Hey guys,
I did not update almost two weeks. Reason being that 2-12.8 I took vacation in Italy with my girlfriend. We traveled to Venice, Milan, Piso, Rome. It was nice however I think I have enough of churces and cathedrals for a long time. I have realised that these type of vacation, which are kind of passive sightseeing, just going from monument to monument are not my type of vacation. It is okay for few days but ten days I growed a bit tired of that. I prefer my vacation which are more in nature, which are more active like hiking, or some fun activities like riding sandboard, flight in helicopter, skydiving, scu badiving etc. Usually every vacation I take there are some activities. Just this time it was really purely sightseeing. Also I am not christian and I donīt really understand architecture to appreciate the building. However for a few days it is okay to see the churces, castles. Also the pizza, pasta and wine were really awesome.
I had a goal on this year to learn some new language. In the beginning of the year I though about chinesse, Lately I was considering japan even though I have never been in that country I know quite a lot japanesse and I am interested in that culture. However with my girlfriend we have a common goal to learn Italian after she speaks fluently english. So when we arrived to Italy, I started writing down some basic phrases and I also bought english-italian dictionary with some basic phrases for travelling. I learnt each day few of them and was trying to speak Italian whenever possible. In restaurant, on train station etc. It was fun to learn some basic and being able to understand (not always) what people respond to me. The words are similar to spanish and the grammar looks also similar. I was delaying the whole year to learn another language because I thought that I should be perfect in spanish. However my spanish is already pretty good. I am missing to learn like three tenses and in each language there is always something to learn. So now when I learnt some Italian I want to continue with that. Get to level where I can have 30 minute conversation with native speaker and then get back to spanish and get in on the level of my english. Getting spanish on level of my english is important for the relationship with my girlfriend. I wanna be able to express anything and have it same impact as if I tell it in english or czech.
In my posts when I started this blog. I praised this method for learning language.
https://fluent-forever.com/book/
It is really effective method and fun. Also this guy recently created app which makes everything much faster. There still some missing features but I really like it. I have it as aapp on my phone. Normally creating one flash card in anki would take me may be 10 minutes. Here it can take 30 seconds but the effect is same + he explains how to pronounce in each language different vowels and consonant. so I donīt have to search through google to see how to pronounce them. So it wonīt take that much effort for me to study every day 20 or 30 minutes. Since there is not that much effort and I can just do it on my phone, so I can lie down on a coach, relax and learn new language. I think I could get on same level of Italian like spanish in 3 months. Since my friend who is french told me that he learnt fluently spanish in 3 months, because the grammar is same in spanish like in french. Italian is also super similar to spanish and with this effective method I believe I can get there in 3 months. So will see. May be somebody here who speaks Italian and spanish or french can tell me their experience.
Overal it was good vacation. I took time off poker and I am glad I learnt a bit some new skill (italian).
So now about poker. The result oriented last month was not good. It was my worst month since I started 6max under coaching. However I have not played as many hands. I put lots of hours into studying. So even though my results were bad I know my value as a player increased. I know results always lag behind increasing value and I know I am on the right track. so I feel good about my previous month. overal I was down -961 usd on nl100 6max.
Last month I studied a lot. so this month I will play more and study a bit less. Also one of the mistakes i made last month, was that monday to wednesday i was mostly studying. Than may be thursday I took a day off and my plan was to grind a lot friday to sunday. However I find it difficult in 6max to play like 10 or 12 hours a day. It is possible with bumhunting heads up. However with 6max where I need to focus a lot it is a bit hard. So this month I will play every day at least 6 hours, lets say friday – sunday I can do a bit more and than study lets say 1-3 hours a day.
my goals on july were:
Post 140 hands on discord –
done
Play 100 000k hands –
fail
Keep track of hands and hours of play –
fail
Run sims for these spots
Sb vs bb 3b pot 2 sizings 10 boards finish the once that I have not finished –
done
Bb vs bt srp versus big sizing 10 boards finish the once that I have not finished –
done
Sb vs bb how cb different turns – 10 boards finish the once that I have not finished –
done
Run donkbetting – 10 boards –
done
UTG vs BB srp 10 boards how to defend versus big and small sizing –
done
Utg vs sb 3b pot – 10 boards –
fail
Co vs sb 3b pot – 10 boards –
fail
Rewatch every my coaching video –
fail ( I rewatch I think two and two I did not)
Rewatch at least 4 others people coaching videos –
fail ( I rewatched two)
Have 4 sweating session (either I watch somebody or somebody watch me) –
fail
Run database analyses –
done
So I achieved lots of the goals however some of them not. I did not play as many hands. I think for this month i will more set up goals to be hours oriented than hands oriented. Since sometimes I need to focus on some new concept so I need to play less tables. I do not want to play lots of hands just to achieve my goals if I know that sometimes it is better to play less tables.
I did not keep track of hands and hours played. That was a mistakes I kind of did not do it for a few days and than I lost track how much I played. However it is important that this month after each session I write down how many hours and hands I played.
i did lots of work in pio. I ran some other spots which are not here also because sometimes I post hand on discord and I am not sure about the hand so I run it in pio. Only two spots I did not have time to run them but they were the least importance t to me.
I did not rewatch all my coaching videos this month only like a half. This is something that I need to do this month. Rewatch the coaching session that week. When I see my coaching video second time I always see some new stuff.
I did not have any sweat session. I wanted but we kind of did not get together with guys. I want to change this month at least once a week even if it is just 30 minutes watch someone to play or let somebody watch me play.
Goals on month August
Post 70 hands on discord
Play 90 hours
Run new database analyses
Rewatch every coaching session that I have that week
Have two sweating session
Rewatch at least two coaching videos of other people
Run in pio
Co vs sb 3b pot vs big sizing 7 boards
Co vs sb 3 pot vs small sizing 7 boards
Get up everyday except if I have a free day between 6-7 a.m
Do meditation every morning
Go to gym twice a week
GO to kickbox twice a week
Do breathing exercise once a day
Come up with at least one new breathing technique
Use NLP to have anchored 5 emotional states
Finish course By Steven Kotler – the habbit of ferocity
Goals on 14-18.8
I have goals from tomorrow. Since today is more organizing day and creating goals on August
Play 30 hours
Post 24 hands on discord
Run new database analyses
Rewatch coaching video of someone else
Have sweating session
Get up every day between 6-7 a.m.
Go to kickbox once
Go to gym twice
Meditate in the morning
reanchor two emotional states using nlp
Watch at least 3 videos from Steven Kotler habbit of ferocity