1 00:00:01,040 --> 00:00:07,360 And welcome into the year end recap episode. We do this every year as 2 00:00:07,440 --> 00:00:11,759 we recap several different things in the previous year a little bit different format. 3 00:00:11,800 --> 00:00:20,199 This year, I've received so many comments and questions and other type messages throughout 4 00:00:20,199 --> 00:00:23,760 the year. I'm actually going to include stats on just the podcast in general, 5 00:00:23,760 --> 00:00:27,199 and we're gonna review that. We're gonna review our stats on Patreon and 6 00:00:27,359 --> 00:00:31,000 give you some information from Patreon, and then of course we'll be talking about 7 00:00:31,000 --> 00:00:33,920 my year and poker. Every year, I like to share, you know, 8 00:00:34,039 --> 00:00:37,960 what goals I had from the previous year, and then we like to 9 00:00:38,000 --> 00:00:45,399 set forward goals looking forward to the upcoming year. So let's settle in. 10 00:00:45,479 --> 00:00:48,880 We'll get into it. We're going to just start with we'll go in order, 11 00:00:48,960 --> 00:00:52,600 so we'll start talking about the podcast, and this involves you guys. 12 00:00:52,640 --> 00:00:56,840 You know you're a big You are all of this actually, then we'll move 13 00:00:56,880 --> 00:01:00,840 to Patreon stats, and then we'll move to my personal poker year in review, 14 00:01:00,880 --> 00:01:07,879 which some of you may find interesting as well. So for twenty twenty 15 00:01:07,879 --> 00:01:11,319 four, the podcast downloads, we had just over two hundred thousand downloads of 16 00:01:11,400 --> 00:01:18,519 the podcast in twenty twenty three, which is amazing when I started this podcast, 17 00:01:18,840 --> 00:01:21,439 you know, about four years ago, I never would have imagined that 18 00:01:21,480 --> 00:01:26,599 we would have two hundred thousand downloads plus in one year. As you may 19 00:01:26,640 --> 00:01:33,280 be aware, towards the end of the year, we changed from one public 20 00:01:33,400 --> 00:01:38,120 free episode of the podcast every single Sunday to only one a month, and 21 00:01:38,280 --> 00:01:42,079 even after doing that, we still maintained about fifty percent of the monthly downloads, 22 00:01:42,280 --> 00:01:47,959 so, you know, one fourth the number of free episodes going out 23 00:01:48,000 --> 00:01:51,680 on the free pod, but only a fifty percent reduction in downloads, which 24 00:01:51,760 --> 00:01:57,200 I thought was quite remarkable. Thank you guys so much for that. So 25 00:01:57,319 --> 00:02:00,319 many comments I've gotten about, most of them negative, but we'll address them 26 00:02:00,319 --> 00:02:06,359 about you know, doing the podcast for money and this type thing and stuff. 27 00:02:06,359 --> 00:02:07,759 So I'm just going to tell you how we made from the podcast. 28 00:02:07,800 --> 00:02:14,240 This was the podcast revenue from the ads in the podcast, A whopping thirteen 29 00:02:14,319 --> 00:02:19,280 hundred and eighty dollars, which is about one hundred dollars a month. What 30 00:02:19,400 --> 00:02:23,080 is that? One hundred and ten dollars a month. It's a nothing burger. 31 00:02:23,199 --> 00:02:28,719 I mean, I can tell you just right now from the apps and 32 00:02:28,759 --> 00:02:32,560 stuff that I pay for to use, plus the cost of the podcast hosting 33 00:02:32,639 --> 00:02:37,719 annually and other cost and curd like, we're just losing money on that, 34 00:02:37,840 --> 00:02:42,680 so we're not actually setting the world on fire with revenue from the podcast. 35 00:02:42,800 --> 00:02:47,639 I really do do it because I love it. Just briefly, I want 36 00:02:47,639 --> 00:02:52,840 to address the changes to the pod. We did go to the one free 37 00:02:52,879 --> 00:02:57,039 episode a month. It was life changing for me. I was overwhelmed with 38 00:02:57,120 --> 00:03:00,560 messages and I tried to answer every single person. I was given so many 39 00:03:00,599 --> 00:03:06,199 hours of my life to people for free that I basically I only had time 40 00:03:06,240 --> 00:03:09,759 to eat, sleep, play poker for myself, and then almost the rest 41 00:03:09,759 --> 00:03:14,719 of my day was consumed with right replying to messages sent to me on social 42 00:03:14,759 --> 00:03:16,080 media from people that listened to the pod. And now I loved it. 43 00:03:16,639 --> 00:03:20,240 I invited it. I asked you guy to send into me messages, but 44 00:03:20,280 --> 00:03:24,080 it was just so many messages. And then at some point, because we 45 00:03:24,080 --> 00:03:30,319 were doing you know, spots in the podcast where we would refer people to 46 00:03:30,360 --> 00:03:34,360 the Patreon and explain what we were doing on Patreon, I started getting these 47 00:03:34,400 --> 00:03:38,719 hate messages. So look, it wasn't a ton like it was probably one 48 00:03:38,759 --> 00:03:42,719 percent of all the messages I was getting, but they were really just horrible 49 00:03:42,800 --> 00:03:46,919 messages from people who were unappreciative and spoiled, I guess, and I don't 50 00:03:46,960 --> 00:03:51,879 know, expected me to just do everything in my life to serve them for 51 00:03:51,919 --> 00:03:53,159 free. And I was like, I mean, I'd do a ton of 52 00:03:53,159 --> 00:03:57,680 stuff for free. I don't think you understand how much stuff I do for 53 00:03:57,680 --> 00:04:00,879 free. So we went to this thing where we just do the one episode 54 00:04:00,919 --> 00:04:04,159 a month, and it's way cut back on how many messages I get on 55 00:04:04,199 --> 00:04:09,199 social media, so I'm able to answer everybody's you know, So it works 56 00:04:09,240 --> 00:04:14,319 out best. And then if you do want to get the message every single 57 00:04:14,360 --> 00:04:16,800 Sunday, we get the episodes of the pod released every Sunday. They're shorter, 58 00:04:17,279 --> 00:04:19,959 there's no fluff, no intro, no ads, and none of that 59 00:04:20,000 --> 00:04:25,360 stuff. It's just five bucks a month. The links to that will be 60 00:04:25,399 --> 00:04:28,519 down in the information section of this if you want to do that. But 61 00:04:28,920 --> 00:04:31,079 that's been great, and all the feedback from the people who have done it, 62 00:04:31,120 --> 00:04:34,800 that have sent me messages love it because the episodes are shorter, because 63 00:04:34,839 --> 00:04:38,519 all the stuff at the end is cut, the ads are cut, the 64 00:04:38,560 --> 00:04:42,959 intro is cut, and we've had comments that the content is better and I 65 00:04:42,959 --> 00:04:46,279 think the content is better too. Because I'm just happier. I'm just happier 66 00:04:46,319 --> 00:04:49,879 and less stress free. The final thing I would say about the podcast for 67 00:04:49,920 --> 00:04:56,120 twenty twenty three, I probably missed some messages, but I really tried. 68 00:04:56,959 --> 00:05:00,480 I really started this about I would say it was probably about June or lies. 69 00:05:00,600 --> 00:05:04,000 Probably halfway through the year. I started trying to save messages where people 70 00:05:04,040 --> 00:05:09,720 sent me messages about how much their game it turned around, either exclusively because 71 00:05:09,759 --> 00:05:14,759 of my podcast or for the majority because of the podcast. So I was 72 00:05:14,879 --> 00:05:16,920 keeping those and then I tried to go back and catch ones I missed, 73 00:05:16,920 --> 00:05:21,360 but like my inboxes, my dms on Instagram and Facebook, it's just so 74 00:05:21,360 --> 00:05:27,519 many messages hard to throw them all. But I did specifically find one hundred 75 00:05:27,519 --> 00:05:32,399 and eighty four messages from my social media dms thanking me specifically for the pod 76 00:05:32,480 --> 00:05:36,319 from players who say that they had become winning players, and they cited my 77 00:05:36,439 --> 00:05:41,800 podcast as either the number one reason why or the only reason why. And 78 00:05:41,879 --> 00:05:46,519 that was amazing to me. Like I was thinking back when I started poker, 79 00:05:46,959 --> 00:05:50,439 like there was nothing. This was early two thousands. I started playing 80 00:05:50,439 --> 00:05:57,480 poker online and I almost immediately hired a coach. Probably about a year in 81 00:05:57,560 --> 00:06:00,399 I hired This guy's name was Todd. His line if you're an OG from 82 00:06:00,439 --> 00:06:02,800 back in the day, you might remember him. He was big on Paradise 83 00:06:02,839 --> 00:06:09,720 Poker nsx T two was his username. His name was Todd. I hired 84 00:06:09,759 --> 00:06:13,639 him to coach me for a while, but there was no free podcast and 85 00:06:13,680 --> 00:06:16,120 nothing that you could do to improve your game and beat the micro stakes and 86 00:06:16,120 --> 00:06:21,040 stuff. That stuff just really didn't exist back then. So it's really cool 87 00:06:21,040 --> 00:06:25,240 to me to flash forward all these years later and to do the pod and 88 00:06:25,279 --> 00:06:29,920 have people sending me messages thank me for the podcast. So I wanted to 89 00:06:30,000 --> 00:06:32,000 make the very first thing that I talked about in this year in review the 90 00:06:32,040 --> 00:06:36,759 podcast because this has been the beginning of it all, and the amount of 91 00:06:36,800 --> 00:06:42,759 downloads and the support and all the great messages and questions, and the last 92 00:06:42,759 --> 00:06:46,720 thing I will say about is is you guys may not understand this, but 93 00:06:46,800 --> 00:06:51,399 this podcast has made my game better because I've had to get better and understand 94 00:06:51,439 --> 00:06:56,600 concepts better and be able to explain them better and try to narrow things down 95 00:06:56,639 --> 00:07:00,720 to a core group of principles that I could, you know, elucidate to 96 00:07:00,759 --> 00:07:04,800 you clearly and efficaciously, and it's helped my game like I just had. 97 00:07:05,120 --> 00:07:09,600 It really has. So it's just been a win win, And so look, 98 00:07:09,759 --> 00:07:12,720 the main point of all this is thank you for two hundred thousand downloads 99 00:07:12,759 --> 00:07:15,399 in this last year, and thank you for every message of support and appreciation. 100 00:07:15,560 --> 00:07:19,319 And you know, we're still going to continue to crank out. At 101 00:07:19,399 --> 00:07:24,240 least that's my promise to you. A minimum of one free episode on the 102 00:07:24,240 --> 00:07:30,120 Public podcast every month. Sometimes there'll be more than one. So I'm talking 103 00:07:30,120 --> 00:07:33,720 a little bit about Patreon. You know, we have the Patreon and it 104 00:07:33,879 --> 00:07:36,480 was a source of contention for a couple of months till we cut all that 105 00:07:36,600 --> 00:07:40,399 out. But it's just simply a way for the people who were like, 106 00:07:40,480 --> 00:07:43,360 man, because I got asked this the first year, year and a half 107 00:07:43,439 --> 00:07:45,600 or something of the podcast, I just kept getting to ask it, like 108 00:07:46,199 --> 00:07:47,920 man, you really need to do something where you can really work with people 109 00:07:47,959 --> 00:07:51,839 and get into training and have you know. I resisted it. It seemed 110 00:07:51,879 --> 00:07:55,399 two time consuming, but I got to tell you, I've loved every minute 111 00:07:55,399 --> 00:08:00,560 of the webs It's a great community. People who are on the twenty five 112 00:08:00,600 --> 00:08:05,040 dollars tier training package to access to all the videos and content and stuff that 113 00:08:05,040 --> 00:08:07,639 we put up. They come over on discord, and it's a community man, 114 00:08:07,680 --> 00:08:09,199 and everybody tries to help each other, and it's very positive and we've 115 00:08:09,199 --> 00:08:13,879 got so many people who are winning in there. We'll actually talk about that 116 00:08:13,040 --> 00:08:18,439 here in just a second, some of it, but here's some stats from 117 00:08:18,439 --> 00:08:22,879 the from the Patreon in case anybody cares, I had four. I only 118 00:08:22,920 --> 00:08:26,360 allowed for four one on one patrons. So these are people that I work 119 00:08:26,439 --> 00:08:30,720 with one on one and we have like one on one meetings once a month 120 00:08:30,720 --> 00:08:33,240 and then they can message me anytime. That stayed full all year. All 121 00:08:33,320 --> 00:08:39,000 year was full, which I thought was awesome, not so much for people 122 00:08:39,039 --> 00:08:41,720 wanting to do it, because the messages all year when you're going to have 123 00:08:41,759 --> 00:08:45,960 a slot open. That middle tier, which is twenty five dollar tier, 124 00:08:46,080 --> 00:08:48,440 it was ninety five percent full all year, and as a matter of fact, 125 00:08:48,480 --> 00:08:52,919 it was sold out most of the year, but you occasionally have people 126 00:08:52,919 --> 00:08:56,240 that will drop out and some new people could come in, But for ninety 127 00:08:56,360 --> 00:08:58,720 it was ninety five percent full all year. And I've got it capped. 128 00:09:00,159 --> 00:09:03,679 I've just cap how many people I'm willing to have in there because my time, 129 00:09:03,720 --> 00:09:09,399 I just don't have time to devote to a ton of people, and 130 00:09:09,919 --> 00:09:13,120 we added the Fan of the Pod tier towards the end of the year, 131 00:09:13,320 --> 00:09:18,440 so you know, people that want to just support me with five bucks a 132 00:09:18,440 --> 00:09:24,080 month that get the extra three podcasts every single Sunday, and all my feedback 133 00:09:24,120 --> 00:09:28,440 on that has been great, so the Patreon stuff is fantastic. So it 134 00:09:28,519 --> 00:09:31,720 was a last minute deal and I just did this last night. I'm like, 135 00:09:31,159 --> 00:09:35,080 I've jumped into Discord and I said, hey, I'm going to be 136 00:09:35,120 --> 00:09:37,200 doing my end of the year podcast and if anybody who in here wants to 137 00:09:37,240 --> 00:09:43,039 share your hourly rate since joining the pod, please share it and I'll either 138 00:09:43,159 --> 00:09:46,399 use nicknames or use your first name or whatever however you want me to do 139 00:09:46,440 --> 00:09:48,440 that. And if you want me to share with people who are listening to 140 00:09:48,440 --> 00:09:52,200 the episodes the pod, what some of you guys hourly are since joining the 141 00:09:52,320 --> 00:09:58,039 discord And so we did have some people jump in late last night. OEMG 142 00:09:58,559 --> 00:10:03,240 twenty seven dollars thirty one cents an hour, Slim sixteen dollars and eighty two 143 00:10:03,320 --> 00:10:09,200 cents an hours is hourly for twenty twenty three. Sebastian a crazy forty dollars 144 00:10:09,200 --> 00:10:11,919 and sixty seven cents an hour. This is hourly for twenty twenty three, 145 00:10:13,840 --> 00:10:18,600 Mike eleven dollars and twenty nine cents an hour. He also shared his stats 146 00:10:18,639 --> 00:10:22,360 from last year when he you know, wasn't a member of the patreon and 147 00:10:22,399 --> 00:10:26,080 stuff. He was making less than a dollar an hour last year. I 148 00:10:26,080 --> 00:10:28,279 think it was ninety six cents an hour. This year, making eleven dollars 149 00:10:28,320 --> 00:10:33,279 and twenty nine cents an hours is hourally, that's awesome. Nicholas forty four 150 00:10:33,320 --> 00:10:39,799 dollars and forty three cents an hour, John eleven dollars and twenty three cents 151 00:10:39,840 --> 00:10:46,480 an hour, and Bobby eighteen dollars and eighty cents an hour. I expected 152 00:10:46,519 --> 00:10:50,080 some more folks to chime in, but I just decided to record the episode 153 00:10:50,080 --> 00:10:52,600 today, So you know, probably some other people have posted in there by 154 00:10:52,639 --> 00:10:56,240 now and will probably continue because you know, people check in, you know, 155 00:10:56,360 --> 00:11:00,879 every day, every other day, every third day, and so probably 156 00:11:00,919 --> 00:11:03,279 be more coming in. But that's just the only ones that I grab for 157 00:11:03,320 --> 00:11:05,080 Todavid Man. Those guys are killing it. The people in the patreon are 158 00:11:05,120 --> 00:11:11,399 just killing it. Anyway. Congrats to you guys, and thanks for sharing 159 00:11:11,440 --> 00:11:16,399 your hourly for people who may be interested in what some hourlies are achievable when 160 00:11:16,440 --> 00:11:20,039 you apply yourself and you learn, and you you know, getting a group 161 00:11:20,120 --> 00:11:24,960 of people who support you and you can talk hands and spots and stuff like 162 00:11:24,000 --> 00:11:28,360 that. So everybody in there is killing it and getting better, which I'd 163 00:11:28,399 --> 00:11:37,759 love to see. So we're going to talk about my twenty twenty three poker 164 00:11:39,159 --> 00:11:46,960 results and goals, et cetera. So I had a few goals heading into 165 00:11:46,960 --> 00:11:50,399 twenty twenty three. One of them was I was going to spend more time 166 00:11:50,440 --> 00:11:56,720 every week drilling specific spots on the APT trainer. Now, not familiar with 167 00:11:56,720 --> 00:11:58,480 that, you don't know what that is. There will be a link down 168 00:11:58,480 --> 00:12:03,080 in the information section of the the podcast, and if you'll use my code, 169 00:12:03,120 --> 00:12:07,080 you can get twenty five percent off if you want to try it. 170 00:12:07,080 --> 00:12:09,759 It's amazing. Everybody in the discord that uses it loves it like you can. 171 00:12:09,879 --> 00:12:13,720 Just if you ever just wanted to drill six or five suited from the 172 00:12:13,759 --> 00:12:16,840 cutoff, let's see if you could be profitable. It's amazing for things like 173 00:12:16,879 --> 00:12:20,200 that. It's amazing for a lot of reasons, but that's how I use 174 00:12:20,240 --> 00:12:24,240 it. Just try to get better at specific spots. We did, and 175 00:12:24,759 --> 00:12:28,759 I did do that. You know, my goal was to I think it 176 00:12:28,840 --> 00:12:33,200 was to do five hours a week, and I don't know that I hit 177 00:12:33,279 --> 00:12:35,759 five hours a week every week, but we hit five hours a week a 178 00:12:35,799 --> 00:12:39,879 lot of weeks, and we at least did two three hours a week I'd 179 00:12:39,960 --> 00:12:46,159 say ninety percent of the weeks. My goal was to hit fifteen hundred hours 180 00:12:46,159 --> 00:12:50,360 of poker, which is a lot of poker. It's kind of full time 181 00:12:50,440 --> 00:12:56,000 hours, fifteen hundred hours. As the as of me recording this, we're 182 00:12:56,039 --> 00:12:58,320 a couple of days away from the end of the year, right so I 183 00:12:58,360 --> 00:13:01,159 have to record this before the actual old last day of the year, so 184 00:13:01,200 --> 00:13:03,200 there's a couple of days left. But as of right now, I'm at 185 00:13:03,240 --> 00:13:09,639 fourteen hundred and twenty eight hours. So will I hit the fifteen hundred I 186 00:13:09,679 --> 00:13:13,120 don't know. Depends on how many hours I play over the next few days. 187 00:13:15,320 --> 00:13:20,480 So members of the Patreon will know this, but members who listen to 188 00:13:20,679 --> 00:13:26,440 you guys that just listened to the free podcast that's posted on the public podcast 189 00:13:26,480 --> 00:13:31,720 won't know this. But I had the most trying run bad year I've ever 190 00:13:31,799 --> 00:13:41,799 had in poker. I had four ten buying down swings this year, and 191 00:13:41,840 --> 00:13:46,159 then I had down swings that were way worse than ten buy ins, which 192 00:13:48,200 --> 00:13:52,440 nearly crippled me mentally. I'm just gonna be honest with you, like this 193 00:13:52,639 --> 00:14:01,679 year tested my mental fortitude and my temperament and my tilt and my willingness to 194 00:14:01,960 --> 00:14:05,559 be constantly reviewing my hands to make sure I'm not playing bad. Like I've 195 00:14:05,679 --> 00:14:11,039 never had a year like this ever, And so the thing I will say 196 00:14:11,080 --> 00:14:18,639 about it is that it has made me a better person and a better poker 197 00:14:18,679 --> 00:14:22,840 player mentally than I've ever been. That doesn't mean that I haven't felt like 198 00:14:22,919 --> 00:14:26,720 I just wanted to crack, because as a matter of fact, I'm going 199 00:14:26,759 --> 00:14:31,240 through that right now. The month of December, as I'm wrapping this up, 200 00:14:31,279 --> 00:14:35,919 has just been horrible. I started out the month amazing, and then 201 00:14:35,440 --> 00:14:39,240 it's just been I just can't win a hand, man. I don't know 202 00:14:39,279 --> 00:14:41,960 how to describe it. I'm not gonna tell bad beat stories and stuff, 203 00:14:43,000 --> 00:14:46,000 because I'm not about that. I can't control bad beats. I can't control 204 00:14:46,039 --> 00:14:48,679 what card comes on the turn. I can't control what card comes on the 205 00:14:48,720 --> 00:14:52,480 river. I can't control what hands they called me with. But boy, 206 00:14:52,559 --> 00:14:54,360 those cards have come on the turn, and they've come on the river and 207 00:14:54,600 --> 00:15:00,399 the hands people have called me with, I've been insane and and they get 208 00:15:00,480 --> 00:15:05,919 there every time. And I'm going to tell you in twenty twenty three, 209 00:15:05,120 --> 00:15:11,399 eighty percent for me was definitely not eighty percent. Sixty percent for me was 210 00:15:11,600 --> 00:15:16,240 not sixty percent. I've been on the negative side of what expectations should be 211 00:15:16,320 --> 00:15:20,320 for the entire year, and it's been trying. Now one of the benefits 212 00:15:20,320 --> 00:15:24,159 of that is is like I've learned ways to adapt and overcome and improve my 213 00:15:24,279 --> 00:15:28,320 mental game. And so members who are members over on the Patreon and the 214 00:15:28,360 --> 00:15:33,200 discord and everything have benefited from that because they've seen me go through it. 215 00:15:33,840 --> 00:15:37,320 Because I'm an open book, like I'm not. You know, I could 216 00:15:37,320 --> 00:15:39,440 be one of these poker guys and all you see is how great they do 217 00:15:39,519 --> 00:15:43,440 all the time. Let me tell you something. They're hiding the bad stuff. 218 00:15:43,039 --> 00:15:46,919 They're they're concealing it from you because they want to sell the dream and 219 00:15:46,919 --> 00:15:50,480 they want to sell how great poker is and how you can win all the 220 00:15:50,519 --> 00:15:52,480 time and it's not a problem, and they're just lying to you. Now. 221 00:15:52,480 --> 00:15:56,080 I'm not saying they're being malicious and I'm not saying they're bad people. 222 00:15:56,159 --> 00:16:00,279 I'm just saying they're being selective and what they share with you. I'm not 223 00:16:00,320 --> 00:16:03,720 that person. So if you remember on my discord and I'm going through a 224 00:16:03,759 --> 00:16:07,840 ten buying down swing and we're talking about hands and stuff, my discord knows 225 00:16:07,879 --> 00:16:11,320 about it. They members of my discord know when I'm on a ten buying 226 00:16:11,320 --> 00:16:12,960 down swing. They know when I'm on a fifteen buying down swing and I 227 00:16:12,960 --> 00:16:18,000 feel like jumping off of a bridge. I'll tell you. One of the 228 00:16:18,000 --> 00:16:22,039 benefits of that, though, is like November was horrible. We were in 229 00:16:22,080 --> 00:16:25,440 a huge downswing, and I'm like, you know what, we're going to 230 00:16:25,480 --> 00:16:26,679 pull out of this. We're going to get disciplined, and I'm going to 231 00:16:26,759 --> 00:16:33,840 share do something for my Patreon and members called series Sessions Series. And so 232 00:16:33,919 --> 00:16:37,360 what I'll do is I'll log every hand I play in a session every day 233 00:16:37,399 --> 00:16:41,120 that I play for an extended period of time. And so for November, 234 00:16:41,159 --> 00:16:47,000 when I was I was down like seven thousand dollars. Starting out in November, 235 00:16:47,159 --> 00:16:52,279 we were on a seven thousand dollars downswing. I started doing Session series 236 00:16:52,320 --> 00:16:56,240 and so every single hand that I played through the rest of November, I 237 00:16:56,320 --> 00:17:04,480 logged. My patron members got the actual texts of all my hand history so 238 00:17:04,519 --> 00:17:07,079 they could look at them. And then I also recorded an episode of the 239 00:17:07,119 --> 00:17:11,160 podcast for every session so they could look at the hands, and then I 240 00:17:11,200 --> 00:17:15,279 would do a pod where I talked about what happened. And we came out 241 00:17:15,359 --> 00:17:19,279 of that downswing and wound up winning almost five thousand dollars net positive for the 242 00:17:19,279 --> 00:17:22,160 month. And I remember, but it was a very trying and difficult time. 243 00:17:22,200 --> 00:17:25,839 But you know, like I said, I don't hide any of that 244 00:17:25,880 --> 00:17:27,039 kind of stuff, but it was it was a rough year, and it 245 00:17:27,079 --> 00:17:32,160 wound up being a rough year. I didn't have the most amazing year ever. 246 00:17:33,720 --> 00:17:37,079 I'm not going to need exact numbers but as far as dollar amounts, 247 00:17:37,079 --> 00:17:41,319 but I'll tell you this. I expected hourly based on what I've made per 248 00:17:41,400 --> 00:17:49,720 hour every year previously to this was down fifty eight percent. This year pretty 249 00:17:49,799 --> 00:17:55,440 rough. It's lower than any year I've had in the last six years since 250 00:17:55,480 --> 00:18:00,000 I started full time tracking every session. Right, I think six or seven 251 00:18:00,079 --> 00:18:03,799 years ago is when I committed to getting an app and tracking every session religiously. 252 00:18:03,799 --> 00:18:08,319 So since I started doing that, this year was the worst hourly that 253 00:18:08,359 --> 00:18:12,599 I've had since then. It was tough. Look It's turned me into a 254 00:18:12,599 --> 00:18:17,200 better player. It's given me a stronger mindset. It's caused me to study 255 00:18:17,240 --> 00:18:19,759 more. It's caused me to send more hands to professional friends of mine for 256 00:18:19,839 --> 00:18:22,160 a review to go, Hey, am I sucking in poker? Am I 257 00:18:22,240 --> 00:18:26,119 just running back? And I got to tell you my friends have hated me 258 00:18:26,200 --> 00:18:32,079 this year. I've got like four, a core group of four professionals that 259 00:18:32,279 --> 00:18:36,480 I will talk to this about. Like I have one, I mostly just 260 00:18:36,559 --> 00:18:40,160 send a text about how bad I'm doing. I'll send them some hands and 261 00:18:40,160 --> 00:18:42,039 stuff, but I'll mostly just tell them about I'm doing. I have three 262 00:18:42,039 --> 00:18:45,519 other friends who I send a lot of hands to because we have that back 263 00:18:45,519 --> 00:18:51,240 and forth relationship, so they'll send me a lot of hands. So I 264 00:18:51,359 --> 00:18:53,599 just constantly be sending them hands like I would just have like session after session 265 00:18:53,640 --> 00:18:56,359 where I'm just getting wrecked and wrecked and wrecked, and I go back and 266 00:18:56,400 --> 00:18:59,359 look at my hands and I'm sending them my hands, and I'm like, 267 00:18:59,359 --> 00:19:02,319 look, man, am I am? I You know if you find any 268 00:19:02,400 --> 00:19:03,880 leaks in any of this stuff, look at the same and I'll just send 269 00:19:03,880 --> 00:19:07,319 them a whole session, you know, And I'm like, no, man, 270 00:19:07,400 --> 00:19:10,480 it all looks pretty standard, you know, but you know, you 271 00:19:10,599 --> 00:19:11,720 find a little thing here or there, maybe you could have did this a 272 00:19:11,759 --> 00:19:15,640 little different of this, but nothing that would have stopped me getting wrecked. 273 00:19:17,200 --> 00:19:18,799 Of course, I also did find some leaks. And that's the beautiful thing 274 00:19:18,839 --> 00:19:23,519 about constantly being reviewing your game and reviewing it every hand, street by street, 275 00:19:23,599 --> 00:19:26,680 that you will find inefficiencies, you will find leaks, and it will 276 00:19:26,680 --> 00:19:33,039 give you a chance to get better. And that's why I say my earnings 277 00:19:33,079 --> 00:19:37,319 and all that stuff is the lowest it's been in forever, but my game 278 00:19:37,400 --> 00:19:38,920 is the best it's been. And I know that makes no sense, but 279 00:19:38,960 --> 00:19:45,039 I'll tell you what I've learned this year is that negative variance can be hard, 280 00:19:45,720 --> 00:19:48,240 and boy can it be long. It can be long, long, 281 00:19:48,359 --> 00:19:52,319 long, long long. It can last for the longest time. And so 282 00:19:52,440 --> 00:19:56,359 it's also given me more empathy to other players. I used to I'm gonna 283 00:19:56,359 --> 00:20:02,200 be honest with you. I used to automatically tell players that, you know, 284 00:20:02,839 --> 00:20:04,000 not automatically, but I would throw it out there, you know, 285 00:20:04,000 --> 00:20:07,680 if they were telling me they were playing any kind of a reasonable amount of 286 00:20:07,680 --> 00:20:08,680 hours, and they would tell me they were in like a three or four 287 00:20:08,680 --> 00:20:11,319 month run bat. I'm like, you know what, it's probably your game, 288 00:20:11,359 --> 00:20:15,799 Like, we can probably find stuff to fix. And to be honest, 289 00:20:17,119 --> 00:20:21,400 almost always I would say probably we start looking through the game, Well, 290 00:20:21,480 --> 00:20:23,279 I find stuff they could fix, find stuff they can do better. 291 00:20:23,759 --> 00:20:26,319 They had a big leak here, or a moderate leak here, or a 292 00:20:26,480 --> 00:20:33,680 tiny leak here. But now I don't automatically assume it's the player, because 293 00:20:33,400 --> 00:20:37,920 I've seen this year that you can just get bashed in the face six weeks 294 00:20:37,920 --> 00:20:41,160 in a row, and then the seventh week coming, Oh, we're just 295 00:20:41,200 --> 00:20:44,960 gonna get bashed in the face again. And then the eighth week coming, 296 00:20:45,000 --> 00:20:47,799 Oh, We're just gonna get bashed in the face again. And it can 297 00:20:47,839 --> 00:20:52,880 happen week after week after week. It's inexplicable. It seems to defy the 298 00:20:52,960 --> 00:20:56,920 law of mathematics. But I I it's it doesn't. It's not defined law 299 00:20:57,000 --> 00:21:04,079 math. Yes, they really can suck out on you every session, every 300 00:21:04,160 --> 00:21:07,640 day, every week for months. They can't. They just can. I 301 00:21:07,680 --> 00:21:11,160 don't. I don't. I don't know what else to say about it. 302 00:21:11,160 --> 00:21:15,680 It can just keep happening. You can hear me laughing. I have a 303 00:21:15,720 --> 00:21:18,240 smile on my face. Nevertheless, look the benefit. I would say the 304 00:21:18,279 --> 00:21:22,440 benefit is that you get I think you get better content on the free pod, 305 00:21:22,640 --> 00:21:27,920 like the speed you're listening to. I would say it helps you because 306 00:21:29,079 --> 00:21:33,160 I have honed in on things in my game that I never had honed in 307 00:21:33,200 --> 00:21:37,000 on before because I didn't feel so obsessed about it because things were so going, 308 00:21:37,039 --> 00:21:38,599 so good. But I've just found little things here and found little things 309 00:21:38,599 --> 00:21:44,720 there, and definitely the mental game. So I'm gonna stop talking about that 310 00:21:44,799 --> 00:21:47,400 because it's I don't want to talk about bad beats and stuff. I'm just 311 00:21:47,440 --> 00:21:52,200 here to tell you that I'm a very realistic person and I don't hide things. 312 00:21:52,200 --> 00:21:55,039 I don't hide the run bat, I don't hide the downswings. Like 313 00:21:55,200 --> 00:21:57,400 this is what poker is. If you're going to play fifteen hundred hours of 314 00:21:57,400 --> 00:22:02,839 poker, here, boy, it can get hairy. Apparently you can get 315 00:22:02,880 --> 00:22:07,920 hairy. Apparently. All Right, so we're gonna talk about my twenty twenty 316 00:22:07,920 --> 00:22:11,440 four poker goals, and almost all this has come from my twenty twenty three 317 00:22:11,519 --> 00:22:15,920 so you're going to sense a theme here, but here we go improve my 318 00:22:17,000 --> 00:22:19,119 mental game overall, Like I want my mental game to just be the best 319 00:22:19,119 --> 00:22:22,880 it's been and I'm already headed that way. I only want to play poker 320 00:22:22,880 --> 00:22:26,079 when I'm feeling good. Like, if I'm not feeling good and I'm not 321 00:22:26,119 --> 00:22:29,839 excited about playing, I'm going to force myself to play. I really want 322 00:22:29,880 --> 00:22:33,319 to try to get up take a walk every hour. That's a goal I 323 00:22:33,400 --> 00:22:37,279 kind of had last year, and I fail that. I really want to 324 00:22:37,480 --> 00:22:40,279 even it's just to get up, walk, walk around and be back two 325 00:22:40,279 --> 00:22:44,799 minutes later. I really need to do that for a lot of reasons, 326 00:22:44,799 --> 00:22:48,880 for health reasons, but also just for the mental part of the game. 327 00:22:51,079 --> 00:22:53,960 This one here, I've already started implementing and I'm getting really good at it, 328 00:22:55,000 --> 00:22:56,920 but I want to master it and there be no doubt in twenty twenty 329 00:22:56,920 --> 00:23:02,079 four. But I want to leave the session the instant I'm irritated and not 330 00:23:02,319 --> 00:23:04,720 enjoying the battle anymore. And the one thing that I've learned is once the 331 00:23:04,759 --> 00:23:08,160 game gets the point to where you're not enjoying the battle anymore, like you 332 00:23:08,359 --> 00:23:12,759 just feel miserable, you just shouldn't keep playing. It's gonna be hard to 333 00:23:12,759 --> 00:23:17,839 play a good game. It's gonna wear you down mentally, and you know 334 00:23:18,119 --> 00:23:21,279 Poker is there later. One of the things I have started doing, and 335 00:23:21,359 --> 00:23:22,960 I'll say this is, I will leave the game, I'll in the session. 336 00:23:25,839 --> 00:23:27,279 But one things I have started doing is I'll just leave for like two 337 00:23:27,400 --> 00:23:32,559 three hours and go other stuff and then come back in the same day and 338 00:23:32,599 --> 00:23:34,960 play a new session. So it's not like I'm waiting till tomorrow. And 339 00:23:36,119 --> 00:23:41,279 I've done that successfully several times. But when that feeling sits in where you're 340 00:23:41,359 --> 00:23:45,759 just constantly irritated, annoyed and just not enjoying it, you are not enjoying 341 00:23:45,759 --> 00:23:47,799 a many of it. You just shouldn't be there. You can just find 342 00:23:47,799 --> 00:23:49,920 something else that you need to do in your life, like you have other 343 00:23:51,559 --> 00:23:55,039 obligations. Well, let's go do that now and then we'll come back to 344 00:23:55,039 --> 00:23:57,680 poker later. This is gonna be a big one for me twenty twenty four. 345 00:23:57,720 --> 00:24:02,640 I want to travel the less rooms, less poker rooms, and I 346 00:24:02,680 --> 00:24:04,680 want to spend more time playing in the rooms where I have my highest edge. 347 00:24:04,799 --> 00:24:07,519 So you guys know, I travel and play a ton of poker. 348 00:24:08,720 --> 00:24:15,039 In twenty twenty three. I spent this is this is This was my travel 349 00:24:15,079 --> 00:24:18,400 itenderary for twenty twenty three. To let you know how much time I've spent 350 00:24:18,440 --> 00:24:22,559 in other places. Now I went to several rooms where I just went two 351 00:24:22,599 --> 00:24:25,759 or three days. I'm not going to try to cover all those because it's 352 00:24:25,759 --> 00:24:27,920 be too many of them. But this is once where I stayed significant amounts 353 00:24:27,920 --> 00:24:32,200 of time. So the first six weeks of twenty twenty three I spent in 354 00:24:32,240 --> 00:24:37,960 Panama City Beach, Florida, playing at a poker room there. Then we 355 00:24:38,000 --> 00:24:42,160 took a short little break and went to Biloxi for a week. Then we 356 00:24:42,200 --> 00:24:45,759 took like a day or two off, and then we went to Jacksonville to 357 00:24:45,759 --> 00:24:51,839 play Best Bet Jacksonville for March. I spent all of March in Jacksonville playing 358 00:24:51,880 --> 00:24:56,599 Best Bet Jacksonville, took two or three days off, then went to Dallas, 359 00:24:56,720 --> 00:25:00,480 Texas, and I spent a little over three weeks in Dallas, Texas, 360 00:25:00,519 --> 00:25:06,480 where I played poker house which is now closed in a little bit of 361 00:25:06,519 --> 00:25:14,559 tch Then April we came back and I stayed mostly at home and played my 362 00:25:14,640 --> 00:25:21,240 local poker room for all of April, I would say half of May. 363 00:25:22,240 --> 00:25:26,079 June we went to Tampa for two weeks. Then we came back for a 364 00:25:26,119 --> 00:25:32,200 week to home and I played my home poker room. In July, we 365 00:25:32,240 --> 00:25:36,920 went back to Tampa, and we played Tampa for three weeks. Was actually 366 00:25:37,000 --> 00:25:41,680 Saint Petersburg. We played three weeks. I came back and took three days 367 00:25:41,759 --> 00:25:44,880 off, and then we traveled to Austin, Texas, and I spent the 368 00:25:45,039 --> 00:25:49,960 entire month of as of August in Austin, Texas, where I exclusively played 369 00:25:49,960 --> 00:26:00,440 the Lodge. September October I stayed at home and just travel back and forth 370 00:26:00,480 --> 00:26:07,279 to my local poker room, except I did do a four day stint to 371 00:26:10,240 --> 00:26:14,000 what is that place called I can't think of it. It's near Okay, 372 00:26:14,119 --> 00:26:18,119 it's near the villages. What is that called? Oxford Downs? We played 373 00:26:18,160 --> 00:26:30,480 Oxford Downs. Then November, I moved back to the beach and I stayed 374 00:26:30,519 --> 00:26:33,640 in a suite at the beach for I'm actually here now, so all of 375 00:26:33,680 --> 00:26:38,519 November December. I'm booked here through January, and I've just extended it through 376 00:26:40,519 --> 00:26:44,599 February, but I think I may cancel February. I think I can still 377 00:26:44,640 --> 00:26:48,240 cancel February. But nevertheless, November, December, and January is all on 378 00:26:48,279 --> 00:26:52,039 the beach again. That's where I'm at now. So's my point is, 379 00:26:52,039 --> 00:26:57,119 there's a ton of traveling. Look, I've been traveling to different rooms so 380 00:26:57,279 --> 00:27:00,759 long that I know which rooms are the song offtest, and then my hourly 381 00:27:00,839 --> 00:27:04,319 is the highest. And so in twenty twenty four, I am going to 382 00:27:04,400 --> 00:27:07,359 travel some, but I'm not going to travel to as many different rooms, 383 00:27:07,440 --> 00:27:11,759 and I'm going to focus on just traveling to the rooms that I really like 384 00:27:11,039 --> 00:27:15,119 and that I really have the highest hourly in and not travel all over. 385 00:27:18,079 --> 00:27:21,480 And then my final goal for twenty twenty four is to get better at PLO, 386 00:27:21,680 --> 00:27:26,599 POTLM and omaha. PLO is the new fertile ground of poker. I 387 00:27:26,640 --> 00:27:33,680 think like so many more people are getting good at at hold them and PLO. 388 00:27:33,960 --> 00:27:37,079 So many people are just got awful at it, and you're starting to 389 00:27:37,079 --> 00:27:40,680 see it pop up more where there's people playing round for a round or in 390 00:27:40,680 --> 00:27:41,960 some places they call it round of each but you know, do around to 391 00:27:42,000 --> 00:27:48,680 hold them round of omaha or just straight up PLO or ed to see the 392 00:27:48,720 --> 00:27:52,640 PLO. I'viously these double bomb pots that are everywhere, like plos just becoming 393 00:27:52,680 --> 00:27:56,200 just a bigger, bigger part of the game, and I wouldn't really really 394 00:27:56,200 --> 00:28:00,359 want to get better at it. The last thing I'll say about goal is 395 00:28:00,400 --> 00:28:03,480 you should always be reviewing your previous year. You need to find out what 396 00:28:03,519 --> 00:28:07,119 you weren't great at or what you weren't good at, and then set goals 397 00:28:07,160 --> 00:28:11,279 to improve those things the next year. If you're not doing that, you 398 00:28:11,359 --> 00:28:14,319 need to do it. You need to have it written down. You need 399 00:28:14,359 --> 00:28:17,559 to review it every couple of weeks. Like don't just write it down and 400 00:28:17,559 --> 00:28:21,319 forget about it, Like every couple of weeks. If you keep it on 401 00:28:21,319 --> 00:28:22,880 a notepad on your phone line, I do you open it up and you 402 00:28:22,920 --> 00:28:26,880 read it and go back through it and evaluate how am I doing on these 403 00:28:26,920 --> 00:28:30,279 goals and you need to be trying to work through them for the year. 404 00:28:30,559 --> 00:28:34,359 It will really help you to have a thirty thousand foot view set of goals. 405 00:28:34,440 --> 00:28:37,960 Right, That's what this is. This is the overall goals I have 406 00:28:37,079 --> 00:28:42,319 for the year. You should really focus on that. Also have goals for 407 00:28:42,400 --> 00:28:45,079 the podcast and the Patreon. I thought I would share those with you. 408 00:28:45,160 --> 00:28:52,119 I would love to increase downloads of the public free episodes of the pod by 409 00:28:52,160 --> 00:28:56,079 fifteen percent. I'm not sure how to do that because I'm not I don't 410 00:28:56,079 --> 00:29:00,440 think I'm going to go back to releasing more episodes. I like the once 411 00:29:00,480 --> 00:29:03,799 a month thing. I'm going to try to make them better. I'm definitely 412 00:29:03,839 --> 00:29:08,400 going to try to make those episodes better. So I'm not sure, but 413 00:29:08,720 --> 00:29:11,720 that's a goal. I'll have to figure out how to do it. I 414 00:29:11,759 --> 00:29:14,640 want, you know, I want more people listening to the pod. I 415 00:29:15,119 --> 00:29:19,400 love having an audience for the pod. And you know, and since it's 416 00:29:19,480 --> 00:29:23,640 we've scaled it back to only one episode a month, it's way less taxing 417 00:29:23,680 --> 00:29:29,640 on me with the dms and stuff. So I would love to increase the 418 00:29:29,680 --> 00:29:33,480 audience. I do have Patreon goals as well. For twenty twenty four, 419 00:29:33,759 --> 00:29:37,200 I want to increase fans of the pod, people in that tier by twenty 420 00:29:37,200 --> 00:29:41,759 five percent if possible. Now you know, if you're not a fan of 421 00:29:41,799 --> 00:29:45,640 the pod, it's five bucks man. I had a guy who messaged me 422 00:29:47,079 --> 00:29:49,559 a couple of months ago. And I'm telling this because it's lighthearted. I'm 423 00:29:49,599 --> 00:29:53,240 not negative about it. But this guy sent me a message. He's like, 424 00:29:53,319 --> 00:29:56,680 I can't believe you would take away the episode of the pod everyone, 425 00:29:56,759 --> 00:30:00,480 why would you do that to us? Like it's like me, me, 426 00:30:00,279 --> 00:30:03,920 me, me, me, you know, And so I replied and I'm 427 00:30:03,920 --> 00:30:07,599 like, do you play poker? And how often do you play? And 428 00:30:07,599 --> 00:30:10,359 he's like, yeah, I play every weekend. I usually play every Friday 429 00:30:10,400 --> 00:30:12,079 and Saturday. Sometimes I'll miss one of those, so I'll only play like 430 00:30:12,119 --> 00:30:15,880 Friday or Saturday. But i usually play every Friday and every Saturday. And 431 00:30:15,920 --> 00:30:19,480 I'm like, so you're telling me that you co play one three no limit. 432 00:30:21,279 --> 00:30:23,079 I'm assuming you take at least one buy and that's three hundred dollars. 433 00:30:23,880 --> 00:30:29,359 And you're doing that eight times a month. You're carrying three hundred dollars down 434 00:30:29,440 --> 00:30:33,160 to the program, and you think it's too much. You think it's unreasonable 435 00:30:33,759 --> 00:30:42,480 to give me just five dollars, just five dollars to get every single episode 436 00:30:42,480 --> 00:30:45,759 of the podcast that you've admittedly said helps your game. It helps your game, 437 00:30:47,880 --> 00:30:51,759 but you want me to give it to you for free and it's not 438 00:30:51,920 --> 00:30:55,519 worth five dollars to you. Well, here's my thing, Like, I've 439 00:30:55,559 --> 00:30:59,799 always been a person that valued my worth, Like I'm always in the past 440 00:30:59,839 --> 00:31:03,440 for fused to do things that were money related if it didn't meet the standard 441 00:31:03,480 --> 00:31:06,839 of what I felt like I am worth an hour. And I would invite 442 00:31:06,880 --> 00:31:07,880 you to do this in your life. You should really do this. You 443 00:31:07,880 --> 00:31:11,160 should evaluate how much you're worth an hour, and you base that on what 444 00:31:11,200 --> 00:31:15,720 you earn, whether it be a job or you have investments or other things, 445 00:31:15,720 --> 00:31:18,720 and just come up with, you know, here's what an hour of 446 00:31:18,720 --> 00:31:22,160 my time is worth financially, And so when I'm considering engaging in something that 447 00:31:22,240 --> 00:31:26,440 is financial related, this is the minimum I'll accept. So I've done that 448 00:31:26,480 --> 00:31:30,319 for years and years and years. I didn't apply it to the podcast because 449 00:31:30,359 --> 00:31:33,119 the podcast was just I just loved it. I just loved doing it. 450 00:31:33,119 --> 00:31:36,640 It was a it's a passion pursuit for me, but at some point it 451 00:31:36,640 --> 00:31:41,799 comes into so much of my time it had to become financial as well as 452 00:31:41,000 --> 00:31:44,960 passion, right, like, if I'm going to spend you know, I've 453 00:31:45,000 --> 00:31:49,079 literally had days where I've spent three hours out of my day replying to dms 454 00:31:49,079 --> 00:31:52,240 from people who listened to the free podcasts and had questions to buy hands. 455 00:31:53,400 --> 00:31:56,279 I've had days back to back to back to back where I did that just 456 00:31:56,319 --> 00:32:00,000 trying to catch up. Like I've spent a lot of time doing it. 457 00:31:59,839 --> 00:32:01,240 So at some point I had to evaluate, Look, how much of this 458 00:32:01,839 --> 00:32:05,799 do I want to continue to just be passion and do for free, and 459 00:32:05,839 --> 00:32:08,759 how much do I what tipping point to go? Okay, if anything past 460 00:32:08,839 --> 00:32:14,559 that I'm just not doing it unless I'm getting some kind of compensation, So 461 00:32:15,319 --> 00:32:16,680 that's the reason behind it. Look, if it seems unreasonable to you, 462 00:32:16,720 --> 00:32:21,440 I would invite you to start a podcast and record four high quality episodes that 463 00:32:21,480 --> 00:32:23,960 help people every week and then open up your DMS to anybody that wants to 464 00:32:23,960 --> 00:32:27,839 message you them and just do that all year for free and have two hundred 465 00:32:27,880 --> 00:32:30,319 thousand downloads a year and see how much of your time it takes. And 466 00:32:30,359 --> 00:32:32,559 if you think it's worth it, because I would submit to you, you 467 00:32:32,599 --> 00:32:36,279 probably would at some point pretty quickly go, you know what, I can't 468 00:32:36,359 --> 00:32:42,119 keep doing this. This is crazy. So look, I would love for 469 00:32:42,160 --> 00:32:45,160 you to continue to get every single episode and become a fan of the pod, 470 00:32:45,240 --> 00:32:46,960 and if you're not, you know, maybe consider it. But that's 471 00:32:47,000 --> 00:32:50,920 one of my goals to increase people who are fans of the pod by twenty 472 00:32:50,960 --> 00:32:54,839 five percent. I want to try to increase the middle tier by only five 473 00:32:54,880 --> 00:32:58,720 percent because I don't want too many people over there. I have it capped 474 00:32:58,920 --> 00:33:02,880 right, This is twenty five on Patreon, and I just keep that cap 475 00:33:02,960 --> 00:33:07,200 because I want to be able to vote as much time to those people as 476 00:33:07,240 --> 00:33:08,960 I can and that was the other problem. I was running into the people 477 00:33:09,079 --> 00:33:14,640 listening to the podcast for free and not contributing to my life in any kind 478 00:33:14,640 --> 00:33:16,480 of a way, wanting me to contribute to theirs, which I love, 479 00:33:16,640 --> 00:33:20,240 not complaining about it. I offered it, I set it out there, 480 00:33:20,799 --> 00:33:23,319 but they were taking up so much of my time that I couldn't devote one 481 00:33:23,400 --> 00:33:27,440 hundred percent of my time to the people who are paying me on Patreon to 482 00:33:27,440 --> 00:33:30,079 try to help them get better and crush one two and one three other limit. 483 00:33:30,000 --> 00:33:32,720 So there had to be some compromise. But so I don't want to 484 00:33:32,720 --> 00:33:36,279 increase that too much because it just can't be too many people, Like I 485 00:33:36,359 --> 00:33:38,720 want to keep it cap so like I would say, that's a difference between 486 00:33:38,720 --> 00:33:43,359 me and a lot of other people that offer training and coaching is like they'll 487 00:33:43,359 --> 00:33:45,920 just take as many people as wants to sign up, and I'm just not 488 00:33:46,000 --> 00:33:52,279 doing that. We're just keeping it capped because if I can't see a notification 489 00:33:52,440 --> 00:33:57,480 on discord from a member and reply to it, for sure in the same 490 00:33:57,599 --> 00:34:00,279 day, but my goal is to get to reply to it in the and 491 00:34:00,319 --> 00:34:04,279 within an hour or two, which I almost always do. If I can't 492 00:34:04,319 --> 00:34:07,799 continue to do that then I've got too many people, right, And if 493 00:34:07,839 --> 00:34:10,039 you were asked people who remember my twenty five dollars tier in there over on 494 00:34:10,159 --> 00:34:15,239 Discord when they post a hand history or a strategy question or some other kind 495 00:34:15,280 --> 00:34:17,719 of question, well, it's very rare that I'm not over there answering it 496 00:34:17,760 --> 00:34:23,360 within an hour, but absolute worst case scenarios same day, but usually within 497 00:34:23,400 --> 00:34:29,519 an hour. And then I'm thinking about adding one more person to the one 498 00:34:29,559 --> 00:34:31,480 on one tier. You know, this is people that I work with on 499 00:34:31,559 --> 00:34:35,000 a one on one basis who are all crushing it. By the way, 500 00:34:35,039 --> 00:34:38,400 every single person that I worked with one on one just it's absolutely crushed it 501 00:34:38,440 --> 00:34:45,880 in twenty twenty three, which I was super proud of. And then overall 502 00:34:45,159 --> 00:34:50,000 as far as just creating content, and this is for Patreon and the patrons 503 00:34:50,079 --> 00:34:53,280 know that what I promise and what I deliver is two different things. I 504 00:34:53,320 --> 00:34:57,639 was just looking back at what I the content that I put out on Patreon 505 00:34:57,719 --> 00:35:01,239 over there, and it's been a video a week every single week, the 506 00:35:02,679 --> 00:35:07,320 Sunday which is the fan of the pod pod, but that's for patrons as 507 00:35:07,320 --> 00:35:12,360 well, that's included, and then an extra pod one day of the week 508 00:35:12,400 --> 00:35:15,639 and then we just did the session series where I you know, I share 509 00:35:15,719 --> 00:35:19,199 every single hand I play in every single session for like a month straight. 510 00:35:21,159 --> 00:35:24,840 I mean, you know, thirty days, probably putting out fifteen somewhere between 511 00:35:24,840 --> 00:35:29,920 ten and fifteen to probably twelve and fifteen pieces of content a month over there. 512 00:35:29,960 --> 00:35:32,639 That's just me doing that, one guy. So I want to cut 513 00:35:32,679 --> 00:35:37,119 the content back by about twenty percent, but I want to make it fifty 514 00:35:37,159 --> 00:35:43,800 percent better. So for people who are members of the Patreon, you know, 515 00:35:43,840 --> 00:35:49,079 I want to try to do better content for you, get better at 516 00:35:49,079 --> 00:35:53,199 doing it and making it the absolute best, most concise, hard hitting, 517 00:35:53,320 --> 00:35:58,199 easy understand. Just try to spend more time making it better. In all 518 00:35:58,239 --> 00:36:02,280 those areas, produce less of it, but less content out, but when 519 00:36:02,280 --> 00:36:07,119 the content comes out, have it just be way better. All right, 520 00:36:07,480 --> 00:36:12,280 This has been a long episode, but it's different than my normal review. 521 00:36:12,360 --> 00:36:16,880 My normal annual review is just how I did it poker, And since so 522 00:36:16,960 --> 00:36:22,039 many different people are invested or a part of so many different aspects of my 523 00:36:22,360 --> 00:36:27,679 year, whether it be the pod, the Patreon, the one on one 524 00:36:28,000 --> 00:36:30,239 or just you know, the free pot or whatever, and then interest in 525 00:36:30,719 --> 00:36:37,199 my poker journey personally, we excited to expand it this year. Like everything 526 00:36:37,239 --> 00:36:42,119 poker related, you just got to recap on and I hope you found it 527 00:36:42,159 --> 00:36:47,519 helpful. It's not strategy, but it's you get insight into how my year 528 00:36:47,679 --> 00:36:52,960 was and how I'm trying to adapt and adjust to it. You got a 529 00:36:52,960 --> 00:36:55,559 little insight into how the podcast works, got an insight into how the Patreon 530 00:36:55,639 --> 00:37:00,440 works. And I just want to wish you just the best twenty twenty four 531 00:37:01,519 --> 00:37:07,000 in your personal life and your health, your family, and in poker. 532 00:37:07,199 --> 00:37:12,280 And if I can help you in any area where you're just a person who 533 00:37:12,480 --> 00:37:16,000 just gets the one episode for free every month, if I can help you 534 00:37:16,039 --> 00:37:19,679 and you reach out to me in the DMS, I would love to and 535 00:37:19,719 --> 00:37:22,239 I will get to your DMS when I can. You can DM me on 536 00:37:22,320 --> 00:37:29,840 Instagram or Facebook. Love the mccash names podcast for members of the Patreon, 537 00:37:30,239 --> 00:37:31,679 or I should say fans of the pod will jump to them as well. 538 00:37:31,880 --> 00:37:37,760 I thank you so much for valuing what I'm trying to pour into your life. 539 00:37:37,760 --> 00:37:42,000 That's saying, you know what, that's absolutely worth five dollars. Five 540 00:37:42,079 --> 00:37:45,920 dollars is a nothing burger, and it's absolutely worth five dollars. I want 541 00:37:45,960 --> 00:37:50,000 to just genuinely thank you and appreciate you for helping make my life better. 542 00:37:51,199 --> 00:37:54,679 You guys agreeing to be fans of the pod made my life so much better 543 00:37:54,760 --> 00:38:00,360 the end of twenty twenty three, So I want to thank you and issue 544 00:38:00,360 --> 00:38:04,599 the very best And then finally to the patrons who are either in the you 545 00:38:04,679 --> 00:38:07,639 know, the twenty five dollars training package tier or in the one on one 546 00:38:07,639 --> 00:38:09,880 tier, you guys are awesome. Like I feel like I've just developed some 547 00:38:10,760 --> 00:38:17,159 poker friendships with so many of you guys, and I root for your success 548 00:38:17,320 --> 00:38:21,840 and I want to be a part of your success. And just know that 549 00:38:22,159 --> 00:38:25,920 I've said this a couple of times in the discord in various times, but 550 00:38:27,679 --> 00:38:32,679 patrons, you have easily helped me as much as I've helped you. Just 551 00:38:34,159 --> 00:38:37,360 me having to work through the hands and work through the spots and work through 552 00:38:37,400 --> 00:38:40,840 the questions to try to help you. Doing that has helped me. I'm 553 00:38:42,119 --> 00:38:45,760 literally the best poker player I've ever been, and the reason for that is 554 00:38:45,760 --> 00:38:50,760 because of the pod and the Patreon, because I've had to get better and 555 00:38:52,079 --> 00:38:54,880 to help other people get better. And so I wish you all the best 556 00:38:54,880 --> 00:39:00,480 in twenty twenty four thank you so much for listening. Talked to you in 557 00:39:00,519 --> 00:39:00,320 the next episode.