GTO Lifestyle
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GTO Lifestyle
Hi guys!
First journal here at RIO! Happy to finally have done it ahah
To introduce myself, I used to play micros in 2014/2015 but stopped due to external reasons. The best I got at the time was a few shots at 25NL.
Came back to poker a few weeks ago, started off with 5NL and quickly moved up to 25NL (running good) and now back to 10NL (running bad).
This is obviously due to my aggressive bankroll management of 15BIs to take a shot of 5BIs at the next level. The idea behind it that I believe I have an edge over the population, so want to get out of the micros asap. At least up to 25NL where the rake is less bad. Not sure what my strategy is to move up to 50NL. Time will tell.
Introductions done. Here's the graph!
Still running above EV as you can see. However, the EV line just show us a tiny bit of what variance is.
I can go into further detail on this on a later post if you guys think it's reasonable.
The idea behind the journal is to make myself accountable, get to know like-minded people and have some fun honestly.
I'll try to update regularly, aiming for once a week to start with.
And yeah, the goal with poker is to be able to quit my well-paid job in the IT industry which starts to have some serious thought once I get to 100NL - 200NL.
Last but not least, will try to keep this initial post as a sort of index for future posts, if that's possible.
Congrats if you've made it this far! Best of luck at the tables!
PS: please do be picky with my writing skills as English is not my first language.
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Good luck! Where do you play?
Your English is good (coming from an Englishman!).
I'm playing at pokerstars.com, you play on full tilt right?
That's right but FT is the same player pool as Pokerstars I believe. Are you playing zoom or regular tables? 6-max or full ring?
Oh, you're right, it is the same pool!
How did I miss that in the initial post? haha
I'm currently playing regular tables, 6-max. Have swapped sometimes between regs and zoom, just due to not being able to open more than 4 reg tables.
Making a change
The last few weeks have been a bit of a rollercoaster and some changes.
So, my initial idea for the blog was to post a lot of graphs, hands, stats, and have some discussions about those. However, I believe it won’t benefit me as much as writing about what’s going on off the tables. Hopefully, that content will benefit the community more too.
With that in mind, I’ve changed the title, and hopefully, most of my post will be off-table topics.
I'm off work this next week and will start to 'Treat my poker like a business' more. After all, that's what it is if you ever want to become a professional wink player. Following up on this would like to see what are the things that you guys do, in your life, that most improved your game. Things like exercise more, eat healthier, stick to a schedule, turn off your screens at night, and so on. For what is worth, I'm currently pretty bad at all those right now and the first one I will tackle will be to have a better diet. What do you think?
Grinding poker is somewhat taxing on your body. There have been studies with professional chess players and how they lost a lot of weight during long tournaments. The stress they are put in every day caused this, plus the constant thinking. So now high level chess players have stronger regimens when it comes to nutrition and physical fitness.
A good step forward would indeed be focusing on having a good diet. And after that would come working on your physical fitness. I myself climb (and dive). It not only gives me decent physical shape but it's also a mentally different sport. You're up high, need to keep all attention on the climbing. There's little room for error. And that helps me in poker.
As far as screens go. I can advice f.lux. You set your timezone, when you wake up etc. And it will reduce the screen brightness automaticly. It's a great program.
I'm using windows 10 which already comes with a "Night Light" which makes the screen more yellowish. Haven't used it that much, to be honest. Just turned it on! - small victory here.
I haven't been eating to much garbage which is positive. However, the snacks kill me. This week my SO ordered some Nesquick cereals and some chocolate cookies/biscuits. They didn't last two days. The trick is really simple: do. not. buy.
Tomorrow work starts after some days off. It will be fun, even though I'm really not looking forward to it.
Personally, I'd start with trying to limit your screentime at night - I'm assuming you're doing this for sleep reasons? If you're not able to follow a consitent sleep routine, or have inconsistent sleep quality, this can lead to a lot of the bad habits which you've mentioned above. Not sleeping well is known to lead to decreases in food quality choice, discipline, and decision making, all of which affect your poker game and your overall life quality. I'm usually a terrible sleeper, and I find that even having f.lux/nightlight/bluelight filters on my devices eliminate the affects of blue light, but it's also hugely individual and dependent on your personal tolerances. I'd try to get in to the habit of stopping using screens +/- 1 hour before you want to get to bed, and trying to relax for that hour such that you're not stressing about anything when you want to get to sleep. If you're able to get in to good habits there, it will help make everything else a lot easier!
I've been following a schedule where I wake up around 6.00 am every day, including weekends for the past few weeks. There were some days in which I let myself sleep but it has been great so far. Right now, I'm moving to wake up at 8h30 but more often than not I keep waking up sooner, before the alarm.
On the poker-related stuff, I'm currently playing 25NL at PartyPoker. I feel I have an edge over the pool but still losing some money there overall. Hopefully, it will change when I'm back at the tables. Yap... Not really playing right now as there's something wrong with my desktop - loses connection to the peripherals and I'm not sure why. I've ordered two power supplies already but they have both been cancelled because they went out of stock (I mean, if they are out of stock, why sell them in the first place?). Hoping the PSU will fix it. Otherwise, my next suspect is the motherboard.
During this time away from the tables, I'm focusing on studying, both technically (tons of videos and discussions) and mental game (A-Game course here at RIO).
I think having a good sleep routine is a massive part of the equation, so great work on being able to stick to one!
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