Charles Hawk: First of all tell me please your motivation and everything emotion-related about starting your 2016 performance (knowing the fact about rake decrease). Was your start of the year any different than you can recollect from the past?

Alexander “Lotte Lenya” Timman: Completely uneffected by rake changes, you bringing this up is the first time I think about it

Eric “paddygo” Sullivan: Right now I am kind of feeling empty about poker so playing even less than previous years, but I am coaching and staking a few players who are doing pretty well, plus making some investments outside poker that are also going pretty well.

Charles Hawk: Tell me – in comparison with a some time ago in 2015 - about your volume/hr, fish ratio, time which you need to wait for action, (maybe hourly winnings) and every other important stat?

Alexander “Lotte Lenya” Timman: Its getting worse, actions a bit worse then last year and lots of tough reg matches. Everyone plays a lot more similar and gto style so its also become less fun.

Eric “paddygo” Sullivan: The very little I played was mostly against top regs, but as I told you before I am hardly playing. Mostly coaching and doing things outside poker.

Charles Hawk: How are you feeling after 2 months of new changes behind you? (Maybe you can share your 2016 graph?) How positive are you about your long-term future in online poker (at least 3 years)?

Alexander “Lotte Lenya” Timman: I feel like there will be money in hu hypers for me the next three years, with my income maybe dropping 15-30% per year. But I’ve done well in the last couple years so i don’t really care

Alexander “Lotte Lenya” Timman: I started doing group coaching for poker and I enjoy doing those a lot, spending some of my time on that instead of grinding. Not sure if its the best hourly but I feel like doing it and I try to follow what I feel which is also a good tip for poker: learn to trust your gut.

Eric “paddygo” Sullivan: 88 games in stars and a few games in small networks but overall breakevenish). Actually I am planning on quitting poker at all, but I feel guilty about it. It is like wasting a good spot to make money that maybe I regret on the future, but right now I feel like I am doing nothing positive with society while playing poker ( allthough I have donated some of my winnnings durings the last years), so kind of struggling with my decision.

Charles Hawk: How are you feeling energy-wise and motivation-wise? Are you grinding at the same pace as usually all those years?

Eric “paddygo” Sullivan: Grinding way less and lack of energy for poker, but have energy for all the other things. Actually I am researching to go volunteering somewhere and while researching I realize how useless I am in the eyes of society.

Charles Hawk: Such cool idea you have! Any specific areas in which you would like to volunteer? Do you want to do it in Argentina or anything else?

Eric “paddygo” Sullivan: abroad, if I do it in Argentina I am going to get easily distracted. I want to be all day into that. I would like to teach maths, English/Spanish and football to little kids.