My Poker Journal

Recap for Saturday:
wakeup:
10:30a

Contract work:
1 work bout - 1 hour 45 minutes

Poker:
5.1 hours
- 0.6 hours of 1/3
- 4.5 hours of 2/5
I'm at 12 hours for the week now

Physical Health:
PT exercises 0/2

Sleep:
around 12a

Recap for Sunday:
wakeup:
10:20a

Poker:
2.1 hours total
- .5 hours of 2/5
- 1.6 hours of 5/5/25

Physical Health:
PT exercises 1/2

Sleep:
around 1a

Recap for this week:
Poker:
Minimum Goal - 10 hours
Target Goal - 15 hours
Stretch Goal - 20 hours

Minimum/Target Complete. I played 14.6 hours this week.

Contract work:
8 work bouts
- ****ed up friday cuz of eye doc and the sinkhole that is youtube

PT:
1/2
2/2
2/2
2/2
0/2
1/2
2/2
total is 10/14, last week was 7/14 so good improvement.

Goals for next week:
Poker:
Minimum Goal - 10 hours
Target Goal - 15 hours
Stretch Goal - 20 hours, work on Hungry Horse app

PT:
Minimum Goal - 7/14
Target Goal - 11/14
Stretch Goal - 14/14

Recap for Monday:
wakeup:
10:30a

Contract Work:
library 11:40a, two work bouts but low quality focus

Poker:
4.1 hours total
- .5 hours of 1/3
- 3.6 hours of 2/5/10

Physical Health:
PT exercises 2/2

Sleep:
around 12a

Recap for Tuesday:
wakeup:
10:40a

Contract Work:
was very unorganized, wasn't able to go to the library without transport

Poker:
none, felt I had too much contract work to do

Physical Health:
PT appt 2/2

Sleep:
around 12a

Recap for Wednesday:
wakeup:
10:00a

Contract Work:
two work bouts

Poker:
3 hours of 5/5/10
- was tired and playing bad so i left an hour early

Physical Health:
PT 2/2

Sleep:
around 12a

Recap for Thursday:
wakeup:
10:40a

Contract Work:
two work bouts

Poker:
4 hours of home game

Physical Health:
PT appt 2/2

Sleep:
around 1a

Recap for Friday:
wakeup:
10:00a

Contract Work:
none

Poker:
2.6 hours of 2/5
- i'm at about 13 hours for the week

Physical Health:
PT exercises 2/2

Sleep:
around 1a

tmo I'll be celebrating st patty's day and won't be playing any poker

Recap for Sunday:
wakeup:
bum fack hungover, my god that was brutal

Poker:
2.2 hours of 1/3
- i decided to chill at 1/3 today cuz of being super hungover

Physical Health:
PT 0/2

Sleep:
around 12:30a

Recap for this week:
Poker:
Minimum Goal - 10 hours
Target Goal - 15 hours
Stretch Goal - 20 hours

Target Complete - 16 hours complete

I'll be shooting for the same goal this week

Contract work:
6 work bouts, a few with low quality focus

PT:
2/2
2/2
2/2
2/2
2/2
0/2
0/2

Minimum Complete: 10/14 - In hindsight this shoulda been a target cuz of st patty's day stuff

Goals for next week:
Poker:
Minimum Goal - 10 hours
Target Goal - 15 hours
Stretch Goal - 20 hours

Contract Work:
8 work bouts

PT:
Minimum Goal - 7/14
Target Goal - 10/14
Stretch Goal - 14/14

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Recap for Monday:
wakeup:
10:30a

Contract work:
one bout
An addendum to my weekly contract goals, in an effort to increase the quality of each work bouts, I'm shooting to add two things.
1. Write a list of tasks I want to do for the work bout before I start
- I find myself drifting a lot more if I leave what I want to do ambiguous
2. Once I have input my security codes, go to my car and leave it in there until my second work bout is complete (unless I change locations er something)
I want to do this for 3 out of the 4 remaining days of the week.

Poker:
took the day off cuz was still feeling effects of hangover so wanted to recover. played some clubwptgold

Physical Health:
PT exercises 2/2

Sleep:
around 12:00a

Recap for Tuesday:
wakeup:
10:30a

Contract work:
two work bouts - wrote out list of tasks and put phone in car

Poker:
2.8 hours of live play today,

Physical Health:
PT appt 2/2

Sleep:
around 12:20a

Recap for Wednesday:
wakeup:
10:30a

Contract work:
two work bouts - wrote out list of tasks, couldn't put phone in car cuz of meetings, the list seems to be helping so far

Poker:
3.5 hours of live play today

Physical Health:
PT exercise 1/2
- totally forgot to do the first set in the middle of the day

Sleep:
around 12:20a

Recap for Thursday:
wakeup:
11:00a
got to bed late and slept pretty bad
doing a one week ban of youtube and netflix (unless w fam)

Contract work:
zero work bouts, feelin rough in the morning and didn't sched time for lib room, will prob work a bout over the weekend
also for the month of april i'm moving my PT back 30 mins so it'll be easier to get that 2nd work bout in

Poker:
3.75 hours of live play (2/5)
- im currently at 10.3 hours for the week

Physical Health:
PT appt 2/2

Sleep:
around 12:15a

Recap for Friday:
wakeup:
11:00a

Contract work:
one work bout ~ 2 hours

Poker:
3 hours of live play
mostly 5/5/10
at 13.3 hours for the week

Physical Health:
PT exercise 1/2

Sleep:
around 12:15a

Recap for Saturday:
wakeup:
11:00a

Did taxes in two work bouts, 3.5 hours total

Poker:
3.9 hours of live play (17.4 hours for the week)
-mostly 2/5 and some 5/10/25
-biggest losing day to date (-3965). I think I played great up until my very last hand where I punted 2k.

I literally said deal me out cuz I was tired and was gonna head home, but there was 30 seconds left on a march madness game that I wanted to finish watching. Said oh wait don't give up my seat I'll stay for one more orbit. Proceed to punt. From theoretical perspective it was bad. From an exploitative perspective it was just a torch. building a more structured thought process will help with this.

Physical Health:
PT exercise 1/2

Sleep:
around 12:30a

Recap for Sunday:
wakeup:
8:45a couldn't go back to sleep, felt super groggy throughout the day so no poker

Contract work:
1 work bout, didn't do at library so took a while to get into it
also added reddit to ban list until thursday

Poker:
no live play
pulled the trigger on the hungry horse bootcamp will be taking it for the month of june

Physical Health:
PT exercises 2/2

Sleep:
12:15a

Recap for this week:
Poker:
Minimum Goal - 10 hours
Target Goal - 15 hours
Stretch Goal - 20 hours

TARGET COMPLETE - 17.4 hours

Contract Work:
Goal - 8 work bouts
Actual - 7 work bouts
- putting phone in car after codes are used improved focus
- writing list of tasks for the work bout also helped focus
- I'll aim to continue that for this week

PT:
Minimum Goal - 7/14
Target Goal - 10/14
Stretch Goal - 14/14

M: 2/2
T: 2/2
W:1/2
R: 2/2
F: 1/2
Sat: 1/2
Sun: 2/2

TARGET COMPLETE - 11/14

Recap from last 4 weeks (Feb 24 - Mar 23):

Goals:
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

Actual:
Enrolled in Hungry Horse Bootcamp for June

STRETCH COMPLETE - 63.9 hours total for an average of 15.9 hours per week

When writing up my goals for Feb 24 - Mar 23 I did a quick estimate of how long it would take to pay back the hungry horse bootcamp. Two things have changed for the calculation. 1. the number of hours I expect to play per week is closer to 15 than 10. 2. The price tag is $7,500 not $4,000 :shocked:

Let's say the bootcamp earns me on average an extra $20/hour. (This is +4bb/hour at 2/5, +2bb/hour at 5/10, or +0.8bb/hour at 10/25). Those numbers seem very doable to me.

Let's say I play on average 15 hours per week.

How many weeks will I have to play to breakeven from the bootcamp?

15 hours/week * $20/hour = $300/week

$7,500 / ($300/week) = 25 weeks. More accurately, it'll be about 29 weeks since I plan to prioritize studying during the month of the bootcamp so I won't be playing as much.

Under those assumptions, it'll take roughly 7 months to see a positive ROI on the bootcamp. Am I willing to do that? snap call... prob not a snap call actually but a confident call.

I'll write up my goals for april once I get back from vegas.
It'll likely be the same live hours goal from above and studying the onboarding materials

Recap for Monday:
wakeup:
10:15a

Contract work:
2 work bouts but both were short
put phone away for 2nd bout which helped a lot

Poker:
no live play
stayed home with fam today, played a lot of clubwptgold tho maybe 4 hours

Physical Health:
PT exercises 2/2

Sleep:
12:15a

Recap for Tuesday:
wakeup:
10:30a

Contract work:
2 work bouts, but 2nd was super distracted

Poker:
no live play
played clubwpt gold for 3ish hours, did chores instead

Physical Health:
PT exercises 2/2

Sleep:
12:15a

Recap for Wedesday:
wakeup:
11a

Contract work:
one work bouts, then buncha meetings

Poker:
3.5 hours of live play at 2/5

Physical Health:
PT exercises 2/2

Sleep:
12:15a

Recap from this week:
Just got back from vegas. This weeks didn't have any set goals. I did end up playing some poker while I was in vegas and hit 10.5 hours for the week.

Goals for next week:
Poker:
Minimum Goal - 10 hours
Target Goal - 15 hours
Stretch Goal - 20 hours
Make a plan to study HH onboarding materials

Contract Work:
Goal - 7-9 work bouts
I pushed back my PT appointments to later in the day and the phone in car + written task list for work bout seems to help a bit. HOWEVER, i will be recovering this week since I put my body through the ringer these past few days. Hope to maintain a decent work level but not go above and beyond this week.

PT:
Minimum Goal - 7/14
Target Goal - 10/14
Stretch Goal - 14/14

Recap for Monday:
wakeup:
11a

Contract work:
two work bouts - at home tho so i can chill

Poker:
none - as expected

Physical Health:
PT 0/2 - it woulda been nice to do one of these

Sleep:
12:30a

Recap for Tuesday:
wakeup:
11:30a

Contract work:
two work bouts

Poker:
3.2 hours

Physical Health:
PT 2/2

Sleep:
12:45a