The nature of MTTs is like that , everything sums up how you run/lucky u get in the late phase in MTTs so one need to be mentally very strong to battle with MTT swings and of course when you are building stacks and having deep runs, but not top 3 places, you are starting to doubt yourself/confidence/skills etc do you open/3bet too tight or too loose/ are you overplaying some spots/ are u agro enough or overly agro etc etc
When deck is hitting you in your face you are full of confidence and rarely ask yourself this questions

Thats why most people improve their game the most when they are in dowswing because they look very critical on their gane and question every spot/play

Party

So yeah, past couple of days were pretty exciting. My plan was to wake up on Saturday morning to go to Prague to celebrate my birthday. Eventually I decided to go right after my friday session so that I didnt have to rush in the morning etc. It ended up being a good decision I think. Also driving at night was better. There was no traffic etc. I dont really know how I would have managed if I didnt go on friday because I had to buy my sister a birthday present aswell which ended up taking quite a long time. God I hate to buy presents

Anyway the party was supposed to start at 2 so eventually we got there on time. I didnt really know what to expect from the whole thing. I never really celebrated my birthday much let alone had a party. I think I only had like 1 birthday party in my entire life Nonetheless this ended up being awesome. There were lots of my friends and we had a great time. My sister likes to organize things so she had this idea to divide people into teams and we would do whole bunch of competitions. Was really a great night. My plan was to wake up early in the morning and head back to Dresden to start playing as soon as possible. So I woke up at like 10 and felt super super tired. I didnt get much sleep in those previous two days so I was kinda worried how would sunday go.



But anyway I got to Dresden around noon. I was thinking about getting a nap but decided to just chill for a bit. Did my warmup in form of meditation. I started this anger pack on headspace. So far it seems nice but I liked the motivation pack a little bit more. We will see.

Sunday

So I started my session at like 2 and as expected I felt really really tired from the beggining. So I focused on keeping the table count up to 8. I had a redbull and did some exercise during breaks. Also decided to stand a little bit more than sit which helped aswell. Eventually I got out of the crisis. The session went pretty good again. I felt super confident with my game I built some stacks here and there, made very disciplined folds etc. Since I was aware of me not being in the best shape I didnt really want to reg too many tournaments so I decided to stop registering at like 9:30.

I didnt really have any sweats going on apart from shorstacking the mega deep itm. I managed to build a decent stack there so it was a bit more exciting then. It was one of those times that I missed a lot recently when I would run decent on f2t so I managed to build a pretty nice stack and head to the FT as the chipleader. FT was pretty interesting. I think definitely one of the toughest FTs Ive played. There were 3 recreationals and couple of good regs. I was super focused and tried to pick spots and again, I felt that great feeling of being in the zone again.

The FT was super long, we played 7 handed for like 2.5 hours I think. I played a pretty crucial hand vs a recreational 5 handed where I basically doubled him up and was left with 7 bbs. I somehow managed to comeback and build up the stack again. Then it wasnt really interesting apart from the HU. I really really enjoyed the HU. As I come from a HU background I love to play them in MTTs. The HU was I beleive vs Remi lebo_10 (stars sn). I thought he played really really well during the entire FT. He was super aggressive and he put me in a lot of tough spots. That was also a reason why I played whole different strategy HU than I would normally play vs 90% of people. I decided to limp almost my entire range.

The HU took a long time aswell. We went back and forth. I would mostly just get to a 2:1 CL and he would come back and so on. Again, I didnt really think my edge was huge as it normally is in HUs vs most people but I felt I still did have an edge. I was able to adapt way more quickly to his strategy than he was able to adapt to mine. Once it got to <30BBs poker it seemed like he was really struggling there and that was actually my strongest blind level. So yea, I was super confident that I would win after we got to that level. And so I did. Felt really really good to win such a tournament after quite a long time. This sunday overall was super sick for the stable. One of the guys came 2nd in the SM which is really inspiring to see. Also Elmerixx won the SW so ye, was a nice sunday. Hopefully next one will be even better.




And ye, I got a blender as a birthday present so from now on, Im living a healthy lifestyle
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Sick score, gg wp in the Mega Deep!

That's awesome! Congrats on the big win. I can't imagine being a regular within the MTT scene. Been playing PLO for the last 10 years, maybe I'll register for a PLO tourney once I get a little more inspiration.

I'm following, good luck, been a good read so far.

Almost makes me want to start a blog myself :-)

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Gratz sir

what comes around goes around <3

Thanks

Thank you. I couldnt imagine that either in the past. And look at me now

Thanks Marc What is stopping you? It would be super interesting imo.

I use this Iphone app called greenSmooth. Its nuts, definitely recommend

Past 3 days

Kinda lots to write about from the last couple of days. After the sunday bink I was apparently super drained so I slept till like 3 in the afternoon and when I woke up I still felt a bit tired. But I did want to play so I just quickly made some food and got back to grinding. One thing I hate tho is that during the last 3 sessions I skipped my propper warmup. On Monday it was probably due to waking up so late but not sure why on the two following days. Anyways I will make sure that will not happen from now on. At least I could see the difference between a session with and without meditation before it. You can really tell a difference.

Also, theres been one other very inconvenient thing that happened on Monday. I started playing and I dont know why but my HUD wouldnt pop up. Later I realized PT4 is not able to import hands. I was like fml, we need to do some maintanance. So I vacuumed the database - didnt help, I tried to rebuild the cache but pt4 crashed and we all know what that means. Basically PT4 wasnt able to recover from that and it all corrupted the database. ***** pain in the ass. So I will need to restore my db from a backup which again takes like ages.

So yea, Ive been playing my last 3 sessions without HUD. First day it was really weird. Then I kinda got used to it but obviously its very unpleasant. I expected to be pretty happy about the game after the Sunday bink. Maybe it was an accumulation of all these little things like database, not meditating, me having super weird pain in my shoulders, like tension etc but I felt basically pretty bad again. I had quite a lot of deep runs in these 3 days. I came 11th in b55 the day before yesterday AK<AA, busted f3t b22, yesterday I came 14th in b7 AK<AA and also came 3rd in stars 55psko (boat vs boat bvb) and 5th in big brawl JJ vs QTcc on T98ccx for massive chiplead.

I felt really upset about all this right after yesterdays session. But today when I woke up I feel fine. I realize hwo much I worry about this. These things I cant do nothing about. I think its jsut that in these moments I think all these feelings from unsuccesfull deep runs over the last year just come out and that kinda triggers me to feel unfortunate etc. I really hope I can manage to deal with this like a true champion because as of now I almost label myself as a crybaby which is not good

There is also another thing that worries me. As I mentioned in the beggining of the blog, my soal reason of joining BitB was to be of the best MTT players out there. My vision was to play high stakes and be succesfull there. But now when I look at myself I dont see that I am going in that direction. I think it might be just temporary or a problem with me setting my goals in a bad fashion or maybe me being not confident. I will definitely try to work on this aswell.

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Also cant express enough how great this blender is lol

Let's go Zolta!!!

It's very difficult to make a steady routine with things like meditation, working out, good nutrition etc. I do agree that meditation can be very helpful and can make a huge difference, so keep at it!

gl coming days

Impressed you managed any deep runs without a HUD. I seem to just crumble when I lose mine.

Good luck getting back into the routine. I find when I am out of mine (albeit very basic) I struggle to do the simplest of tasks, yet when I follow my usual wake-up routine in the morning my success rate goes up 200%

Impressed you managed any deep runs without a HUD. I seem to just crumble when I lose mine.

Good luck getting back into the routine. I find when I am out of mine (albeit very basic) I struggle to do the simplest of tasks, yet when I follow my usual wake-up routine in the morning my success rate goes up 200%

Wooow. Sooo frustrating last 2 days. Literally super super frustrating. I had so many deep runs and just couldnt do anything with them. I wouldnt be really down about it if it wasnt for every single one busting with either a cooler or a suckout. I got 11th and 14th in b55 last two days which was pretty unfortunate especially when u lose KK<AJo pre. I also had a FT of deepstack 27 the other day but as I said, it seems like whenever I get deep the card distribution is just not on my side. Super super frustrating.



Also today was very tough mentally. Had loads of stacks again but what can you do. Here are some moan booms

b27
https://www.boomplayer.com/24939035_D7C97BB40E

b44
https://www.boomplayer.com/24939482_3485C76A6C

I also got 4th in bb215. I really hoped I would win this one again, would have been epic. Unfortunately couldnt hold this crucial hand for the biggest bounty and chiplead.

bb215
https://www.boomplayer.com/24940618_9B2C90324F

Then also I busted the uppercut somewhat deep AJ<A7s pre. So yea, very very tilting day. I think Im going to have a day off tomorrow because I definitely need to just cool off before Sunday. Come back really fresh. I literally play almost every day and its been quite challenging mentally so I will treat myself a day off.

You make it sound like you are on a downswing and cant win a hand while having deepruns left and right

I mean I think one of my strongest parts in game is knowing population tendencies so it was not that bad playing without a hud but it jsut felt realy weird not having it But after 3 days playing without it, when I actually got it working again, it felt even weirder.

Yeah its definitely tought sometimes. But once u get used to it its pretty much sth you cant be without.


Yeah I know like a little *****. I will try to not make this blog a crying one

Saturday

So yeah, as I said before the plan was to take a day off on Saturday. I really wanted to just enjoy a little bit of free time, not thinking about poker etc. I was thinking about maybe doing a little bit of programming for the diploma thesis but as the day went by I was in a mood that I didnt want to do a single thing. Especially not programming So I spent like 5 hours just watching videos on youtube -- my kinda sort of meditation I was telling myself that I had to go out. It took me like 6 hours or so to convince myself to actually go out.I decided to go to this bar nearby. To my surprise it was almost empty. I had a beer - surprisingly they had czech beer

I noticed a couple of girls playing some sort of card game in the bar. I watched them for a bit and then decided to approach them. Funny part about this was I was texting my girlfriend about the whole situation. I was like:" yeah Im in the bar watcing girls playing a card game. I think imma join them" So yeah I played like 2 games with them before they left. They were on vacation in Dresden and they said they had to get up early etc. Either that or they just didnt ilke me But it was nice to talk to someone new after a long time. People say that French people dont like to speak english. Well Germans are way worse imo btw.

Sunday


I woke up at 11. I wanted to kick off the session early to play as much as possible. I prepared my food on Saturday so that saved me a lot of time. I did my warmup I didnt feel the "rush" I was calm which is a good sign usually. I wrote down these goals for the Sunday session:


1) focus on ranges, try to visualise
2) decision making procces --> implement
1) stacksize
2) his range
3) my range
4) gto
5) exploit
6) his/my image
7) what makes sense
8) equity protection in ICM
3) logical approach
4) patience
5) watch out for sizings

You know its gonna be a good day when your gf texts u this bitB


The day started off awesome. Again, as its been the trend of past couple of weeks, I was building very nice stacks I had couple of deep runs in b27, sunday started and b162. Everything was going fine. There was this one thing that was pretty unfortunate and that was busting the b162 in a disgusting fashion. But I still had many runs and obviously this was just the start of the sunday so it felt really good. In the end I came like 30th in b27, 19th in b162, 20th in h16 and 3rd in sunday starter. That was little bit unfortunate because I came to FT with a huge chiplead but then probably missplayed a hand and then I was a bit unlucky to get 3rd.

But still I was pretty happy about it. Also came 2nd in the 55$ early monsoon. The other half of the session was a different story tho. I couldnt basically build no more stacks and there was not much interesting happening apart from cashing the mega deep again and making day2 of Wina main with decent stack. But yea, overall very happy about how I played and about the results aswell. Things are being good. Im starting to get more and more confidence again which was instantly visible in the game so Im glad about that.

day2


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Im planning to maybe have another day off on Monday because my back hurts real bad so I was thinking maybe about going swimming and have a massage.

Nice little sunday session, gj

gg Sunday

It's cool that you can just go out by yourself and approach people like that. Any gto tips for that?

Can you make a short description of what you think about Dresden so far?

WD ! great approach before sessions.
Good to see at the tables, glgl

Thanks mate, u2

tyty

Dresden is nice. The old town is beatiful etc. I live in the other part and its nice aswell. Theres so many students, nice places to hang out etc. I like it.

Heres a gto tip for u: Just take ur balls with u to the bar :P I mean i never really understood why people have problems with approaching other people, especially girls. Thing is, why do you think girls go to clubs and bars? Theyre just desperately waiting for someone to come talk to them so you just have nothing to lose. And if they tell you to **** off? So what? Theres more of them in the bar Im sure

Here I am with another report. Things have been good but yet frustrating. Weird.

Tuesday

I wasnt planning on playing a long session on tuesday. I was gonna just reg something around 21:00 because thats when day 2 of Winamax main event started. Also I couldnt really start regging early because we had 2 group coachings scheduled and I also had 1 1-1 scheduled in the evening. So ye, a loooooot of coachings. First was about psko. It was ok, the topic was 4 way all-ins and I learned quite a bit. Then we had a session with Romeopro. He usually does great content. This time there werent too many interesting spots tho. I got to start my session a bit earlier since we had to reschedule my 1-1. So I started at around 7.

Was looking forward to the short session. I knew I wouldnt reg too many tournaments. The session went quite well. I tend to build nice stacks in the higher stakes tournament recently which is making me happy. I happened to build up a nice stack in the Winamax main event. Then there were 3 pretty unfortunate hands vs the same guy - Pkaiser. He tilted me so bad I lost a flip for chiplead vs him JJ<88 last 50 people. Then I lost Q8ss vs his QJ in 3b pot on Q39sxx Js for chiplead pot again and the very next hand he 3b calls me 20BBs eff w J9s I have QQ and he gets there.

So I have to say that was very unfortunate to bust out like that so deep in this beautiful tournament. I had more stacks tho. I busted mini super tuesday AQo vs ATo ai pre for 55BBs pot ITM. By that time I only had the uppercut. Pretty deep tho so it was fun. I managed to get to the FT, I think it was my first uppercut FT ever lol. I was shorstacking for almost the entire tournament. I managed to get to 2nd in chips 4 handed. There was 1 guy sit-out it was Pkaiser again Then this unfortunate hand vs the recreational happened where I lost 2p vs top set and then I just busted in fourth 22<ATo. I was kinda frustrated that it didnt work out the way I wanted but still, decent session.


Today was a nice day aswell. I managed to final table bb215 which was super sweet. I was chipleading for the most part when again, 4 handed I didnt manage to flip ATs vs QJo for the chiplead. That hurt quite a bit because again, sooooo little separated me from getting out of MU finally but no. I guess I will have to wait for the glory and the watch :P

Hopefully the trend continues like this and I will run better in deep runs during wcoop. That would be awesome. One thing that bothers me is that I am kinda scared going into wcoop. Like I never cared about games I played, I just wanted to play the highest stakes I could and try my best. Now after the last series this drastically change. Im kinda scared about even thinking of playing higher buy-ins and getting into a huge hole again. I will need to sort this out with James (stable mental coach) before wcoop for sure.



I also spent some time yesterday looking for a sport bar where I could watch the upcoming Mcgregor v Mayweather fight. Im looking forward to that soooooo soooo much. Im a huuge huge fan of Connors so this will be quite a big of an event for me. I didnt manage to find a place yet tho so that sucks. Need to go out tomorrow and see once again. Today I was just so hoping to win that bb215 so that I could just go home on saturday and watch the fight with my dad. Will have to wait tho.

Why dont you get pay per view, its like 25$ for the fight and you can watch it home. Unless you want some girls to talk to

great thread, very inspiring. Good luck on your journey!

Yeah, the girl part is the thing

Very happy to hear that its inspiring. Thank you