so yup, i've basically failed all my new years resolutions already. my charity scheme just didn't really work, as i didn't mind giving money to charity. i cooked up a different motivational scheme that i want to try out, and it involves anyone who reads my blog!

monetary punishment having little effect on my work rate, i've decided to change to a time based punishment. so heres the plan...

every week i will attempt to play x number of hours + x exercise periods. i will post my weekly results on this blog and for every hour under my target, i will give out 1 hour of free coaching to people who comment on my blog.

not sure yet of all the itty bitty details, but it will probably be around 15 hours of playing, 4 exercise sessions, and i will teach in 2 hour chunks if possible. so for example, if i played 13 hours of poker and did 3 exercise sessions that would give a penalty of 3 hours. the first commenter on that blog would get 2 hours of coaching, and the next guy would get 1 hour. there isn't much to stop me cheating, i will probably screen capture my weekly sessions tab, but the exercise you'll have to just trust me. i know that its hard to trust a degenerate gambler ;)

I haven't got round to advertising for coaching yet, but will get the ad up on Cardrunners in the next few days. probably the easiest way of coaching if its only going to be a 2 hour taster session is to do a HEM replayer of a session you played, because then i can see what you did and comment on how i'd play, and then watch it play out without any bias. i'm up for other methods tho if you want.

so basically i think this will work really well, because i will be tied into a certain number of hours of work per week, and the decision is up to me whether i want to earn money working, or work for free :)


i will try and post some other content in the future also, so watch this space

btw i think the first week i will try will be starting monday 27th february.

Hi guys. welcome to my new blog here at cardrunners. if you are curious, you can check a few years worth of blogging on my old blog (link below)

http://www.leggopoker.com/blogs/sh58/

my first video will be out in a week or so i think; hopefully it is a good intro to my style, i decided to just 1 table for a few reasons. it was alot easier to get action that way and also as its an introduction to my style we can spend alot of time on minutiae. most of my videos where i am playing poker will be 2 or 4 tabling from now on, unless the members love the one tabling action ;)

i'm just going to outline a few objective plans for 2012... in 2011 i was super lazy, so i'm not really setting the bar very high this year. i'll be content just to do a moderate amount of work this year.


POKER

50 hours of playing per month. (like last year i will be incorporating my kiva.org deal. every hour under my target i will give $100 to kiva.org)

~20 hours of coaching per month (not so much in january i imagine, will probably start coaching shortly after my videos come out, haven't ironed out the details yet)

Cardrunners videos. not sure how many, we shall see.

last year i managed 550 hours or so, which is pretty poor. so i should maintain that rate + probably 350 extra hours of coaching + video producing bringing it up to a semi respectable figure

lastly wrt poker, i will endeavor to update this blog weekly



LIFE

keep track of what i eat. not necessarily diet, but just use an iphone app to monitor my intake. i will try to eat under 2k calories per day tho, as i would like to lose about 20lbs or so

starting in the spring, some kind of exercise regime, trying to get fit enough to join a football (soccer) team next season

finally, i would be curious to know how much i spend, so just for a couple of months, it would be nice to track my spending, also via an ipad app. i don't really spend that extravagantly, so i'm not really budgeting, just monitoring. would however be nice to save enough to close in on that elusive house i want to buy.

so basically, watch this space and see how i end 2012 fat and broke having given all my money to people in the 3rd world!