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SR23's May priorities, including reaching Priority. A diary.
SR23
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Hi everyone.
I've had some success in the past setting goals publicly and either achieving them or nearly achieving them and so in order to address my flabby self-discipline and wavering focus, and with lots I want to achieve in May, I thought I'd document my progress.
This, then, is the beginning of a month-long diary.
This, then, is what I want to achieve over the following 31 days:
1. Reach priority. To make it a bit harder I've withdrawn to precisely £150. I'm going to start at 10nl, move up to (some tables of) 20nl when I've got roughly 15 buy-ins, move up to (some tables of) 30nl when I've got roughly 15 buy-ins and probably stay there because everyone above that is too good. We'll see. I'll also play a couple of £5 tournaments when the mood takes me and the nightly freerolls/other stuff and hopefully bink or semi-bink.
2. Write daily detailed notes for a book I want to write. Working title: "Think and grow hair." It's about personal growth/self-development, I think.
3. Get bigger arms.
4. Swim a mile in a day.
5. Read four books.
6. Stop smoking.
7. Have 25 alcohol free days.
8. Play 10 live poker sessions.
Eek, that all looks a bit daunting. Kind of wish I hadn't started writing this post now, but what's done is done. Better get on those 10nl tables. I'll try to update three or four times a week.
Thanks for reading, peace out.
I've had some success in the past setting goals publicly and either achieving them or nearly achieving them and so in order to address my flabby self-discipline and wavering focus, and with lots I want to achieve in May, I thought I'd document my progress.
This, then, is the beginning of a month-long diary.
This, then, is what I want to achieve over the following 31 days:
1. Reach priority. To make it a bit harder I've withdrawn to precisely £150. I'm going to start at 10nl, move up to (some tables of) 20nl when I've got roughly 15 buy-ins, move up to (some tables of) 30nl when I've got roughly 15 buy-ins and probably stay there because everyone above that is too good. We'll see. I'll also play a couple of £5 tournaments when the mood takes me and the nightly freerolls/other stuff and hopefully bink or semi-bink.
2. Write daily detailed notes for a book I want to write. Working title: "Think and grow hair." It's about personal growth/self-development, I think.
3. Get bigger arms.
4. Swim a mile in a day.
5. Read four books.
6. Stop smoking.
7. Have 25 alcohol free days.
8. Play 10 live poker sessions.
Eek, that all looks a bit daunting. Kind of wish I hadn't started writing this post now, but what's done is done. Better get on those 10nl tables. I'll try to update three or four times a week.
Thanks for reading, peace out.
Comments
#7 Frees up Bank holidays and Sundays , perfect.
Good luck with this. It's quite a tall order to hit priority given your modest starting balance plus all the other goals for the month. I'm especially intrigued by #3 too!
Run well bud
Excellent news, you write so well.
Hopefully you'll be keeping us appraised on all 8 targets.
Over/under on how many of the 8 targets he achieves?
The line is 5.
@Donttelmum - sigh, was going to put this at number 9 but thought everyone had forgotten about me not getting laid that often. Okay then, it's number 9.
@mumsie - I know, right? And I have a friend's (going to be messy) 40th on the 11th May which can just squeak in, too.
@Duesenberg - that's a fab message, thanks. Not quite sure why I've made it tougher than it needs to be - I just started adding stuff when writing out the opening post last night. Not sure where "Get bigger arms" came from, but it's locked in now. Good old last night me.
@Tikay10 - thanks for the kind words; I'm actually going to plump for the overs. Ridic.
Brief update. Within 15 minutes of starting the challenge last night I 3b AA pre, bet 70%-ish pot on KJSssd, jammed £5.50 into £8.45 on a Jc turn, get snapped, and shouting "hoooold" v 97ss doesn't work. Then get stacked with TT on a T54r flop when villain's AA binks turn. Then muffin off three or four more buy ins by running/playing badly and just as I'm thinking about deleting my account and hiding out in Argentina for a decade I stack a good reg's AA on 359 w/53 after a misclick pre (that's my story, and I'm sticking to it), run nicely in some other spots and come out a far-more-manageable one buy-in down.
Was pleasantly surprised to make 140 points four/five tabling 10nl over two hours.
That'll do for now, I reckon. Going to grind for a bit, work on "Think and grow hair", play live whilst watching the football later, come back, grind, grow bigger arms, try not to drink etc etc etc.
Thanks again.
I am sure I will be donating to your funds once more. G L
Great to see you posting again , good luck with your targets.
“ Grow Bigger Arms” should have been a doddle if you didn’t add no.9 into the equation ( Well one arm anyway) Maybe Leave no.9 TIL you have bigger arms.
Thanks too @glencoelad - I've had a glorious/troubled relationship with alcohol for the past two-and-a-bit decades and whilst a couple of beers, especially live, can help smooth over some of the rougher psychological edges I have been drinking way too much live as a bunch of the Bournemouth regs who play here can testify.
Great to see you @tomgoodun and, yet again, you make a lot of sense. Was really heartened reading your diary at the weekend - especially with regard to your daughter. Keep up the fine work.
This is exactly what this forum needs.
Best of luck with all of your targets, reaching priority starting with 150 quid @10nl will be pretty impressive. Getting laid?? Let's not get too carried away.
Is going from 10NL - 30NL something that you have done before or are you attempting to do this for the first time ? GL anyway
Ha, @waller02 - why women don't go for balding 43-year-old itinerant men who grind 10nl is beyond me. Think reaching prio is going to be tight but I've got the heart and commitment for the game. Glgl to you, too.
Have just played a brief session with you @ALAN_18 and have followed your diary since the start. Apologies for not posting sooner - I read a fair bit of stuff on here and think that's impressive/funny/whatever but am guilty of not saying. Will do better. I've done a couple of similar challenges to this before on here and will try and dig out the links. What I'd really like to do is break the 30/50nl ceiling but I'm not close to being good enough at the mo. Perhaps if I complete this challenge I will give it a shot. Although I'm getting ahead of myself: I LOST FIVE BUY-INS WITHIN HALF AN HOUR of starting yesterday so don't think I've got this one wrapped up just yet. Best of luck to you, too.
Here's a link to the last
debacletriumphant success by @SR23.For newbies, well worth a read, he's a terrific writer.
https://community.skypoker.com/discussion/164770/harebrained-june-2017-june-2018-challenge-4nl-to-5-10-live/p1
And here is the book that @SR23 had published, which was a best-seller. *
* T & C's apply.
The Sky Poker Forum thread about Steve's book is here;
https://community.skypoker.com/discussion/comment/994868
I always think of Forums as living & breathing things, they get moods, they have good & bad days, swinging & swonging both ways almost inexplicably.
I'm pretty sure that the "tone" of posts is contagious. When folks get uppity, it's like a creche, & soon all the babies are crying (purely a metaphorical analogy), & other days when a few positive posts are in evidence, everyone seems more upbeat & cheerful.
Not sure I've ever seen a poker forum where folks are as helpful to each other as they are here though. In an increasingly attritional world, it's a delight to see.
I'm gonna go with
Binks: 2, 3, 4, 5.
2 & 5 seem the most likely to happen given OP's known interest in writing. 3 & 4 are kinda linked (assuming you're not trying to lose weight). 1 mile isn't too tough and you can smash it out on the last day of the month if you're not there yet. All of these seem pretty likely to me.
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Fails: 1, 7, 8, 9
If 8 happens, 1 and 7 probably aren't happening.
If 7 happens, 8 probably isn't happening.
There's too much good sport on telly, too many live games and online grinds to try and make priority for a few beers not to slip in there somewhere regardless, plus friend's 40th already takes you down to 4 days of 'other' drinking allowed.
GL finding time to play Prio volume at 10nl (even with the aggro BRM) AND make the live volume target and everything else too. If moving up off such a small roll, the potential for a bad session and a stake drop will also be a factor in having a realistic chance making Prio or not, and even then I think it's a tough ask alongside everything else. Probs need to run good on first shot at 20nl to make it work IMO.
Just putting 9 in here to make myself feel less bad about myself.
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Flips: 6
Absolutely zero reads here but GL, defo want this one to be a bink. Leaving it off my acca though.
I think it is safe to say after sitting at a few of your tables today there are a lot worse players than me and you at 10NL so I think that as long as you keep your head on you will do just fine. I am just so glad that some one else who plays these stakes has made a progress thread as for me to compare my own not so good up to now effort
How are you tracking your progress ? Are you tracking hours played ? Will definitely give that other thread you made a read when have chance (Thanks @Tikay10)
Wishing you the best of luck mate and sure I will see you at the tables quite often now. GG