One Step Beyond- My 60k Journey
09-06-2016
, 07:20 PM
Go GO Jerry! Nice to see that you are pushing yourself even if you drink.
love and feeling are combination of knowing what you want, why you want it (purpose), improving and mainly focus. If you have these things handled your passion for game will be high most of the time.
Gl in september man!
love and feeling are combination of knowing what you want, why you want it (purpose), improving and mainly focus. If you have these things handled your passion for game will be high most of the time.
Gl in september man!
09-08-2016
, 01:30 AM
Thx Tomas!
Yeah, now no more missing weeks, back to hardcore! True. I do have motivation for everything now that I am constantly in action and not lazy. That is so freaking important. Just my game/performance is lagging behind at the moment and missing that feeling and more crushing! But I'll get there
Nice to see you back in action as well after the crazy milestone! Accumulate them dollarz
Yeah, now no more missing weeks, back to hardcore! True. I do have motivation for everything now that I am constantly in action and not lazy. That is so freaking important. Just my game/performance is lagging behind at the moment and missing that feeling and more crushing! But I'll get there
Nice to see you back in action as well after the crazy milestone! Accumulate them dollarz
09-12-2016
, 01:24 AM
Again just a quick update of the week as I just finished playing and tomorrow is a free day!
So on Tuesday I was still completely tired because of those parties and slept all day and basically the same on Wednesday. so I started playing in the evening and during the night so that was the schedule all week. I did play everyday so this time it was not some crazy catch up going on, I actually just needed 3.5 hours last day to get to 50 hours as I always got stuck in some long battles when I wanted to finish.
With sleeping schedule off also my workouts, diet, studying everything was a mess. I made a workout on Monday and then one time at 4am for a break haha. Was eating good food, but not 5-6 times per day with all the macro nutrients in check. As I ate too little I maybe even made one short term step towards the 6pack but overall =not satisfied. I did study some and analyzed lots of hand, but didn't learn some things I had in plan.
Otherwise on the tables it went great!
I played 53.5hours , 8704 hands and had profit 1519€ . Yeah baby!
I just wanted to wrote a quick update and go to sleep, but I think this week deserves some graph porn:
And the other one in about 500€ amount:
Otherwise it was not that I played some super good poker, while I did change some small mistakes I still did a lot of them, just the coolers went my way this week.
Plan for next week:
-Again play at least 50 hours and at least 1hours of study per day (seperate hour and then while playing as well)
-Diet and workouts according to plan this time
It is all connected with sleeping schedule as well, but I am way less tired now than previous crazy week, so I'll try to get it in order.
So on Tuesday I was still completely tired because of those parties and slept all day and basically the same on Wednesday. so I started playing in the evening and during the night so that was the schedule all week. I did play everyday so this time it was not some crazy catch up going on, I actually just needed 3.5 hours last day to get to 50 hours as I always got stuck in some long battles when I wanted to finish.
With sleeping schedule off also my workouts, diet, studying everything was a mess. I made a workout on Monday and then one time at 4am for a break haha. Was eating good food, but not 5-6 times per day with all the macro nutrients in check. As I ate too little I maybe even made one short term step towards the 6pack but overall =not satisfied. I did study some and analyzed lots of hand, but didn't learn some things I had in plan.
Otherwise on the tables it went great!
I played 53.5hours , 8704 hands and had profit 1519€ . Yeah baby!
I just wanted to wrote a quick update and go to sleep, but I think this week deserves some graph porn:
And the other one in about 500€ amount:
Otherwise it was not that I played some super good poker, while I did change some small mistakes I still did a lot of them, just the coolers went my way this week.
Plan for next week:
-Again play at least 50 hours and at least 1hours of study per day (seperate hour and then while playing as well)
-Diet and workouts according to plan this time
It is all connected with sleeping schedule as well, but I am way less tired now than previous crazy week, so I'll try to get it in order.
09-20-2016
, 07:59 AM
Hey gamblers!
Previous week the main goal was to get my sleeping schedule in order and change how days look. It was a struggle though.
I took plunge and formatted my computer on Tuesday which took most of the day to set everything up.
Next day it was one of the worst performances of my poker playing. 4 times I just saw totally wrong what my cards were and just spewed it off. The most "beautiful one" was then I thought I had 88 in my hand and a full house and after I jammed the river and gow owned, realized I actually have 33. One was preflop jam with 38o instead of 88, A8 instead of AK etc. Super crazy. I played bad on top of that as well. I rather quit as it seemed pointless to play like that and went to sleep. But woke up 3 hours later and just started playing again. I played bad still and ended up losing 4 stacks on nL100 versus one guy, where I also kind of tilted. I felt sooooooo bad and just stupid...
I finished playing just in time to get my 3rd round of shots I started pre Thailand and maybe it was also vaccination coupled with chronicle lack of sleeping that made me sleep whole day and even 10 hours straight (with tho other 5 hours sleeping sessions) which haven't happened in a long while. I also woke up at 5am, which made my biorhythm a bit better.
So next days I tired to keep at it, still am not sleeping a lot, but we are moving in the right direction. As for playing I was really concentrated and tried to not do same mistakes as the first day. It went pretty good and I was playing on average 12,13 hours per day as I had 4 playing days with computer format and one day of sleeping missing. I still hit the 50hour mark.
I played 51 hours, 6978 hands and 834€ of profit.
My mouse started acting up and double clicking. It was so annoying. I wanted to move the table and instead put it to full screen mode etc. So I performed a surgery haha. There is instructions on youtube and it is not so hard to do it, you just need to open it up and straighten some spring inside of the switch. Btw most of the mouses use omron switches, which actually cost like 20 cents... Am thinking of buying a few, as my "spring" or that metal thingy looks pretty fragile and while it doesn't do double clicks atm, the feedback is kinda weak.
On the right side of the picture is opened up switch and this golden thing is the one you need to adjust a bit.
Other thing is that I started using Myfitnesspal. Awesome app and first few days I spent just inputting recepits and common food I eat in. It is super convenient as it has most of the food from anywhere in the world in already (unless there is not a lot of people using the app in your country). I am eating clean for quite a while, it did show some holes in my strategy so now macros are much better and are closer to optimal strategy now in the 6pack challenge.
As I was reading a lot about sleeping and blue light I started using f.lux and I think it helps to get me more sleepy by night.
I also did Spanish lessons 4 times and workout 3 times. Pretty productive week. Spanish will be on the schedule now all the time and I usually hit it up while cooking or stretching, cleaning or some light stuff like that.
Previous week the main goal was to get my sleeping schedule in order and change how days look. It was a struggle though.
I took plunge and formatted my computer on Tuesday which took most of the day to set everything up.
Next day it was one of the worst performances of my poker playing. 4 times I just saw totally wrong what my cards were and just spewed it off. The most "beautiful one" was then I thought I had 88 in my hand and a full house and after I jammed the river and gow owned, realized I actually have 33. One was preflop jam with 38o instead of 88, A8 instead of AK etc. Super crazy. I played bad on top of that as well. I rather quit as it seemed pointless to play like that and went to sleep. But woke up 3 hours later and just started playing again. I played bad still and ended up losing 4 stacks on nL100 versus one guy, where I also kind of tilted. I felt sooooooo bad and just stupid...
I finished playing just in time to get my 3rd round of shots I started pre Thailand and maybe it was also vaccination coupled with chronicle lack of sleeping that made me sleep whole day and even 10 hours straight (with tho other 5 hours sleeping sessions) which haven't happened in a long while. I also woke up at 5am, which made my biorhythm a bit better.
So next days I tired to keep at it, still am not sleeping a lot, but we are moving in the right direction. As for playing I was really concentrated and tried to not do same mistakes as the first day. It went pretty good and I was playing on average 12,13 hours per day as I had 4 playing days with computer format and one day of sleeping missing. I still hit the 50hour mark.
I played 51 hours, 6978 hands and 834€ of profit.
My mouse started acting up and double clicking. It was so annoying. I wanted to move the table and instead put it to full screen mode etc. So I performed a surgery haha. There is instructions on youtube and it is not so hard to do it, you just need to open it up and straighten some spring inside of the switch. Btw most of the mouses use omron switches, which actually cost like 20 cents... Am thinking of buying a few, as my "spring" or that metal thingy looks pretty fragile and while it doesn't do double clicks atm, the feedback is kinda weak.
On the right side of the picture is opened up switch and this golden thing is the one you need to adjust a bit.
Other thing is that I started using Myfitnesspal. Awesome app and first few days I spent just inputting recepits and common food I eat in. It is super convenient as it has most of the food from anywhere in the world in already (unless there is not a lot of people using the app in your country). I am eating clean for quite a while, it did show some holes in my strategy so now macros are much better and are closer to optimal strategy now in the 6pack challenge.
As I was reading a lot about sleeping and blue light I started using f.lux and I think it helps to get me more sleepy by night.
I also did Spanish lessons 4 times and workout 3 times. Pretty productive week. Spanish will be on the schedule now all the time and I usually hit it up while cooking or stretching, cleaning or some light stuff like that.
09-27-2016
, 01:48 PM
I will pm my skype
10-02-2016
, 08:47 PM
September review!
It was my most successful month profit wise, most hours spent playing and most hands played.
218.5 hours, 29602 hands and 4004€ of profit!
The graph:
Graph in bb and in money is pretty identical. There are few hands missing where I think I was running way over EV as well and I didn't really have much losing days this month.
4000€ was quite an important milestone for me. Personally and also in the program as now I'll get some new material to study etc. That made the last days of playing kind of "funny". I Started the week with 4270ish €so I thought what can really go wrong. Just play NL200 really tight with villain selection and try to control variance a bit by not taking too many marginal situations. Easy. After a bad day already I ended it with a battle 500 hand battle on NL200, lots of ups and down and ended up losing a whole stack there and from before I was a nice little 70€ under the mark. Next day the whole point was just to get that over, not playing NL200 at all and as previous day plan was going I was at some point 300.e away from the goal and felt pretty devastated. I however pulled myself together and somehow turned the day around and right before stopping got almost whole stack to make it a positive day and with cashed in bonuses I got to 4004€. At the buzzer! Well next day I just didn't play. You can't really play poker worrying on this short term results anyway, so it was not the most professional approach by me.
Good things of the month, next to the result, was the playing time put in, it has become quite normal now for me to do it, the schedule and all is getting better and better. I did correct some leaks and folded the hands I had trouble with where I was giving stacks away on the river or versus check raises. NL200 became even more normal to me and the result gave me some boost in confidence and additional motivation.
There was quite a lot of bad things to improve upon as well. Mostly I was just playing and not studying much. At the moment in my head I don't have everything settled with theory and I feel I do too much of things that have no base. So I didn't go through the material I wanted, I didn't do equities so I really need to be more effective while waiting for action or do a specialy day per week where I'll go all out on learning. It is not that I am watching movies or do poker unrelated stuff. I do discuss some hands and strategies, but also watch a lot of twitch poker etc. There is a lot I need to do here.
PLAN FOR NEXT MONTH:
1. Play 50hours every week
2. This will be the big challenge: Do equties every day for at least 15-30 minutes AND go over all of the materials I have in plan and make better notes AND work on the adjustments and analyze Villains that are doing me problems and discuss it with a coach
So that will be the theme of the month. Really be more effective or just take time for the study. If I go over the materials then I will consider it a successful month.
Other than that, next to poker it stays the same. Fitness, diet and Spanish. I can be way more organized here as well.
It was my most successful month profit wise, most hours spent playing and most hands played.
218.5 hours, 29602 hands and 4004€ of profit!
The graph:
Graph in bb and in money is pretty identical. There are few hands missing where I think I was running way over EV as well and I didn't really have much losing days this month.
4000€ was quite an important milestone for me. Personally and also in the program as now I'll get some new material to study etc. That made the last days of playing kind of "funny". I Started the week with 4270ish €so I thought what can really go wrong. Just play NL200 really tight with villain selection and try to control variance a bit by not taking too many marginal situations. Easy. After a bad day already I ended it with a battle 500 hand battle on NL200, lots of ups and down and ended up losing a whole stack there and from before I was a nice little 70€ under the mark. Next day the whole point was just to get that over, not playing NL200 at all and as previous day plan was going I was at some point 300.e away from the goal and felt pretty devastated. I however pulled myself together and somehow turned the day around and right before stopping got almost whole stack to make it a positive day and with cashed in bonuses I got to 4004€. At the buzzer! Well next day I just didn't play. You can't really play poker worrying on this short term results anyway, so it was not the most professional approach by me.
Good things of the month, next to the result, was the playing time put in, it has become quite normal now for me to do it, the schedule and all is getting better and better. I did correct some leaks and folded the hands I had trouble with where I was giving stacks away on the river or versus check raises. NL200 became even more normal to me and the result gave me some boost in confidence and additional motivation.
There was quite a lot of bad things to improve upon as well. Mostly I was just playing and not studying much. At the moment in my head I don't have everything settled with theory and I feel I do too much of things that have no base. So I didn't go through the material I wanted, I didn't do equities so I really need to be more effective while waiting for action or do a specialy day per week where I'll go all out on learning. It is not that I am watching movies or do poker unrelated stuff. I do discuss some hands and strategies, but also watch a lot of twitch poker etc. There is a lot I need to do here.
PLAN FOR NEXT MONTH:
1. Play 50hours every week
2. This will be the big challenge: Do equties every day for at least 15-30 minutes AND go over all of the materials I have in plan and make better notes AND work on the adjustments and analyze Villains that are doing me problems and discuss it with a coach
So that will be the theme of the month. Really be more effective or just take time for the study. If I go over the materials then I will consider it a successful month.
Other than that, next to poker it stays the same. Fitness, diet and Spanish. I can be way more organized here as well.
10-02-2016
, 11:18 PM
Quote:
September review!
It was my most successful month profit wise, most hours spent playing and most hands played.
218.5 hours, 29602 hands and 4004€ of profit!
The graph:
Graph in bb and in money is pretty identical. There are few hands missing where I think I was running way over EV as well and I didn't really have much losing days this month.
4000€ was quite an important milestone for me. Personally and also in the program as now I'll get some new material to study etc. That made the last days of playing kind of "funny". I Started the week with 4270ish €so I thought what can really go wrong. Just play NL200 really tight with villain selection and try to control variance a bit by not taking too many marginal situations. Easy. After a bad day already I ended it with a battle 500 hand battle on NL200, lots of ups and down and ended up losing a whole stack there and from before I was a nice little 70€ under the mark. Next day the whole point was just to get that over, not playing NL200 at all and as previous day plan was going I was at some point 300.e away from the goal and felt pretty devastated. I however pulled myself together and somehow turned the day around and right before stopping got almost whole stack to make it a positive day and with cashed in bonuses I got to 4004€. At the buzzer! Well next day I just didn't play. You can't really play poker worrying on this short term results anyway, so it was not the most professional approach by me.
Good things of the month, next to the result, was the playing time put in, it has become quite normal now for me to do it, the schedule and all is getting better and better. I did correct some leaks and folded the hands I had trouble with where I was giving stacks away on the river or versus check raises. NL200 became even more normal to me and the result gave me some boost in confidence and additional motivation.
There was quite a lot of bad things to improve upon as well. Mostly I was just playing and not studying much. At the moment in my head I don't have everything settled with theory and I feel I do too much of things that have no base. So I didn't go through the material I wanted, I didn't do equities so I really need to be more effective while waiting for action or do a specialy day per week where I'll go all out on learning. It is not that I am watching movies or do poker unrelated stuff. I do discuss some hands and strategies, but also watch a lot of twitch poker etc. There is a lot I need to do here.
PLAN FOR NEXT MONTH:
1. Play 50hours every week
2. This will be the big challenge: Do equties every day for at least 15-30 minutes AND go over all of the materials I have in plan and make better notes AND work on the adjustments and analyze Villains that are doing me problems and discuss it with a coach
So that will be the theme of the month. Really be more effective or just take time for the study. If I go over the materials then I will consider it a successful month.
Other than that, next to poker it stays the same. Fitness, diet and Spanish. I can be way more organized here as well.
It was my most successful month profit wise, most hours spent playing and most hands played.
218.5 hours, 29602 hands and 4004€ of profit!
The graph:
Graph in bb and in money is pretty identical. There are few hands missing where I think I was running way over EV as well and I didn't really have much losing days this month.
4000€ was quite an important milestone for me. Personally and also in the program as now I'll get some new material to study etc. That made the last days of playing kind of "funny". I Started the week with 4270ish €so I thought what can really go wrong. Just play NL200 really tight with villain selection and try to control variance a bit by not taking too many marginal situations. Easy. After a bad day already I ended it with a battle 500 hand battle on NL200, lots of ups and down and ended up losing a whole stack there and from before I was a nice little 70€ under the mark. Next day the whole point was just to get that over, not playing NL200 at all and as previous day plan was going I was at some point 300.e away from the goal and felt pretty devastated. I however pulled myself together and somehow turned the day around and right before stopping got almost whole stack to make it a positive day and with cashed in bonuses I got to 4004€. At the buzzer! Well next day I just didn't play. You can't really play poker worrying on this short term results anyway, so it was not the most professional approach by me.
Good things of the month, next to the result, was the playing time put in, it has become quite normal now for me to do it, the schedule and all is getting better and better. I did correct some leaks and folded the hands I had trouble with where I was giving stacks away on the river or versus check raises. NL200 became even more normal to me and the result gave me some boost in confidence and additional motivation.
There was quite a lot of bad things to improve upon as well. Mostly I was just playing and not studying much. At the moment in my head I don't have everything settled with theory and I feel I do too much of things that have no base. So I didn't go through the material I wanted, I didn't do equities so I really need to be more effective while waiting for action or do a specialy day per week where I'll go all out on learning. It is not that I am watching movies or do poker unrelated stuff. I do discuss some hands and strategies, but also watch a lot of twitch poker etc. There is a lot I need to do here.
PLAN FOR NEXT MONTH:
1. Play 50hours every week
2. This will be the big challenge: Do equties every day for at least 15-30 minutes AND go over all of the materials I have in plan and make better notes AND work on the adjustments and analyze Villains that are doing me problems and discuss it with a coach
So that will be the theme of the month. Really be more effective or just take time for the study. If I go over the materials then I will consider it a successful month.
Other than that, next to poker it stays the same. Fitness, diet and Spanish. I can be way more organized here as well.
10-12-2016
, 07:42 AM
@Fishtankz thanks man, I still have bit more to give, I think next month I'll do some more extreme challenge
Forgot to do an english update!
First week of the month was quite tough.
I had low energy levels and had real trouble to get going. Also through my history I always had one month a super goal and live and breathe for it and then after it was done I slacked it out for next month or two. Not just in poker as well. So I FAILED this week and didn't play 50hours and feel pretty bad about it.
I didn't went out easy though. For first two days of the week I went through a lot of videos and refreshed some theory and way of thinking. I went at it even for more than 10 hours a day. And then next days I was struggling to put hours in, but managed to do at least 40 in the end. So it is not a success, but it is not a complete failure. I remembered last days that I have the goal till April, so 4k month was literally just the first necessary step to make it happen, but I need to step up my game much more to succeed and achieve what I set up to do. No time to taking it easy.
So I played 40hours, 5398 hands played and 826€ profit.
FITNES:
On top of that I was not exercising much nor do spanish. It showed a lot in my weel being. I felt so bad in my own body, I didn't even went out at all, just laying in bad on latpot or sitting by the desk. On friday it was so bad, that I just needed to go for a walk and I just went during the night. It really helped a lot! It is so important to keep moving!
My getting 6pack bet is off. Not from my end really, so that gave me also a reason not to workout haha. But plans didn't change. Only thing that changed is that I was at calorie deficit and I don't really like it, as I don't want to lose weight and I now weight almost like post Thailand (where I lost 7kilograms while there btw).
I was reading a lot lately about intermittent fasting and Kinobody. Am following a few entrepreneurs and they all seem to have very good success with. It is kind of low volume, but strength building program you do 3 times per week and have also some walking for cardio at which those guys are usually listening to some audio books etc. So I am looking into, a program called Greek God muscle buidling. (hope it doesn't entail shortening of some vital body part, judging by greek statues :P) And I already tried uping the weight and doing less reps at exercises I am doing. Filled my rucksack with books and did pullups with it. Must say it seems pretty awesome. I would imagine the program my take a bit longer to show results, but I think it is easy to implement in the daily routine. So 3 days of shorter fitness session, 3days of walking and some abs and good diet. With intermittent fasting, you can eat bigger meals so it is easy to also include some alcohol and less healthy food. still need to hit the macros though. Will see if I'll try that, I am quite on mark with my current diet as well, but might incorporate fasting on some days if I go out or maybe can have a drink or two with friends with it.
So that was that, I think I survived a little crisis week, still did some minimum work and very happy that I went through a lot of theory, makes it more tidy in my head. Still have a lot to do, but I did almost 50% of it.
Next week I will play 55hours and catch up a bit.
Good luck at the tables!
Forgot to do an english update!
First week of the month was quite tough.
I had low energy levels and had real trouble to get going. Also through my history I always had one month a super goal and live and breathe for it and then after it was done I slacked it out for next month or two. Not just in poker as well. So I FAILED this week and didn't play 50hours and feel pretty bad about it.
I didn't went out easy though. For first two days of the week I went through a lot of videos and refreshed some theory and way of thinking. I went at it even for more than 10 hours a day. And then next days I was struggling to put hours in, but managed to do at least 40 in the end. So it is not a success, but it is not a complete failure. I remembered last days that I have the goal till April, so 4k month was literally just the first necessary step to make it happen, but I need to step up my game much more to succeed and achieve what I set up to do. No time to taking it easy.
So I played 40hours, 5398 hands played and 826€ profit.
FITNES:
On top of that I was not exercising much nor do spanish. It showed a lot in my weel being. I felt so bad in my own body, I didn't even went out at all, just laying in bad on latpot or sitting by the desk. On friday it was so bad, that I just needed to go for a walk and I just went during the night. It really helped a lot! It is so important to keep moving!
My getting 6pack bet is off. Not from my end really, so that gave me also a reason not to workout haha. But plans didn't change. Only thing that changed is that I was at calorie deficit and I don't really like it, as I don't want to lose weight and I now weight almost like post Thailand (where I lost 7kilograms while there btw).
I was reading a lot lately about intermittent fasting and Kinobody. Am following a few entrepreneurs and they all seem to have very good success with. It is kind of low volume, but strength building program you do 3 times per week and have also some walking for cardio at which those guys are usually listening to some audio books etc. So I am looking into, a program called Greek God muscle buidling. (hope it doesn't entail shortening of some vital body part, judging by greek statues :P) And I already tried uping the weight and doing less reps at exercises I am doing. Filled my rucksack with books and did pullups with it. Must say it seems pretty awesome. I would imagine the program my take a bit longer to show results, but I think it is easy to implement in the daily routine. So 3 days of shorter fitness session, 3days of walking and some abs and good diet. With intermittent fasting, you can eat bigger meals so it is easy to also include some alcohol and less healthy food. still need to hit the macros though. Will see if I'll try that, I am quite on mark with my current diet as well, but might incorporate fasting on some days if I go out or maybe can have a drink or two with friends with it.
So that was that, I think I survived a little crisis week, still did some minimum work and very happy that I went through a lot of theory, makes it more tidy in my head. Still have a lot to do, but I did almost 50% of it.
Next week I will play 55hours and catch up a bit.
Good luck at the tables!
10-30-2016
, 10:19 PM
Oh again didn't update my English blog for previous week. So this is now the 3rd week report and I will do the 4th and final week of the month in few days with a monthly report.
Basically I was already at 1500€, but then after a 16hour long session lost the daily winnings. Probably it was concentration, but also variance.
In the end I ended up still at a nice profit of 1020€ , while playing 45hours and 5853 hands. I need to play 58hours more if I want to complete the 200 hour month and that is what I will do. Would be really nice to also break the 5000€ mark for the month.
I also have a plan to write down my complete schedule as now more or less things are pretty nicely arranged and my days follow the schedule quite good. sometime I shift a few hours up and down, but not much changes. I will write it after the monthly report though.
Otherwise was watching some videos, had coachings, was out with my friends, did fitness on schedule etc. I didn't do Spanish and equities though, so need to improve on that one!
So hear you soon
Basically I was already at 1500€, but then after a 16hour long session lost the daily winnings. Probably it was concentration, but also variance.
In the end I ended up still at a nice profit of 1020€ , while playing 45hours and 5853 hands. I need to play 58hours more if I want to complete the 200 hour month and that is what I will do. Would be really nice to also break the 5000€ mark for the month.
I also have a plan to write down my complete schedule as now more or less things are pretty nicely arranged and my days follow the schedule quite good. sometime I shift a few hours up and down, but not much changes. I will write it after the monthly report though.
Otherwise was watching some videos, had coachings, was out with my friends, did fitness on schedule etc.
I didn't do Spanish and equities though, so need to improve on that one!So hear you soon
11-02-2016
, 10:25 PM
Aaaand I didn't achieve the 5k month even though I had a few set, match points.
On Sunday I was at about 750€ and all together at 4900€ winnings and my straight didn't hold up versus a set for 140€ and then lost a few more pots. But I played on Monday as well to complete the 200h month and run it up again to a bit over 4800€ in winnings and lost a 200€ flip and then a 180€ pot where I was 75% favorite and that was a dagger for the dream
I still ended the week with 998€ of profit, played 58 hours and 8661 hands.
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OCTOBER:
I am pretty satisfied with October. The biggest step was made in organization. Playing, fitness, diet- everything went pretty smooth and sleeping is finally back to normal and it shows tremendously. Some weeks I played a bit less, but in the end it was not a struggle at all to make it.
I'va played 200 hours, 27186 hands and had 4466€ profit. Two months in a row and hoping for many more to come. Really wanted 5k, but on short term in doesn't matte anyway and it helps if everything goes your way that shows in 25bb winrate.
Graph for October:
In cash with a few missing hands:
And in bb with all hands- on this site EV bb was a bit lower but was running over it:
Smooth :P
I mostly played ok, but when things went my way all the time I feel I became a bit sloppy and towards the end I didnt have the best performance. Also because I didn't study much but just played. Even with all mistakes I was making I adjusted pretty well usually to opponents and I think I advanced a lot in this area.
I still have a big potential in off table work,studying and analysis. While I arranged all of the other things, this is one thing I need to also develop a routine for. I'll do it in November.
The big news is also green light for NL 400!!
Am excited about it. That is a lot of money already so definitely awesome. I will take it very slow and careful though.
Otherwise Fitness and Intermittent fasting really suit me and it is a difference as I don't need to do so much cooking and meals.
So plan for next month is basically all the same. Grind, fitness, diet and the focus will be a lot on trying to study and adding a routine for that into the permanent mix.
On Sunday I was at about 750€ and all together at 4900€ winnings and my straight didn't hold up versus a set for 140€ and then lost a few more pots. But I played on Monday as well to complete the 200h month and run it up again to a bit over 4800€ in winnings and lost a 200€ flip and then a 180€ pot where I was 75% favorite and that was a dagger for the dream
I still ended the week with 998€ of profit, played 58 hours and 8661 hands.
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OCTOBER:
I am pretty satisfied with October. The biggest step was made in organization. Playing, fitness, diet- everything went pretty smooth and sleeping is finally back to normal and it shows tremendously. Some weeks I played a bit less, but in the end it was not a struggle at all to make it.
I'va played 200 hours, 27186 hands and had 4466€ profit. Two months in a row and hoping for many more to come. Really wanted 5k, but on short term in doesn't matte anyway and it helps if everything goes your way that shows in 25bb winrate.
Graph for October:
In cash with a few missing hands:
And in bb with all hands- on this site EV bb was a bit lower but was running over it:
Smooth :P
I mostly played ok, but when things went my way all the time I feel I became a bit sloppy and towards the end I didnt have the best performance. Also because I didn't study much but just played. Even with all mistakes I was making I adjusted pretty well usually to opponents and I think I advanced a lot in this area.
I still have a big potential in off table work,studying and analysis. While I arranged all of the other things, this is one thing I need to also develop a routine for. I'll do it in November.
The big news is also green light for NL 400!!
Am excited about it. That is a lot of money already so definitely awesome. I will take it very slow and careful though.
Otherwise Fitness and Intermittent fasting really suit me and it is a difference as I don't need to do so much cooking and meals.
So plan for next month is basically all the same. Grind, fitness, diet and the focus will be a lot on trying to study and adding a routine for that into the permanent mix.
11-16-2016
, 12:08 AM
Hey all!
I promised a schedule, so that is what this post will be dedicated to. It doesn't seem much, but for so many years I was quite unorganized and if you want to be productive and achieve goals, an organized day, week, month etc. is very important. Otherwise you will just not get things done and move forward. Consistency really is the key in everything and for me doing the minimums/ some standard things I want to complete even when I am not all pumped up, is a huge difference. And you can't do it without a good schedule.
Poker:
10am-2pm poker
2pm-8pm free time
8pm-2am poker
Hours are not fixed but flexible, can play in the afternoon and not evening or playing very long morning sessions etc. Also I sometime start way earlier or a bit later depends on the sleeping and all. However for an 8 hour work to play from 10am to 2 pm and like 10pm- 2 am I feel like I am not even working as I have most of the day free. Also that time being sunlight is not bad Just knowing to play first 4 hours and then being free till the evening makes a huge difference.
Well-being/fitness
The new fitness schedule also works perfectly with playing hours. As I am following Kinobody I have gym and heavy lifting days on Monday, Wednesday, Friday which I do at 7pm before the session. And on non lifting days, for "cardio" all I do is a walk for 45minutes to an hour or so, which I do right after morning session. I also listen to some audio books in that time, sometimes Spanish, so it is multitasking, but usually I am just meeting some friend for a walk.. See the sun, walk around, I can also do some other sports or run or whatever. Walking is the minimum and some ab workout on pull up bar or ab roller.. Maybe after walking , maybe before evening session.
The workout is very awesome as you do main compound movement and very heavy weights in 5-8 rep range and not a lot of exercises. So it is actually fun and not a drag to do and I already notice nice results.
The goal is to reach:
Bench incline= 1.25x body weight, 5 reps
Weighted Chin-Ups= 0.5x BW+ BW, 5 reps
Shoulder Press= 0.85x BW, 5 reps
Bicep curls= 0.65x BW, lift 5x
I am not that far with some of the exercises, well relatively, will see how fast I can move forward. But it makes it much more easy to follow along this kiund of routine long term as it takes about 45min to do it. With Insanity or TapoutXT it was just too much to do it every day or 6 days a week for an hour and for the long term is just a bit much.
As I was looking for gym memberships I also saw that I can actually buy my own fitness and all I need for pretty cheap. All I need is space :P But sooner or later I will do it and just have everything at house and I feel like I can follow this program for ever without a hustle. It is really not a big deal. Also beats me previous Gym routines that were 4 days and I destroyed myself there with so many exercises.
Diet!
This goes into well-being chapter actually and it just rounds everything up nicely. I am on Intermittent Fasting now for about a month. I love it. Basically everyday I fast until 4pm and then a meal, later one around 8pm and last one at midnight. So you don't eat 16 hours and you eat in the 8 hour window. No need to be super strict about it. In the morning you drink just coffee or tea. It goes good with workout schedule as well. Doing light cardio while fasting, working out 3 hours after big meal and then another 2 big meals after workout. It is also just an awesome way to lose fat and you can eat so much in that 8 hours window. Of course I am counting calories to hit all the macros or at least close by and the calorie intake depending if I want to bulk up or lose fat.
This way of eating is also very flexible as you can go out with friends on a pizza and some drinks from time to time and not pass the calories. Also There is no such a big dilemma on what to eat and much less of food preparing. I also feel great and it works very good on me.
Spanish I do whenever in the day.
I also have some variations of the schedule for 12 hours play for evening play, morning play etc. But that is what now works for me and I think it is very sustainable as it works with my way of life. I also feel good with walking,working out and having time to socialize and have some junk food from time to, without really getting further from my fitness goals. It almost feels like cheating
So that is how everything works now more or less. My sleeping is again normal, I am much less tired and just everything goes pretty well now as I finally puzzled together that work for me. Very simple, but it took a while to really make it good for me. There are new challenges now that I faced this month, but will write next time about that. All I lack now is a more solid off the table routine that I will do everyday which is in the making/almost done.
Good luck at the tables!
I promised a schedule, so that is what this post will be dedicated to. It doesn't seem much, but for so many years I was quite unorganized and if you want to be productive and achieve goals, an organized day, week, month etc. is very important. Otherwise you will just not get things done and move forward. Consistency really is the key in everything and for me doing the minimums/ some standard things I want to complete even when I am not all pumped up, is a huge difference. And you can't do it without a good schedule.
Poker:
10am-2pm poker
2pm-8pm free time
8pm-2am poker
Hours are not fixed but flexible, can play in the afternoon and not evening or playing very long morning sessions etc. Also I sometime start way earlier or a bit later depends on the sleeping and all. However for an 8 hour work to play from 10am to 2 pm and like 10pm- 2 am I feel like I am not even working as I have most of the day free. Also that time being sunlight is not bad
Just knowing to play first 4 hours and then being free till the evening makes a huge difference. Well-being/fitness
The new fitness schedule also works perfectly with playing hours. As I am following Kinobody I have gym and heavy lifting days on Monday, Wednesday, Friday which I do at 7pm before the session. And on non lifting days, for "cardio" all I do is a walk for 45minutes to an hour or so, which I do right after morning session. I also listen to some audio books in that time, sometimes Spanish, so it is multitasking, but usually I am just meeting some friend for a walk.. See the sun, walk around, I can also do some other sports or run or whatever. Walking is the minimum and some ab workout on pull up bar or ab roller.. Maybe after walking , maybe before evening session.
The workout is very awesome as you do main compound movement and very heavy weights in 5-8 rep range and not a lot of exercises. So it is actually fun and not a drag to do and I already notice nice results.
The goal is to reach:
Bench incline= 1.25x body weight, 5 reps
Weighted Chin-Ups= 0.5x BW+ BW, 5 reps
Shoulder Press= 0.85x BW, 5 reps
Bicep curls= 0.65x BW, lift 5x
I am not that far with some of the exercises, well relatively, will see how fast I can move forward. But it makes it much more easy to follow along this kiund of routine long term as it takes about 45min to do it. With Insanity or TapoutXT it was just too much to do it every day or 6 days a week for an hour and for the long term is just a bit much.
As I was looking for gym memberships I also saw that I can actually buy my own fitness and all I need for pretty cheap. All I need is space :P But sooner or later I will do it and just have everything at house and I feel like I can follow this program for ever without a hustle. It is really not a big deal. Also beats me previous Gym routines that were 4 days and I destroyed myself there with so many exercises.
Diet!
This goes into well-being chapter actually and it just rounds everything up nicely. I am on Intermittent Fasting now for about a month. I love it. Basically everyday I fast until 4pm and then a meal, later one around 8pm and last one at midnight. So you don't eat 16 hours and you eat in the 8 hour window. No need to be super strict about it. In the morning you drink just coffee or tea. It goes good with workout schedule as well. Doing light cardio while fasting, working out 3 hours after big meal and then another 2 big meals after workout. It is also just an awesome way to lose fat and you can eat so much in that 8 hours window. Of course I am counting calories to hit all the macros or at least close by and the calorie intake depending if I want to bulk up or lose fat.
This way of eating is also very flexible as you can go out with friends on a pizza and some drinks from time to time and not pass the calories. Also There is no such a big dilemma on what to eat and much less of food preparing. I also feel great and it works very good on me.
Spanish I do whenever in the day.
I also have some variations of the schedule for 12 hours play for evening play, morning play etc. But that is what now works for me and I think it is very sustainable as it works with my way of life. I also feel good with walking,working out and having time to socialize and have some junk food from time to, without really getting further from my fitness goals. It almost feels like cheating
So that is how everything works now more or less. My sleeping is again normal, I am much less tired and just everything goes pretty well now as I finally puzzled together that work for me. Very simple, but it took a while to really make it good for me. There are new challenges now that I faced this month, but will write next time about that. All I lack now is a more solid off the table routine that I will do everyday which is in the making/almost done.
Good luck at the tables!
11-16-2016
, 01:59 PM
It is more towards 30k hands, but regs are avoiding me- hard to get action. I am kidding, yeah a lot. Rarely battle. But I am studying hard to be able to play more and more people, so I wish that hopefully soon I'll be able to mingle with them regs
Also am not playing a lot of tables, as my peformance even between 1 vs 2 tables is way worse and sometimes I try to do 3 or 4 tables when I feel on top mentaly, but I think it is pretty much always a bad idea when I do.
Also am not playing a lot of tables, as my peformance even between 1 vs 2 tables is way worse and sometimes I try to do 3 or 4 tables when I feel on top mentaly, but I think it is pretty much always a bad idea when I do.
12-04-2016
, 06:39 PM
November report!
I was just talking about my awesome new schedule and then November didn't really go according to that, sort of. I was never good with following a routine. What happened was that I felt a bit bored. Everything went too smooth! I slept good, I played good, results were good, but I just felt like everyday is the same. Even that free time that I went for a walk or met some friend, while it was awesome still didn't change much as I knew when I play, eat, sleep. I noticed a big mental leak I have with this and it applies outside of poker as well. I guess I like to complicate things or dig myself a hole and then I have again a problem to fix and a challenge to climb out of it.. So stupid. While it is not exactly some super new thing I learned about myself I did see super clear at some point and saw million of situations that this applies to in my life. You know those moments of clarity and realization you sometimes have, although when put in words it doesn't sound that significant. Or at least when I do it haha, probably Shakespeare could make buying a bread sound significant.
I might add that probably to the feeling of boredom also contributed the fact, I was quietly planning to join some guys in Thailand. Staying home, doing the same routine day in and day out was not so exciting after that fell off. But for my progress I would say it is better and I will wait a few months to go travel again to Thailand, South America, Philippines or wherever!
So for sure I stopped playing regularly, sleeping schedule went off, I was just not in it and for sure a nice little worse day of my BPC career followed and a stop loss. Well deserved and a nice reminder that game in itself is super challenging already. I just dozed off because it was a lot of smooth sailing last two months. I fell into same traps even after so many years of poker. As I didn't play much first two weeks, my results were horrible, I was again met with the challenge to still turn the month around and make it like it should be. Again a hard to accomplish feat...
Referencing the digging and climbing a hole part, it is just making your walking on a flat surface much harder, but you are still accomplishing the same and staying on the flat ground on the same road. Well you might be getting a bit stronger with all the extra work. But I really have to search for challenges outside of that and rather climb some tree or a mountain to elevate my overall situation and achieve new goals. It is way easier to do that when you don't waste all of your energy when you are just walking still on a flat surface. That is I feel what I am doing a lot and with finally having a very good schedule it makes me do normal things more effortlessly so I can now focus to beat bigger/other challenges and really change my life situation. I hope my realization will help me in the future. Ok I fell a bit of course, but I do like the analogy.
So back to November, last two weeks I got myself in shape, I started following my schedule again, becoming more productive, even adding some hours and ended last 10 days of the month with about 120 hours of playing and no free days. It was because of long playing sessions, too little down time and I would say also complete lack of studying that my last days sessions had a LOT of mistakes in. I was tilting at times, spewing because of it, just throwing money out of the window, pretty sure my neighbors were happy. In the beginning of the month I did have some solid sweat session with Somebody and made me much more confident to play even some harder opponents which I did this month, but towards the end it was just playing and I lose my compass a bit with that, become too emotional, take it too personal etc.. On top of that I was not running that well. But overall results were not that bad actually. I also did some NL400, exciting!! BTW my diet and fitness plans were kept intact even when not playing poker.
I managed to play 200hours in the end, I played 29596 hands and had 3636€ profit. On top of that I was about 1600-1700€ under EV! I must say this result gives me quite some confidence, together with previous two months, because I know I played under my abilities and can do better. I feel I am very close to getting some much bigger results. Specially if I do some more extreme and grinding, or at least more normal distribution of it, where I am much more fresh.
The Graph:
and another in other currency
While I am super tempted to grind hard in December and go for a new record, I will choose a bit different strategy. At least first two weeks I will study about 20 hours per week, but will try to put 40 hours of playing in as well or at least 35 hours. I have a clear picture of what I want to do, organize my notes and everything as I learned in coaching and I feel it will help me tremendously to really learn all I should already know and to acquire new information much better. Later I will also need less time again to spend everyday, but will be able to learn and repeat everything everyday which will make be much more grounded and logical and do much less mistakes. At least that is the plan! I will adjust the strategy, but I think in the end I can still put a good month with ok hours in, but also make my whole process of learning and playing much better. And I think January can then be the month to crush all records and obtain the 10k month I so want! Let's see how it will turn about.
P.S. Congrats to Conor McGregor at UFC 205, such a great event and such poetry in motion by him!!
I was just talking about my awesome new schedule and then November didn't really go according to that, sort of. I was never good with following a routine. What happened was that I felt a bit bored. Everything went too smooth! I slept good, I played good, results were good, but I just felt like everyday is the same. Even that free time that I went for a walk or met some friend, while it was awesome still didn't change much as I knew when I play, eat, sleep. I noticed a big mental leak I have with this and it applies outside of poker as well. I guess I like to complicate things or dig myself a hole and then I have again a problem to fix and a challenge to climb out of it.. So stupid. While it is not exactly some super new thing I learned about myself I did see super clear at some point and saw million of situations that this applies to in my life. You know those moments of clarity and realization you sometimes have, although when put in words it doesn't sound that significant. Or at least when I do it haha, probably Shakespeare could make buying a bread sound significant.
I might add that probably to the feeling of boredom also contributed the fact, I was quietly planning to join some guys in Thailand. Staying home, doing the same routine day in and day out was not so exciting after that fell off. But for my progress I would say it is better and I will wait a few months to go travel again to Thailand, South America, Philippines or wherever!
So for sure I stopped playing regularly, sleeping schedule went off, I was just not in it and for sure a nice little worse day of my BPC career followed and a stop loss. Well deserved and a nice reminder that game in itself is super challenging already. I just dozed off because it was a lot of smooth sailing last two months. I fell into same traps even after so many years of poker. As I didn't play much first two weeks, my results were horrible, I was again met with the challenge to still turn the month around and make it like it should be. Again a hard to accomplish feat...
Referencing the digging and climbing a hole part, it is just making your walking on a flat surface much harder, but you are still accomplishing the same and staying on the flat ground on the same road. Well you might be getting a bit stronger with all the extra work. But I really have to search for challenges outside of that and rather climb some tree or a mountain to elevate my overall situation and achieve new goals. It is way easier to do that when you don't waste all of your energy when you are just walking still on a flat surface. That is I feel what I am doing a lot and with finally having a very good schedule it makes me do normal things more effortlessly so I can now focus to beat bigger/other challenges and really change my life situation. I hope my realization will help me in the future. Ok I fell a bit of course, but I do like the analogy.
So back to November, last two weeks I got myself in shape, I started following my schedule again, becoming more productive, even adding some hours and ended last 10 days of the month with about 120 hours of playing and no free days. It was because of long playing sessions, too little down time and I would say also complete lack of studying that my last days sessions had a LOT of mistakes in. I was tilting at times, spewing because of it, just throwing money out of the window, pretty sure my neighbors were happy. In the beginning of the month I did have some solid sweat session with Somebody and made me much more confident to play even some harder opponents which I did this month, but towards the end it was just playing and I lose my compass a bit with that, become too emotional, take it too personal etc.. On top of that I was not running that well. But overall results were not that bad actually. I also did some NL400, exciting!! BTW my diet and fitness plans were kept intact even when not playing poker.
I managed to play 200hours in the end, I played 29596 hands and had 3636€ profit. On top of that I was about 1600-1700€ under EV! I must say this result gives me quite some confidence, together with previous two months, because I know I played under my abilities and can do better. I feel I am very close to getting some much bigger results. Specially if I do some more extreme and grinding, or at least more normal distribution of it, where I am much more fresh.
The Graph:
and another in other currency
While I am super tempted to grind hard in December and go for a new record, I will choose a bit different strategy. At least first two weeks I will study about 20 hours per week, but will try to put 40 hours of playing in as well or at least 35 hours. I have a clear picture of what I want to do, organize my notes and everything as I learned in coaching and I feel it will help me tremendously to really learn all I should already know and to acquire new information much better. Later I will also need less time again to spend everyday, but will be able to learn and repeat everything everyday which will make be much more grounded and logical and do much less mistakes. At least that is the plan! I will adjust the strategy, but I think in the end I can still put a good month with ok hours in, but also make my whole process of learning and playing much better. And I think January can then be the month to crush all records and obtain the 10k month I so want! Let's see how it will turn about.
P.S. Congrats to Conor McGregor at UFC 205, such a great event and such poetry in motion by him!!
12-24-2016
, 01:43 PM
It's been awhile since I updated. I have become famous in the mean time, so who has time with writing blogs haha. Not sure if I can post my interview link on BPC so will leave it out.
I am talking about consistency there and then my first week of December I did absolutely 0 work. 0 studying and note taking and 0hours of playing. That is probably why I also deem it so important, because I was always struggling with it in my life But the plan from a few months ago still stands: No missed weeks until end of March or if I miss it I make sure to catch up next weeks and no month I will play less than 160hours.
I did have a lot of things outside of poker I needed to take care of, like some bank things, had some dealings with doctors (nothing serious with health), just did a lot of things that piled up in last months of not doing anything but poker. Still I could have easily played and studied though. I also watched some BPC courses that were not directly poker related, but more for outside organization and mindset things and also about life in general and money. I really liked it and it gave me a lot to think about. I didn't finish it yet completely and there are new assignments to schedule, which is becoming hard to fit all in, in a day. Especially as I am just not a machine like some people in the program are and really respect to them. I feel for me to do it long term, I also need a lot of "free" time where my brain can think about stupid things and can just do whatever. Maybe I will build up to be able to do more and more and if I think about it, when I started with the program even playing 35 hours per week sounded insane to me.
Oh the other thing that happened was that with Neteller and Skrill new fees and also had quite a lot of money to convert between currencies I got into a nice little hole before I even played one hand. It cost me a couple hundred bucks and it hurt, so now I already found a few solutions to avoid it as much as possible.
So for the second week I actually offered the first guy that would comment on my Slovenian forum 100€ if I don't complete the 160 playing hours haha. And it sure did motivate me the first day to kick my ass out of slacking. I get used waaaaay to quick to slacking after I take a few days off. Maybe I am naturally more lazy person, or am just living for too long too easy without a schedule. I was thinking a lot about it and am not sure whether it is all about habits, or it is all about purpose/vision and motivation or it is also "genetic".. Anyway, whatever it is, I must be aware of it and fight it so much more to get **** done!
I will say that after a crazy finish last month, days off did also have positive effects on my mindset. I think my thinking process improved a bit as everything settled down and I am not caught up in those tilts I experienced last few days, which I didn't have for a long time. So I played pretty good and managed to grind about 57hours. If I would only look at results up to NL200 stakes I had a sweet 2500€ profit, but with NL400 and those unexpected fees, altogether my net profit was 1100€. Not bad anyway.
At NL400 I took one bad beat with a set vs 2 pairs and I made a few mistakes in one other match up and overall it just didn't end nice. And it shows fast in overall results if things go bad at NL400. But it is all part of learning process, I do feel the tendencies to just stay on NL200 and lower and have solid results, but to get to the next level, I need to mix it up on NL400 as well. It is exciting though!
I would be happy to end the month with 160 hours played, all my study notes rewritten and also have last 2 days free. Because I want to start first day of January already and I don't plan to have many free days that month. I think I need about 15hours to do the notes and I am a bit under 90 hours of playing with 2 days to go to end the third week it doesn't look most optimistic, specially as with holidays family and close ones need a lot of attention, which I also think is important besides poker. I will find a way to do both though
I am talking about consistency there and then my first week of December I did absolutely 0 work. 0 studying and note taking and 0hours of playing. That is probably why I also deem it so important, because I was always struggling with it in my life
But the plan from a few months ago still stands: No missed weeks until end of March or if I miss it I make sure to catch up next weeks and no month I will play less than 160hours.I did have a lot of things outside of poker I needed to take care of, like some bank things, had some dealings with doctors (nothing serious with health), just did a lot of things that piled up in last months of not doing anything but poker. Still I could have easily played and studied though. I also watched some BPC courses that were not directly poker related, but more for outside organization and mindset things and also about life in general and money. I really liked it and it gave me a lot to think about. I didn't finish it yet completely and there are new assignments to schedule, which is becoming hard to fit all in, in a day. Especially as I am just not a machine like some people in the program are and really respect to them. I feel for me to do it long term, I also need a lot of "free" time where my brain can think about stupid things and can just do whatever. Maybe I will build up to be able to do more and more and if I think about it, when I started with the program even playing 35 hours per week sounded insane to me.
Oh the other thing that happened was that with Neteller and Skrill new fees and also had quite a lot of money to convert between currencies I got into a nice little hole before I even played one hand. It cost me a couple hundred bucks and it hurt, so now I already found a few solutions to avoid it as much as possible.
So for the second week I actually offered the first guy that would comment on my Slovenian forum 100€ if I don't complete the 160 playing hours haha. And it sure did motivate me the first day to kick my ass out of slacking. I get used waaaaay to quick to slacking after I take a few days off. Maybe I am naturally more lazy person, or am just living for too long too easy without a schedule. I was thinking a lot about it and am not sure whether it is all about habits, or it is all about purpose/vision and motivation or it is also "genetic".. Anyway, whatever it is, I must be aware of it and fight it so much more to get **** done!
I will say that after a crazy finish last month, days off did also have positive effects on my mindset. I think my thinking process improved a bit as everything settled down and I am not caught up in those tilts I experienced last few days, which I didn't have for a long time. So I played pretty good and managed to grind about 57hours. If I would only look at results up to NL200 stakes I had a sweet 2500€ profit, but with NL400 and those unexpected fees, altogether my net profit was 1100€. Not bad anyway.
At NL400 I took one bad beat with a set vs 2 pairs and I made a few mistakes in one other match up and overall it just didn't end nice. And it shows fast in overall results if things go bad at NL400. But it is all part of learning process, I do feel the tendencies to just stay on NL200 and lower and have solid results, but to get to the next level, I need to mix it up on NL400 as well. It is exciting though!
I would be happy to end the month with 160 hours played, all my study notes rewritten and also have last 2 days free. Because I want to start first day of January already and I don't plan to have many free days that month. I think I need about 15hours to do the notes and I am a bit under 90 hours of playing with 2 days to go to end the third week it doesn't look most optimistic, specially as with holidays family and close ones need a lot of attention, which I also think is important besides poker. I will find a way to do both though
12-26-2016
, 10:25 PM
End of third week!
I played about 53 hours so the month stands at 110hours. I played 9000 hands and had 1734€ profit. I also had best day since in the program at 909€.
It was an interesting week with juggling everything, that is why I have played less as well. I went to see StarWars: RogueOne movie. Not bad, the problem was I was working whole day since waking up and when I got in the cinema, the warmth and cozy chair made me quite tired and sleepy. So I was not totally in the movie and maybe I even dozed off for a few minutes. I am quite a fan of Star Wars saga, so will definitely need to go check this one again and this time in 3D.
One day I also had some get together with friends and then lot's of family time and lunches and dinners, gift shopping, gym... I was quite productive though, but still played less then intended a I was also sleeping much more, probably because I was more active all around.
Oh on top of that my mobile phone, that has btw broken screen since Thailand, also got the microphone destroyed somehow. It is totally muffled, unless I use loud speaker. The repair would cost same as used same model (Nexus5), so as I like to tinker with things I ordered parts to do it myself.
I also started reading The 4 Agreements book by Miguel Ruiz
So anyway. to finish the month as planned I need to play about 12-13 hours everyday to play 50 hours by thursday and possibly do some notes while at it. Will be a busy week.
This is now my 4th or 5th month that I am sticking to the plan relatively well and play mostly 200h. I really feel the urge to change the scenery and go travel somewhere while this time seriously working! I think it would make grinding more rewarding and whole journey more enjoyable. Also here is so cold...
I played about 53 hours so the month stands at 110hours. I played 9000 hands and had 1734€ profit. I also had best day since in the program at 909€.
It was an interesting week with juggling everything, that is why I have played less as well. I went to see StarWars: RogueOne movie. Not bad, the problem was I was working whole day since waking up and when I got in the cinema, the warmth and cozy chair made me quite tired and sleepy. So I was not totally in the movie and maybe I even dozed off for a few minutes. I am quite a fan of Star Wars saga, so will definitely need to go check this one again and this time in 3D.
One day I also had some get together with friends and then lot's of family time and lunches and dinners, gift shopping, gym... I was quite productive though, but still played less then intended a I was also sleeping much more, probably because I was more active all around.
Oh on top of that my mobile phone, that has btw broken screen since Thailand, also got the microphone destroyed somehow. It is totally muffled, unless I use loud speaker. The repair would cost same as used same model (Nexus5), so as I like to tinker with things I ordered parts to do it myself.
I also started reading The 4 Agreements book by Miguel Ruiz
So anyway. to finish the month as planned I need to play about 12-13 hours everyday to play 50 hours by thursday and possibly do some notes while at it. Will be a busy week.
This is now my 4th or 5th month that I am sticking to the plan relatively well and play mostly 200h. I really feel the urge to change the scenery and go travel somewhere while this time seriously working!
I think it would make grinding more rewarding and whole journey more enjoyable. Also here is so cold...
12-29-2016
, 10:10 PM
Aaaand finished!!!
I am happy to report that I managed to finish the last 50 hours of the week/month in 4 days, so week 4 is in the books! I was playing more than 10 hours all last days and actually didn't have a free day for quite a while now. Two days of free time will be sweet. Tomorrow I am going on some birthday party, UFC and then New Years Eve.
So I played 50 hours, played 6845 hands and had a profit of 1443€. I didn't rewrote notes; next year!
This is how you end the last 7 days of the year in style
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Short review of December:
It started slow. I had some free days where I did a lot of administrative little things I needed to take care of by the end of the year. I also watched some great BPC series about how to be successful in poker and in life and the general principles of everything basically. After 12th it was time to start grinding and I grinded a LOT. With holidays I also had lots of family and social events which I creamed in between playing and I haven't had a free day for quite a while actually. Fitness way on schedule, diet as well, but Spanish and studying disappeared out of practice. Basically both things that didn't have a specific time frame in the schedule, so I need to fix that.
In the end it was the best month results wise. I played 160hours, 26716 hands and 4648€ profits!
Main graph:
second in other currency:
For January I would really like to do the 300 hours of playing challenge. I have it in mind for a while, but on the other hand I think it is vital to incorporate studying. I am just playing last few months with not much of study and progress, so maybe I will do 300 hours of poker with 200 playing and 100 studying hours and both equally important, or challenge is a fail! Will decide later. I also didn't think about my next years goals and vision, but finishing the program is staying main priority and after I am done I will create a new master plan!
I wish Happy New Year to everyone and enjoy a nice evening. For me it is two days away from the computer!
I am happy to report that I managed to finish the last 50 hours of the week/month in 4 days, so week 4 is in the books! I was playing more than 10 hours all last days and actually didn't have a free day for quite a while now. Two days of free time will be sweet. Tomorrow I am going on some birthday party, UFC and then New Years Eve.
So I played 50 hours, played 6845 hands and had a profit of 1443€. I didn't rewrote notes; next year!
This is how you end the last 7 days of the year in style
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Short review of December:
It started slow. I had some free days where I did a lot of administrative little things I needed to take care of by the end of the year. I also watched some great BPC series about how to be successful in poker and in life and the general principles of everything basically. After 12th it was time to start grinding and I grinded a LOT. With holidays I also had lots of family and social events which I creamed in between playing and I haven't had a free day for quite a while actually. Fitness way on schedule, diet as well, but Spanish and studying disappeared out of practice. Basically both things that didn't have a specific time frame in the schedule, so I need to fix that.
In the end it was the best month results wise. I played 160hours, 26716 hands and 4648€ profits!
Main graph:
second in other currency:
For January I would really like to do the 300 hours of playing challenge. I have it in mind for a while, but on the other hand I think it is vital to incorporate studying. I am just playing last few months with not much of study and progress, so maybe I will do 300 hours of poker with 200 playing and 100 studying hours and both equally important, or challenge is a fail! Will decide later. I also didn't think about my next years goals and vision, but finishing the program is staying main priority and after I am done I will create a new master plan!
I wish Happy New Year to everyone and enjoy a nice evening. For me it is two days away from the computer!