Introduction/Progress Log

  • Introduction/Progress Log

    Posted by Senselessapprentice on November 16, 2020 at 3:51 pm

    Greetings everyone!

    My name is Nathan, and I’m just starting to work through the 10 week PLO transformation.

    A bit about myself. I recently sold my financial services practice in the US at the beginning of the COVID pandemic and have started to play poker full time. I’ve played PLO for a long time on and off semi-seriously, but have always had a college/day job. Pre-black Friday I was playing at big as $5k PLO online and have had on and off success, but was almost exclusively grinding/equity gambling/jamming any flop in which I had a piece without much thought and praying for positive variance, and not spending any time off the tables to get better. I’m currently playing $200-$1k on US sites, and am shooting to be a $1k+ regular in, well, I’m not supposed to give time frames so let’s just call it the near future.

    My goal is to play mid and high stakes poker as a career, and provide a comfortable happy life for my family, and be able to continue to travel the world as my former business has allowed me to do. This time I want to do it with no clients to worry about 🙂

    I’m married, and am looking to start a family once the pandemic is under control. I also enjoy sports and working out, played lacrosse in college, love to ski, and recently challenged myself to increase my strength in the big 3 of lifting (squats, deadlift, and bench press); and am now messing around with distance running.

    As part of this goal, I also want to relocate to a country where I can play online legally. My wife is from China and we both love Europe, so one of these two places to have a home would be ideal. I’m now playing on US sites, my main being Global Poker which is decent, but tough to track since HUDs are not allowed.

    I’ve always been a lone-wolf and never really had a core group of poker friends which I’m going to change this time around. Good luck to you all and HMU on discord if you want to connect; SenselessApprentice#9877

    Best,

    Nathan

    Senselessapprentice replied 3 years, 2 months ago 2 Members · 3 Replies
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  • Adelaney

    Member
    November 17, 2020 at 3:41 pm

    Hey Nathan,

    Welcome to the community and the PLO Mastermind, great to have you onboard 🙂

    Had you always planned to sell your business and take a focus again towards poker or did the beginnings of COVID kind of bring this decision forward?

    Where would you be looking to move to in Europe do you reckon if you decided this is where you wanted to settle down post covid?

    Look forward to following along with your journey and seeing you around in the community 🙂

    Best of luck and if you ever have any questions please do not hesitate to ask.

    Ash

  • Senselessapprentice

    Member
    November 17, 2020 at 7:55 pm

    Thanks Ash.

    I’d had the business for 10 years and had been wanting to do something different for awhile, COVID was the catalyst.

    Asia is our most likely destination, as we are already established there. We spent time in Switzerland in 2018 and Austria/Germany 2019 and loved it, but the reality of getting any type of visas now and even before is challenging so that will have to be on hold for a bit. The dream is to have a little chateau somewhere in the alps, ski in the winter, mountain bike in the summer, and have kids that can speak like 5 languages 🙂

    • Senselessapprentice

      Member
      January 1, 2021 at 12:30 pm

      Update!

      Happy 2021 all, wanted to give a quick update as to how this year has gone so far.

      I’ve been in profit every month since I started the mastermind, each month showing steady increases. Had a pretty good December I was up around 35bi at PLO 200.

      It’s been nice talking to some of you in the hand checkup discord, and I’m hoping to continue doing so throughout this year.


      My goals in 2021 are to put in more volume at PLO500 on certain sites. Another big goal is to dive even deeper into solver world/PLO trainer. I’ve noticed that on my main site that doesn’t allow any type of HUDs, that I’ve been using a lot more exploitative play, which typically has worked out well at PLO200 but has also ended in pure disaster, particularly when shot taking against the regs at 2/5 and 5/10.


      On the site that doesn’t allow HUDs I record my sessions with Loom, and have been using the preflop helper discord a ton which has been a tremendous help.

      Finally, I’m making an effort to play on other sites in which I’m less comfortable with that allow HUDs, as I prepare for a potential move abroad, which will allow me access to GG/PS/PP etc. I’m anticipating a much tougher player pool at the 200/500 games, so I’m keenly aware that I must put in more time to study. This December I played about 50k hands with a HUD, and was able to analyze my hands in a much more efficient way than fast forwarding through hours of Loom footage.

      SenselessApprentice#9877 on discord, HMU if you wanna chat about hands! GL to you all in 2021.

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