Nice

Yeah I ate pretty low carb before as well but once I dropped them under 20g/day it pushed me so hard. First 4-5 days were evil, I could've slept all day but then it felt like a rush and still holding, esp. after Bulletproof Coffee

GL with the grind, crush it! I'm prob moving up to 30s soon, when will you?

In, gl

Great blog, I'll be following!
Good luck Iveta

Good luck

good luck! could be a future wsop winner like Billy Pappas, he was a foozeball player too

@LeakSuck check next post about 30s.
@wowsooooted Billy is my friend, I know him from tournaments, he even lived here in Bratislava for some time, but I didn't now him back than, it was like 10y ago

ty guys gonna write a results from last week now

First week recap: 1.-7.9.2017

• 30/120 hours (25%)
• 1/3 free days
• not eat gluten - 90%
• meditate mornings/evenings - still failing here
• not be using phone/texting in working hours - SO hard
• 3/12 streams (no more SK streams - super boring)
• practice foosball 3 times a week (once this week)
• move/exercise every day (80-90%)

well, not super happy about this week. I was experimenting a bit with segmented sleep, which worked great first ~2 days, but then I went for 30km bike, missed my nap during the day and then went to the 10° pool for few mins, so it took a lot of my energy and I overslept night alarms for about an hour 2 night after. And as I am a woman period is destroying me after that but what can I do right ??
I did this Slovak stream which was super boring so I will rather make normal eng streams
what else.. I wasn't practicing foosball that much but will practice more next week.
I had great coachings and improved my game a lot this week and I was kinda happy when I saw results. Even tho volume could be better because now it will be harder to get promoted.



but it starts to look better!


If I wanna be promoted until I leave to China I need like 1,3k EV$ in 11 days so that's gonna be a challenge for these days. Play the best game and try to play many hours.
I cannot write more because I need to go and grind
Cross your fingers and let's crush it!

btw stream schedule on my twitch channel/twitch blog/fb page/and follow insta if you haven't done it yet, posting a lot in there

Nice cEV, gogo!
You gonna grind from China as well btw? Will be in for 30s next month, can't run away

all the best PGC have 'mastering' in the title

gl and subbed

@LeakSuck - thanks. No, I'm not going to grind from China, I wanna enjoy free time walking around Shanghai and eat a lot of their street food and filming
@benabadbeat - will do my best to not break this tradition

I would’t say this month is a failure, I’ve played just 60 hours in this month so far, 4 days left to my 120h plan, so we all know I’m not gonna make it.
My last week was mostly about analysing myself, my feelings, my values. I didn’t have a completely free day off poker and it led to a small burnout which I didn’t realize and it ended up with not caring about any schedule for a week, hours of thinking about my thoughts and after 21 straight days (which I noticed today) I took day off because nothing made me feel better (gym or things that usually helped to get that trash out of my head) and I felt that it’s really too much on myself.
So yesterday I went to the gym and one of the best crossfit athletes in europe asked my how I do, I said “well, fine, but I’m a bit burned out because last week I pushed too far over my limits and now my head is exploding and I’m kinda exhausted.”
and he replied: “yea but you know, if you don’t push over your limits, you don’t know when your limits are”. Suddenly I realized I shouln’t feel like a failure but I should be happy that I reached my limits and I can move them a bit forward. Love this moments outside of my comfort zone because that’s where I learn the most.
So I did my workout (3rd day in a row) and then I just watched World championships in foosball and read in the evening and finally my brain felt refreshed.
The thing is that in my free time outside of tables/coachings I hate non-productive time so I basically read/watch videos and learn other things related to nutrition, psychology etc etc. or go to the gym.

some stats from last month - so you can see the difference



September graph:




VALUES

I never realized how values are important in our lives. Basically all our decisions depends on our core values.
And you should know, what are your core values and what feelings are most important for you and which feelings you want to avoid the most:

Take few minutes and try to make a list of this feelings you value the most/less in order:
love, success, freedom, intimacy, security, adventure, power, passion, comfort, health
and feelings you want to avoid the most/less
rejection, anger, frustration, loneliness, depression, failure, humiliation, guilt

Just on this small task you can learn a lot about yourself AND you can find your value conflicts.

for example: if your most wanted feeling is success and your worst feeling is rejection, you have a conflict over there and you will never achieve success. Because on the way to success you will meet rejection way too often. And -

People will do more to avoid pain than they will to gain pleasure.

so basically anytime you are making a decision (this is very true with procrastination) you will postpone the task unconciously because you know there is a chance you experience a pain.
So I was thinking about this a day or two just to make sure I find and remove that conflicts, because this was exactly what happened to me with poker anytime I had great results - I started to fear that it will stop and I suddenly stopped putting enough hours in and I was actually scared of firing up next session to lose that success. Same with streams, I was scared of rejection despite the fact I really wanted to do it. And I cancelled many streams because of it ! because I was scared what people think of me and my game and that they will judge me. But I don’t really care of that now and I accept any feedback
Because when you realize that fights between people are just fights between each other core values, you realise that there is no reason to argue and persuade other person that your values are better than values of theirs.

So, what is the conclusion and what have I learnt?

I need to plan my free days - no poker, no study, no stream, just activities where I don’t use brain every few days, lets say 4-5.
I need to accept that doing something unproductive in my free time is completely okay. I will go out, I will watch series, waste my time, play foosball, go for a beer and talk about useless things. Because it’s okay and I won’t feel bad
One more thought - we allow ourselves to feel super bad about many things but we don’t allow ourselves to feel good very often. We have this very high demands on ourselves to feel good.

Let me show you an example of one’s person values:
Love: I have to feel like I have earned it, I can’t feel I’m loved until I’m perfect.
Health: I have to feel like my diet is perfect by my strict standards. I must feel like I’m healthier than anyone I know and be an example.
Freedom: I must be in control on my working demands, hours, opinions, etc. I must be financially secure enough not to live under stress or financially related pressure.
How often do you think this person will experience happiness and fullfilment in her/his values?

Now look at this person:
Love: I experience love anytime I express love, give love to others, or allow myself to recieve it.
Health: I am healthy when I acknowledge how wonderful I already feel!
Fun: I am having fun when I find pleasure and joy in the process.
Gratitude: I feel greatful when I appreciate all the things I have in my life right now.
Freedom: I feel free when I live by my convictions and accept the choice to create happiness for myself.

I hope you get the point why I’m writing this. I think it’s really important.

As long as we structure our lives in a way where happiness is dependent upon something we cannot control, then we will experience pain.

All that stuff is from book Awaken the giant within by Tony Robbins.
If you make it to the end, that’s cool
If you have some more opinions on this just share your thoughts.

How does your success as a both a football player and a soccer player impact your tax situation?

Great, every reg who trades travel for grinding time is a good reg

Srsly, I like your approach. Not solely posting graphs and "uh i guess i gotta up volume or study more" but also going to the basics like values, potential conflicts in these and how identifying these might help on progressing in poker and life in general. So many good literature on that, didn't check out Tony Robbins yet, here are a few books lying around my desk that u might like and are worth a read imo, just browsed some parts of them:

Daniel Kahneman - Thinking, fast and slow (!!)
Dixit/Nalebuff - The Art of Strategy
Stephen Covey - 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
David Allen - Getting Things Done
David Schwartz - The Magic of Thinking Big
Denis Waitley - The Psychology of Winning
Kerry Spackman - The Winner's Bible
Timothy Ferriss - The 4 hour work week

I just found your thread. I really like your approach and the balance you try to maintain.

I will be following your journey. Best of luck!

PS: How weird that i found out your thread right now, when my best buddy is actually on Bratislava for a live timbey

You're quite the furnace of ambition. I am jelly.

not sure what you are asking, basically I don't pay any taxes from that

@LeaksSuck thanks! I have just thinking fast and slow from the list you wrote

@scarecrow_ nice

@disruptbo too many compliments glad you guys like it.

hey,

do you play also live?

think i had you sitting at my table during my holiday, but im not sure. it was the punto banco casino in bratislava. about 3 months ago.

also i liked bratislava a lot. do you know about the costs for a random flat there?

best of luck!

BACK AFTER ALMOST 3 WEEKS BREAK

oh, it was a long break even if it doesn't feel like that. I have plenty of text to write now and photos to post.

one week in CHINA

We were invited for the tournament because german guys developed a new foosball table for China's market and wanted to invite best players from all over the world. They are implementing foosball classes to the schools and will try to make it a huge sport. We spent some time in Shanghai first day and the first impressions were really surpising. We knew that there is no facebook, google, etc but also people don't speak english or dont even care about you. The culture is totally different.
The pollution is real there, the city is kinda dirty because of it during the days, people are spitting all the time but in the evening the city and views are mindblowing. Oh yes and food - one love



On the next day we travelled 6hours to city of Hanshan. We came to 5* hotel prepared for us and we had to quickly go to the ceremony in some kind of olympic stadium. And now the fun had began everywhere in the city was a police and chinese SWAT, they stopped the traffic to let us pass the city, it was really crazy. We felt like Rolling stones then after president of chinese olympic comission, mair and some more important people started the tournament we moved to the tournament place. With more than 200 chinese kids


Resultwise I finished 2nd in Doubles, 2nd in Mixed doubles and 3rd in Singles and I'm really happy about it.






Then we spent 2 more days in Shanghai, went to aquarium, super cool rooftop bar and went to Fusion club which is a best nightclub in shanghai and it was really cool





after we come back I got a cold so I spent a week in a bed just sleeping and I wasn't able to work on poker or anything (oh and I had a birthday party ). Anyway I had a pretty big burnout so this break helped me a lot to think about next months and what I'm gonna do.

Then last week we left to Sofia, Bulgary to play one more tournament which is one of my favorites because of the people there etc.
I won a competition of women classics and finished 2nd in women singles.
oh those 2nd places!!




Now I'm finally back, healthy and prepared to work hard to beat those 15s finally. Rebuilded my office a bit because I felt like I need some change


also I'm back on ketogenic diet for about 2 weeks, and I have to say - after I tried a lot of different things (IF+keto, IF, low carb, whatever) I feel the best I've ever felt. I'll see how it works when I come back to the gym, but so far I'm super happy with that
also gonna stream, first stream will be tomorrow 20:00 and then since monday almost every day at 18:00.
seeyaaaa !

currently I don't play live at all but I would like to
I think last time I played in May but that was just streamed sng. And if the girl didn't play awesome it wasnt me
2 room apartment costs like 500-600€

Looked like a very fun trip! Congrats on your 2nd place finish, nice trophy set too!

THE CHANGE

I’m going through a lot of changes right now.
After 7 years of relationship I’ll be living on my own first time in my life.

In general I’m not very emotional person, but this time emotions got to me and I didn’t want to play or do anything with poker. Anyway I made some streams and played around 50 hours - nothing to be proud of, but it’s something.

It’s definitely huge step out of my comfort zone, I’m scared and excited at the same time. I’m gonna use this time to become a beast and get to high stakes. Move my stream to a high level and maybe become the best woman poker streamer and crusher at the same time. I wanna start YT channel - goal is to inspire people and show them a lifestyle you can live when you chase your dreams and work hard.

I want to travel, play some live series, meet interesting people and see other cultures - enjoy life and enjoy the lifestyle we can have because of poker.

I’m moving next week, I’ll post photos from my new apartment then.

This will probably be the hardest part of my life, it might change me, but it will make me stronger.

In! embrace the new start and change, will be following your way to high stakes gl 0ivka

"Fly! If you cant fly, run! If you cant run, walk! If you cant walk, crawl! But whatever you do, keep moving forward!"

One of my fav quotes!

Keep your head high and be strong!

Best of luck to your new life!

Peace!

Renting apps here

subbed gl gl !!!! ;-)