Operation: I AM DA CARROT MAN

Fuck you ftr caps ban

LOL dranger! Maybes tomorrow sir. 09:20 - god I hate mornings so much.

EL oh el, ship the heaterment session.

[ ] $/hand

Okay so obviously today was immense and I got an upswing that has releaved the slow breaky eveny grind of the last week, winning me 10BIs in 2k hands. I feel like I played a lot better today and thought about spots more clearly, but that's a pretty common trend for me when playing well. My real test and something I really need to get sorted out before I move to 200NL is playing my A-game while running badly or mediocrely.

I'm going to try something new tomorrow - Not looking at my BR or session results at all until the end of the day and just using the reports "today" tab in HEM to check volume if need be.

It's 10:30pm and I'm tired as a result of getting up early. I'm going to go to bed in the next hour and that feels good. I exercised and grinded fairly hard today although I feel i could put in even more volume tomorrow. I'll probably shoot for 2.5k hands at least and see if I can push for 3k.

Here's the rough timetable for tomorrow. It isn't exact since I'll likely be doing some coaching at some point in the morning most likely so will need to fit that in somewhere.

8am: Get up, shower, eat breakfast of some sort - no monies = limited breakfast foods until i get monies through this week.

9am - 11am: Session 1

11am: Coaching (movable, not fixed.)

12pm: Study, HH review etc

1pm: Lunch break

2pm: - 4pm: Session 2

5pm: Exercise + session review

6pm - 7:30pm: Session 3

7:30pm - Watch some world cup and have dinner.

9:30pm - Watch leggo Vid

10:30pm - Chill

11:30pm - Bed

That's obviously a guidline to try to adhere to. I honestly need strcuture like this to get me into the habit of living my life the way I want to live it while I have no social or domestic comitments and not being overcome by lazy, internal waster-demons.

The hard part will be sticking to this when I have money to socialise again and not being tempted to go drinking or w/e all the time. This week is a turning point for me where I live my life the way I'd chose to if I logically had to decide on the best course of action. No tilt in poker, no tilt IRL.

If I don't post on here by 8:30am, the first person to post gets $20; you know the script by now.

I know noone's yet been shipped money but you guys are doing me a favour jus by threatening to take my monies if I fail. I really need the threat imo and I'm sure one day I'll end up relapsing and sleeping in accidently.

Peace.

1st

I will kill your first born m2m

Hope the gf thing works itself out. That shit can be a bitch.

Up and it's 8:25am. Almost M2M but no cigar sir. You have enough $20s anyways imo.

Originally Posted by Carroters

Up and it's 8:25am. Almost M2M but no cigar sir. You have enough $20s anyways imo.

fu im calling my lawyer

(btw whos coaching u?)

Originally Posted by Micro2Macro

fu im calling my lawyer

(btw whos coaching u?)

Noone, I'm coaching micro guys.

Originally Posted by Carroters

Noone, I'm coaching micro guys.

ahh very nice

So today, the run good continued and the play good continued for the most part although I think I definitely made a few mistakes.

Since my friend came over for a grind day which largely turned into playing backgammon and HU live, I didn't quite hit the hand target, only playing 1400. This just means that tomorrow I'll have to put in 2500 minimum and I'm cool with that since I have all day to myself. I'll be getting up at 8am again. Today I had this huge urge to just roll over and go back to sleep when my alarm went off but I maaged to fight it and get out of bed. If I don't post on here by 8:30am tomorrow it'll be shipadoodles to the first person to respond.

[17:54:41] * Now talking in #carrotclub
[17:54:59] * d0zer farts

I'm pretty tired and I can't go to bed just yet cos the washing machine is taking ages and making hella loud noises so changing the get up time to 9am. I need to post on here by 9:30am now D0zer or i ship you $20

pretty sure you owe me $20 for something or other anyway...

Been up for like half an hour and just remembered i have to post here. Close one. Today's goal is 2.5k hands. Time to get cracking with the morning session imo.

This is how you upswing fellers. Last 3 days.

Why do you switch between stakes?

I don't that's just what the filter is set to, that's all 100NL with maybe 50 hands of 50NL HU.

inb4 downswong

[ ] $/hand

still not there yet, sir.

In4the$20tbh

Originally Posted by Micro2Macro

[ ] $/hand

still not there yet, sir.

The carrot is not results oriented. He probably doesn't even know what a .lb of fresh carrots goes for in todays market.

The only reason I'm grinding is to save up for a lb of Carrots. We're talking like $9000 per lb right? Or have I been wasting my time these past few months?

Hey nice work man. May the heateraments never end!

Okay little mini OP this week. Basically I really haven't put in as many hands as I would have hoped. I now have essentially 3 days to clear the 1900 VPPs I need to secure platinum star. I'm going to be getting back into a good regime this week including geting up early and exercising regularly again. Birthday celebrations and socialising have kind of gotten in the way of volume goals and Ineed to make sure the month isn't a total volume fail. I'll be up at 9am tomorrow and will ship $20 to the first person to reply on here if I fail to post by 9:30am, you know the drill by now.

I'll aim to play at least 6 hours a day over the next few days, if I can put in 8 or 9k hands total that'd be sweet and enough to clear platinums starz.

Later all.

ship it,

and GL

9:17am, up and ready to begin my session.

Originally Posted by Carroters

9:17am, up and ready to begin my session.

Mornin' Carrot Dude! It's 5:09am in the States and I haven't gone to bed yet. Frikken beer, major party, and YouTube are too much fun. Think I'll sleep now......

Thanks for the help in IRC, I'll be hanging around there more for sure.

Btw, 200NL gogogo and make that cash

FYP About

FYA (Fixed Your Avatar) Rabbit Man

OMFG play2win that's fucking incredible, ty sir! I'll be changing it as soonas I update this blog. FYI I've also started a blog on my website which you can checkout here Blog

The month of June is now drawing to a close and results have been both positive and negative. Materialistically I had a really good month and continued to run and play fairly well overall, netting about $3K. This is my best month yet in that sense and I'm happy Ican keep going forward.

On the negative side, I completely lacked any drive or ambition to stick to the quota of hands for the month and played just 20K when Iwas shopoting for 40k. This is really unacceptable and something I thought about a lot tonight and blogged about at my site.

Next month I have 2 pretty awesome holidays to look forward to including 4 nights in Barcelona then 4 nights away at a rock festival. That's basically 10 days of grinding time lost, but I'm still going to shoot for 30k hands minimum and really try to work on my game. I'll be updating on here to make myself get up in the mornings by offering money to people and also setting out a few goals for the day.

I'll jump right into tomorrow without any further ado.

Goals:
Do coaching in the morning and get up by 8:30am
Play 2k hands of poker minimum barring run bad or tilt.
Exercise for 30 mins.
Play pool with my friend in the afternoon, but not drink beer
Get to bed by 12am

June Garph

Think I may have finally fixed the red line and am doing stuff like cold 4 bet bluffing with a lot of success and finding spots to win pots I'd normally just give up on. This is a fine balacne with spew and something I need to keep working on.





Adios guys, I'll try to update soon both here and on my blog. TY for the support and awesome avatars!

In 4 the 20

dere's no 20 today since I have other obligations that will serve well enough to get me up.

Originally Posted by Carroters

OMFG play2win that's fucking incredible, ty sir!

Cool, I'm glad you like it. I wasn't really trying to get you to change your Av. I like the carrot-man. I just thought I'd play around with the rabbit photo (silly rabbit, lol) I found on your web site. If you do want to use it for a while, you may want to use this new version. I cropped it and resized it to the proper Avatar size and it should look better. Whatever you want to do.

Rabbit Man 2

I will check out your blog and GG on the month.

God I've been neglectful of this OP lately. This month has been slow and I'm still down 3BIs or so so far over a 7k sample or something. Been playing okay for the most part but making a few really silly easily avoidable mistakes. I think I might try to cut back on the fast tables and only play a maximum of 2/6 since they're causing me to make more errors imo. I'm going to get some volume put in later todayand tomorrow. Stay tuned for updates both here and on my Blog

FML, poker is far less fun when you aren't on a massive heater. Been running pretty poorly lately and making a few mistakes although nothing too drastic. I open folded TT again today, retarded fast tables all popping up at once, Ireally need to cut back on them. Stars was loaded with fish today and I just couldn;t run decently enough to take advantage of it

Barcelona on tuesday, that'll be fun. I'll try to get as much volume in as I can this month, but honestly it prolly wont be much due to other plans etc. Going to try to really string together a solid month of volume in August. Peace.

Updataments: Barcelona was fun times. Was fucking mad hot, crowded, touristy, overpriced and semlly as shit, but apart from that it's a really swell city, but not somewhere I'd ever wanna live. Almost made me smile to getback to the ravagingly cold feeling scottish summer.

Been catching up with people for the last few days, going to hit the grindage tomorrow. If I'm not up and on here by 10:30am, Im'a ship the first feesh to respond some monies in the usual realms of $20.

My goals for the rest of the month are to study and really think about poker and make sure every session Ip ut in gets my all even if I can't amass any great volume.

Going to sonisphere festival next week and am prety fucking psyched about it. It involves the likes of Alice Cooper, Ramstein and Iron Madien who I'llbe going to see for the 5th time. Getting stoned and drunk for 4 days stright whilst camping and listening to metal can never be less than an awesome thing. I'll try to update both here and on my blog on my own site tomorrow, provided I can think of something interesting for y'all to read.

SHIP!

Here's to sleeping in!

Originally Posted by Carroters

Getting stoned and drunk for 4 days stright whilst camping and listening to metal can never be less than an awesome thing.

so long as you don't wake up, roll over, and realise you're sleeping next door to Alice, Alice?

Hahaha very true. 10:01 that's me up

Saved my losing month today with an 8BI day. Played for 4 hours which is longer than I've managed lately, more of the same to come hopefully, although time is short this month.

One thing I did today that Ireally hate is make 2 terrible calls in small pots where my hand was reasonable yet a bluff catcher in a spot where my opponent is like hardly ever bluffing. When I settle into the session, I play a bit better, but I felt kinda rusty and not on my game at first today when I started each session. I think I need to do more reviews, watching vids etc just before I start grinding to eliminate this.

Hey guys, just made a post that I think is worth a read for y'all in my Blog

It's about changing your thought process to make sure you consider some unconventional creative lines and avoid subtle autopiloting.

I'm just gonna play a session now and get in as many hands as possible today.

Peace.

Okay defo time to get into the habit of not checking my session results and not checking my BR. Since next month is hopefully going to be a high volume month, I want to get myself into all the right ways now. I'll report back here to say how this goes.

Yo dawg, I see you on the 2nd page, I hope you be grindin so you save yourself 100 bones. Na'mean

Just slept for 13 hours to recover from my 4 days of Sonisphere Festival. Feeling a little zoned still and not sure how I'll be playing this month. Going to do some studying and video watching anbd get back to the grind and try to rack up a winning month after the meh -3BI of July and volume fail.

One thing ius certain, CBAT will be getting no 100 bones from dis Carrot Man.

Ya, you are already in the hole my man.

Played 745 hands so far today and ran pretty well. I've been getting a bit more aggro preflop with regs that 3 bet and 4 bet a ton and so far it's been going really well.

Going to shoot for 2000 hands today and just try to play my A game. Still feeling a bit bleh with this cold, but it's the sort of shit where I feel better as the day goes on. This month will not be a volume fail; fucking determined about that.

In real life news things are a bit fucked since my scatter brianed girlfriend has decided to move to another city to do a college course. This leaves me with having to find some random fucker to share this flat with and I don't overly love the prospect of that. Hoping I start running better IRL soon.

Later.

A good week so far, sticking to volume goals and playing like 75% aswell as I possibly can. I need to work on a few key things that have stood out lately.

1. Playing back at villains and finding good spots to do stuff other than c/f or take weak ass lines postflop when I flat out of the blinds. I feel like I autopilot give up too much and likely don't experiment enough vs different regs.

2. Playing in 3 bet pots and yeah just planning how many barrels I'll fire if any and what my plan is for the hand. I need to always think through spots before I'm in them and have time to come up with the best lines in 3 bet pots. I get too muddled still in these situations vs aggro regs.

Going to focus on these two things tomorrow and especially try to avoid any fail or autopiloting in these spots. Another 2k hands due for tomorrow, volume volume volume imo.

So, I've become a station again for no good reason in large pots. Need to nip this in the bud now, shitty old habits creeping back, not gonna let it.

I don't care if I drop a few BIs, short term results are irrelevant, playing well is not. Play as well as you fucking can, jfc.

Okay I offically fail miserably at not looking at my session results. Even though it's just not important, I simply can't help but feel a compulsion to know how much I lost/won. Sometimes I'll even do this in the middle of the session, although this has reduced significantly from how often I used to do it. It's usually a sign that I'm getting tilted about something or other.

Things that tilt me these days are shit like getting 4 bet 67 times in a row or getting 3 bet 1002 times in a row. That sort of thing is the way I've been running this month, although I've been running okay in all ins and stuff.

Volume wise I'm played like 10.5k hands and it's the 11th. Got 20 days to play another 21.5k hands and this should be fine. Ideally though I'd like not to just stop at 32k, but aim to play lots and possibly exceed this. If anyone has any idea how the fuck to train yourself not to check session results daily then, I'm all ears.

Originally Posted by Carroters

Hey guys, just made a post that I think is worth a read for y'all in my Blog

It's about changing your thought process to make sure you consider some unconventional creative lines and avoid subtle autopiloting.

I'm just gonna play a session now and get in as many hands as possible today.

Peace.

Good stuff

Originally Posted by Carroters

If anyone has any idea how the fuck to train yourself not to check session results daily then, I'm all ears.

keep your tracker minimised while playing is a good start.
I check results after each session cos it's part of my routine and it's fine, so long as i do it post-session rather than during the session...

Blah month is basically breakeven so far, but I'm doing okay for volume for a change. Guess you can't play loads of hands AND run like god. Going to really work on my emotional game for the rest of the month, basically staying chillaxed and grinding through rough patches of variance. Going to work hard and just make sure I'm focussed and playing as well as Ican be at all times. The reuslts will take care of themselves when variacne decides it's that time again.

Just cashed out $1k to help pad my real life money situation for the coming month. Feel a lot better now since things were looking really tight on this front. It does mean that it'll now be 10BIs longer before I reach 200NL, but that's not neccesarily a terrible thing. My game lately has been okay in parts, but I feel like I could fine tune it so much more and basically just avoid making a bunch of mistakes that are defo mistakes, but justifiable for some dumb reason to me at the time. If I can leak finder myself a little bit then some extra time at 100s to do this wont hurt. Last 30k hands have just been break even and that's fairly shitty following a crushing 30k before that. I'm not playing a lot worse or anything but just not getting paid when I have strong hands and running into the tops of people's ranges time and time again. I can defintietly ease the damage running like this is causing though by plugging a few leaks that keep popping up.

I'll make my 32k hand target this month pretty easily I'd imagine. My main focus like I've already said is going to be on tilt managment, emotional managment and just making sure the only thing going into decisions I make is my logical analytical skills, that are more than competent enough to beat 100NLs easily. I'm not going to check session results, even at the end of sessions, but just play through whatever variacne I encounter be it good or bad.

Excited to be coaching a few new students this month and looking forward to making some extra monies from that since I really enjoy helping others and teaching.

Gotta go win 30BIs now and hit up dat 200NLz.

Peace for now.

Meh still BE this month, playing meh in some spots, well in others. Kinda frustrating when Ido things for no reason that I just plain know are not the best play.

Let's hope for a better September.

much love CARROTMAN, keep up the domination

Originally Posted by Vi-Zer0Skill

much love CARROTMAN, keep up the domination

Thanks bro.

Pokarz update

Okay haven't updated in a lil while. Had a fairly meh August, but managed to salvage things a little bit towards the end of the month on what was a much overdue upswing imo. I ended up +1300 or so in cash then rakeback + live donkament winnings netted me a 2k month in the end. So, how's poker going? Well, my game is certianly still improving, I'm finding more and more spots to do different shit in and a lot of it is working out I feel. I'll hopefully manage to refrain from cashing out now until I've at least got 10kand a good foothold at 200s. This shouldn't be too long just need another 15BIs or so and then I'm moving the fuck up, no not taking a shot, that ain't really my style, but rather moving for good unless I drop like 20BIs at 200NL. Ofc I may move back down before this if I feel tilted and like I'm not up to playing $400 pots. All in all looking forward to the next couple of months pokerwise and just have a few simple goals for September.

1. Study - all play and no study leads to the formation of new bad habits. This is something I've found out first hand in August and something I'll be fixing.

2. 8 table - So far I've handled 8 tabling 6 max really well and still feel likei have enough time to make decent decisions. I also feel like the rush of playing 8 tables as supposed to 6 is keeping me focussed and leading to less refusal to fold inbad spots. because I'm bored and have had e fucking nough of some reg.

3. Play - Don't be a lazy shit, shoot for at least 20 - 30k hands depending how heavy uni is when it starts next week.

Okay IRL Update time

So the g/f has moved back home with her Mum etc and we've been seeing a lot less of eachother (used to live together ldo) I thought initally this could be bad and mayspell the end of the relationship due to drifting apart and shit. It's actually been totally fine so far though and we just had a really nice weekend together there. Confident there's plenty life left in this old horse yet.

Uni starts next week. I'mexcited about getting stuck into some more philosophy aswell as picking up ancient greek again and learning Italian (provided my advisor is cool with this) I think he should be since I obv proved I can learn languages by pwning the shit out of a dead and difficult one last year. Going to get into playing badminton more competitively aswell and join the uni gym and just get into better shape. I'm in okish shape just npw, but often my lifestyle doesn't help this and the drinking and eating crapcan lead to progress hinderance. Going to start going for runs aswell as doing musuclar shit this week.

Tomorrow

Not got any plans yet so here's a rough plan

Get up 10am at the latest, If I fail to post on here by 10am, my time, the first one to respond gets $31 shipped to them.

Grind at least 4-5 hours of poker and study 1-2 hours.

Go for a run and do some ab and arms work aswell.

Get to bed by 1am latest.

That is all for now gais. Wish y'all good luck in september, let it be a good month for FTR.

Peace.

Hi! Good luck man.

Jfc I run so bad at these lol

lol Dustin, that coulda tripled your roll imo.

EXACTLY :RAGE:

good to hear you're no longer running below EV in the real life. gl with the grinds

ty rpm sir. That's me up, 9:36am, my body really hates mornings.

Thats what your mom says after I get through with her.

lol at stoners having the energy to fuck anything.

Sex is better high yo.

dammit

Just hit 200k on this database, brag time imo. Gonna be moving up to 200s pretty soon barring anymore downswongz.

likin' the new avatar.





...oh yeah and that graph is mildly attractive too

^this and this

Ok the shit I jus experiecned is seriously gay. I went to bed there about 1am, it's now 4:23am. I;ve spent the last 3 hours, sleep walking, and then insleep paralysis with recurring pattern dreams I had no control over and felt as if they were real. This sorta shit is horrible and something I used to get a lot when my sleep pattern was all messed up; this weekend it hasn't been perfect.

Basicallt at like 2:20 I wake up in my room, standing up, holding the big ass mirror that hangs on the bedroom wall. I'd jumped out of bed (I assume) and took it down from the wall in a blind panic, although I have no momory of doing this. Anyway, I wake up holding it, my hearts thumping, I'm in the dark holding this mirror thinking I've just avoided some sort of travest as if it was possessed and about to kill my g/f who isn't here anymore as she went back home yesterday. I thought she was in my bed and was like muttering something bout how it was all okay and I'd saved the day from this bastarding mirror. As Islowly regained awareness, I realised I was alone and the mirror was not evil, nor was there any evil present. I was still sleepy so I turned the light on, re hung up the mirror, turned the light back off and went back to bed.

Soon I was feeling myself slipping into sleep paralysis which for those of you lucky enough never to have expereicned it, is a state of semi conscious, paralysis where you have distorted semi dreams/thoughts usually of a un pleasant nature. While you cannot move or fully wake up, you often feel like there is an evil presence in the room with you, or there is some evil scenario playing out that you cannoy fix. Lol this is the semi funny part I guess. I'm thrashing about trying to snap out of it, because part of me knows what's happenig, when I find myself in the middle of a HH discussion not quite on a thread but not quite in the room physically with me either. There is a fishy weakvulnerable guy, I know he's a micro guy and he's in some turn spot where the flop has checked through and hios opponent led the turn as pre flop caller I think. He has some marginal hand like 88 on Jxx. This is the wierd part, his opponent is in this discussion aswell and he's just laughing (the evil presence of this SP episode) His name is "Ins4ne Troller" LOL. No joke this is his name and I know it's his name. Now he tells me that he already bet the turn as a bluff and showed it and then time was turned back and the cards may now be different and his opponent doesn't know if he's on the level where he's doing it againas a bluff or the other level with a value hand. I'madovcating a fold saying there's noway he's bl;uffing for the 2nd time in this exact fragment of time as we revisit it. The fishis wanting to call though and is getting [anicky about Ins4ne Troller sniggering and being a dick. So I'm like "that's why I fucking went and adjusted the mirror! It's because ins4ne troller was being evil in this HH and that was how to stop it" I had no urge to get up and take the mirro downagain though. Instead I battled out of bed and onto the computer where I was on a thread with this HH, Ins4ne troller was againposting nastyshit here and the interwebs was allscrewy, like the toolbar was the wrong colour and shit. I realised I was somewhere not quite right and may not be fully awake, so istarted thrashing as I wa sstanding next to the desk. I thrashed enough to wake myself up (for real this time) and stared at my phone. While enduring one week of shitty constant SP once I'd read online that looking at a bright light would snap me out of the horrible cycle. I was too tired to actually get out of bed though, so chose to stare at it for a couple of minutes. I drifted back to sleep and the SP episode continued. Now Ins4ane troller was laughing harder and the fish was shouting at me "Im gonna call Im gonna fucking call" and I was like "No man shit think about this ffs" So after more battling with my thought s and deciding ins4ne troller (still no face or physical non forum form) had done shit to the mirror earlier on and caused my sleep walking episode. I blamed him and this HH fully for whathad happened with the mirror. I got up at this point (in my episode still, physicalme still lying paralysed in bed) and ran towards the light. I would turn the main light on in the bedroom and stare at that to bannish this epdisode and wake up fully. I hit the switch but the light wouldn't go on. So I pannicked and feeling like ins4ne troller was behind me I ran to the kitchenand the light went on there, somehow I knew that light would work, it was too detached from the bedroom to be affected by the episode or some shit like that. So as it went on I relaised I was still asleep and dreaming and thrashed and thrashed. The thrashing is my dream body trying to like communicate with my physical body that I'm still asleep and need to move to wake up. So the physical me starts to gain awareness, feels like I'm suddenly plunged back into my real body, and this time I KNOW it's real and I canwake up out of this soon. So I thrashsomuch that Ican move fingers and toes IRL and eventually cansit up and my head is cleared with the evil presence and the pannicky fish victim gone. I get up and decide I need to fucking write about this before I forget it all.

A really fucked up part is that in the middle of this episode I thought shit like "I need to go see a sleep doctor, I need therapy and help to stop this shit happening to me" Idk how I feel bout thatnow or whetehr there'd be any point, guess I can look into it. The fact my mind conjured a fucking troll as my image of evil is also worrying. Think I may spend too much time on the interwebs.

I'm going to attempt to sleep now and think I should be free from SP or more night terrors, although not sure yet. I have class in a few hours, I really need to sleep.

Fucking hate this shit.