Operation: $$ accumulation

Originally Posted by Vi-Zer0Skill

you seem to have a very healthy attitude towards the negative variance of poker, so props for that. good life balance as well. it'll turn around eventually!

I'm struggling with the health of my attitude towards variance in poker right about now... to the point that i finally updated my cv to include poker - hard to leave that out given that it's been my only source of income for over three years now. But things aren't so bad that i'm doing anything with that cv just yet

Re life balance. I think that having poker play the dominant role in each of the work and social and recreational aspects of life would be a recipe for clinical depression or worse, like, anyone who has even some tendencies towards instability would have to be pretty fucking stupid to let poker play too big a role in their life, even if it was their job. Galfond talks about the value of life outside poker a lot in one of his blogs, and it's gold. It's my job, and i still enjoy it. But I mostly enjoy the lifestyle it enables. Not living the life of hedonistic luxury (can't afford that), but living the life of ample flexibility and free time, and enough money i guess.

Originally Posted by Vi-Zer0Skill

this freedom thing is priceless

fyp

flipping poorly over the last week:

Originally Posted by daven

Not living the life of hedonistic luxury (can't afford that), but living the life of ample flexibility and free time, and enough money i guess.

This is my life too right now. Not getting rich, but don't have to play that many hours and tons of freedom. My future self may regret it, but I'm pretty happy now!

I also totally agree that letting poker take over your life is a terrible idea. I don't see how anyone can be happy that way.

i decided to read through Theory of Poker again. A couple of years on and some of those simple ideas near the start got me thinking all over again.

running is going fun. Did a 14km hill circuit on friday, an 18km loop saturday, then a 19km heavy hill run on sunday. Plan for the half marathon is to run the first 10km in an easy 50mins with the guy i'm running it with, then the next 5km in 23mins, then we'll probably separate and i'll try to run the closing 6.1km in sub-24. Or things will go nothing like planned. See what happens. Forecast is rain and strong winds.