180s imo

Hey guys,
I haven't played a ton recently because of work but I did manage to play over the past 3 days. I think I'm +$1800 over the last 200 games or so. I've been playing well but I've also run pretty hot. Needless to say, my sharkscope graph looks insane. Obviously, there's a ton of variance in the 180s but I'm trying to get better at just making the right shoves/calls and forgetting about the outcome. It's much harder to do than I would have thought and I still haven't gotten to the point where losing AK to A7 aipf for massive CL doesn't tilt me but I definitely think I'm getting better at it.

I really don't see any reason to play 18 mans. 45 mans are way more profitable and if I really need to load a lot of games at once I can just mix in the 6s. As of now, I'm just playing the 12/45s and 12/180s which makes the most sense, I think. I may start mixing in the $16 turbo mtt's (the kind that jbrown shipped for $4.5k), but we'll see.

Also, my brother who is a total fish wants to get into poker. He's been asking me about it fairly consistently for the past couple of weeks so I'll be sweating/teaching him MTT SnG's this summer. On the one hand, it seems like I can just explain push/fold and he'll be profitable from the get-go. Having said that, he really has no background at all in poker and so I'll have to really build from the ground up. On the bright side, most of the profit in these games comes from push/fold so it's ok if he isn't maximizing value at the 10/20 level. At the moment, I have him watching "Math of NL Holdem", "Push", "From the Ground Up", and "Last Man Standing." I'll probably start him at the $3/45s and hopefully get him up to the 6s before the end of the summer. We'll have to see how it goes.

On the fitness side, my roommate and I ran 5 miles on Monday and Wednesday and plan to do 6 miles tmrw. Five was pretty rough yesterday (not exactly sure why) so I'm expecting six to be pretty brutal. It'll be great to be done with it, though. We lifted today and it turns out I'm a bit stronger than I thought. I'm super tall (6'7" ftw) so benching is harder for me than for most but I managed 3 sets of 10 reps of 85lbs. Not super impressive, but we'll kick it up to 95lbs. on Saturday and see how it goes. My max right now is probably 140lbs. so it'd be nice to get that up to around 180-200 but obv that's a long way off. We'll probably do 6 miles 3x next week, so that should be fun.

I'll keep you guys posted.

Funny manhat story to come.

Holler,
Yodaddy