Thanks a lot
Hans Zimmer is just the absolut goat. All the soundtracks he made are just phenomenal.

Alright lets come up with another update. Lots of stuff happening.

Poker
Winter series is over, thank god I dont wanna see no series no more for at least 2 months I played bunch of HS tournaments, unfortunately didnt cash a single one and didnt get a single swap either so I dropped quite a bit again. Its pretty annoying to always grind the daily schedule just to get out of the MU I got during the series. But I guess this is the nature of MTTs.
But good things happening too, I managed to win b55 yesterday. I was super super lucky and unfortunately it was vs my stable mate. I think I won 99 vs AQs, then AQs vs AK then TT vs KK on Txx and stripped him from chiplead and eventually busted him. But hey, obviously I was happy to be in the tournament.

I was going to the FT as like 3rd in chips. I have to say the FT was very very soft, there were like 2 ok regs and other than that a lot of weak ones and recs. I guess thats to be expected in b55. End game was very enjoyable. We were all with even stacks with like 30-35BBs so the game was expected to be somewhat variance heavy but the guys were not putting enough pressure so it was actually ok. Funny thing was I finished the tournament at half past 6 and at half past 9 I had to wake up to go and play badminton lol

Anyways, I have already prepared all the material I am going to need prepare the coaching for the dev stable. I think it should be really interesting and Im going to learn so much too. Should be a lot of work still but I think Im gonna enjoy.

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Life
LFG! Im getting back on track with my old routine. Im planning on going swimming regularly, playing badminton, tennis etc. Really funny and refreshing. Today after the b55 as I mentioned before we played a badminton match with my rival. He beat me 3:1 3 days ago and today I beat him 3:1 too so revenge is real I managed to pass my first exam. Even tho I got an E - which is the worst I can still pass with but Im just fine with it. I also attended the other exxam too but again, waiting for resutls but it shoudl be ok. So 2 more to go.

Whats up everyone, havent got the chance to update much lately as Ive been super busy but I will try to do a bigger update today.

Poker
Poker has been weird lately. Ive been playing a lot, I think Im playing well but not much is working out. Seems like an ordinary thing. Ive done a little study regarding my game selection. Seems like I cant beat games 109+ lol so for now Ive decided Im gonna skip most of the HR (500+) events and only select the best 109/215s to play. This decision is comes hand in hand with me not making basically any money from poker in the past 1.5 years. So the plan is to just take it easy for a while, not try to play every HS event necesarily. Ive had couple of deep runs recently and its been fun.


I had a very nice Sunday, which started of very well. I final tabled hotter 16, I won a small 44$ tournament on ACR for like 800 and I had a deep run in Sunday Million where unfortunately I got super unlucky in late stage. I had a very interesting spot in the hotter 16.

Spoiler:

I think I made a big mistake there for which Im pretty mad about. The spot goes like this: HJ opens, hes been pretty active so far, opening quite wide. We flat BTN with AA. I think the real decision is on the river. I tanked in game forever as I was aware of the huge RP that is between our stack but then again, people play very far from optimal and I think they will make more mistakes than I will. Also the fact that its a turbo and that if I was going to win this pot it would be very likely I would continue to win the tournament. The problem is villains range is basically JJ, JT+, sets, A5. Now his river calling range is obviously sets, A5, JJ and potentionally some AJ,KJ, QJ, JT with pretty low frequency. We block AJ super heavily aswell as A5s. And Im pretty sure in theory with the risk premium, we definitely dont have a shove but again, I took into consideration the fact he might not be opening 44,33, 66 and that he will calldown lighter than he should. We decide to jam the river and villain shows up with J2ss so gg there.

Stable promotion
Stable is running another promotion. We´ve done a similar one in the past. Coaches basically draft their own players and make 3 teams. This time, we have Team *** the Duck, Team Duck and Team Groot. In other words Team Pads, Team Sam, and Team Tomi. Ive been drafter into Team Tomi(Groot). I think we have a very strong team and a pretty good chance of winning. Im somewhat sad that I couldnt win any of the recent tournaments but still I managed to collect some points by final tabling the hotter 16, 50e monster stack on winamax and coming 3rd in the uppercut kickoff today.

So far, we are second in the leaderboard by like 5 points. Its still a long time to finish so Im pretty confident we are going to end up winning :P

Check out our teams avatar.


Also I havent mentioned the prizes in this promotion. Theres a prize for each member of the winning team which is 250$. 1st person in winning team gets to freeroll the next BitB bootcamp and 2nd gets 500$ cash for his PC setup upgrade. So theres definitely motivation.


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Life
Lots of "life" stuff happening too. Firstly, I managed to pass all the exams in school. Im pretty proud of myself as I didnt really spend much time studying as I was focusing on poker, playing the series. I think you might notice by the end of the month, this is probably going to be my highest volume month or one of the highest volume months which is nice considering I had to pass 4 exams. Theres one more thing to be done regarding school tho. I need to finish the theoritical part of my diploma thesis by the end of January. I think that will be somewhat easy tho.

Ive been thinking a bit about the school tho. I got a bit mad actually of it being so "easy". I think people should not be able to pass exams by spending ****** 95% of their time playing poker Like literally, what is the system like then? Why do we have these schools, exams and stuff when literally it can be done without any deep preparation. I guess I shouldnt really be mad but on the other hand, its kinda annoying that Im spending time on something that I dont really want to do and then the fact that its kinda easy just annoys me because Im not happy about passing it if that makes any sense.

Anyways, looking forward to February. There shouldnt be much stuff to school to be done, so thats fine. Im gonna focus on playing and mainly studying poker a lot. Ive got couple of spots I want to look deeper into. Im also working on the dev-stable coaching. Ive ran a lot of scripts in pio and worked with the aggregation reports and found out pretty interesting stuff. The goal is to put all these "patterns" into a presentation and be able to present it in the best way possible. We decided to postpone the coaching so time should not be a factor here.

Also I managed to accomplish one of my monthly goals which was to reach 800+ chess rating. I didnt really have much time to play tho, I only played inbetween of studying into school and playing poker but still managed to do it so happy about that.


Anyways, I guess this is the update for now, #letsGoTeamGROOT

Curious what exactly do you mean with "cant beat games 109+"? GL!

I meant basically that Im not doing very well on those stakes. I am probably beating them with low winrates which causes much more downsides than upsides. Heres my lifetime results on different stakes. Obviously the higher we go the smaller the sample but the thing that botheres me the most are the stakes 109-300 basically.

0-99$


100-199$


200-300$


300-1000000$

wug field size for every graph posted above?

gj on exams!

guess 109-300 are daily/sunday majors on stars/party (so i guess for daily like ~300-500 and 500-1k for sunday runers)
and 300+ are series higher buy ins/mains

look really standard to me(maybe even over expectation in 215$ I assume that 200-300 graph is mostly 215 sunday majors/215pkos)

i mean i think that 109 sample is mostly 109 on party, big/hot 109 on stars right??=> all of them very reg heavy so imo is expected in those roi to not be that hight compared to roi (with same meanfull sample) of sundays 215/215 pkos where fields are larger and lot of rec are taking shots

do you play sats for 500$+ buy ins??
can you post graph for 100$-999$, what is your roi in that sample?

Thanks man!
The field size im not sure about. In the lower schedule its going to be pretty high Id assume. And in the higher stuff its gonna be mostly the party and b109 kinda stuff


I dont really play turbos at all. Just occasionally h11 or w/e. So theres literally no turbos in the graphs 100+. Other than that its mostly party 109 and b109 yea.

I dont play sats for 500+ no.

heres the graph for 100-1000

Update

Its been a pretty hard grind lately. Im playing basically every day and quite long sessions. Im enjoy playing a lot and I also think I play pretty well too. Im managing to keep a very high level of focus and think about ranges and how they interact altho there are certainly spots where I dont have enough time to think about the spot thoroughly in game and end up missing the correct sizing. Im gonna focus on reviewing couple of these spots that I marked so should be fun.

I had quite a lot of nice runs over the past few days. I had a nice run in the 109 powerfest the other day. Unfortunately I lost huge pot in last 40 people with KK vs 55 and TT aipf for chiplead pot. Then I rejam SB vs CO open 22 bigs w AKo and lose to KK. Dissapointing but nothing I could do. Yesterday was a very enjoyable day too. I was planning on skipping Saturday to spend some time with my dad so I wanted to play twice as long session on Friday. I re-evaluated mid session tho because I had numerous deep runs and wanted to focus on them. At one point I had like 8 tables, 2 FTs, 4 deep ITMs and 2 other random tables. The most interesting ones were FT of uppercut warmup which we ended up winning. I was very surprised how soft the FT was. Pretty happy to have won that tournament for 25 points in the leaderboard and the first win. I was a bit dissapointed to finish 12th in the 215 powerfest 6max. I think I played really well tho apart from 1 hand where I missed the correct sizing otr which cost me quite a lot. But happy for the runs, hopefully we can hold this momentum for Sunday too. So far, we are leading the promotion by couple of points. Lots of guys skipping today tho, so hopefully someone ships something. Im currently on 3rd place myself being 20 points behidn 2nd. So all it takes is 1 win

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Been thinking about buying a new chair as my old DXracer cant really take it anymore. But I found out its really expensive buy good chairs for tall people lol. So I think Im gonna have to punt 1500$ for this little baby.

Saturday

I wasnt actually going to play on Saturday as my dad was coming back from Slovakia and we said we would go out for a dinner. So I didnt start my session and we went out for a dinner. But we came back quite early and I was so eager to play that I fired up a session. I also felt like fighting for the first place in the promotion as I was currently in 3rd place.

So I ended up playing a session and it was going really really well. I had stacks in lots of events and in lots of the higher BI events too. So far I think during the promotion I have earned points every day which is just a proof of how good I run right now and it feels really good. Im looking forward to each and every session and I think I keep playing better and better as obviously confidence arises with the good run too.

I ended up winning the Xtase which was like ridic soft on the FT, ex. guy 3b shoving 50bigs BB vs SB 3x open w Q8o etc. So that felt really good to score a second win. Then I also had nice stacks in the 215 and 109 powerfests. Unfortunately the bubble in the 215 didnt go so well and I got short stacked and ended up mincashing. The 109 turbo went really nice tho, I had a huge stack for the majority part of the f3t down to the f2t. Then I lost some pots and was the shortest stack but still managed to make the final table as 6/6. Didnt really have too many expectations and was happy for scoring some more points for the team. I think I played really well and obviously ran pretty well too. I managed to make it to the HU as 5:1 dog or 4:1 cant exactly remember. The HU was really really fun. Again, I felt huge edge over my opponent and I think I played very very well. It was a long time since I last played a HU where I think I didnt make too many mistakes. I managed to grind him and overtake the chiplead with basically no showdown apart from I big hand that Im really happy for as I love to go for thin value:



Hands like these make me super happy

So yea I was basically grinding him down and knew where I was at in all spots and was pretty confident I was going to take it down. Unfortunately then there were couple of hands where I had 2nd nuts and had to fold the river and another big pot where I had to fold the river and I got back to short stack and wasnt able to recover from that. But as I said, coming to the FT as sixth in chips and finishing second is a great result. Really happy for it. Also Tomi (elmerixx) manaaged to win both the 1k and the 2K on party so we are in a big lead. Im currently 3rd in the leaderboard by 5 points so hopefully I can keep up the momentum and bink something today. Big day, gl all especially team groot

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Sunday

Wow what a day. I just woke up after a 16 hour grind on Sunday. It was a huge session and we managed to make some nice runs. Overall the session didnt go great or anything but luckily I managed to cash lot of my higher buy in events. I decided to skip most of the HS stuff like 1k and 500 on party. Firstly due to havnig enough tables and secondly I just didnt feel like playing them. I said to myself I would fire the 500 if I was feeling super well but I didnt, so I skipped that too. I think whats worth mentioning was basically the last 3 tables I had which were the ACR 109 warmup, ACR 215 sunday special and Sunday million on stars. Was a pretty nice lineup with some great pottential. The fields were obviously amazing and dreams were alive I felt pretty confident in all of the events especially in SM as I knew I was already there, so wasnt that much nervous or anything. Anyways, I busted the warmup around 100th or so and only had the 2 sweats left. The Sunday special on ACR went really good, I managed to build a chiplead on f2t which was pretty nice. In the SM, things werent going that optimal, I think basically from ITM downto my bustout I wasnt above 30BBs so there really wasnt much room for manuevers. I ended up coming 19th in the SM which is nice I think. Obviously 1st would be better but really not sad about this at all as I was basically short all the time.

The ACR 215 went a bit downhill since I got to the chiplead. There were 2 pots which cost me half of my stack, one of which was pretty unfortunate and the other one was std too. But anyways, we came to the FT as 6/9 with around 18BBs I think. The FT overall got super super short and I played around 10-15BBs throughout it. I managed to come 4th for like 11k or so. Very happy for that, again, would have been much nicer to play for the trophy, the money and 50 points for TeamGroot but very happy with a profitable Sunday session. Seems liek the momentum is ours right now, lets make the most of it. Im getting a little bit tired of the everyday grind but I cant help it. Enjoying playing a lot and the competition adds the extra motivation.

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Allright so its been a week since the last update and whole lot of things happened since then.

Poker

Poker has been going pretty well although as usual, it could have been better at some aspects. Ive been super motivated to grind throughout the promotion. I had a really good shot at winning the thing so I was trying to put in lot of volume and at the same time good quality game. Im very sattisfied with my performance overall. I played a lot and for the most part I think I played really well. But the whole promotion also got me to realize one thing. If I was to focus on only making decent ammount of money, I would play mid stakes and would play 10-13 tables and play my general B-C game. I realized yesterday during my Sunady session that once I drop to 8 tables or less, my game becomes 300% better. Its not even close. Suddenly I am able to recognise small patterns, I have 2-3 seconds more on each decision and I am able to figure out tough spots that I think make the difference. Good thing in my opinion is though, that I am able to recognise both games and be able to play both of them.

Anyways, the promotion ended yesterday and its going to be really really close. Team ****TheDuck with Pads in the lead had an amazing Sunday and as of right now, they are leading the pack by 30 points. We are waiting for all the points to be confirmed and also for some potential additional points from Tuesday day 2s. I finished 3rd for which Im happy. Funny how these small competitions add in the extra motivation.

Sunday
This Sunday was pretty nice. As I said above, I kept the table count lower and it was just an amazing experience to play with my true A-game. So much more fun being able to see spots in depth rather than just sort of auto-piloting. I managed to make some deep runs again. For the first time I made a deep run in the warmup on stars. Felt nice and I think I played really well. In game I caught myself recognizing some minor patterns of other players which was nice. Unfortunately I came 16th when I gii otf w AQ vs T9 on A85 for 40BBs. Oh well I guess. I also came 50th in tha party 215 main event. Man going for this big score is tougher than I thought it would be but hey, not giving up. For now, Im enjoying the runs, hopefully I will be able to close one out soon.

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January recap
I played my highest volume ever in one month. Very proud of that considering I had 4 exams to pass and a diploma thesis to write. Results are obviously amazing. Im very happy for that, feels nice to have a succesfull month again. Couldve been better but Im still gratefull for it. In the weeks to come, I want to focus a bit more on studying poker again, will try to play a lot too altho will try to focus on high quality game rather than volume. I decided to skip the Rozvadov events which is sad but I figured I prefer to keep a low MU for now and run up my confidence a bit. I wish I could play live games on a sepparate MU lol.

January graph


Life

Life overall has been pretty good overall too. As mentioned above, I passed all the exams in January. Not the best results but hey, I will take it :P

Exam results


I also already ordered the chair. Im looking forward to it so much as my old chair is just so bad and small I also bought this monitor setup. Its super fckign GTO as I can adjust the screens anyway I like and with the combination with the standing desk its jsut super nice.

Setup

Also after going fishing with my dad on Saturday, I got ill as it was super cold outside. So playing a 15 hour session on Sunday wasnt as great as someone would think. I was also supposed to do a coaching on Tuesday but as of right now my voice is just gone so Im postponed it to Thursday. Should be fun, havent done any coaching in a long time so looking forward to it.

I also signed up again for this badminton league. I played this one already last year. Its an amateur league but it provides a really good competition. I played my first match yesterday before my poker session. I was a bit afraid as I wasnt feeling great but I managed to win the match. Was a tough one but won 3:1. Didnt help my physical state but w/e. Anyways, looking forward for February, will come up with some goals and post them here.

In the meantime, here is the review of my January goals.



Goals for January


Poker:
-play as disciplined as I can --> Mostly CHECK, had some sessions where my focus want at the highest level but I guess that happens.
-make notes of every "punt" and discuss it thoroughly and make a note of it --> Mostly FAIL. I managed to mark most every hand I felt I played bad but failed with analyzing all of them
-keep highest level of focus each day --> Mostly CHECK
-dont make any rush decisions --> Mostly CHECK
-keep mastering decision making procces --> CHECK
-500 games --> CHECK with over performing
-discuss hands with mentors on daily basis --> FAIL --> only discussed couple of them as I was focusing on grinding
-prepare very well for the dev stable coaching --> CHECK


Life:
-pass all the exams (4) --> CHECK
-finish master thesis theoretical part --> CHECK
-sports 2x a week --> Mostly CHECK
-reach 800 chess rating --> CHECK
-finish at least 1 book --> FAIL

Another week, another update.
So yea, another week has passed and quite some stuff to write about again. Im enjoying playing so sooo much right now. Im running pretty well overall it seems and obviously its much more enjoyable to play at these times. I feel like Im improving a lot altho I havent been studying poker that much lately but on the other hand, I have been playing a lot and that obviously helps a lot too. I am gaining a lot of experience and feel day in day out.

During the week I managed to win a small tournament on ACR for 1.7k ish and yesterday during Sunday I managed to come second in a 200 psko timbey. I was pretty sad about this one as I think in HU again, I had pretty big edge, even tho the guy was playing pretty well, very similar to my style but the HU went in a fashion where I would grind him down to 10-25 BBs and then lose a flip. This happened like 3-4 times but it wasnt all flips, there was one spot where I didnt trust my reads and that kinda cost me. First I lost QJ vs 55 then 88 vs JJ then 22 vs AA where the last one was the mentioned mistake where I rejam 17BBs vs an open. The guy was playing a mixed strat 25BBs+ and seemed to play a limping strat 25- but then he opens of 17BBs and I decided to jam 22 which again, was against my instinct and I think it was a mistake. Anyways, I ran super well on the FT so I have nothing to complain about. Very happy to have another profitable Sunday session especially when they seem to be more and more expensive.

I presented my coaching to the devstable last week. The session turned out differently than I expected. I thought it would be a great session as I prepared very well imo and the content had a loooot of value but at the same time, I didnt think it was that great because it was too monotone and I imagine it was hard to focus on. The thing is it was all about sheets and pio reports and I think I thought it would be good because I spent the time going through it and I learned a lot from it but then just presenting it to others might not be that enjoyable. Will try to do a more interactive coaching next time.

I also finally decided what I was going to work on in my pio study group. I picked a spot BTN vs CO 50BBs playing as IP after OOP check. Will also check OOP betting frequencies on a subset of flops. Looking forward to this one as I think the old strategies Ive used are not working anymore (the exploitive ones) so will be nice to find some new exploits.


I also booked my flights to Barcelona for the March BitB Bootcamp. Cant wait for this one, should be a lot of fun. Week full of badger football etc

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Life
Not much going on in life really. School has started again. Last semester, lets ****ing finish this off. Gonna be a tough one, I cant really imagine myself right now finishing the thesis. Its so annoying to just do programming with so little experience. I always do it only for school and I always forget a lot in between the tasks But hopefully we manage to pull this one off to be free once and for all.

Feeling better now after being a bit sick. Will try and go back to doing workout in the morning + cold showers but I havent felt like it during the most part of the winter as I felt kinda ill for the most part.

February goals

Poker

1. Play 500 games
2. Increase awareness in game
3. Meditation before every session
4. Finish reports for PIO study group
5. Prepare a good quality enjoyable coaching
6. Discuss hands with mentors on daily basis
7. Watch the latest videos on the coaching library

Life

1. Finish the book "The key to living the law of attraction"
2. Start another book
3. Do sports 2-3x a week
4. Win the badminton league
5. Start cold showers and workout again

Whats up guys, long time no see again. First of all, Id like to mention that Im super super busy hence Im not really able to post here that regularly which is unfortunate. Everytime I think about writing up a post, I usually just find sth else and more efficient to do. Mostly warmup before session or some studying or sometimes just chilling. But hopefully this will improve in the future too.


poker
Apperently I didnt really post for the entire month, so I will just do a little bit of a recap. February went ok I guess. I had a very nice start to it but then went on a small downer. It was a period where I was just running 2nd nuts vs nuts all the time. Never fun times but thats just a part of it. I have to admit that there were couple of sessions where I actually tilted. I wasnt happy about it as it didnt happen for a long time but for some reason it hapenned like 2-3 times. I think it might have been due to stress. I had quite a lot of things to do irl so thats that. I started meditating right before session and it helped a lot too. Anyways, I think I improved in certain areas this month. I also found couple of leaks that I will be working on. My plan is to focus a lot on shortstack and ICM scenarios right now. I think thats the area I need to improve the most right now. I dont feel 100% confident in these areas and need to refresh some stuff. Should be an easy fix tho. Luckily mostly Sundays saved my month. I had 2 nice Sundays where I managed to come 2nd in a winamax comp for 9K-ish and then yesterday I came 2nd in the kickoff on stars. Yea yea I know what ure thinking, HU specialist unable to close HUs Ye I know, embarrasing but what can u do. March is gonna be very interesting as far as poker goes, because theres gonna be the bitB bootcamp and then Im gonna have to finish the master thesis so not too much time. Will be hectic.

february graph

life

As I said, life was pretty hectic but all went on ok. I managed to get an assesement for one of my classes so only 3 to go now. I also finished 1st in the badminton league which is nice so Im moving up a league now. March will be so much fun. Looking forward to the bitb bootcamp so much. Will hopefully write up a report from it with pics too.

Bro are you ok? so long time from your last post...

Hey, yeah thanks.

I was very very busy lately with working on the diploma thesis and dealing with some personal stuff. Writing was the last thing I was thinking about as I already had enough of it while writing the diploma thesis. Soo yeah, those were the reasons for me not posting for a long time. After I finish school, Im planning on posting way way more often as theres gonna be a lot of challenges Im gonna be completing.

Anyways, its time to sum up all the stuff thats happened since my last post.

Life
To make things a little bit different, I am going to start talking about whats happened in my life in March and whats going on right now. Basically March was going to be a lot about school, bitB bootcamp and not really much about poker. The semester ended in March and I have to say I was super pissed about how the last semester works in our school. I mean I thought the exams were gonna be easier as obviously we have all the stuff in the world to take care of. But no, why not make it a regular ***** semester so that we all have as much stress as possible. Hate them deadlines. The most annoying stuff is that theres so much paper work to do for all the assesements. Anyways, Ive made 2 assesements and theres 2 more exams to go all of which I will do in May and then theres the Final state exam in June. In between all of this, I found out I had to finish the diplomy thesis by April 16th which was obviously very surprising as the guy that is helping me with it told me I could postpone it to August. Well guess what, just no! So I was a little bit stressed out as I knew I was flying to Barcelona for a week for the bitB bootcamp. So I decided to not play any poker until I am done with all the school ****.

So yea, then theres was the bitB bootcamp in Barcelona. I was sooooooooooo looking forward to this one. ALl the live stops with the badgers are just awesome. Just meeting all the guys in person and being able to talk about poker and other stuff too is just great. We had absolutely great time throughout the week. Weather was amazing and we had so much fun. First couple of days we went paintballing, watched the F1 testings etc. We were just enjoying ourselves and relaxing. The second half of the week was a bit more about studying poker. There were groups preparing presentations on ceratin topics and it was very educational. Just overall it was a great week. Heres a little video from the whole week. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpsD...ature=youtu.be

After I came back I was not really looking forward for the stuff that needed to be done. I started working on the other part of the thesis. I had to finish the app and then also write up this whole bunch of text describing it. So annoying. Anyways, I was going crazy as just about the time I thought the app was ready, I found out some major leaks in the data subset I was supposed to do data mining on. Half of the subset was corrupted and I there was no chance to get new data in that time span. So I just decided to do the analysis on a smaller data subset. Took me another like 4-5 days to write like 30 pages of useless text but finally I have it done. All I need to do now is to print it out and hand it over until next friday. Should be doable.

So yea, mostly March was about bootcamp and school. I also played the badminton league. I made it through to the 4th league and I already played 2 matches in April. Both of them were like the toughest and most interesting matches I have ever played. The first guy I played was like 40 years old but he clearly had a badminton style unlike me who plays tennis style and only relys on power Anyways, first set was interesting.It was clear to me I had an edge and I knew exactly what to do in order to win. Despite that, I managed to lose the first set. But I was feeling ok. Then I won the 2nd and 3rd set pretty easily. Somehow I lost the 4th one as I was getting pretty tired and I was making too many unforced errors. Then the fifth set was like ridic crazy. Was a close game but eventually I ended up winning 25:23 so it was a very nice win for me.

Second match I played today. The opponent was as tall as me so I thought it could be interesting. I won the first set and then lost 2nd and third. I thought again I was confident I was better but I was just simply making too many errors and was angry about myself not to be able to do the things I wanted. So in the beggining of the fourht set I broke the strings on my first raquet. Then in the middle of the same set I broke the second raquete out of anger lol. Standard. So I was forced to play the fourth set with broken strings. I ended up turning it over from 15:19 to 24:22 and then proceeded to win the fifth set with BROKEN ***** STRINGS. Crazy match.


Huge poker decision

Now comes the interesting stuff. So as the year began, I made some goals and after a while, I was mentioning that I wasnt sure about them and that I needed to re-evaluate couple of them. This was a loong procces and I spent a lot of time doing it. The main thing I was about to decide on whether or not to stay in bitB being staked. I really had no reason to leave but as I decided to move out and bought a flat, my financial situation changed a bit. I was used to being secured for like 10 years+ which is ridic obviously but when this changed significantly I figured I needed to reduce variance in poker and I was thinking about playing rather lower schedule. And considering this, it didnt make too much sense for me to stay in bitB. The arguments against leaving were obvious. I love the community, I made so many friends there and the content I was receiving was just absolutely great. Being in bitB made me infinitely better poker player and a person aswell. So it was very hard for me to decide whether or not to stay. I gave it a looooooot of thoughts and eventually I made a decision to leave bitB and play lower schedule on my own. I miss the guys already and the downsides are that the dreams and main goals I wanted to achieve in poker are getting further by this decision. My dream was to crush high stakes. I am pretty confident I am very talented and very good player and I have all the features to become one of the best which makes it a little bit sad for me that I left. On the other hand, I love to challenge myself. I think the things I learned in bitB will help me to continue studying on my own and becoming one of the best aswell. I am going to be very motivated to come back from basically bottom again and I beleive this will give me a lot of confidence. And I think once I gain confidence, I am going to be unstoppable. I said this to the coaches aswell that I think one of the biggest reasons why some guys crush is because of their confidence. They have had great results on which they can always look back at and be confident. I didnt have this in MTTs but I am pretty sure that if I gain this, I will succeed with my goals.

So from now on, I am continuing my poker journey on my own with a small community I created with the guys I went to Germany with. Theres gonna be a lot of small challenges from now on, so the thread should be a bit more interesting hopefully. Gl everyone <3

gl in ur new path, u can still achieve the goals of becoming a top top player, ull just need to work harder.

wish u the best.

see you at the tables...

whats your poker schedule gonna look like if i may ask?

gl on your own. will follow the ride

Thanks <3 We will see how it goes but I think Im gonna do ok. I see it as a huge challenge so should be exciting.

Hey. If you mean time wise, then after Junne if I manage to finish school, Im basically gonna play like 5 days a week.

If you mean stakes wise, Im gonna play MTTs up to 55 for now. I also started playing spin n goes to help me build up a roll and reduce the variance

How is everything going man?