So today I mixed up time of my lecture on International Business. I was mildly surprised that there was a different lecturer, but that stuff happens. I took my usual place in front of the projector with 400 people behind me.
To my surprise the lecture was not on Business Ethics, but on urine and stool collection for nursery students. But what the hell, I was there and its never bad to learn something new, here are my notes on highlights of the lecture
Taking sample from babies
a) insert cotton wool into a nappie, wait for elimination of orine and squeeze the specimen into a tube afterwards.
b) Wait with a box, and when the baby looks like its ready, quickly put the box under it.
FOBFaecal occult blood - Get a container with a little spoon, collect the stool sample, use the spoon to put sample on a piece of paper and analyse.
Elimination
-Vital function of every human and absence of it can be serious
Funny story: The lecturer once encountered a patient that was constipated so hard he vommited constantly, and his vomit was essentially pure fecal matter.
Thats right, I am giving up on my 1.6Ghz Sempron with 512 MB ram. Half of jacks and usb ports aren't working, I don't have the side casing and it just made me loose too much money recently with my growing database.
Shipping $700 1TB Hdd AMD Quad Core beast (with just 3Gb ram , but upgradeable up to 8), with W7+XP dual load and ATI HD graphics or something. Should be +ev investment.
Pokerwise I have no Idea how I am doing, I didn't check my cashier in a week despite playing a ton. I watched some 10 vids and read 8 articles across Bluefire, DC and poker strategy past few days and I have started marking awkward/interesting hands and doing session reviews.
U just realized that I have done shit work past 15 months and a lot of work is needed on my health, time management, but also a fuck ton of work is needed on my poker game if I want to make it as a pro.
From now on I am only posting hands from my session reviews, and most of them have a question or a specific concept attached along with stats from 'export w/stats' HEM feature- I would be really grateful if some of you could skim through hands I posted within last week and fire with comments and critique. I come back to them and will read any additional comments that you post to all old hands, you can also just post links to my blog so that more people can discuss.
Also pm me if you think some hands I send are worth a separate thread in low stakes.
EDIT:And don't be afraid to be harsh, I don't mind being called a retard if you give me an explanation why I am being a retard and what should I improve (I am very stubborn/egotistic in nature, don't be put off by that. There was a really interesting article on Poker strategy and I have identified that I have a very strong LAG personality )
So I am ill again (talk about fucked up health lol. Working on it though), and had some time on my hands. So I went to youtube
Time Management from a real expert - a person with 6 more months to live (he is now dead).
It really highlights the needs to evaluate what we do, plan our time and focus on important things.
The overall goal in whatever you do should be to have fun.
[quote]If you can dream it, you can do it[quote] - Walt Disney
Tips:
1) Use to -do lists. Always do the 'ugly' things first
2) Do things from Important, Due soon-> Important, not due now. People focus on unimportant things due now way too much. Always keep opportunity cost in mind.
3) Find your creative times and your 'dead' times. Do boring/repetitive or easy things in your weak times during the day
Time is the most important commodity, that you never can get back. You can get money later, but time is gone once it passes.
It is useful to set up a time journal for 3-14 days, and see how you spend your time, and see how you waste it
Interview shortly before he died:
Values/needs in life
Every human has the need for:
1) Certainty - achieved through knowledge or skill or experience
2) Uncertainty - we want new things to happen
3) Significance - we like to matter, be it through money, power, influence or clothes
4) Love/ connection (with people)
5) Grow -we want to get better/further
6) Contribute beyond ourselves - we want to help others
Every person has a different map of needs and values, and will lean towards one or more of the above. Still every person needs all of those.
Obama
Pretty refreshing seeing an intelligent president that doesn't take himself seriously (and is not a complete retard like Bush - seriously, how fucked up a country must be to have voted him in the office. TWICE.)
Bill Gatesbefore his retirenment
Skip to 5:30 for pretty funny vid with a truckload of A-listers.
P.S. re my previous blog, there are easy steps for balancing nutrition and moving towards 100% Health (derived from a study of a 55,000+sample of respondents to a health survey). These are just a basic general changes, and my first step in the next few weeks before I will go into specifics.
1) Reduce wheat consumption to 1 serving/day (White bread, pasta, pizza)
2) No refined sugar snacks. At all.
3) Stop adding extra salt to food.
4) Refined foods = max 1 serving/day (white bread, flour...)
5) Eat 8-10 servings of vegetable/fruit per day
6) Lower consumption of red meat to max 2 servings/week
7) Eat fresh oily fish at least 3 servings/week
8) Eat fresh, raw seeds 3 times per day
9) Drink 11 glasses of water minimum every day
I have been playing poker for some 15 months now. I have seen 70+ learning videos, have 5k posts here, always challenged my game and was finding ways to improve myself. But when I look at my poker career and evaluate why am I such a huge failure the underlying reasons are not lack of knowledge, dedication or level of thinking.
Last 13.5 months I have been losing /break even with huge swings as I had literally 0 mental energy left after work, which was only 7 hours/day. But even now when I don't work the number of hours when I mentally 100% sharp are between 2 and 3. I am just under obesity line at the moment, and picked up some horrible over eating habits at my stressful job which are hard to get rid of. I am constantly tired, and my emotional state can have swings throughout the day. I have added exercise, and I swim/go to gym/sauna for 40 minutes on average every day, but health is so bad that this basically knocks me out and I can hardly be focused for very long after a session.
So far in 1 month being a pro I had a total of one (1) session where I was able to sit down at my computer grind for 7 hours with 5-10 minute breathing brakes every 30-80 minutes with alert mind , taking 5-10s to think about every spot and do what I agreed in my head.
And then I have read this from Tom Holford's 10 Secrets to 100% Health:
Imagine if a fairy grandmother of health had waved her magic wan and you were now 100% healthy. How would you know? How would you feel? One person described their new found health as 'being blissfully unaware of my body - no aches, no pains, indigestion, PMS or dry skin, colds or infections. That's certainly a large part of it. But health isn't just an absence of illness, its also a positive state - an abundance of vitality or well being. Apart from lack of pains, here are the most commonly reported benefits that people following [Halford's 100%]health principles report:
-Waking up alert
-Loads of energy
-Sharp Mind
-Balanced Mood
-Good motivation
-Skin looks good
-Effortless weight loss
The introductory chapter explains what it is to be 100% healthy, and does not mean not having any illness that must be cured by painkillers and drugs. That is the last instance, which he calls Horizontally ill. But there is also type of illness that is not treated by Health Services. Vertical Illness -Constant tiredness
-drained -low concentration -mood swings
-exhausted by exercise
-unfit
-run down frequently ill -easily overwhelmed
-flabby -dissatisfaction
The funny thing is that the 'health service' has no interest in getting people 100% healthy. They need them in the 'middle', just on the tip of the balance between vertically and horizontally ill, as when your health levels are drained, you are much more likely to be horizontally ill and need drugs/antibiotics which the $600Bn industry is based on. Modern medicine is much more about disease management than getting people healthy. Health->Poker
Reading these lines and the symptoms of vertical illness and 100% healthy goal, I have basically identified the vital sources of my lack of success in poker. I have highlighted symptoms in red which I believe are vital for a poker player and that DIRECTLY AFFECT WINR ATE
After such a long time at micros it is clear that focus on strategy and exploring new concepts and betting patterns will have much lower return than working on the highlighted factors.
10 Secrets to 100% Health
1) Perfect your digestion - Discover your best and worst foods
2) Balance your blood sugar - the key to gaining energy and losing weight
3) Get connected - sharpen your mind, improve your mood and keep your body chemistry in tune.
4) Increase anti- aging antioxidants
5) Eat essential fats - keep your body and mind well oiled
6) Keep yourself hydrated - water is your most vital nutritient.
7) Keep fit, strong and supple
8) Generate vital energy - the Chi factor
9) Get your past of your present - let go and learn from the past
10) Finding your purpose - becoming clear on the bigger picture.
As you can see focus is not only on the obvious (hydration + nutrition + exercise), but more scientific like anti oxidants or the process of methylation in your brain(point 3), and more abstract like meditation, and balancing emotion (8-10).
To record significant change does not take years, but months as the body replenishes itself incredibly fast (e.g your 'inner skin' changes every 4 days, and you around half your body is completely replaced every 7 months by what your body digests). Goal
The above will become my priority in my learning time away from the tables and university in the next month. Please let me know in comments if you have similar issues, and if posting a blog for each of the 10 secrets, how do I rank and how you can improve them would be any useful.
This shit got me scared today, especially with my not so robust BR (all NL50)
The downswing is my morning session, upswing in the afternoon.
So I am playing in the afternoons exclusively from now on ;o
I found out that my peak performance is between 3-9pm, but there is also way more fish in the afternoon hours (mornings are almost reg only at NL50 Stars 100bb tables)
P.S. in case you haven't seen this trailer I have been posting in 'to be nuked' threads:
-This is the coolest most awesomest thing I have ever seen (Its Dead Leaves in English)
My graph. My fitness sucks. Slept 16 hours today. Poker game all over the place. I'm rusty. Got new gym with spa.
To do: Heavy workout 4x/week, attend gym or pool daily
Read notes and resource from Marius
Listen DC podcast on Poker Health
Stop overeating
Improve HUD
No caffeine, Spirits/water>beer when douching it up at nightclubs.
Wow I'm one of the new school Starcraft players (I started playing online in 2004), I never knew you've done more than invented the worker transfer
Simply put, StarCraft was very much a blank slate upon its release. Ideas as seemingly simple as transferring groups of workers to newly built expansions (rather than building them one at a time) were groundbreaking. It took a player the caliber of Miguel "Maynard" Bombach (a former Age of Empires player), probably the most dominant American player of all time, to invent a concept as simple as the worker-transfer. And it changed the game forever.
Dudey, an accomplished old school StarCraft player also known as ilnp, had this to say about Maynard at his peak:
"You guys have no idea what dominance is -- you weren't around when the game was new. The only people who could come close to Maynard's sort of dominance was Grrr.... and BoxeR. We're not talking win most everything, win a lot, impressive play. We're talking most of the top players were directly influenced by his play and his play alone, after a long period in which many refused to play him because they swore he cheated. We're talking literally invincible in even 2 on 2 play with shitty allies against every other top player in the world in practice, ladder, and tournament games."
Maynard's thorough dominance, borne out mainly on the Kali server and before modern competition had truly taken off, has thus largely been forgotten. He is remembered more for the worker-transfer bearing his name than his God-like status in the first year of Brood War.
Today I have finally finished the diary and report from my 13 months of work. I worked on it slowly over the past 10 days, but I ended up having to write 16k words in the past 3 days. I focused on summarizing of what I have learned in my 17k words journal, and there was not much time left for the 10k word 'academic' report that I actually get marked on. Big surprise - its complete shit. But it should be aight, as I need only some 35% mark, and my diary shows the magnitude of work that I have actually done, and loads things I've learned while working in Finance.
Its was a great experience, I have hopefully made impact and some processes that I have designed or improved will be used for years. But now...Finally...I am a student and the whole work experience is wrapped up.
I will finally start to put in some major volumes in this poker thingy (I am at NL50 again, lost 4 BI at NL100) You guys can't even understand how relieved I am right now. (and tired, 3 hours is not a lot of sleep, and them 3litres of energy drinks used in last 2 days *might*catch up with me)
I spew all over the place and vbet too small because its bigger money, hopefully I will get used to it.
Could have been much better if I didn't call a squeeze shove with TT vs a 12-8 guy who 3bet me a couple times in a row, and if I would fold tptk/overpair to a fish raise small bet shove twice in the session, boo.
I have also found a great series at Deuces cracked: SSNL Disease, which sums the biggest mistakes and hurdles ssnl players have that stop them evolving.
From what I can remember from 1st lecture:
1) ignoring your own table image.
2) not picking and writing down up dynamics/significant events.
3) playing too many tables.
4) lack of note taking and ability to verbally explain villain's likely thought process and summarizing observed noted down trends.
The presentation stressed multi tabling as the biggest setback, and thats what I will try to avoid.
I might go 6-9 table at NL50 when I don't have the energy, but NL100 will be only 4 tables - I need some 2k hands/day at 1BB/100 to make my minimum, and the win rate should be really higher than that at 4 tables gradually.
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