Re: How do I put in more hours/week. (Long/Introspective)
 

50-60 a week? goodness........how!?

I have a similar problem to Jeff's, I really cannot put in more than 13hours a week. Just can't...:(

Re: How do I put in more hours/week. (Long/Introspective)
 

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lately i've been doing 50-60 a week. a good way to do this is written records. the feeling of chalking up 11 hours in the book and xls file the doing the data analysis and financial moving at the end of the day is great.

fim

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50-60 hours a week without crack?

Re: How do I put in more hours/week. (Long/Introspective)
 

I can totally relate to the OP. This summer I had about a 3 week period where I actually put in a good number of hours. I was able to do it because I set a schedule of playing 9-12AM and 2-5PM 5 days a week, and forcing myself to play these exact hours, no more, no less.

Sometimes the games were not great, but it was by far the easiest way for me to put in 6 hours a day. It was also a great feeling to be "done with work" at 5PM and hang out with my friends like a normal person.

Some events happened that threw this schedule out of whack, but as soon as I get settled down again I will try to get into the habit again.

Re: How do I put in more hours/week. (Long/Introspective)
 

Ban yourself from posting until you've played the required number of hours for the day.

chez

Re: How do I put in more hours/week. (Long/Introspective)
 

Something you can do with Pokertracker that I do. Mine never lags so I just resize the window from the right to the left until all I can see is how many hands I have played for the day. I've stopped looking at daily results recently, I just look at weekly and monthly. When I have finished playing I just shut the "stats" window down and do something else.

You can check your VPIP, went to sd, won at, pfr easily, but you have to use the horizontal scroll fast so you don't see your results.

Re: How do I put in more hours/week. (Long/Introspective)
 

I find this thread to be quite interesting. For you guys who can't get in more than 15 hours a week, i'm curious what you find yourself doing for the rest of the week. If i didn't have a job and that's all the time i spent playing, i would probably be bored out of my mind.

I found i averaged about 25 hours/week last month, but felt i wasn't playing as much as i could be.

Re: How do I put in more hours/week. (Long/Introspective)
 

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If i didn't have a job and that's all the time i spent playing, i would probably be bored out of my mind.

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Here's some of the activities I did while not working and playing less than 15 hours/week:

-Went to gym
-Went to beach
-Riding my bike
-Riding my skateboard
-Watching TV
-Reading
-Getting drunk
-Shopping
-Walking around with no set agenda
-Getting drunk

I can't wait to get back to it.

Re: How do I put in more hours/week. (Long/Introspective)
 

Sheesh, I have a regular 40 hr/wk job and manage >20 hrs/wk.

Do you hate money?

Re: How do I put in more hours/week. (Long/Introspective)
 

I'm not following the PT train of thought. What exactly are you doing with PT? You're checking your PT results more frequently? Isn't this counter to the Tiltblocker concept?

I must be stupid, but I'm not getting what you are getting at. Can someone clarify for me what it is that I am not understanding?

Nigel

Re: How do I put in more hours/week. (Long/Introspective)
 

Let me guess. You've gone thru a downswing, poker is painful, you're not playing, etc. Drop down a level, grind it out. Just do it. Stop whining. You dont need inspiration, you need perspiration.