WARNING!!! Going pro... If you don't like hard work then GTFO!!!

Have a great holiday amigo!

Fantastic holiday!!! Back to work today (Wednesday) after 10 days off and will also get back to the tables tonight.

Have come back with extra zest and passion for life so hold onto your pants amigos!!!

House purchase is completing tomorrow so the portfolio grows - as does the work load

Originally posted by vonki
Have a great holiday amigo!

Thanks vonki - I really did thanks!!!

At last!!!

House purchase went through today!

Offer was accepted 29th September 2015 and it finally went through today!

Actually it could not have happened at a better time. Stamp duty for second homes increases TOMORROW and would have added £4000+ to the costs. Also it would have just been empty for longer so it has saved us a fortune in mortgage payments too!!!

Hi friends!

What a month March was!!!

So many fantastic things happened in March... I added another house to the property portfolio, we went on a fantastic family holiday, I had ten days of rest and recuperation (including the holiday) with my family and I also got really pumped about my personal fitness and health for reasons I will share more about in the near future.

This post is about poker results though - and they are not so good!

Figures for March 2016:-

Profit = +$160
Hours played = 55.5
Hands played = 8966
$/hr = $2.88

What can I say!? It was a very short month so hands played and hours played are the lowest of this challenge. Profit is also the lowest of the challenge (but at least it is profit right!?). As I said last month when I won $1020 there was probably some variance involved- hopefully there was some bad variance this month!

Hands commented; hands reviewed; review notes; study poker video: All of these were done to target.

Average sleep per night: 6 hours 35 minutes.
This is not as much as I would like. I think the time has come to stop looking at this and accept that six and a half hours is going to be normal for me. I will keep my eye on it but will let it be for a while now.

Times meditated: 19.
That is every single work day/poker day plus a few others. I actually feel that I am so proficient at meditating now that I can do it through the day at will (so maybe I meditate hundreds of times a month now!?). Probably one of the best things I do in my life!

Self improvement study: 15 hours.
No reading on holiday. I have a few books lined up though so April could be busy!

Journal; write gratitude list; write purpose; blog: All done to target.
Writing my gratitude list and my purpose is massive for me now, I cannot recommend it highly enough!

Summary: A great month for completing tasks but not so great for results. That, my friends, is poker and it is one of the reasons why poker is actually a great tool for life improvement!

$10,000 Journey Update

Total profit = $3469

Time is really rolling on in this challenge now. I think April is going to be a big month in deciding whether I make it or not. I have loads of (great) things planned that are more important than poker right now but I also will still devote a lot of attention to my game.

Bring on April - I am more than ready!

Congratz on the added house! Best of luck to you in April!

Hi amigos!

I am going to rebuild my website (and pimp my personal blog).

I want to share my good fortune and my zest for life with as many people as possible.

(Hopefully most of you know me well enough to know that I will not be selling anything, everything will be FREE!)

I hope this is not too cheeky but over the years some people have given me some really nice (and appreciated) comments in here and I would like to use them as testimonials on my site.

Rather than scout my blogs post by post - if anybody has a nice word or two (or sentence/paragraph) they would let me use as a testimonial then please please please write one in here or PM it to me.

Basically the idea is that people will see a good testimonial (or 10) and continue reading rather than click away.

Really appreciate anyone's help.

Thanks amigos,

Chris.

P.S. You could also email it direct to me at [Edited by Lazza6]

Hi Chris,

I have edited your post as the public posting of email addresses is not permitted under our forum principles.

Please use PMs to exchange personal contact information.

Hope you understand

Laz

Hi Lazza61!

Of course I understand! My apologies for breaking the principles. As you probably appreciate I do a bit of copy/pasting and cannot remember all the rules.

Hope I offended nobody.

Apologies,

Chris.

Originally posted by Eatyourpeas
Hi Lazza61!

Of course I understand! My apologies for breaking the principles. As you probably appreciate I do a bit of copy/pasting and cannot remember all the rules.

Hope I offended nobody.

Apologies,

Chris.

It' all good. Keep up the awesome blog.

Hi friends!

Let's take a look at what happened this week in the life of the world's happiest man!

I have had a tremendous surge of inspiration recently that is telling me to share my massive positive energy with as many people as possible (I do not know where this inspiration comes from.)

When I look around at people, almost everywhere I look I see suffering*. I cannot sit and do nothing. I will try to reach as many people as possible and share my good fortune and try to show people the route to what I will describe as heaven!

Oh, and I will not do this for money or any personal gain. Of course it will give me tremendous satisfaction to hear that even one person transformed their life with just a tiny bit of help from my work, but that is not what this is about. This is my (secondary) purpose.

So, I have a few things to work on (but this “work” is enjoyable). I need to learn how to make a website, learn how to make my blogs look better, learn how to promote my material. Also, because something I often witness is people having serious problems with addictions (thinking being the worst of them, but drugs, alcohol, sex, food and many others too), I want to help. One thing I would like to do is improve my own health and fitness beforehand. It would be a lot easier to help somebody remove a food addiction, for example, if I was lean and “ripped” myself (as opposed to my present “cuddly” state ). Most of the other addictions I have experience of and have removed (thinking being my most recent and most important “cleanse”).

I have been working on all of these things over the last two weeks. I am doing my 100 Push Up Challenge (for which I will be doing a test tonight to check progress!), I have been eating really well, I have been doing a small amount of cardio (in preparation for a large amount of cardio) and I have been researching website/blog building/promotion. And I love it all!

Let’s take a look at poker results for the week…

Due to my holiday it was only a 4 day week…

Profit = +$44
Hours played = 10
Hands played = 2016
$/hr = +$4.4/hr

In the short time I played I found some good fish to play but this week they had the better hands when we got to showdown! I like to do my bit for the poker economy and keep the fish interested!!!

I studied poker videos as previous but did not do any work on my poker notes. Sometimes something has to give to get everything done! I am not keeping records of my sleep at the moment but will rather just keep an eye on how I feel. Meditation daily as per normal (but this is for more than poker of course). Still writing gratitude list at least 5 times per week and writing out my inner and outer purpose 5 times also.

Challenge to date…

Profit = +$3507
Days gone = 154
Days to go = 125

This week we finally completed our purchase of another property for the portfolio. It took 6 months to go through but the timing could not have worked out better for us. Plenty of work to be done on it to get it to the standard we want.

For those interested in figures I now have a 50% share of:-
£1,444,000 of property
£1,096,991 of mortgages
£347,000 of equity

Not bad for a hobby that I did to get me out of the pub!!!

People who are identified with thoughts and emotion often have this question… “When is IT going to happen for me, when am I going to hit the big time?”.

It is not going to happen for you (not like this), and if the thing that you think is IT does happen for you, even that will disappoint you. It will be a fleeting sensation and, before you know it, you will be looking for the next thing to try to “complete” yourself.

That's enough rambling for this week amigos!

To your fantastic life,

Chris.

*Suffering is not as terrible as one might first think. Suffering always leads to some form of enlightenment or awakening in the end. With good teaching and self awareness, however, one can awaken quicker and without having to endure as much suffering as life situations and the human mind will bring. I used to think I suffered terribly - but it all brought me to here so it was perfect.

Originally posted by Lazza61
It' all good. Keep up the awesome blog.

Many thanks for the kind words Lazza!

Poker is such a beautiful game. It is a platform for many great lessons in life...

Results

To summarise my last few sessions... Free-fall!!!!!!!!

Over 3 sessions (10.5 hours) I have lost $197. Of course it is totally standard to lose this so I am joking (slightly). It is almost all at NL100 so it is approximately 2 buy-ins which is totally fine.

Damn Those Lucky Fish!

I have found some great action at the tables (when you see me write "great action" I mean "fish galore"!!!) but over the past week (maybe longer?) the fish have been realising their equity (of course I want to write "getting lucky" here but if I put it as "realising their equity" I feel a whole lot better about it!).

Fish In Action

My favourite hand was when fish min 3bet me so I 4bet big with my QQ and he called. Flop was A84 rainbow and he over bet donk jammed around 1.5x the pot so I snapped him off. He had 75 suited (does suited bit matter!?) and hit his gut-shot on the turn. My how I laughed !!

Lessons

So at the moment the run is just not in my direction. I have no problem with that at all and I understand it is all part of the game and my time will return.

I will just stay present, play to the best of my ability (given my current state) and when the luck turns better I will crush this NL100 and crush paying for our holidays!!!

If there is a big positive to take from this (and there always is) it is that all things that seem "bad" on the surface are in fact perfect. I use times like this as lessons, like they are my teachers. Any resistance to what is - what is happening and what is possible in this world - is futile. Learn, grow, be and thrive.

Poker is perfect for firstly learning your areas of weakness and then secondly for observing them and progressing in life. It can be brutal if you are an unconscious person, especially if you are not in control of your mind. Be present, observe your mind (and the tricks it plays on you), focus and crush.

Have a good few days amigos. Life is fantastic - enjoy it NOW!!!

Chris.

I really support your way of thinking about life!
Keep it up and thanks for the positivity and motivational vibes you send over every single time!

Fitness, Weight, Health

As I spoke about before I want to help people to live better lives. Some of this will involve exercise and a lot of it will involve mental health. I need to get my act together before trying to help others achieve change. As I said in my short article before "Be the change you would like to see" (attributed to Gandhi).

My mental health is tip-top at the moment but my physical health needs a kick in the butt!

I looked up my ideal weight for my height...

Height v Weight Chart (NHS UK)

I am 5'11" (180cm) so the top end of my "healthy weight" is around 12st 10lb (80.7kg).

I am currently 14st (88.9kg) so I would like to lose 1st 4lb (8.2kg).

(Just to say here I know these charts do not work for everyone but I am Mr.Average so it should be close for me)

I could lose that weight by juice fasting but this time I want to build up strength and fitness at the same time.

To start I will jump rope (skip) because if I start running straight away my old knees will start causing me havoc!!!

I am also doing my challenge to do 100 consecutive push-ups. I will add the video of how many I can do now later this week!

Martial Arts

I am feeling a drive to take up martial arts again. I think it is because it is a great way to be healthy both physically and mentally. It would be good for me to get really good at a martial art - so good I could train other people. That is something I would love to do actually. I think there are tonnes of mental benefits to martial arts on top of the obvious health benefits.

I am going to join a Wing Chun class and see how I like it. Of course time is a very big obstacle to me but I overcame time before and will do it again

Poker Results for Week 24

Hit a rough patch lately...

A full week of losing this week

Week 24 profit/loss = -$150

I am running into some bad variance lately. Since I got back from holiday in fact. Last two sessions were actually a bit better though so hopefully this is already turning around and can go on and crush April

$10,000 Journey Graph to date

As you can see it has been very flat line for 25 days or so now.

As I say, I am fairly confident at the moment I am just running bad so I am not going to change anything for the short term. If it goes on for another 10 days though I will start to tear a few things apart to find out whether it is me or my schedule or what it might be!!

Website

Have improved navigation on here this week and made some amendments to articles posted. Have got a lot of things on my “must do” list for the website so need to get time management skills back into focus!

Mind

More great steps here. I am now becoming warrior like in my observation of my mind. When I see my mind taking over and starting to tell its stories I now notice it a lot quicker. I just cut myself immediately to the present moment and the thoughts dissolve. I refuse to be identified by past or future and live only for the present moment. I am aligned to and surrender to what is. Heavenly!

Have a great week!

To your fantastic life,

Chris.

Originally posted by KoeNe4U
I really support your way of thinking about life!
Keep it up and thanks for the positivity and motivational vibes you send over every single time!

Hi! It really is great to hear you say this - thank you so much for commenting and I glad you agree!!!

Hello I wanted to know something about BPC and than I saw this Blog. I read almost everything and you are very inspiring. Keep up the great work I have one question. Do you think that BPC is a one in life time opportunity? I am relatively young and start to working in a 9 to 5 Job this year, but also think about CFP. I love poker and want to get better and become so good as I can, but I don`t now if that is the Chance or the right Way to go ( At least now). Also I'am a little bit scared, because you have a great work ethic and it didn't work for you. So if you can't do it who can? And what was with the security deposit? Do you get it back or not? I would love to hear form you I wish you a nice day
( PM: Sorry for my bad English )

Sincerely,

DerScavenger

Winning?

3 days = +$27

Well it isn't "crushing" but it’s a step in the right direction!

I have played a bit better the last 3 days. I still make some stupid (and expensive) mistakes on the river though. I rush my decision sometimes and my thought process just completely disappears. I go into “clicking buttons” mode and will make a call based on a thought like “just in case he is bluffing” rather than the logical decision “he could be bluffing here but I need him to be bluffing 33% of the time to make a profitable call”.

I think this usually happens later in my sessions. I can excuse myself slightly when I consider this is always at the end of an extremely long day. On the other hand I have been doing this long enough and should be able to control it.

Part of my warm up now is to remind myself to give myself some space. That means when I need to make a decision I take a little bit longer and allow myself to make a conscious decision rather than a rushed unconscious one. The fact I have noticed the actual problem here gives me a great chance of overcoming it. I won’t fight it as such, I will just watch it arise and give it space to disappear again.

Bad Beats

Although I am not affected mentally by bad beats I thought it would be fun to post a couple! These two hands happened within seconds of each other with only 5 minutes of my session to go. They turned a 3 hour grind into a losing session rather than a nice winning one…

Hand #1 - Tripped up!

Hero (SB): 92.2 BB
BB: 58.32 BB

Hero posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has A♣ A♠

Hero raises to 3 BB, BB calls 2 BB

Flop: (6 BB, 2 players) T♣ 9♠ 3♥
BB checks, Hero bets 4.5 BB, BB raises to 55.32 BB and is all-in, Hero calls 49.82 BB

Turn: (114.64 BB, 2 players) T♥

River: (114.64 BB, 2 players) J♥

Hero shows A♣ A♠ (Two Pair, Aces and Tens)
(Pre 81%, Flop 80%, Turn 5%)
BB shows 6♦ T♦ (Three of a Kind, Tens)
(Pre 19%, Flop 20%, Turn 95%)
BB wins 113.64 BB

Pretty standard hand. This guy had just sat me and nothing special happened other than him buying in with a broken stack (so I assume he is a fish). Once he jams the flop here it is never (well hardly ever!) a nutted hand. Fish prefer to trick you with the nuts and they are scared you will fold.

Tip: If this happens to you do not call it a bad beat (unless you are writing a blog) just say to yourself “oh that’s cool, he realised his equity”!!! Unfortunately he sat out immediately he won the hand so no chance to get it back. That was when I smashed the window!

Hand #2 - Tripped up again!?

Hero (SB): 117.42 BB
BB: 20.98 BB

Hero posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has Q♠ Q♦

Hero raises to 3 BB, BB calls 2 BB

Flop: (6 BB, 2 players) 6♠ J♥ 4♥
BB checks, Hero bets 4.26 BB, BB raises to 17.98 BB and is all-in, Hero calls 13.72 BB

Turn: (41.96 BB, 2 players) J♠

River: (41.96 BB, 2 players) 3♣

Hero shows Q♠ Q♦ (Two Pair, Queens and Jacks)
(Pre 86%, Flop 76%, Turn 5%)
BB shows J♦ 8♥ (Three of a Kind, Jacks)
(Pre 14%, Flop 24%, Turn 95%)
BB wins 39.64 BB

Very standard hand. Due to small stacks he can have a wide range here and there is no "mistake". It was just funny that it happened within seconds of the other hand. Fortunately the window was already smashed so I was okay by then!

$10,000 Journey

Here is the graph of the journey so far

100 Push-up Challenge

I am currently trying to get myself in superhuman shape! I would like to be able to do 100 consecutive push ups. In my initial test a couple of weeks ago I managed to do 21 (I was happy with that!). Take a look at the video of my test after 2 weeks of training. Before judging (also known as laughing at me) please remember I am a 45 year old office worker.

Weight

I am trying to get down to 178lbs (80.7kg). I am jumping rope (skipping) and doing my push-ups and eating better (and less).

I feel it is going well so far. Still a way to go!

That’s it for today amigos!

To your fantastic life!

Chris.

Originally posted by DerScavenger
Hello I wanted to know something about BPC and than I saw this Blog. I read almost everything and you are very inspiring. Keep up the great work I have one question. Do you think that BPC is a one in life time opportunity? I am relatively young and start to working in a 9 to 5 Job this year, but also think about CFP. I love poker and want to get better and become so good as I can, but I don`t now if that is the Chance or the right Way to go ( At least now). Also I'am a little bit scared, because you have a great work ethic and it didn't work for you. So if you can't do it who can? And what was with the security deposit? Do you get it back or not? I would love to hear form you I wish you a nice day
( PM: Sorry for my bad English )

Sincerely,

DerScavenger

Hi DerScavenger! Thanks for the positive comments, really appreciate that!

I have nothing bad to say about Gordon and BPC. It did not work out for me but then my hunger to make money or be a poker genius is actually very small so in a way why would it work for me?

I think my best comment would be that if you can get involved and be in contact with Gordon then yes it could be a once in a lifetime opportunity. Gordon is a fantastic mentor IF you want to be rich and possibly also if you want to be the best you can be.

Feel free to hit me up privately for more information or ask in here.

Thanks again,

Chris.

Originally posted by Eatyourpeas

14/04/2016 - Bad Beats and Winning???

Winning?

3 days = +$27

Well it isn't "crushing" but it’s a step in the right direction!

I have played a bit better the last 3 days. I still make some stupid (and expensive) mistakes on the river though. I rush my decision sometimes and my thought process just completely disappears. I go into “clicking buttons” mode and will make a call based on a thought like “just in case he is bluffing” rather than the logical decision “he could be bluffing here but I need him to be bluffing 33% of the time to make a profitable call”.

I think this usually happens later in my sessions. I can excuse myself slightly when I consider this is always at the end of an extremely long day. On the other hand I have been doing this long enough and should be able to control it.

Part of my warm up now is to remind myself to give myself some space. That means when I need to make a decision I take a little bit longer and allow myself to make a conscious decision rather than a rushed unconscious one. The fact I have noticed the actual problem here gives me a great chance of overcoming it. I won’t fight it as such, I will just watch it arise and give it space to disappear again.

Bad Beats

Although I am not affected mentally by bad beats I thought it would be fun to post a couple! These two hands happened within seconds of each other with only 5 minutes of my session to go. They turned a 3 hour grind into a losing session rather than a nice winning one…

Hand #1 - Tripped up!

Hero (SB): 92.2 BB
BB: 58.32 BB

Hero posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has A♣ A♠

Hero raises to 3 BB, BB calls 2 BB

Flop: (6 BB, 2 players) T♣ 9♠ 3♥
BB checks, Hero bets 4.5 BB, BB raises to 55.32 BB and is all-in, Hero calls 49.82 BB

Turn: (114.64 BB, 2 players) T♥

River: (114.64 BB, 2 players) J♥

Hero shows A♣ A♠ (Two Pair, Aces and Tens)
(Pre 81%, Flop 80%, Turn 5%)
BB shows 6♦ T♦ (Three of a Kind, Tens)
(Pre 19%, Flop 20%, Turn 95%)
BB wins 113.64 BB

Pretty standard hand. This guy had just sat me and nothing special happened other than him buying in with a broken stack (so I assume he is a fish). Once he jams the flop here it is never (well hardly ever!) a nutted hand. Fish prefer to trick you with the nuts and they are scared you will fold.

Tip: If this happens to you do not call it a bad beat (unless you are writing a blog) just say to yourself “oh that’s cool, he realised his equity”!!! Unfortunately he sat out immediately he won the hand so no chance to get it back. That was when I smashed the window!

Hand #2 - Tripped up again!?

Hero (SB): 117.42 BB
BB: 20.98 BB

Hero posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has Q♠ Q♦

Hero raises to 3 BB, BB calls 2 BB

Flop: (6 BB, 2 players) 6♠ J♥ 4♥
BB checks, Hero bets 4.26 BB, BB raises to 17.98 BB and is all-in, Hero calls 13.72 BB

Turn: (41.96 BB, 2 players) J♠

River: (41.96 BB, 2 players) 3♣

Hero shows Q♠ Q♦ (Two Pair, Queens and Jacks)
(Pre 86%, Flop 76%, Turn 5%)
BB shows J♦ 8♥ (Three of a Kind, Jacks)
(Pre 14%, Flop 24%, Turn 95%)
BB wins 39.64 BB

Very standard hand. Due to small stacks he can have a wide range here and there is no "mistake". It was just funny that it happened within seconds of the other hand. Fortunately the window was already smashed so I was okay by then!

$10,000 Journey

Here is the graph of the journey so far

100 Push-up Challenge

I am currently trying to get myself in superhuman shape! I would like to be able to do 100 consecutive push ups. In my initial test a couple of weeks ago I managed to do 21 (I was happy with that!). Take a look at the video of my test after 2 weeks of training. Before judging (also known as laughing at me) please remember I am a 45 year old office worker.

Weight

I am trying to get down to 178lbs (80.7kg). I am jumping rope (skipping) and doing my push-ups and eating better (and less).

I feel it is going well so far. Still a way to go!

That’s it for today amigos!

To your fantastic life!

Chris.

Originally posted by DerScavenger
Hello I wanted to know something about BPC and than I saw this Blog. I read almost everything and you are very inspiring. Keep up the great work I have one question. Do you think that BPC is a one in life time opportunity? I am relatively young and start to working in a 9 to 5 Job this year, but also think about CFP. I love poker and want to get better and become so good as I can, but I don`t now if that is the Chance or the right Way to go ( At least now). Also I'am a little bit scared, because you have a great work ethic and it didn't work for you. So if you can't do it who can? And what was with the security deposit? Do you get it back or not? I would love to hear form you I wish you a nice day
( PM: Sorry for my bad English )

Sincerely,

DerScavenger

Hi DerScavenger! Thanks for the positive comments, really appreciate that!

I have nothing bad to say about Gordon and BPC. It did not work out for me but then my hunger to make money or be a poker genius is actually very small so in a way why would it work for me?

I think my best comment would be that if you can get involved and be in contact with Gordon then yes it could be a once in a lifetime opportunity. Gordon is a fantastic mentor IF you want to be rich and possibly also if you want to be the best you can be.

Feel free to hit me up privately for more information or ask in here.

Thanks again,

Chris.

I am also thinking about the BPC lately. You can do the CFP at your own pace, so seeing your results so far Chris, I really don't get why it did not work out for you?? Can you tell me what were your main obstacles then? And, besides the loss of your security deposit, did you have to pay some extra to get rid of the contract?

Thanks in advance for answering these questions an keep up the good work and mentality. I can see a bright future for you in the next 20k hands

Hi guys, lots of questions about CFP @ BPC coming lately!

Some POSSIBLE reasons it did not work out for me:-
I already am at work 10.5 hours 5 days per week and 5 hours on Saturday
I have a family (2 young children)
I had to sleep only 4.5 hours per night to get the work done (CFP was stricter in my time)
My brain had no "room" to perform.
Lack of belief.
Coach and student relationship not good enough/not suited.
Getting coached by more than one person was very bad FOR ME (even from the beginning it was Gordon v Ilidek and they had differing views on many things).

I don't really know and I do not think about it too much. I am happy and have no complaints about it.

I will point out there are a hell of a lot of other people for whom it also did not work out.

I did not get my security deposit back but then I did not ask for it. I had no profit to share really so for what I did get over the period €500 was a fair price!

Overall would I recommend it? If you can work with Gordon and you have time then yes. If not then probably no. I don't know who coaches there now but nobody of note other than at PLO and SNG as far as I am aware.

Hope that helps, feel free to ask more.

Thanks for the answers and the PM So 500 was a fair prize . Did you kept at least a half of you profit or only the experience? The say in their Videos that everybody can do it with their System. But now you say that their have different approaches to many things. If their have one System witch could work for everybody, they should have the same opinion on the most parts. Or is the thought wrong?
How much time I need, so that the program works for me? I think that e.g. 4.5 h sleep is not good for me. Do you think, that a normal 9 to 5 Job and CFP is makable, without a family? I would love to hear from you.

Sincerely DerScavenger

Poker Results

This week I made a very small profit of $18. Volume was very poor over the week, in fact I only played 13.75 hours. This weekend I had a rare opportunity for a night out with Helen (thanks to mother-in-law offering to look after the kids) so I lost a night at the tables. So the lack of hours coupled with still running a bit poor I was “happy” to make a profit at all.

Again I had some great EV+ fish to play but it was just not happening for me. I even had one guy who would open fold the flop if he completely missed it! He bought in with 100bb and by the time I had stacked him the poker site had taken 50bb leaving me the other 50bb. Terrible player but if they hit flushes and full houses it takes a while to beat them!

Redline

I did notice recently that my redline (shows money won without seeing the showdown) was sloping down a lot again. This is what usually happens when I am not fully focused OR if I get a bit lazy. I should really have a fairly flat redline with my play style so have been looking to make sure I am picking dead money up.

Here is redline graph for last 2000 hands…

You can see how I lost/gave away around $200 in the first 1100 hands by not taking the easy money. I got back onto it in the last 1200 hands and it looks much better. Sample is small but nice to see immediate positive result!

Overall, during this run I am just trying to keep patient at the tables. Keep doing what I know, not getting frustrated, accepting what is and it will turn around again soon enough.

$10,000 Journey

This break even stretch has gone on for quite a number of days now! Something like 40 days now of the flat line. In terms of hands played it is only around 15000 hands though. That is super standard for variance. Even over 100,000 hands you cannot guarantee to realise a true win rate. Hence, nothing to worry about here.

Of course this break even stretch is damaging my chances of hitting my target of making $10,000 profit by 1st August very difficult now. I am hoping that NL100 is going to start treating me a bit better soon and I can have a couple of rip-roaring months to get me nearer to the target. Still got 110 days or so left so let’s make it happen!

Here is the graph so far…

Send me some run goooood!!!

Health, fitness, weight

Martial Arts

Tonight I am going for a complimentary class of Wing Chun Kung Fu!!! I have been itching to get back to martial arts for a long time now but have concentrated my efforts in other areas. I trained in Tae Kwon Do for 3 or 4 years before and I think getting back into martial arts is going to be great for my physical and my mental health. I am really excited about this, it is a new direction of martial art for me but I can’t make the timetable of my old TKD school and something is pulling me to Wing Chun so will try it out - cannot wait to give it a go!

Weight

Weight has remained the same this week which is fine.

Still got lots to lose but I hurt my achilles somehow this week AND I really struggled with my pushups. I actually have had two attempts at repeating a workout that I completed a week ago and have not been able to do it. Basically I am at a stage where I am trying to do 120 push ups split (unevenly) over 5 sets with 90 seconds rest between sets. I did this particular workout once (my ninth pushup workout overall) but was not satisfied with my form so went to do it again 2 days later and fell short by 2 push ups in the last set. Then I tried it again another 2 days later and fell short in set 4 by 2 pushups and fell short in set 5 by 4 pushups. Was in agony and had to stop to prevent risk of injury. I am having a rest period in case it is because my muscles are fatigued. Will probably not push up at all for 4 days.

Old Age

We had a leak in our kitchen at the beginning of the weekend! On Sunday I pulled out the cooker, the dishwasher and the washing machine to find the leak. I could not believe the gunk and the mess that had collected behind there but it is under work tops so has not been touched for 8 years!!! Disgusting! Anyway, fortunately it was a pipe that was leaking (rather than needing a new machine) so after all the cleaning up was done we went out and got a replacement hose and fingers crossed all is good now!

After fixing that I decided to attack our garden! I have never had any desire whatsoever to do any gardening (Helen loves it) but our garden is under siege from wild garlic! It is incredible stuff as it gets EVERYWHERE. So I spent a couple of hours digging it out and dumping it in our waste bin (so much so that I think they will refuse to empty it). Then I quickly cleaned my car with help from the kids. We all got absolutely soaking wet of course.

Once I stopped “working” I started to seize up within minutes! I was washing my hands in the bathroom and caught myself in the mirror. I said to myself “Crikey Chris, you are 45 not 25 mate, you gotta take it a bit easier kiddo!!!”. It was all good fun though, just will probably ache a bit tomorrow eh!!?

That’s it for this week folks, next time I hope to have another push ups video and I am writing an article along the lines of “How To Be Happy” which I will share with you as soon as it is done.

Have a great few days.

To your fantastic life,

Chris.

Originally posted by DerScavenger
Thanks for the answers and the PM So 500 was a fair prize . Did you kept at least a half of you profit or only the experience? The say in their Videos that everybody can do it with their System. But now you say that their have different approaches to many things. If their have one System witch could work for everybody, they should have the same opinion on the most parts. Or is the thought wrong?
How much time I need, so that the program works for me? I think that e.g. 4.5 h sleep is not good for me. Do you think, that a normal 9 to 5 Job and CFP is makable, without a family? I would love to hear from you.

Sincerely DerScavenger

Yes I think it is possible with 9-5 and no family. But it is not guaranteed. I still think it is very short on 60k success stories to strongly recommend it. And to say everybody can do it is blatantly wrong. There are some good stories though! Tough one for you, sorry I cannot help more!

Results

Much better results from the last 3 sessions!!!

Profit = +$78
Hours played = 6.75

Of course nothing changed - just on the better side of variance! At last!!!

The Poker Gods Love Me Again!!!

Seems a long time since I won a big pot so here is couple from last night…

Hand #1 - Gotta Love The River Card!

This guy was very passive and also likes to slow play (small sample). This was the first time I had seen him betting aggressively like this so I felt that AA/KK was quite possible.

Versus this guy had I not hit 2 pair on the river then I would almost certainly need to fold.

Hand #2 - Hitting The Nuts Versus Spew Monkey!

This guy was bonkers! Lots of crazy over-bets and raises.

I wanted to raise him somewhere and make some bets myself but I was also happy to let him spew rather than find a fold.

I did not expect him to call a hand that weak on the river so I probably could have raised him earlier as it turns out.

Disappearing Action???

This last few days I have found very little action at the heads-up tables. I know a lot of people are talking about the imminent death of heads-up poker but I have not really noticed much difference (other than losing Pokerstars) until these recent sessions.

Hopefully it is just a blip. If it continues long term I am prepared to move back to 6 max.

Variance

Of course Lady Variance did not let me completely off the hook!

Here a fish manages to give me brain ache…

I know this guy can limp/call 99 preflop and he also called 3rd pocket pair on the flop and 4th pocket pair on the turn.

Passive station = perfecto!!!

River is an easy bet/fold against him but hell it hurts when they have an over pair!!!

Another window smashed!!!

$10,000 Journey Progress

Nice to see a little upturn at last but it is too small!!! Need to see a massive upward slope and SOON!!!!

Weight

Dropped 2.75 pounds in 3 days which has come mostly from eating healthily with a small amount of exercise…

Very happy!

100 Push-up Challenge

Just took four days off push-ups. I was struggling to do my workout so decided to rest muscles.

Did a workout last night. Went back a step and just about managed to complete it without chest and shoulders exploding!

Martial Arts

Went to my free introductory class of Wing Chun Kung Fu on Monday night!

Totally loved it!

It was very different to the Tae Kwon Do training I did previously. Not better or worse, just very different.

I will be signing up for regular classes for sure, starting next Monday.

So that was a fantastic few days! May it all continue!

See you next week amigos.

To your fantastic life,

Chris.