I’m not sure wtf that sickness thing was all about. It seemed to just be a quick 12hr bug thing, and I felt fine when I woke up. Thank goodness, because this is not the week I would want to be sick. I have the megawall today (the wall = 3 students back to back to back, the megawall = 4 students all lined up back to back), and being sick for megawalls is the worst experience ever, lol. I only had two students today, got my errands done, and then took addy and worked right though, which was necessary.
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I got some more writing done, which felt good. I also decided I was going to start making some little tools that people can use. Not sure if I will give them away for free (maybe one or two as a teaser =) ), but I wanted to create some visual tools that automatically show you the $ev of a play with some basic information. In making these, besides strengthening my dynamic stat skills, I am seeing some extra spots in my game I can tweak. Mostly in the betsizing department, but that is also because I am doing more thought on elastic v inelastic ranges. I always knew my years of econ in college would come to be useful!
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Also spent like 2hrs today with my proteges going over one of their DBs. I had one protege do the entire analysis, and it went awesomely. You just learn so much doing these DB analyses, everything from correlation to standard leaks to line evaluation. It’s amazing how much I learn from every single DB I go through, regardless of style or sample size. And speaking of the proteges, they all seem to be on the right track. Everyone is doing the upwards green line which is all anyone can ask for. I am so excited to see where they are at in even 3 months.
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Past that, nothing really of note. I have just been cranking writing whenever I can focus. Though a lot of it has been detail patching, reread, patch, rinse/repeat. I am very proud of everything I have done so far, especially with the pace and structuring. So hopefully all works out with it. I need to get to sleep and crash for a few hours before it is time for work. I will leave you with a video I found from the chat thread today…siiiiiiiiiick individual for sure.
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Not totally sure why. I had some hawaiian food for lunch and have been feeling shitty ever since. I hope it’s not food poisoning again…I can’t handle more of that nonsense. Body is pretty achy so I laid down and watched a movie (“Nick and Nora’s Infinite Playlist”) to relax, and sadly I’m not feeling much better. So I just wanted to write a quick blog post so I didn’t go a ton of days without an update.
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Things are going pretty damn well. Ended up doing 12hrs of coaching this week, and have another 9 already lined up for next week. Besides that I have been hustling to get more and more writing done. I am about 20 pages (single spaced + no images) through right now. I went on a huge bender the other day of writing (or trying to) and ended up spending 3hrs creating spreadsheets, creating $ev equations, and all the other things that nerds do. It’s amazing what all of this writing is doing for my overall understanding of certain things I have never considered before in detail. And this…this is why I love teaching =)
Also went out the other day to buy a new computer chair due to all the writing. My wrists were starting to kill because my desk is an awkward height, and I was using a folding chair which was a pinch too short. Got a nice $100 chair but the dumbasses put two left arms in the box so I have to spend the next hour driving around and calling to get it switched out. *sigh*. Finally got all set up and am now loving it. Which reminds me…I cannot wait to get a full office set up (going to wait till I am staying in a location for more than 6months)…It will be the best tax write off ever.
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Everything else has been sauce. Got out the last few days to throw the discs and I finally started scoring better (wind was slighter). Did a 59 the other day, a 63 today, and am starting to get a stronger shortgame. I am feeling really restless and cannot wait to get back east. I am probably going to go out at some point next month and just relax for a little bit. I have a reunion of college friends around that time, and might just spend a week or so out there as well. I am blessed that I can work from anywhere, and I just need a scenery change. O well, it happens. Hopefully all is well guys…I’m off to sleep and hopefully not wake up to puking.
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This is always my issue with having ADD. Having deadlines and structure is supposed to be the nuts for ADD kids. We desire structure and clear goals to strive for. However, deadlines seem to be the death of me. I have been writing, or at least trying to, a ton the last few days. Of the 16 hours spent in front of my word files, I have been productive for maybe 4 of them. Maybe it is because I haven’t had a hardcore deadline in quite some time that I have forgotten how to deal with them…but it’s tweaking me out. I need to figure out a way to work through this, lol.
And because of that, I am going back to the doc tomorrow to get another bottle of ADD killer. Fingers crossed I can find some days in the next week or so to take it (I won’t take it past 3p because I cannot sleep if I do). I am pretty proud of myself regardless though. So far I have almost a third of my writing started. Albeit, I have written a lot of this stuff before (for various projects), so a lot of this is detailing, patching, and structuring. I am happy with my work thus far, I just wish my time was spent with less “floating” and had more focusing.
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So enough bitching from me, everything has been pretty good this week. Have been getting out every single day to toss the discs. Sadly, this is the worst time of year in Vegas with regards to wind (change of the seasons = more wind) and it has been hellish playing lately. On Monday I tossed my driver into a backyard in a gated community…tax write off =) Ended up playing the rest of the course out with a putter, which was total LOLs. It cracked me up that I actually played fairly well with it, but still hilarious. Ended up tossing a 78 the other day, a 72, and today I was on pace for a 67 but had to leave early for a session. Also ended up tossing my new driver into a backyard today, but decided to jump the fence and grab it back (I did NOT want to have to get yet another disc this week, lol). Damn wind.
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In case you have not seen this thread, I started a thread on 2p2 about winrates. It turned into a cool thread full of discussion of live v online, WR expectations, and a little bit of stylistic difference. Now, if you listened to my last podcast you know where I stand on all of this, but it’s still cool to see how certain people view the variance in the game among other things. I also wanted to centralize the winrate stuff as I was tired of deleting new threads called “what can I expect for a winrate at 8NL playing 4.5 tables in a thunderstorm?”. I epitomize the “if something bothers you then change it” mindset, lol.
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Alright, that is enough rambling from me tonight. Just wanted to get something written (and this made for a perfect distraction from writing other things =) ). Hope all is well
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We are officially 1/6th through 2010, and I will say that I am liking 2010 quite a bit. Things are going very well thus far on just about every front. I have been extremely busy the last week (14hrs of coaching, 6hrs of video creation/editing, 4hrs of organizing/writing, etc)…and this week looks to be about the same. I have 11hrs of coaching scheduled already, and want to get a head start on a project (I might be writing a book finally!)…so I will be hustling quite a bit. I have also been playing more disc golf, although the last few days have been teeeeeeeeeerrible with the wind, and near impossible to play a solid round. O well…it gets me out of the house and has been helping me sleep easier, so no complaints at all!
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I was hoping to have my protege program a little further along the road by this point as well, but I will blame myself. Everything so far has pretty much been a wash, and I am writing off the last month or so as an “education period.” I will say this is a very special experience. I am torn as a teacher in a few ways. First, I know I should heavily front load the coaching work. It is stupid for me to let them develop bad habits, and stupid for me to let them struggle when I am more than equipped to get them on the right track. But, by the same token, they need to struggle to grow. They need to go through hell to come out stronger. I did it, my friends did it, every successful poker player has done it. While I cannot, and will not, become permanent training wheels for anyone (student, friend, or protege), I think I need to improve in this area.
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The tough thing about this kind of program is that you can only teach so much at any given time. Poker is an amazingly complex game. It forces you to become proficient at everything from logical reasoning, math, stat inference, mental control, fiscal responsibility, and plenty of other things. Sometimes it feels like you patch one aspect of a game, then another starts leaking, and before you know it…confidence is fading and then you have a mental leak to patch as well. While I preach, and mean, that winrates don’t mean anything, and that they should focus on improvement and not focus on money…it can be taxing on me. I want to make sure that they make solid amounts of money, not only because I get a % of that, but because it betters their lives now and in the future. And of course they want to make money as well, so it can be taxing on them. It is just a tough balancing act for me as a coach, although it is progressing me as much as it is progressing them =)
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Sorry to ramble about that, it is just something I had on my mind. I know I’ve said this before, but this blog really acts as my journal and work recorder at the same time, lol. So hopefully it doesn’t bore the absolute hell out of you. Cheers to a new month, a fresh slate, and progression!
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Holy Jesus this week went by quickly. I am shocked the week is almost over, and the year, is almost 1/6th over. Damn time flies. Hopefully those of you that listened to my last podcast enjoyed it. In case you didn’t check the post below this one. I talked about my opinions on the current game and also the different styles with respect to variance, possible WR, etc. It’s only 28minutes, and there is a DL link as well.
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So I mentioned previously that my awesome idea video was a bust. I have officially tweaked it in every possible way I can think of it just will not work. I would estimate I have spent about 35hrs total (I have literally recreated the back-end of it 4 separate times)…and I vow to waste no more time with it. I might try again later if I can get a copy of Captivate or something, but as of now, the project is on pause. I decided to record a 1/2hr session at 50NL RUSH and I think it came out really well. Lots of cool spots to talk about, and I only ran 17/15 3B: 11% Sqz: 15%, which felt fairly tight tbh, lol. The video came out to 72minutes after I paused the video a ton and talked through some of the spots in detail, so hopefully it gets received well.
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Ended up getting a spurt of motivation today to do a video (I have 2 videos coming out in March). Noidea555 was nice enough to let me use his DB, and we ran through it for about 45minutes. We pretty much reviewed how to find leaks, where to drill down if need be, and also went into some detail in the position tab to pinpoint some leaks that were hard to see in the general tab. I’m not sure how I feel about the video yet, and I might decide to redo the audio as I mispoke a few times, which puts me on lifetilt. So we’ll see…I’ll give it a watch through tomorrow and see how I like the “finished” product.
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Also went out today and played some disc golf. I have been coaching like a fiend this week (I’ve done 10 coaching hours and still have 4 left)…and needed the break away from the computer. Finally went out and got myself some new championship discs. It was the first time using a putt/approach disc, and I must say, I think it will change my game. It gives me more flexibility from 20-45ft, which should help be ping a few extra birdies per round. But sadly it was windy as all hell today, which made playing insanely hard. O well, still fun and necessary.
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That is going to be it from me. I am going to crash out and get some sleep before waking up early (10a, lol). Hope all is well!
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It seemed that people enjoyed the last podcast, so I figured I would make another one. This one answers some of Anthony’s questions from the first podcast’s comments. I talked about the differences between FR and 6max, and also which game is best from a WR v hourly standpoint. I also talked about my views on play styles from a WR, variance, and also growth perspective. Hopefully you enjoy it!
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Click to listen to this podcast now (might take a few seconds to load up)
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Click to download this podcast
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So the video is apparently not going to happen. I cannot figure out why, all I know is that Camtasia wants it to fail, and thus it fails. I need to find someway to do it, and will, but now need to crank out a very quick video and I have nothing written. On top of that I have about a million coaching hours this week, minimal time, and now a bunch of stress that I did not want. Sorry to the complaining, but figured I would share.
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Technology is great…but when it randomly bugs itself, it can make you want to set fire to everything.
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A video (of the song I will listen to for the next 10hrs while I make a new video) to make up for this stupid post:
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Sorry for the lack of updates this week. I did the podcast on Tuesday or w/e and totally got sidetracked all week. Ended up having a super busy coaching week, and after tomorrow I think I will have reached 14hrs or so (before I factor in protege time)….so it has been a lot of work. Also spent an insane amount of time with this video. Oddly enough, it is only a 20minute video (if you watched it front to back, but the actual time spent on the video for most people will be like 12minutes)…but it probably took me about 16hrs to make.
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It took me forever to figure out the full backend of the video. And then when I tried to add a custom intro to it, that effed everything up and I had a totally busted video. After an addy and about 40 minutes of lifetilt I just scrapped the intro and everything worked again. *sigh* So even though this video took forever to make, a lot of the time was spent learning how to make it, what works v doesn’t, etc. My future videos will benefit greatly from this, lol.
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The rest of the week was spent relaxing in between the back end work. Played disc golf on Thursday (only got a 63, boo that noise) though realized my putting was pretty trashy…so I have some work to do. Finally got my oil changed (I thought it had only been like 4mo since I got it done last, turns out it has been around 8, oops), and also this damn parking sticker off my car (again, another 9mo thing). And went down to the strip today to meet up with Mpimp and have lunch. Good time, very relaxing, and always nice to see how a poker player balances wife/kid/job…
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Alright, that is enough for me. I need to go prep a session and then take a long nap (only got 4hrs of sleep last night)…Hope all is well guys!
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This is my first podcast. I just talk about who I am, how I got into poker, and other such things. No real strategy, just an introduction to myself. If you have any ideas on things you’d like to see in future podcasts, fire away =) Enjoy!
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The last few days have been really solid. Got lots of work accomplished and actually got to relax a little bit, which was nice. Sadly, as tired as I was on Friday when I wrote my last blog post I couldn’t fall asleep to save my life. So instead of getting a nice sleep, I rolled around for 4hrs trying to force myself to sleep. Same thing happened last night as well. And I hope that it doesn’t happen tonight. I went to gym earlier in hopes of making sure I sleep well being I have a student at 10a, and I haven’t had to wake up that early in a little while, lol.
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Spent a lot of Saturday coaching. Had 2 students and then spent some hours discussing coaching with my group and also prospective students. After that I had to take a lot of the day off due to my computer being super slow. I was uploading my Stox video, producing my Tank session, and those each are fairly intensive. So did some light scripting for my new video and then bummed around eatting and play H3 for most of the night. No complaints at all tbh.
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Today I decided to cancel my Tank. I didn’t have enough people lined up for it (which I blame my donk self for choosing a stupid day to do it, lol), so I slept in and woke up for a student at 4p. After that got more scripting done (a little over 1/2 done, all hands created, and images all created). This video should be siiiiiiiiiick if it all goes to plan. It is actually pretty damn hard to make on the backend given the details involved, but if done correctly, it will be awesome. So hopefully I can finish that up early this week so I can focus on getting my own product off the ground which has been on hold since doing all these Stox videos.
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Well that is enough from me. I am going to crash out. Hopefully you had a solid Vday, and enjoy the song I’ve been listening to none stop:
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