Started with a $1/$2nl challenge, now we're here.

is it working though? you're on pace to make less than a full time minimum wage job (~30,000). i get you value freedom but the difference in your situation and being retired is you actually need to make money to survive. if you have some big plan to make it why would you put it off for another 8 months to play 20 hours a week of 1/3?

I cd lie and say I grinded 120 hours in April and made $6k, but we all #fulltransparency over here.
I logged what I did and made what I said. This is where the thread is now. Gonna keep it real. Not here for any story line.

Gonna finish what I started. I always reset every year w new goals. Next year cd b a big pivot w everything on the line. Something is in the works.
For now, we finish the 8 months out.

+105 today.
3 wins in a row to start May, but they have all been very small.

Didn’t you already do that multiple times in the past few years yoloing everything you had (plus margin) into stocks and coins?

have you considered working on your poker game and improving your winrate? if you haven't, why not?

Yes @mastaaces just about everyday.
Either learn by doing mixed in w a little studying. Lately just trying to memorize some preflop open charts from different positions.

Here now in the poker room working on my game and always trying different things to see what’s working and what’s not.

I may b the best there ever was

what is your study process?

i hear that and doing what you say you're going to do is important but you dont really appear to be working all that hard to make it towards your (rather arbitrary) goal. if that's the case why not work towards pivoting now either instead of or in addition to playing low stakes poker 20 hours a week?

again none of this is a personal attack i just find what you're saying to be a bit odd.

when's the grand opening of the biscuitball court?

So can just about any 18 year old. You've accomplished nothing.

So can any retiree.

Perfect timing @AlphaFish. This weekend.
We played bout 10 games yesterday.
I guess I need to send an update pic here. Dude the net is so pure.

Not giving up on the 40k 1/3 quite yet. I feel the chance is still there, yet slim.
4 winning days in a row for May. All small.

Taking $3k of the roll for the wsop circuit main, wsop plo and wsop deepstack this month.
15k

It’s not really a pivot pivot planned for next year. Poker still there but taking a huge leap into self risk.

That is pretty good quality of life IMO.

Still working on it. Here’s what we got so far.

I think we still need more flower colors around the court. Mayb some rose bushes???

yet another pertinent question that's being glossed over. maybe you were too busy studying poker solver outputs to answer! #selectivetransparency

this is why i stopped trying to help long ago and instead now mostly troll. each time i've asked for more information in a HH or otherwise tried to be helpful i've been ignored (as have many others).

in the end Rayz is going to do whatever he feels like and doesn't actually give a **** about advice you all are giving him. he knows better than our collective mind because he's a genius and the best at everything he does. nobody can do what he does and achieve what he has. i say this as his #1 fan, obviously.

this man needs to do some psychedelics and achieve ego death. this is the best advice you've been given ITT fwiw.

i will be rayz mushroom shaman!

We don't see any service lines on the pickleball court!

I don't think the $40k is a challenge playing a full time schedule. I think you could clear $60k at 1/3 playing a full-time schedule. It's an artificial challenge right now because you're limiting your hours. Hollow, if you will. The 1/2 $40k challenge was better, because you were trying. This one feels like a side-effect.

I do hope your surprise venture is starting back your court creation business. That was probably the best thing you've done career wise since being semi-retired. Heck, you could probably run that, add in a couple of other services, and be fully retired in 5-10 years if your monthly nut stayed between $2500-$3000.

Thats a mighty fine looking back yard mang. I bet the kids really dig it

Still contemplating if I wanna put those lines in.
The cut joint is used for service lines. It sets perfectly 10’ from the side line right down the middle.
Which u think wd look best? More lines or less, aesthetically?

@Squidface ty. They been out there all weekend!!! Made me smile

Yeah, that looks like a great place to spend the upcoming summer. Much better than a poker room with a bunch of miserable ****s. Your wife has a good job, right? Stay at home Dad seems right up your alley. Congrats on the court looking so good. That's what you should have taken action on. I would have put some money down on it not being finished in less than a year, lol. Hopefully it gets a ton of use and your secret project is getting rich by becoming a pickleball world champ.

Damn Ray that is a stunning backyard, very well played.

I was definitely on team "no pickleball court" but that has to have added some value to the property.

Roses are too much work. Rhododendrons if they will withstand the heat, plus spring bulbs, rudbeckia, echinacea, and fall bulbs. Maybe some hostas with different patterned leaves.