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Lambo goes Pro - Blog by Lambert180
This is well worth a read.
It is a little out of date - my bad, apologies - but it remains relevant.
The blog is HERE
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If anyone has any questions, feel free to ask on here or in my diary.
Good luck having a go at poker, stay focussed and u'll do it.
Think I'm gonna do another blog probably early January so I can do a little end of year summary and how my first few months have gone etc.
Anyway, what sort of times are you playing? Are you looking to play mostly in the evenings and weekends?
I'm sure after so much time on this forum you're perfectly aware of the pitfalls. Good luck with it.
As I mentioned in the blog, I'm aiming to do around 40 hr per week, I do alot of it at night but it's just not possible to do it all at weekend/night. Obviously this is a bit of trial run and if it all goes bosoms up, then so be it.
With that in mind, I'm being realistic and sticking to a schedule that is suitable for family life and if I can't make a suitable living from it that way, then I wont do it... I've no intention of working 80 hr weeks or never been able to go out with my girlfriend and the kids cos I've gotta grind non stop to survive.
So as it is, I've been making sure I play at least either Friday or Saturday night every week and when I play them days it'll generally be 8pm - 2am ish. Otherwise I play most nights 8pm - midnight and some morning sessions which are generally 10am - 2pm ish. I'm usually playing between 9 and 12 tables depending on how many I can get going (I'm playing 20/30/40NL) etc but recently have been playing a few MTTs alongside my cash tables so don't like to play more than 9 cash tables if I got MTTs going too.
Cheers for the good luck.... could do with some as you know from the downswing thread lol.
i hope emmas not going PRO as well,, lol
Yeah I have felt like my game has regressed a little since playing more tables (and it's p*ssed me off)... it might be partly in my head cos I'm in the middle of a -40BI downswing but I'm sure I'm not playing as well as I can. As you say it is increasing my hourly atm but it's not good for my long term improvement and I dont wanna another stale rakeback grinder who never improves their game.
In all seriousness, I'll try to stimulate extra debate on your threads, if I possibly can. I know you take part in review and sweat sessions with other regs, and I'm sure they're very helpful. Don't slack on any of them. Taking an hour away from the tables to get involved with them is probably more +EV than playing... Unless you're listening to Greghogg, obv.
Cheers. But yeah I'm still gonna be playing pretty much every SPT, and in the near future looking to play some of the decent MTTs like GPS/UKIPT etc.
As for live cash, I deffo wanna play more of this but gonna wait til the roll is a bit bigger cos while it is supposed to be alot softer than your average cash game online, you're generally looking at a minimum of 100NL
Ger
Yeah it just wouldn't be possible without my girlfriend being right behind me. Not letting it negatively affect my personal life is an important thing to me, and so I'm concentrating on trying to see how well I can do from the game while still maintaining a good balance of 'off the table' activities too.
Mentioned earlier in the thread but will probably do an end of year update as I'll have been playing for a few months then and should have a better idea of how I'm getting on.
Only really been playing MTTs on that other site and even then it's only 2-3 per session alongside my cash.
I'm thinking about playing some MTTs here but the structures/fields/prizepools (everything) are just much better on the other site. If I start doing some sessions which are just pure MTTs and no cash then I'll probably have to include some Sky ones to keep my tables up.