My Poker Journal

Recap for today:
2 work bouts at library (3.25 hours), I did come come between bouts cuz I forgot to bring food

Played 3.25 hours of live poker today

PT exercises done

was super tired today. didn't get to bed on time last night.

Recap for today:
woke up at 9:30a

2 work bouts at library (2.25 hours of contract work)

PT appt

cooked dinner

watched youtube and stuff, didn't set ban so mixed feelings about this.

I think doing the no expectations work showed me that having a set wake up time and routine to do contract work is better for now. Imma ban youtube and netflix tomorrow and take a trip to da casino

Recap for today:
woke up at 10a
did 1 work bout at library

PT exercises, cold plunge

3.75 hours of live play (5/5/10 2k cap)

I'm gonna do my recaps in the morning instead of at night this week. I got sidetracked a few times on my computer doing the recap at night and got to sleep late.

Recap from yesterday:
Live Play: 5 hours, mix between 1/3 and 2/5
drove to check out casino 1.5 hours away so whole day was pretty much driving and poker

PT Exercises complete, cold plunge

went to bed at midnight

Recap from yesterday:
Wake up
- woke up extremely tired
- still at 10:15a tho

Physical Health
- PT exercises
- ab workout
- visited a bath house for the first time. That was pretty cool. I did 4 rounds of sauna and cold plunge
- got a massage

Recap from yesterday:
wakeup:
10a, library at 11:15a
1 contract work bout

poker:
3 hours of studying in GTO+ w/ friend

improv class

Recap from yesterday:
wakeup:
10a
library at 11:15a, one work bout
I did the second bout at home cuz of a meeting

PT at 3p

Sauna blanket for an hour

Got to bed on time LFG (around 11:30/45p)

Recap from wednesday:
wakeup:
10a

Contract work:
library at 11:15a - two work bouts

Physical Health:
Nutrition appt at 3:15p
one round of PT exercises

Poker:
I was gonna go to casino but there was Phil Hellmuth meet and greet earlier in the day and the queue was massive

Recap from thursday:
wakeup:
10a

Contract work:
library at 11:15a - two work bouts but the second was very short, only like 30 mins

Physical Health:
PT appt

Poker:
two hours of live play

Recap from friday:
wakeup:
10a

contract work:
library at 11:15a - two work bouts

physical health:
PT exercises

poker:
3.5 hours of home game

I've been sticking to this wakeup at 10a and library at 11:15a for about 10 days now. It's been great. I'm also feel adjusted to that wakeup time. I feel like I'm able to get the amount of contract work done, for the most part. There's a little extra I want to squeeze out but this is so much better than the previous month.

For the past 10 days I've basically done no expectation for work but with a wakeup of 10a. I'll tally up how much poker related stuff and contract work I did after tmo. I'll set a weekly goal for this upcoming week too.

Recap from saturday:
wakeup:
10:15a

social:
Lunch w/ sister @ noon

physical health:
Bath house from 3p - 6p
PT exercises

Poker:
3.4 hours of 2/5

Recap from today:
wakeup:
10:15a

social:
watched part of movie w/ mom

Physical health:
glute exercise
PT exercise
sauna blanket

Poker:
4.7 hours of 2/5

Recap from this week:
Wakeup:
10-10:15a everyday lfg

Contract work:
library 5/5 days
8/10 work bouts
about 3 of the work bouts were short

Poker
3 hours of focused studying
3.5 hours of home game
8 hours of 2/5

Physical health:
I'll score my PT in the future each day a 0, 1, or 2.
I won't tally for this week yet

I decided I'm going to focus on live poker. My next goal is to get accepted into the Hungry Horse 28-day bootcamp. I think the pricetag is around $4,000. If this this increases my win-rate by $20 per hour and I play 10 hours a week. then it'll take 20 weeks or about 4.5 months. Even if it's just an increase in $10 per hour, I'm okay with waiting 9 months for the return. I think this estimate is on the lower end due to the ability to increase in stakes from 2/5 where I'm at.

One of the guidelines for the bootcamp is to be playing 10+ hours per week of live poker. My goal for the next 4 week is to average 10 hours of live play per week. The third and fourth week will be a lil bit easier since improv class will be over and I can play on mondays.

Goal for the next 4 weeks:
Write up Hungry Horse App questions

Minimum: 7 hours of live play per week
Target: 10 hours of live play per week
Stretch: 15 hours of live play per week

Plan for this week:
Monday Improv
Tuesday Fam dinner (maybe sneak in some writing for app question)
Live play
- wednesday (leave between 5p and 6p)
- thursday (leave between 5p and 6p)
- friday or saturday or sunday til I hit 10 or 15 hours

Maintain ~10a wakeup and 11:15a library routine for contract work

Recap from today:
wakeup:
10:15a - library at 11:15a

Contract work:
2 work bouts, 1.5 hours and 1.25 hours.
The second one started late cuz my break went long when I was on my phone. I ended up putting my phone in the car for my second bout. I'm going to start implementing this from now on. At the beginning of my break ideally, at the end is still good tho. It increases focus of the 2nd work bout

Social:
Improv class

also listed to a little bart hanson stuff during car ride

Recap from today:
wakeup:
10:10a - library at 11:20a

Contract work:
2 work bouts - 1.5 hours and 1 hour
putting the phone in the car after the second bout helped. I'll do this again thursday

Physical health:
PT appt (1/2)

Poker:
2.8 total hours of live play
- 0.5 hours of 1/3
- 1 hour of 2/5
- 1.25 hours of 5/10/25

Sleep:
getting to sleep around 1a. An hour later than my goal. However, I didn't want to leave the 5/10/25 game cuz it was juicy and I didn't want to hit and run.

Recap from today:
wakeup:
10:10a

Contract Work
1 work bout, library at 2:30p - only one work bout cuz had therapy at noon

Physical Health:
PT exercises (0/2)

Poker:
2 hours of live play (shorter than planned cuz emergency came up today

Sleep:
around midnight

Recap from today:
wakeup:
8:00a - slept terribly, was expected tho cuz I had to sleep in a dif room

Contract work:
library 11:15 1 work bout - only did one cuz not a lot of work to do

Physical Health:
PT appt (1/2)

Poker:
2.5 hours of home game
currently at 2.8 + 2 + 2.5 = 7.3 hours out of a goal for 10 hours this week. I should very easily hit my goal of 10 hours and probably 15 hours.

Sleep:
around midnight

Recap from today:
wakeup:
10:00a

Contract work:
library 11:15 1 work bout - only did one cuz not a lot of work to do

Physical Health:
PT appt (2/2)

Poker:
3.2 hours of 5/5/10 2k cap. Ran well. Trying out new exploitative bet sizing which is a lil scary but exciting. Basically ripping huge bets it many more spots. I'm okay at it rn but there's a lot to be gained.

Sleep:
prob 12:15a

Recap from today:
wakeup:
9:15a - had a dentist appointment

Physical Health:
PT appt (1/2)
Bath house

Poker:
was very fatigued today so only played 1.5 hours (12.5/10 hours this week)

Sleep:
prob 12:15a

Recap from today:
wakeup:
10:00a

did some chores for a bit, driving to airport, getting a sports coat, fam dinner, researched retirement accounts

Physical Health:
PT exercises (1/2), yesterday was actually 2/2
Bath house

Poker:
3.75 hours of 5/10/25
was a very interesting session but most decisions were standard.

Sleep:
prob 12:15a

Recap for this week:
wakeup:
10a 5/7 days. The other two there wasn't much I could do

sleep:
prob can go to bed a bit later. I think 2/3 days I got to bed a bit late

contract work:
7 work bouts - work is pretty slow the last week of the month so this is fine

poker:
Minimum: 7 hours
Target: 10 hours
Stretch: 15 hours

STRETCH COMPLETE - 16.2 hours of live play
getting to 10 hours was way easier than i thought. I'm changing my goals for next week to the following.

Minimum: 10 hours
Target: 15 hours
Stretch: 20 hours

PT:
Sun: 1/2
Sat: 2/2
Fri: 1/2
Thur: 2/2
Wed: 0/2
Tue: 1/2
Mon: 0/2

I'm gonna make an effort do better next week.
One cause is getting home too late/leaving the casino too late. So, I'll start leaving the casino at 10:30p so I have time to do PT at night.
On days without PT appts I'll do my first round after getting back from the library.

Recap for Monday:
wakeup:
9:20a no alarm

Contract work:
library at 11a - 1 work bout 1.45 hours, had to go home for meeting
in future when I have an afternoon meeting I'll reserve a room for the afternoon instead of the morning so I don't have to leave the library.

Social:
Improv

Physical Health:
PT 1/2 - will maybe do 2nd session after this

Recap for Tuesday:
wakeup:
10a

Contract work:
library at 11:15a two work bouts, 1 hour and 40 mins, 1 hour and 10 mins
booking the room for the afternoon with the later meeting worked less go

I wanted to play poker today but during my PT appointment I crashed and was super ****en tired. kinda surprised me cuz I got good sleep n stuff. Wasn't in a good state to play so I studied a bit and watched movie w/ fam

Physical Health:
PT appt 2/2

Good luck sir, will be following your journey.

thank you my guy

Recap for Wednesday:
wakeup:
10a

Contract work:
library at 11:15a two work bouts, 1 hour and 45 mins, 40 mins
went to figure out contact lens stuff in between bouts

Poker:
4.4 hours of live play (2/5)
I think I played pretty well

Physical Health:
PT exercises 2/2

The whole day basically went the best it could 😀

Sleep:
12a

Recap for Thursday:
wakeup:
10:25a

Contract work:
library at 11:15a two work bouts, 1 hour and 20 mins, and 1 hour

Poker:
2.5 hours of live play (2/5/10) at 7 hours total this week
I played meh. Had a later PT appt so went late, was very tired so left early.

Physical Health:
PT appt 2/2

Sleep:
idk yet but hopefully around 11:30a

Recap for Friday:
wakeup:
10:00a

Contract work:
none, did jack **** today. got eyes dilated for eye doc and that threw me off more than expected

Poker:
none

Physical Health:
PT exercises 0/2

Sleep:
around 12a