glglglgl FP, make it count.
Any ideas for a regiment/schedule of poker playing ?
This is all in the very early planning stages, but I'm shooting for about 100h/month, typically playing around 4h/day broken up in three chunks. So the typical day may be something like this:
- Breakfast, read the news, take a shower.
- Watch a training video, review yesterday's session, make notes.
- Play for 60-90 minutes.
- Take a break, have lunch, do some stuff around the house, etc.
- Play for 60-90 minutes.
- Another break, relax in the yard, read a book, whatever.
- Have dinner.
- Play for 60-90 minutes.
- Have the night off and do whatever I feel like.
Some days I'll play more, some days I'll play less. Some days I'll probably need to move stuff around because Lori wants to go to the gym or I take a nap because we've been up all night with a screaming baby who can't sleep, etc. But that's the main idea.
I'm hoping to play about 50-70k
hands/month on this schedule, maybe more. With 50k hands I need an average win-rate of 3bb/100 (or 1.5ptbb/100) to make ends meet. Add bonuses and that my average win-rate has been about twice that in the past five months and that I'm hoping to improve a lot as a player, and things could work out very well. The really important thing to remember is that I'm not dependent on wins to make it through these five months and if things turn completely sour we'll still be OK. We'll no longer have the massive savings account that we currently have, but we'll hopefully have had an interesting experience and lots of time spent with the baby.