hi guys.

some hopefully bad news for you. i'm taking an indefinite break from making videos. I've been grinding alot recently, and i'm quite enjoying being back in the zone. making videos doesn't really make a whole lot of sense for quite a few reasons. as it stands, i don't see myself making any more, but knowing myself pretty well by now, i can imagine i could change my mind a few months down the road.

everyone at cardrunners have been great, i have no complaints, they've gone beyond the call of duty to help me out.

I'm really liking the free coaching motivational side of my blog, and want to thank everyone who took part in that aspect. i'd also like to apologise that the actual content was pretty dull, i haven't really put enough effort into making it entertaining.

I really do have a big problem with this blogging software, so i'm not going to be blogging here until it gets sorted out. my last blog here was all text, but still came out as a series of question marks somehow. that was the final straw to me as i'd had problems with the software before. i think there are overhauls on the way, but until they are sorted out, i'm going to move back to my leggo blog. i'm going to continue to do my weekly challenges there, and will up the hours also.


btw, i owe 'slobib' 2 hours of free coaching, that info disapeared with the rest of my last blog. so please send me a pm to sort that out as a couple people didn't claim there free coaching from before. if you don't want it, please pm me anyway and i'll pass it on to someone else.

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pretty damn happy with my month. recovered from my 30 buyin downer

http://img17.imageshack.us/img17/1596/marchsofar2012.jpg

ugghh rewriting this blog because somehow it didn't publish properly. it was a masterpiece, so please mourn it.

so very happy to report that i am in the black BB wise now for the month. a very quick 30 buyin downer. i realise i could easily drop down again, but i'm still happy to be even. stuck $1k or so because i lost at 5/10 and won at 2/4, but basically even with rb/bonuses.

i went out on saturday and because of that had a lazy sunday, so finished 2 hours short. 'Amind4muscle' gets 1 hour of coaching. should be 2 with my rules, but i thought i'd give someone else an hour because he already had 1 hour last week. from now on i'll randomise who gets the coaching, if you comment i'll put you in a lucky dip rather than than first come, first served. the other guy who gets an hour is 'Flowtation'.

Finally, watch me get owned in this hand...

http://weaktight.com/4514927

i have no idea how villain didn't shove his flush here, most obvious shove ever!! he was a reg too.

ps- also not sure how to hotlink the image above, haven't use imageshack for years

worked pretty hard this week, and clawed back quite alot of money, only stuck about $5k now which i'm pretty over the moon with. having the conference calls with my friends has got me alot more into poker, for the first time in years im kinda excited to play poker. i'm trying alot of new stuff out and running it through my friends.

i managed to hurt my leg somehow and really felt it at football. not sure what i've done, but i've suddenly got a whole lot more motivated to lose weight and get in shape. i think because my lifestyle is so sedentary i should have a more restricted diet than most normal people. i mean, probable 3 or 4 days a week i don't even leave the house.

i cruised over my hours target this week, but because of my injury, only did 2 exercise periods, so 'LoneGoose' gets 1 hour of coaching from me if he wants.

this week i'm not going to try to do 3 exercise periods because of my bad leg, so just 15 hours of poker.

i apologise that my blog is pretty dull. i haven't bothered to really talk about anything except my boring life. hopefully i'll write about something actually interesting in the future.

still running awful, but on the plus side, its lead me to up my work ethic both on and off the felt. every time i have a downswing i re evaluate my game and so hopefully come out of it stronger. i realised this time i have barely talked to anyone about poker for years so now me and a few friends are going to have weekly conference calls to discuss strategy.

i'll probably have my first losing month for well over a year, but i guess it has been coming. will have to have a pretty big heater to get back into the black :(

i played more than 15 hours last week, but only managed 2 exercise periods since my gf accidently took my goggles and wallet to work with her on my last chance at exercise.

so 'Amind4muscle' gets 1 hour of free coaching if he wants it. if he doesn't reply by next monday i'll pass it on to the next in the list of commentors.

same deal this week. 15 hours of playing, 3 exercise periods, one hour of free coaching for every hour under my target.

before i go, here's an funny hand i played vs a reg. i was experimenting donking alot of flops, and then decided to check this one to see what he did.

http://weaktight.com/4468199

not sure what he is thinking calling the river, he barely beats 10% of my bluffs

so guys, i only managed about 14 hours of poker because i was running terrible. basically stuck $14k for the month already after a failed 5/10 shot and then continued to run bad at 3/6.

played football once, and went swimming once, so i also fell one short there

feeling a bit down now, so don't feel like writing anything interesting, suffice to say that 'Deet' can claim 2 hours and change of free coaching from me. if he doesn't claim it in a reasonable amount of time (by next monday i guess) then i'll let it go to other commenters on my last blog post.

also post here if you want to have a chance of free coaching next week, although i'm pretty sure i'll nail it this week as i'm pretty motivated (chasing losses obviously)

same rules. 15 hours of poker, 3 exercise periods. 1 hour of free coaching for every hour under my target

ok so my first attempt starts tomorrow.

the rules are:

15 hours of grinding.
3 exercise periods

sunday ends at 6am monday morning. i'll post my results monday 5th of March.

every hour under my target i will give 1 hour of coaching for free to commenters on my blog.

oh and i put up my coaching ad in the forums

http://www.cardrunners.com/cr_forums/showthread.php?164011-Stefan-sh58-Haffner-Mid-Stakes

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!