Chowzor
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I ended up getting up to NL100, and withdrew my rolls a few months ago. I did get promoted at work to L62. I put $20 USD into my stars account and ran it up from NL5z to $200. It's in the NL10 pool, and I can tell that I improved a lot because it feels reeeeeaaaaalllly easy. Bxb game is a good place for $$
I have one more year of this job until I am going to quit and go travel. I am putting poker on the back burner until then and will focus on BJJ now. I want to build skills at this and AI.
In about a year I will focus on building proof of concepts and poker. I will also spent two months in Austin Tx and try and train with John Danaher's public class.
I will bring life to this blob again once I am out of this work buisness, but there are forces going on behing the scenes that are really stressing me out, and I don't think I can do all three of these things at once.
For BJJ I bought a grappling dummy that I use to drill techniques. I use Danaher's DvDs for reference and it really helps with how I learn. I don't learn intuitively very well, and having some framework really helps.
Keep on keeping on.
Oct. 17, 2022 | 2:29 a.m.
You can go to subscriptions on you account settings and move back to basic plan.
March 2, 2019 | 5:19 p.m.
Expected Value calculation + Algebra to find the break even point.
Poker has a lot of math.
Feb. 26, 2019 | 10:05 p.m.
Nice Blog!
Implied odds can be calculated explicitly. Calling a with a FD against a pot sized bet needs 2/3 pot bet on the next street to break even, for example. They are a super important part of poker! You can also factor in fold equity on later streets.
You also want to factor in things like ability to take the pot away on turns and rivers. This is commonly referred to as floating.
Feb. 25, 2019 | 9:39 p.m.
Hey everyone!
I have played Poker on and off for the last few years, but never really climbed out of the micros. I played NL5z/NL10z a lot and kind of burnt myself out and got sick of poker. In general, I have always suffered when it comes to life balance. I tend to go 400% into something, burn out and get sick of it. It isn’t +EV overall.
This got really bad last summer. I broke up with my girlfriend, got really depressed and dove myself into a daily fantasy sports project, poker, and really isolated myself. I spent a whole summer alone in an apartment in Vancouver and put myself into a giant hole. When September came I tried to get back together with my girlfriend, and it didn’t work out. At that point I snapped. I hit rock bottom and realized I lost everything. Friends, healthy social life. It was really awful. I never experienced a break down before in my life and I couldn’t control the anxiety attacks. I just kind of had to ride it out and pull my life back together.
To be honest this was one of the best things that ever happened to me. I started going to the gym again, I made new friends, I started dating again, and I started eating better. The one thing I need to force myself to do is to be able to do something without trying to get obsessed with it. This is my goal.
The goal is to do 1% every day. This is enforcing consistency and will force me to go through the motions and not try and do everything at once. I don’t have dreams of being the next Phil Galfond, but I need to do this for myself.
I decided to try a whole new format and start from the ground up. I am going to play PLO, and I started studying and playing already last week. Right now while I play I am just one tabling PLO2z, but once I get more confident in my win rate I will most likely switch over to Run it Once. I really like their format, and anonymous tables.
My schedule is 1 hour a day every day. I will alternate between playing for an hour one day then reviewing the sessions / studying on the next day which could be reviewing videos and making notes, session review, and trying to evaluate hands on the PLO forums. I can focus on a one concept at a time and slowly improve. This still gives me 7 hours of poker a week. It’s manageable and it will force me to make efficient use of my time.
I watch a lot of Nick Howards free content and I really have to say he is a bit of an inspiration to me. He talks about hitting rock bottom, and how he made his own way thought poker, and really respect that. I really like his emphasis on process, and the way he talks about how he makes strategy is correct. He understands theory well enough that he knows when to deviate from equilibrium. Where I think a lot of people think equilibrium is the answer always, which is just not true. Hugging theory too tight is just as bad as thinking it’s useless. A lot of his youtube content will shape how I work, and build my game.
I also got some coaching to start with PLO, and I think it will pay for itself pretty fast. I think a student needs the right teacher and vice versa, and the emphasis on process is really helpful.
That is it for now. I am going to update this blog every Friday. Looking forward to playing and learning poker in a much more relaxed environment. Looking forward to learning some poker, studying to convert mistakes into win rate.
FWIW I am back to playing poker 3 days and week and doing BJJ the other 3 days a week. I am getting wokr stress, but for the first time in my life I am able to be somewhat balanced.
I redeposited into NL25 for $700 CAD which was about $525 USD, and I started grinding it up.
We are up to about $960 USD, (1300 CAD?) And we will keep on keeping on.
Sometimes you just need a break. Here is the graph so far:
Super small sample here, but it sure looks nice. In reality when you account for all in adjusted evbb/100 my redline is actually higher than my blue line. Wild.
I drill some preflop spots every morning ~30 min, then study value thresholds for a very specific line for an hour. Then I usually start work, and if I have BJJ that day then I don't grind, and if I don't have BJJ that day then I grind for a while. If it's a poker day (no BJJ) then I still drill on my grappling dummy for 30 minutes every day.
Tough to large amounts of volume in right now, but really my intention is too just focus on getting better and avoid the worrying about moving up until I quit my job in the fall. My schedule / plan is getting ironed out so next month I will be able to get more hands in. I was doing a lot more studying than playing in the beginning so that 7k hands for the month should be a lot higher next month.
Times were tough, but we are getting through. I am happy I have some sort of schedule locking in now.
One interesting thing to note is how my method for improving in both BJJ and Poker is basically the same. Focus on something small until it's intuitive and then move on. Avoiding getting lost in the forest.
Will try and update this blog from now on on friday nights.
Jan. 30, 2023 | 5:37 a.m.