It has been a short time since my last blog post but I have played alot and Iam highly motivated.
Why am I already updating? I think such a blog is a very nice opportunity to do alot of self reflection on yourself and your play, while even may getting some helpful comments from more experienced users. Objective self reflection and learning from mistakes is the key to success.
I definetly have to do an analysis about my game play and have to reflect it objectively.
After my last blog post, I went to a little downswing, but recovered very nicely after thinking again about my play!
After going to a new bankroll peak, I went on a huge downswing again and yet it looks like I did not fully recover from it eventhough the last 12k hands have been kinda akward (my all-in EV basically stayed above $30 and was at some points even peaking at $40 but my net winnings have gone down): I was running alot of 2nd nuts into 1st nuts situation where you could not do soo much about it. Anyway, Iam not here to cry about this! Its normal and it happens in poker everyday somewhere.
I know I can play "solid" (compared to the standart NL2 level) and win on that stake if I play correctly, but at some points I always seem to forget how to play my "A-game" and mess it up with my old loosing style. I take some bad beats, mix in some bad plays etc. Think everybody has been there.
When I remind myself on what do to better I almost asap do better. That's why I want to write down and think about what I'am still doing wrong (of course there will be alot of things that I do wrong), so that I can go back and read it and might even get some comments (as stated above) about it, which could help immensely.
Played FR and 6m mixed so lets go with some Stats and review them:
- My FR VPIP might be a little bit too high but should not be completely off. Maybe the VPIP/PFR ratio is also a little bit too small.
- I should fold more to 3bets! 50% seems too low!!
- My old problem is still there (ofc I included all my hands: the newer sessions look in general better in that way): WTSD too high and especially W$SD way too low!
- My W$WSF seems very, very high or?? I should probably give up way more flops than I actually do.
- I should CBet less!
- I steal a little bit too often and fold to less against steals!
Positional view seems okayish imo. The only thing I find a bit "strange" is that I have way more hands EP than on CO/BTN. I mean having more than CO/BTN is okay but not soo much more or?
Eventhough I open BTN 3x more. But as one can see on the VPIP/PFR: I often fold the BTN if it has been raised before me. I guess this is a leak?!
Also my CO opening can be a little wider.
Also here the significane drops quite hard but am I overrating hands like AQo, KJs, KJo ? Looks a bit like I do. Especially AQo!!
I guess thats mostly because I often call 3b with AQo. I should stop doing that!
If anyone has additional thought or comments to it, they are well appreciated!
DFS and Live Hourly Winrate?by Gadget, February 12
What's up guys. I had my first big setback in DFS this weekend. I went to visit my girlfriend and was doing DFS on my laptop on Saturday night and I forgot to switch out my dummy lineup for my real lineup. Absolute disaster. I had about 15% of my BR in play, or $1200. I guess it was a $1200 lesson. I now have an alarm set for 6:55pm every night so I never make this mistake again. The good news is that I have had something like 12 winning days in my last 14 including the dummy roster disaster. I feel very good about my edge, and am growing more and more confident in my ability to make money playing DFS. I have settled on 15% being the number I want to stick with as far as amount of my BR in play. I will definitely take some shots with a higher %, but for the most part I will stick with 15%. I'm going to just give my top 4 plays at each position based on Fanduel prices from now on. They are listed in order, so the 1st guy listed I consider to be the best play. Here it goes:
PG:
Jennings(8500)
Paul(8200)
Knight(6600)
Calathes(5100)
*Still looking at San Antonio Guards
*I Like Rondo a bit too with Bradley out
I also have a question about what I can expect as an hourly winrate for live $1/$2. I have mine calculated so far and I'm up $1270 in 33 hours. That gives me a winrate of about $38 per hour. I feel like I'm running well below expectations so far, but my winrate seems to be around what I would expect. Does anyone have any good data for this?
I'm planning on playing $1/$2 until I have 10k in profits and then I will move up to $2/$5. Any and all tips for building a live BR would be much appreciated. Thanks.
I'm sitting at a live 9max table. All unknowns except for two players: to my right is Marc-Etienne McLaughlin (WSOP 2013), who seemed like a decent player. To my left is an older guy with glasses whom I've played with at 1/2 live. Pretty loose, sometimes misreads his hands. Not sure what stakes, but it seemed like mid-high.
It's folded around to McLaughlin, who raises standard. He'd been raising a lot from late positions. I'm on button and look down at KdKh, and make a smallish raise, a bit under 3x. Older guy calls in SB, and McLaughlin sighs and says something like "you've got the best hand" but calls anyway. Two unknowns who were apparently sitting between me and McLaughlin call. I'm confused and panicking a bit because I didn't realize they were there, not to mention in the hand. I'd have raised a lot more. Oh well, to the flop.
Flop is AsQc7c, 5 way. Checked around to me. I decide to bet about 40% pot for value/protection. Older guy calls, McLaughlin makes a comment about my sizing and calls. The two unknowns fold.
Turn is Ks, 3 way. I don't remember what I did, but it didn't seem important at the time. Let's say I checked.
River is Ah, 3 way. Older guy goes allin for around pot, McLaughlin thinks for a bit and calls. I shove for about a minraise, and McLaughlin calls. Older guy shows AJo, McLaughlin shows KdKh. Wait, isn't that my hand? I flip over my cards and see that I had A8o. What the hell?
The next hand begins. As I'm trying to explain what happened, I hear a knock on my door and my great-aunt telling me it's 2PM and I should get up. Sick beat.
Black chip poker checksby squishypoopie, February 10
Does anyone here from US play on black chip poker? I requested a check payout on 1/20 and it is 2/10, but still no check. anyone in us ever request a check and been paid?
Buying action in cash gamesby AndrewSong, February 10
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Played some random live tournaments and had Longple over for a day or two last week. For some reason he is kind of a celebrity in the local casino, to the point that it was kind of funny.
Also talked a bit to MangeJao and SammeJao who I think posts/posted here a while back. Had a lot of fun but ended up busting quite early in the big on and only min cash in some smallish PLO-tournament.
Did play a bunch of weird hands though.
Blinds 250/500k, 50 ante. I minraise UTG 9 handed with QTo, friendly local young guy min3bets me on the button. I don't think he's a pro poker player, but he has some idea about how to play even though he makes a lot of live-weirdo-plays like limping UTG with a wideish range etc. I call his 3bet, and we have about 30k effective behind. I've been running over the table a bit and have a big stack.
Flop comes 9d8d3x and I c/c a little more then half pot, I have no diamnod. Turn is a offsuit king and it goes check/check. River is a offsuit 6 that completes a weird straight or two, I bet 12k into ~ 4.5k hoping that he folds range.
Blinds probably like 0.5/1k or a little bit less, I have ~65k and raise UTG with JJ, loose/passive calling station who looks like a out-of-shape Josh Barnett calls, young guy 3bets with maybe a 30k stack from mid pos, I call and Josh calls. Josh has been looking a lot at me and I've been asking him if he looks at me "already" because he wants to play a big pot. Flop 662r, checks around, turn 8c that brings a club flush draw. I bet 8k into ~12k wanting to get Josh along and fold out whatever random high cards the kid has. Turn 2c. I'm to drunk to notice the flush, I try to valuebet 15k into a little less then 30 on 622c8c6c. Josh tanks, talks a bit weird about how I can't have 2x and calls with a KcQc.
Also did a bunch of weird "must bluff"-bluffs and random "standardish" herocalls that was somewhat fun but not enough so that I wanted to post then.
Then I got TT in vs the A9o of some aggro norweigian guy 2 hours later and lost to A9 and later busted my last 8bb with K2ss from CO vs AJ on the B. Promtly ended up playing some live PLO and loose a 1000bb pot first thing I do and then I fold for 30 min and the casino closed lol.
In the PLO donkament the day before I played like crap. With a biggish stack like 8 from the money I raise/called a 3bet UTG oop vs "Mangejao" with KQhhQ9. I assumed the guy was out to get me but probably wanted to have a decent hand to do it. Flop KJTdd, I c/c flop, turn blank and I c/c again thinking that I'll call anything but a diamond hoping that the uses his AA blockers a lot. Turn 3d and he ships, I fold and he shows AdAx8x8x for all the blockers in the world. I think it's probably a call given some sizeing issues but w/e.
I also managed to get it in with ~8 outs for my tournament life 2 times and suck out both just before the bubble.
Was fun hanging out with Longple, had some fun at the poker tables and overall it was a fairly decent week. Mr Longple is a nice guy to hang out with. Also noticed that they probably don't do the safe warm up in Umeå as in other places when it comes to BJJ. Never seen a guy who done more then 6 months of that go for overhooks when he hugs.
So I went to Vegas as planned, first two days I played 200NL at MGM and I won $700, so I decided to walk to the Wynn to get higher action and somehow I ended up @Aria playing 1/3, table was tough, full of regs only 1 fish at the table, everyone was pretty deep so I bought 300, lot of PF action 3bets 4bets, not what I'm used to at 200NL lol, I didn't want to play scared money so I just went there and try to play my game which didn't result well, I got caught bluffing (I still think was a good bluff, reg tanked for about 4 mins and made a cry call with babyflush on a paired board) then I lost another buyin I got it allin on the turn with ases up on a 3bet pot (A7 on A754 board, A8 made the call, 6 on the river, gg) so I dropped 2 buyins and I ended up almost even lol, I usually dont drink while play but @Vegas I just couldn't help it so I dont know if it affected my game but meh, I fell in love with Stella Artois lol, so I just got a 24. + Show Spoiler +
http://i.imgur.com/a9uPGQF.jpg
I just came back from Tucson where I usually play and did well, after 250 hours I finally got a high hand, I made a straight flush with 6c4c which got me an extra $200 :D
200NL + Show Spoiler +
My goal for this year (September 2013-2014) is to hit $215,000mxn = 16.5Kusd so I'm in good pace to reach it since I'm planning to do one more visit in February to Tucson.
Thanks for reading, GL all.
Refreshing Thursday off (not) and I'm back to the daily fantasy grind. Wednesday was an interesting night. I did well, think I had an ROI of about 55-60%. I learned a couple of things as well. My DWade pick did not pan out like I hoped, but Griff dropped a bomb on MIA. Also, a couple of games that looked like they were going to blowouts ended up being close and that worked out for me. I was nowhere near some of the biggest totals of the night, but I still felt good after looking at those lineups because my projections underperformed while theirs massively overperformed (fuck you jeff green). Basically, it wasn't something I could have accurately predicted given my current analytical style so I'm glad to come out with a solid profit on a night like that.
There were some Thur+Fri leagues available, but I skipped cuz Thur's 2 games looked like a DFSer's nightmare. TOnight's a big night though. Gonna keep it quick and dirty:
Guards:
Think Wall is a great pick tonight. Cleveland sucks vs PGs and he's been on a tear. Only fear is that Kyrie is a gametime decision. If he doesn't play, it could turn into a blowout.
On the subject of WAS v CLE, I fit Jarrett Jack into most of my lineups tonight. He's already starting at SG tonight and if Kyrie is sick/out, then his value jumps. WAS has some solid options as well: I expect both John Wall and Brad Beal to have good-to-amazing nights.
Rondo is officially out for tonight. I read on ESPN that Bradley's ankle is iffy and makes him a GTD so I considered fitting Pressey or Bayless in as a cheap PG option. Probably will go with Pressey if I do this since he seems to be getting minutes priority over Bayless (though I think Bayless is the better player overall).
Terrence Ross and DeMar DeRozan are good SG options. I think I prefer Ross for the price and the fact that he dropped 51 pts on the Clips last time they clashed.
Jamal Crawford is another option for me as I think he will carry more offensive responsibility tonight against a Toronto defense that stifles PFs.
Forwards:
Lots of juicy pickups at the SF position in the LAL v PHI game. RKelly, WJohnson, ETurner are a few of my favorites. I fully expect those two teams to unleash the frustrations of their respectively shitty seasons on each other. It helps that each team's defense is about as protective as a see-through negligee.
KD's price tag is still too high for my taste, though I think he drops another 50+ FPs here against Orlando.
Many viable PFs on the menu tonight, though not necessarily the expensive ones. I'm probably getting at least one stud for this slot and another for PG, then filling up the rest with midtier value picks. Melo looks good against a Denver defense that has suffered against PFs all season. Blake has proven himself essentially matchup proof in my eyes, but still I think there are better spots to draft him. LaMarcus against the Indiana interior is something I will look forward to watching on TV but not on my DFS site screen. I am stacking KLove and Davis together in one of my cash lineups. I think they will go to town on each other without really stopping each other in what should be a close game. Nene and TYoung are very reasonably priced and I have them in most of my lineups.
I won't be paying up for centers tonight and will be settling for Hawes and Sacre to fill up my lineups with maybe Varejao or Drummond thrown into 1 or 2 lineups here and there. I expect both Sacre and Hawes to make value and that's good enough for me.
Trying to sublet my apartmentby MARSHALL28, February 07
Figured I might as well put this up here too just in case...
I'm trying to sublet my current apartment. Not that there's anything wrong with this one, it's actually super nice. I just found one that's not so expensive yet still fits all my needs.
Even if you wanted to just stay for a month or two that would be cool, I just desperately need to get someone in here because rent is very high. Rent is $2900. Here's some pictures and the ad:
The landlord is also a great guy who is understanding and always willing to help to make sure you are happy in your rental so I very much regret the fact that I must move. Once you get here, you'll probably never want to leave.
Hey guys, I've been grinding live poker and DFS(Daily Fantasy Sports) for the past 2 weeks just about non stop. I'm tossing around the idea of living cheaply off of these 2 sources of income. I wouldn't make that decision until the start of NFL next year because I only play NFL and NBA DFS, but I'm wondering how some of you guys have made the transition to living off of poker. Here is my current situation:
I'm a computer engineer. I graduated college last year and have been working for about 7 months at my first job out of college. I make 75k a year, ~6k a month, and have expenses of about 2k per month, which I would try to reduce to around 1500 if I ever went through with this. Keep in mind that I could probably find another job fairly easily if I needed to.
Ideally about 80% of my income would come from DFS and 20% from poker. I have a DFS bankroll of 8k and a poker bankroll of 4k, I also have 13k in savings and 7k in retirement accounts.
So by the time next September rolls around I would have maybe 20k for DFS and 8k for live poker. I would be playing mostly $200nl live, with some smaller tournaments mixed in. In 4 months of DFS so far I have a 4000% return on my initial investment. That is with no large scores or anything, just grinding daily h2h games. I have quite a large edge, my only concern is that when I start relying on the money, I may have some sort of big downswing. I'm not sure how to calculate my risk or ruin or anything, maybe someone could help me with that? It seems quite low to me, because my biggest downswing to date has been about 15-20% of my BR.
I know the general advice seems to be "finish school", and "don't quit your job", but I think my situation is unique since I have a pretty decent amount of savings, no debt, and a degree in a field that is fairly easy to find work in. Let me know what you think guys.
I'm really bad at writing and I probably left out a ton of details, let me know if anything needs clarifying.
It's going, going, goingby GameOverNoob, February 06
Is it out the park, will I get the job? I'll soon see.
Business has changed so much since the inception of zee internet that i have more knowledge of marketing then many of the people interviewing me. And it shined through like a strobe light. And on top of that, the guy running the business was cool. Instead of getting paid to just stand on my feet and show people where shit is, like most people in retail do, i'll be maintaining a website, rampaging through social media, staging products, and creating marketing initiatives. Right up my alley.
This makes up for the pot I lost last night when I was all in with KhKd vs Qs10s on a Qh9h5h flop!
Was gonna wait for Gadget's blogpost, but I figured I'd just go ahead and start. Seems like there's a growing interest in DFS here on LP so hopefully some of you find my thoughts on tonight's games useful. I'm pretty newb myself so please feel free to jump in if you disagree or want to discuss something further.
Wednesdays are huge nights for Daily NBA Fantasy. 12 games on schedule for tonight with a lot of minefields, hot prospects, and value picks to be found.
On a night like this, having a dependable idea of lineups is huge. Lot of fantasy sites out there have lineup projections, but I like to cross-check these with official injury reports from the teams themselves (Twitter is often the best source for these). For example, the Lakers have had some huge roster turmoil over the past day with the 2 Steves coming back and Meeks getting injured last night (ARGHHHH MY GPPPPPPS). Also, just because a player back doesn't mean I will pick him. I don't like to pick players on their first night back because they are usually on a minutes restriction anyway.
Keep in mind I play primarily on Fanduel with some action on DK. FD values assists slightly less than
Lineups for the night:
Felton
Calathes
DeRozan
Wade
Batum
Wesley Johnson
Jared Sullinger
Carmelo
Varejao
Rondo
Calathes
DeRozan
Wade
Wesley Johnson
JR Smith
B. Bass
Blake Griffin
DeMarcus Cousins
General reasoning behind lineups:
There are some choice PG picks tonight. Lowry has proven himself a monster and he has a juicy matchup against Sacramento. Kyrie playing on home turf (+10 FP differential) against a discombobulated Lakers roster? Both are solid PG picks IMO.
HOWEVER, I chose to spend most of my money in other areas so I went for cheaper PGs who I believe have high upsides. I've avoided Rondo for a while as I usually do with recently returned players, but I decided tonight was the night to invest in him because 1) his price was still relatively cheap due to the market being scared, 2) he has just as high of an upside as more expensive PGs on the board (35-45 FPs), and 3) they have consistently played him for 27-30 minutes and he has passed the screening tests. With a day of rest and a 19P/6R/10A perf under his belt, he should kill it tonight. I wanted to save my money so I used Calathes as the discount 2nd PG. No chance of Conley coming back so Calathes should see a full complement of minutes against Calderon who is not known for defense.
SG was one area where I did not want to pinch pennies, mainly because the usual stable of midtier dependable SGs just weren't there tonight. Players like Meeks, Oladipo, Tyreke, Martin, who come in around 5-6k all had bad matchups or bad ceilings tonight. DeRozan was a nobrainer - Sac is notoriously shitty against guards and DeRozan's style is perfect against them. I went with Wade because he's had a full day of rest and when he plays, LBJ tends to hook him up. Also, check Heat's other game this year against LAC. Most importantly, both SGs here were significantly cheaper than the other S-class studs on schedule, but have similar high upside.
SFs were tough. You either emptied your pockets for Durant or LBJ (even Gay is expensive nowadays) or you tried to find value where you could. I dipped into the CLE-LAL matchup and chose Wesley Johnson for several reasons: 1) He is starting at SF tonight and there really is no one else to take that spot from him, 2) he filled up the scoreboard quite nicely last time against CLE, 2)CLE is 3rd worst in the league against SFs in the last 15 games (keep trying Deng). I considered Deng as an option here, but I thought WJ could provide similar value for cheaper. Also, in the event of a blowout, Deng will sit sooner than WJ. Batum and JR are just solid cashgame plays who should be able to make their value (esp Batum who had a great game against the Knicks last time and faces an easier matchup against Prigioni). JR I'm less sure about, but that's what you have to deal with when you avoid the studs at SF.
PF picks were straight-forward. One stud + one value combo. Blake should do well vs MIA, he's really their main scoring option, and MIA has always struggled with aggressive post guys. Same for Carmelo against Portland, he's going to be shooting the ball a lot, and he dropped like 37 on them last time so it was an easy bet for me. I think the more interesting picks at PF were my value picks. I was searching for the perfect forward from the BOS-PHI matchup and I settled on Jared Sullinger. PHI has no PFs I'd like to spend money on so I looked to Boston. Boston's front court is one of those annoying ones where everyone gets around 20-25 minutes per game in a vacuum and you kinda have to be able to pick out whoever's getting hot that week. JS is hot right now, he's won himself 30+ minutes over the past 2 games, and one of those games was against PHI where he dropped 24P/17R. Bass was the cheaper option b/c he is the current option over Humphries and I think he can scramble up a bottom-of-the-barrel double double tonight against PHI (~10/12), which is all he needs to make value.
Just want to go on record and say that I am a huge Boogie fan and because of this emotional weakness, I do tend to pick him when I can over equivalent candidates (obv not when I think he's weaker). Luckily for me, his price has gone down a bit on FD, what with fears over his ankle injury and such. I gave him space on his first game back and, well, you can check the stats. I think he has a great matchup tonight against Valanciunas. The spread is +/-1 and it's predicted to be a high-scoring game. As for Varejao, he should have a field day against the Lakers' Gasol-less interior. Good thing about Centers is that even if they are not the scoring option (Kyrie is in this case), they can easily make value through boards given the right matchup. This was the right matchup IMO.
So there you have my breakdown for tonight. I rarely follow the roto sites' "suggested plays" these days, except for some double-checking and such, so I realize my picks may be a little unconventional. I see a lot of Wall, Beal, Deng, Vucey and other people being touted about. I'm interested to see how this night goes b/c it's probably my most deviant lineup from the popular columns.
I know the games already started so my bad. Meant to post this sooner. Will try to do that next time if people want.
The Sniper Professional Poker Systemby The Dean, February 05
I would now like to announce a project that I have been working on for quite some time in connection with Poker Pro Europe and Online Poker Pro magazines that I currently write for. This is “Project Poker Pro” or in other words, a coaching program that is designed by me to try and bring as many players as possible into being winning poker players using the very same system that I use and have used for many years…….a system that I affectionately call “The Sniper”.
Hopefully some of the students will be so successful that they become fully fledged poker pros’ and the ones that do well will be featured in either of these two widespread and widely read poker magazines. There will be an initial sign-up fee and that is both for my time and for access to the Sniper program and course lessons. Also I am available 24/7 to answer questions on the course and also to provide back up for any poker related questions full stop.
This in my opinion makes the sign-up fee almost irrelevant as I wish that I would have had the advantage of working with a professional poker player years ago back in 2000-2002 instead of buying countless books and going down numerous blind alleys. So the initial sign up to come on board with Project Poker Pro gets you access to the program and being able to work with me, access to the 130k word Sniper documents which will give you the entire blueprint for no limit hold’em cash games including my unique FERN system.
Also the student gets 24/7 back up while all the time being coached to a level where I will then stake them when the correct stage is reached. The staking will go up to a maximum of $2000 for the players that show the most maturity and the most talent. However these two requirements are not just what I am looking for. I am looking for commitment and the desire to not only play poker but to immerse yourself within the game totally.
These are the types of players that I want to work with and we then enter a new phase where players are playing on my money and I get a percentage split of the winnings. So you can see that I have total confidence in my methods and system and I am prepared to put my money where my mouth is and who can argue with that? However I only have so much time in any one day and I work on my own and so I cannot take on loads of students at any one time.
So now can you see that I am looking for people to be committed into not just playing poker but also studying and wanting to better themselves as players? I also understand that many peoples’ lives simply do not allow for such things and so anyone that merely wants to purchase Sniper and the coaching but without wanting the commitment of the staking afterwards then I am cool with that.
It is a totally flexible operation but if I am going to tie up $2000 of my money in somebody then that somebody needs to be playing poker with that money and for at least 15 hours per week. That should be plain to understand but anyone that wants further details then simply e-mail me at deano1043@yahoo.co.ukdeano1043@yahoo.co.uk in the first instance to express an interest in either the Sniper professional poker system and or the combined system/coaching and staking on Project Poker Pro. Look forward to hearing from you.
Carl "The Dean" Sampson is a professional poker player at 888.com
1st 10K, Thank You Liquid Poker!by HungarianGOD, February 05
Greetings all,
I finally hit the 10k profits mark a couple of days ago in live play, so thought it was time to make a blog just saying 'thanks'.
I finished clearing a backing agreement (a friend was backing me 1/3) to play $2/5, and had won about 2k the month before this graph, so there's the 10K. This includes $20/session for transportation costs, so if that's added back I'm actually up an additional 1200 or so.
http://i.imgur.com/hMLra81.png
(Blue Line is session result, Orange is Cumulative Result, the dotted lines are trend lines)
Every data entry is a session, ranging from 4 to 12 hours (7 is probably my average)
I won't get too much into my background atm, as I doubt people really have an interest in that anyway. I've done a ton of study/work compared to how much I've played in the last 2 years, lots of theoretical stuff; as such my learning of the game has been quite irregular. There are many advanced concepts I'm comfortable with, but lots of holes in my knowledge and experience throughout. I've actually studied it harder after black-friday than before, and as such most of my studies have been tied to a GTO approach than an exploitative approach (because there was nobody for me to practice against to try to exploit).
Anyway, I just wanted to say thank you for all the help LP! There have been a lot of insightful posts and comments here from so many of you, it has helped my thinking and approach to learning the game immensely. I know some of my posts and questions are pretty noobish, so I appreciate you guys putting up with them. I would like to think I could add some interesting or insightful comments of my own every once in a while, though I feel that most of the active posters are better than me at 90% of the aspects of the game. Perhaps I can take a crack at giving help, and then when I say something retarded one of you guys who can actually play the game can come in and put me in my place.
Thanks again, and Cheers.
~Nathan
It's true. The man that basically say's nothing is aspiring to communicate with the masses. Will have to start blogging frantically until my fingers bleed.
Might as well start here.
Decided I was going to stop being a loser and waste anymore of my time, replace the job I left over a year ago, and start grinding. And by grinding I don't just mean poker.
1. Work. I used to think things were below me. My ego was in my way. I'm excited to take any retail sales job and work my ass off.
2. Poker. I'm stoked cause i know when I get out there, i'll crush it.
3. Buying gold. You've seen those bandit signs and commercials advertising "we buy gold!" Yeah, i'll be doing that too.
4. Real estate law class at the famous McGill university. Not as prestigious as you think, it's an individual class for like 20 hours a week. Allows me to learn about REI which i'm also turned on by.
5. Blogging. Not for the sake of generating income (tho it would be sweet if I could make 80k a year like Gary Veynerchuck says) but for everything else that having a pool of many people from your market allows you do do, like market research, which is why i'm doing it.
The job front has been kinda weak. The places I've applied to, while being pleasant and sounding interested, haven't followed up with me. Kind of tilted in that if I would have started looking anytime in the last 4 0 0 d a y s i'd be a much better and happier guy right now.
Holding back on poker until then. Haven't been perfect about it though. A friend offered to buy my action in one of his games. Played alright, and lost a 500bb pot with AA vs a gs+fd OTF. It was one of those games that you could limp raise AA 30x pre and get 4 callers. Karma, eh?
Played a TCOOP and got murckkked. Ridiculous shove by my opponent. PLO mtt short handed, i pot from SB with AA45ddhh vs his OTB limp with 13bb. He calls, and jams my pot bet with a gut shot and two overs. Lost to a backdoor two pair! Also just played an hour on 1 table PLOZOOM 10 won something silly like 300bb.
January was a very productive month. As far as hours go I managed to put in 140 hours over 20 sessions for an average session length of 7 hours. A bit under my 2013 average of 150 hours per month, but given the new baby and taking a couple extra days off here and there I'm satisfied with the work I put in.
As far as the net worth update goes, I'll put it this way:
Liabilities (debt) were reduced by 0.36%, while assets under management (bankroll/liquid cash + invested funds) increased in value by 30.05%.
Our expenses were high this month as we purchased some new furniture and paid our estimated taxes, but because of the high income, we still managed a savings rate of 77%.
I'm estimating that February's hours played will be much lower than January as my wife is returning to the work force, and I'll pretty much be a stay at home dad Mon-Wed for the forseeable future. I'll be working on an efficient schedule to get in as many hours as possible, but for now I think it'll pretty much be a clusterfuck with nothing really set in stone so I won't try to predict what my schedule will look like.
Goal Progress
Pay off auto loans of ~16k 8% complete
Put a dent in student loans of ~60k 0.8% paid off
Invest ~25-30k outside of any day-trading or sports betting ventures. 0% complete
Play a few less tournaments during the WSOP (and win one) n/a
If you're into grappling, you'll probably enjoy the videos that are released on BJJ Scout's YouTube page. The majority of the videos on the page are just BJJ videos, but it looks like the channel will start doing MMA breakdowns too.
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