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11-29-2023
, 07:06 AM
MONTHLY UPDATE - NOVEMBER
What a month. Very happy that I was sharp with studying. Played 79 hrs and study around 80-90.
Also I was pretty consistent with my daily tasks:
Profit wasnt that good. I Was up 5-6k€ around the middle of the month. Was even thinking its possible to hit 10k but than I started loosing alot on nl200. End up pretty much break even but no big deal, thats poker. Imporvement is way more important than monthly profit results
Overall profit 530€ and 53k hands
Finally have really good daily schedule which I can stick most of the days.
I am right now focusing pretty much only to study resilient lines lvl 2 which change my game significantly and I'm enjoying the progress so far.
(In Nachos CFP we have this thing called "Resilient lines" which is strategy for all betting turn options and some flop nodes (stabs + raises). Overall 24 nodes. Where Patrick give us % of betting/checking on different textures (usually 4-6) with each strenght class category (around 12). So overall its over 1000 numbers. I think Patrick would not mind if I would share one example of 2barr OOP 3BP on broadway overcard turn)
Goal is not playing GTO or something. But more like having reasonable range structure. For example if you 2barrel all strong hands and draw in OOP 3BP your checking range become very weak and many midstakes regs would eat you here alive whenever you check. So its very important to miss 2barrel with 40% of your 2pair+ hands.
When I first saw Patrick added this modul I was like "yeah, no way I will ever study this" But I gave it a shot by adding resilient line just for stabs OTF SRP+3BP and I realize its doable. Especially when you have effective study methods.
I study them in anki which is usually 30-50 flash cards every day. Than I drill 20 hands in each node in GTOw wtih rng number on. After that I check 20+bb spots where I also focus on resilient lines. On the top of that I focus to this obviously during game as well which helps alot.
I am slowly adding new once every 4-5 days. Should learn all of them in max 3 months.
Quick tip at the end:
Today I have a mindset tip that helped me get through tough times, and its PERSPECTIVE
Poker can be challenging on your mindset but when you compare it to others competitive areas like sport for example you will realize how relatively ****ing easy poker is.
Let me tell you little story. I was playing professionally table tennis. Started at 6-7 years old. Since 8 I was training 5 times a week. By the time I was 13, I moved to Prague from small city without parents to one of the best ping pong centers in Czech. Since than we practice 6 times per 5 weekdays and during weekend we had league or tournaments (we usually had 1 free weekend per month!). When I was 18 I was in the top 5-8 in Czech youth categories and around top 80-100 in the adult category. Meaning I could play league in Germany for like 600-800€ per month. (I could not even play for money in Czech!)
Long story short, after 10 years of practicing pretty much every day, with one of the best coaches and players in my state, thousands of € spent by my parents. I was able to make just half of avg income in my state!
Its very similar in others sport and most of businesses etc.
Can you imagine this in poker?! That you would work hard for 10 years for 0$, spent thousands for coachings and than after all that you will make under avg income?
Yet people in poker are complaining they are not making 5-10k$ every month after 1-2 years in poker.... (Me included sometimes)
So I hope this story will helped you see the whole PERSPECTIVE in though times and you will start measuring your progress and results in years, not months or even weeks.
What a month. Very happy that I was sharp with studying. Played 79 hrs and study around 80-90.
Also I was pretty consistent with my daily tasks:
Profit wasnt that good. I Was up 5-6k€ around the middle of the month. Was even thinking its possible to hit 10k but than I started loosing alot on nl200. End up pretty much break even but no big deal, thats poker. Imporvement is way more important than monthly profit results
Overall profit 530€ and 53k hands
Finally have really good daily schedule which I can stick most of the days.
I am right now focusing pretty much only to study resilient lines lvl 2 which change my game significantly and I'm enjoying the progress so far.
(In Nachos CFP we have this thing called "Resilient lines" which is strategy for all betting turn options and some flop nodes (stabs + raises). Overall 24 nodes. Where Patrick give us % of betting/checking on different textures (usually 4-6) with each strenght class category (around 12). So overall its over 1000 numbers. I think Patrick would not mind if I would share one example of 2barr OOP 3BP on broadway overcard turn)
Goal is not playing GTO or something. But more like having reasonable range structure. For example if you 2barrel all strong hands and draw in OOP 3BP your checking range become very weak and many midstakes regs would eat you here alive whenever you check. So its very important to miss 2barrel with 40% of your 2pair+ hands.
When I first saw Patrick added this modul I was like "yeah, no way I will ever study this" But I gave it a shot by adding resilient line just for stabs OTF SRP+3BP and I realize its doable. Especially when you have effective study methods.
I study them in anki which is usually 30-50 flash cards every day. Than I drill 20 hands in each node in GTOw wtih rng number on. After that I check 20+bb spots where I also focus on resilient lines. On the top of that I focus to this obviously during game as well which helps alot.
I am slowly adding new once every 4-5 days. Should learn all of them in max 3 months.
Quick tip at the end:
Today I have a mindset tip that helped me get through tough times, and its PERSPECTIVE
Poker can be challenging on your mindset but when you compare it to others competitive areas like sport for example you will realize how relatively ****ing easy poker is.
Let me tell you little story. I was playing professionally table tennis. Started at 6-7 years old. Since 8 I was training 5 times a week. By the time I was 13, I moved to Prague from small city without parents to one of the best ping pong centers in Czech. Since than we practice 6 times per 5 weekdays and during weekend we had league or tournaments (we usually had 1 free weekend per month!). When I was 18 I was in the top 5-8 in Czech youth categories and around top 80-100 in the adult category. Meaning I could play league in Germany for like 600-800€ per month. (I could not even play for money in Czech!)
Long story short, after 10 years of practicing pretty much every day, with one of the best coaches and players in my state, thousands of € spent by my parents. I was able to make just half of avg income in my state!
Its very similar in others sport and most of businesses etc.
Can you imagine this in poker?! That you would work hard for 10 years for 0$, spent thousands for coachings and than after all that you will make under avg income?
Yet people in poker are complaining they are not making 5-10k$ every month after 1-2 years in poker.... (Me included sometimes)
So I hope this story will helped you see the whole PERSPECTIVE in though times and you will start measuring your progress and results in years, not months or even weeks.
11-30-2023
, 06:54 AM
01-01-2024
, 09:03 AM
MONTHLY UPDATE - DECEMBER
What a crazy month! It was the most profitable one by far, although I have to admit that hot run tricked me and I wasnt that sharp with studying, making it probably the worst month in terms of improvement. During first 12 days of the month I didnt have single losing day. The next 10 days were around BE, followed by Christmas where I took full break from poker for entire week. It was the first time I took a longer break from poker than one day since May (when I joined Nachos CFP) so that was nice refresh.
Overall profit 11.705€ and 49k hands. Played 81hrs and study around ∼40-60hrs
I can share some graph from December although I dont have HHs form my second site where I made half of my profit.
+2.5K€ from rb
At first I want to say I am aware it was mostly, if not entirely just good run. Until I have like 200-300k hands on nl200 I dont know much about my real winrate. So in January I want to be back in 50:50 study:grind ratio and finally finish resilient lines module from Nachos I spoke in the last post..
Also want to mentioned that I played on EPT in Prague. Was interesting experience to play live poker. I played mostly 5/10€ (with 50% action sold). On my table one recreational drank 7 drinks and lost 2 times 5k€ in 3-4 hours. That was pretty wild. I played just for one day tho. Rake there was brutal. 5% with 30€ cap. I think this could translate to a loss of about 15-20bb from my win rate. Considering you play 25 hands per hour instead of 600 which I play online. I think online poker has like 3 times bigger EV for me unless I would have crazy fish, play very deep on 5/10€ and have 100% of my action. Still its was very nice experience and I plan to play live poker more in the future.
Life outside of poker
I am always trying to balance wealth (poker), social life (family, friends) and health. However I didnt do good job with health in most of 2023. My habits have been incredibly poor, with no exercising at all. I still weight around 83kg but feels like i gained 5kg of fat and lost 5kg of muscles in last two months. On the top of that my sleep is very bad. I am sending report from my Oura of each month in 2023 of my avg sleep below. 6.5 hrs would not be so bad but there are always like 3-4 random wake ups every single night because child scream which destroy my sleep hygiene. Hopefully it will get better soon. Bad health habits make everything more difficult.
Quick tip at the end:
Routine
I have tip from book called The Grit which Patrick recommended.
I think most of you know about importance of deliberate practice which is main point of the book. However there was one more super important thing as well and its how to implement consistency in deliberate practice. Answer to this is Routine '
If you have to do something difficult and unpleasant on daily bases sooner or later you will lose motivation and stop doing that. Only one option how to be consistent in that is create Routine. So do certain thing at certain time in certain place every single day. You will not even realize that you have started with that thing. You just do it.
For example every day I start with studying my anki flash cards than GTO wizard drills than HHs review of 15bb+ spots. I don't even think about my will if I want to do it or not. I just do it
See you in the next month and Stay hard in 2024!
What a crazy month! It was the most profitable one by far, although I have to admit that hot run tricked me and I wasnt that sharp with studying, making it probably the worst month in terms of improvement. During first 12 days of the month I didnt have single losing day. The next 10 days were around BE, followed by Christmas where I took full break from poker for entire week. It was the first time I took a longer break from poker than one day since May (when I joined Nachos CFP) so that was nice refresh.
Overall profit 11.705€ and 49k hands. Played 81hrs and study around ∼40-60hrs
I can share some graph from December although I dont have HHs form my second site where I made half of my profit.
+2.5K€ from rb
At first I want to say I am aware it was mostly, if not entirely just good run. Until I have like 200-300k hands on nl200 I dont know much about my real winrate. So in January I want to be back in 50:50 study:grind ratio and finally finish resilient lines module from Nachos I spoke in the last post..
Also want to mentioned that I played on EPT in Prague. Was interesting experience to play live poker. I played mostly 5/10€ (with 50% action sold). On my table one recreational drank 7 drinks and lost 2 times 5k€ in 3-4 hours. That was pretty wild. I played just for one day tho. Rake there was brutal. 5% with 30€ cap. I think this could translate to a loss of about 15-20bb from my win rate. Considering you play 25 hands per hour instead of 600 which I play online. I think online poker has like 3 times bigger EV for me unless I would have crazy fish, play very deep on 5/10€ and have 100% of my action. Still its was very nice experience and I plan to play live poker more in the future.
Life outside of poker
I am always trying to balance wealth (poker), social life (family, friends) and health. However I didnt do good job with health in most of 2023. My habits have been incredibly poor, with no exercising at all. I still weight around 83kg but feels like i gained 5kg of fat and lost 5kg of muscles in last two months. On the top of that my sleep is very bad. I am sending report from my Oura of each month in 2023 of my avg sleep below. 6.5 hrs would not be so bad but there are always like 3-4 random wake ups every single night because child scream which destroy my sleep hygiene. Hopefully it will get better soon. Bad health habits make everything more difficult.
Quick tip at the end:
Routine
I have tip from book called The Grit which Patrick recommended.
I think most of you know about importance of deliberate practice which is main point of the book. However there was one more super important thing as well and its how to implement consistency in deliberate practice. Answer to this is Routine '
If you have to do something difficult and unpleasant on daily bases sooner or later you will lose motivation and stop doing that. Only one option how to be consistent in that is create Routine. So do certain thing at certain time in certain place every single day. You will not even realize that you have started with that thing. You just do it.
For example every day I start with studying my anki flash cards than GTO wizard drills than HHs review of 15bb+ spots. I don't even think about my will if I want to do it or not. I just do it
See you in the next month and Stay hard in 2024!