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08-10-2016 , 12:43 AM
Wow, time flies so fast lately. I wanted to get down to this summary before, at beginning of the month and we have 10th already! Better late than never thou.

I have skipped last month summary due to ridiculous amount of real life stuff I had to organize and deal with, but this is just an excuse and nobody cares so moving on.

In June and July I have played a total of 9298 games with 1,2% evROI at 32,5 chipev/game. Both months were pretty similar. I am happy with volume and pretty ok with my results. Just sheer amount of things I had to do beside poker and stress connected with it and with moving to a new country, kinda justifies for me, worse results than average. UK gave me biggest culture shock since I've started traveling.

I played best I could at the time and hey, being perfectionist is unfortunately not the best approach to this game . Often made decisions to grind when I knew my focus/headspace is not in poker, coz it's better to play at 1% roi than not play at all (if you take well planned breaks).

Due to Smart Euro, vacations in San Andres in Colombia, moving to Manchester, last minute trip to Belgium's Tomorrowland, I pretty much grinded each day, never longer than 6 days in a row, trying to catch some weekend days to chill with Mari.

Smart Euro was a great tournament and a second wind I actually really needed starting second half of 2016. I met some great players, learned a bit, taught a bit. We did really well and got straight for finals were we lost to really strong Ireland .

It was extremely close thou, we literally fought till last minutes! It was great fun, again thanks to all participating and congrats to Ireland, Top Scorer - Pokerzysta90, and donIwan16 from my team who crushed and snapped Top Assist title! Don't be scarred and attack 100s asap!

Gym wise, on point till 9th of July when I arrived in UK In here I got sick and couldn't get nearby gym's membership till I got my UK bank account (no other way to make a payment than with an UK card). Also ordering chair online was pretty problematic as 2 or 3 shops I tried first, didn't accept payment with a card that had different address than billing address.

I already got settled in UK, as I am almost at the verge of second month, so it is past time to vent about it. And I also grew to like Manchester, food is awesome, have a great flat in center - walking distance to all good places - only if weather was better Thanks again to Debilne_Ucho for helping to find the flat!

Meditation - going strong with 2 sessions per working day Not much to add here, 3 times is still too much. One thing - don't use the same recording every day, mix it up. I've got too used to guided track, and after a week or so, I caught myself drifting in my head whole ten minutes.

Work on my game - decline here to 27h in last 2 months - pretty bad but again, had to prioritize other things and very often, talking with agents (spend over 40h on the phone with them) took time I would normally analyze.

Strategically, not much besides good work on HU BB position, some mindset work and I think I finally grew up to stop checking results daily and move into weekly checking mode . Running the test this month, will see how it goes. Pretty optimistic here thou.

Life wise - big changes, back in Europe. Moved in to Manchester and got my set up ready crazy fast - I even played a full session in hotel, day after arriving. Leaving Medellin was pretty sad, we had great time there, and living and working was so easy.



In June we took a small vacation to paradise island of San Andres in Colombia, beautiful place, miss beach so much.



We've rented some jet-skis and got light sunburn, drunk too much, ate some awesome fresh fish - generally perfect 4 days on sun.



In July I jumped on occasion to visit Tomorrowland, which was just incredible.


Already wrote about it a bit and really don't know what more to say, beside it is totally worth it's price. If you can - go, even if you don't love that type of music, whole event and place where it's held, awesome people and all-around happiness makes it worth it.



This is really becoming tl;dr so time to wrap it up!

Thanks for reading and GL guys! Make good decisions and keep them crushed!
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08-12-2016 , 01:04 AM
glgl colombia looks stunning
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