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

Hey All, fairly avg week well I just feel bummed out atm after losing session, I think I have bad mindset issues had a couple of massive winning days and then last 2 days hit my 3BI stop loss for NL10 and yesterday hit it for NL4 and was heading that way today and was playing bad so just quit. So I looked at cashier 2day and saw I'm only up like $15 for the week which annoyed me more, I wish Party would hurry up and get FR FastFold I don’t feel I am that good of player at 6max.

I also don't really feel like my games improving as you can see by my goals I haven’t really been achieving any of them, I feel I am not using the hand evaluation forum properly, I feel like I just post hands and want a yes or no answer on if I played the hand correctly, and I feel annoyed when they ask me questions back, I feel that I am this way because I am so busy and have basically no time.

As far as RL goes this week was pretty good with xmas etc and 1 of my good mates is down from up north, which is one of the main reasons my study goals have sucked, but I feel catching up wit a good mate is more important and actually on the 2 days I saw him instead of studying I made over 5BIs each day.

I will do a yearly wrap on the 31st just CGs tho, I just hate the MTT tab on HEM2 and I don’t want to go over my SNG from the start of the year.

Last weeks goals.

• Study in full atleast 3 times
  [F][F][]
• Grind in morning before Gym/ and on Sunday Morning
  [X][X][X][X][X][X][X]
• Grind after Dinner
  [F][F][F][F][F][F][]
• Do not look at Cashier til Sunday
  [X]
• Eat well this week
  [F][F][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 in full atleast 3 times
  [][][]
• 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 (I can never think of a question when I need to haha)

Well the years over and December Over the month started with 1 of the greatest days of my life at Stereosonic and ended with a nice party where we played some pub triva to end the year. I will just wrap up Dember in this Post and move on to the year, so without further adue heres December.

CG Hands played : 95,768 hands NL2-10 FR - 21,481 hands NL2-10 6Max Toatal hands = 117, 249
Rake: $565.56
Winnings: NL2-6Max: -$0.04 + Zoom NL2: $1.39 - FastFoward NL4-6Max: -$25.19 + FastFoward NL10-6Max: $51.16 - NL2 -$0.01 + Zoom NL10 $0.02 + Rush NL5 $12.51 - Rush NL10 $11.31 + Bonus/Rakeback $245.47 = $273.98

6Max

FR

Well time to wrap up last year not really sure what to say I guess it was pretty bad average year poker but really life it was ok. I started the year playing $11-22 SNGs on Party Poker, then I thought I should be a bonus whore and try and clear heaps of money in Bonuses and slack off in improving my games (history seems to be repeating again) I realised eventually after losing a lot of money that I am not smart enough for SNGs because I think math is very necessary to work out ICM and I just couldn’t get around it. So I quit poker for a few weeks, but faced with same sort of problems in real life not being the sharpest tool in the shed and very unmotivated to work for somebody else it seemed I had hit a dead end.

I started playing some NL2 on my Party account just to kill some time when I was board and eventually I started getting more into poker so I decided to start grinding again CGs and MTTs on Mondays. That’s when I started this Blog, I was just grinding Stars doing pretty well moving up from around $400 to $600 and swinging and cashing out for RL stuff, my poker mindset still wasn’t/is that great I don’t think. Anyway the biggest news of 2012 was when Stars bought FTP and returning my $600~ that’s was all but written off. With that back I have been Bonus whoreing on FTP and Party and feel I am heading in the same direction as last year lets hope I pull my head and don’t make stupid mistakes again.

My 2012 looks pretty depressing after reading that, well it wasn’t all bad December 2011 I made it my number 1 priority to lose weight so I could play Rugby League again and also to just look good. I lost 50KGs (40kgs in 23 weeks and the other 10 when footy season finished) and am maintaining around 100kgs which is where I want to stay. My friends both in Poker and RL I have to thank a lot for putting up with my whingeing etc but specials mentions to < 3 and Morgan. The best moment if this year was defiantly Stereosonnic just raving sweaty as fuck in those moshpits was something I never want to forget.

To 2013 my 1 big thing I want from this year is to know I put 100% into everything I do, in 2011 I think I wrote that’s I had set the foundation to build up a solid life, well I went pretty well at trying to destroy all my good work by being lazy I wont let it happen this year. I know tons of smart people in Poker and RL whose brains I can pick so that’s I can make better decisions.

2012 Results only going to some up CGs and Bonuses.

CG Stakes played - FR NL2-25, 6Max NL2-10
CG Hands played Total - 6Max- 50,610, FR- 130,846 Total = 181,456
Rake - $773.45
Winnings - 6Max -$40.29 + FR $169.93 + Bonuses $4371.98 = $4501.62

Graphs

6Max

FR

I dont want to set too deatailed goals so heres some short ones that are hopefully achiveable.

Goals

• Improve My Game []
• Get my Ps []
• Get a Job if its required []
• See friends more []
• Get some... []
• Travel somewhere outside of where I live []
• Move out []

thats a wrap, GL in 2013.

Hey All, hope 2013 is going well for you all, my 2013 has been pretty good so far had my fisrt loseing day today but nothing I could really do about it few setups, but yer I think I have been playing really well since the start of the year hopefully in a few weeks I will be able to move up to NL25 if I keep going well.

As for RL well gyms been good pretty excited for Chest Day tomoro, hopefully going to get the 40kgs dumbbel bench press out, yesterday I ran these big stairs a couple of sububurs away with a friend was pretty hard but felt my times were good with still room for improvement. This week Footy training restarts on Tuesday with only 4 weeks till our first game I think I am really putting myself in a good position to make a real positive impact for my team.

Last weeks goals.

• Study in full atleast 3 times
  [F][F][F]
• Grind in morning before Gym/ and on Sunday Morning
  [X][X][X][X][X][X]
• Grind after Dinner
  [F][F][F][F][F][]
• Do not look at Cashier til Sunday
  [X]
• Eat well this week
  [F][X][X][X][X][X][X]
• 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.

• Watch a Video every day
  [][][][][][][]
• Grind in morning before Gym/ and on Sunday Morning
  [][][][][][][]
• Grind after Dinner
  [][][][][][][]
• Do not look at Cashier til Sunday
  []
• Eat well this week
  [][][][][][][]
• No procastenation
  []

What do you do about tiredness?

Hey All, not much to say this week had a miner meltdown earlier in the week, but I think I have fixed the problem. As you can see still failing goals probs not going to get any better with Aus Open starting this week and 2 of Australia's Mens tennis players in good form. I go for my Drivers test again this friday hopefully I can bink it.

Last weeks goals.

• Watch a Video every day
  [X][F][F][F][F][F][]
• Grind in morning before Gym/ and on Sunday Morning
  [X][X][X][X][X][X][X]
• Grind after Dinner
  [F][F][F][F][F][F][F]
• Do not look at Cashier til Sunday
  [X]
• Eat well this week
  [X][X][X][X][X][X][X]
• No procastenation
  [F]

This weeks goals.

• Watch a Video every day
  [][][][][][][]
• Study in full on Tuesday and Thursday
  [][]
• Grind in morning before Gym/ and on Sunday Morning
  [][][][][][][]
• Grind after Dinner
  [][][][][]
• Do not look at Cashier til Sunday
  []
• Eat well this week
  [][][][][][][]
• No procastenation
  []

What do you do about tiredness?

Back to Platinum for first time since playing SNGs, I have my Driveing test today if you here from me today it means I probs passed.

Passed my drivers test!

Hey All, I haven’t blogged in a while I haven’t really had much to right about. I have been pretty annoyed with my game it has dropped a fair bit I still made a profit this month but I feel that I should be doing a lot better, this is all my fault of course because I haven’t been working hard enough on my game which has made me pletu.

So it is time for more accountability, this week I started watching videos by Schnitzelfisch on productivity and learning to learn and I also added him on Skype and joined is self development study group. So far since Tuesday every day has been super productive and I have gotten everything that I have wanted to get done, it has been helped by the lack of Rugby League training and sprint training due to damage to the training fields, but I feel I have still got more done than I would have. 1 of the main things I have done is moved my Review of previous session from in the afternoon after gym till when I first wake up after breakfast and before I start grinding.

I have had some poker success how ever in the live arena, on Saturday we had Australia Day (the best day of the year btw) so I took the day off from my study and gym (study wouldn’t of probs happened anyway back then) to hang out with friends and play a Live Pub Poker MTT it was a deepstack (less of a super turbo) and long story short I end up chopping first for $140, the reason I chopped is that we only had about 10BBs each and I didn’t want to lose 2 hand and lose $60 even tho I had a big edge. I went on to win it and get the $20 meal voucher and the photo.

If you’re wondering why I look so underdressed it is because it is Australia Day!

That night I also got invited to a Live CG NL20 with some of my friends and some people that play these pub poker MTTs, as you would of guessed it was supper soft and I ended up winning 3BIs. I am going to try and set some goals for the Week and Month and I am going to start posting my daily schedules in here as well.

CG Hands played : 686 hands NL2-10 FR - 67,778 hands NL4-10 6Max Toatal hands = 68,464
Rake: $360.12
Winnings: NL2-6Max: NL10: $10.47 + FastFoward NL4-6Max: $28.33 - NL10-6Max -$.94 + FastFoward NL10-6Max: $63.24 + Bonus/Rakeback $154 = $255.10

6Max

FR

Feburay Goals

• Play atleast 70k hands []
• Complete Time Log every day []
• Move to FT after completeing Party Bonus except if doing well in WD []
• Deposit money on BWIN to get FDB then move back to Party or FT []
• Analize database in accordence with recomendation from 2+2 artical on 3Betting []
• Do Focus Drill atleast once []
• Do hand range drill []
• Do Equity Estemation drill []
• Do Though process drill []
• Ask Cousin about work up in Mt Isa [x]
• Do up cover letter resumee [x]
• Apply for delivey driver jobs at Pizza store []
• Train hard at Gym and Rugby League []
• Play well in trials []
• Watch Vid about dream job linked by study group

Year Goals

• Improve My Game []
• Get my Ps [x] Jan
• Get a Job if its required []
• See friends more []
• Get some... []
• Travel somewhere outside of where I live []
• Move out []

Ledgend-
Red- Top Priority
Orange- Midle
Blue-Low priority

I think thats all to say I will be makeing more updates.

2/02/2013

Daily Tasks

Breakfast []
Previous Session Review []
Review Yesterdays Notes []
Grind []
Shave []
Gym []
Lunch []
Car stuff []
Read TT Blog while loeading Video []
Read 2+2 uNL Articals []
Watch PS NL Vid []
Do 30 mins of luminosity []
Look for PS Team online blog []
Do tomorrows Daily List []
Sleep []

2/02/2013

Daily Tasks

Breakfast [x]
Cashout money from Skrill [x]
Previous Session Review [x]
Review Yesterdays Notes [x]
Grind [x]
Shave [x]
Car stuff [x]
Gym [x]
Lunch [x]
Watch ESL [x]
Cover Letter and research Pizza shops [x]
Looking at Courier jobs [x]
Read TT Blog while[]
Read 2+2 uNL Articals []
Watch PS NL Vid []
Do 30 mins of luminosity [x]
Look for PS Team online blog []
Do tomorrows Daily List []
Sleep [x]

Well didnt get all that I wanted done but as Schnitzelfisch said in 1 of his Vids dont be mad if you dont get daily goals done, focus more on weekly and monthly goals, and even tho it wasent very productive poker study wise I learnt some stuff about my car and got to watch some Rugby League again the first game of the year.

With no gym 2moro I should get more done studywise.

3/02/2013

Daily Tasks

Breakfast []
Previous Session Review []
Grind []
Shave []
Lunch []
Do weakly wrap with next weeks goals []
Prioritise Goals as shown in videos []
Look at page SF linked me []
Talk to Friends about Courier Jobs []
Watch ESL []
Read TT Blog while[]
Read 2+2 uNL Articals []
Watch PS NL Vid []
Do 30 mins of luminosity []
Look for PS Team online blog []
Do tomorrows Daily List []
Sleep []

Hey All, well today I had a very unproductive day haha, well I posted a fair few hand this morning but that was about the only productive thing I did. After that I hit my 3BI stop loss in an hr hah. after that I didnt really have much time to do much else because I had to go down to my Rugby League Club and sign on after that I had a fair few free drinks with the boys from 12pm till 4pm then I went and played tennis I got spanked 6-1 6-0 and I didnt even win a game on serve then I went and got subway and went home, probs going to sleep soon since I feel very tired.

3/02/2013

Daily Tasks

Breakfast [x]
Previous Session Review [x]
Grind [x]
DL 5 songs [x]
Shave [x]
Sign on day at Arana, and have some drinks with the boys [x]
Lunch [x]
Do weakly wrap with next weeks goals []
Prioritise Goals as shown in videos []
Look at page SF linked me []
Talk to Friends about Courier Jobs []
Type up Car notes []
Watch ESL []
Read TT Blog while[]
Read 2+2 uNL Articals []
Watch PS NL Vid []
Do 30 mins of luminosity []
Look for PS Team online blog []
Do tomorrows Daily List []
Sleep [x]

4/02/2013

Daily Tasks

Breakfast []
Previous Session Review []
Grind []
Shave []
Lunch []
Do weakly wrap with next weeks goals []
Prioritise Goals as shown in videos []
Look at page SF linked me []
Talk to Friends about Courier Jobs []
Type up Car notes []
Read TT Blog while[]
Read 2+2 uNL Articals []
Watch PS NL Vid []
Do 30 mins of luminosity []
Look for PS Team online blog []
Do tomorrows Daily List []
Sleep []

Hey all, time for me to wrap last week, I know I didn’t do a weekly wrap the week before, I was pretty unmotivated to do so. I was having another 1 of those periods where I was unsure about poker I felt like my game was stagnating without any improvement, I wasn’t putting enough work in reviewing hand or studying, I was blaming on running out of time but the fact is that there was too much procrastination. The hardest part was getting excited to review hands, I have now moved this to first thing when I wake up after breakfast before I play and from Tuesday to Friday I have gotten everything I wanted done in a day, unfortunately these last 3 days have been slightly worse but I have had some RL stuff to do.

This week I have my first game of Rugby League for the Year on Saturday, it is just and Intra Club Trial but I am pretty pumped I have worked pretty hard on my fitness so I am very eager to have an impact. As for Poker hopefully this week I can maintain my productivity after today, I will have some more RL stuff to do trying to apply for some jobs since I got my Licence.

This weeks goals.

• Put some Resumees []
• Do sprint Training on Wednesday
• Look at Courier jobs on the net []
• Do a 1 of my Drill (post here what it is) []
• Particapate in Self Develmet Skype group []

Ledgend-
Red- Top Priority
Orange- Midle
Blue-Low priority

What should I where when I drop a resumee off at a place?

Today could of been more productive but it wasent to bad, I think tomoro will be better tho.

4/02/2013

Daily Tasks

Breakfast [x]
Previous Session Review [x]
Grind [x]
Shave [x]
Gym[x]
Lunch [x]
Walk down to park again and check out the damge [x]
Type up Car notes [x]
Do weakly wrap with next weeks goals [x]
Print Resumes, and preper to take them to places for tomoro [x]
Prioritise Goals as shown in videos [x]
Talk to Friends about Courier Jobs [x]
Read TT Blog [x]
Watch SF Vid [x]
Read 2+2 uNL Articals []
Watch PS NL Vid []
Do 30 mins of luminosity []
Look for PS Team online blog []
Do tomorrows Daily List []
Sleep []

5/02/2013

Daily Tasks

Breakfast []
Previous Session Review []
Grind []
Shave []
Gym[]
Pick Mum up and take her to brookside
Lunch []
Take résumés []
Separate Poker Notebooks []
Read TT Blog while loading vid
Read 2+2 uNL Articals []
Watch PS NL Vid []
Do 30 mins of luminosity []
Training []
Look for PS Team online blog []
Do tomorrows Daily List []
Sleep []

Good grief, I only just noticed you're platinum, very nicely done sir! ♠_cool:

Oh and good luck with the job hunting, it's a nightmare over here in the UK, not only that, but there's no sunny weather for sitting around in poker games in a tee shirt making people realise how unfit they are either! ♦

Again, good job hunting,

Mal.

Got everything done today so good day read an awesome artical about Value Betting, and got down to the park to do some sprints this arvo

6/02/2013

Daily Tasks

Breakfast [x]
Look at replies to yesterdays hands [x]
Grind [x]
Shave [x]
Gym [x]
RL eron [x]
Lunch [x]
Read TT Blog [x]
Read 2+2 uNL Articals [x]
Watch PS NL Vid [x]
Do 30 mins of luminosity [x]
Do tomorrows Daily List [x]
Sleep [x]

Heres 2moro

7/02/2013

Daily Tasks

Breakfast []
Review yesterdays session []
Grind []
Shave []
Gym []
Lunch []
Read TT Blog []
Read 2+2 uNL Articals []
Sprints at the park []
Watch PS NL Vid []
Do 30 mins of luminosity []
Do tomorrows Daily List []
Training []
Sleep []

Hi BigAl123456!

I noticed you were a reg on FF rather fast.

Took me a while before I noticed you were a PokerStrategy.com member

I'll be following this and probably play less hands against you

GL on the tables!

RasTweet

Originally posted by RasTweet
Hi BigAl123456!

I noticed you were a reg on FF rather fast.

Took me a while before I noticed you were a PokerStrategy.com member

I'll be following this and probably play less hands against you

GL on the tables!

RasTweet

haha yer I noticed you a few times and I thought I reconised the name from here, and GL to you 2...unless it is against me

Subscribed!

Gl with your game mate!

Thanks mate and same to you,

Just saw that my blog has a negative rateing on the forum haha, allwell haters gonna hate, maybe it is because it is boreing or maybe just somebody dosent like a music.

As for yesterday got basicly everthing I wanted done. I also got my self a job yesterday, not anything I applied for but just to clean the gym 6hrs a week, I wih I asked for more money I went and said $20/h I should of started at $30 and worked my way down.

7/02/2013

Daily Tasks

Breakfast [x]
Review yesterdays session [x]
Grind [x]
Lunch [x]
Read TT Blog [x]
Read 2+2 uNL Articals [x]
Gym [x]
Watch PS NL Vid [x]
Do 30 mins of luminosity []
Do tomorrows Daily List [x]
Training [x]
Sleep [x]

8/02/2013

Daily Tasks

Breakfast []
Review yesterdays notes []
Review yesterdays session []
Grind []
Lunch []
Work []
Read TT Blog []
Read 2+2 uNL Articals []
Watch PS NL Vid []
Do 30 mins of luminosity []
Do tomorrows Daily List []
Watch Boxing down at arana []
Sleep []

Yesterday didnt quite get through everything I wanted to do, but had my first day at new job and it went a bit overtime. I also went down to the local pub and watched some boxing with some friends, I'm not really into boxing but 2 of the fights were sports stars turned boxes, it was still pretty boreing tho.

Today I got my first Rugby League game and I am pretty pumped, it just rained a bit before but the suns out now so hopefully the rain hold off so it dosentget canceled, because there pretty nitty about the feilds for trial matches.

8/02/2013

Daily Tasks

Breakfast [x]
Review yesterdays notes [x]
Review yesterdays session [x]
Grind [x]
Lunch [x]
Work [x]
Read TT Blog while loading vid [x]
Write up Work Checklist [x]
Read 2+2 uNL Articals []
Watch PS NL Vid [x]
Do 30 mins of luminosity []
Do tomorrows Daily List []
Watch Boxing down at arana [x]
Sleep [x]

9/02/2013

Daily Tasks

Breakfast []
Review yesterdays session []
Grind []
Lunch []
Game []
Hang out after game []
Do tomorrows Daily List []
Sleep []