****DAY 2***

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***BLACK HOLE FOCUS***
AUTHOR: ISAIAH HANKEL

Before i start to work on stratergy and specifics in poker, first i must make sure my mind is in the correct place to enable me to effectivly study.
until now, ive known i need to study but never had the motivation, partly because i didnt know how.
In his book "black hole focus" Isaiah Hankel outlines exactly what you need to do to start thinking purposefully. he shows you how to hone your purpose so that so that everything you do stays true to that ultimate focus, he shows you, why you need a purpose and how to find it, and crucially how to fulfill that purpose and get all you deserve.

This book is nothing to do with poker persay, it has no optimal strategy, no preflop ranges nothing, but im not at that level yet, im not ready to start studying specifics, because my mind is not in that place. the minute i sit down and it gets tough i give up, and just load up a tourny, bust out and blame variance. too often during a tourny i let my "focus" slip, i spend time flicking through my various social media platforms and i digest all the negative energy they seem to offer. this is having a huge affect on me, and is now the main focus of my wake up routine.

a little passage from the opening page of "black hole focus".

"Pain is the result of not having your needs met. Pain is your WHY-but why do you experience pain in the first place? People experience pain when they are not fulfilling their prime needs. Your prime needs are the desires that drive you to take action in your life; the things you want beyond your physical needs. All behaviour is simply an attempt to meet your prime needs".

i will spend some time per day, going over hands and looking at spots, but i will not obsess over that side just yet maybe 2-3 hands per day and do some intense study on those then leave it, each day i will choose different spots, ie; river bets- either a bet i made on the river, or a bet i called, that resulted in showdown. i will be looking for spots where maybe i missed value or called down to light due to insufficient ranging etc. but as i said this, at the moment will be secondary, and my primary objective will be to get my mind in a place where i can deal with all aspects of poker and outline i clear and consise path that i intend to follow.

Thanks for reading guys and girls. this is going to be a long process but like i always say. win or lose you will see my journey, i wont hide from the negative comments i will take it on board as much as i will the positive.

Don't make it a long road.

Just make a smooth path from here to medium or high stakes, depending how talented / and / or greedy you are.

For motivation / mindset you can use app Primed Mind by Fedor Holz, it's good. Helps u think about stuff that matters and put daily rut in order.

In poker, as you're new, I suggest you just pick a format and just learn how to win the micros & start winning so you know you can at least make that $100 - $150 a week rather than losing this amount a week. After that, climb further, make more.

Why do people f*ck up in poker?
a)they stay micros and never climb, I've seen people grinding NL2 for over a year in a row, can you believe this?
b)they climb ok, but get overconfident & bust chasing higher stakes on tilt.
c)any bad mix of a and b
d)they overspend in personal life b4 they've climbed high enough

Great books are good, but you need to really live these ideas to extract the value

busto?

wassssupppp guys and gals.

Its been a journey, and i have done some serious soul searching. My primary focus to improve my game was mindset, i set out a daily routine that a stook to every day, in a nut shell this involved

- getting a freezing cold shower every morning
- spending 30 minutes reading everyday
- watch at least 2/3 strategy videos on a specific topic
- tidy my house do washing, etc

All these tasks proved vital. and ill explain why i chose each one.
Getting a cold shower every morning, was the hardest thing to do, but it has a multiude of meaning. 1-it ensures i start my day by getting out my comfort zone, you only progress if your being tested your only being tested when your out your comfort zone.
2-it gets the blood flowing and completely wakes you up and energyzies you.

Next was reading, now this doesnt have to be poker material, this can be any reading material, this is to prepare the brain to focus, you do this every day for at least 30 mins your focus will improve

Next was watching material on a specific topic, this type of focus traing is important, to often was i just watching all sorts of material taking in about 10 different concepts on allsorts of different excersises for lots of different scenarios. this just wasnt wise.

lastly was making sure my house was in tip top shape, this sounds mundane but actually was a big help, it helped me focus when i knew my house was spotless it gave me a sense of ease, and during the cleaning process i was able to focus and go over some of the topics in my head to familiarise my self.

if you scroll up you will see my last graph it didnt make nice reading. it was posted just under a month ago.



this is my new graph, still along way to go but progress is progress ay and im no longer in the hole im $40 dollars in profit lol, doesnt sound much but considering i was nearly 3k in the hole its a big jump

stay with me guys ive set a target to be 15k in prfoit by year end.

do you think i will do it????

sorry bro, i didnt keep up to date as much as i should have its hard, when your doing so much off the tables, i will try my hardest to keep as up todate as possible. but no not busto bank roll currently sits at $2819 but i have to cash out at least $2k to pay for bills etc..

Well congrats then! i didn't think you'd make it. keep working on your game then and dont be a degen with your bankroll and youl have a chance to make it

thanks man i really appreciate it, its been super hard, but i always had faith, the first dtep was realising why i was losing, and what was making me react in such ways. its one thing knowing exactly what to do in each spot and being a statistical genius but if you fly of the handles with tilt and can not control your temper, ive gone along way to dealing with that and that has been the base of my growth. i have paid off all the people i owed money to and was open and honest with everyone about my situation that felt great for me as it lifted a big weight and i was no longer chasing a big win to just to clear everything off and was playing with more clarity