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d0zer
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02-05-2010, 07:38 PM
Post subject: Operation: Paternity Leave
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Setup
[x] Have infant at home
[x] Have Dayjob
[x] Have Government that will give 55% of dayjob income to stay home with kid
Goal
As sole breadwinner, need to make a few months buffer, then sustain that.
Blockers
Have not had good results lately due to:
-sleep deprivation from kid
-playing too many tables
-easily tilting (see sleep deprivation)
Motivation
Quote:
[23:45] <d0zer> any tips on being a 'pro'?
[23:45] <reDZill4> suck dick
[23:45] <reDZill4> after you do that
[23:45] <reDZill4> youll never want to do that for money
[23:45] <reDZill4> so you play good
[23:45] <d0zer> hmmmmmm
[23:46] <reDZill4> you think of everying in terms of how many blow jobs ud have to give to get lost money back
[23:46] <reDZill4> make fewer mistkaes
[23:46] <reDZill4> its worth itman
[23:48] <d0zer> so that's when your PTR garph went from BE to robusto? the cocksucking?
[23:49] <reDZill4> yeah for sure dude.
[23:49] <d0zer> makes sense. thx man
[23:50] <reDZill4> yeah
[23:50] <reDZill4> just try it out
[23:50] <reDZill4> and if its not for you
[23:50] <reDZill4> its not for you bro
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Solution
-Less tables (no more than 9)
-NO playing while in non-optimal mental states
This will reduce my volume, but hopefully increase my winrate more than enough to compensate for that.
February is the month of renewed discipline cuz I'm sick of sucking cock 
BR log:
01/02/2010: 1300
09/02/2010: 1860
16/02/2010: 3900
19/02/2010: 2700
01/03/2010: 4800
-3k withdraw
01/04/2010: 3100
01/05/2010: 6300
-2.6k withdraw
01/06/2010: 6150
-3.4k withdraw
01/07/2010: 3300
-3.8k withdraw
01/08/2010: 3500
-8650 withdraw
01/10/2010: 4500
-9400 withdraw
01/01/2011: 4300
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sweetlemon69
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first!
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BankItDrew
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IN B4 FAILZ
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Girlfriend: Why are the werewolves more important than living life?!
Girlfriend: Are you on the forums doing the werewolves again?
Girlfriend: Soo... you forgot to run that errand, but you had time to werewolf? Wtf?
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d0zer
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Originally Posted by BankItDrew
IN B4 FAILZ
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Pay me my manies bitch, my baby needs diapers
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IRC chat thread worthy, imo
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sweetlemon69
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lets get ready to gammmmmmmbbbbbbb000000000000000000000llllllllll
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Quote:
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Originally Posted by d0zer
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Originally Posted by BankItDrew
IN B4 FAILZ
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Pay me my manies bitch, my baby needs diapers 
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You're asking 11 months too early.
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Girlfriend: Why are the werewolves more important than living life?!
Girlfriend: Are you on the forums doing the werewolves again?
Girlfriend: Soo... you forgot to run that errand, but you had time to werewolf? Wtf?
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daven
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suck less cock. Otherwise imagine how you're gonna explain your job to your kid
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d0zer
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Update:
Discipline month is going well. I've only played 7.5k hands, but running at 5ptbb. Above expectation, but I'm long overdue on that front.
I'm still not playing exactly like I want to -- have made some large enough mistakes that I know I'm not quite there yet, but still I've been playing better than I have been previously.
I have a bad habit of getting complacent, loosening up too much, going on auto-pilot when I've been running good. I think I've already done that a couple sessions so I write this to remind myself to smarten up.
I'd give myself a grade of B so far. Tough to quit the cocksucking cold turkey apparently.
Oh yeah, and I'm gunna clear my $1500 bonus next session so it'll be nice to see the roll back up in 100NL territory (yes I've been playing it anyways )
Obligatory giraffe for my adoring fans:
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bikes
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a hot damn mess
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so fucking happy to see this blog. can't even describe the amount of happy.
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I damage threads that may actually benefit some posters
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kingnat
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Originally Posted by Bbickes
so fucking happy to see this blog. can't even describe the amount of happy.
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...just because it has so much pole-smoking in it....
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So you click their picture and then you get their money?
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Micro2Macro
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Nice garf
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"Once we reach a certain level of mastery, we see there are higher levels and challenges. If we are disciplined and patient, we proceed. At each higher level, new pleasures and insights await us--ones not even suspected when we started out. We can take this as far as we want--in any human activity there is always a higher level to which we can aspire."
Check out my blog here!
"You are a degenerate Gaam-balur"
http://www.philgalfond.com/lets-make-some-changes/
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GoGoGo!
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your banner burned here
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sweetlemon69
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way to spew at 4200 hands... pff... new blog.
can't wait for lemown liveaments in june with bikes! weeeeeeeeeew!
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d0zer
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fucking eh, BR 3600 shiiiiiiiiiiipppp
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sweetlemon69
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hi5!
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so much powar itt
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gogogogogo, will follow
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kingnat
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is that plus the $1500 or including?
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So you click their picture and then you get their money?
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d0zer
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Originally Posted by kingnat
is that plus the $1500 or including?
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I don't play enough hands to go on a billion BI heater in like a day or two 
$650 bonus cleared in 4k veeps
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goooot lucks
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<JustinSKS> Tha'ts why I fold my 33 to 72o, because 7 high beats, 1 pair, donk.
JR: lets do it JUAN
JR: mono e mono
JR: man to man
JR: HU4ROLLZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
Dealer: juan0984 folds
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flomo
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this should work out great as long as momma stays happy.
Good LucK!
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Quote:
Originally Posted by bigred
Protect dog
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bikes
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a hot damn mess
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totally gonna have a grind partner again (no homo). I'm so fkn excited bud.
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I damage threads that may actually benefit some posters
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d0zer
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Originally Posted by Bbickes
totally gonna have a grind partner again (no homo). I'm so fkn excited bud.
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YOU CAN'T JUST SAY SOMETHING GAY THEN PRAY AWAY THE HOMO! 
Anyway, Bbikes lifelong dream of having a sexy daytime grind partner is getting closer to reality. About 4ptbb over 16k this month of 100NL 6m.
If I continue to win at this rate and get in as much volume for the rest of the month, the operation will be a success by the start of march.
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jyms
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As of March 1, my kid will be going back to full time school, so I can grind all day rather than late nights too. Been playing Full time since last Aug with very little grind partners as well. Some homo of course.
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d0zer
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Quote:
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Originally Posted by jyms
As of March 1, my kid will be going back to full time school, so I can grind all day rather than late nights too. Been playing Full time since last Aug with very little grind partners as well. Some homo of course.
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So tell me about your experience feeding a kid off of poker. What stakes, how many months of expenses do you have in reserve, did poker become more stressful knowing you've got to pay the bills etc.
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d0zer
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fucking fail. -12BI in the last 3 days and I've hardly played at all. I sit down, play 500 hands and lose 3-4 BI every single time 
Some bad / questionable / high variance play in the mix, but it doesn't help that my AK is running into AA pre a lot.
Sigh...the grind continues. Discipline month isn't a total fail yet. We has 11 days to recover!
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jyms
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Dude, hit me up on AIM/MSN or Skype and we can talk about the grind. I basically have been on the edge for 6months with no room, making bi weekly withdrawals and getting by. My biggest issues are the need to get money soon for bills and hitting downswings. I have let the swings get to me, to the point of extending them by playing badly trying to play tired and earn faster.
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d0zer
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Bah. Month wasn't a total failure I guess, but it started so much more promising. I failed to play less tables, found myself 12-tabling+ more than a few times. So I've made my tables bigger so I can only fit 8 on both monitors. This has been keeping me more in line after my massive downswang.
+800 donkaments, + 2150 bonuses = 3.5k month which is nice, even if most of it did come from built-up RB. At least the roll is healthier these days...
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So close!
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I read OP and I loled
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d0zer
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Month is going well. I've been playing at least a "B" game in general, which is improvement. Done well at playing only 8 tables and quitting when I feel my focus start to slip.
I've also been playing on this little busto network that gives me 90% RB which has been kinda fun. Most of the tables are 50BB max which is weird. There's like hardly any traffic so I find myself playing a mix of 100NL, 200NL, and 300NL. Yes 300NL. wtf. iunno. Anyway, I'm up 200 in proffits and 200 in RB there so about a 1k month so far.
On the pat leave front, I recently found out that I'll be getting a little less from the government than I had originally anticipated, but it only means that I've gotta make a bit more at pokars. Like 500 more. No biggie. It looks very promising for me starting pat leave in mid-april.
Yay
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Results! gogogo
So what do you plan to do with all of your spare time?
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your banner burned here
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lol spare time. imma be on the grind HARD
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ldo
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your banner burned here
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very nice buddy, keep up the good work!
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Girlfriend: Why are the werewolves more important than living life?!
Girlfriend: Are you on the forums doing the werewolves again?
Girlfriend: Soo... you forgot to run that errand, but you had time to werewolf? Wtf?
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bikes
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a hot damn mess
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Latest ge00fish post is one of the few bright spots on this vacation
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d0zer
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Handed in the paperwork today.
Pat leave starts on April 15th
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sweetlemon69
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Good luck man! run good!
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Grats on your infant how old he/she??
Nice job on the discipline especially from last month 16k hand onwards can't have been easy to grind it back when you're taking a hiding like that, nice to see man
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d0zer
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Slevin! How's my favorite degen doin'? Good to see yah back man Infant is 4 months yesterday. He is very powerful.
March was...ok. I made some manies...about 1.3k between donkaments, cash, actionpoker RB and stuff. Cash graph is a little meh looking. ran at like 1ptbb over 30k hands or some shit.
6 more days in the office then FREEEEEEDOM! w00t
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Mother fucking tuesday
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d0zer
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Mother fucking tuesday
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Three more days of mother fucking work (including today).
The pumptitude keeps growing and growing.
Also I'm running good and playing well this month. Volume has suffered but quality >>>> quantity.
Definitely some positive life variance goin' on right now.
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Fucking failblogs keep knocking this off the first page. LESS THAN 6 HOURS!
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Today, Operation: Paternity Leave becomes a success.
Tomorrow marks the start of Operation Stay on paternity leave, start crushing midstakes, become a balla (and such).
I'll think of a catchier title later, I'm too excited right now.
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kingnat
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Kill it yo.
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So you click their picture and then you get their money?
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BankItDrew
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You are the wind beneath my wings.
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Girlfriend: Why are the werewolves more important than living life?!
Girlfriend: Are you on the forums doing the werewolves again?
Girlfriend: Soo... you forgot to run that errand, but you had time to werewolf? Wtf?
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sweetlemon69
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HAHAHAHAH bot LOL
gl bud!
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d0zer
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You are the wind beneath my wings.
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lol 
Grind begins this weekend. I'm on baby duty till then as wife is in Chicago and the little guy isn't into grinding enough yet.
YET
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kingnat
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Quote:
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lol
Grind begins this weekend. I'm on baby duty till then as wife is in Chicago and the little guy isn't into grinding enough yet.
YET
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"So, Dad, you just click their picture and then you get their money?"
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So you click their picture and then you get their money?
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