Grind Time...Big Al's back Grinding CG's and MTT's...Weekly Wrap

Hey All,

Well this week has been a fairly standard week, just Poker, Gym bit of driving and watching TV. I did pretty well with my study and play goals actually I’m going to say I did very well mostly a pass mark on every day. Monday I didn’t play MTT's last Monday because of Stars 85 billionth hand promotion, I didn’t manage to bink anything but all well. When that finished I went back to playing Zoom it was a pretty B/E week.

My Study will be a lot better this week because I wont be distracted by probably my favourite TV show "Wakening the Dead" a crime show which wrapped up on Friday. This coming weekend is the final week of the regular season NRL competition then the finals begin. My team the Brisbane Broncos are hanging on the tight rope but look like there going to make it after games went there way this weekend, it has been a terrible 6/7 weeks for them but playing the 2nd last team on the ladder this weekend at home they should hopefully do the job.

I had a great week at the gym this week dropping a few KG's and very excited about this week beginning with the best day of the week "Chest Day" Monday. I didn’t get to do much driving this week, only over the weekend this should improve this week.

So here are last weeks goals.

• Study on weekdays
  [F][X][X][X][X]
• Grind in morning before Gym/ and on Sunday Morning
  [X][X][X][X][X][X][]
• Grind after Dinner unless driveing
  [F][X][X][X]
• Drive 3 days this week
  [][][][][][X][X]
• Eat better this week
  [X][X][X][X][X][X][X]

This weeks goals.

• Study on weekdays
  [X][][][][X]
• Grind in morning before Gym/ and on Sunday Morning
  [X][][][X][F][F][X]
• Grind after Dinner unless driveing
  [F][F][F][F]
• Dive 3 days this week
  [][][][X][][][]
• Eat beter his week
  [X][X][X][X][X][X][X]

Hey All,

Time for an update, I have had a pretty disrupted week as reflected in my goal success. For 2 of the 5 weekdays last week I had Jury Duty which didn’t take up those whole days but disrupted them enough so I couldn’t play and get as much study.

On Monday I had a fairly good morning in MTT's running deep in to unfortunately I came 24th and 15th for ~$66 I felt I ran really good and played well and was very disappointed when I busted out in 15th and I'm glad I only write in this blog once a week because I really wanted to vent in hear how tilted I was, but I got over it and am just happy with the way I played. I had a fairly good week in Zoom not sure about my results in MTT's or CG's because no HEM but I finished the month with more money than I started so I guess it was good.

Very happy with Gym and Nutrition this week worked really hard and now just sit 11KG's away from my goal, I am very keen to get down to 100KG's by last weekend of September to coincide with my Rugby Leagues team's trip away down to Byron Bay. So I am going to do an extra 30 mins cardio a day separate from my gym session, I'm a little worried about over training myself but its only for a month so it should be all right hopefully.

NRL finals are upon us and my beloved Brisbane Broncos secured there spot with a win on Friday night, unfortunately they take on my 2nd favourite team the North QLD Cowboys on Saturday night in sudden death rugby league which will be very hard for the Broncos to win and quite frankly it would be a travesty if we beat them.

So Jury duty wasn’t the only thing that distracted me from poker, on Friday night I had to go to a surprise party which was fun afterword we went to the late night APL game for fun came 11th. Hopefully I have better luck completing my goals I do potentially have to go in and do more jury duty which could disrupt me but hopefully not.

Last weeks goals.

• Study on weekdays
  [X][][][][X]
• Grind in morning before Gym/ and on Sunday Morning
  [X][][][X][F][F][X]
• Grind after Dinner unless driveing
  [F][F][F][F]
• Dive 3 days this week
  [][][][X][][][]
• Eat beter his week
  [X][X][X][X][X][X][X]

This weeks goals.

• Study on weekdays
  [X][X][X][][]
• Grind in morning before Gym/ and on Sunday Morning
  [X][][X][X][][][]
• Grind after Dinner unless driveing
  [X][X][][]
• Dive 3 days this week
  [X][][X][][][][]
• Eat well this week
  [X][X][X][][][][]
• Extra 30 mins of cardio a day except Saturday
  [X][X][X][][][]

I will nut out some Monthly goals some time.

I think I may be making some mistakes in BB Vs SB situations when I'm in the BB. I think maybe I'm flatting to much with the right idea of what to do post flop, but don’t have the balls to do it (I know that makes no sense). I'm not really sure what I should be flatting PF or 3Beting and I think I'm playing to fit and fold post flop. Should I just stick to 3Betting PF until I work it out or am probable bleeding money here.

(Sorry if that made no sense)

I should of started this weeks ago, so I will play last weeks song of the week since I havent downloaded all the songs I want this week yet.

Hey All,

It's Sunday and this week in the NRL finals 8 became 6 as 2 teams were eliminated from the competition, unfortunately 1 of them was my beloved Brisbane Broncos who went down the night to fellow QLD team the NTH QLD Cowboys. First tho on Friday night 1 Vs 4 the Miner Premiers the Canterbury Bulldogs took on the Manly Sea Eagles it was a brutal game as expected and in the end the Dogs booked there place in week 3 Grand Final qualifier. Game 2 saw 2 Vs 3 down in Melbourne were the Melbourne Storm took on the South Sydney Rabbitohs, the Rabbitohs have only made 1 appearance in the finals since 1989 and there lack of experience showed as they were totally outclassed by the very experienced Storm side. As for the 3rd game 5 Vs 8 in first elimination Final my Broncos taking on the Cowboys I didn’t see the game cause I was heavily intoxicated (more on that later), but from what I have seen Cowboys totally outclassed my very tired footy team. The final elimination game saw the struggling Cronulla Sharks Vs the in form Canberra Raisers, the Sharks much like Broncos were struggling after 2 losses coming in to the finals just not enough points in them unlike the Raiders who have a great attack imo. So with the Dogs and Storm going through to week 3 that leaves the Cowboys taking on Manly on the Friday night, I am really hoping that Cowboys and do them in this game. The other games features South’s Vs the Raiders I don’t have a problem if either of these teams wins tho I think South’s will do the job.

Ok now that I have totally confused everyone I move on with how my week was, ill start with last night we had our Trophy night for my footy team $20 for drinks and food (I didn’t eat much) it was a very messy night and I did not end well and today was very painful, but this is nothing compared to the intensity of our drinking will be down in Byron Bay on our footy trip on the last weekend of this month.

I had a good week at the gym losing some weight heading towards my goal, and I will continue to do extras this week. We start preseason training on the 24th of October and I really want to get into some sprint training before that date.

Poker this week was good but I didn’t play that much because of my extras. I didn’t play MTT's last week but I will be tomorrow I will be playing some $5 MTT's this week as well.

Last weeks goals.

• Study on weekdays
  [X][X][X][X][F]
• Grind in morning before Gym/ and on Sunday Morning
  [X][][X][X][X][F][F]
• Grind after Dinner unless driveing
  [X][X][][]
• Dive 3 days this week
  [X][][X][X][][X][]
• Eat well this week
  [X][X][X][X][X][X][F]
• Extra 30 mins of cardio a day except Saturday
  [X][X][X][X][X][X]

This weeks goals.

• Study on weekdays
  [F][F][X][X][F]
• Grind in morning before Gym/ and on Sunday Morning
  [X][F][F][X][X][X][F]
• Grind after Dinner unless driveing
  [F][X][X][X]
• Dive 3 days this week
  [][][X][][][X][X]
• Eat well this week
  [X][X][X][X][X][X][X]
• Extra 30 mins of cardio a day except Saturday
  [X][X][X][X][X][X]

This 1 is an MTT 1 and its not really a Question, I cant really think of a question atm but...

What is better the M system or the True BB system I have seen in a few vids and reasons why?

Hey All,

Another week in the books and it was quite a good week ill start with poker first. I cant remember how I went in MTT's but it cant of been to staggering, but as for CG's I made over $100 including some FDB increments so my BR is over $650.

2nd week of finals footy this weekend and unfortunately it was very disappointing because the QLD team the Cowboys bowed out after some very bad officiating (and it is not just because I am a 1 eyed QLDer, the officials bosses came out and said they got it wrong) so week 3 should be 2 good games.

Well I have until Friday week to get down to my fitness goal, it is going to be very difficult unless I work very hard which I am excited to try and do so 5.8KGs in 2 weeks...lets go!

Last weeks goals.

• Study on weekdays
  [F][F][X][X][F]
• Grind in morning before Gym/ and on Sunday Morning
  [X][F][F][X][X][X][F]
• Grind after Dinner unless driveing
  [F][X][X][X]
• Dive 3 days this week
  [][][X][][][X][X]
• Eat well this week
  [X][X][X][X][X][X][X]
• Extra 30 mins of cardio a day except Saturday
  [X][X][X][X][X][X]

This weeks goals.

• Study on weekdays
  [F][F][X][X][X]
• Grind in morning before Gym/ and on Sunday Morning
  [X][X][X][X][X][X][]
• Grind after Dinner unless driveing
  [F][X][X][X]
• Dive 3 days this week
  [][X][][][][][X]
• Eat well this week
  [X][X][X][X][X][X][X]
• Extra 30 mins of cardio a day except Saturday
  [X][X][X][X][X][X] X (and Saturday)

What sort of notes do you take in MTT's, on Stars it is easy to find the Multi Tableing regs with there awsome sofware. So should I only take notes on them or everyone, atm I am only takeing notes when my M's are higher than 20 because when it gets lower it gets harder to take notes atm with no HUD?

Oldie but a goodie

Hey All,

Hope everyone has had a good week. This week I was hoping to get close to my goal weight but I was fairly disappointed that I only lost 2.1KGs (which is really good) I really wanted to lose 3KGs so I could get the last 3KGs this week. I think it is nearly going to be able to reach 100KGs by this Friday, but I'm going to try my dam best to get there. I'm going to work real hard on my nutrition because I'm sure there is nothing else I can do exercise wise, here is what I’m cutting out/changing this week.

• Only have 1 egg omelettes
• no salt
• No Pineapple juice
• Only 2 fruits in afternoon instead of 3
• 3 cups of green tea a day

As for Poker as you can see I’m Gold again, I don’t think I have been Gold in a fair few months. This week I haven’t been going that well, infect I have been pretty disappointed in how I have been playing or more so how I have reacted to some bad beats I feel I have tilted. Hopefully I can improve this.

Well down to 2 in the NRL finals the top 2 at the end of the regular season the Melbourne Storm and Canterbury Bulldogs, I'm hoping the Storm take it out. I don’t think I will see much of the game however as I will be heavily intoxicated.

Next weekend is my end of season footy trip down to Byron Bay in northern NSW, 3 days of nothing but drinking it is going to be epic. Hopefully I will have some storeys to tell.

Last weeks goals.

• Study on weekdays
  [F][F][X][X][X]
• Grind in morning before Gym/ and on Sunday Morning
  [X][X][X][X][X][X][]
• Grind after Dinner unless driveing
  [F][X][X][X]
• Dive 3 days this week
  [][X][][][][][X]
• Eat well this week
  [X][X][X][X][X][X][X]
• Extra 30 mins of cardio a day except Saturday
  [X][X][X][X][X][X] X (and Saturday)

This weeks goals.

• Study on weekdays
  [X][F][F][F][X]
• Grind in morning before Gym/ and on Sunday Morning
  [X][F][X][F][F]
• Grind after Dinner unless driveing
  [X][F][F][F][X]
• Do not look at Cashier til Friday
  [X]
• Dive 3 days this week
  [][XXX][X][X][]
• Eat well this week
  [X][X][X][X][]
• Extra 30 mins of cardio a day except Saturday
  [X][X][X][X][]
• Have a sick weekend and live to tell the day
  []

What should of hands should you Iso on the BTN in Zoom, I know it depens on stack size there position yada yada yada, but is there any general guidelines?

Hey All,

This week I'm going to break my weakly wrap up into 3 separate post because the first and last ones are going to be big. So for about 40 weeks have been going to the gym 6 days a week. The first goal was to get down to 110KGs I was around 150KGs when I started. It took me 23 weeks to achieve my first goal, with a lot of hard work I got it down and it took a lot less time than I anticipated. The cornerstone of the weight loss was my change in diet, ever since I was a child I have been probable in the top 10 world fussiest eaters, every meal when I was a teenager had chips in it like Steak and Chips, Ham Burgers and Chips, Chicken and Chips Hot Dog and Chips etc... as I got older I started liking Vegies more and Vegies are really good if you chuck salt and pepper on them, remarkable I never really got fat I think because of all the street touch footy and walking to and around the school.

After I finished school I started drinking, and I spent a lot of weekend drinking I believe this is when I started putting on the lard. After I was made redundant from my old job I didn’t really do any exercise at all apart from Rugby League, but as soon as that season was over I got worse. I did not play footy last year, and it was a very big mistake because now I was doing no exercise at all and eating like crap.

Finally I was doing pretty well in poker at that time, so I was able to cash out some money and get a Gym membership since than I never looked back. I completely changed my diet, no junk food basically at all only takeaway Sunday night which my family has every week. So weeks went by cutting weight and after 23 of these weeks I did it. I also played my first game of the season a week or to later and it was great to be back. So the season was coming to an end and unfortunately after a few big final weekend of the season drinking at the club after the game I had blown back out to 116KGs where as I wanted to maintain 110KGs, my diet slipped so I made it harder for myself to get back.

The first few weeks after footy season my ill discipline slowed me down, but eventually I had to draw a line in the sand. I set a time goal (something I wouldn’t recommend) to get to 100KGs by today, the day before footy trip. I had to work really I added extra cardio sessions and restricted my nutrition further. I had 6KGs to go 2 weeks ago and I thought I was a very good chance, but last week I only lost 2.1 (which is awesome) and I was disappointed which is ridicules (which is why time goals are bad). My friends gave me belief, and I had to work extra hard this week, and today I got up and went straight to the gym. When I got there I was fairly nervous, but I stepped on the scales reviling... 99.4KGs!

I'm so ecstatic about this I had so many emotions flow through me strongest was just pride in myself. Hopefully this post can be seen as source of inspiration to achieve your goals all you got to do is work hard and success is in your hands.

inb4 TLDR ♦

Hey All,

Well 2nd part of my weekly wrap up, felling pretty tired atm just finished my last session for the week, it went ok it was a bit like this week really up and down. I don’t think I ran particularly well this week, but I didn’t look at my cashier until now and I’m down like maybe a BI. I did a lot of driving this week which meant less volume and studying.

I won’t really know what I’m doing until I get back from footy trip, all I know is no MTT's on Monday. I will set the Goal not to look at cashier until Sunday lunchtime. I will provide a trip report of footy trip on Monday. Until then GL at the tables.

Hey All,

Back from an awesome weekend so here is the trip report. We left Saturday Morning got there about midday and we started drinking straight away, also while setting up my tent. I borrowed a tent from my friend who can sometimes do these sort of things to me, when I went to set up the tent I noticed it had no pegs, not enough poles, no fly and it was maybes the worlds smallest tent. When I had set it up 1 of my teammates decided to jump on it and break it pretty bad.

So we drank all afternoon and then ran the Panther cup which was a timed competition where you had to skull a beer, flip the cup, run around a pole 10 times with your head stuck on the pole so you would get dizzy, then pass the ball at another pole and then eat half a cold meat pie (actually wasn’t that bad) I didn’t get the best time tho.

So we went into town fairly early I got in the first place, but after we left there I didn’t get in another club the rest of the night, so ended up walking 5ks back to camp site and just drank there. I slept a few hours in my tent got a bit wet.

The next day was NRL grand finale day, so we had breakfast and went to big pub to watch all the prelim games I was feeling very seedy. I was pretty soft actually I drank alot of water as well as beers I was having inbetweeners. The game was good and the right team won.

We went out after the game and I got in the club this time, it was a great night with a lot of drinking and dancing and a wet t-shirt comp. We stayed till closing and waited ages for a cab, it was taking to long so I just walked 5ks back again and got home before everyone else did. I didn’t sleep because it was raining and I knew my ten would be like a pool. As soon as the sun came up I packed up my camping gear I binned the tent, and I made an early start on cleaning up the camp site. We had breakfast and left around 8:30am.

Overall a pretty good weekend not as good as the last trip away because of the weather, but all well happy to be home now even tho I bought the shit weather back with me.

Last weeks goals.

• Study on weekdays
  [X][F][F][F][X]
• Grind in morning before Gym/ and on Sunday Morning
  [X][F][X][F][F]
• Grind after Dinner unless driveing
  [X][F][F][F][X]
• Do not look at Cashier til Friday
  [X]
• Dive 3 days this week
  [][XXX][X][X][]
• Eat well this week
  [X][X][X][X][]
• Extra 30 mins of cardio a day except Saturday
  [X][X][X][X][]
• Have a sick weekend and live to tell the day
  [X]

This weeks goals.

• Study 6 days
  [F][F][F][F][F][X]
• Grind in morning before Gym/ and on Sunday Morning
  [X][X][F][X][X]
• Grind after Dinner unless driveing
  [X][X][X][F]
• Do not look at Cashier til Sunday
  [X]
• Eat well this week
  [X][X][X][X][X]

This isint really a strategy question, but do you think that I should make 1 of my sessions a week a regular FR session not zoom just so I can practice thing like table selection etc?

Just droped yesterday...

You guys are proberly wondering why it is always dance music, well when somebody realises a decent rock record I will snap put it up.

Hey All,

Time for another weekly update, I'm back into the full swing of things after last weekend's footy trip's escapades. I didn’t do very well with my study goals I put fails marks but in fairness to myself I did get half my study each day, which means I finished HoH again and I always seem to pick up something I missed each time I read it. This time it was how to adjust your M and short handed tables, I think this is really going to help me be better especially at 6-max and 4-max MTTs.

This week and for the next 2 weeks I won’t be able to do any driving apart from 2 lessons during the day in the next 2 weeks, the good thing about this is I should be able to put plenty of volume in. I just checked my Cashier and I think I am up but this is mainly through increments cleared of the bonus + a $10 Stellar reward, and this is including the .5% of <3 package. Not looking at my cashier has been very effective in helping me not worry about thing.

This morning I woke up early to watch the English Super League GF, it was a great game between Warrington and Leeds with Leeds prevailing again. After the game finished around 5am I started playing. Today I decided to play normal FR tables, I think normal tables are actually softer and I think when I clear my FDB and buy HEM2 I will maybe mainly play them instead of Zoom, because when I play Zoom it just feels like there are many ME's, although saying that after 9:30 this morning I wasn’t really playing many hands I was more playing mark Regs and change tables. I also wouldn’t mind playing 90-180Man SNG's, they seem really fun to me anyway I will decide in the future, any opininons are always welcome.

Last weeks goals.

• Study 6 days
  [F][F][F][F][F][X]
• Grind in morning before Gym/ and on Sunday Morning
  [X][X][F][X][X]
• Grind after Dinner
  [X][X][X][F]
• Do not look at Cashier til Sunday
  [X]
• Eat well this week
  [X][X][X][X][X]

This weeks goals.

• Study 7 days
  [][][][][][][]
• Grind in morning before Gym/ and on Sunday Morning
  [][][][][]
• Grind after Dinner
  [][][][]
• Do not look at Cashier til Sunday
  []
• Eat well this week
  [][][][][]

OTB on NL10+ and in 6max games I always raise 3x, but when there is a limper should I just make it 3x +1BB or should I make it 4 +1BB?

Hey All,

Sorry I haven’t posted in a while, haven’t really been able to think about what to say previous 2 Sundays, so I will just give you the cliffs.

• Felt like I was loseing and playing bad at Zoom, was getting parinoid about being a loseing player and not being able to work out if I'm bad or not cause no datbase and wasent posting hands or reviewing play
• Looked at cashier saw I was loseing a fair bit, so did a panic cashout and planed to grind 90-180man SNGs and buy HEM2
• After 2 days of 90 player SNGs playing .10-$1.50 because I was gonna use 300BI BRM, thought WTF am doing because my hrly is gonna be useless so what the point
• Started looking into getting a job, going through job service center which I used 3 yrs ago and I realise y I dont have a job still haha
• Decided the smart thing to do is apply for something that I have experince and am good at...so I am in proces of applying to do that.
• Grinded some more Zoom, started enjoying it again
• Got HEM2 hated it at first but its getting better
• made back the $200 I cahsed out at NL10Z and normal tables

So that’s basically it poker wise, I know it is a bit of mess but that’s how its felt. I must concede I'm having some tilt issues mainly entitlement tilt I don’t know why, It usually happens when I get folds pre flop with As and Ks in Zoom so stupid I know.

Fitness stuff is going pretty well, increasing my strength and also my speed. Keeping around 100KGs my buffer zone is 95-105KGs, and my nutrition has maintained well. I went out for mate’s birthday last week to a steak restaurant, I ate chicken I can’t trust people to cook my steak, everyone wants it mooing at you I want it burnt. Also caught up with a good mate for his 25th was good.

1 last thing on Poker, going to play some NL16 this week in the morning and still play NL10 Zoom at night cause I think traffic wont be good enough at night.

This weeks goals.

• Study 7 days
  [][][][][][][]
• Grind in morning before Gym/ and on Sunday Morning
  [][][][][][][]
• Grind after Dinner
  [][][][][][]
• Do not look at Cashier til Sunday
  []
• Eat well this week
  [][][][][][]
• Put Resume in again Monday
  []

What are you doing to improve your zoom game?

Been obsed with Coldplay over last few weeks.

Now that I got HEM2 I can start posting monthly stats I wont include Bonuses and MTTs for last month because there both not setup properly yet.

CG Hands played : 28,986 hands NL5-16
Rake: $105.54
Winnings: NL16: -$25.61 + Zoom NL10: $68.32 + NL10: $22.93 + Zoom NL5: $3.49 + <3 Stake $23.13 = $91.26

Hey All,

Had a preety busy week put my Resume, failed all my study goals and grinded a fair bit. The reason I think I fail my study goals is I love to read Poker and Rugby League News on 2+2 and a Rugby League Forum and for some reason these to websites allways seem to time out so I spend so many hours trying to read and then time flys and next minute its 3:30pm and I have to go run at the park. So to fix this I think I am going to implement some news reading guidelines. Yesterday I helped my Friend move house it was a lot of hard work and took most of the day but I got pizza so it is all right. I dont know what my game plan is going to be for FT reluanch, I am thinking of grinding FT bonus first after depositing on Party to get the "Party more Tilt less promo.

Last weeks goals.

• Study 7 days
  [F][F][F][F][F][F][F]
• Grind in morning before Gym/ and on Sunday Morning
  [X][X][X][X][X][X][X]
• Grind after Dinner
  [X][X][X][X][X][F]
• Do not look at Cashier til Sunday
  [X]
• Eat well this week
  [X][X][X][X][F][X]
• Put Resume in again Monday
  [X]

This weeks goals.

• Study 7 days
  [][][][][][][]
• Grind in morning before Gym/ and on Sunday Morning
  [][][][][][][]
• Grind after Dinner
  [][][][][][]
• Do not look at Cashier til Sunday
  []
• Eat well this week
  [][][][][][]
• Go driveing 3x this week
  [][][]
• Only read Poker News on Wednesday and Thursday appart from PS and only read Rugby League news Tuseday, Friday and Sunday.
  []-

TBA

TBA

Haven't read this all yet, but I will and I'll be following along!

Originally posted by PhoenixPhreak
Haven't read this all yet, but I will and I'll be following along!

Yes I have a reader!

Hey All, time for another weekly update this week has been pretty non productive with reopning of FT and being able to acces my BR there. I have been playing the "Deal Me In" Freerolls and not much else, overal I didnt make much money from them my best day was 2day when I cahed I think 4 out of 7 of them deepest finish was 155th of lik 12k. I bought a $10 Ringame ticket with my FTPs to play NL2 with. I am moveing my BR to Party for the "Party More Tiltl Less" Bonus, I'm going to be playing FastFoward 6max (since that all they have) hopefully FR comes out in the future. I will have to start with getting through 20k hands at NL4 in profit before I can move up to NL10.

I need to make a few cashouts this month for reall life stuff because my Bday is on the 21st and Sterosonic is on 2nd of December, Im haveing a joing party with my mate the weekend after my Bday. We started Preseason tranining last week just playing OZtag for a few weeks.

Hopefully I will actuly achive some goals this week.

This weeks goals.

• Study 7 days
  [][][][][][][]
• Grind in morning before Gym/ and on Sunday Morning
  [][][][][][][]
• Grind after Dinner
  [][][][][][]
• Do not look at Cashier til Sunday
  []
• Eat well this week
  [][][][][][]
• Go driveing 2x this week
  [][]
• Only read Poker News on Wednesday and Thursday appart from PS and only read Rugby League news Tuseday, Friday and Sunday.
  []-

Whats the most inportant thing when moveing from FR to 6max?

Some

I hope having a reader is a good motivation!

One of my 'leaks'(?) is that I really like following my BR. You haven't updated us as to the results of your study and play as far as the old BBs/$ go...

I have read in a few places that it is best for us not to look at our account statuses and so on... but I'm not completely convinced on the rationale for that. I personally find it encouraging and motivating to see my results each day. But I'm definitely open to understanding why that is a recommendation.

As far as FR to SH goes, you will basically eliminate any limping for the sake of 'implied odds', therefore open raising a lot more. Also 3Bets will increase and your general range will need to be a little looser. I am currently reading all the articles on this here:
http://www.pokerstrategy.com/strategy/bss/1671/1/
http://www.pokerstrategy.com/strategy/bss/1569/1/

(so I'm definitely no pro and have yet to actually do SH except for FR tables that happen to be short-handed)

Best of luck!

Originally posted by PhoenixPhreak
I hope having a reader is a good motivation!

One of my 'leaks'(?) is that I really like following my BR. You haven't updated us as to the results of your study and play as far as the old BBs/$ go...

I have read in a few places that it is best for us not to look at our account statuses and so on... but I'm not completely convinced on the rationale for that. I personally find it encouraging and motivating to see my results each day. But I'm definitely open to understanding why that is a recommendation.

As far as FR to SH goes, you will basically eliminate any limping for the sake of 'implied odds', therefore open raising a lot more. Also 3Bets will increase and your general range will need to be a little looser. I am currently reading all the articles on this here:
http://www.pokerstrategy.com/strategy/bss/1671/1/
http://www.pokerstrategy.com/strategy/bss/1569/1/

(so I'm definitely no pro and have yet to actually do SH except for FR tables that happen to be short-handed)

Best of luck!

Sorry mate can’t quite understand the bolded sentence?

As far as not looking at my cashier I just find it helps me play my best, like for example on Wednesday I finished up on the tables with like a stack of $22, $13, $10 and $8 but I still finished the day down like 1/2 a BI and I was a lil tilted by this and I only saw this cause I have to go though all my hands to review. I used to be fine looking at my cashier but playing SNGs broke my mindset a while back.

Anyway as for my weekly wrap well this week has been fairly terrible I started by going deep in a few of the last "Deal Me In" Freerolls on FT, then I moved to Party to play FastFoward to grind out the "Party More Tilt Less Bonus and so far in 5 days of NL4-6Max I'm down 12BIs and I think I have quite a few problems the main thing is playing 2s-9s when your not just playing for set value and also out of the blinds since I have been told to stop 3Betting them (which I found a lot easier to play), anyway I have been fairly happy with my study and review goals mostly hitting all targets.

As for RL stuff has been pretty standard with just Gym, Sprints and Rugby League training. I must say tho I think the agility drills I have been doing are really going to put me in good steed for Footy next year, at training we have been playing a modified game called OZTag its is a bit like Touch Footy in a way except instead of Touching u have to tags on each side attached by Velcro onto a belt and you have to pull the tag off to stop the player and in the 2 weeks we have been going I have scored around 10 tries and I'm a forward haha.

Anyway this week is going to be pretty busy, got my Birthday on Wednesday, going out for dinner on the Thursday for it, getting a haircut sometime and got my joint Party on Friday night and we are also going clubbing this night which I haven’t done in like 3 years.

Heres a graph of my first week of 6max.

Last weeks goals.

• Study 7 days
  [][X][X][X][X][F][F]
• Grind in morning before Gym/ and on Sunday Morning
  [X][F][X][X][X][X][X]
• Grind after Dinner
  [F][F][F][F][F][X][F]
• Do not look at Cashier til Sunday
  [X]
• Eat well this week
  [X][X][X][X][X][F]
• Go driveing 2x this week
  [F][F]
• Only read Poker News on Wednesday and Thursday appart from PS and only read Rugby League news Tuseday, Friday and Sunday.
  [X]-

This weeks goals.

• Study 6 days
  [][][][][][]
• Grind in morning before Gym/ and on Sunday Morning
  [][][][][][]
• Grind after Dinner
  [][][][]
• Do not look at Cashier til Sunday
  []
• Eat well this week
  [][][][][]
• Only read Poker News on Wednesday and Thursday appart from PS and only read Rugby League news Tuseday, Friday and Sunday.
  []-

What a good way how to Learn how to play 2s-9s not just for set value?

TBA

I just meant what is your current BanrRoll?
It is interesting to me!

Great job on the rest. I hope you continue improving with the rest of your goals!

Originally posted by PhoenixPhreak
I just meant what is your current BanrRoll?
It is interesting to me!

Great job on the rest. I hope you continue improving with the rest of your goals!

Oh ok well its around $800ish but I am makeing a big cashout this week for my BDay and for Music Festivile.

Hey All,

1 day late on the weekly update, kind of glad I am I had probably my biggest winning day in BBs I finished up 8BIs at NL4 which is a nice start to this week. As for last week well it was my Birthday last Wednesday now 22 feeling old haha, on Wednesday I had Pavlova and Cake and my favourite dinner food Beef Fajitas so delicious, on Thursday I went out for dinner with my friends at Sizzler was fairly good. On the Friday we had a small party at my mates house because his Birthday was the week before so we just had a combined party then after we went out to the city just went to 1 place and the ratio was really good but no action unfortunately. On the Saturday I played some free poker a 2 player teams event we didnt win because Ks couldent hold Vs A10o but my Mates won (Luckboxes).

Next Sunday is Sterosonic Music Festivle these are the artist that are playing...

Its going to be so amazeing I cant wait to see Krewella.

Finally feel good playing NL4-6Max think I am making better decisions, and a lot of credit has to go to the Hand Judges even tho Veriz is gone (which is disappointing I have been enjoying the new team so far especially mbml work on some of my hands the other day really spoke to me. As I said at the start I had a nice day today so I will finish up with posting the graph.

Last weeks goals.

• Study 6 days
  [X][F][F][F][F][F]
• Grind in morning before Gym/ and on Sunday Morning
  [X][X][X][X][X][X]
• Grind after Dinner
  [X][F][F][F]
• Do not look at Cashier til Sunday
  [X]
• Eat well this week
  [X][X][F][F][F]
• Only read Poker News on Wednesday and Thursday appart from PS and only read Rugby League news Tuseday, Friday and Sunday.
  [X]-

This weeks goals.

• Study 6 days
  [][][][][][]
• Grind in morning before Gym/ and on Sunday Morning
  [][][][][][]
• Grind after Dinner
  [][][][][][]
• Do not look at Cashier til Sunday
  []
• Eat well this week
  [][][][][][]
• Only read Poker News on Wednesday and Thursday appart from PS and only read Rugby League news Tuseday, Friday and Sunday.
  []-

TBA