bumpy month. im not satisfied with volume and my physical condition when I play. few hangovered/not-enough-sleep sessions in which a few mistakes in less than 10bb> pots can tilt u for a couple of hours, i gotta fix that asap. i ll also change few things in my mtt schedule after reviewing tournaments that i played this year.

i have 2 100$/eu+ tournaments daily that i play since i dont play on pokerstars ( i play like 5 tournies a day there when i play at afternnoon/night ) and those 2 made me -10k this year. im satisfied how im playing them but sample is too small and buyin difference is too big for me to think that it is profitable to be going on with them. i mean, i fted em X times and coudnt close,but still those 100s are like 5 avg buyins a day and they have pretty big impact on my overall winrate so i wont play them for now.

when i was at my friends place in novi sad, i went few times on a live game there and it was ***** disaster and it reminded me why i dont play live cashgames altough they're soft af. first night okay,it was kind of ****ty run but it was playable and i had 50% of my friend who cashed out solid. 2nd night i played 0.5/1 and lost like 2 buyins but damn it everytime i checked my cards it was T4o i swear. it's not about moneeeeeyz, it's about its so tilting when those sessions happen. guy that was sitting next to me was on sunrun, it was crazy, like somebody opens 7x,gets a call, he shows me 45o on btn - calls. flop is 678 utg pot bet, flatter shoves, btn shoves obv, utg calls with KK ... KK vs 79 vs 45, 45 holds and it was 10BI hand. F M L.

there is some live tourney in belgrade starting tommorow (israeli poker tour or smt like that ) so i ll go there and play it since there are live 3 mtts worth playing in a year in my beautiful country and i love to go there and battle with solid regs and a lot of crazy ass fishes. hopefully israelis will be spewy. after that, winamax series / powerfest / inferno888 / lil bit of wcoop. crazy september inc, but im relaxed, i made some redecorations to my place and i dont think i was ever better at poker so hopefully i ll bink something nice in sept.

gl everybody

so series are going pretty bad for now. i played one session like ******, others were fine but we cant get stacks rolling near the itm. i qualifed few 30$> on winamax and party, but one 100e winamax tourney i cant get to the day 2 for third serie in a row ( about 1500 minus for 3 starting days 3 series in a row ).

some interesting hands from yesterday session :

vs spewtard
https://www.boomplayer.com/25142991_56A3B89649

some weakreg guy, pretty bad call imo
https://www.boomplayer.com/25142958_846A8A7B98






i ll try turbo version today and keep grinding until sunday, when me and some poker friends are going on Drina river to chill for couple of days and see finish of winamax series there

some photos of the place : http://www.viladrina.com/foto-galerija/

im not so motivated to write when i runbad so hopefully that could change also after this. gl guyzz

What was your thought process with the TT hand?

ive posted hand in strat forum


so as i mentioned,im not sure of right strategy for this spot. can remember that i was thinking about my possible bluffs in this spot and that TT looked like nice candidate due to his blocking abilities on that board. i ll have trapped aces and kings and some AK, JTdd KJdd 77 for value for sure. KQ wont do 3 streets. population likes to cbet all FDs there instantly so im prettz sure he wont have flushes like ever. thats about it

and i he should fold JJ and QQ which is what made TT another + for turning them into bluff

whaaaats up guys ( if there's anyone railing this trainwreck of a PGC thread still )

september was disasterous, minus 7.5k. that + fact that i'm near of ending contract with my current stable + the fact that i made like 3k euros from january until today from game itself ( made some $ by buying pieces and whatever ) made me think about a lot of things. i mean, if i didnt had 22k bink in january this year wouldnt be profitable at all. my volume sucked hard, i played like 4k mtts until today but goal for 2017th was 8k.

one good thing happened altough, guys from stable and me reserved some woodhouses with pool, basketball / volleyball courts and steambath and it was great 5 days there. chilling, playing live poker ( altough some online also, easy 2k burnt up for 3 sessions ), watching that beautiful nature of Western Serbia. some pics,altough im not a 'photo' guy, most of those i didnt made:











back to poker...

when i was making new contract last year in this time, i was offered 60/40 in my favour + rb but i didnt liked my schedule that way (not being able to play higher buyins than 50), so i offered countersolution (which im not sure right now it was the right choice), more flexible schedule where i could play whatever i prefer, since me and backers agreed that im able to beat those. . that went great for now : http://prntscr.com/gqjb02 sample is ridiculous and variance is too big but fml. every time in my 2.X years long MTT grind when I tryed to go up in levels and play any sort of higher buyins I've been raped there while playing pretty all right.

anyway, i'm pretty confident in my game but i have to fix the volume. i mean, i chose path of being profesional poker player and i am (hopefully was) pretty irresponsible with main part that makes difference - volume.

my general money managment sucks pretty hard also. i had far better money managment while i was selling weed/drugs in post highschool period. now it's like i dont earn a dime for few months, then make 5k+ then i go in some yolo mode where i wanna buy EVERYTHING. go on lunch with friends , why not pick a bill every single time. go in the club, why not, 15818532 rounds on me. some people are obviously abusing those habbits of mine, since when i go out and a friend or any party that is with me dont have money i sure cant let em dont get a drink while im drinking. well i think i should, since when i dont have money i sit at my home and fap, i dont go out and misuse a friendship. but i really dont have high opinion of money at all, and that is big part of the money managment problem. money for me is just like some kind of resource that make things more comfortable + kind of status symbol. thats it.

i dont play poker because of money. i play it because i like to compete. i was playing basketball as a kid and some dumb injury fked that **** ( start of smoking drinking and chasing girls was obv 80% of the injury, heel was 20% ). i consider myself pretty inteligent and fast learner but school wasnt interesting to me. i was skipping classes, cheating in every (im)possible way, but still got to the finish line every time when needed. i was selling drugs on street level with no particular need for that, but i figuered out that was one way ticket to prison for a pocket change. 3.5 years ago i was really considering going full metal jacket on selling drugs but I've chose poker then and i dont ever intend to look back, and altough lot of people in or out of poker dont like things that come with that kind of life I LOVE IT. it saved me from a lot of things. i found something in my life that i like and that i can improve in and make money from it and found some real friends in it and live like a boss in this crazy poor country of mine because of it. and what, i have an excuse for be playing 400 tourneys a month ? NOT A CHAAANCE. (btw i know this last paragraph + i dont like money part are paradox but it's the way i feel it is. i mean, i like living great but i dont like money, it's simple as that.)

anyway, enough of the 'offtopic'. i ll be moving a lot of my volume to pokerstars right now since i see that tourneys up to 55 are generally pretty soft (there are few exceptions obv) and since it's the room with biggest traffic it's the only way to get my desirable volume. im not sure why i didnt do this earlier but i had some sort of thinking that i wasnt good enough and that fields are too big and bla bla bla, but in last couple of months fields are huge everywhere and when ever i played 3 4 5 stars tourneys a day i saw that those timbeys are pretty soft also so embrace yourselfs.


i had a nice little deeprun today in hot 11 but :

https://www.boomplayer.com/25414720_9A97C93E4B

guy with the AK snapcalled. keep punting bitcheeeeez, i ll be back.. not a single decent reg was out there in 14 players but it gotta reward 2 no clue guys.


i ll be posting an update about end of the year goals and i ll be posting here more frequently so i could follow up what's going on. that's it for today, gl on tables.

I do

Isnt that feature of poker player in general, not to care about money since you win/loose so much in short period of time. I think lots of people feel the same way about money but maybe not to same extent. From where I am it looks like you need more discipline and structure in your life. That could sort out your money spending problem + your volume problem. I dont know how to acquire discipline since I dont have that problem but you can definitely get better at it

I really like your blog, its so honest and down to earth, more people should read this

Also, you think that AK hand is fold? I really doubt that since you will be isolating the BTN shove with lots of worse hand than AK.

Hey yoooo man!!!

I found this from abecede's thread that i ve been following!

I also like this thread a lot!!! I will be following your journey!!

Maybe include more hands to talk about in the future updates??

Btw the country-pool house photos were awsome!!!

Keep it up man!
I love quotes so there u go

" Most people dont plan to fail, they fail to plan!!"

So get up, make a nice plan on where/what u wanna do and i can guarantee it will help u be moee responsible. But i mean, a real plan!!Day plan, week plan, month plan, year plan!! Where u wanna be and why!! Break it down and take it 1 step at a time!
Hope this helps!

Best of luck!

Peace!

PS: I have been in a big swing during september too so i can feel the pain as well. Volume is our only friend and of course STUDY!

ye,gambling in early years MIGHT be PART of the problem

and u re totally right , I lack discipline and structure a lot.

i havent had serious relationship with a girl for couple of years, it might be 3 right now actually. i mean, i have numerous options to empty the sack but honestly i dont care a lot about that, but now i'm in potential beggining of relationship and i also think that if that works well it could stabilize me on more levels than just emotional. and i hate how this sounds selfish

AK is pretty easy fold looking at icm$ imo. first, btn guy cant go so wide as he was. i wouldnt go any wider than 88 AJs AQo pbb in this spot due to $ev. i ll run a sim. hrc wont start so i have to use the icmizer

first,I was right for my gii range there spot on it's also considering btn going in pretty wide ( i didnt tought he would jump with A7o but was consediring it's pretty wide )
http://prntscr.com/gqr7x4

now this is an gii range for bb if it was ft, but i dont believe anything willl change if sim is 100% correct dramaticly, JJ might become a reshove but thats about it http://prntscr.com/gqr9mf . also have in mind that icmizer cant calculate with more than 3 players in hand so this is result if OR folded and it was shove + reshove.

ty a lot for the post


tyvm for the post. and that schedule thing is real deal altough im pretty ******ed when it comes to making it, but i ll do it for sure for next few months, and it will be posted here.

it's not just about the swings. i mean i can print on abi 15 16 4k+ per month but i dont like that, i like to compete and sacrisfice some $ev because of that. im sure that my expirience on higher stakes will be valuable in months to come but i hate that i sacrificed making money cuz of it.


ty for your posts both, if i havent had single response i would pbb stop updating the thread but now i ll def put more content to it, hopefully more people will come. im honest person with high level of selfcriticism so it should be fun in the future here. will be posting more hands for sure.

Yea my bad, I was thinking in chipEV not $ev. I think the BTN will be wider than that. Depends on type of a player really.

it wont change ours / bbs gii range here dramaticly. i mean, CO can reshove 40% (and i think its always 15%>) here and ours range wont be much wider,especially not bbs

You can make that much money with a 20 buy in? Jeez. How many tables at once? Sorry if you mentioned that already.

14+ tables, u all heard for this guy:


also,there is one serbian guy that's doing this on even bigger level imho



i know few others also, and know for a fact that mine skill level and theirs is on similar level as knowing the game goes. u wont see their names on pokernews / articles, but they're making a ton of money almost stress free in mtts. and here i am, i wanna beat 100+. screw that.

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anyway, todays session was cool, made some profits, couple of fts.






here i made great classic autopilot mistake otf where i cbetted range sizing vs really good reg and then leveled myself out to call the river. disasterous all the way.

https://www.boomplayer.com/25423887_E4E73D8D42

after that couldnt win X number of flips in a row.



really easy swordfish, field was pretty soft, one okay reg on the ft... started destroying them 3 handed and this happened:





overall i played pretty well,no major mistakes beside that A9o. since this was my 3rd day grinding in a row i was feeling a lot tired and that was pbb reason for autopiloting in few occasions, but after taking cold shower on the break i went back in the zone. i ll take 2 days off until sunday then hopefully i can make some more fts. was really in the zone today after a long time.

i ll post update with the future plans on saturday pbb.

cheeeeeeeeeers

it aint safe for the bloooock

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dziLJsZWGF4

Gooooooooooo buddy!!!!

wow, that is sick sick volume. Its what t8ofDiamons is doing. Mass tabling for nice profit with lowering variance. it just takes lots of work and time to have your game at point where you can do this profitably

since i've been playing 400-450 tournies per month this year, plan is to get my volume drasticly higher. anything under 800 per month until the end of the year will not be acceptable. 4 sessions per week with minimum of 50 tournies for start, since i ll be mixing grinding strategies to see what fits me best as i wanna get this to higher level for 2018th. usually when i play 12+ tables for longer than 3-4 hours im soo exhausted and im not confident that i can play A game in deepruns and that is pretty much most important. so some days i ll try playing less tables but prolonging registration time by two hours and will try opposite and track my fatigue. i ll register some 50s+ when i go on that lower table count, and when im 12+ i wont play them.

i will post here some small reviews after every session and track my weekly progress. also will be offering some kind of freeroll:


GOAL: PLAY 800 MTTs IN OCTOBER

FREEROLL :

If I dont play 800 tournies in October, i ll do an THOROUGH review in written form (i could do also 2 hours coaching session but i think i can get through more hands by writting) of 1 whole tournament or 30 choosen hands from randomly choosen poster. u will be eligible for freeroll if you post that u're in for the freeroll in this thread until last day of October. I believe that I can help you A LOT if u re <15$ abi MTT / 180s player.

my 0-35$ graph for last 2 years


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WEEKLY SCHEDULE (from sunday to saturday):

4 sessions [ ]
200 tournaments [ ]
2 hours of offtable work [ ]



new thing is that i ll also begin with coaching some of the lower stakes guys from my stable and im pretty excited about that, since i've been coaching ppl for 2.50 180s two years ago and it had great effect on my game and mindset.

i have strong feelings about this sunday since last gazzilion sundays were -1000, this time i ll play smaller buyins so i hope i ll bink something (or atleast not brick whole session). GL everybody

good luck...saw this on TB. Hope you CRUSH !!!

in for the freeroll. I wouldn´t mind going through tournament and hearing your thoughts on it About the volume, I just read blakkman88 thread where he compares playing 1600 games at 40abi and 20% roo vs 600 games at 85 abi with 35% roi... its pretty much the same ev wise...

ye but 1600 games is only for mad men haha

glgl, I plan to do the same in the next couple of months

ty mate

i think that i would be much worse player if i havent played some of the higher buyins but really i figuered out that im in money making bussines so i ll try to do that and maybe gtfo from poker in a year or two.


1600 games are for a mad man indeed

ty, will be railing your thread

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okay, session was disasterous obv like every sunday in last 2 months, BUT -250$ is much better than -800< like I used to do. i've played 66 tournies as per hem, i believe that 3-5 were satties so that's cool.

last night (saturday on sunday) i slept zillion hours since i went out drinking night before and i was a lil bit slow in some moments, but i believe when i make my schedule steady it would be easy game. i have played 2 50s today, bricked both (top50 on wini on pure bubble KJo < QJs ), had afterwork semi with 6.5k on top but couldnt pass x flips for heaps (every flip was 40-50bb while avg was 25), but i'm used to that

had this part of session ( https://prnt.sc/gs3eq7 ) where i was playing pretty bad because of tiredness and 15+ tables combined. i ll keep tables on 14 max for some time, but it was sunday and so many juicy micros.

i also put some money on AC Milan Roma half/full x/2 so it was profitable sunday actually

see ya tommorow

In gl hope you complete or my lazy ass gets some coaching

Hey buddy,

Have a great new month!! I really hope u get ur goals!! Im in 4 the freeroll if its still there, but i prefer if u hit the volume mark and just post some hhs instead

Anyways best of luck this month. Still here following!

i've started session later than usually today because of some real life doings, and whenever i screw up my routine(starting session around 5pm) my game is usually c for first hour or smt, but today it was ***** sheitstorm from the beggining, i mean one of those horror session where whatever,whenever and wherever u do it isnt working, was thinking to turn off pc and go out get drunk af but managed to keep on registering, and we got session in + altough again running aweful at deepruns.

i mean, i had 3 winamax semis ( coctail , tie break, uppercut ) , managed to finish 3rd on uppercut for around 900eu, but 3 handed i had THREE TIMES AA on the button and every single one of them they folded with 20bigs, while when i open K7o obv they snapshove so session was tilting from minute 1 to minute last, but made some profit so it's kinda okay. again flips werent with me but who cares, i can make money without winning them on these stakes as it seems. volume wise i think i was lil bit short of 50 but that was because of the late start of it and it hopefully wont happen again.


1. brazilian breakfast
https://www.boomplayer.com/25462508_92F326D3A0



2. french fries (literally)




tommorow i have some memorial, 20 years of my grandads funeral, then i have to go on some negotations to belgrade, have coaching session on wednesday, then i have to come back and organize bachelor party to my friend since im a bestman on thursday so i hope i ll survive all that. gl guys see ya in couple days.

WEEKLY SCHEDULE (from sunday to saturday):

4 sessions [ ] 3
200 tournaments [ ] 173
2 hours of offtable work [x] done




As you can see, i've only played 3 sessions this week, but I had 3 days where I didnt have an option to play. My good friend got married and i was best man, it was an intimate wedding,only lunch and stuff, but bachelors night was solid. Anyway, im satisfied with number of tournies i've played altough im not at all satisfied with my overall performance in them. I see inability to play good when i play 14+ so i ll def stay on 12 and see where it fits, 50+ tournies will be possible for sure since im registering for about 5-6 hours now. I've lost a lot of focus because of adding 1-2 tables of not so profitabile tables so now I ll keep table count at 12 and late register when i drop from 12. If 12 is much i ll go on 10 actually and play more sessions but we'll see in the upcomming weeks.

I cant get one thing altough... every time i play, and this happens EVERY TIME, in period of lets say 22:00-23:30 i feel great fatigue and i have diffucilties staying focused and not making some imbecilic mistakes, while after that i can keep on sitting until 6AM with no problem. I've started using cold shower at 23h and i think it helps a lot altough it's very painful for my hedonistic organism.

i mean, i know that overall ****ty run projects on my game pretty hard since u know every turn in 3b hand is worst, every time i jam 66 from btn they have 77 etc but really it shouldnt affect my judging.

anyway, tommorow is a sunday... im not so excited about sundays anymore but i ll bink something tommorow i swear.