Discipline Challenge

I can completely relate to this. In the past year, I've really woken up (excuse the pun) to the importance of restful sleep. Much like you, I'm a night owl and can sit in front of the screen much later than I should. Then suffer for it the next day with poor focus, short-memory and a bit easier to irritate. Three things that a poker player can't afford - or anyone else for that matter.

I love the punishment too!

Good luck in your challenge, I look forward to hearing how it goes and to see if your poker bankroll improves with the better sleep.

Alright, Christmas is over, let's get things going.

SLEEP TIMES:

• December 23rd - 00:50
• December 24th - 01:05
• December 25th - 01:10
• December 26th - 03:00 (night out with friends)
• December 27th - 02:30 (justified - 100k freeroll)

  * Punishment for discipline errors: today's sleep time 0AM.

Didn't play much during holidays, just couple of sessions:

• NL50 [500 hands] +5.6$
• NL25 [500 hands] -38.6$ (session mistakes: QQ call to a 100BB shove)

Spin & Go:

• $5 [6 tournaments - 6 wins ] +50$

Bonus:

• 100k monthly freeroll [190th out of 8531] +50$

All in all, these days were quite good. Will try to reach all the daily goals today.

I do think discipline is one of the most difficult skills to master, but I suppose it depends on where you start from as well. I start from a terrible place, improve, then collapse yet again - and yes, indiscipline will definitely deplete your bankroll very very quickly.

Good luck with the challenge, I wish you success for sure!

Regards and have a great (and disciplined of course!) New Year,

Mal.

"Practice makes perfect" actually it's practice makes improvement,i've come to realize that if you don't turn your screen off you won't get sleepy(unless you haven't slept long)so turning off the screen and going to sleep rather then wait for you to get real sleepy and then go to bed.

I see your doing good so far keep it up !

And happy new year

Guys, thank you for the support. Now I'm twice as motivated to do my challenge

SLEEP TIME:

• December 28th - 01:10
  * Punishment transfers for today.

Sessions:

• NL25 [550 hands] -27.6$
• NL25 [510 hands] +2.7$
• NL25 [550 hands] -109.2$ (session mistakes: -175BB and -133BB)

Spin & Go:

• $5 [6 tournaments - 3 wins] +10$

Overall I was running so bad yesterday. But 500 hands discipline actually helped, when I started tilting at the last session.

Finally a better day for cash games Also managed to reach all of the daily goals.

SLEEP TIME:

• December 29th - 00:10

Sessions:

• NL25 [520 hands] +0.1$ (session mistakes: like a true fish)
• NL25 [550 hands] +9.8$ (session mistakes: blonde moment)
• NL25 [520 hands] +70.1$ (session mistakes: always cbet A board..)
• NL25 [510 hands] +73.8$ (session mistakes: obvious trap and big 4bet from the fish - mostly KK or AA)
• NL25 [500 hands] +7.5$ (session mistakes: shouldn't call big river bets)

Spin & Go:

• $5 [20 tournaments - 6 small wins ] -40$

Great job man - especially accomplishing your goals!

Goals > Results!

Didn't play much yesterday, had to go out in the evening.

SLEEP TIME:

• December 30th - 01:00

Sessions:

• NL25 [520 hands] +59.5$ (session mistakes: -163BB )
• NL25 [500 hands] +15.9$ (session mistakes: not sure if mistake, or just unlucky)

Spin & Go:

• $5 [4 tournaments - 2 wins] +10$

GL with your goals! You seem to have a great mindset ♠_thumbsup:

Now if only I could discipline myself to get to bed before 6am each night I'd be doing great! Will follow your blog and hopefully it will motivate me to be disciplined as well

Happy New Year, everybody! May you have a successful disciplined year of poker!

SLEEP TIME:

• December 31st - 04:45 (justified)

Sessions:

• NL25 [500 hands] +53.9$
• NL25 [510 hands] -13.4$ (session mistakes: give a fish one free card..)

Spin & Go:

• $5 [8 tournaments - 4 small wins] +0$

Yesterday was a perfect example, why I'm doing this challenge.
Lack of sleep (New Year's eve) resulted in a few frustrating sessions

SLEEP TIME:

• January 1st - 01:00

Sessions:

• NL25 [510 hands] -52.1$ (session mistakes: should've been easy fold)
• NL25 [500 hands] -84.0$ (session mistakes: getting tilty, tilt #2 and then this )
• NL25 [500 hands] +59.2$
• NL25 [550 hands] -8.0$ (session mistakes: should've checked the turn, simply bad)

Spin & Go:

• $5 [10 tournaments - 5 small wins] +0$

I'm absolutely positive that sometimes some negative reinforcement can highlight the positives of a goal, and that can't be all negative...

Looks like you made your sleep time goal last night, let's hope for better results today!

Thanks, Ramble, I also think, that it's impossible to improve as a poker player, if you only have good sessions. Negative reinforcement is a necessary evil ^^

SLEEP TIME:

• January 2nd - 01:00

Sessions:

• NL25 [500 hands] -15.0$
• NL50 [500 hands] +58.7$
• NL25 [510 hands] +2.7$ (session mistakes: shouldn't try to outplay the fish, flop was already a fold)
• NL50 [500 hands] +10.9$ (session mistakes: leaking money)
• NL25 [510 hands] -5.9$ (session mistakes: I always underestimate fishes)

And look at this beauty: the perfect trap gone wrong
I usually don't care about bad beats, but this one was especially frustrating, since I make this kind of trap only maybe once per month and it worked brilliantly.

Tournaments:

• Spin & Go $5 [2 tournaments - 2 small wins] +10$
• 6max MTT (3.3$, 3.3$ and 8.8$) -15.4$

Didn't play much, went out in the evening.

SLEEP TIME:

• January 3rd - 03:50
  * Punishment for discipline errors: today's sleep time 0AM.

Sessions:

• NL25 [530 hands] -16.8$ (session mistakes: a few with 3bet bluffing OOP)
• NL25 [520 hands] +119.0$

Spin & Go:

• $5 [2 tournaments - 2 small wins] +10$

Originally posted by simasin
Failing hard already, just quit man...

lol you know the saying "if you ain't got nothing nice to say don't say nothing at all!"?

@webhunky just keep going. perhaps you should change the punishment a bit to something that actually hurts you like "donate 5$ to an oragnisation of your choice"

Don't mind him, that's my friend

I thought about different kind of punishments, maybe if I start ignoring the discipline, I will think of another one. Since this challenge is mostly about my sleep routine, punishment to go sleep even earlier seems ok so far.

Originally posted by webhunky
I thought about different kind of punishments, maybe if I start ignoring the discipline, I will think of another one. Since this challenge is mostly about my sleep routine, punishment to go sleep even earlier seems ok so far.

I just had the idea to change the challenge and add a positive motivation to it instead of a punishment. I don't know what exactly but you could do/buy/get something small for every time you manage to go to bed in time

Tried something new yesterday, wanted to keep red line as high as possible - played more aggressive and defended my BB way more often.
Seems good so far, but I still made a lot of spewy mistakes and calling too light (trying to go to showdown).
Will try again today, but more careful

SLEEP TIME:

• January 4th - 00:10

Sessions:

• NL25 [520 hands] -64.2$ (session mistakes: so obvious; don't ask )
• NL25 [520 hands] +70.7$

Tournaments:

• Spin & Go $5 [2 tournaments - 1 win] +10$
• 6max MTT (3.3$) -3.3$

It looks like you're turning a profit overall most days - so.... do you think the sleep discipline is helping?