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Not enough hours in the day
by LearnedfromTV on 10/03/08
I'm in the midst of a organzing a bunch of projects, and finding myself with only 24 hours in a day, so I decided to write a post in the hope that it will help me prioritize.
Job 1 right now, and until the end of the year is Supernova Elite. I have 607k vpp as of this moment, having done ~115k each of the past two months, which is solid but not enough to get me there if I repeat it the next few months. 4k/day is relatively easy, consistely doing 4500+ is a lot harder; and I need somewhere around 4500/day, depending on how many days off for holidays, to get it. 9 tabling plo gets 550/hour, 12 tabling around 700, and I've recently taken up 18ish tabling the 114 sit and goes, which gets ~1k/hour. When the PCA Steps kick in full speed that will give a boost which will be much needed in December. Right now I give myself about a 70% chance of getting elite; if I get close enough I'll play sick marathons if necessary to close it, but too many bad days (losing sessions early in day often leads to 3k vpp or worse days; family stuff left me getting 1k a couple days ago). Too much of that happens and ~mid November I'll decide it's hopeless. There's only 80 something days left, and I'll basically have to play ~8 hours a day to succeed.
Two priorities dueling for number 2 are the coaching videos I've been making for pokersavvy and the plo theory coaching program I'm putting together. There's a decent amount of work involved with most of the videos I want to do; selecting hands that fit a theme, incorporating powerpoint, and so on. The shell/outline of the coaching program is in place (viewable in the pokersavvy coaching forum; maybe I'll post it here too), but some of the supplemental work is still in progress. With new students on board in the next week or two, I need to get some more work done on a few projects, particularly in the short term the starting hands sheet and the flop textures sheet, which are mostly ready but appear early in the program.
There also are several articles I want to write, either to be posted here or at Pokersavvy. I've done a bunch of game theory work for plo, mainly focusing on the naked ace play but some other stuff as well, and I will turn that into a series of articles at some point. I also want to write articles on a handful of other topics, such as AAxx play, 3betting, and board texture. And way down the list are artcilaes on key horse concepts.
In the back of my mind is the possibility that all of this work will end up in a theory book I want to write next year. Students who do the full theory program are basically going to get a book's worth of supplementary content, and if the situation is right I'd clean that up and actually write the book. There's a weird market force at work here because the full twenty lesson program is definitely worth a few thousand to dedicated students who can use it to step into midstakes games and win ($3500 at that moment, likely $5k jan 1 or therabouts), but of course packaging that material in a book makes it worth $25 or whatever to the mass market. So I'm not sure yet what I want to do. There's another book possibility out there as well, but nothing concrete or that I can really consider until the year's over.
I'm also doing a handful of things regularly outside poker; working out, playing in tennis and basketball leagues, plus that whole social life thing. So it all adds up to probably not doing everything I'd like between now and the end of the year. Regardless, decent chance I'll be posting more over here in the near future. I'm not sure what might be done at pokersavvy with my articles, and I'll probably be debuting them here, at least the next couple, which I hope to write in the first half of October.
Job 1 right now, and until the end of the year is Supernova Elite. I have 607k vpp as of this moment, having done ~115k each of the past two months, which is solid but not enough to get me there if I repeat it the next few months. 4k/day is relatively easy, consistely doing 4500+ is a lot harder; and I need somewhere around 4500/day, depending on how many days off for holidays, to get it. 9 tabling plo gets 550/hour, 12 tabling around 700, and I've recently taken up 18ish tabling the 114 sit and goes, which gets ~1k/hour. When the PCA Steps kick in full speed that will give a boost which will be much needed in December. Right now I give myself about a 70% chance of getting elite; if I get close enough I'll play sick marathons if necessary to close it, but too many bad days (losing sessions early in day often leads to 3k vpp or worse days; family stuff left me getting 1k a couple days ago). Too much of that happens and ~mid November I'll decide it's hopeless. There's only 80 something days left, and I'll basically have to play ~8 hours a day to succeed.
Two priorities dueling for number 2 are the coaching videos I've been making for pokersavvy and the plo theory coaching program I'm putting together. There's a decent amount of work involved with most of the videos I want to do; selecting hands that fit a theme, incorporating powerpoint, and so on. The shell/outline of the coaching program is in place (viewable in the pokersavvy coaching forum; maybe I'll post it here too), but some of the supplemental work is still in progress. With new students on board in the next week or two, I need to get some more work done on a few projects, particularly in the short term the starting hands sheet and the flop textures sheet, which are mostly ready but appear early in the program.
There also are several articles I want to write, either to be posted here or at Pokersavvy. I've done a bunch of game theory work for plo, mainly focusing on the naked ace play but some other stuff as well, and I will turn that into a series of articles at some point. I also want to write articles on a handful of other topics, such as AAxx play, 3betting, and board texture. And way down the list are artcilaes on key horse concepts.
In the back of my mind is the possibility that all of this work will end up in a theory book I want to write next year. Students who do the full theory program are basically going to get a book's worth of supplementary content, and if the situation is right I'd clean that up and actually write the book. There's a weird market force at work here because the full twenty lesson program is definitely worth a few thousand to dedicated students who can use it to step into midstakes games and win ($3500 at that moment, likely $5k jan 1 or therabouts), but of course packaging that material in a book makes it worth $25 or whatever to the mass market. So I'm not sure yet what I want to do. There's another book possibility out there as well, but nothing concrete or that I can really consider until the year's over.
I'm also doing a handful of things regularly outside poker; working out, playing in tennis and basketball leagues, plus that whole social life thing. So it all adds up to probably not doing everything I'd like between now and the end of the year. Regardless, decent chance I'll be posting more over here in the near future. I'm not sure what might be done at pokersavvy with my articles, and I'll probably be debuting them here, at least the next couple, which I hope to write in the first half of October.
