In her Shoes... Not the sort of film I can admit to having watched, obv. Isn't that the one where the town gets infected with a virus that turns all its inhabitants into shoe-shopping zombies?
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Originally posted by Tim64
In her Shoes... Not the sort of film I can admit to having watched, obv. Isn't that the one where the town gets infected with a virus that turns all its inhabitants into shoe-shopping zombies?
Oh....not sure. I need to watch it again ♦
Originally posted by MisClick
Oh, btw.
The way I turned up now (as embarrasing as it is) I only enjoying watching films I have watched before. Not only because usually they are mostly all the rubbish I have watched on telly, contents which I forgot by the time it's been 6 months
a) due to my bad memory (I have a feeling of deja-vu during the whole film, and lots of aha! moments)
b) because they are very forgetableThey take me to a very nice, cosy, safe place
Husband keeps going
but anyway, he falls asleep regardless of the quality/novelty of the film we have chosen after 5 minutes.
My favorite one (which I can watch over and over again) is In her shoes. Well, that one actually it is not rubbish.
Mrsjb has watched both Bridget Jones movies about 347 million times. Roughly.
I think fingers must have recommended Hidden - it is one of Haneke's I haven't seen. But now I want to watch it.
If you liked Meadows and Considine, have you seen A Room for Romeo Brass? Meadows visits his favourite theme - childhood friendship/loyalty and Considine plays a loser nutter. It is both full warmth and darkness.
Originally posted by Tim64
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[T]here is now no excuse for not pushing my multi-tabling skills to the limit of their potential (whatever that may be). Even if I only get to the point where I can comfortably 8-table, that's still probably two more tables, on average, than I currently have open at any one time.So, I'm going to ensure that I include some sets whose aim is purely to "work-out" my multi-tabling muscle. Just now, I managed to stay afloat (barely) with the 10 tables of $15 SnGs I had open. Overall I managed 12 games in exactly one hour for an EV ROI of 2.3%. Nothing spectacular, but positive at least. I think I will aim for 10 such sets of 10 games (at the $15s) and then review. If I'm still positive after that I will either add more tables or move up to the $30s. If I'm in the red, I will continue on. I'm going to do this side-by-side my normal play, and the plan is not to sacrifice the overall aim of gradually increasing my ABI.
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Here are the results for the multitabling exercise:
Pretty successful trial, with AB of around $20 (having mixed in 25% $30s), running around 20% ROI. That's it for this month, as it makes it kinda hard to maintain a high ABI when you play the $15s.
Next month, I will repeat the trial with the $30s. If that goes well, I'll see if it can be done at the $60s. My guess is, that's the limit where MT'ing will get really tough as player reads and gameflow attain a much higher relative significance.
Thanks for your interest.
-Tim
Nah, I'm too chilled for that ;). Speaking of which:
Too cool for words (except those, ofc).
I see you min-cashed the MicroMillions 
Well played.
I did as I always do in these events, get knocked out just a minute or two before the end of late registration 
Originally posted by Tim64
Yeah, 5 hours work for $30 profit. Solid stuff. ♦
♦ but you outlasted x million amount of players 
Originally posted by Tim64
Yeah, 5 hours work for $30 profit. Solid stuff. ♦
don't forget FPPS
Self imposed ban on the $200s due to runbad. $4.5k below EV yaddayaddaya... etc. Redline pretty crappy too. Other limits continuing well and way above EV on the $100s so can't complain too much.
Too late to rescue this month, but I'll try to stem the heamorrhage at least. Sucks that this is the final month of my poker year - the Directors aren't going to like me when I deliver the Annual Report to them, but, meh, thats teh pokerz I guess.
July brings my second poker year to a close. Results wise it was a disappointing month, due to running 55BI below expectation (just over $4k). Not much to say about that, so I'll get straight to the graph and stats:
Stats:
Cash: $82.38
STT Tournaments: 702
Average buyin: $71.63
ROI
-2.6%
EV Roi 5.5%
SnG Profit: -$1293.69
EV Profit: $2771.58
Estimated points-based rakeback (Party): $154.50
Stars Stellar Rwd: $100
FPPs: 33,524.97 @ Platinum rate (~27.5%): $447.00
Total estimated Rakeback: $701.50
Other earnings: $260.00
Subtotal: $961.50
Total Profit: -$249.81
Total EV profit (estimated): $3815.46
Hours: 115.02
$/Hr: -$2.18/h
EV $/Hr: $33.18/h
The $200s were really my undoing this month. Accounting for only 55 tournaments, but at over twice the ABI, running badly at those games had a decisive negative impact. Excluding those games would have yielded a 9.2% EV ROI on an average buyin of $60.58, producing a comfortable $45-50 EV hourly. The reality is that my BR doesn't really support play at the $200s yet. Running so poorly this month has reminded me, once again, of the importance of staying within one's comfort zone. Thanks to ghaleon for tactfully trying to point this out to me earlier in the month
In terms of July's goals it was generally a pretty successful month:
- Play at least 700 games (35/day)
- Play at least a hundred $200 games
- Complete my multi-tabling training as set out in previous post
- Maintain ABI of $75+
- Get coaching thread up and sign up at least one willing (or unwilling) guinea pig
Managed to provide 13 hours of coaching with almost all students coming back for a second session (or more). I have really enjoyed helping players to refine their games. Furthermore it's enabled me to keep focused on my overall aim which is simply to play the best poker of which I am capable, ignoring the short term effects of chance.
Quarterly report and annual wrapup to follow later today.
Excerpt from the Directors' Q4 Report:
"The last quarter of the fiscal year has produced steady profits, in line with those achieved in Q3.
Q4 Financial Results
Total Expected Revenue: $11,029.85
Total Playing Hours: c 275h
Hourly Rate: $40.21/hr
$/Tournament: ~$5.36
ABI increased from $49.10 to $63.88. Volume was lower than in Q3, largely due to June's holiday. Average monthly earnings again exceeded $3,000 for the period.
Readers should refer to the Annual Report (to follow) for a full breakdown of Q1-Q4 earnings. 31/7/2012"
Well, as usual : )
Great job again, Tim. I think the hourly rate increase by a lot the last few months or am I mistaking?
SnG Mindset Blog
Overview
The Directors are pleased to report that the annual earnings target for 2011-2012 was exceeded by a significant margin at the end of the fiscal year.
Total Expected Revenue: $37,357.71
Total Playing Hours: c 1300h
Hourly Rate: $28.5/hr
$/Tournament: ~$3.97
ABI $44.65
Q1-Q4 Summary
At the start of the fiscal year we were confident in our ability to generate an annual income of $24,000 based on playing 12,000 tournaments with an average profit of $2 per game. At year-end, having played only 3/4 of that proposed volume, we have nevertheless generated an income 50% greater than that anticipated. Furthermore final earnings were below expectation by approximately $2,700 (with total EV earnings closing on $40,000).
Next Fiscal Year Plan (2012 - 2013)
Having now attained and exceeded the $30 average hourly earnings threshold, and with a far more comfortable dedicated bankroll than was available at the start of the previous fiscal year, we are now well placed to move beyond the relatively conservative earnings predictions of 2011 - 2012.
However, the experience of the final month of this quarter has demonstrated the risks inherent in playing higher limits than are realistically justified by current BRM. The Directors are therefore hesitant in committing themselves to financial targets which, though possible in theory, may be hard to achieve in practice.
That being said, we consider it not imprudent to raise expectations of an annual earnings target for the coming year in the range of $42,000 -$50,000.
31/7/2012
Now that I've got the formal stuff out of the way I can get to the progressive, sensitive, emotions-based bit of this blog and focus on how I feel now that I've completed my second full year as a professional poker player. You diehard stats fans needn't leave just yet, however, since I'll be including a few game specific numbers for you to ponder. 
It would be disingenuous of me not to admit to being disappointed that, after 16 straight months of making a profit, I managed to finish the year on a losing month. It's also fair to say that after the unrealistically high earnings achieved in May, I entertained precipitous thoughts of having already reached the so-called "big league". I was planning getaways to Jersey and Thailand and new cars. July has brought me back down to earth with a bump.
Once again, expectations are the key thing. If you had told me at the beginning of the year I would be able to make in excess of $35,000 I would have snatched your hand off at the offer. Towards the end of the year when it seemed that a $50 hourly was there for the taking, I was all but ready to wander down to my local Audi dealership, point imperiously at something black and shiny while removing my cheque-book, and say simply: "I'll have that one. Would you fetch the keys, please?"
So it's important to remind yourself, from time to time, of the reasons for doing what you do. I didn't start playing poker professionally for the money. I did it because it enabled to control my own destiny. It would be churlish in the extreme to be disappointed now, simply because I'm not rolling in dosh. If that's what I'd wanted, I wouldn't have left the law in the first place.
Statistical interlude #1:
I thought I'd break down my ROI, by limit. I've excluded HU games.
$0-$25 (2281 games): EV ROI: 11.0% ROI: 12.2%
$26-$35 (2058 games): EV ROI: 8.8% ROI: 8.3%
$50-65 (2213 games): EV ROI: 6.9% ROI: 6.4%
$66-$150 (901 games): EV ROI: 6.9% ROI: 8.5%
$151-$250 (106 games): EV ROI: 1.6% ROI: -20.3%
Of these approximately 7500 games, well over 2/3 were 6 Max games. At an average buyin of $51.09, I managed both EV and actual ROIs of 8.8%.
I was at a very low ebb around Christmas when both my results and health took a serious downturn. Things have improved greatly since then. Indeed I strongly suspect the two things are linked. The day-to-day stress of playing poker is nothing compared to what I was used to as a lawyer but nevertheless the pervading necessity of having to generate your own paycheque has an insidious way of getting under your skin.
Those months where I have either run particularly badly or been playing badly have found me spending more and more time brooding at my computer. As a consequence my body rebels at the inactivity and starts causing me pain. In the coming year I will need to get better at seeing - and really believing in - the big picture, and at disassociating myself from short-term results. It's something I keep working on yet never manage entirely to achieve.
As with all things that we dream about, the achievement of the fantasy is never as sweet as we imagine it will be. Making a living, working from home, using only my intelligence as a tool was a kind of holy grail for me. Now that I've demonstrated the feasibility of that goal, it already seems somehow insubstantial.
Statistical interlude #2:
Hourly EV Earnings, by month (tournaments only):
August 2011 $21.08
September 2011 $53.27
October 2011 $23.08
November 2011 $21.29
December 2011 $20.29
January 2012 $4.25
February 2012 $40.27
March 2012 $34.55
April 2012 $36.0
May 2012 $51.48
June 2012 $54.16
July 2012 $41.12
Ignoring the occasional blip, such as September 2011 and January 2012 (each with especially unusual earnings) there appears to be a fairly clear progression from around $20 per hour at the beginning of the year to around $40 per hour at the end of the year.
The above-mentioned progression in my hourly earnings is perhaps the most pleasing thing for me about the past year. I'm working smarter and more efficiently, able to play more games on average per hour and at higher limits than before.
So, coming back to the slight sense of anti-climax that I alluded to just now, I think it's okay to feel somehow disappointed at having achieved one's goals, so long as the process of getting there (particularly the self improvement necessitated thereby) is a cause of satisfaction and pleasure. It's not the fact that I can make a living playing poker that pleases me (or that I am able to make more money per hour than a year ago). Rather, it's that in so doing I am testing myself against increasingly skilled opposition and proving myself up to the task.
This is what I would like to leave you with: there is no place for arrogance in poker and when I catch myself being arrogant at the tables I'm ashamed of myself. But there is nothing shameful about using all fair means at your disposal to best your opponents. And when we work hard at our game and come out on top we can take pride. Because each of us owes it to themselves to make the most of whatever particular set of skills our old friend, Chance, happened to deal out to us.
EDIT: FULL TILT POKER - WELCOME HOME, BABY!!! WHERE YOU BEEN ALL MY LIFE? ♠_biggrin: