And welcome into the year end recap episode. We do this every year as
we recap several different things in the previous year a little bit different format.
This year, I've received so many comments and questions and other type messages throughout
the year. I'm actually going to include stats on just the podcast in general,
and we're gonna review that. We're gonna review our stats on Patreon and
give you some information from Patreon, and then of course we'll be talking about
my year and poker. Every year, I like to share, you know,
what goals I had from the previous year, and then we like to
set forward goals looking forward to the upcoming year. So let's settle in.
We'll get into it. We're going to just start with we'll go in order,
so we'll start talking about the podcast, and this involves you guys.
You know you're a big You are all of this actually, then we'll move
to Patreon stats, and then we'll move to my personal poker year in review,
which some of you may find interesting as well. So for twenty twenty
four, the podcast downloads, we had just over two hundred thousand downloads of
the podcast in twenty twenty three, which is amazing when I started this podcast,
you know, about four years ago, I never would have imagined that
we would have two hundred thousand downloads plus in one year. As you may
be aware, towards the end of the year, we changed from one public
free episode of the podcast every single Sunday to only one a month, and
even after doing that, we still maintained about fifty percent of the monthly downloads,
so, you know, one fourth the number of free episodes going out
on the free pod, but only a fifty percent reduction in downloads, which
I thought was quite remarkable. Thank you guys so much for that. So
many comments I've gotten about, most of them negative, but we'll address them
about you know, doing the podcast for money and this type thing and stuff.
So I'm just going to tell you how we made from the podcast.
This was the podcast revenue from the ads in the podcast, A whopping thirteen
hundred and eighty dollars, which is about one hundred dollars a month. What
is that? One hundred and ten dollars a month. It's a nothing burger.
I mean, I can tell you just right now from the apps and
stuff that I pay for to use, plus the cost of the podcast hosting
annually and other cost and curd like, we're just losing money on that,
so we're not actually setting the world on fire with revenue from the podcast.
I really do do it because I love it. Just briefly, I want
to address the changes to the pod. We did go to the one free
episode a month. It was life changing for me. I was overwhelmed with
messages and I tried to answer every single person. I was given so many
hours of my life to people for free that I basically I only had time
to eat, sleep, play poker for myself, and then almost the rest
of my day was consumed with right replying to messages sent to me on social
media from people that listened to the pod. And now I loved it.
I invited it. I asked you guy to send into me messages, but
it was just so many messages. And then at some point, because we
were doing you know, spots in the podcast where we would refer people to
the Patreon and explain what we were doing on Patreon, I started getting these
hate messages. So look, it wasn't a ton like it was probably one
percent of all the messages I was getting, but they were really just horrible
messages from people who were unappreciative and spoiled, I guess, and I don't
know, expected me to just do everything in my life to serve them for
free. And I was like, I mean, I'd do a ton of
stuff for free. I don't think you understand how much stuff I do for
free. So we went to this thing where we just do the one episode
a month, and it's way cut back on how many messages I get on
social media, so I'm able to answer everybody's you know, So it works
out best. And then if you do want to get the message every single
Sunday, we get the episodes of the pod released every Sunday. They're shorter,
there's no fluff, no intro, no ads, and none of that
stuff. It's just five bucks a month. The links to that will be
down in the information section of this if you want to do that. But
that's been great, and all the feedback from the people who have done it,
that have sent me messages love it because the episodes are shorter, because
all the stuff at the end is cut, the ads are cut, the
intro is cut, and we've had comments that the content is better and I
think the content is better too. Because I'm just happier. I'm just happier
and less stress free. The final thing I would say about the podcast for
twenty twenty three, I probably missed some messages, but I really tried.
I really started this about I would say it was probably about June or lies.
Probably halfway through the year. I started trying to save messages where people
sent me messages about how much their game it turned around, either exclusively because
of my podcast or for the majority because of the podcast. So I was
keeping those and then I tried to go back and catch ones I missed,
but like my inboxes, my dms on Instagram and Facebook, it's just so
many messages hard to throw them all. But I did specifically find one hundred
and eighty four messages from my social media dms thanking me specifically for the pod
from players who say that they had become winning players, and they cited my
podcast as either the number one reason why or the only reason why. And
that was amazing to me. Like I was thinking back when I started poker,
like there was nothing. This was early two thousands. I started playing
poker online and I almost immediately hired a coach. Probably about a year in
I hired This guy's name was Todd. His line if you're an OG from
back in the day, you might remember him. He was big on Paradise
Poker nsx T two was his username. His name was Todd. I hired
him to coach me for a while, but there was no free podcast and
nothing that you could do to improve your game and beat the micro stakes and
stuff. That stuff just really didn't exist back then. So it's really cool
to me to flash forward all these years later and to do the pod and
have people sending me messages thank me for the podcast. So I wanted to
make the very first thing that I talked about in this year in review the
podcast because this has been the beginning of it all, and the amount of
downloads and the support and all the great messages and questions, and the last
thing I will say about is is you guys may not understand this, but
this podcast has made my game better because I've had to get better and understand
concepts better and be able to explain them better and try to narrow things down
to a core group of principles that I could, you know, elucidate to
you clearly and efficaciously, and it's helped my game like I just had.
It really has. So it's just been a win win, And so look,
the main point of all this is thank you for two hundred thousand downloads
in this last year, and thank you for every message of support and appreciation.
And you know, we're still going to continue to crank out. At
least that's my promise to you. A minimum of one free episode on the
Public podcast every month. Sometimes there'll be more than one. So I'm talking
a little bit about Patreon. You know, we have the Patreon and it
was a source of contention for a couple of months till we cut all that
out. But it's just simply a way for the people who were like,
man, because I got asked this the first year, year and a half
or something of the podcast, I just kept getting to ask it, like
man, you really need to do something where you can really work with people
and get into training and have you know. I resisted it. It seemed
two time consuming, but I got to tell you, I've loved every minute
of the webs It's a great community. People who are on the twenty five
dollars tier training package to access to all the videos and content and stuff that
we put up. They come over on discord, and it's a community man,
and everybody tries to help each other, and it's very positive and we've
got so many people who are winning in there. We'll actually talk about that
here in just a second, some of it, but here's some stats from
the from the Patreon in case anybody cares, I had four. I only
allowed for four one on one patrons. So these are people that I work
with one on one and we have like one on one meetings once a month
and then they can message me anytime. That stayed full all year. All
year was full, which I thought was awesome, not so much for people
wanting to do it, because the messages all year when you're going to have
a slot open. That middle tier, which is twenty five dollar tier,
it was ninety five percent full all year, and as a matter of fact,
it was sold out most of the year, but you occasionally have people
that will drop out and some new people could come in, But for ninety
it was ninety five percent full all year. And I've got it capped.
I've just cap how many people I'm willing to have in there because my time,
I just don't have time to devote to a ton of people, and
we added the Fan of the Pod tier towards the end of the year,
so you know, people that want to just support me with five bucks a
month that get the extra three podcasts every single Sunday, and all my feedback
on that has been great, so the Patreon stuff is fantastic. So it
was a last minute deal and I just did this last night. I'm like,
I've jumped into Discord and I said, hey, I'm going to be
doing my end of the year podcast and if anybody who in here wants to
share your hourly rate since joining the pod, please share it and I'll either
use nicknames or use your first name or whatever however you want me to do
that. And if you want me to share with people who are listening to
the episodes the pod, what some of you guys hourly are since joining the
discord And so we did have some people jump in late last night. OEMG
twenty seven dollars thirty one cents an hour, Slim sixteen dollars and eighty two
cents an hours is hourly for twenty twenty three. Sebastian a crazy forty dollars
and sixty seven cents an hour. This is hourly for twenty twenty three,
Mike eleven dollars and twenty nine cents an hour. He also shared his stats
from last year when he you know, wasn't a member of the patreon and
stuff. He was making less than a dollar an hour last year. I
think it was ninety six cents an hour. This year, making eleven dollars
and twenty nine cents an hours is hourally, that's awesome. Nicholas forty four
dollars and forty three cents an hour, John eleven dollars and twenty three cents
an hour, and Bobby eighteen dollars and eighty cents an hour. I expected
some more folks to chime in, but I just decided to record the episode
today, So you know, probably some other people have posted in there by
now and will probably continue because you know, people check in, you know,
every day, every other day, every third day, and so probably
be more coming in. But that's just the only ones that I grab for
Todavid Man. Those guys are killing it. The people in the patreon are
just killing it. Anyway. Congrats to you guys, and thanks for sharing
your hourly for people who may be interested in what some hourlies are achievable when
you apply yourself and you learn, and you you know, getting a group
of people who support you and you can talk hands and spots and stuff like
that. So everybody in there is killing it and getting better, which I'd
love to see. So we're going to talk about my twenty twenty three poker
results and goals, et cetera. So I had a few goals heading into
twenty twenty three. One of them was I was going to spend more time
every week drilling specific spots on the APT trainer. Now, not familiar with
that, you don't know what that is. There will be a link down
in the information section of the the podcast, and if you'll use my code,
you can get twenty five percent off if you want to try it.
It's amazing. Everybody in the discord that uses it loves it like you can.
Just if you ever just wanted to drill six or five suited from the
cutoff, let's see if you could be profitable. It's amazing for things like
that. It's amazing for a lot of reasons, but that's how I use
it. Just try to get better at specific spots. We did, and
I did do that. You know, my goal was to I think it
was to do five hours a week, and I don't know that I hit
five hours a week every week, but we hit five hours a week a
lot of weeks, and we at least did two three hours a week I'd
say ninety percent of the weeks. My goal was to hit fifteen hundred hours
of poker, which is a lot of poker. It's kind of full time
hours, fifteen hundred hours. As the as of me recording this, we're
a couple of days away from the end of the year, right so I
have to record this before the actual old last day of the year, so
there's a couple of days left. But as of right now, I'm at
fourteen hundred and twenty eight hours. So will I hit the fifteen hundred I
don't know. Depends on how many hours I play over the next few days.
So members of the Patreon will know this, but members who listen to
you guys that just listened to the free podcast that's posted on the public podcast
won't know this. But I had the most trying run bad year I've ever
had in poker. I had four ten buying down swings this year, and
then I had down swings that were way worse than ten buy ins, which
nearly crippled me mentally. I'm just gonna be honest with you, like this
year tested my mental fortitude and my temperament and my tilt and my willingness to
be constantly reviewing my hands to make sure I'm not playing bad. Like I've
never had a year like this ever, And so the thing I will say
about it is that it has made me a better person and a better poker
player mentally than I've ever been. That doesn't mean that I haven't felt like
I just wanted to crack, because as a matter of fact, I'm going
through that right now. The month of December, as I'm wrapping this up,
has just been horrible. I started out the month amazing, and then
it's just been I just can't win a hand, man. I don't know
how to describe it. I'm not gonna tell bad beat stories and stuff,
because I'm not about that. I can't control bad beats. I can't control
what card comes on the turn. I can't control what card comes on the
river. I can't control what hands they called me with. But boy,
those cards have come on the turn, and they've come on the river and
the hands people have called me with, I've been insane and and they get
there every time. And I'm going to tell you in twenty twenty three,
eighty percent for me was definitely not eighty percent. Sixty percent for me was
not sixty percent. I've been on the negative side of what expectations should be
for the entire year, and it's been trying. Now one of the benefits
of that is is like I've learned ways to adapt and overcome and improve my
mental game. And so members who are members over on the Patreon and the
discord and everything have benefited from that because they've seen me go through it.
Because I'm an open book, like I'm not. You know, I could
be one of these poker guys and all you see is how great they do
all the time. Let me tell you something. They're hiding the bad stuff.
They're they're concealing it from you because they want to sell the dream and
they want to sell how great poker is and how you can win all the
time and it's not a problem, and they're just lying to you. Now.
I'm not saying they're being malicious and I'm not saying they're bad people.
I'm just saying they're being selective and what they share with you. I'm not
that person. So if you remember on my discord and I'm going through a
ten buying down swing and we're talking about hands and stuff, my discord knows
about it. They members of my discord know when I'm on a ten buying
down swing. They know when I'm on a fifteen buying down swing and I
feel like jumping off of a bridge. I'll tell you. One of the
benefits of that, though, is like November was horrible. We were in
a huge downswing, and I'm like, you know what, we're going to
pull out of this. We're going to get disciplined, and I'm going to
share do something for my Patreon and members called series Sessions Series. And so
what I'll do is I'll log every hand I play in a session every day
that I play for an extended period of time. And so for November,
when I was I was down like seven thousand dollars. Starting out in November,
we were on a seven thousand dollars downswing. I started doing Session series
and so every single hand that I played through the rest of November, I
logged. My patron members got the actual texts of all my hand history so
they could look at them. And then I also recorded an episode of the
podcast for every session so they could look at the hands, and then I
would do a pod where I talked about what happened. And we came out
of that downswing and wound up winning almost five thousand dollars net positive for the
month. And I remember, but it was a very trying and difficult time.
But you know, like I said, I don't hide any of that
kind of stuff, but it was it was a rough year, and it
wound up being a rough year. I didn't have the most amazing year ever.
I'm not going to need exact numbers but as far as dollar amounts,
but I'll tell you this. I expected hourly based on what I've made per
hour every year previously to this was down fifty eight percent. This year pretty
rough. It's lower than any year I've had in the last six years since
I started full time tracking every session. Right, I think six or seven
years ago is when I committed to getting an app and tracking every session religiously.
So since I started doing that, this year was the worst hourly that
I've had since then. It was tough. Look It's turned me into a
better player. It's given me a stronger mindset. It's caused me to study
more. It's caused me to send more hands to professional friends of mine for
a review to go, Hey, am I sucking in poker? Am I
just running back? And I got to tell you my friends have hated me
this year. I've got like four, a core group of four professionals that
I will talk to this about. Like I have one, I mostly just
send a text about how bad I'm doing. I'll send them some hands and
stuff, but I'll mostly just tell them about I'm doing. I have three
other friends who I send a lot of hands to because we have that back
and forth relationship, so they'll send me a lot of hands. So I
just constantly be sending them hands like I would just have like session after session
where I'm just getting wrecked and wrecked and wrecked, and I go back and
look at my hands and I'm sending them my hands, and I'm like,
look, man, am I am? I You know if you find any
leaks in any of this stuff, look at the same and I'll just send
them a whole session, you know, And I'm like, no, man,
it all looks pretty standard, you know, but you know, you
find a little thing here or there, maybe you could have did this a
little different of this, but nothing that would have stopped me getting wrecked.
Of course, I also did find some leaks. And that's the beautiful thing
about constantly being reviewing your game and reviewing it every hand, street by street,
that you will find inefficiencies, you will find leaks, and it will
give you a chance to get better. And that's why I say my earnings
and all that stuff is the lowest it's been in forever, but my game
is the best it's been. And I know that makes no sense, but
I'll tell you what I've learned this year is that negative variance can be hard,
and boy can it be long. It can be long, long,
long, long long. It can last for the longest time. And so
it's also given me more empathy to other players. I used to I'm gonna
be honest with you. I used to automatically tell players that, you know,
not automatically, but I would throw it out there, you know,
if they were telling me they were playing any kind of a reasonable amount of
hours, and they would tell me they were in like a three or four
month run bat. I'm like, you know what, it's probably your game,
Like, we can probably find stuff to fix. And to be honest,
almost always I would say probably we start looking through the game, Well,
I find stuff they could fix, find stuff they can do better.
They had a big leak here, or a moderate leak here, or a
tiny leak here. But now I don't automatically assume it's the player, because
I've seen this year that you can just get bashed in the face six weeks
in a row, and then the seventh week coming, Oh, we're just
gonna get bashed in the face again. And then the eighth week coming,
Oh, We're just gonna get bashed in the face again. And it can
happen week after week after week. It's inexplicable. It seems to defy the
law of mathematics. But I I it's it doesn't. It's not defined law
math. Yes, they really can suck out on you every session, every
day, every week for months. They can't. They just can. I
don't. I don't. I don't know what else to say about it.
It can just keep happening. You can hear me laughing. I have a
smile on my face. Nevertheless, look the benefit. I would say the
benefit is that you get I think you get better content on the free pod,
like the speed you're listening to. I would say it helps you because
I have honed in on things in my game that I never had honed in
on before because I didn't feel so obsessed about it because things were so going,
so good. But I've just found little things here and found little things
there, and definitely the mental game. So I'm gonna stop talking about that
because it's I don't want to talk about bad beats and stuff. I'm just
here to tell you that I'm a very realistic person and I don't hide things.
I don't hide the run bat, I don't hide the downswings. Like
this is what poker is. If you're going to play fifteen hundred hours of
poker, here, boy, it can get hairy. Apparently you can get
hairy. Apparently. All Right, so we're gonna talk about my twenty twenty
four poker goals, and almost all this has come from my twenty twenty three
so you're going to sense a theme here, but here we go improve my
mental game overall, Like I want my mental game to just be the best
it's been and I'm already headed that way. I only want to play poker
when I'm feeling good. Like, if I'm not feeling good and I'm not
excited about playing, I'm going to force myself to play. I really want
to try to get up take a walk every hour. That's a goal I
kind of had last year, and I fail that. I really want to
even it's just to get up, walk, walk around and be back two
minutes later. I really need to do that for a lot of reasons,
for health reasons, but also just for the mental part of the game.
This one here, I've already started implementing and I'm getting really good at it,
but I want to master it and there be no doubt in twenty twenty
four. But I want to leave the session the instant I'm irritated and not
enjoying the battle anymore. And the one thing that I've learned is once the
game gets the point to where you're not enjoying the battle anymore, like you
just feel miserable, you just shouldn't keep playing. It's gonna be hard to
play a good game. It's gonna wear you down mentally, and you know
Poker is there later. One of the things I have started doing, and
I'll say this is, I will leave the game, I'll in the session.
But one things I have started doing is I'll just leave for like two
three hours and go other stuff and then come back in the same day and
play a new session. So it's not like I'm waiting till tomorrow. And
I've done that successfully several times. But when that feeling sits in where you're
just constantly irritated, annoyed and just not enjoying it, you are not enjoying
a many of it. You just shouldn't be there. You can just find
something else that you need to do in your life, like you have other
obligations. Well, let's go do that now and then we'll come back to
poker later. This is gonna be a big one for me twenty twenty four.
I want to travel the less rooms, less poker rooms, and I
want to spend more time playing in the rooms where I have my highest edge.
So you guys know, I travel and play a ton of poker.
In twenty twenty three. I spent this is this is This was my travel
itenderary for twenty twenty three. To let you know how much time I've spent
in other places. Now I went to several rooms where I just went two
or three days. I'm not going to try to cover all those because it's
be too many of them. But this is once where I stayed significant amounts
of time. So the first six weeks of twenty twenty three I spent in
Panama City Beach, Florida, playing at a poker room there. Then we
took a short little break and went to Biloxi for a week. Then we
took like a day or two off, and then we went to Jacksonville to
play Best Bet Jacksonville for March. I spent all of March in Jacksonville playing
Best Bet Jacksonville, took two or three days off, then went to Dallas,
Texas, and I spent a little over three weeks in Dallas, Texas,
where I played poker house which is now closed in a little bit of
tch Then April we came back and I stayed mostly at home and played my
local poker room for all of April, I would say half of May.
June we went to Tampa for two weeks. Then we came back for a
week to home and I played my home poker room. In July, we
went back to Tampa, and we played Tampa for three weeks. Was actually
Saint Petersburg. We played three weeks. I came back and took three days
off, and then we traveled to Austin, Texas, and I spent the
entire month of as of August in Austin, Texas, where I exclusively played
the Lodge. September October I stayed at home and just travel back and forth
to my local poker room, except I did do a four day stint to
what is that place called I can't think of it. It's near Okay,
it's near the villages. What is that called? Oxford Downs? We played
Oxford Downs. Then November, I moved back to the beach and I stayed
in a suite at the beach for I'm actually here now, so all of
November December. I'm booked here through January, and I've just extended it through
February, but I think I may cancel February. I think I can still
cancel February. But nevertheless, November, December, and January is all on
the beach again. That's where I'm at now. So's my point is,
there's a ton of traveling. Look, I've been traveling to different rooms so
long that I know which rooms are the song offtest, and then my hourly
is the highest. And so in twenty twenty four, I am going to
travel some, but I'm not going to travel to as many different rooms,
and I'm going to focus on just traveling to the rooms that I really like
and that I really have the highest hourly in and not travel all over.
And then my final goal for twenty twenty four is to get better at PLO,
POTLM and omaha. PLO is the new fertile ground of poker. I
think like so many more people are getting good at at hold them and PLO.
So many people are just got awful at it, and you're starting to
see it pop up more where there's people playing round for a round or in
some places they call it round of each but you know, do around to
hold them round of omaha or just straight up PLO or ed to see the
PLO. I'viously these double bomb pots that are everywhere, like plos just becoming
just a bigger, bigger part of the game, and I wouldn't really really
want to get better at it. The last thing I'll say about goal is
you should always be reviewing your previous year. You need to find out what
you weren't great at or what you weren't good at, and then set goals
to improve those things the next year. If you're not doing that, you
need to do it. You need to have it written down. You need
to review it every couple of weeks. Like don't just write it down and
forget about it, Like every couple of weeks. If you keep it on
a notepad on your phone line, I do you open it up and you
read it and go back through it and evaluate how am I doing on these
goals and you need to be trying to work through them for the year.
It will really help you to have a thirty thousand foot view set of goals.
Right, That's what this is. This is the overall goals I have
for the year. You should really focus on that. Also have goals for
the podcast and the Patreon. I thought I would share those with you.
I would love to increase downloads of the public free episodes of the pod by
fifteen percent. I'm not sure how to do that because I'm not I don't
think I'm going to go back to releasing more episodes. I like the once
a month thing. I'm going to try to make them better. I'm definitely
going to try to make those episodes better. So I'm not sure, but
that's a goal. I'll have to figure out how to do it. I
want, you know, I want more people listening to the pod. I
love having an audience for the pod. And you know, and since it's
we've scaled it back to only one episode a month, it's way less taxing
on me with the dms and stuff. So I would love to increase the
audience. I do have Patreon goals as well. For twenty twenty four,
I want to increase fans of the pod, people in that tier by twenty
five percent if possible. Now you know, if you're not a fan of
the pod, it's five bucks man. I had a guy who messaged me
a couple of months ago. And I'm telling this because it's lighthearted. I'm
not negative about it. But this guy sent me a message. He's like,
I can't believe you would take away the episode of the pod everyone,
why would you do that to us? Like it's like me, me,
me, me, me, you know, And so I replied and I'm
like, do you play poker? And how often do you play? And
he's like, yeah, I play every weekend. I usually play every Friday
and Saturday. Sometimes I'll miss one of those, so I'll only play like
Friday or Saturday. But i usually play every Friday and every Saturday. And
I'm like, so you're telling me that you co play one three no limit.
I'm assuming you take at least one buy and that's three hundred dollars.
And you're doing that eight times a month. You're carrying three hundred dollars down
to the program, and you think it's too much. You think it's unreasonable
to give me just five dollars, just five dollars to get every single episode
of the podcast that you've admittedly said helps your game. It helps your game,
but you want me to give it to you for free and it's not
worth five dollars to you. Well, here's my thing, Like, I've
always been a person that valued my worth, Like I'm always in the past
for fused to do things that were money related if it didn't meet the standard
of what I felt like I am worth an hour. And I would invite
you to do this in your life. You should really do this. You
should evaluate how much you're worth an hour, and you base that on what
you earn, whether it be a job or you have investments or other things,
and just come up with, you know, here's what an hour of
my time is worth financially, And so when I'm considering engaging in something that
is financial related, this is the minimum I'll accept. So I've done that
for years and years and years. I didn't apply it to the podcast because
the podcast was just I just loved it. I just loved doing it.
It was a it's a passion pursuit for me, but at some point it
comes into so much of my time it had to become financial as well as
passion, right, like, if I'm going to spend you know, I've
literally had days where I've spent three hours out of my day replying to dms
from people who listened to the free podcasts and had questions to buy hands.
I've had days back to back to back to back where I did that just
trying to catch up. Like I've spent a lot of time doing it.
So at some point I had to evaluate, Look, how much of this
do I want to continue to just be passion and do for free, and
how much do I what tipping point to go? Okay, if anything past
that I'm just not doing it unless I'm getting some kind of compensation, So
that's the reason behind it. Look, if it seems unreasonable to you,
I would invite you to start a podcast and record four high quality episodes that
help people every week and then open up your DMS to anybody that wants to
message you them and just do that all year for free and have two hundred
thousand downloads a year and see how much of your time it takes. And
if you think it's worth it, because I would submit to you, you
probably would at some point pretty quickly go, you know what, I can't
keep doing this. This is crazy. So look, I would love for
you to continue to get every single episode and become a fan of the pod,
and if you're not, you know, maybe consider it. But that's
one of my goals to increase people who are fans of the pod by twenty
five percent. I want to try to increase the middle tier by only five
percent because I don't want too many people over there. I have it capped
right, This is twenty five on Patreon, and I just keep that cap
because I want to be able to vote as much time to those people as
I can and that was the other problem. I was running into the people
listening to the podcast for free and not contributing to my life in any kind
of a way, wanting me to contribute to theirs, which I love,
not complaining about it. I offered it, I set it out there,
but they were taking up so much of my time that I couldn't devote one
hundred percent of my time to the people who are paying me on Patreon to
try to help them get better and crush one two and one three other limit.
So there had to be some compromise. But so I don't want to
increase that too much because it just can't be too many people, Like I
want to keep it cap so like I would say, that's a difference between
me and a lot of other people that offer training and coaching is like they'll
just take as many people as wants to sign up, and I'm just not
doing that. We're just keeping it capped because if I can't see a notification
on discord from a member and reply to it, for sure in the same
day, but my goal is to get to reply to it in the and
within an hour or two, which I almost always do. If I can't
continue to do that then I've got too many people, right, And if
you were asked people who remember my twenty five dollars tier in there over on
Discord when they post a hand history or a strategy question or some other kind
of question, well, it's very rare that I'm not over there answering it
within an hour, but absolute worst case scenarios same day, but usually within
an hour. And then I'm thinking about adding one more person to the one
on one tier. You know, this is people that I work with on
a one on one basis who are all crushing it. By the way,
every single person that I worked with one on one just it's absolutely crushed it
in twenty twenty three, which I was super proud of. And then overall
as far as just creating content, and this is for Patreon and the patrons
know that what I promise and what I deliver is two different things. I
was just looking back at what I the content that I put out on Patreon
over there, and it's been a video a week every single week, the
Sunday which is the fan of the pod pod, but that's for patrons as
well, that's included, and then an extra pod one day of the week
and then we just did the session series where I you know, I share
every single hand I play in every single session for like a month straight.
I mean, you know, thirty days, probably putting out fifteen somewhere between
ten and fifteen to probably twelve and fifteen pieces of content a month over there.
That's just me doing that, one guy. So I want to cut
the content back by about twenty percent, but I want to make it fifty
percent better. So for people who are members of the Patreon, you know,
I want to try to do better content for you, get better at
doing it and making it the absolute best, most concise, hard hitting,
easy understand. Just try to spend more time making it better. In all
those areas, produce less of it, but less content out, but when
the content comes out, have it just be way better. All right,
This has been a long episode, but it's different than my normal review.
My normal annual review is just how I did it poker, And since so
many different people are invested or a part of so many different aspects of my
year, whether it be the pod, the Patreon, the one on one
or just you know, the free pot or whatever, and then interest in
my poker journey personally, we excited to expand it this year. Like everything
poker related, you just got to recap on and I hope you found it
helpful. It's not strategy, but it's you get insight into how my year
was and how I'm trying to adapt and adjust to it. You got a
little insight into how the podcast works, got an insight into how the Patreon
works. And I just want to wish you just the best twenty twenty four
in your personal life and your health, your family, and in poker.
And if I can help you in any area where you're just a person who
just gets the one episode for free every month, if I can help you
and you reach out to me in the DMS, I would love to and
I will get to your DMS when I can. You can DM me on
Instagram or Facebook. Love the mccash names podcast for members of the Patreon,
or I should say fans of the pod will jump to them as well.
I thank you so much for valuing what I'm trying to pour into your life.
That's saying, you know what, that's absolutely worth five dollars. Five
dollars is a nothing burger, and it's absolutely worth five dollars. I want
to just genuinely thank you and appreciate you for helping make my life better.
You guys agreeing to be fans of the pod made my life so much better
the end of twenty twenty three, So I want to thank you and issue
the very best And then finally to the patrons who are either in the you
know, the twenty five dollars training package tier or in the one on one
tier, you guys are awesome. Like I feel like I've just developed some
poker friendships with so many of you guys, and I root for your success
and I want to be a part of your success. And just know that
I've said this a couple of times in the discord in various times, but
patrons, you have easily helped me as much as I've helped you. Just
me having to work through the hands and work through the spots and work through
the questions to try to help you. Doing that has helped me. I'm
literally the best poker player I've ever been, and the reason for that is
because of the pod and the Patreon, because I've had to get better and
to help other people get better. And so I wish you all the best
in twenty twenty four thank you so much for listening. Talked to you in
the next episode.