I have until Wednesday end of day before I hit it full time. I plan on hitting it slowly but excited none the less. My main casino of grinding will be Horseshoe Cincinnati so if you all are close, hit me up sometime. I also will be playing online on WPN sites either blackchip poker or americas card room. I can't seem to play on any other sites but there or lock poker but fearful to deposit on lock since the whole issues of withdrawals. 

What are your thoughts guys of sites? i can't play on intertops and am very selective due to where I live? I am fine with WPN and bitcoin type sites but would really like to see what some full-time grinders are feeling on some sites?

Thanks,

weeeeee

i want to update the tpe nation on the full time grind. It is going well actually. I am trying to adjust to live games at the casino and it is going well. I feel that I am getting comfortable at the tables and picking up the bad play. My goal right now is just to get comfortable and want to keep the roll at even. My goal right now is to get better and find my niche. I

I will start playing some satties this coming week at the casino and just get used to live tournament play. The structure to these tourneys seem horrible but the reality of it is so that the game won't last until 4am in the morning so I understand why they skip levels.

My online grind on WPN is doing very well. I am playing mostly ring games on WPN and I am at about 3.62 bb/100 so I am happy it's green and not red. I play my tournament grind on sealswithclubs and took down a rebuy. To be honest, I haven't really played as much as I would like for I am moving my house by the end of next week so been busy so kind of taken a vacation to get the new house ready with painting and stuff.

My goal right now may not be lofty but the biggest goal is to get comfortable and I think that sitting at a table and playing my best is the first step. Not hitting the high roller room just yet ha ha. 

Not to copy off of loxii but will do it.

OVERVIEW and HIGHLIGHTS

I am trying to settle into this full-time grind and I absolutely loving it. The flexability and the control that I have through the day is something that I always hoped and imagined. I feel like I am living the dream to be honest. For so many years, just been waiting for the right spot to do this and now I am in the middle of it.

GOOD

I am now over 2.5K ahead but mostly been playing cash. I am getting into the groove and running about 24bb/100 hands over about 2000 hands so far. I haven't put in real volume so this is a bit skewed. I will be happy if I can sit somewhere around 5 to 10bb/100 and not want to fall in the nasty red area on my HEM2 HUD.

I have been playing weekly at Cincy Horseshoe and really the goal is getting used to live games for I have been playing online for so many years. It is a bit of a challenge for me. The goal is being comfortable. Last night, I played the 1/2 cash (as I have been sticking with for the past three weeks) and I really like to fill the rack and last night, filled one rack and had to get two racks. It was a very soft table if I could say so that is good for me.

BAD

I am having difficulty in MTT side of things. It may be due to the fact that I have been playing so much cash and tend to play a bit too tight losing some equity in spots that I should be ripping in certain spots. I have always been a pretty tight player and I just seem to not get over it. My winrate is good on cash but I lose my total winrate on MTT games that I play. I have been really limiting myself on volume on MTT's. I have been playing the nightly tourneys and really can't seem to shake it off and basically brick before the first break. I am insanely upset about it. i am going to off my poker coaching on cash games and lean toward MTT for that is what I enjoy playing most.

I haven't been able to put in near enough volume and almost non existent in the area of MTT's at all. I am pretty not happy about it. 2000 hands in a full-time grind isn't at all where I want to be. I want to put in some more volume definately.

FUTURE

I am currently moving to a new house this weekend so lately my volume hasn't even come close to where I want it to be hence why I am where I am. Luckily, i have been really focused on getting moved into the new house and get my office area set up so that i can truely get some schedule.

I am going to really try to get into running and make efforts to really living a healthy life. I am noticing straight away that the seperation of a true grinder and pros is their healthy habits. I want to really get on this bandwagon and get myself healthy for those long grinds so I can be alert and ready to go each day.

CONCLUSION

I am glad to be involved with the TPE nation. It has been a great success of a site and I am glad to be a part of it. I am going to be at the WSOPC in Cincy and if anyone is planning on coming, love to have a meet up there sometime. It is in the heart of downtown and they are expecting a large crew coming in. If you are planning coming, hit me up and let's get together.

weeeeee

this week has officially been the start of the full-time poker journey and I am excited to say that I have reached +2K on my ring games at BCP. I also have been up on live casino games too. I am down on tourneys though and need some help in this arena. Since I have been bricking just about every tournament, I have been taking the time off tourneys and watching videos on tpe instead and hitting the micro games on sealswithclubs and satoshipoker and little bit on bcp. I have to keep my winrate up. 

I really like the TPE university area that allows me to follow through on steps which is perfect for me. So I am going through the bigdogpckt5s vidz so those are perfect. I hope to start getting into MTT's again like before but have to stick with my profits right now and hopefully start binking these tourneys. The problem I have right now is living in ky where there isn't much in the way of options for online poker. I only have bcp currently and can't play on carbon where the nice MTT tourneys reside. I wish that Lock could get their act together so that I can play there. I tried to get on at Intertops but it is just really due to where I live. 

I am excited to go to the wsopc in Cincy in a couple of weeks so I am also gearing up on that and in October, the WSOPC in Southern Indiana plan on that one too. I am going to play in the minor events and if I win a seat for the main, i will gladly play. I wish I can just flat buyin that but it isn't necessary. I think the other events that are playing are just fine for me.

If anyone would be interested in buying some action, here is the link to my blog that has the details. I still have the Main event on there but most likely won't play it.

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Well I have officially starting the trend of going down. My personality suggests, not a downer. I actually glad that it happens. It brings reality to poker for me. This is inevitable in poker that there are ups and downs. I remember something a few months back or maybe even a year or so ago, don't remember really but it is when you are falling down, get yourself back up and go to what you are profitable with. I really relate to this. I have dropped down in my stakes, also re evaluate my goals and took a day long break just to refeel myself where I need to work on.

In a stuper of the constent bubbles and just plain bricks of tourneys, it is not necessarily bankroll management but it is more $$ mind managment. I am in games that warrants solid bankroll management but it is not where I belong if that makes sense. I dropped down to micro games for tourneys to work myself up and build a seperate roll of tourneys and have a seperated my roll for ring games. 

I also have made an adjustment to not combine my ring games with tourneys. I have scheduled now tourney schedule and a ring schedule and seperated my rolls accordingly. I realize that my styles were meshing between the two when playing both tourneys and ring. I would play a bit too tight in tourneys and my 3 bet % was a little more aggressive on ring games. I also am in different levels of games when in ring and tourneys. 

So i am adjusting myself to micro stake tourney games and decided to lower my stakes on ring games not due to bankroll persay but where I think I can be more consistant in my profit. For example, in a ring game in the 2/4, this week, went down 10bb/100 so was going from  32bb/100 to 22bb/100 so that is a steep fall when you are putting most of the volume in 400NL games. It is swingy and less consistant. Leaves a steeping thump in your stomach when you drop down close to 1K in a ring session in one session and the next day, you run close to 2K in a couple of days. It is rough. 

Guys the thing you will see with me is I am pretty transparent and think this is a great format to discuss this stuff. I hope this is beneficial of others who are at the edge of making the decision of going full time grind. I love it. Love the flexability and the control I have in my life but at the same time, I have quickly realize, it is a “grind” definately. I'd rather grind out playing poker though than being a computer guy that has to constently show people how to send an email with an attachment. 

lol happy grinding… 

well i have been absent in the forums but still alive and kicking. I am playing more tourneys lately and absolutely love it. I am final tabling more of the micro tourneys. I play mostly micro tourneys on very small sites due to me living in Buttentucky. One thing about Kentucky that is great is it's simply a gourgeous state to live in. The pride is in the horses. Currently in Lexington, we have bourbon barrels that are painted all over the downtown areas and it's rich in bourbon, beer, horses, and wine. In the area of poker, Merge doesn't like KY, Intertops doesn't like KY, many places flat out don't like Kentucky.

So I have enjoyed some new games on WPN but have recently not liked the disconnects but seems to get better. I have also played quite a bit on sealswithclubs with bitcoin, satoshipoker and the new GridPoker as I am an affiliate of those sites. I have been running very decent at those sites. Smaller player pools and less money making potential in the games are difficult. Multi Tables there mean 2 tables and maybe 3 tables at the most. I miss PokerStars totally. 

I am still traveling to Cincinnati casino and playing there when I get a chance but don't really like the drive of 1 hour and 1/2. I have moved to the 2/5 games and lock up the chips in a box there so that is pretty cool. I hope to eventually find a solid home game in Lexington, Ky but haven't really find that. 

With my bitcoin poker site and poker itself, I still feel like i am living a dream and love it and don't ever ever want to go back to a J O B unless i am in a j o b that I love. 

Anyways, it is a pretty airless post but want to say that I am still alive and kicking.

I wanted to give a little update. I have been playing on Bovada and on Lock. Like I have said before, I am kind of limited to where I can play in the state of Kentucky where I live. I like Lock playerpool and the tourneys are pretty good. I have found a way of taking my bitcoin and getting lock at .20 cents to the dollar (which I know i can do this on the 2 plus 2 threads) but what I can do is daily take lock funds off back to bitcoin and back to my pocket. This is the reason why Bitcoin is soooo good. If you all want a tip on bitcoin, hit me up. I would love to show you.

Anyways, i have been really liking Bovada and the software. I have taken a break on ring games (where I started) and playing the 10.00 tourneys on Bovada and on Lock, been playing the 10 and 20 dollars. I am up almost 600.00. I am cashing and final tabling at least daily on both sites so I am pretty happy.

My goals have been changing dramatically. I have a coach now so i am plugging my leaks. I also am reviewing my Hand History of my tournaments with my coach and working on it together. I also am loving the Brokus series as there is some areas I have switched gears a bit on opponents. 

Funny thing that I think all TPE'rs could try and have an opportunity to do is play a tourney without seeing your hole cards and see how you play. It is very interesting. I was playing on a bitcoin poker room (it is currently in Beta) and for some reason, i couldn't see my hole cards. I decided to see how far I got through. I wish I can tell you that I won it but it was a great thing to go through because you are forced to really read the strength of your opponents. Watching Andrew Brokus videos before this really helped me determine the card ranges I was playing against. It was an interesting game to say the least. 

My biggest score so far this week is the 22.00 Deepstack on Lock which came in 2nd for 285.00  I was fairly happy with my play. I am currently going through the hand history and saw some spots I could have been more aggressive. My three bet range is kicking in with the correct ranges. I need to open up a little bit more in late positions. I am getting more accustommed to stack sizes and Reading my HUD much better.

Anyways, I hope this isn't so boring to you but the progress is shaping up nicely. During this full-time grind, there are some good days and some not so good days. I am trying to stay disciplined and just try to play my A game. The only way I know how to do this is really keep good care of myself by exercising and eating right and most of all getting good sleep. Take the vitamins and all good. Mind needs to be on the top end and taking breaks.

Posts are fun when you are on an upswing (heater) but posts aren't so fun when reality in fact happens. Lost a total of 1500.00 over the past two days. It is a mental challenge. I want to say that I am still encouraged and love living the dream dispite the downfall of my game. The challenge for me is to “chase the losses”. Guess what??? I didn't chase. I just stopped. 

Really want to thank Jered Tindler for it is truely gets me through the tilt. I am a runner so over the past few days, I could have probably run a marathon to deal with it. Last night, I just took a break and got some good sleep. Woke up this morning and just said, I am going to play good poker, i took down my first tourney so back on the grind. 

So what do you all do with tilt? Do you run? Do you chase your losses? I would suggest stop, maybe look at your hand history, watch a video here on TPE, or go and exercise. Remember, this poker thing is a game and there are risks. Consistency and volume will hedge through the varience. The best thing I know to deal with it is “expect the varience”. It isn't just the one hand that loses, if it was getting it in good, then keep getting it in good. It is the volume you put in, not just the hand. 

Peace out all

I haven't posted so much lately because really didn't have much to report. I have been playing quite a bit last month or so but in a reactive type of state. Reactive state seems that I have been trying to grind to pay the bills. This is an often leak in the game but when you are a full-time grinder, it is what you got to do. I learned a lot in this stage and wanted to share this to the community. 

Playing reactively is defined as playing for purpose of an emergency will. A state of goals that are made in the mind to gain quickly based on goals “or else” type of attitude. The causes of this reactive state is initially playing above your bankroll requirements. Also, it could be that your bankroll requirements are loftier than where you actually need to be. 

The reason for my reactive state is at the start, I had a setback in personal expenses that pretty much ruined my positive proactive approach of my game. When i hit the setback, I didn't go down in stakes (which is mistake #1). My mental mind was shot when I lost 1/2 my life roll was affected by this event. I tried to go down in stakes but the prizepool didn't seem as nearly significant than where I was so I took shots back to where I was but my mental outlook on the game was shot and lost quite a bit from there. 

Sometimes in these particular posts, we see a lot of the good things and the good life of a poker player but I would want to bring it real to the TPE Nation. It is brought me to the micro stakes games on ring and micro stakes on tourneys. This is where I feel i need to get it right. I decide at this time to break from poker “playing”. I need a proactive mindset. I have got a couple of books that I am going to hit (one is the Mental Game of Poker #1 and #2) and thankfully this is going to be my daily spot to come in, watch videos, browse the forum here and hopefully learn from the best. Until my mindset is back in a proactive state of mind, best for me to study the felt and not play the felt.

I also thankfully have my backup plan which is my website which I have grown very fond of. This site is my stability of my liferoll. I am a bitcoin enthusiast and I am thankful that my bitcoins that I initially invested last year. I bought my first bitcoin at $8.00 for a bitcoin (BTC) and now is up to $500.00. I have been given opportunity after opportunity to really bring value to the bitcoin community and in particular the bitcoin gaming opportunity. If you want to know more about bitcoin and how to make use of it, hit me up here. I can talk all day about bitcoin, ask Marc Alioto. 

Anyways, if the community could recommend some good books, let me know and i can add it on the list. I find that when poker isn't fun anymore, then it is a good time to leave it and come back to it with a clear head. I have left poker a time or two, come back and crush it again. 

And “great string” went south. I am back and excited for I have been off the grid for a month taking a break. I usually take a break around the holidays. Things have changed up a bit on my life so poker had to take a back seat. To get back in the groove, going back to the archives with the step back into the TPE University. It's a must if you are trying to get back into the groove of things. 

I am still a full-time grinder but been mostly playing ring games but want to dive right back into my fav… MTT”s. I had been playing mostly in the bitcoin poker rooms but the MTT's there just don't have anywhere close to the action where I like which is more MTT's. So hopefully as I see that WPN is opening up to bitcoin slowely, they may open it up for US US Mericans. 

I landed a little depo on Black Chip Poker and hopefully grind that Online Super Series. I remember grinding along with all the TPE'rs back with the first Maximus Seriese with Rivermen, JLude, Killingbird, and AZN so hopefully see that happen again in teh OSS III on WPN. I want to get prepped for that and get some satties in and play again. 

I will continue the goal of just solid bankroll managment as I always do and really keep this thread up to let you all in on a fish turning to shark. I hope to be more of a “flounder in training”. I also may use this as my blog and post a bit about bitcoin. I have a bitcoin articles up on …..epoker.com if interested. I am the dude that is all about Bitcoins. It will be huge in 2014. If the guys will allow me, I would love to blog about bitcoins or link. 

Bitcoins in 2014 i think will be at 2150.00 anyone want to prop bet this? Over under? hmmm. AZNallin007, you want in on this? 

i have been playing a pretty good volume but on a downward spiral. it sux rox but at the same time. I have applied a close to good bankroll management. My roll is nursed for a couple of weeks but has taken a downard spiral. I noticed it may be my schedule. As an american living in the black ball state of Kentucky, it makes it challenging. I am contemplating getting over the anonymous tables and chuck in a deposit when I get some $$ to bovada just so I can get in more volume in the smaller stakes I live on. There isn't much in the 5.00 and below during the day on WPN and the on Demand turbos don't pop off as often as I like to see them. 

One of the requests from the TPE community is finding some folks, maybe one person who would want to review hands, etc that fall in the same sort of games as me. I play DoN's/5.00 and below tourneys. My current bankroll is only allowing me 3.00 and below until i get it up and would love to connect with skype and run some hand histories together via team viewer. Right now, i can't afford a coach so would love to get a TPE member that can work together for the same goal.

thanks,

weeeeee

Ended up putting 100.00 on Bovada so it's really low to start so i am hitting only the following on the site. 

MTT tourneys= 1 and 3 buck tourneys Freezeouts (no rebuys)

SitNGoes 1, 3 currently until i get 150.00 i will go up to 5.00 tourneys

Ring games 10NL NO HIGHER

If you know me, this is really really conservative for me. I typically take shots when I am playing just because i can't play. The evening tourneys on Bovada are pretty high. I hope to get some SnG's working in the evening and hit some ring games. I also have some money on BetCoin (which is a bitcoin poker room that is using the WPN software that are micro buyins) If you want to try that out, let me know and I can send you a link and can do a p2p for GDMP if you want to get in micro players. OVERLAY. I will also do the same thing on SealsWithClubs if you are interested. Just PM me and I can get you setup.