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Philip

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Philip's Life List

  2. 1. Revise my goals and make them: specific, measurable,realistic and time bound.
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  3. 2. Play heads-up sit-and-gos
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  4. 3. move up to $2-5 no-limit poker
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  5. 4. meet other INFP's
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  6. 5. fly again
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  7. 6. become a poker coach
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  8. 7. find a nice artsy freakish Christian girl -- then get married to her
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  9. 8. get my nipples pierced
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  10. 9. get my septum pierced
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  11. 10. Overcome ADD
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  12. 11. move to los angeles
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  13. 12. learn to play bass
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  14. 13. improve public transit
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  15. 14. Date a goth chick.
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  16. 15. get married (someday)
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  17. 16. go on a road trip with no predetermined destination
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  18. 17. comment more on Hari's blog
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  19. 18. Spend less time fooling around on the net and more time actually working
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  20. 19. visit Montana
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  21. 20. become a career counselor
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  22. 21. Dress up like a freak goth and go for mass at a Baptist Church
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  23. 22. learn how to apply eyeliner
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  24. 23. Drive across the USA
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  25. 24. Play $20 to $30 O8 tournaments
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  26. 25. move to San Francisco
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  27. 26. get more familiar with The Long Tail
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  28. 27. Start my own business
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  29. 28. Read Why Kids Hurt by Chap Clark and Steve Rabey
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  30. 29. dress Goth more often
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  31. 30. take on only those obligations I can comfortably handle
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  32. 31. do more networking
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  33. 32. clean my room
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How I did it
How to move up to $22 sit-and-gos
It took me
6 weeks
It made me
frantic and worried

How I did it: Could have been just variance, not sure, but I had gone up $2000 over the course of a couple hundred games, then I ran awful and lost the $2000 back.    I ended up getting frustrated and scared and concluded that $22s were too high to play.I've since been working on ring games and multi-table SNGs, as well as live poker.  I probably should have hired a coach so I didn't freak out when running bad! Read how I did it…

Oct 25, 2009, 07:51PM PDT | 0 comments | 1 cheer


How to regain the confidence to play live $1-2 and $1-3 no limit again
It took me
4 months
It made me
feel accomplished

How I did it:     I was worried because I'd lost $2000 mostly in $1-2, $1-3, and $2-5 over the course of a few sessions.   It worried me enough to cause me to deemphasize brick and mortar poker and play more online.However, now that I've been learning to beat much tougher online games, I have confidence.  It helps that I've run really good lately and won back all that plus more, and my winrate is up above $11/hour now at $… Read how I did it…

Jul 26, 2009, 07:58PM PDT | 0 comments


How to learn to Play Texas Hold'em
It took me
6 months
It made me
delighted

How I did it: I strongly suggest Ed Miller's Getting Started in Hold 'Em, even though I learned to play before it came out.To learn the rules:I forget, I just went to a home tournament and they told me what to do.   I already knew the poker ranks.To get better:Read good books.   Talk to good players online.   Meet another local serious player regularly to pick his brain. Read how I did it…

Feb 15, 2009, 10:28PM PST | 0 comments


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Recent entries
Play $20 to $30 O8 tournaments
Need to move up in stakes

I’ve been very successful in playing Omaha hi-lo (O8) tournaments (be they limit, PL, or NL) at smallish stakes, the $4 to $20 range. Now I need to intentionally work in more $20s and start taking occasional shots at $30s.

I know I’m running good, and I know that variance is a constant threat. For MTTs I’m not even sure what’s considered adequately bankrolled, at least 100 buy-ins I’d assume and probably more like 200 BIs. So that means I should learn to comfortably play in this $20 to $30 range, and occasionally even up to $40 or $50.

But man, the games are so soft!

Apr 14, 2010, 12:44PM PDT | 0 comments


Play heads-up sit-and-gos (read all 3 entries…)
Make time for them

I will allot one day per week of my poker time (possibly half a day in weeks where a lot of my poker time is eaten up) to practice playing these.

Apr 14, 2010, 12:40PM PDT | 0 comments


Play heads-up sit-and-gos (read all 3 entries…)
Watching DOGISHEADSup #1

Good cash game HU video series on Deuces Cracked. Watching the 1st episode. Lots of metatheory which I don’t love (find it kind of common sense), but lots of good stuff too.

Mar 08, 2010, 12:53PM PST | 0 comments


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