GL zolta!

Playing from Germany can cause difficulties regarding taxes...so be prepared or move away from Germany asap

Subbed. One of the biggest potentials in bitb I would say. I think we all have those sessions sometimes where we doubt every decision and can't seem to win a pot. Just remember you have the skill and creativity to destroy the games you are currently playing, this bink should be the start of the upswing Good luck in August and see you in Barca I assume?

gg bb215
gl & subbed

GL Zalta. I have subbed and will be cheering for you.

subbed ! glgl

Def a hard hitter in the games! gl with the blog and the grind!
see ya at the tables, DING!

great read, subscribing and wishing you best of luck man! keep it going

Subbed. GLGL!

Let's go Zolta!!!

Good read so far, I hope you get accommodated to the new place soon and meet some cool people around there.

GG bb215 and keep the blog going. See ya

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Thanks guys.

Yeah I am aware of that. I dont plan to be here super long term.

Hey Graffy Unfortunately I am probably not going to Barca. I figured online makes a bit more sense for me now. But its a shame, Id love to destroy the Opium club once again


Thank you all. Nice to see people reading the blog

Hey bro, thanks a lot, how you doing anyway?

So I had a nice session yesterday. Again, I was super pumped to play and I was looking forward for the session. We also did a short review with couple of the guys we do reviews with. Now instead of doing one/week on wednesday we will be doing wednesday+friday. Seems like a good idea to warm-up before session. The session went really well. Again, my main goals were just to really focus on game. I feel like by playing quite a lot I start to get very good intuition. That is something that is very important for me since that is how I used to play HU sngs. I just did what felt natural to me and made sense. And to do that I had to have pretty good population reads. Anyways, again I made bunch of stacks during the session. I came second in stars 55$ psko 6max. I love that tournament. The late stages get pretty deep which is awesome. Unfortunately I couldnt close out the HU. I played against some russian who was streaming on twitch. The HU was pretty interesting. The guy seemed to play pretty well. Maybe it was due to me being unable to connect with the flop but in general, I liked the way he played. I still had some sweats after this 2nd place. I had huge stack in h22. I dont even know why I decided to reg, I dont usually play much turbos but close to the end of the session I decided to flick it in. I came 10th in that one AJo vs TT so meh. But I got couple of ICM spots where I felt pretty uncomfortable so at-least theres something to learn from. Then I had a pretty good run in the uppercut. Those party 109s are just very mean to me tho. I lost three 3-outers on final two tables, two of them were for the chiplead. Eventually I came 13th where I cold 4b jam AJs in a spot where I thought both guys would be super super wide due to this crazy recreational who just lost 3 AIs in a row and had 6bbs with a huge huge bounty. Well, 3bettor had QQ. But overall it was a decent session, not up, not down but good runs. Hopefully we can make some more on Sunday.

Things related to poker are getting good. Im playing more, Im starting to get more comfortable. Also Ive been introduced to this new "mentoring" programme that should help me interact a little bit more with the main coaches so Im super pumped for that.

My Dad was supposed to come visit me today. He actually came pretty early so I was a little bit tired. We went for a walk and wanted to go for a lunch and then maybe play tennis. But unfortunatelly he felt weird. He felt kinda dizzy etc which made me super unhappy because he is going through a lot of bad things related to his health. He is just super unlucky. We decided to only go for a lunch and I told him he would be better of just going back and resting, maybe visiting a doctor. So ye, that made me a bit sad. I hope he gets better soon. Its super nice how he just supports me in my career. He would do anything to make things easier for me. Next week also 2 of my friends are supposed to come on thurday so that should be fun aswell. Then Im going to the Czech republic on Saturday to celebrate my sisters and mine birthday. Will be interesting because I will need to leave soon on Sunday to play Challenge accepted.

Also finally got to do a little bit of programming again. Man Im teling you I have no idea how Im gonna finish this degree Like it took me like 2 hours to programme a minor thing because I couldnt simply concentrate on anything else besides poker. I suppose I will need to make some sort of proper schedule. But yea, hopefully we are going to have something to celebrate after Sunday.

How much did the FT bubble in the Million hurt?

Can you relive the moment?

Subbed on Pads thread reccomendation. Good luck, seem like a really good guy to follow.

enjoying this thread already, GLGL buddy! tiny bit of feedback: your introduction post needed your buda badger vid imo

Not entirely sure this is a real question but just in case it is I will answer it. Obviously bubbling the SM FT is devastating. Especially after you are chipleading the whole F2T. That period was really crazy. I had a huge stack during the entire F2T. Unfortunately then I wasnt able to flip J8 vs QQ on J83r (after me actually making a mistake to call 3b pre). That wouldve send us to final table with me havig huge huge chiplead. But instead of that I dropped in chips and every single shortstack doubled couple times so eventually stacks evened out and we all had around 20BBs. Final hand was me ripping BTN for I think 16BBs into BBs A9s. This was again flip for the chiplead and FT. The guy with A9s ended up winning the tournament.

So ye, it was pretty devastating. I remember I was really "depressed" for like a week or so. Didnt want to play poker at all etc. But after a while my passion for poker just overcame this and now I think about it as an experience. There nothing I could do about it so why beat yourself up for that.

Thank you and Pads again.

Thank you bro. Yea youre right. I should probably write a memorial blogpost about that and post it there

Sunday

Soo, this sunday was pretty funny. Again I woke up pretty early because I had a day off on Saturday so it felt like I had plenty of time to prepare. I decided to do a little exercise followed by a cold shower because I felt a little bit "foggy". After that I prepared my meals and it was around 12:00 I think. I meditated for 10 minutes and then started playing. I wanted to play a really long session so I started pretty early.

Right off the bat I had decent runs in the early BB44 and sunday starter. I was thinking that it would be nice to start off the sunday with a lil bink to freeroll the rest but unfortunately I came 16th in the starter AKo < JJ. The "mid phase" of the sunday wasnt much fun. I couldnt make too many stacks in the higher BI tournaments. I built some stacks in phases on party and in the tittle fight. I came like 40th in the title fight TT<AKo for heaps and cant remember the phase. Also I cashed sunday milli for like the third time in my life weeeeeeeeeee. At 10 one of another tables on party popped up which I kinda forgot about. Mid-week I received some 22$ ticket to this carribien satellite feeder. So I turned it into a 109$ ticket and that I won aswell so I made the final sattelite worth of 1K$. This was the sattelite to the carribien party adventure worth 10K$. There were like 130 people and 13 got paid. Well I somehow managed to win the ticket. In this one I got super super lucky tho. Back in my head I remember winning J9s vs AA for 80BBs in the 109 satty. Then AJs vs AA deep in the 1K sat and finally K5s vs JJ on f2t of the 1K. So yeah, felt pretty awesome and I was really happy about it. I actually thought you could convert this package to cash which I think I would have preffered being in such mu but I learned that I couldnt sell the first package. Felt a little bit meh but both Pads and Sam pulled me back to the ground reminding me that I just turned 22$ into 10K$ and that it would be a great experience. So ye, really looking forward to this one.

Oh BABY








Challenge

Also I started a little bit of a challenge. I told to myself I would do

1. 30 pushups
2. 30 situps
3. 30 squats
4. 1 minute of plank each day.

Lets see if I can do it. Obviously its not really about the physical part but rather im interested in testing my willpower.

from what i've heard about previous PP Carribean events you should be able to at least min-cash pretty easy and turn your $22 into $$$, especially with some Pads rungood...

Monday:

Allright, another report coming. Both yesterday and today were weird-ish poker-wise. Yesterday I started the session in a different fashion. Instead of building stacks I was busting tournaments left right center. I would always hit the top range of villains so that wasnt too much fun. But the later it got the more stacks were kinda brewing. In the end I had some pretty nice deep runs. I managed to win the 50e monster stack on Winamax so that felt pretty good. Then I only had 2 more tables with deep runs. Both of them I manage to final table. It was the 4k 22$ on stars and 22$ monday twins. I came to both final tables as a chipleader and after a pretty long time I was in the zone which I enjoyed very much. Everything was going ok until this 5 minutes were I literally was just shaking my head




Moan alert




In the end I came like 6th in the twins and won the 22$ on stars. So overall I was happy with the day but really I wish I could run better in deep runs. But again, really happy to play in the zone after a loooong loong time. I also seem to have found a important trigger to get me there which is like a sort of a nodding system. I basically just nod my head back and forth twice for each decision (mainly in deep runs, doesnt really apply for multitabling lol). I used this back in the old days playing hu. I did it mainly to hide my timing tells but then I found out that it puts me in the zone and really helps me to concentrate and be really aware about everything that is going on. Im sure every one of you have experienced this fashion of eg clicking the call button with a sort of hand instantly not even thinking about it for a second. This "system" prevents it aswell. So ye, happy to have reminded myself of it once again.

Tuesday:

Today was way different from yesterday. We had a pretty nice warmup in form of mental coaching from James. I really like all the mental sessions we have with him. I could always find myself in many situations (leaks) he was pointing out.

The sesssion was the exact opposite to the one on Monday. I was building stacks everywhere and the distribution of cards was amazing. I built decent stacks in couple of tournaments and then it all turned around. Again, in deep or semi-deep runs it just doesnt seem to work out yet. I lost a huge huge pot in 215 bounty builder KK vs 99 vs AJ on the bubble I beleive for top 2 stacks. I busted bb109 in similar fashion on the bubble 88 v AQo. Then busted f2t Prime time QQ vs A9s for 2nd stack aswell. So ye, wasnt too pleased about that. Had a deep run in xtase aswell but busted on f2t.


Monday+Tuesday graph


Tomorrow we are gonna have one of those our HH reviews with the guys as a warmup and then Im planning on playing a long session since Im skipping Thursday due to my friends coming to visit me. Im looking forward to that, should be fun.

best of luck bro

Doing well man, joined a nice stable and trying out the right approaches to improving in poker

Nice updates! If you are ever in Vienna shoot me a pm or skype me. glgl

Thanks man, nice to hear ure doing fine. Gl

Thanks Vinny, nice to see you here.

So yea, today was supposed to be my day off. Three of my friends visited me. They combined the whole thing with some shopping etc. They told me yesterday they would come early in the morning so I set the alarm pretty early. I was like a freaking zombie in the morning. Didnt sleep much and was super super sleepy. I decided to walk into the city centre. That didnt seem like the best idea after I realized I underestimated the distance a bit

So after like 4 long kilometers I met up with them. They surprised me with a little birthday cake which was nice. We had a pretty good time. I showed them around the city, we walked around a lot, talked a lot did some shopping.




They decided to leave around half past 5 so I was kinda on the fence whether or not to fire a short session. I felt like playing so after the loooooong walk back home I did some quick warmup, wrote down these goals and fired up the session.

1. 1) have a nice chill session, dont force anything
2. 2)play 8-9 tables
3. 3) focus on each decision
4. 4) noding
5. 5) no rush decisions

It went really well. I was super focused during the whole time. I tried to play without music but found out that doesnt work for me. Had plenty of deep runs but then again it just all felt super super bad. I went from feeling super good to feeling hopeless and desperate. There were these 10 minutes where I would go from having 8 tables with 5 deep runs to having 3 tables with no deep runs. I busted each pretty unfortunately with coolers.

And once again this super annoying thought and doubt came into my mind. Its the sort of "am I really that bad in closing tournaments" etc. Im just super annoyed about even feeling like that. Feel just super weak. I feel like I need this confirmation that this is really just variance and not me sucking because these thoughts come back again and again.

Anyways, Im planning on firing a long session tomorrow before going back home on Saturday to celebrate my birthday with my sister.

About the variance, I am at the same place right now and reading that I am not the only one (which I know obv) makes it somehow better. Its like a support group. So maybe try to go through the forums and read people complain about variance, maybe that could help. I know the hopeless feeling. Its like there is no more happiness in the world. What I do is I rate myself on different categories after every session and that lets me know, if I play terrible and whats going on in my head. The hard part is that its not very objective and you have to force yourself to be honest to make it work.


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Never seen you as the doubtful person regarding your skill, Zolta. Reading this was pretty surprising, but I guess that's the good thing behind a blog like this. Expressing these feelings can be very helpful.

You are surrounded by enough people that can give you that feedback and confirmation you need though. Focus on that rather than doubting yourself imo.

Have a nice weekend!

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