12 March

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Great day. Absolutely enjoyed getting owned by everyone . Im feeling like Im playing the best Ive played this year so far but its strange how it works out.

Month this far.

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Was hoping to make it going upwards and hit 200 by the end of the month, but that isnt very likely to happen if I wont get on a super heater. Im just going to focus on next day and play my best, it will have to turn around eventually.

I think if you want to minimize variance, you just have to get better and increase your EV. So Im just looking to study alot and try to improve myself every day.

I have great routines at the moment. 1 hour study EACH day, 5-30 min post sessions review EVERY session, warmup in differents forms before EVERY session and so on. The study hour is always varying depending on what Im in the mood for. Analyzing hands/ranges with PPT is fun. Watching videos and take good notes/question things is also a good thing for me. Do you guys do anything else to improve your games? Ive moved a little bit away from sweating as it takes up too much time, maybe I should start doing that again.

“Don't wish it was easier wish you were better. Don't wish for less problems wish for more skills. Don't wish for less challenge wish for more wisdom”


― Jim Rohn

epic thread! looking at your downswing graphs always makes me feel better when I have one myself
GL!

You can sweat me when I play mate So you learn how to win again

Jesus, that looks tough. TONS of respect for handling it the way you do

Im happy to be of help . Thanks.

Tsssssssss teach me how to get your cards kid.

Thank you. Its tough but I think its important that I have downswings and learn how to co-op with them. I need to remind myself why Im doing this when things get tough.

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13 March

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Still a rough time at the tables but Im determined. Looking to play alot this weekend and grind my way out of this.

14 March

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Thats unfortunate, I think you should take a day or two off again and study or something. Or another alternative is just to drop down in stakes for 1 or 2 days until you boost your confidence/ start winning again.

Not sure if you've done this before, but I do it everytime I get owned at the tables.

GL, btw have read 1 Jim Rohn book, and man it was a fantastic read.

I probably would take an extended break (2-3 days) but I feel like Im playing the best Ive done this year so far and Im very grind motivated so I want to play alot. Im pretty sure it will turn around once I start catching some rungood. First session today started out pretty well.

Im happy that I can handle the downswing the way I am. I would like to think that strong trees doesnt grow strong without harsh winds.

Which Jim Rohn book was that? His stuff is great and Im happy you enjoyed it .

15 March

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Could almost close the day as a winner but then I got fried. Focus on tomorrow.

Schedule of March 16th

00:00-10:00 Sleep

10:00-10:30 Wake up/breakfast/plan the day

10:30-11:00 Warmup session

11:00-13:00 Grind

13:00-14:00 Freetime

14:00-14:30 Study

14:30-17:00 Grind

17:00-18:00 Study

18:00-20:00 Grind

Rest of the day off

Thats right. Im going old-school and return the schedule theme I had for a long time in the beginning of this thread. Ive always kept an personal journal troughout this time but I think having this kind of fixed timeframes in this thread might spice it up. Must be boring just seeing my miserable graphs all the time .

My idea is to keep posting them on a daily basis and then do a second post after each day, going trough how it went and put up tomorrows schedule. My hope is that this will give me some more energy and re-vitalize my work ethic.

This first schedule is a typical day for me. Add 2-4 workouts each week and 1 spanish lesson. Gf will probably want some time aswell. So its not written in stone but its something to work from.

Freetime is most often gaming, learning spanish or reading a book. Jim Rohn taught that you should read 30 minutes each day whatever happens, so Im trying to stick to that as long as I have things to read.

Other then that, Im just looking to be more active posting/discuss hands in here, show some work Im doing off tables involving calculations and PPT. Any feedback is great.

Also adding weekly goals, starting monday.

Finished first session of the day and I just have to post a couple of hands vs. the same guy. They all occured in a timeframe of 5 minutes. He was playing 49/27/9, loose/crazy guy.









Theme of the month.

Cant see what you are bitching about 1h rail and I have never seen so many topset

Ah yes I had like 6 of them when you sweated. I think your rungood might be contagious.

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16 March

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Im happy overall with today. Woke up 1h late but when I played I felt very confident and focused. Also didnt get to play as much due to IRL events but its fine. My schedule needs to be flexible.

Ill post my plan for tomorrow morning along with a couple of hands from today.

I can see how you snap off some desperation bluffs in hand 1 just enough of the time, but the other hands look just horrible.

I guess you call waaaaay too much in situations where you just know you have to be beat?

imo all hands are standard against this type of villain

except I would cbet bigger in Hand1, aand the call in last Hand is also close after cbet, buut against a ****** you never know.. he could spazz there with KK or 7T9x who knows.

Yeah let´s just assume he´s a ****** and we have to always pay him off even though he played every hand perfectly except for hand no. 1

The last hand, he got 30% of his stack in with AA pre, he has to stack off.

Ah ok; yeah I really hope it turns around!!

Its great that you are taking it like this; wasn't entirely sure how it was going normally thats what I do, but we're all different people so what your doing as long as you know its most effective then thats great!

The book was the 5 pieces to the life puzzle. Yeah I want to read more of it hehe

I think the hands are standard. Sizing is a bit off. The hands occured with the first one first, when he floated flop with two bd fd and a bd straight. So after that, I made assumptions about how he plays/thinks about the game and I work from there. Seeing what he plays preflop also confirmed my adjustment, its just a matter of making decent hands but him hitting top 10% of his.

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Schedule of March 17th

00:00-02:00 Grind

02:00-11:00 Sleep

11:00-11:30 Wake up/breakfast/plan the day

11:30-12:15 Warm-up session

12:15-14:00 Grind

14:00-15:00 Freetime

15:00-16:30 Grind

16:30-21:00 Freetime

21:00-23:00 Grind

Hand from yesteday. It was an easy call when you thought about it.

I havent read that one yet, might pick it up if I can find it in a library close to me. Im actually reading some of Paulo Coelho stuff at the moment and its pretty good aswell. Its more philosophical then practical though.

Been winning today so far and playing great so things are looking better thanks .

17 March

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Great day. Didnt get to play the volume I planned but I had too much stuff going on outside poker. I felt pretty well with how I did today and just looking to play the same tomorrow.

On a sidenote. Learning spanish is really hard. Its very different to swedish and english so it kinda takes some mental energy trying to learn how to speak properly. I dont want to be just able to speak some sentences or that, I would like to be able to speak fluently and without thinking too deeply about how I should speak. Long way to go before that but hopefully by the end of the year. Would be great to visit Spain in december and give it a try.

Schedule of March 18th

00:00-10:00 Sleep

10:00-11:00 Wake up/breakfast/plan the day

11:00-11:45 Warm-up session

11:45-14:00 Grind

14:00-15:00 Freetime

15:00-17:00 Grind

17:00-18:30 Study

18:30-19:30 Freetime

19:30-20:30 Grind

Hey man! Nice PG&C! I'm also a swede who studies spanish, taking an intensive course here in spain for 6 months and will hopefully be able to make myself understood without to much efforts by the end of the course.
Parts of the theory is a bitch, you'll know when you get into 'subjuntivo', but i guess it's not impossible
Don't know too much about you, but i'd guess you play fulltime?
In that case, why not move down here and study and grind?
That's what i do, not professionally tho since i'm playing microPLO with horrible volume, but just being able to study from here is supernice
Anyhow, i'm just typing away here while procrastinating the studies of 'subjunputativo'. Just ask if you want to know something in spanish or so.
Best of luck with the pokers and the Spanish studies, will follow your thread

Hola.

I havent gotten to "subjuntivo" yet so I have no idea what that is . Hopefully its not too hard to learn. I do play fulltime and it would be cool to move to Spain, but I got some obligations here. Living with gf and most of my friends lives here. Also the economical part is important but I would like to be able to live in Spain regularly at some point, maybe 2-4 months each year when it gets too cold here. I do think living and speaking the language is a big boost to the learning curve so my guess is that your doing rapid progress?

Ill shoot you a message if I find something too difficult .

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Didnt play the best I could. Fell into auto-pilot too often and decided not to play as much as I had planned. Didnt get to do the study time I planned but I will have to make up for that tomorrow.

Good thing is that its my second winning day in a row. So just got to keep doing my best. Tomorrow wont be a huge day because me and gf will visit our future pet which is a 3h drive back and forth. Also got spanish class which will take some time to prepare.

I'm going to have to check that out.

I'm more into philosphical stuff over practical stuff.

Both is very interesting to me but philosphical can be practical (or I would think). What specific book ?