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Not enough hours in the day
by LearnedfromTV on 10/03/08
I'm in the midst of a organzing a bunch of projects, and finding myself with only 24 hours in a day, so I decided to write a post in the hope that it will help me prioritize.
Job 1 right now, and until the end of the year is Supernova Elite. I have 607k vpp as of this moment, having done ~115k each of the past two months, which is solid but not enough to get me there if I repeat it the next few months. 4k/day is relatively easy, consistely doing 4500+ is a lot harder; and I need somewhere around 4500/day, depending on how many days off for holidays, to get it. 9 tabling plo gets 550/hour, 12 tabling around 700, and I've recently taken up 18ish tabling the 114 sit and goes, which gets ~1k/hour. When the PCA Steps kick in full speed that will give a boost which will be much needed in December. Right now I give myself about a 70% chance of getting elite; if I get close enough I'll play sick marathons if necessary to close it, but too many bad days (losing sessions early in day often leads to 3k vpp or worse days; family stuff left me getting 1k a couple days ago). Too much of that happens and ~mid November I'll decide it's hopeless. There's only 80 something days left, and I'll basically have to play ~8 hours a day to succeed.
Two priorities dueling for number 2 are the coaching videos I've been making for pokersavvy and the plo theory coaching program I'm putting together. There's a decent amount of work involved with most of the videos I want to do; selecting hands that fit a theme, incorporating powerpoint, and so on. The shell/outline of the coaching program is in place (viewable in the pokersavvy coaching forum; maybe I'll post it here too), but some of the supplemental work is still in progress. With new students on board in the next week or two, I need to get some more work done on a few projects, particularly in the short term the starting hands sheet and the flop textures sheet, which are mostly ready but appear early in the program.
There also are several articles I want to write, either to be posted here or at Pokersavvy. I've done a bunch of game theory work for plo, mainly focusing on the naked ace play but some other stuff as well, and I will turn that into a series of articles at some point. I also want to write articles on a handful of other topics, such as AAxx play, 3betting, and board texture. And way down the list are artcilaes on key horse concepts.
In the back of my mind is the possibility that all of this work will end up in a theory book I want to write next year. Students who do the full theory program are basically going to get a book's worth of supplementary content, and if the situation is right I'd clean that up and actually write the book. There's a weird market force at work here because the full twenty lesson program is definitely worth a few thousand to dedicated students who can use it to step into midstakes games and win ($3500 at that moment, likely $5k jan 1 or therabouts), but of course packaging that material in a book makes it worth $25 or whatever to the mass market. So I'm not sure yet what I want to do. There's another book possibility out there as well, but nothing concrete or that I can really consider until the year's over.
I'm also doing a handful of things regularly outside poker; working out, playing in tennis and basketball leagues, plus that whole social life thing. So it all adds up to probably not doing everything I'd like between now and the end of the year. Regardless, decent chance I'll be posting more over here in the near future. I'm not sure what might be done at pokersavvy with my articles, and I'll probably be debuting them here, at least the next couple, which I hope to write in the first half of October.
Job 1 right now, and until the end of the year is Supernova Elite. I have 607k vpp as of this moment, having done ~115k each of the past two months, which is solid but not enough to get me there if I repeat it the next few months. 4k/day is relatively easy, consistely doing 4500+ is a lot harder; and I need somewhere around 4500/day, depending on how many days off for holidays, to get it. 9 tabling plo gets 550/hour, 12 tabling around 700, and I've recently taken up 18ish tabling the 114 sit and goes, which gets ~1k/hour. When the PCA Steps kick in full speed that will give a boost which will be much needed in December. Right now I give myself about a 70% chance of getting elite; if I get close enough I'll play sick marathons if necessary to close it, but too many bad days (losing sessions early in day often leads to 3k vpp or worse days; family stuff left me getting 1k a couple days ago). Too much of that happens and ~mid November I'll decide it's hopeless. There's only 80 something days left, and I'll basically have to play ~8 hours a day to succeed.
Two priorities dueling for number 2 are the coaching videos I've been making for pokersavvy and the plo theory coaching program I'm putting together. There's a decent amount of work involved with most of the videos I want to do; selecting hands that fit a theme, incorporating powerpoint, and so on. The shell/outline of the coaching program is in place (viewable in the pokersavvy coaching forum; maybe I'll post it here too), but some of the supplemental work is still in progress. With new students on board in the next week or two, I need to get some more work done on a few projects, particularly in the short term the starting hands sheet and the flop textures sheet, which are mostly ready but appear early in the program.
There also are several articles I want to write, either to be posted here or at Pokersavvy. I've done a bunch of game theory work for plo, mainly focusing on the naked ace play but some other stuff as well, and I will turn that into a series of articles at some point. I also want to write articles on a handful of other topics, such as AAxx play, 3betting, and board texture. And way down the list are artcilaes on key horse concepts.
In the back of my mind is the possibility that all of this work will end up in a theory book I want to write next year. Students who do the full theory program are basically going to get a book's worth of supplementary content, and if the situation is right I'd clean that up and actually write the book. There's a weird market force at work here because the full twenty lesson program is definitely worth a few thousand to dedicated students who can use it to step into midstakes games and win ($3500 at that moment, likely $5k jan 1 or therabouts), but of course packaging that material in a book makes it worth $25 or whatever to the mass market. So I'm not sure yet what I want to do. There's another book possibility out there as well, but nothing concrete or that I can really consider until the year's over.
I'm also doing a handful of things regularly outside poker; working out, playing in tennis and basketball leagues, plus that whole social life thing. So it all adds up to probably not doing everything I'd like between now and the end of the year. Regardless, decent chance I'll be posting more over here in the near future. I'm not sure what might be done at pokersavvy with my articles, and I'll probably be debuting them here, at least the next couple, which I hope to write in the first half of October.
Supernova Elite update, etc.
by LearnedfromTV on 07/30/08
Like I said, not going to make many journal-type posts, but here's one:
Spent the last two weeks of July grinding the headsup turbos during the 1.5x vpp promo and playing a bit of PLO. Neither went very well - some shots at higher PLO crahsed and burned. The hu turbo regs went from chastising me for getting in their games (apparently game-selection is a big deal to them and regs are supposed to avoid each other) to calling me a fish (thanks sharkscope!). I'd like to think I ran bad, but who knows. I've definitely got some work to do on the shorter-stacked open-shove and 3bet-shove game. Some game theory stuff I'm doing on raise/reraise ranges with 20ish BB may turn into an article at some point. Next couple articles will be on PLO; something on AAxx play is probably next.
But I racked up some vpps (~50k since getting home from Vegas) and am finishing July at 375k vpp, which is close enough to where I wanted to be to feel ok. I need ~125k/month from here out, or ~4k/day. August plan is to play ~100k hands of 2/4 PLO, mixing in some other stuff here and there. 2/4 PLO gets ~1 vpp/hand.
Also took a baby step toward getting my Stud High game stronger by playing a bit of 10/20. Really need to work on handreading there.
Final note, I just agreed to do a plo 3-video guest series for pokersavvy. First one should up fairly soon. If all goes well, I'll probably be working more with them.
Spent the last two weeks of July grinding the headsup turbos during the 1.5x vpp promo and playing a bit of PLO. Neither went very well - some shots at higher PLO crahsed and burned. The hu turbo regs went from chastising me for getting in their games (apparently game-selection is a big deal to them and regs are supposed to avoid each other) to calling me a fish (thanks sharkscope!). I'd like to think I ran bad, but who knows. I've definitely got some work to do on the shorter-stacked open-shove and 3bet-shove game. Some game theory stuff I'm doing on raise/reraise ranges with 20ish BB may turn into an article at some point. Next couple articles will be on PLO; something on AAxx play is probably next.
But I racked up some vpps (~50k since getting home from Vegas) and am finishing July at 375k vpp, which is close enough to where I wanted to be to feel ok. I need ~125k/month from here out, or ~4k/day. August plan is to play ~100k hands of 2/4 PLO, mixing in some other stuff here and there. 2/4 PLO gets ~1 vpp/hand.
Also took a baby step toward getting my Stud High game stronger by playing a bit of 10/20. Really need to work on handreading there.
Final note, I just agreed to do a plo 3-video guest series for pokersavvy. First one should up fairly soon. If all goes well, I'll probably be working more with them.
Brief Introduction
by LearnedfromTV on 07/10/08
Hello all, I joined tworags and started this blog today. The purpose of this post is to introduce myself and describe what I intend to do with the blog. My name is Tom Chambers and I've been playing poker full-time for a little over two years, mostly online. I use the name Entropy xx on Pokerstars, where I play the majority of the time. I use the name LearnedfromTV on most other sites, as well as here and on two plus two.
I play a variety of games, including 2/4-5/10 PLO, 10/20-30/60 HORSE, and all forms of nlhe. For the past few months I've put in more hours at PLO than anywhere else, and I expect that to continue.
I do not plan to do much journal-style blogging; my primary purpose is to write strategy articles, mostly on general poker theory and specific topics in games other than no limit holdem. A couple small exceptions: One, I am chasing supernova elite on Stars and will periodically update my progress. Two, I am planning to play the $50k HORSE and most/all of the Championship Events at next year's WSOP and will be putting in study and play hours each week toward preparing for that goal. Particularly, I'll be working at stud high and limit holdem, which are easily my worst two games. Again, I'll use the blog to update progress.
I play a variety of games, including 2/4-5/10 PLO, 10/20-30/60 HORSE, and all forms of nlhe. For the past few months I've put in more hours at PLO than anywhere else, and I expect that to continue.
I do not plan to do much journal-style blogging; my primary purpose is to write strategy articles, mostly on general poker theory and specific topics in games other than no limit holdem. A couple small exceptions: One, I am chasing supernova elite on Stars and will periodically update my progress. Two, I am planning to play the $50k HORSE and most/all of the Championship Events at next year's WSOP and will be putting in study and play hours each week toward preparing for that goal. Particularly, I'll be working at stud high and limit holdem, which are easily my worst two games. Again, I'll use the blog to update progress.
