Thnx bud, Nice to hear support


Well it is difficult to do som serious heart training with MTB. For such things I would like to have road bike, but roads and drivers attitude towards cyclists is not best here. So I don't know, I don't know... But I always consider my heart rate and sometimes I make special days when I try to keep it at certain zones. But nothing serious. I am amateur cyclist.

There is no mountains in Lithuania, but I live in Vilnius and it is city on the hills, so I guess over my average exercise I ride something like 250 vertical meters (Elevaition gain). If it is not some special trip I will just ride in the city. But our city is surrounded by forests, has forests and parks itself, so depending on the mood it can be paved or unpaved road. Mostly I do mix.

I am not folding here. So nomatter what will happen I Just can't Unless I have some reads. And that is the problem - I should have been betting this flop, because all hands that he can bluff are not going to fold anyway and with AQ or AK he can try to check it down. So overall I am just giving him chance to realize his equity and trying to complciate everything on later streets.

K, today decided to skip grind and do my accounting stuff. However Didn't do this but skipped my powernap so decided that I will not have enough of energy to perform well. And Thursday is best day to take break before weekend grind (games are juicier).

So at evening I enjoyed NighCrawler movie



Jake Gylenhaals performance was great! I recommend it.

Today I was watching some tutorials on some bike tricks and no matter what kind of new habit we try to develop rules are very same-

* pay attention concentrate on just one task
* do it slow, until you master it
* repeat and beat it to unconscious competence level.

But in poker I fail doing this. If I spot some leak my routine will look like that:

Gather knowledge how to fix this leak (quite often I fail to some level at this step!)
Go over hands corresponding that leak and review those, write mental or even actual note how to fix it.

And then I go to grind... I grind up to 1000 hands per hour (or even more) and obviously one one can concentrate so well at such pace on some very particular task. So despite yourself being able to concentrate on this at the start, you quickly waste your energy and slip back to autopiloting. And that means- doing same mistakes, repeating same leaks. And you know- now you are reestablishing your old habits and making your leaks even stronger!!!

I think it is impossible to fix leaks and learn new techniques with good study away from tables, but bad grinding habits. So I need to develop some grind routines designed to beat study topics to unconscious competence level!!!

It is 3 in the morning and I didn't take my powernap. So feel that I can;t concentrate- wouldn;t be surprised that this text is awful! So as compensation here is a video to illustrate that there is nothing impossible!



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1rnwc1AtZ4

Nice thread, mate.

Good luck!

Amazing

at 1st I felt the same way about the HR doing mtb, I started running and then picked mtb, and it was always hard to keep it at certain levels, especially because when youre going down hr is gonna go down, but with a bit of getting use to it, ull have no problem managing it a bit more. Specially cause it seems youre doing great volume so with a bit of that your performance will sky rocket. Im no expert but Ive been training on and off(right now off) with a cardiologist whos trained by an olympic* coach, so ive gotten some great pointers to improve endurance training anyways as long as youre going out youll improve and thats the main thing



cool cool, its obviously very vill dependent but Ill play it with a cb most of the time too, turn its interesting if we should barrel small again, perceiving* as going for 3 streets or x and bluff catch some rivers?

Thnx!

It is 4bet pot and I hardly see how there could be two small bets without All In

If I would decide to xback turn or something I don't see how could I get called by worse hand there. I expect there to be all in if opponent will decide to put money in.


OK, so today I found that I still lack motivation to work on the game and decided to kick my own ass. It always motivates me to have some HH discussion so I quckly message couple of guys from my old Skype group. I just want to review some random someone else hands and those helped me with it.

Discussion was interesting and I found that half of the time I didn't know which line is better.

Lets say CO opens and you 3bet him from BTN with AQ
he calls. He is reg who does that more often than others.

So now 449dd comes and he checks to you.

So what line is better? Cbet or check and play, try to bluffcatch.

There is a lot of reasons for cbetting and there is a lot of reasons to check. But I find that QUite often I don't know exact answer and I will decide based on my mental state, grind rythm and based on quick opponent evaluation.

However if I would be trying to explain those things to student, then there would be a problem. Because arguments for both options looks solid and if you will say both options are good- it doesn't sound serious, also on downswing you will start questioning your own plays.


At evening my power nap wasn't very good, kids woke up me earlier than my 35 min timer rang, so when I decided to grind a session I felt that I do not have enough of energy to concentrate. So I decided that today is best to play 200 zoom + reg tables (avoid 500z).

And looking back how I played in this session it was good decision! My concentration was really bad, I was autopiloting entire session and clicking buttons more or less.

I didn't tilt, but my aggression levels was higher, I was taking more adventurous lines

Last hour I really didn't want to play, but I pushed harder, because it is quite likely that I will skip tomorrow.



Opponent should be confused after this play:

PokerStars - $2 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BTN: 99.7 BB
Hero (SB): 107.8 BB
BB: 109.25 BB
UTG: 103.77 BB
MP: 301.28 BB
CO: 101.58 BB

Hero posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has A A

UTG raises to 2.43 BB, fold, fold, fold, Hero raises to 9 BB, fold, UTG raises to 19 BB, Hero calls 10 BB

Flop: (39 BB, 2 players) 3 4 J
Hero checks, UTG bets 13.91 BB, Hero calls 13.91 BB

Turn: (66.82 BB, 2 players) 7
Hero checks, UTG bets 24.21 BB, Hero calls 24.21 BB

River: (115.23 BB, 2 players) 5
Hero bets 50.69 BB and is all-in, UTG calls 46.65 BB and is all-in



How bad my image is ? :|||||||||

PokerStars - $4 NL (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

UTG: 100 BB
MP: 100 BB
CO: 58.82 BB
BTN: 100 BB
Hero (SB): 107.44 BB
BB: 104.89 BB

Hero posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has K K

fold, MP raises to 3 BB, fold, fold, Hero raises to 10 BB, fold, MP calls 7 BB

Flop: (21 BB, 2 players) 7 2 T
Hero bets 12 BB, MP calls 12 BB

Turn: (45 BB, 2 players) 8
Hero bets 21 BB, MP calls 21 BB

River: (87 BB, 2 players) 4
Hero bets 64.44 BB and is all-in, MP calls 57 BB and is all-in



At the end I felt badish because being breakeven and was telling myself - ok, give me few more euros and I will instantly leave!
And then got donked for nice amount on the flop!
PokerStars - $2 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

Hero (BTN): 349.84 BB
SB: 100 BB
BB: 177.78 BB
UTG: 115.06 BB
MP: 100.5 BB
CO: 121.31 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has T T

UTG raises to 3 BB, fold, CO calls 3 BB, Hero raises to 10 BB, SB calls 9.5 BB, fold, UTG calls 7 BB, CO calls 7 BB

Flop: (41 BB, 4 players) 9 T 3
SB bets 39.6 BB, UTG raises to 105.06 BB and is all-in, fold, Hero raises to 220.02 BB, SB calls 50.4 BB and is all-in

Turn: (341.12 BB, 3 players) 3

River: (341.12 BB, 3 players) 6

Today session was really tough.
Before meeting as warm up decided to listen motivational videos and get some fresh air. After doing that I started to feel a little bit more concentrated, having more energy, however still felt pretty fked up so decided to grind NLZ200.

Start was good, however my ability to concentrate was very bad, I was autopiloting. Later lost two close to 200bb stacks and I guess that contributed to my tilt level, even If I didn't feel it. Suddenly I started showing and spewing, and result was bottom in the graph. I felt bad, couldn't concentrate, had minor headache and was totally playing -EV game, but decided to stay- couldn't end in red, especially when there was recreational at 5/10. So tilt went away, but all other negative feelings was there. And I was able to finish in green, even while playing C- Game! And end of the session, recovery was pretty stable!



Most fked up hand. I guess I didn't play in such bad way, with no reason for any street., like in this hand:

PokerStars - $10 NL (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BTN: 100 BB
SB: 109.45 BB
BB: 200.25 BB
UTG: 132.15 BB
Hero (MP): 135.71 BB
CO: 121.4 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has T Q

fold, Hero raises to 3 BB, fold, BTN calls 3 BB, fold, fold

Flop: (7.5 BB, 2 players) 3 6 8
Hero checks, BTN bets 3.6 BB, Hero raises to 10.1 BB, BTN calls 6.5 BB

Turn: (27.7 BB, 2 players) 2
Hero bets 20 BB, BTN calls 20 BB

River: (67.7 BB, 2 players) 5
Hero bets 67.4 BB, BTN calls 66.9 BB and is all-in



Run It twice allows to reduce variance! 0.25*0.25 = 6.25%

PokerStars - $2 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

Hero (BTN): 146.01 BB
SB: 31.66 BB
BB: 102.63 BB
UTG: 308.29 BB
MP: 211.58 BB
CO: 112.79 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has 3 A

fold, fold, fold, Hero raises to 2.48 BB, fold, BB raises to 9 BB, Hero calls 6.52 BB

Flop: (18.5 BB, 2 players) 7 2 3
BB checks, Hero bets 9 BB, BB raises to 27.19 BB, Hero calls 18.19 BB

Turn: (72.88 BB, 2 players) 9
BB bets 66.44 BB and is all-in, Hero calls 66.44 BB

River: (205.75 BB, 2 players) J
Players agreed to run it twice.

River #2: (205.75 BB, 2 players) A



It happened not that long time after showing with QTo hand, I was looking for recover and it was so sweet to flop set there! Sorry guys, but I was not able to resist and I slowplayed him on the river ;(

PokerStars - $10 NL (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

UTG: 217.45 BB
MP: 213.78 BB
CO: 98.11 BB
BTN: 100 BB
Hero (SB): 109.24 BB
BB: 166.62 BB

Hero posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has 9 9

fold, MP raises to 3 BB, CO calls 3 BB, fold, Hero calls 2.5 BB, BB raises to 17 BB, fold, fold, Hero calls 14 BB

Flop: (40 BB, 2 players) J 3 9
Hero checks, BB bets 15.5 BB, Hero calls 15.5 BB

Turn: (71 BB, 2 players) 9
Hero checks, BB bets 21 BB, Hero calls 21 BB

River: (113 BB, 2 players) 2
Hero checks, BB bets 113.12 BB and is all-in, Hero calls 55.74 BB and is all-in



It is so cool to hit your gutshot in 4 bet pot, when you are desperate!

PokerStars - $2 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

Hero (BTN): 100 BB
SB: 103 BB
BB: 112.93 BB
UTG: 128.4 BB
MP: 143.77 BB
CO: 131.64 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has 6 5

fold, fold, CO raises to 2.37 BB, Hero raises to 8 BB, fold, fold, CO raises to 19 BB, Hero calls 11 BB

Flop: (39.5 BB, 2 players) 4 4 2
CO bets 14.69 BB, Hero calls 14.69 BB

Turn: (68.88 BB, 2 players) 3
CO bets 23.2 BB, Hero raises to 66.31 BB and is all-in, CO calls 43.12 BB

River: (201.5 BB, 2 players) 7



Early session while was playing OK. His shove Expected and didn't cause any troubles.

PokerStars - $10 NL (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

CO: 100 BB
BTN: 100 BB
SB: 65 BB
BB: 100 BB
Hero (UTG): 115.2 BB
MP: 100 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has K K

Hero raises to 3 BB, fold, fold, fold, fold, BB calls 2 BB

Flop: (6.5 BB, 2 players) 2 3 4
BB checks, Hero bets 4.66 BB, BB calls 4.66 BB

Turn: (15.81 BB, 2 players) 9
BB checks, Hero bets 11.63 BB, BB calls 11.63 BB

River: (39.08 BB, 2 players) T
BB checks, Hero bets 25 BB, BB raises to 80.71 BB and is all-in, Hero calls 55.71 BB



I still think that it is not too thin vb, even after such fked up line.

PokerStars - $2 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

Hero (BTN): 222.01 BB
SB: 100 BB
BB: 104.71 BB
UTG: 223.21 BB
MP: 128.53 BB
CO: 211.07 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has Q K

UTG raises to 3 BB, fold, CO calls 3 BB, Hero raises to 12 BB, fold, fold, fold, CO calls 9 BB

Flop: (28.5 BB, 2 players) 9 T J
CO checks, Hero bets 15 BB, CO calls 15 BB

Turn: (58.5 BB, 2 players) 9
CO checks, Hero bets 30 BB, CO raises to 60 BB, Hero calls 30 BB

River: (178.5 BB, 2 players) 5
CO bets 1 BB, Hero raises to 135.01 BB and is all-in, CO calls 123.07 BB and is all-in



VS very aggro player. Good for him:

PokerStars - $2 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BTN: 172.16 BB
SB: 100 BB
BB: 112.87 BB
Hero (UTG): 388.91 BB
MP: 104 BB
CO: 166.65 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has Q Q

Hero raises to 2.48 BB, fold, fold, BTN raises to 8 BB, fold, fold, Hero raises to 21 BB, BTN calls 13 BB

Flop: (43.5 BB, 2 players) 7 2 7
Hero checks, BTN bets 22.73 BB, Hero calls 22.73 BB

Turn: (88.96 BB, 2 players) 3
Hero checks, BTN bets 36.4 BB, Hero calls 36.4 BB

River: (161.76 BB, 2 players) 5
Hero checks, BTN bets 92.03 BB and is all-in, Hero calls 92.03 BB

I got a lot of things to be excited about!
I love photography so I was very excited to hear, that finally Lightroom 6(Software that I use for sorting and editing) was released! Also there is a trip to Georgia, where group of photographic enthusiasts are going. There will be a lot of fun and also shooting practice.


But I decided to skip this trips, because I decided to have some other trips. Me and my 5 years old daughter (just two of us) are going for two day kayaking trip and after that we will have a trip to Slovakia. We will do hiking, going to caves, visiting places, maybe even sleeping in tents. And that will be for entire week! I can't await for those trips!

Work away from tables increased. I had nice mindset and strategy meetings. On Mindset meeting I realized that I am very week at setting and achieving goals (90% fail rate), also remember how nice is to do reflections at evening, when you go over list of what you did today and how you could do that better. I learned that from Shinzhelfish (free videos on pokerstrategy). And I think I need to rewatch some of those. Nice thing about those is that those are not very energy consuming and I love psychology, so it will be easy for me to do, while cooking or playing carcasone with kids.

Also I was optimizing my PT4 HUD, added some stats, moved some from popup to HUD. Inspired on that I talked for a hour about stats with other strategy group member. So after I will finish this post I will go and fine tune my HUD again, maybe make some custom popups.

Right now I am doing database maintenance, will be doing some statistical analysis, so I am not able to get any graphs or hands right now. But two last days I played 500 zoom. First day it was OK, but I was breakeven, but yesterday it was much worse. I most of flips, but even without it I played bad and I felt that I suck at the game. Still couldn't leave because I was chasing loses. So finally I quit at -3,2k €.

I need to work on 500. At the same time I was playing 3 NLZ 200 and 2x 500 but I felt very big difference how games are played. I need to figure out some answers before coming back there.

One very nice thing that I found was that when I started to tilt, I quit playing 500z and went playing to 200z. It is a good thing if you don't want to quit session and it helps to calm down, put hands.

So my goal for future should be exclusive 500z hand review, running and comparing statistical field analysis both zoom limits that I play.

And one of my favorite motivational videos, that I listed very often:

Very quick update.
yesterday overdosed Mate tea :| The effect was like bad feeling after coffee, however it lasted entire day. So skipped yesterday.

Today was very nice weather so spent almost entire day outside. I expected to be in very good playing condition after that (a lot of fresh air- food for brain) But somehow I was completely unable to concentrate even for single moment. So forced myself to play, but finally quit because couldn't think at all.

Even not going to recheck my hands (shame on me).

So week started pretty well grind wise, however ended very poor. I guess result is ~10k hands.
And graph from today:


(200z) + 2/4-5/10 reg

I think I've seen studies about yerba mate being unhealthy, maybe worth looking it up.

Does c-betting becomes more profitable when CO calls 3b wider?

Problem about "scientific" researches that about almost everything there is a lot of studies what showed positive and negative effects. For examples:
yearb mate, coffee, chocolate, tea, wine etc etc.

But yeah- I have seen that some site tells about some cancer chance.

yes, because it is more likely to extract additional bet on the flop (from hands like AJ) than on later streets. However People who would have such hands and would float wider, then would be more likely to be bluffing more with even hands that would be folding to our cbet. So in this case wouldn't be surprised that vs fighting guys it could be more value from checkback.

Also our value by cbetting comes from ability to bluff some other cards, controling pot size, denying his equity and similar stuff, but that is quite difficult to calculate, because calling after check has multiple benefits too.

Today I took my kids to ballet. Because of that I was forced to wake up very early (10
:20 AM) and lacked energy entire day. So me and my kids found very same thing about balley- it is borring! From myself I will also add that it is very simiarl to ancient ruins- if you seen one ruin place- you've seen all of them! ( I've been in egyp ruined temples, Heliopolis in turkey, Pammukale and knossos palace in crete). So I decided that I am not going to visit ruins anymore- instea I will go to scenic places, churches, some architecture heritage places- but all places that exist and and could be seen! Very same about ballet- maybe it is ok to visit it once in 5 year, but I will rather go to teathers and other places. :|

After that me and my friend decided to play some billiards.Well this time it was snooker and I finally came to conclusion that snooker on eurosport is much more easy and enjoyable than in reality :| I don't like to play game for 30 minutes!

At evening played some 200zoom and regular tables. Start was quite tilty- wife tilted me a bit, all emotions in the day added up and finally even stars crashed for 3 times. All those nice things was fallowed by pretty bad luck (visible and invisible). I was not just losing flips but also having bunch of setups. So even despite the fact that entire session I was Up BI wise, I was chasing for currency loses.

At the very end I even did some very desperate and expensive bluffs. Luckily those worked well.

But then something changed (Maybe stars RNG started new day) and quickly in 200 hands I recovered and won some money for my kids food:



I felt soooo good that even took one screen shot for you guys!



Pretty wild recreational player. At the start he ran very well. When I saw this river it was fuuuuuuuuuuu :| :

PokerStars - $10 NL (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

SB: 100 BB
BB: 100 BB
UTG: 245.48 BB
MP: 129.45 BB
CO: 139.54 BB
Hero (BTN): 199.05 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has 5 7

UTG calls 1 BB, fold, fold, Hero raises to 3 BB, SB calls 2.5 BB, fold, UTG raises to 13 BB, Hero calls 10 BB, SB calls 10 BB

Flop: (40 BB, 3 players) 9 2 8
SB checks, UTG bets 20 BB, Hero calls 20 BB, fold

Turn: (80 BB, 2 players) 6
UTG bets 20 BB, Hero calls 20 BB

River: (120 BB, 2 players) A
UTG bets 31 BB, Hero calls 31 BB



Very same guy. I bet he was pretty tilted, because I made some very thing and also lucky bluffcatches vs him. On this river I even for second I considered to check it back- pretty bad sign of being scared money:

PokerStars - $10 NL (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

CO: 102.3 BB
BTN: 100 BB
SB: 168.38 BB
BB: 125.85 BB
UTG: 138.04 BB
Hero (MP): 341.45 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has T Q

fold, Hero raises to 2.48 BB, fold, fold, SB calls 1.98 BB, fold

Flop: (5.96 BB, 2 players) 4 9 J
SB checks, Hero bets 4.27 BB, SB raises to 8.54 BB, Hero calls 4.27 BB

Turn: (23.04 BB, 2 players) 8
SB bets 23 BB, Hero raises to 80 BB, SB calls 57 BB

River: (183.04 BB, 2 players) 3
SB checks, Hero bets 182.74 BB, SB calls 77.36 BB and is all-in



Nice to hit straight on the river, at deep stacked game!
PokerStars - $2 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BTN: 100 BB
SB: 42.69 BB
Hero (BB): 163.69 BB
UTG: 223.34 BB
MP: 126.49 BB
CO: 111.5 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, Hero posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has 8 9

UTG calls 1 BB, fold, fold, fold, fold, Hero raises to 4 BB, UTG raises to 13 BB, Hero calls 9 BB

Flop: (26.5 BB, 2 players) 9 K T
Hero checks, UTG bets 14 BB, Hero calls 14 BB

Turn: (54.5 BB, 2 players) 6
Hero checks, UTG bets 36 BB, Hero calls 36 BB

River: (126.5 BB, 2 players) J
Hero bets 100.69 BB and is all-in, fold



One more hand: straighhouse:

PokerStars - $4 NL (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BB: 121.73 BB
UTG: 78.39 BB
Hero (MP): 132.08 BB
CO: 210.39 BB
BTN: 100 BB
SB: 101.76 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has 6 5

fold, Hero raises to 2.48 BB, fold, BTN raises to 9 BB, fold, fold, Hero raises to 20 BB, BTN calls 11 BB

Flop: (41.5 BB, 2 players) K Q Q
Hero checks, BTN checks

Turn: (41.5 BB, 2 players) T
Hero bets 22.5 BB, BTN calls 22.5 BB

River: (86.5 BB, 2 players) 9
Hero bets 85.8 BB, fold



And bonus hand: +323 won!:

PokerStars - $2 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BTN: 100 BB
SB: 141.56 BB
BB: 231.68 BB
Hero (UTG): 380.66 BB
MP: 98.5 BB
CO: 254.04 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has A 4

Hero raises to 2.48 BB, fold, fold, fold, SB calls 1.98 BB, BB raises to 10 BB, Hero calls 7.52 BB, SB calls 7.52 BB

Flop: (30 BB, 3 players) A 9 2
SB checks, BB bets 20.06 BB, Hero calls 20.06 BB, SB calls 20.06 BB

Turn: (90.17 BB, 3 players) J
SB checks, BB bets 62.5 BB, Hero calls 62.5 BB, SB calls 62.5 BB

River: (277.67 BB, 3 players) T
SB checks, BB bets 139.13 BB and is all-in, Hero calls 139.13 BB, fold

Heh, this week is quite busy for me!
So I decided to award myself and fulfill my old dream!
I am going to upgrade my old Canon 7D camera with FullFrame. I decided, that Canon 6D is best for me. Also I will take 16-35 F4 IS L lens.



I also took my 5 years old girl to cycle with me! It was awesome. Obviously it was much slower and 10km on mixed terrain took 100 minutes. But I enjoyed that ride a lot. I will be doing that more often and I expect that my yearly 3000km will suffer because of this. Oh and because I was riding with kid I just afterwards realized, that I didn't swith gears at all!

Yesterday I decided to skip grind and declare income with tax paying reasoning.
I do that like fifth year in the row and every time it is headache, something different. I hate it but now I am calm till the next year.

On monday I decided to skip my Pub quiz and go to. That was bad decision :| I developed very strange tilt form - I was calling too much, but only at one table!!! Lol, but it was enough for me, because lineup was very bad and it was 3/6. I guess I lost 4-5 BIs just at that table ant it was -1,5k€ ;(


Today I had we with my strategy group analyzed one good player- It was interesting session and I decided to borrow some of his lines. Result was amazing and opponents was confused!
But session started badly - I did some maintenance stuff with DB and something was wrong, so my popups was not populated with data, I was changing various database setting while playing, sometimes playing even without HUD, so quickly bled away 6+ BI. I decided to reduce table amount, quit playing NLZ200. And... like a hero decided to recover loses at 500z LOL!



Very nice checkback by opponent:
PokerStars - $5 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BTN: 107.21 BB
Hero (SB): 100.5 BB
BB: 101 BB
UTG: 100 BB
MP: 104.43 BB
CO: 212.08 BB

Hero posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has 5 A

fold, fold, CO raises to 2.5 BB, fold, Hero raises to 10 BB, fold, CO calls 7.5 BB

Flop: (21 BB, 2 players) 5 7 4
Hero bets 12 BB, CO calls 12 BB

Turn: (45 BB, 2 players) Q
Hero bets 22 BB, CO calls 22 BB

River: (89 BB, 2 players) K
Hero checks, CO checks



Thin valuebet on the turn. In game was going to call his river bet, but now I am not sure if this play would be correct:
PokerStars - $4 NL (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

SB: 250.71 BB
BB: 143.9 BB
UTG: 290 BB
Hero (MP): 159.9 BB
CO: 104.42 BB
BTN: 123.35 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has K K

fold, Hero raises to 2.03 BB, CO raises to 7 BB, fold, fold, fold, Hero calls 4.97 BB

Flop: (15.5 BB, 2 players) 6 9 5
Hero checks, CO bets 9.4 BB, Hero calls 9.4 BB

Turn: (34.3 BB, 2 players) 8
Hero bets 20 BB, CO calls 20 BB

River: (74.3 BB, 2 players) 8
Hero checks, CO checks



What a bluffcatch!:
PokerStars - $4 NL (6 max) - Holdem - 4 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BTN: 129.89 BB
SB: 277.86 BB
Hero (BB): 273.6 BB
CO: 73.06 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, Hero posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has 7 K

fold, fold, SB raises to 2.5 BB, Hero calls 1.5 BB

Flop: (5 BB, 2 players) 4 4 7
SB bets 4 BB, Hero calls 4 BB

Turn: (13 BB, 2 players) K
SB bets 9 BB, Hero calls 9 BB

River: (31 BB, 2 players) K
SB checks, Hero bets 20 BB, SB calls 20 BB



And most pleasant one:
PokerStars - $10 NL (6 max) - Holdem - 5 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BTN: 101.5 BB
SB: 56.35 BB
BB: 266.71 BB
Hero (UTG): 161.13 BB
CO: 133.33 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has 8 8

Hero raises to 2.03 BB, CO calls 2.03 BB, fold, SB calls 1.53 BB, fold

Flop: (7.09 BB, 3 players) 8 4 7
SB checks, Hero checks, CO bets 4.52 BB, SB raises to 12.04 BB, Hero raises to 24 BB, CO calls 19.48 BB, SB raises to 54.32 BB and is all-in, Hero calls 30.32 BB, CO raises to 131.3 BB and is all-in, Hero calls 76.98 BB

Turn: (324.01 BB, 3 players) J

River: (324.01 BB, 3 players) Q

Lets analyze April:



Grind time: Biggest grind this year is caused by:
* Starting to check results while grinding. I know that it is bad, but I feel benefits about it- It calms me down and also motivates me to put much more hours when I am losing. So it is good for my entire yearly goals, even when it is not very best to play while losing.
* Quite High amount of days played. I didn't have many trips, holidays or day off this month. There is a chance of burnout or carpal tunnel renewal.
* I quite abandoned my daily studies, so I have more energy for grind. I need to fix this somehow.
* Sleeping schedule shift. I shifted my hours to late night, go to sleep at 3-4 AM. I feel fine about that, going to keep it.
* Replacing 500Z with 200Z, also playing correct combination of zoom tables with regular tables. It allows me to play stakes that suits my mental and concentration condition, reduces variance.



* 200 Zoom and 5/10 has nice and stable graphs.
* 500 Zoom has pretty negative tendencies. Really need to work on such game.
* 400+600 has satisfying winrate, however I know that I spewed a lot there. I still think that I need to improve it a bit.

Overall it looks like that my winnings wasn't very stable over entire period. And while I can justify flat at the start, I can't justify flat at the end. I recall playing badly, tilty and without concentration last day. Is that sign of incoming burnout?

Also I see negative tendency in non showdown pots. At the end, it looks like I was losing much more there. I see that most of those loses are from NLZ500!!!


* I can celebrate now


I would hate being in those guys shoes. Regular who called wrote, that he knew that I have it, but I know that it is impossible to fold there. He felt bad tho:

PokerStars - $4 NL (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BB: 100 BB
Hero (UTG): 170.66 BB
MP: 111.59 BB
CO: 101 BB
BTN: 149.19 BB
SB: 127.18 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has A A

Hero raises to 2.03 BB, fold, fold, BTN calls 2.03 BB, SB raises to 9.9 BB, BB raises to 21 BB, Hero calls 18.97 BB, fold, SB calls 11.1 BB

Flop: (65.03 BB, 3 players) 8 T 8
SB checks, BB checks, Hero bets 149.66 BB and is all-in, fold, BB calls 79 BB and is all-in

Turn: (223.03 BB, 2 players) 9

River: (223.03 BB, 2 players) 3
Players agreed to run it twice.

Turn #2: (223.03 BB, 2 players) J

River #2: (223.03 BB, 2 players) 5



Very similar spot, when you see that there is no bluffs but it sucks to be making exploitative fold- especially when you tell yourself, that if you fold this, then you fold entire your range.

PokerStars - €10 NL (6 max) - Holdem - 5 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

Hero (CO): 113.88 BB
BTN: 94.4 BB
SB: 101.48 BB
BB: 127.62 BB
UTG: 105.02 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has T T

UTG raises to 2.5 BB, Hero calls 2.5 BB, fold, fold, fold

Flop: (6.5 BB, 2 players) 8 6 T
UTG bets 3.89 BB, Hero calls 3.89 BB

Turn: (14.28 BB, 2 players) 5
UTG checks, Hero bets 10 BB, UTG calls 10 BB

River: (34.28 BB, 2 players) K
UTG checks, Hero bets 25.54 BB, UTG raises to 88.63 BB and is all-in, Hero calls 63.09 BB



Hated call, but what could I do ? ;((((

Very good results, nice graph. I wish you next month to win 4000BB at NL500Z.

GL subbed!

Month started very lazy.
Entire weekend (including friday) Didn't play- just enjoyed my time, family. Even played some boules outside, because weather is very nice.

Also went to the city, made some photos and then spend some time on editing those.

This is the city that I live at:


Also got hooked on some traveling/challenging yourself movies!

Very nice movie about amateur cyclists that went for 4400km challenge at rocky mountains. (From canada to mexico).


Trailer: https://youtu.be/_7MqAiPOF8c

Another nice movie- about amateur runners that decided to participate at ultra marathon at 4 different deserts on the earth:


Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9jc34V-98E


Today poker ended well. I started working on some of preflop concepts, consolidating some statistical numbers in one place, tuning a bit hud and develop some concepts and then quickly felt urge to play.

That wasn't best thing to do, because I just drank coffee fallowed by mate tea. So I felt tilty, I felt angry and a bit aggressive, however still played and played badly. Quickly hit pretty bad results and started to calm down, recover. However Family came back from works and kinder gardens so I was forced to abandon computer while session was in red.

At the evening I took very late powernap 21:40 for 20 minutes and at something like 23:00 sat for second session. It went much better than previous one, still wasn't best concentrated. Still managed to recover. There was still some luck involved, however I think I played B or B- game.



Interesting thing is that I didn't mark worth of posting hands.
Maybe this one, but strategy wise it is worthless. Just nice result:

PokerStars - $2 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BTN: 125.76 BB
SB: 123.58 BB
Hero (BB): 479.66 BB
UTG: 146.53 BB
MP: 204.55 BB
CO: 581.7 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, Hero posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has K 5

fold, fold, CO raises to 3 BB, fold, fold, Hero raises to 11 BB, CO calls 8 BB

Flop: (22.5 BB, 2 players) 7 3 6
Hero bets 16 BB, CO raises to 42.75 BB, Hero calls 26.75 BB

Turn: (107.99 BB, 2 players) A
Hero checks, CO bets 70.5 BB, Hero raises to 178 BB, CO calls 107.5 BB

River: (463.99 BB, 2 players) 4
Hero bets 247.91 BB and is all-in, CO calls 247.91 BB

TY buddy!

Ty! But...
i didn't improve anywhere. i didn't do analysis that I should've done.
So winning there would mean that I just luckboxed those maybe not most obvious luck, but having positive variance, including setups and good run.

I think that without actual improvement it would be detrimental- there would be reason to think that I am better than actually I am so I would abandon work on my game.

So rather that it is better to even get ass kicked and get actually better!!!

Nice graphs, Ninja!

GL for the rest of the year

ty ty ty ty ty buddy!

Today slept badly so after my mental group meeting realized that I will not be able to concentrate, so Decided to skip other work away from tables (I am very good at skipping away from tables work lately!) and take a ride. I enjoyed it a lot. Rode to university in the other side of the city and then blindly shot to the forests. Forest tracks was unknown and after nice ride down I started to fear that if there will be dead end I will have very unpleasant trip back- uphill and on the sand. Luckily got to some known places. After coming back home my garmin 800 told that I rode 40 km.

My grind was something like B or B- again, lacked of concentration again. Made some badly plays, but overall it was OK. Didn't tilt.


Winning nice at nlz200, however losing it back at higher stakes ;(


WTF is that guy doing ? :/// On the river I even felt badly!!

PokerStars - $4 NL (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BTN: 107.67 BB
Hero (SB): 116.05 BB
BB: 101.5 BB
UTG: 138.43 BB
MP: 77.53 BB
CO: 100 BB

Hero posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has 3 3

fold, fold, fold, fold, Hero raises to 2.03 BB, BB calls 1.03 BB

Flop: (4.06 BB, 2 players) T 7 3
Hero checks, BB bets 2.91 BB, Hero calls 2.91 BB

Turn: (9.88 BB, 2 players) 6
Hero checks, BB bets 14.5 BB, Hero calls 14.5 BB

River: (38.88 BB, 2 players) Q
Hero checks, BB bets 38.18 BB, Hero calls 38.18 BB



This is How I play vs shortstackers :|

PokerStars - $10 NL (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BB: 116.83 BB
UTG: 106.35 BB
MP: 40.78 BB
CO: 90.67 BB
BTN: 106.46 BB
Hero (SB): 107.55 BB

Hero posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has 7 8

fold, MP raises to 2.25 BB, fold, fold, Hero raises to 9 BB, fold, MP calls 6.75 BB

Flop: (19 BB, 2 players) 6 5 3
Hero bets 80 BB, fold



Pretty fcty hand. I knew that it was bad bluff but still pulled it. Also I felt badly on the turn, but there was so many outs... With some reverse implied odds ;(

PokerStars - $10 Ante $2 NL (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BB: 287.06 BB
UTG: 218.52 BB
MP: 133.35 BB
CO: 125.23 BB
Hero (BTN): 137 BB
SB: 105.7 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB, 6 players post ante of 0.2 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 2.7 BB) Hero has 6 8

fold, MP raises to 3 BB, CO calls 3 BB, Hero calls 3 BB, SB calls 2.5 BB, fold

Flop: (14.2 BB, 4 players) 7 3 9
SB checks, MP checks, CO bets 4 BB, Hero calls 4 BB, SB raises to 18 BB, fold, CO calls 14 BB, Hero calls 14 BB

Turn: (68.2 BB, 3 players) 3
SB bets 24.5 BB, fold, Hero calls 24.5 BB

River: (117.2 BB, 2 players) 3
SB checks, Hero bets 91.3 BB and is all-in, SB calls 60 BB and is all-in

Yesterday was unable to take my powernap, so decided to skip grind and decided to watch movie:



Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZUsc1ewgUQ

Not sure if it is because of lack of sleep or seeing too many extreme downhill videos, however this movie didn't make me such impression like previosly two movies.

Video itself is astonishing and music tracks was nice. Red bull team knows how to build movies, however story line and way it was told could be much better.

Anyway- if you have time then take a look at this one, rather at countless hours that you spend on series or games
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Today tried to put some work away from tables. After 15 minutes of staring at monitor and doing nothing somehow I ended watching documentary about Heroin

Took shower hoping that I will be able recover and be able to concentrate. Decided that from now when I don't work away from tables then I will replace those dedicated hours with grind.

Previously there was multiple posts where I wrote that I had bad concentration. However today it was so bad that I even couldn't imagine! I couldn't see and plan further than next street and was unable to evaluate more than 3 factors :| Somethign is really wrong with me.

Anyway ended quite well. Managed to win 400€- exactly that price that I decided to spend on waterproof and crush proof camera, dedicated for my bike rides, hikes and Kayaking.



Thin value bet:
PokerStars - €4 NL (6 max) - Holdem - 5 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

SB: 112.77 BB
BB: 122.24 BB
UTG: 103.5 BB
Hero (CO): 114.76 BB
BTN: 110.96 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has 7 7

UTG raises to 3 BB, Hero calls 3 BB, fold, fold, fold

Flop: (7.5 BB, 2 players) 4 T 2
UTG bets 3.15 BB, Hero calls 3.15 BB

Turn: (13.8 BB, 2 players) 6
UTG bets 10.08 BB, Hero calls 10.08 BB

River: (33.96 BB, 2 players) 9
UTG checks, Hero bets 27 BB, UTG calls 27 BB



I hope I will be able to grind this evening!!!

Fuuuuuuuuuuuuu*k

I am angry. I am very angry and frustrated.
Just realized that missed one nice group ride. i love such things.
It would be ~80-90km most of it forest tracks, nice locations.
You can take a look how it looks like:
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?...6289810&type=1

Poker is not going well lately. Well it is not that bad, but I can't play well. I feel stressed, angry. I guess there is a lot of accumulated emotions. i don't know what is happening. I am not on downswing or something, but I am scared money, want to protect winnings, sometimes go mad and want to quit session. I don't want to start it too.

Something is wrong and I need to start working on that. I abandoned my mental game, so I will start working on it today.
I tried making short warm up today, when I was analyzing some hands. I was analyzing, narrating what is bad and injecting logic to fight vs that. It is really good thing, but you need to get it as habit.
Anyway my WU was very short and I quickly wnet to grind. I realized that I am not able to play very well, also I knew that I need to make slow session, pay a lot of attention and inject logic when tilting.

I feel that I played well, made some nice bluffcatches and thin valuebets. Still ran well and nice winnings is affected of that.



One of the signs that I pay more attention is better note taking.
I always try to do that.
So this time I am not going to share hands, but I will share how my in session notes looks like:

Quick update.

Don't have mood to write anything for a week.
Last week started pretty badly and lost a lot in two first days. Then got some virus and was out for entire week.
Today Tried to start playing again, but still play like sht, play tilty, don't have confidence.

Everything is pretty fcked up.
Tomorrow there will be mindset meeting also I will try to review some hands.
Don't know what to do ;(
Graph for entire month- up to 8k and now it is negative:


It is not just bad luck or something. I play really bad.

Sucks to see a good guy and someone you know to be an excellent poker player (even Gogolsnose knows this ) struggling. Poker break for a couple days? Hope the rungood and focus come back soon, man.

Cool pic btw. City looks great.