.
This bill PASSED within 24 hours.
This is kinda sweet, I've been back a week and I've been telling ppl not to expect legal online poker for like 10 years (at least outside LV and NJ)
cmon baby lets hope this starts a good roll, theres been a lot of "news" lately, maybe this will push other states.
California also has 2 bills on the desk, they are looking to deal there first hand 1/1/2015. With 38 million people, they have not shown any interest in sharing player pools.
some info for those who want to know.
theres 3 main legal sites that will be open in LV and Delaware
Happy for you guys that were tied up on FTP too, hope all goes well.
DFS Statistical Model Up and Runningby Gadget, February 25
So I've been working on a statistical model for projecting fantasy points and I finally have it working to give me some basic numbers. I have a lot of stuff I still plan on adding, but for now it is using all the info I've been using by hand for the past few months. I don't want to give out all the specifics of it, but it takes the fantasy points per minute of each player and multiplies that by a number of factors based on the matchup that day. I manually input the number of minutes above/below the players season average of minutes I think they will play that day. This gives me the ability to account for injuries on a daily basis. The best part is it takes my ~2 hour research process daily down to about 15 minutes, giving me time to look at things a bit more in depth. Here are my top picks at each position for today with my projection:
I've decided to write up few things about bitcoins in each of the blogs. To monitor how it goes.
25/02/2013
bitcoin price on bitstamp: $483 crashed hard.
btce is currently down for some reason.
mtgox just died. alot of people lost money it seems.
a bit of turbulent times for bitcoin.
other crypptos getting more publicity because of improvements over bitcoin.
The absolute most tilt in live poker for me is how slow people act and fuck around. Just insta-throw your hand up when you get called. None of that, " I as bluffing/weak shit, just flip yours man so I can muck." No, fuck your cunt.
There should be a live poker movement: Be a man, show your hand
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