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Ok so, i play poker everyday but obv the best games are on in the evenings and during the night for both mtt, stt and cash players.

But obv this means that sleeping patterns are crap and eating, drinking isnt exactly the best.

My question is what are u guys doing to stop feeling like shit when you wake up in the morning etc.

So is anyone not like this? If so what do they do?

I need to stop feeling like i just died everytime i wake up in the morning afternoon!! Because obv u cannot play the best poker either when ur not feeling 100%

tyty

do you dream about poker and incessantly go over hands in your head when you go to bed?

Yup I go through cycles of being completely nocturnal. That is when I feel best but then it's hardest to have any form of normal life, go to many shops and see mates etc!


I'd guess people gonna say lots of exercise and just eat well but i'm gonna stick with my bad diet and see where it takes me.

Also gotta plan in the breaks from poker when you can and take some time away so that you have more interest/enjoyment when you are back instead of being in that back to the grind mentality if you know what I mean.

what else is there to think about?

birds

obv

blokes

she finished with me

all the more reason to think about it constantly if  you're not getting any

i just wrote off brandy as a work expense in the end, my sleep pattern is always always upside down i never minded having a wonky sleeping routine but i would have dream after dream after dream every night about poker for months and months on end, used to tilt my brain.

cash game players look like

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MTT players look like

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fk MTTs

Not sure its possible, its pretty tough to wake up at a normal time, do some sort of fitness regime, then put in a big session of like 20 torns in a night playing from say 6-12 and not be too tired etc if your going to be playing most days within a month.
Its not so bad if only playin around half the month, but if your an MTT grinder your going to be playing most days really.

Then you end up going deep in one of the late ones and your sleep patterns fked and you just end up waking up a few hours later everyday and go all the way back to where you were again.

Also, you wake up at some ridic time, and have nothing in to eat, or can't or don't have time to make anything because your playing, you just end up eating shit stuff.

This is basically how its been for last year or so for me/us. Trying to sort it a bit now, playing footy few times a week and plan to eat better and get fit again. Can only be a good thing really.

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Blimey, Mick McCool has put some weight on !

Join the Shrewdies and then just dont give a fuck

lololl, this works too.

Try to maintain a consistent routine.
This basically means getting enough sleep, in a consistent pattern every day.
You know when you want to playing sessions so just work around that.

norrrrrrrrrrrr cos of pokers?

Before or after you started cashing multai?

Your fked basically.

If you see the afternoon edition of Neighbours, congratulate yourself on a good days work and go to the pub.

when i sold my soul to the devil for good fortune at cards he sed the compromise was i wont do mornings again.     i snapped his hand off

I think you have to try and sleep like 5-1 or 6-2 and then do something active from like 1/2-5/6 like go to the gym or play tennis or golf or whatever while its daytime.

Then play poker 6pm onwards to your hearts content.

Thats the pattern iv been trying to get in for months, but it slips from time to time and is hard to recuperate.

Making a point of exercising/getting out of the house is probably the single best thing you can do.

What do you do after a session? Go straight to bed? Review the session? Unwind in some way?

What you do after is probably informing your sleep issues. If you go straight from playing to bed, whether its a winner of a loser, you have not put poker away properly. Much better to get into a habit of reviewing the session in some way (studying hands, posting hands on forums etc whatever it is you do) and taking some time out to relax with something non poker to clear your head. In an ideal world that would be going to the gym but with the hours you do that might not be possible, but watching something fun on TV (family guy is an excellent distraction), playing on a playstation etc will help clear your head.

Failing that, a good tommy tank before bed usually does the trick.

lol

My problem is, although I'm not usually in bed before 5, I wake up around 10 and can't sleep any longer. Take this morning for instance, I didn't get to bed until 4:45, but here I am again. I've been up for an hour already and it's only 9:15.....

Toby are you playing more MTT's or cash?

I'd say really make a huge effort to play a schedule that fits in with what those around you are doing, which will normally be up at 9 etc.

Maybe say to yourself that you won't play a hand until you've put a workout in. This won't mean you're playing more tired but in fact less so. You'll feel more fresh and focused once training.

I think its very difficult, but like every lifestyle you have to find the balance that suits you, self discipline ftw

after, this is wat i dont get! ;(

ty for the replys guys, i think im gunna try and go to the gym a few times a week and if not then make a point to at least walk to the shops etc. A routine sounds like the best thing for me atm

I always go straight to sleep after grinding both cash or donkaments which i agree i should get outta the habit of doing, the lappy doesnt make you feel tired so i never put it down :) some time out is needed now and again i think, tyty

The sleep problems come with being mentally tired, but not physically tired - that's an unhealthy fatigue.

As others have said, you have to make a real effort to be as active as possible - not only will it help you sleep better but will make you more awake when you're playing.

Buy a dog, after your session,take it for a walk just to clear your head then when you get up take it for a  walk/run or get a bike a let it run alongside.

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Buy a lightbox.

For me, the most important factor in poker performance is the quality of the sleep I just had. I do pretty ok when I'm feeling rested, but an amazing transformation takes place when I'm tired, every single aspect of my game goes wrong, I can't make reads properly, I go on tilt very easily, I make the perfect model of the bad player.
The juicy action found playing very late, into the wee hours would have to be amazing to make up for the dent tiredness makes to my game.
I'm supposed to be doing a postgrad in this shit, you'd think I'd have something better to say lol

Whats a lightbox?

Trying....  to.......   reply.....   but.....     ;sleep;

A bright light which mimics sunlight.

I dont keep a healthy lifestyle, i try and play tennis every now and again. My problem is all my mates work normal jobs so nobody can come out to play.
I lead a great social life tho, do all the stuff i want, i usually have friday and saturday off.

I always set the next days schedule the day before if im playing.

On the note of playing your A-game. Its 99% to do with sleep. Have a power nap (1 hour 2 hours) before a session and your game will be loads better. NEVER EVER play tired, the amount of tournies ive just donked off wanting to go to bed is astounding.

And on the girlfriend note. They dont want rich boyfriends, they want people skint so they can have the dominant edge and control the lad, most dont want an independant lad, they want a skint puppy dog they can have on a lead.

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LOL, not this.

june, believe me

what is this 'june' thing I keep hearing btw, I don't get the reference (It was about 2 years into blonde until I learnt what BOK meant so Im a bit behind with the references)

juuune

Ship it. Fuck it I'm not even gonna bother trying to get multai again now

rich boyfriends, poor boyfriends, makes not a jot of difference. What most people (and not just women, surely) want is someone to share some of their time with and do fun stuff together. No point having all the money in the world if you're spending all your time in front of a computer screen. Independence, however, is an absolute must in my book.

Just a box that you plug in that gives off a really bright white light. It's so bright that I actually find it a bit annoying to use.
Obv you use them if you're not getting enough sunlight. If you live in the UK, during the winter you're probably not getting enough sunlight. This makes some people really depressed/lethargic. They use lightboxes and it really helps. The light goes in through your eyes and skin and it tricks your brain into thinking you are living in Corfu. You feel happy.

But there is another separate problem which is down to your body clock. The brain does not have an independent fully functioning clock. It requires external 'time givers' or cues to teach it how to run like a normal clock, with a 24 hour day.  The main one is light. Other ones are social interaction, and meals, especially social meals.
So the brain is sitting there, waiting for cues to be told the time.
Normal person:
Up and out at 8: there is daylight, until 6 pm. They have meals, with other people, at 730, 1230, 1830, every day. The brain processes all this and sets its clock by it. It knows when to make you tired, to sleep, and when to make you untired, to wake. Life is good.
Poker dude:
Up and in at 1300 .One hours daylight to fetch kebab. Meals, normally alone, at varying times of day. Clock is totally ****ed.
In this instance, you could probably make use of a lightbox to help set the clock by using it at regular times, every day.

Stop press: A massive milk truck and lorry carrying sheep collided head on outside my house. The milk truck is in flames and there are police, firemen and distressed singed sheep everywhere.

mmmmmmmmmmmm barbecued lamb  ;kev;

pictures ftw

I got one to help me wake up in the morning - it comes on at a low light half an hour before the alarm goes off and gradually gets brighter (mimicing sunrise). Even though you are still asleep, your eyes can still sense the light (as your eyelids are really thin) and your body begins to get ready to wake up, so that when the alarm goes off, you're more likely to get up and out of bed, rather than just switch it off and go back to sleep.

I sleep with my curtains completely open. Is this bad for me?

When I wake up and it's dark I just don't want to ever get out of bed.

Depends what you're doing in your bedroom and if you don't mind someone standing outside, watching.

It'll probably be Barry Neville.

My bedroom is upstairs and the equivalent windows across the road are 60m away.

I like Barry Neville.

It really needs a mint sauce lorry to crash into the wreckage.

Got vid, uploading. Looking pretty baad tbh

sorry, already got warned once about posting bad bleat stories

Just a question.

Why don't you,if you are a cash player obv,just play in the day?

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTNwabW2y7Q

Truck driver just made it! Got better vids. Witnessed a masssssive argument between the polis and some journo with a huge camera, journo saying he had every right to get up close, polis saying this was overridden by their duty of care to him, also he did not have landowners permission.

looks baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad

And that's how to make a sheep go "Woof"

A ship carrying blue paint has collided with a ship carrying red paint. Both crews were marooned.

was Ernie o.k?

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ewe are so funny

This thread has gone a bit woolly now.

An elephant has shit in the main street..................treat it as a roundabout

mehhhhhhhh

Serial toilet thief strikes again. Police have absolutely nothing to go on.

plumbing new depths now

every thread turns into a joke eventually except the ones that start as a joke. fk our lives sigh

lol welcome to blonde

Is this such a good idea?  I had a dog before I got into poker and Id have thought that the amount of attention it would need for feeding, regular walks etc wouldnt be ideal for someone that may be stuck at their monitor for hours at a time without a break if theyre playing tourneys that have breaks at different times

Yeah should add a real caveat to that and make sure that whomever taking the advice is a dog person to begin with.

It depends on the games you play and the dog of course. My dog is frickin awesome, in that he just comes and sits by me when I am playing and then we have a really nice long walk, he gets knackered out, I sit and play a bit longer then take him out again (He is a lazy lab) - I know a guy with a cocker spaniel who needs to take him out 4 times a day, not the sort of mutt a an online pro should have.

My dog Kizzy jumped on to my knee while I was playing poker. In the process, she landed on the mouse and called a raise and a re-raise all in.

You shouldn't keep your mouse between the floor and your knee Tom.

lol, i was in $25 sng last week, the highest I have ever played in, 1st hand,  Ks Kh, I re-raise 90% of my chips and other person goes all in, I have 100 chips left and baby trys to eat lappy as she is sat on my lap and presses fold button. fml. I couldnt help but laugh.

Last night the batteries on my mouse were running low and I was too lazy to get off my arse and change them and the mouse started going a bit twitchy. I see raise and call infront of me on one of my tables and have suited aces and try and get there in time but the spazzy mouse flicked back to fold. I got up immediately as I didn't even wanna see the flop.

The mouse was on the arm of the settee, my elbow was in my lap, my hand on the mouse..

Get the picture?



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lol great pic Tom.

Challenger for the Trigg silver shorts photo imo

Going to a fancy dress party as the Dean there Tom?

Must have been taken pre DTD opening ... Tom only has 1 chin in that pic ! :D

I wear glasses and a hat when Im playing online too incase Im giving off any tells  :P