The last 20 sessions or so I've played, I think 60-70% of them have been profitable. Of course, I'm running well, but I can fine tune my game really well with huge HEM databases. I can fold A-Jo to a cutoff open with 17x and I know when to shove 7-4 suited for 26 BBs. I've done the math, I have 1k hands on you, it's done. Live....uhhhhh, well hell, I've played fifty hands with you, I think you're doing this but...uhhhh...well...we'll see.

I like being able to go to my girlfriend's place after I'm done working and just hang out, talk with her family a little, watch a movie, eat a home cooked meal. I feel almost normal. On the road, you're kind of always out of sorts. I don't trust myself to really drink or anything anymore, so I just walk around the city taking pictures, or work at nights on my laptop...which you know is fine, but it's not worldwide partying anymore. You're laying around some crap hotel (or I am because I'm cheap as hell) a lot of the time. I love live tournaments, and seeing different places, but it costs so much, and there's so much variance. I want to make more bread and butter bets, every day.

So yeah, been focusing on becoming a student, getting a new place, ramping up a new office, and then getting on a bunch more sites. Until then the Stars grind has been good to me. Also enjoying getting a lot of lessons in. Got three hours in today, and got three more lined up on Monday. If you want to get your hour or two done hit me up at assassinatocoaching@gmail.com. I have some extra time on Monday, would be nice to fill out the day a little more.

I just realized one of the guys who physically threatened me in an email for publishing too much in my videos and articles is actually...a huge player. A guy I used to talk to every day. I didn't recognize his real name. It makes me sad, I hadn't hit him up in a long time, but I thought him and I were friends. The guy's done strategy podcasts and videos himself. I don't like public crap, so I'm not going to say who he is or anything, I just thought you guys should know...Pocketfives Training puts everything out there. This guy's training site, he obviously holds a lot back, and he's one of their premiere pros.

Yeah he said if I didn't stop giving out info he'd mess me up good at some live event. Hope he doesn't read the Bluff article I just sent in. (See how I shamelessly plugged myself again there?)

But for real, I don't know if he was out at PCA, but that's kind of stupid shit to be saying. Phil Galfond made videos (well...before his site kicked him off without telling him. Is that what happened? I think that's what I saw him Tweet), and I'm not 1/10th the player that guy is...I mean sure we're making the games harder but there's always guys who rise above all of them. For all I think I know hundreds of cash regs could probably hand me my ass in a bunch of different spots. If I want to get over that I have to study those spots, seek out specific instances where I'm getting owned, I have to carve out the time in my week. I don't just watch a vid and get it, I have to watch 20 vids and then consciously note the situations, and then maybe I'll get it. The people who are going to get a lot from training videos were going to get it from somewhere.

Being in business for yourself means diversifying your bets. I start with sure things most days, paid hours, paid programming, paid writing. Then I move into the smaller bets with small returns, work them every day. Once every few months I make a big investment for potentially a huge payoff. Doyle Brunson wrote Super System, you going to go after him? He started it. Where would 99% of regulars be without training videos and forums? It's just the new era, you can profit from it, or privately not like it. What you can't do is stop it.

Anyways, I've wasted a good hour writing here. Was nice to separate my thoughts again. I had a year or so there it was really difficult for me to blog. It's nice to feel like everything's rolling right now. Enjoying playing, making money, having good sessions with my students that teach me too, hanging out with my fam here...I feel real blessed to have my work and good people to hang out with.

I'm probably not going to play much this week, if at all. I've been feeling real good all year, and I think that's shown in my play, but man...I just felt exhausted the other day mentally. I'm kind of weird about work, I don't consider it work, I just want to work on something from the moment I wake up to when I go to sleep, so it's really easy for me to log 80+ hours each week. Once every month or two it just really comes down on me. So, I don't take time off really...I'm uploading videos as I write this...but I focus on low-stress things for a few days, just getting my things in order.

I did get a chance to get out to a volanco here on Valentine's day with my girl. City was really in the country, there were nothing that wasn't family-owned. It's funny to me thinking that the world's best poker player could live here in 20 years, this hidden little pueblo. Poker doesn't care about skin color, where you grew up, sexuality, religion, anything. It's like a sci fi novel, anyone with a internet connection can compete.

It was real windy at the top, but fun to walk around this crater. Actually caught The Walking Dead at night too.

All right, I've spew written for an hour or so, this was fun, talk to y'all later.

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