Going For 40k$ Post RB with 6 Max SNGs in 2015
02-28-2015
, 10:01 PM
03-01-2015
, 11:16 PM
[size=24]March Challenge
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Here is the plan for March
- Studying CG minimum 45 hours
- Grinding online CG 60 hours
- Grinding SNGs 2000 games (100+ hours)
- 12 hours of CG coaching
- Coaching 30 hours minimum (1 on 1 sessions, video recording + daily tracking threads)
Total of 160+ hours of grinding, 45 hours of studying, 12 hours getting coaching for CG + 30 hours coaching SNGs. That brings total activities of 252 hours. Considering that I will be in Belgrade 2 days around 14th of March (friends birthday) and do way less things on those days + perform Jazz gig around 13th of March, it is safe to say that all of this brings about 9 hours of daily activities on average.
GL to me and thanks for following!
Day 1
Coached Darko 1 hour
Worked on the game with fellow reg 1.5 hour
Grinded online CG 2 hours
Grinded 100 SNGs (5.6 hours!)
Total 10.1 hours
Excellent start to the March Challenge.
CG grind went not so great as I am not happy with 1 call in particular that I made for whole stack.
SNGs easy game just take way too long to play while 15 tabling. It will take me some days to get back into rhythm but definitely feel very superior vs rest of competition on 15s. Pretty much crushed it tonight.
Here is the SNG graph for the day
Distribution : 24% 18% (HU) 18% (bubble) 16% 19% and 5%
[size=24]March Challenge[/size]
Things completed so far in the challenge:
CG studying 1.5/45 hours
Coaching 1/30 hours
CG coaching sessions 0/12 hours
CG grind 2/60 hours
SNG grind 5.6/100 hours
[size=24]2015 Challenge[/size]
Things completed so far in the challenge:
74/300 Study hours
44.5/300 Coaching sessions
223.1/1500 Grinding hours
24/150 Work out
*** 98.5 hours Live Poker *** (tons of additional hours lost in waiting for games to start!)
Here is the plan for today (2nd of March):
Wake up eat healthy and drink tons of water
Coaching session with Jernej 10-11
CG coaching session 11-12:30
Working on the game with fellow reg 1-2:30
Lunch brake
Coffee with best friend and 1 hour of CG grind
CG grind 2nd session 1 more hour
Dinner brake
SNG grind 1st session 50 games
Short brake
SNG grind 2nd session 50 games
Check daily tracking threads and respond
Blog and challenge update
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Here is the plan for March
- Studying CG minimum 45 hours
- Grinding online CG 60 hours
- Grinding SNGs 2000 games (100+ hours)
- 12 hours of CG coaching
- Coaching 30 hours minimum (1 on 1 sessions, video recording + daily tracking threads)
Total of 160+ hours of grinding, 45 hours of studying, 12 hours getting coaching for CG + 30 hours coaching SNGs. That brings total activities of 252 hours. Considering that I will be in Belgrade 2 days around 14th of March (friends birthday) and do way less things on those days + perform Jazz gig around 13th of March, it is safe to say that all of this brings about 9 hours of daily activities on average.
GL to me and thanks for following!
Day 1
Coached Darko 1 hour
Worked on the game with fellow reg 1.5 hour
Grinded online CG 2 hours
Grinded 100 SNGs (5.6 hours!)
Total 10.1 hours
Excellent start to the March Challenge.
CG grind went not so great as I am not happy with 1 call in particular that I made for whole stack.
SNGs easy game just take way too long to play while 15 tabling. It will take me some days to get back into rhythm but definitely feel very superior vs rest of competition on 15s. Pretty much crushed it tonight.
Here is the SNG graph for the day
Distribution : 24% 18% (HU) 18% (bubble) 16% 19% and 5%
[size=24]March Challenge[/size]
Things completed so far in the challenge:
CG studying 1.5/45 hours
Coaching 1/30 hours
CG coaching sessions 0/12 hours
CG grind 2/60 hours
SNG grind 5.6/100 hours
[size=24]2015 Challenge[/size]
Things completed so far in the challenge:
74/300 Study hours
44.5/300 Coaching sessions
223.1/1500 Grinding hours
24/150 Work out
*** 98.5 hours Live Poker *** (tons of additional hours lost in waiting for games to start!)
Here is the plan for today (2nd of March):
Wake up eat healthy and drink tons of water
Coaching session with Jernej 10-11
CG coaching session 11-12:30
Working on the game with fellow reg 1-2:30
Lunch brake
Coffee with best friend and 1 hour of CG grind
CG grind 2nd session 1 more hour
Dinner brake
SNG grind 1st session 50 games
Short brake
SNG grind 2nd session 50 games
Check daily tracking threads and respond
Blog and challenge update
03-02-2015
, 09:40 PM
[size=24]March Challenge[/size]
Day 2
Worked with fellow reg on the game 2 hours
Had CG coaching session 1.5 hours
Meet with best friend for coffee
Scheduled lots of life activities
Went for haircut and shave!
Grinded Online CG 2 hours
Grinded 50 SNGs (2.67 hours)
*About to respond to all daily threads of students for 1 hour before bed* (Coaching 1 hour)
Total 9.17 hours of Poker related activities.
Quite busy and productive day.
Will list some interesting things and observations!
Working on the game with fellow reg was awesome as we did 1.5 hour 1 single hand in CREV. Hand was assigned by my coach in our coaching session today. We figured out so many great information based on different expectation in that hand. Also the fact that we did that today helped me with actual grinding today as I had spots like that one but this time I was 100% sure what line would be most +EV vs what type of expectation. Remaining 0.5 of working on the game happened when I sent my reg friend hands over skype from today's grind (late afternoon) and we discussed couple of great bluff catches, 1 debatable call I made and situations like the one analyzed today. Overall super productive studying and tomorrow we will have to study in the afternoon/evening, have no idea how that will fit with my SNGs but I am definitely prioritizing studying CG!
Grinding CG went great as I decided to take a shot at NL50 after coaching session 1.5 hours + working with the fellow reg 1.5 hours. 2 hours of grinding, made 2 buy ins pre RB. Really good result, could have been better if I didn't loose BTN vs SB AKo vs JJ for full stack but that is super standard spot of course. Post flop I feel was much better, definitely more controlled. I feel I did great with adjusting and making bluff catches in couple of hands that resulted in this whole profit. My red line was in -2 buy ins which is weird but my showdown winnings were through the roof with my value betting and bluff catching today. Super satisfied and happy about it. Will continue taking shot on NL50 with stop loss combined for my SNG roll of 5 buy ins for NL50. If I manage to swing those 5 buy ins I will go back to NL25. If I continue crushing SNGs (variance follows) then I will have no problem staying on NL50 and grinding it full time.
Coaching session, excellent as always. We took some time to talk about concepts that we can and will focus through out the whole year. Coach cleared some very important spot for me for which I am super grateful to him. This kind of spot is a leak that I am sure appears all the way into higher stakes like even NL200+ guys. So I will work to apply it daily in my grinding and try not to repeat that tactical mistake. Overall super useful session in next one we will focus on something i have been waiting for a long time - favorite area of mine! Can't say what it is as other regs might exploit me with it but yes it is something that really gets me going in poker and CG overall!
Grinded only 50 SNGs today as I started my grind at 11! I am still on track for 2k games this month but I will definitely continue with 100 games on days when life activities don't overlap with my time management. Happy how I played, session started brutal variance wise, after that my stronger hands held up vs bad and weak ranges mostly and profit was inevitable. Crushed HU, now doing it even more so thanks to my CG studying past 2.5 months!
Here is the SNG graph for March (150 games - 8.27 hours)
Here is distribution graph (25% vs 16% HU, 18% Bubble, 17% , 16% and 6%)
[size=24]March Challenge[/size]
Things completed so far in the challenge:
CG studying 3.5/45 hours
Coaching 2/30 hours
CG coaching sessions 1.5/12 hours
CG grind 4/60 hours
SNG grind 8.27/100 hours (150/2000)
[size=24]2015 Challenge[/size]
Things completed so far in the challenge:
76/300 Study hours
45.5/300 Coaching sessions
227.77/1500 Grinding hours
24/150 Work out
*** 98.5 hours Live Poker *** (tons of additional hours lost in waiting for games to start!)
Here is the plan for today (3rd of March):
Wake up, eat healthy breakfast and drink tons of water
Coaching session with Kornel 11-12
Work on the game by myself 1 hour minimum 12:15-1:15pm (filters from assignment)
Meet with female friend for a coffee 2-3pm or so
Lunch brake
Online CG grind 2 hours with brake in between sessions
*Working on the game with fellow reg for 1 hour more before SNG grind*
Grind 100 SNGs (2 sessions with brake in between)
Check daily tracking threads and respond to all of them
Update blog and challenge + reflect on mission and vision
Day 2
Worked with fellow reg on the game 2 hours
Had CG coaching session 1.5 hours
Meet with best friend for coffee
Scheduled lots of life activities
Went for haircut and shave!
Grinded Online CG 2 hours
Grinded 50 SNGs (2.67 hours)
*About to respond to all daily threads of students for 1 hour before bed* (Coaching 1 hour)
Total 9.17 hours of Poker related activities.
Quite busy and productive day.
Will list some interesting things and observations!
Working on the game with fellow reg was awesome as we did 1.5 hour 1 single hand in CREV. Hand was assigned by my coach in our coaching session today. We figured out so many great information based on different expectation in that hand. Also the fact that we did that today helped me with actual grinding today as I had spots like that one but this time I was 100% sure what line would be most +EV vs what type of expectation. Remaining 0.5 of working on the game happened when I sent my reg friend hands over skype from today's grind (late afternoon) and we discussed couple of great bluff catches, 1 debatable call I made and situations like the one analyzed today. Overall super productive studying and tomorrow we will have to study in the afternoon/evening, have no idea how that will fit with my SNGs but I am definitely prioritizing studying CG!
Grinding CG went great as I decided to take a shot at NL50 after coaching session 1.5 hours + working with the fellow reg 1.5 hours. 2 hours of grinding, made 2 buy ins pre RB. Really good result, could have been better if I didn't loose BTN vs SB AKo vs JJ for full stack but that is super standard spot of course. Post flop I feel was much better, definitely more controlled. I feel I did great with adjusting and making bluff catches in couple of hands that resulted in this whole profit. My red line was in -2 buy ins which is weird but my showdown winnings were through the roof with my value betting and bluff catching today. Super satisfied and happy about it. Will continue taking shot on NL50 with stop loss combined for my SNG roll of 5 buy ins for NL50. If I manage to swing those 5 buy ins I will go back to NL25. If I continue crushing SNGs (variance follows) then I will have no problem staying on NL50 and grinding it full time.
Coaching session, excellent as always. We took some time to talk about concepts that we can and will focus through out the whole year. Coach cleared some very important spot for me for which I am super grateful to him. This kind of spot is a leak that I am sure appears all the way into higher stakes like even NL200+ guys. So I will work to apply it daily in my grinding and try not to repeat that tactical mistake. Overall super useful session in next one we will focus on something i have been waiting for a long time - favorite area of mine! Can't say what it is as other regs might exploit me with it but yes it is something that really gets me going in poker and CG overall!
Grinded only 50 SNGs today as I started my grind at 11! I am still on track for 2k games this month but I will definitely continue with 100 games on days when life activities don't overlap with my time management. Happy how I played, session started brutal variance wise, after that my stronger hands held up vs bad and weak ranges mostly and profit was inevitable. Crushed HU, now doing it even more so thanks to my CG studying past 2.5 months!
Here is the SNG graph for March (150 games - 8.27 hours)
Here is distribution graph (25% vs 16% HU, 18% Bubble, 17% , 16% and 6%)
[size=24]March Challenge[/size]
Things completed so far in the challenge:
CG studying 3.5/45 hours
Coaching 2/30 hours
CG coaching sessions 1.5/12 hours
CG grind 4/60 hours
SNG grind 8.27/100 hours (150/2000)
[size=24]2015 Challenge[/size]
Things completed so far in the challenge:
76/300 Study hours
45.5/300 Coaching sessions
227.77/1500 Grinding hours
24/150 Work out
*** 98.5 hours Live Poker *** (tons of additional hours lost in waiting for games to start!)
Here is the plan for today (3rd of March):
Wake up, eat healthy breakfast and drink tons of water
Coaching session with Kornel 11-12
Work on the game by myself 1 hour minimum 12:15-1:15pm (filters from assignment)
Meet with female friend for a coffee 2-3pm or so
Lunch brake
Online CG grind 2 hours with brake in between sessions
*Working on the game with fellow reg for 1 hour more before SNG grind*
Grind 100 SNGs (2 sessions with brake in between)
Check daily tracking threads and respond to all of them
Update blog and challenge + reflect on mission and vision
03-03-2015
, 10:30 PM
03-04-2015
, 10:35 PM
[size=24]March Challenge
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Day 4
Studied with fellow reg 3 hours + additional study on my own 1 hour (4 total)
Coached 2 hours
Grinded online CG 4 hours
Went for coffee with best friend
Taught Guitar
Responded in daily tracking threads + uploaded 1 more video for my students
Total 10 hours of Poker related activity
Very productive day despite internet problems in the evening.
My SNG grind could not happen but this time it was all about internet problem. For 2 hours straight there was a problem with signal that kept breaking up constantly. This is one huge draw back to living here in this part of my town and in this apartment. I swear that I haven't meet a person who has such bad luck with internet or electronic devices like I do here. Times like these make me miss Gevgelija where I didn't have a single problem with internet or even Herceg Novi (even better) where I definitely see myself in the future.
CG grind was interesting to say the least. I took a shot at NL100 towards the end of the night and lost KK to AA vs spewy reg from NL50 but managed to decrease losses to half buy in there only (on low sample). NL50 was brutal I feel with tons of setups (including KK on AA of course
but I also had some (maybe 2-3-4, will check tomorrow) river bets that could have gone better (either sizing issue or not narrowing opponents range enough where I could have saved money). Overall there were tons of setups in March and I have very strong faith about my game improving and being ready to grind NL50 full time very soon.
I will continue doing NL50 with 3 more buy ins stop loss that is if with SNGs my roll doesn't decrease. If I turn some losses on SNGs I will drop down NL50 immediately and settle with NL25 while rebuilding (as initially planed). On the other hand if SNG winnings keep going up I will continue with NL50. Tomorrow I have 2nd coaching session since start of the deal with my coach and I look forward to the session and his advices.
Working on the game with fellow reg was great. We worked in the morning 1.5 hours and evening 1.5 hours. Lots of hands reviewed, combo counting, discussing different lines and where and how those would or wouldn't work. As usual super useful and already look forward to tomorrows sesion!
I studied on my own by watching video and taking notes + reviewing portion of hands with specific filter before fellow reg joined me.
Coaching was with Jernej and my brother. With Jernej I went over specific filter and session went really well. With my brother we covered new game plan due to ante introduction, how to adjust and readjust in future games. Felt that both sessions went well and that they both will have a lot to learn from them and apply the knowledge in future games.
I could write about guitar teaching but I know you are mostly interested in poker part of activities so will stop with the days update there
[size=24]March Challenge[/size]
Things completed so far in the challenge:
CG studying 9/45 hours
Coaching 7.2/30 hours
CG coaching sessions 1.5/12 hours
CG grind 10.41/60 hours
SNG grind 8.27/100 hours (150/2000)
[size=24]2015 Challenge[/size]
Things completed so far in the challenge:
82/300 Study hours
50.7/300 Coaching sessions
234.18/1500 Grinding hours
24/150 Work out
*** 98.5 hours Live Poker *** (tons of additional hours lost in waiting for games to start!)
Here is the plan for today (5th of March):
Wake up early, eat healthy breakfast and drink tons of water
CG session with my coach 11-12:30
Working on the game with fellow reg 1 hour minimum (12:45-1:45+)
Coach my brother, complete the things we worked on today (0.5 to 1 hour)
Meet with best friend for coffee and to grind ZOOM 1 hour
Lunch brake
Grind ZOOM 1 more hour
Grind 100 SNGs in the evening or minimum go for 75 in 1 single session (depending on all the activities before it!)
Respond to Daily Tracking threads on forum
Update blog and challenge + reflect on mission and vision
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Day 4
Studied with fellow reg 3 hours + additional study on my own 1 hour (4 total)
Coached 2 hours
Grinded online CG 4 hours
Went for coffee with best friend
Taught Guitar
Responded in daily tracking threads + uploaded 1 more video for my students
Total 10 hours of Poker related activity
Very productive day despite internet problems in the evening.
My SNG grind could not happen but this time it was all about internet problem. For 2 hours straight there was a problem with signal that kept breaking up constantly. This is one huge draw back to living here in this part of my town and in this apartment. I swear that I haven't meet a person who has such bad luck with internet or electronic devices like I do here. Times like these make me miss Gevgelija where I didn't have a single problem with internet or even Herceg Novi (even better) where I definitely see myself in the future.
CG grind was interesting to say the least. I took a shot at NL100 towards the end of the night and lost KK to AA vs spewy reg from NL50 but managed to decrease losses to half buy in there only (on low sample). NL50 was brutal I feel with tons of setups (including KK on AA of course
but I also had some (maybe 2-3-4, will check tomorrow) river bets that could have gone better (either sizing issue or not narrowing opponents range enough where I could have saved money). Overall there were tons of setups in March and I have very strong faith about my game improving and being ready to grind NL50 full time very soon.I will continue doing NL50 with 3 more buy ins stop loss that is if with SNGs my roll doesn't decrease. If I turn some losses on SNGs I will drop down NL50 immediately and settle with NL25 while rebuilding (as initially planed). On the other hand if SNG winnings keep going up I will continue with NL50. Tomorrow I have 2nd coaching session since start of the deal with my coach and I look forward to the session and his advices.
Working on the game with fellow reg was great. We worked in the morning 1.5 hours and evening 1.5 hours. Lots of hands reviewed, combo counting, discussing different lines and where and how those would or wouldn't work. As usual super useful and already look forward to tomorrows sesion!
I studied on my own by watching video and taking notes + reviewing portion of hands with specific filter before fellow reg joined me.
Coaching was with Jernej and my brother. With Jernej I went over specific filter and session went really well. With my brother we covered new game plan due to ante introduction, how to adjust and readjust in future games. Felt that both sessions went well and that they both will have a lot to learn from them and apply the knowledge in future games.
I could write about guitar teaching but I know you are mostly interested in poker part of activities so will stop with the days update there
[size=24]March Challenge[/size]
Things completed so far in the challenge:
CG studying 9/45 hours
Coaching 7.2/30 hours
CG coaching sessions 1.5/12 hours
CG grind 10.41/60 hours
SNG grind 8.27/100 hours (150/2000)
[size=24]2015 Challenge[/size]
Things completed so far in the challenge:
82/300 Study hours
50.7/300 Coaching sessions
234.18/1500 Grinding hours
24/150 Work out
*** 98.5 hours Live Poker *** (tons of additional hours lost in waiting for games to start!)
Here is the plan for today (5th of March):
Wake up early, eat healthy breakfast and drink tons of water
CG session with my coach 11-12:30
Working on the game with fellow reg 1 hour minimum (12:45-1:45+)
Coach my brother, complete the things we worked on today (0.5 to 1 hour)
Meet with best friend for coffee and to grind ZOOM 1 hour
Lunch brake
Grind ZOOM 1 more hour
Grind 100 SNGs in the evening or minimum go for 75 in 1 single session (depending on all the activities before it!)
Respond to Daily Tracking threads on forum
Update blog and challenge + reflect on mission and vision
03-06-2015
, 11:13 PM
03-07-2015
, 09:02 PM
[size=24]March Challenge
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Day 7
Worked on the game with fellow reg 1 hour + reviewed 1 hour hands on my own (total 2 hours)
Grinded online CG 5.7 hours
Went with best friend for coffee
Watched Partizan vs Donji Srem game
Watched in between grinding Alleigence
Total of 7.7 hours of Poker activity today.
Semi productive day considering only 7-8 vs 9+ hours I have been putting in.
It all started with going to bed at 5am last night, waking up around 10:20 then sleeping for 40ish minutes more and then getting to work with fellow reg right away.
We worked together 1 hour as he had to finish his other life obligations, but we reviewed some lost hands from last night. We found standard spots where I got bad beated but also some missed spots for bluffing. My working on the game was looking into those lost hands and I have to say that I did find some leaks again on river but I found brutal bad beats really that would probably make people quit poker like right away
Grinding was just brutal. I don't remember last time I had such a brutal setup day, besides yeseterday. Today I lost about 400$, 200$ on each NL50 and NL100. On NL50 there were tons of setups (JJvsQQ,KKvsAA,lossing with 77 vs K9 on K97Kx after flop went x/r on my end etc) and for NL100 was even bigger joke. I will post 1 hand just for laughs along with graphs for the day of course. I also reloaded my Stars account with additional 500 euro. I will clear 40k FPPs tomorrow and will consider buying that 600$ bonus right away to lower variance.
In general, again I felt that my game for NL100 is not far away from 3bb/100, would say it is BE at worst at this point of what I have seen so far. I am putting opponents on ranges very well and I feel that I am really close to making this switch there within 2 months tops from today(my wish, hope towards which my action steps are leading into). In the meanwhile NL50 is just full of bad river call tendencies that kinda remind me of live poker type of calls which I am just like laughing at. NL25 is far easier and more exploitable vs NL50 and NL100 but NL100 is the closest to poker level that I want to be playing at really - without sunding too judgmental to anybody playing lower than NL100!
I will also consider if dropping $ happens in future more to just step it on like crazy on SNGs for a month or two and really just do 1 hour of CG grinding + reviewing while I rebuild roll and make like 3-4k$. With this money I can buy myself some additional time with life expenses + shot taking at NL100 while playing NL50 steady.
Tomorrow I will most likely do just SNGs since I left them behind in this week so far and from Monday I will make a decision with my coach wether or not to do NL25 before I rebuild (which I feel is the safest option now considering how big swings can catch me on NL50 and NL100) or to stay on NL50 with my level of play. Will update the blog with decision on Monday of course but my decision right now due to roll restrictions will be to drop down to NL25 and play for a week and rebuild roll with more emphasis on SNGs as well in the next week!
[size=24]March Challenge[/size]
Things completed so far in the challenge:
CG studying 17.5/45 hours
Coaching 8.7/30 hours
CG coaching sessions 3/12 hours
CG grind 24.36/60 hours
SNG grind 11.77/100 hours (225/2000)
[size=24]2015 Challenge[/size]
Things completed so far in the challenge:
90.5/300 Study hours
52.3/300 Coaching sessions
248.13/1500 Grinding hours
24/150 Work out
*** 98.5 hours Live Poker *** (tons of additional hours lost in waiting for games to start!)
Here is the plan for tomorrow (8th of March):
Wake up earlier and spent time with family from morning to lunch time
Afternoon work on the game 1 hour minimum, going over hands from past 2 days with saw showdown lost hand
In the evening go for 2x50 games SNG grinding and take a day off from CG grinding
In between eat dinner and take brakes to regenerate
Respond to Daily Tracking threads of students
Update blog and challenge + reflect on mission and vision
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Day 7
Worked on the game with fellow reg 1 hour + reviewed 1 hour hands on my own (total 2 hours)
Grinded online CG 5.7 hours
Went with best friend for coffee
Watched Partizan vs Donji Srem game
Watched in between grinding Alleigence
Total of 7.7 hours of Poker activity today.
Semi productive day considering only 7-8 vs 9+ hours I have been putting in.
It all started with going to bed at 5am last night, waking up around 10:20 then sleeping for 40ish minutes more and then getting to work with fellow reg right away.
We worked together 1 hour as he had to finish his other life obligations, but we reviewed some lost hands from last night. We found standard spots where I got bad beated but also some missed spots for bluffing. My working on the game was looking into those lost hands and I have to say that I did find some leaks again on river but I found brutal bad beats really that would probably make people quit poker like right away
Grinding was just brutal. I don't remember last time I had such a brutal setup day, besides yeseterday. Today I lost about 400$, 200$ on each NL50 and NL100. On NL50 there were tons of setups (JJvsQQ,KKvsAA,lossing with 77 vs K9 on K97Kx after flop went x/r on my end etc) and for NL100 was even bigger joke. I will post 1 hand just for laughs along with graphs for the day of course. I also reloaded my Stars account with additional 500 euro. I will clear 40k FPPs tomorrow and will consider buying that 600$ bonus right away to lower variance.
In general, again I felt that my game for NL100 is not far away from 3bb/100, would say it is BE at worst at this point of what I have seen so far. I am putting opponents on ranges very well and I feel that I am really close to making this switch there within 2 months tops from today(my wish, hope towards which my action steps are leading into). In the meanwhile NL50 is just full of bad river call tendencies that kinda remind me of live poker type of calls which I am just like laughing at. NL25 is far easier and more exploitable vs NL50 and NL100 but NL100 is the closest to poker level that I want to be playing at really - without sunding too judgmental to anybody playing lower than NL100!
I will also consider if dropping $ happens in future more to just step it on like crazy on SNGs for a month or two and really just do 1 hour of CG grinding + reviewing while I rebuild roll and make like 3-4k$. With this money I can buy myself some additional time with life expenses + shot taking at NL100 while playing NL50 steady.
Tomorrow I will most likely do just SNGs since I left them behind in this week so far and from Monday I will make a decision with my coach wether or not to do NL25 before I rebuild (which I feel is the safest option now considering how big swings can catch me on NL50 and NL100) or to stay on NL50 with my level of play. Will update the blog with decision on Monday of course but my decision right now due to roll restrictions will be to drop down to NL25 and play for a week and rebuild roll with more emphasis on SNGs as well in the next week!
[size=24]March Challenge[/size]
Things completed so far in the challenge:
CG studying 17.5/45 hours
Coaching 8.7/30 hours
CG coaching sessions 3/12 hours
CG grind 24.36/60 hours
SNG grind 11.77/100 hours (225/2000)
[size=24]2015 Challenge[/size]
Things completed so far in the challenge:
90.5/300 Study hours
52.3/300 Coaching sessions
248.13/1500 Grinding hours
24/150 Work out
*** 98.5 hours Live Poker *** (tons of additional hours lost in waiting for games to start!)
Here is the plan for tomorrow (8th of March):
Wake up earlier and spent time with family from morning to lunch time
Afternoon work on the game 1 hour minimum, going over hands from past 2 days with saw showdown lost hand
In the evening go for 2x50 games SNG grinding and take a day off from CG grinding
In between eat dinner and take brakes to regenerate
Respond to Daily Tracking threads of students
Update blog and challenge + reflect on mission and vision
03-07-2015
, 09:03 PM
Here is the graph for CG today merged for NL50 and NL100
Now onto some brutal hands I mentioned
HAND 1
[spoiler]Poker Stars $0.50/$1 No Limit Hold'em - 6 players - View hand 2669117
DeucesCracked Poker Videos Hand History Converter
BTN: $192.62
SB: $100.50
BB: $132.99
UTG: $100.00
MP: $133.60
Hero (CO): $283.41
Pre Flop: ($1.50) Hero is CO with 9
9
2 folds, Hero raises to $2.20, 2 folds, BB raises to $8, Hero calls $5.80
Flop: ($16.50) 8 9
6 (2 players)
BB bets $11, Hero calls $11
Turn: ($38.50) 8 (2 players)
BB bets $27, Hero calls $27
River: ($92.50) Q (2 players)
BB bets $86.99 all in, Hero calls $86.99
Final Pot: $266.48
BB shows Q Q (a full house, Queens full of Eights)
Hero shows 9 9 (a full house, Nines full of Eights)
BB wins $263.68
(Rake: $2.80)
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HAND 2
[spoiler]Poker Stars $0.50/$1 No Limit Hold'em - 6 players - View hand 2669120
DeucesCracked Poker Videos Hand History Converter
Hero (BTN): $148.14
SB: $143.96
BB: $118.05
UTG: $128.76
MP: $161.22
CO: $106.93
Pre Flop: ($1.50) Hero is BTN with Q A
2 folds, CO raises to $2.65, Hero raises to $9.45, SB calls $8.95, 1 fold, CO raises to $28.50, Hero calls $19.05, SB raises to $143.96 all in, 1 fold, Hero calls $115.46
Flop: ($317.42) J J
6 (2 players - 1 is all in)
Turn: ($317.42) 2 (2 players - 1 is all in)
River: ($317.42) T (2 players - 1 is all in)
Final Pot: $317.42
Hero shows Q A (a pair of Jacks)
SB shows J A (three of a kind, Jacks)
SB wins $314.62
(Rake: $2.80)
[/spoiler]
HAND 3
[spoiler]Poker Stars $0.25/$0.50 No Limit Hold'em - 6 players - View hand 2669144
DeucesCracked Poker Videos Hand History Converter
BTN: $157.87
SB: $89.42
Hero (BB): $71.66
UTG: $56.12
MP: $50.69
CO: $118.40
Pre Flop: ($0.75) Hero is BB with 7 7
2 folds, CO raises to $1.75, 2 folds, Hero calls $1.25
Flop: ($3.75) 7 9 K (2 players)
Hero checks, CO bets $3, Hero raises to $9.32, CO raises to $24, Hero calls $14.68
Turn: ($51.75) K (2 players)
Hero checks, CO checks
River: ($51.75) 3 (2 players)
Hero bets $45.91 all in, CO calls $45.91
Final Pot: $143.57
Hero shows 7 7 (a full house, Sevens full of Kings)
CO shows K 9 (a full house, Kings full of Nines)
CO wins $141.07
(Rake: $2.50)
[/spoiler]
HAND 4
[spoiler]Poker Stars $0.25/$0.50 No Limit Hold'em - 6 players - View hand 2669145
DeucesCracked Poker Videos Hand History Converter
BTN: $62.27
SB: $13.87
BB: $98.40
UTG: $17.75
MP: $108.96
Hero (CO): $51.25
Pre Flop: ($0.75) Hero is CO with Q Q
2 folds, Hero raises to $1.10, BTN raises to $4, 2 folds, Hero raises to $9.50, BTN raises to $62.27 all in, Hero calls $41.75 all in
Flop: ($103.25) 7 6 8 (2 players - 2 are all in)
Turn: ($103.25) A (2 players - 2 are all in)
River: ($103.25) 8 (2 players - 2 are all in)
Final Pot: $103.25
BTN shows A 3 (two pair, Aces and Eights)
Hero shows Q Q (two pair, Queens and Eights)
BTN wins $100.75
(Rake: $2.50)
[/spoiler]
You get the idea :appl:
rofit:
Now onto some brutal hands I mentioned
HAND 1
[spoiler]Poker Stars $0.50/$1 No Limit Hold'em - 6 players - View hand 2669117
DeucesCracked Poker Videos Hand History Converter
BTN: $192.62
SB: $100.50
BB: $132.99
UTG: $100.00
MP: $133.60
Hero (CO): $283.41
Pre Flop: ($1.50) Hero is CO with 9
92 folds, Hero raises to $2.20, 2 folds, BB raises to $8, Hero calls $5.80
Flop: ($16.50) 8
9 6 (2 players)BB bets $11, Hero calls $11
Turn: ($38.50) 8
(2 players)BB bets $27, Hero calls $27
River: ($92.50) Q
(2 players)BB bets $86.99 all in, Hero calls $86.99
Final Pot: $266.48
BB shows Q
Q (a full house, Queens full of Eights)Hero shows 9
9 (a full house, Nines full of Eights)BB wins $263.68
(Rake: $2.80)
[/spoiler]
HAND 2
[spoiler]Poker Stars $0.50/$1 No Limit Hold'em - 6 players - View hand 2669120
DeucesCracked Poker Videos Hand History Converter
Hero (BTN): $148.14
SB: $143.96
BB: $118.05
UTG: $128.76
MP: $161.22
CO: $106.93
Pre Flop: ($1.50) Hero is BTN with Q
A2 folds, CO raises to $2.65, Hero raises to $9.45, SB calls $8.95, 1 fold, CO raises to $28.50, Hero calls $19.05, SB raises to $143.96 all in, 1 fold, Hero calls $115.46
Flop: ($317.42) J
J 6 (2 players - 1 is all in)Turn: ($317.42) 2
(2 players - 1 is all in)River: ($317.42) T
(2 players - 1 is all in)Final Pot: $317.42
Hero shows Q
A (a pair of Jacks)SB shows J
A (three of a kind, Jacks)SB wins $314.62
(Rake: $2.80)
[/spoiler]
HAND 3
[spoiler]Poker Stars $0.25/$0.50 No Limit Hold'em - 6 players - View hand 2669144
DeucesCracked Poker Videos Hand History Converter
BTN: $157.87
SB: $89.42
Hero (BB): $71.66
UTG: $56.12
MP: $50.69
CO: $118.40
Pre Flop: ($0.75) Hero is BB with 7
72 folds, CO raises to $1.75, 2 folds, Hero calls $1.25
Flop: ($3.75) 7
9 K (2 players)Hero checks, CO bets $3, Hero raises to $9.32, CO raises to $24, Hero calls $14.68
Turn: ($51.75) K
(2 players)Hero checks, CO checks
River: ($51.75) 3
(2 players)Hero bets $45.91 all in, CO calls $45.91
Final Pot: $143.57
Hero shows 7
7 (a full house, Sevens full of Kings)CO shows K
9 (a full house, Kings full of Nines)CO wins $141.07
(Rake: $2.50)
[/spoiler]
HAND 4
[spoiler]Poker Stars $0.25/$0.50 No Limit Hold'em - 6 players - View hand 2669145
DeucesCracked Poker Videos Hand History Converter
BTN: $62.27
SB: $13.87
BB: $98.40
UTG: $17.75
MP: $108.96
Hero (CO): $51.25
Pre Flop: ($0.75) Hero is CO with Q
Q2 folds, Hero raises to $1.10, BTN raises to $4, 2 folds, Hero raises to $9.50, BTN raises to $62.27 all in, Hero calls $41.75 all in
Flop: ($103.25) 7
6 8 (2 players - 2 are all in)Turn: ($103.25) A
(2 players - 2 are all in)River: ($103.25) 8
(2 players - 2 are all in)Final Pot: $103.25
BTN shows A
3 (two pair, Aces and Eights)Hero shows Q
Q (two pair, Queens and Eights)BTN wins $100.75
(Rake: $2.50)
[/spoiler]
You get the idea :appl:
rofit:
03-08-2015
, 09:42 PM
03-10-2015
, 06:05 AM
03-10-2015
, 08:02 AM
03-10-2015
, 11:33 PM
[size=24]March Challenge[/size]
Day 10
Worked on the game 2.5 hours (2 hours HH evaluation, 0.5 hour video watching)
Grinded online CG 2 hours
Grinded SNGs 50 games 2.75 hours
Responded in Daily Tracking threads 0.5 hour
Connected with another crusher CG player and coach via Skype 1.5 hours
Went with best friend for coffee
Total 7.75 hours of Poker activity.
Another productive day
Will just mention about working on the game and connecting with another CG crusher.
Spent 2 hours doing 4 hands in detail using both Equilab and FlopZilla to help me with range brake down of course but that was not all of course. I basically spent 0.5 hour per hand and it was very brutal experience as during the whole process I wrote for each hand a lot of eye openers in the conclusion part of the hand analysis. The idea is to write down both standard and alternative lines, understand how to play hand vs different opponent types and their tendencies and how certain cards on further streets affect my decisions. Besides this I also looked into what specific hands from both sides of the ranges are good to barrel or call with and how this can be exploited or balanced.
How well studying went today gives me wings and hope for future in CG as I am positive now more than ever that people are rarely going to put this many hours to work on their game and improve - only highly inspired ones who won't accept failure and have clearly defined goals. I will go that far to say that things I am doing now a lot of people on NL100 don't know + am sure there are guys on NL200 ZOOM who are starting or have started doing this fairly recently. So tons of space to improve and become better and I am trying while improving to keep up with the learning curve in today's games required to beat mid stakes and up. Very happy how things are going and obviously look forward to next 9 and half months and then looking back how far I have gone with my improvement.
0.5 extra work was on 1 video that uses a bit different approach then the one I was taught by my coach. Wanted to check out the other approach, see what they are trying to "sell" me with this information and take it back to coach for further discussion. Being exposed to new material can't be a bad thing, on contrary it can just get me to understand things even better and recognize what is more preferable approach in my opinion based on math analysis and from in game experience.
Connecting with CG was just brutal. I sent him message on Skype about video of his that I watched recently and studied, sharing my opinion on it. It turned out great since we had other things in common as well and had a great conversation that lasted easily close to 1.5 hour. I am happy about it obviously and in future we might arrange some collaboration of a sort but more on that when we get to that bridge. For now I can just say that I am happy that I made contact and talked with one of great CG players that even nowdays crushes with high win rates. Look forward to our future collaboration of any sort really! Perhaps one day in the future we may meet in person in USA - which was brought up during todays talk
By the way, I have decided to create another goal that I feel will help me reach my main goal aligned with my mission and vision sooner. It is to do daily minimum 3 hands with full in depth analyses (range brake down pre and post flop, equity calculations, listing out standard and alternative lines, how to adjust vs what type of opponent and to take useful conclusion from every single hand). Today I did 4 hands which took 2 hours, tomorrow I will go for minimum 3 more hands. I plan to upload all these analyzed hands in DropBox folder for my coach. Hopefully by the end of the year I will have 1000 analyzed hands! So this goes into yearly goals starting from today even tough so far since start of the year I have analyzed minimum 50 hands in depth.
[size=24]March Challenge[/size]
Things completed so far in the challenge:
CG studying 26/45 hours
Coaching 11.7/30 hours
CG coaching sessions 4.5/12 hours
CG grind 32/60 hours
SNG grind 17.12/100 hours (276/2000)
[size=24]2015 Challenge[/size]
Things completed so far in the challenge:
99/300 Study hours
55.2/300 Coaching sessions
260.55/1500 Grinding hours
25/150 Work out
***4/1000 Hands analyzed in depth***
*** 98.5 hours Live Poker *** (tons of additional hours lost in waiting for games to start!)
Here is the plan for today (11th of March):
Wake up by 10:30, eat breakfast and drink tons of water
Work on the game with fellow reg 1 hour minimum 11-12
Meet with best friend for coffee and grind CG 1 hour
Lunch brake
Work on the game 1 more hour by reviewing the hands
Grind 50 SNGs
Dinner brake
Respond to Daily Tracking threads
Work on the game some more 0.5 to 1 hour and prepare for Thursday CG coaching
Update blog and challenge + reflect on mission and vision
Day 10
Worked on the game 2.5 hours (2 hours HH evaluation, 0.5 hour video watching)
Grinded online CG 2 hours
Grinded SNGs 50 games 2.75 hours
Responded in Daily Tracking threads 0.5 hour
Connected with another crusher CG player and coach via Skype 1.5 hours
Went with best friend for coffee
Total 7.75 hours of Poker activity.
Another productive day
Will just mention about working on the game and connecting with another CG crusher.
Spent 2 hours doing 4 hands in detail using both Equilab and FlopZilla to help me with range brake down of course but that was not all of course. I basically spent 0.5 hour per hand and it was very brutal experience as during the whole process I wrote for each hand a lot of eye openers in the conclusion part of the hand analysis. The idea is to write down both standard and alternative lines, understand how to play hand vs different opponent types and their tendencies and how certain cards on further streets affect my decisions. Besides this I also looked into what specific hands from both sides of the ranges are good to barrel or call with and how this can be exploited or balanced.
How well studying went today gives me wings and hope for future in CG as I am positive now more than ever that people are rarely going to put this many hours to work on their game and improve - only highly inspired ones who won't accept failure and have clearly defined goals. I will go that far to say that things I am doing now a lot of people on NL100 don't know + am sure there are guys on NL200 ZOOM who are starting or have started doing this fairly recently. So tons of space to improve and become better and I am trying while improving to keep up with the learning curve in today's games required to beat mid stakes and up. Very happy how things are going and obviously look forward to next 9 and half months and then looking back how far I have gone with my improvement.
0.5 extra work was on 1 video that uses a bit different approach then the one I was taught by my coach. Wanted to check out the other approach, see what they are trying to "sell" me with this information and take it back to coach for further discussion. Being exposed to new material can't be a bad thing, on contrary it can just get me to understand things even better and recognize what is more preferable approach in my opinion based on math analysis and from in game experience.
Connecting with CG was just brutal. I sent him message on Skype about video of his that I watched recently and studied, sharing my opinion on it. It turned out great since we had other things in common as well and had a great conversation that lasted easily close to 1.5 hour. I am happy about it obviously and in future we might arrange some collaboration of a sort but more on that when we get to that bridge. For now I can just say that I am happy that I made contact and talked with one of great CG players that even nowdays crushes with high win rates. Look forward to our future collaboration of any sort really! Perhaps one day in the future we may meet in person in USA - which was brought up during todays talk
By the way, I have decided to create another goal that I feel will help me reach my main goal aligned with my mission and vision sooner. It is to do daily minimum 3 hands with full in depth analyses (range brake down pre and post flop, equity calculations, listing out standard and alternative lines, how to adjust vs what type of opponent and to take useful conclusion from every single hand). Today I did 4 hands which took 2 hours, tomorrow I will go for minimum 3 more hands. I plan to upload all these analyzed hands in DropBox folder for my coach. Hopefully by the end of the year I will have 1000 analyzed hands! So this goes into yearly goals starting from today even tough so far since start of the year I have analyzed minimum 50 hands in depth.
[size=24]March Challenge[/size]
Things completed so far in the challenge:
CG studying 26/45 hours
Coaching 11.7/30 hours
CG coaching sessions 4.5/12 hours
CG grind 32/60 hours
SNG grind 17.12/100 hours (276/2000)
[size=24]2015 Challenge[/size]
Things completed so far in the challenge:
99/300 Study hours
55.2/300 Coaching sessions
260.55/1500 Grinding hours
25/150 Work out
***4/1000 Hands analyzed in depth***
*** 98.5 hours Live Poker *** (tons of additional hours lost in waiting for games to start!)
Here is the plan for today (11th of March):
Wake up by 10:30, eat breakfast and drink tons of water
Work on the game with fellow reg 1 hour minimum 11-12
Meet with best friend for coffee and grind CG 1 hour
Lunch brake
Work on the game 1 more hour by reviewing the hands
Grind 50 SNGs
Dinner brake
Respond to Daily Tracking threads
Work on the game some more 0.5 to 1 hour and prepare for Thursday CG coaching
Update blog and challenge + reflect on mission and vision
03-10-2015
, 11:42 PM
Sure thing I will respond to your question, just an observation 1st.
Games are now longer with ante not shorter since additional blind level was imported. Also HU is now played deeper, mostly with 30bb+ easily so it gives you even more post flop edge.
In 2015 I had around 6 or 7% ROI (now on laptop, PT4 without complete database is on desktop). In February I grinded about 300-400 SNGs and have 7%+ EV ROI in this low sample of games. I use Sharkystrator and find the games with ante addition even easier. So I think 7% can be achieved pre RB, it just depends on your current skill level, if you are table selecting or not, what your overall goals are (mass multi tabling for some fixed hourly or less tables more focus higher ROI less hourly etc).
Let me know if I can help in any way and hopefully this response hit the spot
03-11-2015
, 09:29 AM
In 2015 I had around 6 or 7% ROI (now on laptop, PT4 without complete database is on desktop). In February I grinded about 300-400 SNGs and have 7%+ EV ROI in this low sample of games So I think 7% can be achieved pre RB,
Cheers mate. For some reason I knew your answer would be detailed and a good one.
I love the new structure personally. It’s encouraged me to swerve back to STT’s.
I use Sharkystrator and find the games with ante addition even easier.
Never heard of this, I will check it out.
It just depends on your current skill level, if you are table selecting or not, what your overall goals are (mass multi tabling for some fixed hourly or less tables more focus higher ROI less hourly etc).
About the hourly vs win rate thing. I ‘m actually at a bit of a crossroads here. Essentially, my love is for mtt’s but I don’t have time to play them all that often. I see STT’s as a good way to get comfortable playing at relevant stack depths etc. So I don’t really table select I just play when I can and try to learn from it… I do also play cash occasionally and recently HU because it seems a great way to learn (this last part is only a new venture).
Due to my reasons for playing I don’t want to get too bogged down in mastering the ICM specific to this format which I guess caps how much I can win at the 15’s. But at the same time I like the idea of challenging myself more and now there is more postflop it might be ok, and I do have some ICM understanding.
I do have a low sample of 15’s and certainly feel like I can beat them or get pretty close right now, but because my volume is so low (hence rakeback pretty much meaningless) I almost feel like I can make as much per game at $7’s seen as I seem to do pretty good on those.
One thing I thought about was treating STTs as unofficial “Steps” games.
i.e., run it up from $7, and if I ship a $15 I get to play a $55 mtt. That might work with my goals.
Might see you at the tables...
Cheers mate. For some reason I knew your answer would be detailed and a good one.
I love the new structure personally. It’s encouraged me to swerve back to STT’s.
I use Sharkystrator and find the games with ante addition even easier.
Never heard of this, I will check it out.
It just depends on your current skill level, if you are table selecting or not, what your overall goals are (mass multi tabling for some fixed hourly or less tables more focus higher ROI less hourly etc).
About the hourly vs win rate thing. I ‘m actually at a bit of a crossroads here. Essentially, my love is for mtt’s but I don’t have time to play them all that often. I see STT’s as a good way to get comfortable playing at relevant stack depths etc. So I don’t really table select I just play when I can and try to learn from it… I do also play cash occasionally and recently HU because it seems a great way to learn (this last part is only a new venture).
Due to my reasons for playing I don’t want to get too bogged down in mastering the ICM specific to this format which I guess caps how much I can win at the 15’s. But at the same time I like the idea of challenging myself more and now there is more postflop it might be ok, and I do have some ICM understanding.
I do have a low sample of 15’s and certainly feel like I can beat them or get pretty close right now, but because my volume is so low (hence rakeback pretty much meaningless) I almost feel like I can make as much per game at $7’s seen as I seem to do pretty good on those.
One thing I thought about was treating STTs as unofficial “Steps” games.
i.e., run it up from $7, and if I ship a $15 I get to play a $55 mtt. That might work with my goals.
Might see you at the tables...
03-11-2015
, 10:16 PM
03-11-2015
, 10:35 PM
03-14-2015
, 08:47 PM
03-15-2015
, 10:30 PM
03-15-2015
, 11:04 PM
Quick update
SNG stats were missing 50 games. I skipped adding 50 more games some day that I was updating.
As situation stands in March so far, after 15 days I have 376 SNGs and 19.55 hours grinded.
Updated this the info in tonight's update
Here is the graph for those games in March:
Distribution for those games is : HU 21% vs 16%, Bubble is 16%, 4th and 5th places 18%,6th 12%
SNG stats were missing 50 games. I skipped adding 50 more games some day that I was updating.
As situation stands in March so far, after 15 days I have 376 SNGs and 19.55 hours grinded.
Updated this the info in tonight's update
Here is the graph for those games in March:
Distribution for those games is : HU 21% vs 16%, Bubble is 16%, 4th and 5th places 18%,6th 12%
03-16-2015
, 09:22 PM
[size=24]March Challenge[/size]
Day 16
Worked on the game 1.5 hour on my own
Grinded online CG 1 hour
Grinded 100 SNGs 5.12 hour
Responded to Daily Tracking threads and hands evaluation 0.75 hour
Went for coffee with best friend
Went to dentist + hanged out with my dad a bit
Bought some things for the house
Watched "The 100" 4-5 episodes while grinding SNGs
About to relax and talk with my brother before hitting the bed
Total 8.86 hours of Poker activity.
Very productive day.
Started out very weird as coaching session with w34z3l was postponed for tomorrow + my friend fellow reg had life obligations he needed to attend so it was moved!
What I ended up doing is eating breakfast and going for coffee with best friend where I grinded 700 hands or so (1 hour 3 tabling) and then stayed additional 1 hour and 45 minutes to work on the game + help my students. In 1 hour I finished 2 in depth hands analysis from which both were really useful especially for NL100+ where opponents would have different ranges in those river spots - basically learned a lot from it. 45 minutes spent responding to students Daily Tracking threads + responding to certain hands after they have already written out their thinking process.
When I got home I then worked 0.5 hour on specific video focusing on my biggest leaks in CG by going through my DB analysis and writing things (potential leaks) down in notepad which I plan to cover in depth with w34z3l. Then it was time for dentist where I spent about 45 minutes with my dad, great part of it was that we talked a lot and really enjoyed it. When getting home, shopped some things for home, ate lunch and then went onto SNG grind.
Speaking of grind, in 100 SNGs I was down 20 buy ins which is just super standard SNG experience really. One of those days where setups are going on left and right + stronger hands not holding up. Despite of it am satisfied with my focus with 3-4 questionable river bluff catches that could have been avoided. Solid for returning to 100 games a day - look forward to 100 games tomorrow, it will be much more difficult to keep this up with coaching sessions and working with the fellow reg(s) but I will push through it these remaining 2 weeks making it really count.
CG grind on the other hand was great, similar to yesterday. Even tough it was Monday and not weekend, I managed to make a bit over 3 buy ins in 700 hands which is great. What was more important is that I am more and more in control of every single spot and range consturction + brake down post flop. This is what brought me to CG and what is keeping me with high intensity to think and get energy to study it day in and day out, just fascinating stuff really.
I am sure I am still making mistakes (if I wasn't would be playing mid stakes already lol) , but far less compared to how I was playing for example 2 or 1 month ago! So improvement in CG is starting to show which I am definitely happy about and thrilled with. Look forward to April and 40k hands in it + getting additional 10.5k hands in March!
Tomorrow CG coaching with w34z3l + working with fellow reg (scrazy from Poker Strategy!) both to which I very much look forward to. Expect update about it tomorrow obviously
[size=24]March Challenge[/size]
Things completed so far in the challenge:
CG studying 38.5/45 hours
Coaching 21.75/30 hours
CG coaching sessions 6/12 hours
CG grind 44/60 hours
SNG grind 24.67/100 hours (476/2000)
[size=24]2015 Challenge[/size]
Things completed so far in the challenge:
111.5/300 Study hours
65.25/300 Coaching sessions
278.97/1500 Grinding hours
26/150 Work out
***16/1000 Hands analyzed in depth***
*** 98.5 hours Live Poker *** (tons of additional hours lost in waiting for games to start!)
Here is the plan for today (17th of March):
Wake up by 9:30am, eat breakfast and drink tons of water
Work with fellow reg scrazy 11-12 reviewing hands with detailed thinking process
CG coaching with w34z3l 12-1:30pm continue with video review from my recorded session + start with biggest leak in my game plan
Meet with best friend for coffee and grind CG 1 hour 2-4pm
Lunch brake with some tv show + responding to Daily Threads
Coaching with Darko 6-7pm or more
Starting with SNG grind 1st session 50 games from 7:30 or 8
Dinner brake
Grinding 2nd SNG session of 50 games
Updating blog and challenge + reflecting on mision and vision
*Arrange time to meet with fellow reg that I always work with for additional 0.5 hour at least!*
Day 16
Worked on the game 1.5 hour on my own
Grinded online CG 1 hour
Grinded 100 SNGs 5.12 hour
Responded to Daily Tracking threads and hands evaluation 0.75 hour
Went for coffee with best friend
Went to dentist + hanged out with my dad a bit
Bought some things for the house
Watched "The 100" 4-5 episodes while grinding SNGs
About to relax and talk with my brother before hitting the bed
Total 8.86 hours of Poker activity.
Very productive day.
Started out very weird as coaching session with w34z3l was postponed for tomorrow + my friend fellow reg had life obligations he needed to attend so it was moved!
What I ended up doing is eating breakfast and going for coffee with best friend where I grinded 700 hands or so (1 hour 3 tabling) and then stayed additional 1 hour and 45 minutes to work on the game + help my students. In 1 hour I finished 2 in depth hands analysis from which both were really useful especially for NL100+ where opponents would have different ranges in those river spots - basically learned a lot from it. 45 minutes spent responding to students Daily Tracking threads + responding to certain hands after they have already written out their thinking process.
When I got home I then worked 0.5 hour on specific video focusing on my biggest leaks in CG by going through my DB analysis and writing things (potential leaks) down in notepad which I plan to cover in depth with w34z3l. Then it was time for dentist where I spent about 45 minutes with my dad, great part of it was that we talked a lot and really enjoyed it. When getting home, shopped some things for home, ate lunch and then went onto SNG grind.
Speaking of grind, in 100 SNGs I was down 20 buy ins which is just super standard SNG experience really. One of those days where setups are going on left and right + stronger hands not holding up. Despite of it am satisfied with my focus with 3-4 questionable river bluff catches that could have been avoided. Solid for returning to 100 games a day - look forward to 100 games tomorrow, it will be much more difficult to keep this up with coaching sessions and working with the fellow reg(s) but I will push through it these remaining 2 weeks making it really count.
CG grind on the other hand was great, similar to yesterday. Even tough it was Monday and not weekend, I managed to make a bit over 3 buy ins in 700 hands which is great. What was more important is that I am more and more in control of every single spot and range consturction + brake down post flop. This is what brought me to CG and what is keeping me with high intensity to think and get energy to study it day in and day out, just fascinating stuff really.
I am sure I am still making mistakes (if I wasn't would be playing mid stakes already lol) , but far less compared to how I was playing for example 2 or 1 month ago! So improvement in CG is starting to show which I am definitely happy about and thrilled with. Look forward to April and 40k hands in it + getting additional 10.5k hands in March!
Tomorrow CG coaching with w34z3l + working with fellow reg (scrazy from Poker Strategy!) both to which I very much look forward to. Expect update about it tomorrow obviously
[size=24]March Challenge[/size]
Things completed so far in the challenge:
CG studying 38.5/45 hours
Coaching 21.75/30 hours
CG coaching sessions 6/12 hours
CG grind 44/60 hours
SNG grind 24.67/100 hours (476/2000)
[size=24]2015 Challenge[/size]
Things completed so far in the challenge:
111.5/300 Study hours
65.25/300 Coaching sessions
278.97/1500 Grinding hours
26/150 Work out
***16/1000 Hands analyzed in depth***
*** 98.5 hours Live Poker *** (tons of additional hours lost in waiting for games to start!)
Here is the plan for today (17th of March):
Wake up by 9:30am, eat breakfast and drink tons of water
Work with fellow reg scrazy 11-12 reviewing hands with detailed thinking process
CG coaching with w34z3l 12-1:30pm continue with video review from my recorded session + start with biggest leak in my game plan
Meet with best friend for coffee and grind CG 1 hour 2-4pm
Lunch brake with some tv show + responding to Daily Threads
Coaching with Darko 6-7pm or more
Starting with SNG grind 1st session 50 games from 7:30 or 8
Dinner brake
Grinding 2nd SNG session of 50 games
Updating blog and challenge + reflecting on mision and vision
*Arrange time to meet with fellow reg that I always work with for additional 0.5 hour at least!*
03-17-2015
, 10:19 PM
[size=24]March Challenge[/size]
Day 17
Had a CG coaching session with w34z3l 1.5 hours
Worked with fellow PS reg scrazy 1 hour on the game
Meet with best friend for coffee
Grinded online CG 2.5 hours
Coached Darko 1 hour
Meet with fellow reg for coffee and to catch up
Read more of Robin Sharma's book "Leader Without a Title"
Grinded SNGs 2.61 hours (40 games)
Studied on my own additional 1 hour (video 30 minutes and going through hands from today)
Total 9.11 hours of Poker activity.
Very pleased with productivity today.
Morning started with coaching with w34z3l. We did 0.5 hour video review from session I recorded last week. Some interesting spots came up within 5-10 minutes of video. It seems like it will take us really long time to go over the whole video in depth and discuss all the possible wrong lines that I might have taken in certain spots. I very much look forward to this as I am improving daily and definitely want to improve more and faster if possible. Remaining 1 hour of the session we looked into what I consider personally to be my biggest leak. w34z3l wrote down 10+ filters for DB analysis and we just ran quickly through some hands using 3-4 filters in the actual session. We found leaks (of course!) which made me very happy because it shoved me that my doubts were correct and I do need to improve in that specific area. We wrote down what 2-3 leaks were and I have made mental note + decision to review daily filters from today to improve the plays. Overall super productive and useful coaching as always. Next one is on Thursday which we will again do the same model (0.5 video review, 1 hour of hh and leak finding/fixing). In the meanwhile as I mentioned, I will daily run 1 or 2 filters (depending on how much time I can take out for studying that day) and just go for as many hands as possible to label them. I still want to continue in depth hand analysis but it is very unlikely that I can maintain 3 hands per day since 1 can take up to 1 hour or more and my time management doesn't have 3 hours just for it (unfortunately) - with less financial pressure I can definitely see myself grinding less and dedicating even more hours to studying but not there yet to make it happen in order to move up to mid stakes faster.
Working with fellow reg was great! We took 1 hand and it took us close to 1.5 hour really to finish it. It was 3 bet pot HJ vs BTN and the board run out was so cool that we ended up with like 4 different conclusions and lines that we could be taking. Funny thing is that we analyzed the hand like it went x/c flop x/c turn and river shove, when in fact hand went like x/c flop x/x turn and under bet river
Regardless of it, I learned so much from the way we did the hand but we will look into the original line on Thursday when we shall do another session together. Thanks my friend very useful stuff - guys you should follow scrazy, he has a blog here on PS and is playing NL50+ ZOOM with emphasis on NL100+ also.
I did 1 hour of studying on my own by watching 0.5 video and 0.5 hour going through today's hands. Sent some to w34z3l but overall happier day by day how my game plan especially post flop and adjusting + readjusting is happening. Expect great things to happen with CG road I am taking just have to stick with such high pace and intensity to push myself for more. I really feel I am missing like 2-3 more hours per day that I would like to use for CG for sure (not to mention for other life activities, could use 48 instead of 24h really!). Once I get to NL100 I can consider doing 8 hours of poker daily but grinding 3 hours, coaching 1 and working on the game 4 hours - that would be ideal formula to get me to NL200+ eventually which will be my next target obviously.
CG grind went very well. My focus was great, thinking process was there, I felt very much in the control of it all. I decided instead of 1 hour to grind 2.5 hours total since I had videos to render on laptop and while waiting for it decided to grind some more. Also in the evening added 3rd table to be NL50 instead of 3x NL25. Think I was doing fairly well in that 1.5 hour session until I lost a big hand in multiway vs another fellow PS reg who is in my opinion (from what I've read on forum from him) probably one of the best regs that I know around right now that is not coach or leading blog or anything like that. Added him via community tool, hopefully we can do some work together in the future, I feel that I can get a very valuable information from him as he played NL200 now is doing NL50 and NL100 on Stars ZOOM and prepping for NL200 (which I believe he is already ready for). I will not post the hand that I lost even tough I feel that over 90% of the time I have value bet when betting flop bet/calling raise turn and then betting river again after all this time he x/c x/r and x/c river to bluff catch. From GTO I like his bluff catch a lot but since he had no reads on me I am not liking it in vacuum at all especially cause it was a multiway hand to start with. Would love to talk to him more about the hand (wrote him PM earlier tonight) and then go for more strategy discussion if he is open for it of course.
Overall CG went well but I am most happy that I am marking dozen hands in session, taking very important notes in all the spots that make sense to me(and timing out yes!) + feeling that NL50 is back for grabs as soon as I build up roll with SNGs.
Coaching with Darko went great. We did sweat session and I pushed Darko to go beyond his limits, increase number of tables and try to get his unconscious competence to kick in and auto pilot. This was done on purpose to see what parts of his game are leaking as I asked him to comment on every single hand both when he was involved or when others were to think of ranges pre and post flop and how to play the hand "correctly". We did spot 3 leaks during the session. Great news is that from those 3, 1 is something that all the players make on all SNG limits the other 2 will just require him to keep reviewing his ranges. Overall very happy how it went and Darko still has tons of place for improvement but his development so far has been great. I can definitely see him becoming pro and making a living with SNGs if he sticks with current habits and pace!
Grinded only 40 SNGs. Traffic was bad and I just started to feel tired to wait for more games. Initial idea was to do 75 games instead of 100 and that's what I put in the Sharkystrator but it didn't work out due to traffic issue. Took me 2.61 hours to grind 40 games. Results wise was up then down, SNGs card distribution late game, variance, HU getting setuped vs aggressive opponents etc. Happy that I did put some games in as by the end of the month realistic target will be more like 1.5k total games especially if I go to Belgrade for 2 days for Berklee event that I got invited to today.
Tomorrow/today Partizan Belgrade plays cup game vs Jagodina at 6pm so I definitely plan to watch that which can greatly affect my grinding. In terms of other things it should be the same if not more since I will not have coaching session and those 1.5 hours can make up with watching the Partizan game but SNG grind can be affected as I will start it very late.
[size=24]March Challenge[/size]
Things completed so far in the challenge:
CG studying 40.5/45 hours
Coaching 22.75/30 hours
CG coaching sessions 7.5/12 hours
CG grind 46.5/60 hours
SNG grind 27.28/100 hours (516/2000)
[size=24]2015 Challenge[/size]
Things completed so far in the challenge:
113.5/300 Study hours
66.25/300 Coaching sessions
284.08/1500 Grinding hours
26/150 Work out
***17/1000 Hands analyzed in depth***
*** 98.5 hours Live Poker *** (tons of additional hours lost in waiting for games to start!)
Here is the plan for today (18th of March):
Wake up by 10am, eat breakfast, go for some grocery shoping and run the laundry
Working on the game with fellow reg 1 hour minimum 11-12
Meet with best friend for coffee and grind CG 1 hour
Lunch brake
Study 1 more hour minimum by doing leak fixing in my biggest leak area + prepare for w34z3l's coaching on Thursday
Respond to Daily Tracking threads from students and in hand evaluation board (1 hour minimum)
Watch Partizan Belgrade vs Jagodina game 6-8pm
Dinner brake
Grind either 75 SNGs in 1 session or do 2 x 50 SNGs depending on energy levels
Update blog and challenge + reflect on mission and vision
Day 17
Had a CG coaching session with w34z3l 1.5 hours
Worked with fellow PS reg scrazy 1 hour on the game
Meet with best friend for coffee
Grinded online CG 2.5 hours
Coached Darko 1 hour
Meet with fellow reg for coffee and to catch up
Read more of Robin Sharma's book "Leader Without a Title"
Grinded SNGs 2.61 hours (40 games)
Studied on my own additional 1 hour (video 30 minutes and going through hands from today)
Total 9.11 hours of Poker activity.
Very pleased with productivity today.
Morning started with coaching with w34z3l. We did 0.5 hour video review from session I recorded last week. Some interesting spots came up within 5-10 minutes of video. It seems like it will take us really long time to go over the whole video in depth and discuss all the possible wrong lines that I might have taken in certain spots. I very much look forward to this as I am improving daily and definitely want to improve more and faster if possible. Remaining 1 hour of the session we looked into what I consider personally to be my biggest leak. w34z3l wrote down 10+ filters for DB analysis and we just ran quickly through some hands using 3-4 filters in the actual session. We found leaks (of course!) which made me very happy because it shoved me that my doubts were correct and I do need to improve in that specific area. We wrote down what 2-3 leaks were and I have made mental note + decision to review daily filters from today to improve the plays. Overall super productive and useful coaching as always. Next one is on Thursday which we will again do the same model (0.5 video review, 1 hour of hh and leak finding/fixing). In the meanwhile as I mentioned, I will daily run 1 or 2 filters (depending on how much time I can take out for studying that day) and just go for as many hands as possible to label them. I still want to continue in depth hand analysis but it is very unlikely that I can maintain 3 hands per day since 1 can take up to 1 hour or more and my time management doesn't have 3 hours just for it (unfortunately) - with less financial pressure I can definitely see myself grinding less and dedicating even more hours to studying but not there yet to make it happen in order to move up to mid stakes faster.
Working with fellow reg was great! We took 1 hand and it took us close to 1.5 hour really to finish it. It was 3 bet pot HJ vs BTN and the board run out was so cool that we ended up with like 4 different conclusions and lines that we could be taking. Funny thing is that we analyzed the hand like it went x/c flop x/c turn and river shove, when in fact hand went like x/c flop x/x turn and under bet river
Regardless of it, I learned so much from the way we did the hand but we will look into the original line on Thursday when we shall do another session together. Thanks my friend very useful stuff - guys you should follow scrazy, he has a blog here on PS and is playing NL50+ ZOOM with emphasis on NL100+ also. I did 1 hour of studying on my own by watching 0.5 video and 0.5 hour going through today's hands. Sent some to w34z3l but overall happier day by day how my game plan especially post flop and adjusting + readjusting is happening. Expect great things to happen with CG road I am taking just have to stick with such high pace and intensity to push myself for more. I really feel I am missing like 2-3 more hours per day that I would like to use for CG for sure (not to mention for other life activities, could use 48 instead of 24h really!). Once I get to NL100 I can consider doing 8 hours of poker daily but grinding 3 hours, coaching 1 and working on the game 4 hours - that would be ideal formula to get me to NL200+ eventually which will be my next target obviously.
CG grind went very well. My focus was great, thinking process was there, I felt very much in the control of it all. I decided instead of 1 hour to grind 2.5 hours total since I had videos to render on laptop and while waiting for it decided to grind some more. Also in the evening added 3rd table to be NL50 instead of 3x NL25. Think I was doing fairly well in that 1.5 hour session until I lost a big hand in multiway vs another fellow PS reg who is in my opinion (from what I've read on forum from him) probably one of the best regs that I know around right now that is not coach or leading blog or anything like that. Added him via community tool, hopefully we can do some work together in the future, I feel that I can get a very valuable information from him as he played NL200 now is doing NL50 and NL100 on Stars ZOOM and prepping for NL200 (which I believe he is already ready for). I will not post the hand that I lost even tough I feel that over 90% of the time I have value bet when betting flop bet/calling raise turn and then betting river again after all this time he x/c x/r and x/c river to bluff catch. From GTO I like his bluff catch a lot but since he had no reads on me I am not liking it in vacuum at all especially cause it was a multiway hand to start with. Would love to talk to him more about the hand (wrote him PM earlier tonight) and then go for more strategy discussion if he is open for it of course.
Overall CG went well but I am most happy that I am marking dozen hands in session, taking very important notes in all the spots that make sense to me(and timing out yes!) + feeling that NL50 is back for grabs as soon as I build up roll with SNGs.
Coaching with Darko went great. We did sweat session and I pushed Darko to go beyond his limits, increase number of tables and try to get his unconscious competence to kick in and auto pilot. This was done on purpose to see what parts of his game are leaking as I asked him to comment on every single hand both when he was involved or when others were to think of ranges pre and post flop and how to play the hand "correctly". We did spot 3 leaks during the session. Great news is that from those 3, 1 is something that all the players make on all SNG limits the other 2 will just require him to keep reviewing his ranges. Overall very happy how it went and Darko still has tons of place for improvement but his development so far has been great. I can definitely see him becoming pro and making a living with SNGs if he sticks with current habits and pace!
Grinded only 40 SNGs. Traffic was bad and I just started to feel tired to wait for more games. Initial idea was to do 75 games instead of 100 and that's what I put in the Sharkystrator but it didn't work out due to traffic issue. Took me 2.61 hours to grind 40 games. Results wise was up then down, SNGs card distribution late game, variance, HU getting setuped vs aggressive opponents etc. Happy that I did put some games in as by the end of the month realistic target will be more like 1.5k total games especially if I go to Belgrade for 2 days for Berklee event that I got invited to today.
Tomorrow/today Partizan Belgrade plays cup game vs Jagodina at 6pm so I definitely plan to watch that which can greatly affect my grinding. In terms of other things it should be the same if not more since I will not have coaching session and those 1.5 hours can make up with watching the Partizan game but SNG grind can be affected as I will start it very late.
[size=24]March Challenge[/size]
Things completed so far in the challenge:
CG studying 40.5/45 hours
Coaching 22.75/30 hours
CG coaching sessions 7.5/12 hours
CG grind 46.5/60 hours
SNG grind 27.28/100 hours (516/2000)
[size=24]2015 Challenge[/size]
Things completed so far in the challenge:
113.5/300 Study hours
66.25/300 Coaching sessions
284.08/1500 Grinding hours
26/150 Work out
***17/1000 Hands analyzed in depth***
*** 98.5 hours Live Poker *** (tons of additional hours lost in waiting for games to start!)
Here is the plan for today (18th of March):
Wake up by 10am, eat breakfast, go for some grocery shoping and run the laundry
Working on the game with fellow reg 1 hour minimum 11-12
Meet with best friend for coffee and grind CG 1 hour
Lunch brake
Study 1 more hour minimum by doing leak fixing in my biggest leak area + prepare for w34z3l's coaching on Thursday
Respond to Daily Tracking threads from students and in hand evaluation board (1 hour minimum)
Watch Partizan Belgrade vs Jagodina game 6-8pm
Dinner brake
Grind either 75 SNGs in 1 session or do 2 x 50 SNGs depending on energy levels
Update blog and challenge + reflect on mission and vision
03-18-2015
, 10:36 PM
[size=24]March Challenge[/size]
Day 18
Worked on the game with fellow reg 1 hour + 1 hour on my own
Talked strategy and life stuff over Skype with brutal reg today over 1.5 hours (can count 0.5 hour at least for strategy discussion)
Grinded online CG 3.5 hours
Watched Partizan Belgrade - Jagodina game
Watched some of Barcelona vs City game
Meet with best friend for coffee
Watched with my brother 2 new tv shows
Considering to take some time off in near future
Total 6 hours of Poker related activities
Not a very productive day mostly due to things moving from my regular time management and getting messed up.
Will not write a long update today but rather mention that connecting with brutal reg was really awesome and that in the near future we will start working together a bit which I am thrilled about.
Also my CG grind today was OK up until final session of the day where I went on to swing like 6-7 stacks mostly due to my bad plays. So definitely played with lots of pressure which is really stressing me out a tons.
Talked with my brother tonight, told him that the pressure is really getting to me and that I am considering to take a brake to recharge and motivate myself to grind some SNGs as well. Truth is that I feel in love with CG and I would just like to do CG all day long with no SNGs. If there wasn't need for money for all of us I could and definitely would end up doing that simply because it is most +EV way for me to improve and reach goals I have set.
Reality however is that I should keep earning at least like 1.5k per month to maintain our family expenses. I am not there yet with CG, actually seems like a distant future with sessions like tonight's while in SNGs I can comfortably make that easily if I grind steady. Tonight I knew I should grind SNGs but I choose CG instead!
So the way I see things resolving, me getting back on path with SNGs as well is following:
- Finish up with CG goal for this month in next couple of days (2-3 days max)
- After finishing up with CG recreate new time management for the rest of the month with emphasis on SNGs only for grind
- Taking a day or two off from any grinding or poker really to just clear my mind, read more of Sharma's book and think through best possible schedule to stick to for the remaining of month.
Feel this could and should be highest EV. I will play CG 2 more days for example to hit my goal for this months volume 40k hands (34k so far). I can then use all my morning times until 6pm or so to review my CG, do DB analysis and leak fixing with in depth hand review. I can also consider instead of waiting to start grinding at 6pm or so SNGs to do like 4-6pm mixing 7s and 15s to fill in the traffic more. The whole point with SNGs will be to make money so I may end up playing more than 100 per day in last 10 days of the month. Of course this doesn't mean that I will end up in profit or loss in such small sample, the point is to keep consistent 1.5k volume in 10 months total to make at least 15k from SNGs which will be enough for family expenses steady until end of the year. The rest of the winnings should come after I improve in CG until I eventually switch to it FT.
So the way things look now is, next 2 days CG grind 3k hands in each of the days 3 tabling (4.5 hours of grind each day or so) ; after that putting even more hours into CG study but going for minimum 100 games per day on 15s + consider adding early afternoon session for mixing 7s and 15s to get those 15 tables going.
Will post time management for each day like I always do but this seems like most likely scenario in my mind.
Tomorrow/today CG with w34z3l - very much look forward to his opinion and advice on this approach. One thing is for sure - I will keep studying and working hard on CG and I expect that things will click eventually really strong. Right now I feel in some sessions that I am absolutely crushing it and in some I do some unthinkable mistakes and leaks. It is also really important to me that I see the things I am unsure of and I am now obsessed with learning and fixing all those leaks I feel I have. This type of swinging between A and D level of game is not good in CG so I need to keep working and improve both back and front end of my game + improve my auto pilot. In SNGs I don't have this problem as I 15 table and watch TV shows on the 2nd monitor in the background (listen mostly but also catch to watch some scenes. This was unthinkable when I was starting, it took a lot of hard work on my end to get there. It will take even more for CG I can say now with 100% certainty because I want to prove myself on Stars not on some weaker site/network vs weaker opponents (in future playing on my own I might decide to play NL200 on some weaker sites and stay on Stars NL100 during the day for traffic reasons of course). Feel like I am starting to learn poker all over again which is fun - wish I had no financial pressure tough, this would be so much easier but no need to play victim here - when life gives you lemons make a lemonade you know
[size=24]March Challenge[/size]
Things completed so far in the challenge:
CG studying 43/45 hours
Coaching 22.75/30 hours
CG coaching sessions 7.5/12 hours
CG grind 50/60 hours
SNG grind 27.28/100 hours (516/2000)
[size=24]2015 Challenge[/size]
Things completed so far in the challenge:
116/300 Study hours
66.25/300 Coaching sessions
287.58/1500 Grinding hours
26/150 Work out
***17/1000 Hands analyzed in depth***
*** 98.5 hours Live Poker *** (tons of additional hours lost in waiting for games to start!)
Here is the plan for today (19th of March):
Wake up by 10am, eat breakfast and drink tons of water
Coaching with w34z3l 11-12:30
Working on the game with fellow reg minimum 1 hour 1-2pm
Go for coffee with best friend and grind CG 1 hour
Lunch brake
Grind 2x 1.5 hour sessions CG
Dinner brake
Grind 1 more hour of CG
Rest of the night spend doing following: respond to Daily Tracking threads + hands posted in forum; look into hands/work on the game from that specific day; go through database using filters from w34z3l sessions; take time off to regenerate
Day 18
Worked on the game with fellow reg 1 hour + 1 hour on my own
Talked strategy and life stuff over Skype with brutal reg today over 1.5 hours (can count 0.5 hour at least for strategy discussion)
Grinded online CG 3.5 hours
Watched Partizan Belgrade - Jagodina game
Watched some of Barcelona vs City game
Meet with best friend for coffee
Watched with my brother 2 new tv shows
Considering to take some time off in near future
Total 6 hours of Poker related activities
Not a very productive day mostly due to things moving from my regular time management and getting messed up.
Will not write a long update today but rather mention that connecting with brutal reg was really awesome and that in the near future we will start working together a bit which I am thrilled about.
Also my CG grind today was OK up until final session of the day where I went on to swing like 6-7 stacks mostly due to my bad plays. So definitely played with lots of pressure which is really stressing me out a tons.
Talked with my brother tonight, told him that the pressure is really getting to me and that I am considering to take a brake to recharge and motivate myself to grind some SNGs as well. Truth is that I feel in love with CG and I would just like to do CG all day long with no SNGs. If there wasn't need for money for all of us I could and definitely would end up doing that simply because it is most +EV way for me to improve and reach goals I have set.
Reality however is that I should keep earning at least like 1.5k per month to maintain our family expenses. I am not there yet with CG, actually seems like a distant future with sessions like tonight's while in SNGs I can comfortably make that easily if I grind steady. Tonight I knew I should grind SNGs but I choose CG instead!
So the way I see things resolving, me getting back on path with SNGs as well is following:
- Finish up with CG goal for this month in next couple of days (2-3 days max)
- After finishing up with CG recreate new time management for the rest of the month with emphasis on SNGs only for grind
- Taking a day or two off from any grinding or poker really to just clear my mind, read more of Sharma's book and think through best possible schedule to stick to for the remaining of month.
Feel this could and should be highest EV. I will play CG 2 more days for example to hit my goal for this months volume 40k hands (34k so far). I can then use all my morning times until 6pm or so to review my CG, do DB analysis and leak fixing with in depth hand review. I can also consider instead of waiting to start grinding at 6pm or so SNGs to do like 4-6pm mixing 7s and 15s to fill in the traffic more. The whole point with SNGs will be to make money so I may end up playing more than 100 per day in last 10 days of the month. Of course this doesn't mean that I will end up in profit or loss in such small sample, the point is to keep consistent 1.5k volume in 10 months total to make at least 15k from SNGs which will be enough for family expenses steady until end of the year. The rest of the winnings should come after I improve in CG until I eventually switch to it FT.
So the way things look now is, next 2 days CG grind 3k hands in each of the days 3 tabling (4.5 hours of grind each day or so) ; after that putting even more hours into CG study but going for minimum 100 games per day on 15s + consider adding early afternoon session for mixing 7s and 15s to get those 15 tables going.
Will post time management for each day like I always do but this seems like most likely scenario in my mind.
Tomorrow/today CG with w34z3l - very much look forward to his opinion and advice on this approach. One thing is for sure - I will keep studying and working hard on CG and I expect that things will click eventually really strong. Right now I feel in some sessions that I am absolutely crushing it and in some I do some unthinkable mistakes and leaks. It is also really important to me that I see the things I am unsure of and I am now obsessed with learning and fixing all those leaks I feel I have. This type of swinging between A and D level of game is not good in CG so I need to keep working and improve both back and front end of my game + improve my auto pilot. In SNGs I don't have this problem as I 15 table and watch TV shows on the 2nd monitor in the background (listen mostly but also catch to watch some scenes
. This was unthinkable when I was starting, it took a lot of hard work on my end to get there. It will take even more for CG I can say now with 100% certainty because I want to prove myself on Stars not on some weaker site/network vs weaker opponents (in future playing on my own I might decide to play NL200 on some weaker sites and stay on Stars NL100 during the day for traffic reasons of course). Feel like I am starting to learn poker all over again which is fun - wish I had no financial pressure tough, this would be so much easier but no need to play victim here - when life gives you lemons make a lemonade you know [size=24]March Challenge[/size]
Things completed so far in the challenge:
CG studying 43/45 hours
Coaching 22.75/30 hours
CG coaching sessions 7.5/12 hours
CG grind 50/60 hours
SNG grind 27.28/100 hours (516/2000)
[size=24]2015 Challenge[/size]
Things completed so far in the challenge:
116/300 Study hours
66.25/300 Coaching sessions
287.58/1500 Grinding hours
26/150 Work out
***17/1000 Hands analyzed in depth***
*** 98.5 hours Live Poker *** (tons of additional hours lost in waiting for games to start!)
Here is the plan for today (19th of March):
Wake up by 10am, eat breakfast and drink tons of water
Coaching with w34z3l 11-12:30
Working on the game with fellow reg minimum 1 hour 1-2pm
Go for coffee with best friend and grind CG 1 hour
Lunch brake
Grind 2x 1.5 hour sessions CG
Dinner brake
Grind 1 more hour of CG
Rest of the night spend doing following: respond to Daily Tracking threads + hands posted in forum; look into hands/work on the game from that specific day; go through database using filters from w34z3l sessions; take time off to regenerate
03-19-2015
, 10:09 PM
03-20-2015
, 11:47 PM
[size=24]March Challenge[/size]
Day 20
Worked on the game total 4 hours
Grinded online CG 4.5 hours but completed target of 40k hands for the month!
Meet with best friend for coffee and we went to 2 separate places
Went with best friend for lunch at my favorite restaurant
Connected with another regular on NL100 ZOOM + talked 1 hour outside of working on the game
Created CG study plan for remaining 10 days of the month
Total 8.5 hours of Poker activity.
Another very productive day
Working on the game consisted of 3 areas. Working on my own, working with reg that I work with the most and working with new reg that I connected today with.
On my own I spent 1 hour watching 2 videos and taking notes to recap my game plan in areas I felt needed polishing.
Working with my friend reg lasted 1.5 hours and we went over 4 hands which we analyzed in depth. We analyzed more hands then that but wrote in depth only 4 of them!
Connected with another reg who plays NL100 ZOOM. We worked on the game 1.5 hours and talked another 1 hour on top of that. Very nice times and happy to connect with another fellow CG player, exchange experiences and life stories with. Feel that we will all benefit in the long run with such connecting and helping each other out.
Grinding went very well. I think I made about 7 buy ins or so pre RB on 3k hands on NL25. Profit really again doesn't concern me at all right now, I am just aware that despite it I made some bad plays. Excellent news is that today at most times I was playing between my B and B+ game which resulted in tons of profit. The times where I was losing I was either 1) thinking that I was making a correct play but had tendency wrong in that spot 2) getting some urge to bluff catch in those specific spots.
I am much happier with today's mental game and improvement in tactical approach. I feel that I have made tons of great adjustments on NL25 today which resulted in profit.
Grinding for March is finished since I hit 40k hands that I arranged with w34z3l. Remaining 10 days of the month I will focus on grinding 100 SNGs each day and during the day I will spend minimum 2 hours on working on my CG game. This will include going over 40k hands in this months database, looking for leaks in specific area, writing down correct ways to adjust and then applying it in future games. I am sure I will find tons of them so I really look forward to next 20 hours of studying, it should bring some eye opener and aha type moments/discoveries.
I might in next 10 days add some CG grinding hour here or there since the target was 60 hours and I have now 59.25 (40 minutes left to complete it)
Tomorrow working on the game scheduled with brutal reg that I wrote about earlier. Really look forward to it as I feel it will be very beneficial session.
[size=24]March Challenge[/size]
Things completed so far in the challenge:
CG studying 49/45 hours
Coaching 24.25/30 hours
CG coaching sessions 9/12 hours
CG grind 59.25/60 hours
SNG grind 27.28/100 hours (516/2000)
[size=24]2015 Challenge[/size]
Things completed so far in the challenge:
122/300 Study hours
67.75/300 Coaching sessions
296.88/1500 Grinding hours
26/150 Work out
***25/1000 Hands analyzed in depth***
*** 98.5 hours Live Poker *** (tons of additional hours lost in waiting for games to start!)
Here is the plan for today (21st of March):
Wake up by 11am, eat breakfast and drink tons of water
Work on the game with fellow reg 1 hour (start with specific leak finder)
Meet with best friend for a coffee and instead of grinding do 1 to 2 in depth hand analysis using same leak finder from morning
Lunch brake
Respond to Daily Tracking threads and hands posted on private forum
Work on the game with brutal reg 1 hour
Diner brake
50 SNGs 1st session
Brake and drinking tons of water
50 SNGs 2nd session
Update blog and challenge + reflect on mision and vision
Day 20
Worked on the game total 4 hours
Grinded online CG 4.5 hours but completed target of 40k hands for the month!
Meet with best friend for coffee and we went to 2 separate places
Went with best friend for lunch at my favorite restaurant
Connected with another regular on NL100 ZOOM + talked 1 hour outside of working on the game
Created CG study plan for remaining 10 days of the month
Total 8.5 hours of Poker activity.
Another very productive day
Working on the game consisted of 3 areas. Working on my own, working with reg that I work with the most and working with new reg that I connected today with.
On my own I spent 1 hour watching 2 videos and taking notes to recap my game plan in areas I felt needed polishing.
Working with my friend reg lasted 1.5 hours and we went over 4 hands which we analyzed in depth. We analyzed more hands then that but wrote in depth only 4 of them!
Connected with another reg who plays NL100 ZOOM. We worked on the game 1.5 hours and talked another 1 hour on top of that. Very nice times and happy to connect with another fellow CG player, exchange experiences and life stories with. Feel that we will all benefit in the long run with such connecting and helping each other out.
Grinding went very well. I think I made about 7 buy ins or so pre RB on 3k hands on NL25. Profit really again doesn't concern me at all right now, I am just aware that despite it I made some bad plays. Excellent news is that today at most times I was playing between my B and B+ game which resulted in tons of profit. The times where I was losing I was either 1) thinking that I was making a correct play but had tendency wrong in that spot 2) getting some urge to bluff catch in those specific spots.
I am much happier with today's mental game and improvement in tactical approach. I feel that I have made tons of great adjustments on NL25 today which resulted in profit.
Grinding for March is finished since I hit 40k hands that I arranged with w34z3l. Remaining 10 days of the month I will focus on grinding 100 SNGs each day and during the day I will spend minimum 2 hours on working on my CG game. This will include going over 40k hands in this months database, looking for leaks in specific area, writing down correct ways to adjust and then applying it in future games. I am sure I will find tons of them so I really look forward to next 20 hours of studying, it should bring some eye opener and aha type moments/discoveries.
I might in next 10 days add some CG grinding hour here or there since the target was 60 hours and I have now 59.25 (40 minutes left to complete it)
Tomorrow working on the game scheduled with brutal reg that I wrote about earlier. Really look forward to it as I feel it will be very beneficial session.
[size=24]March Challenge[/size]
Things completed so far in the challenge:
CG studying 49/45 hours
Coaching 24.25/30 hours
CG coaching sessions 9/12 hours
CG grind 59.25/60 hours
SNG grind 27.28/100 hours (516/2000)
[size=24]2015 Challenge[/size]
Things completed so far in the challenge:
122/300 Study hours
67.75/300 Coaching sessions
296.88/1500 Grinding hours
26/150 Work out
***25/1000 Hands analyzed in depth***
*** 98.5 hours Live Poker *** (tons of additional hours lost in waiting for games to start!)
Here is the plan for today (21st of March):
Wake up by 11am, eat breakfast and drink tons of water
Work on the game with fellow reg 1 hour (start with specific leak finder)
Meet with best friend for a coffee and instead of grinding do 1 to 2 in depth hand analysis using same leak finder from morning
Lunch brake
Respond to Daily Tracking threads and hands posted on private forum
Work on the game with brutal reg 1 hour
Diner brake
50 SNGs 1st session
Brake and drinking tons of water
50 SNGs 2nd session
Update blog and challenge + reflect on mision and vision
03-21-2015
, 10:04 PM