MONTHLY UPDATE - March
Hello guys, another month is behind us, and I don't even know where to start. It feels like at least four months have passed since my last post.
Anyway, the most important thing is that I became a father. Our daughter was born 10 days before her due date on March 4th. Having a child feels like the ultimate life drug. It boosts all your emotions. I want to mention that there is also a lot of stress and fear, not just happiness and joy, as it might seem when other people talk about having kids. Not many people want to share this dark side.
For example, the day of our baby's birth was super stressful. The birth itself took 16 hours, with a lot of metal pain and obviously also crazy physical pain for my wife. So I would definitely not say it was the happiest day of my life
, it was the most important one for sure, just not the happiest. Anyway, except for a couple of small problems, we are doing great and are super excited about this journey.
Let's get to the poker stuff now. It was pretty hard to put time, focus, and energy into poker this month, but I still played 121.5 hours and spent a few tens of hours studying. I finished the Cash Injection course from Peter Clark about MDA and pool leaks, which finally boosted my red line.
Unfortunately, the overall results are pretty bad. Here is graph from whole March from 4 reg tabling on Stars
On party poker I played around 30k hands and made a small profit. Overall, I might be a little bit in plus with rakeback, but pretty much breakeven.
Since I only got around 2 times 3 hours of sleep with 30 minut break on average night, I had 0 outdoor time, 0 excercise and very bad eating habbits. I am pretty happy with my poker progress/results. I still learnt a lot of stuff and played decent volume. Also in the middle of graph I lost 24 buyins in 3days/5k hands where I literally couldn't do anything about it so I am abit blaming bad variace for my results as well but who knows... Anyway, I am so excited about April. I know that if I keep going and improve my health, I am going to crush NL25 so hard!
GOALS FOR APRIL
HEALTH GOALS
- every single morning quick run before breakfast. Could be 10-15 minutes just be outside, visualize goals, get fresh air and not waste half an hour on phone before waking up from bed.
- Do one activity per day. Usually walk or sometimes gym.
- Dont eat after dinner (3 hrs before sleep)
- Every night put on paper your daily goals for next day.
- Optimize sleep
Also I bough oura ring which is tracking device (smart ring) that tracks and analyzes sleep, activity, and other physiological metrics which gives report into overall health and being. I just got it today so I will give you feeback in my next monthly post but so far this device seems life changing.
POKER GOALS
I would like to spend 200+ hours on poker in April, with probably something like 160 hours of playing, 30 hours of coaching, and 10 hours of random stuff around poker (such as checking hands, working with GTOwizard, etc.). I definitely want to play 100k+ hands in April.
I am trying to get into Freenachos' CFP program. Some people maybe know him from the forum. We had a call, and they usually look for players from NL50+, but because of my work ethic, I might get a chance to join sooner. Getting into CFP gives me the most sense. Not just because of poker knowledge, but also for networking and getting into the poker community. It is so much harder to make it in poker when you are alone without friends you can call or discuss hands with in chat every day. I just hope I can get in to the program as soon as possible because right now playing and especialy studying I don't feel is that effective at the moment since I maight get in to the program soon and have new knowledge.
Things I recommend for this month
- Don't underestimate health
- Work on networking in poker same as on your poker raw strategy for example
- If you work 150 hours per month or even less don't think you are working hard!
Last edited by MartinVee; 03-31-2023 at 01:49 PM.