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Gl with your goals mate!

[iRaise]

Enjoyable Sunday back on the virtual felt in Hungary. Won a EPT Package for around 6k but more importantly had a lot of deep runs, SWU, .FRSWU, Million, cashed a few other things, bubbled a few, had really good stacks everywhere and felt like I played a solid 7/10.

Made a bet that by WSOP I am in the best fitness position of my life, will be working really hard. Obviously everybody posts this at the start of the year, but I offered 50% of my WSOP 2016 Main event at 1.0 markup, so I'm pretty incentivised to grind my ass off in and out of the gym.

This year will be all about being wellthy. WELLthy, I will eat well, train well and try to sleep well. The plan was always to start from January 4th and I'll send some pictures to the guy and do a run tomorrow and see how far/fast I can do without wanting to stop. A lot of this has been about self drive, I will try to build that up too.

Looking forward a lot to this.

Wellthy is such a good term. How are you measuring your fitness etc?

[pleno1]

Hey mate, not really sure yet to be honest. This is week 1 of 20, im simply just trying to be healthier. Im not eating anything bad at all, nice healthy food and fruit and I'm going to go to the gym 3 times.

At the gym I won't do that much, I'll run a bit, do some legs and then do some upper body stuff. I want to just get in the routine of being healthy initially instead of going crazy from day one.

From next week ( Monday) I'll start with putting more emphasis on structure. I'll go to the gym 3 times again but with some more structure of exactly how it will work.

By week 5 I'll hopefully improved fitness to a stage where I start working on individual parts of the body with special focus, right now I'm just trying to change the very bad habits that I've become accustomed to over the last couple of years. I was once probably the fittest guy most people knew. I was 5ft5 at 16 and running athletics/long distance cross country nationally. I was naturally fit and I think if I just try to tweak my body back into the right gears then I'll hopefully be OK.

In terms of measuring fitness, not sure exactly to be honest. Will think more at the end of the week and start becoming more concrete rather than just "don't eat fries and chcocolate" "don't drink fizzy drinks" "try to be in the gym for 30 minutes a day 3 days a week"

Do you think this approach is bad?

[iRaise]

Hey mate, not really sure yet to be honest. This is week 1 of 20, im simply just trying to be healthier. Im not eating anything bad at all, nice healthy food and fruit and I'm going to go to the gym 3 times.

At the gym I won't do that much, I'll run a bit, do some legs and then do some upper body stuff. I want to just get in the routine of being healthy initially instead of going crazy from day one.

From next week ( Monday) I'll start with putting more emphasis on structure. I'll go to the gym 3 times again but with some more structure of exactly how it will work.

By week 5 I'll hopefully improved fitness to a stage where I start working on individual parts of the body with special focus, right now I'm just trying to change the very bad habits that I've become accustomed to over the last couple of years. I was once probably the fittest guy most people knew. I was 5ft5 at 16 and running athletics/long distance cross country nationally. I was naturally fit and I think if I just try to tweak my body back into the right gears then I'll hopefully be OK.

In terms of measuring fitness, not sure exactly to be honest. Will think more at the end of the week and start becoming more concrete rather than just "don't eat fries and chcocolate" "don't drink fizzy drinks" "try to be in the gym for 30 minutes a day 3 days a week"

Do you think this approach is bad?

I don't think 'bad' is the word. Just vague. In my experience vague is tough to stick to. It is like anything.

I set targets for my main three lifts

Deadlift
Squat
Over head press

Then everything else around it is to make sure I hit those targets. I have also set a 1km sprint time and a 5km time to do. Just for some variety. And obviously really want to do a backflip by the end of the year.

Health is so subjective though, to say I want to be healthy, what does that mean? You could say it is just feeling better, performing better etc. But feels like an 'easy' way out to just say I want to be healthy.

I think it may be easier for me as I can construct a training program, so I know I am going to be balanced throughout the body so I am going to have a much lower risk of injury. For me, being healthy is being injury free because I love training so much. But everyone has a different definition or vision in their head.

I feel that post has been ironically vague, but having specific targets will definitely help you and of course realistic ones. I know some people would say aim high and if you miss, you are still hitting something blah blah, but with your body it is so easy to quit mentally, just take little wins at a time. 

[pleno1]

Been a great week so far. I took all of the week off to study and work. It was very enjoyable, I went over 20-30hhs, did a lot of math work and did a lot of coaching with our horses. A lot of things just feel very built in now and I'm really confident. I think doing intensive study like this every 6 weeks or so is really important. I'm very motivated to grind and succeed this year, around 3 months ago European wrote to me about doing some piosolver work and I told him it was pointless I had lost a lot of drive then, I had a very good WCOOP and he challenge of grinding daily freezesouts playing for $5k just wasn't very attractive to me at all at the time, I was starting to really question the ev of playing tournaments from both a $ and life ev stance.

I think this is the problem a lot of the super high roller guys will have, they will get fed up eventually of the grind and then it's very hard to turn back to online poker because of the relative stakes. I think a lot of the guys, especially the Germans have been getting crushed online since their transition and a lot of it is down to not wanting to play lower stakes. I spoke to one who said that he just jumped into high stakes cap and thought because he was a specialist in MTts he would win all the money, not only did he not win all the monies but he's also far from an MTT specialist too.

Ive said all along that the biggest three parts of this year for me will be SCOOP, Vegas and WCOOP, everything else is relatively insignificant. This is really dangerous for me because last year I put in my mind how important SCOOP and Monte Carlo were and I completely bricked them and started this mini depression I got from wanting everything on the forums to think I was the goat. Being in MTTs is high variance in itself, being in MTTs and having everything documented daily in a diary and having somewhat of an ego is definitely higher variance! I allowed a lot of this to get to me last year and finally I got over it. There was a few guys playing these SHRs that I found myself massively disliking very likely out of jealousy of the success they had managed one way or another and I was very immature about it. I wrote to them this week and apologized. I feel like I acted like a bit of a kid at school bad mouthing these guys behind their back to my peers so I wanted to get that off my chest to them and I guess to the blog too where I've always tried to be very honest.

I was basically a lazy, jealous, huffy, egotistical immature guy 6 months ago. Who knows maybe I still am now, or maybe I still will be again if I run portly over a pretty realistic stretch of time. Knowing I have those faults at least allows me to work on them and try to improve.

I'm obviously my biggest critic but I think it's very important to be self aware and self critical otherwise improving is very difficult. Hopefully in 6 months time I look back at how I am right now and find ways where I think I've improved.

I'm starting to understand relatively clearly how I want to expand out of poker and understand the things I'm good at outside of poker. Initially when I invested in things I was very hands off and not super understanding of what was going on. I think my view and understanding on investments now is a lot clearer and actually most of the stuff I learned whilst at PokerStrategy.com is really helping me now maximize returns in the companies im currently invested in. There's one big investment I will potentially be doing soon and that will be a big challenge depending on how hands on I want to be. Moving forward I basically want to be a hands on investor in a bunch of different companies and work everyday on all of them whilst having managers/CEOs being on top of all the day to day work. Essentially I want to be the decision maker on a business strategical level for the company top to bottom and allow others to work on the things I'm not as interested or passionate about. I will look into how benefiting further education will be and try and make a decision about that sometime this year, likely after Vegas and WCOOP finishes. Luckily for me I think I've realized where I excel and where I do well and perhaps critically what i don't do well at all and don't add value.

Watched "making a murderder" this week, I think it was a little bit overrated to be honest, I guess compared to fictional shows it will always seem less "exciting"
Or "entertaining" but I think it was stretched over too many episodes.


Sorry for the random post, I'll end it with a little bit of a strategical question that may get some discussion going.

Cut off raises 2.5x off 40bbs, we defend bb. We call 54dd
Flop is KJ4fd he cbets 3.2bbs, we call, we raise or we fold? And why?

Same scenario but KJ4r (no bdfd) we call, we raise or we fold? And why?

[PathFinder]

I would raise in the first scenario as our equity is around 40-45% vs any single pair, plus he might fold jx any any PP under a King plus maybe any weak Kx so we have decent fold equity to go with our actual equity. Plus we are 40bb deep so unlikely villian will just shove over our raise.

We can check raise KJ/K4/44/J4 so we can rep nutted hands also. "Taking control of the pot" I also feel is an advantage rather than chk/call as villian can chk turn with his middle range and bluff catch us on river.

2nd scenario I would just fold as our equity vs villian range is significantly reduced without an fd or even a bdfd. So our hand is difficult to raise and barrel or even call another street after the flop.

[Pinchop73]

I think you know your best skill is playing poker, not re distributing your wealth in all types of different sectors that you have comparitively little knowledge or experience. Maybe your 'investments' will make a reasonable return, but if you can become King at something, you will never need to worry again.

Yes you can diversify your portfolio, don't put all your eggs into one basket etc etc. Imo this thought process is born out of fear that you can't be the absolute best at what it is you put your mind to, and little to do with protecting yourself. It's like putting an ambulance at the bottom of a cliff. Work hard and concentrate on that which your best at, and you'll never need to worry when that cliff edge appears.

I trust you will understand that I only provide my opinion simply because I want to see you become the best you possibly can be.

[Pinchop73]

Cut off raises 2.5x off 40bbs, we defend bb. We call 54dd
Flop is KJ4fd he cbets 3.2bbs, we call, we raise or we fold? And why?

Same scenario but KJ4r (no bdfd) we call, we raise or we fold? And why?

I'm by no means a pro as you well know, so thought I'd provide you with the thought process of someone who isn't. Not many of us round anymore though so probably useless to you but w/e :p

Both scenario's are completely dependant on villains competentcy, but assuming it's a reasonably dece reg...

Scenario 1 I would c/c flop. I feel like we have too much equity and too much of a range advantage to risk folding out the low equity parts of his range that he doubles with

Scenario 2, is lots more difficult, I would probably fold vs most in the current climate

[POWWWWWWWW]

Cut off raises 2.5x off 40bbs, we defend bb. We call 54dd
Flop is KJ4fd he cbets 3.2bbs, we call, we raise or we fold? And why?

Same scenario but KJ4r (no bdfd) we call, we raise or we fold? And why?

I'm by no means a pro as you well know, so thought I'd provide you with the thought process of someone who isn't. Not many of us round anymore though so probably useless to you but w/e :p

Both scenario's are completely dependant on villains competentcy, but assuming it's a reasonably dece reg...

Scenario 1 I would c/c flop. I feel like we have too much equity and too much of a range advantage to risk folding out the low equity parts of his range that he doubles with

Scenario 2, is lots more difficult, I would probably fold vs most in the current climate

I hardly play NL 6-10 handed but assuming players open co 30%ish(no idea if this is accurate anymore) obv depending on the btn, and we are defending 65%ish (guessing) co has a pretty significant range vs range advantage and a small range vs specific hand (4d5d) advantage on this board.

[Pinchop73]

Based on current population tendencies I think 30% is an over estimation. Our range includes significantly more kings and jacks

[POWWWWWWWW]

The tighter you make his range, the bigger his range advantage becomes.

[pleno1]

Agg co rfi is around 33%, I'm defending around 70%, probably 55% calls.

Raiser has range advantage that's for sure, not necessarily meaning we should fold because of that though.

[Pinchop73]

I see the definition now. Although we have a greater quantity of kings and jacks, his are stronger as a percentage of his total range.

Anyways, apologies on bringing you guys back to 2011. As you were

[KingPush]

what does the rest of our range look like? If you are saying the fd is diamonds then it's prob a mix of calling and raising/stacking off. Calling the rainbow flop

[POWWWWWWWW]

I'd be playing a mix strat of c/c and c/r although I'm not sure how to go about working out frequencies (don't own a bit of paid for GTO software). I'd assume they would be based on villains cbet and barrel frequencies. Also how much weighting we put behind our pre flop 3bet strat. I feel c/r becomes a much more desirable option when we have a less than 100% 3bet with the top 7%~ of our range. As we'd now have more pure value hands and every suited combo the board slides closer to a neutral range advantage.

The non fd version of the hand I think is just a fold. Q9bdfd,A/2/3/5bdfd gets interesting.