Would be interested to hear if you have problems with pokerstars client. Had client crashing twice in my session. Also one friend had client crash. Has been very rare situation so that happening to her at same day as well is quite a coincidence.
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Hey Ghaleon my friend
I am just starting my grind now. Sharkystrator had to update 1st.
I hope there will be no problems - will let you know later tonight (2-3am once I am done with 150 games).
Going to skip my session this night. Just horrible tables... Every table has 4+ regs without me registered in 6max and looks as bad in 9man and fifty50. Not a moment for someone who wants at least little bit of table selection. Even 18man are full of regs 
Done for today - 150 games!
Ghaleon, no problems with Stars, everything was smooth.
Did 1 coaching session, so 33 out of 35,
Did pull ups through out the day 19 unassisted + regular Crossfit training (in which I did 20 pull ups, 40 push ups and 60 double unders in 15 minutes).
Spent whole day outside (4-5 hours) close to the beach, hanging out in different coffee places enjoying the view!
As far as grind goes, I will just say that I am going through really tough downswing.
I don't remember last time I had such a sick run when I am 70%+ ahead of opponents hands and they keep coming back with some 3 outer or runner runner things. What is even worse is that in this stretch of close 2.6k games, I am having terrible ITM on both 15s and 30s turbos.
What is interesting about this is that I worked during this period on my game, found new edges vs tons of regs and in the meanwhile saw some spectacular bad plays from regs. I don't mean today, I mean this is going for days.
So what is left to do ?
Continue working on the game, go through hands, not be results oriented nor vomit from setups and loosing to 2-3 outers, seek more edges and fix leaks.
With all this expect with another couple thousand games things will turn around and come to its place.
Finally I will consider adding more 30s to the mix if I choose in November to get about 70k VPPs until end of the year to hit 200k SN.
Will write about all this once November hits, until then 452 games more to grind then heading to Serbia and resettling there. Should be lots of fun!
Before bed will go and do another pull up to hit total of 40 of them for the day 
Plans for tomorrow:
- Complete 1 coaching session (10-11am)
- Spend day at the beach (10-3pm)
- Work on the game (4-5 or 6pm)
- Complete another CrossFit training (between 5 and 7pm to complete it)
- Grind another 150 games (7 or 8 to 2 or 3pm)
Enjoy the rest of your weekend on and off the tables!
Originally posted by ghaleon
Going to skip my session this night. Just horrible tables... Every table has 4+ regs without me registered in 6max and looks as bad in 9man and fifty50. Not a moment for someone who wants at least little bit of table selection. Even 18man are full of regs
Welcome to the Spin & Go world
Don't get me started on those spin & gos Tony
Feel great that I am not doing any SNE chase with hypers cause everybody is crying around for lack of recreational players now!
1 coaching session completed today so 34 out of 35 sessions!
What is cool is that until Wednesday I already scheduled 7 more sessions!!! So I will definitely pass my target for coaching hours since 19th. 2 sessions planed tomorrow as well as on Tuesday and then on Wednesday 3 sessions!
As far as grinding goes I have 452 games left to complete 3k games since 19th of September.
Plan is to complete this in 3 days total , including today, so basically Tuesday late night.
This should then allow me to spend Wednesday coaching 3 sessions + work on my game some extra hours. Squeeze in some in depth review!
Right now sitting in fantastic coffee place like 10 meters from the beach and sea, enjoying the view, drinking coffee and occasionally working on my systems.
Plan to get back home anywhere between 3 or 6pm (depending if I eat lunch here or home) and then do CrossFit , proper warm up before grinding and do another 150 games.
Enjoy your Sunday all!
About to start grinding for today but before it quick update about today's activities.
Coaching - 1 session + booked 7 more in next 3 days.
Systems - Updated my system for practicing from January; Added systems for future websites as well as gigs/performances/masterclasses.
CrossFit - Completed 18 Pull Ups through out the day ; walked around 5km today's with different incline; helped my aunt with some furniture moving; half an hour ago went to market for some grocery shopping; Plan to do 5 or 7 (12 at best!) more Pull Ups before end of the day (in between 2 sets of grinding)
Working on the game - Spent 1 hour looking through specific hands filter. Found 2 spots which could be questionable play on my side (depending on opponent tendency can be very +EV) while on the other hand discovered very useful info for 5-6 regs. So very productive working on the game!
Life related things - Enjoyed the day at the beach. Some people were swimming which was awesome to see Spent time talking to my father, brother and sister from Herceg Novi (who live in Belgrade) and my best friend. Really relaxed mind and determined to do some grinding now.
Here is to successful Sunday on and off the tables!
Done for the day - 150 games!
Did also 8 pull ups
Distribution was much better, setups going my way finally but it lasted only 1st session. After winning 20-25 buy ins, ended day in profit only 10 buy ins. Again setups...
Look forward continue to work on the game - some of the things are already paying off greatly.
Switched number of 30s vs 15s. I now do 7 x 30s turbos 6x15s turbo and 2x15s reg speed. It used to be 7vs6 in favor of 15s for turbo. Hopefully from January will do just 30s 100 games a day or have them like 10 vs 5 compared to 15s.
Don't remember last time I finished grind at 4am. Definitely not cool, need my sleep for tons of activities planed!
302 remaining to complete 3k games since 19th of September!
So some important things, observations and goals to talk about
CrossFit
Last night did 4 more pull ups before bed, couldn't resist it.
This morning did 9 pull ups (5 before and 4 right after breakfast). Getting addicted to these pull ups. Problem is the hands and pain on the palms. Have to get some gloves or tape for it. Definitely noticing development in the arms and shoulders thanks to it.
Look forward attending trainings in Nis with weight lifting combined with CrossFit - will really push me forward.
Just want to list where I would like to be with CrossFit 2 years from now, since I am still beginner training 3 and a half months.
Would love to be able to do any of these exercises at any time from one go without pause!
50 Push ups
50 Pull ups
50 Dips
50 Sit ups
50 Stand ups
50 Squats (with 1/2 of my body weight)
50 Double unders (this will most likely go to 100+ as I get better at it!)
50 Burpees
20 Hand Stand Push Ups (can't do 5 now!)
Coaching
Finished coaching 2 sessions for today which means I now have 36 out of 35 sessions since 19th of September. GOAL COMPLETED!
I am very happy with how students are progressing. I am working with them on very specific and advanced things which will result them being long term +EV players and winners.
My goal and mission when doing coaching is to create long term +EV players. This might not be good for me as a coach cause I don't make instant money but it really doesn't matter. I prefer helping people, creating success stories and them tomorrow being happy after finishing our cooperation.
From time to time I get excellent balance in students.
Success Story ALERT
For example I have right now student who when joined me 3 months ago (July 8th, had 1st session on July 10th, 12 sessions including sweats total) had 1.8% ROI on on 7s turbos on huge sample. He is massive grinder, has stars on Sharkscope and really is hungry for knowledge.
I promised him that within 2 months he will have 7% ROI if he follows my lead, does the assignments, posts hands on our site for discussion, does extra work and grind properly. You can imagine that he was in disbelief in the beginning almost claiming that is not possible cause he plays for long time and is stuck in the rut, seems like a huge jump etc.
He did all that and on top of it started organizing his life with more time management, waking up early, sorting out work out, eating healthy etc. He is fantastic example of how somebody who is determined and is willing to listen to my advices can go from zero to hero within 60-90 days.
His nick on PokerStars in Molt1sant1 - you can Sharkscope him before and after he started working with me from 10th of July this year! (9.3% ROI in 6372 games!)
I would like to take this opportunity and congratulate him officially via my blog.
All the praises and all the best things for you my friend - you deserve everything you did so far! Look forward seeing you move and crush 15s soon and getting that SN next year with ease together!
Other guys are doing also very good but for this post I choose to write about Molt1sant1 as he is perfect example of how somebody can make it if they make their mind and follow my system.
My goals with coaching for next year
- Continue making videos for all my students to reach database for every single edge in the game
- Continue teaching them all the edges without any holding back
- By the end of the next year have minimum 10 players that are crushing 7s with minimum 5% ROI on average (right now have 6 guys that are crushing 7s)
Goals for 2 years from now
- Have huge detailed video data base which will automate process of coaching hence open space for tons of new people
- Consider expanding to other formats in coaching (9 mans, knockouts, 180 mans even some micro to low MTTs - basically nitty formats that still have tons of fishes for low stakes)
- Have minimum 10 students from who half are winners on 15s and other half is crushing 7s.
- Prepare for worldwide coaching/staking business launch
Poker
Currently I am working on my game and plan to continue to do so as I found already minimum 5 areas where regs on 30s are leaking and can be exploited. This means automatically better ROI long term and improving as a player (which is most important).
My goals for next year
- Play minimum 20000 30$ 6 max Turbos
- Establish myself as a winner on this limit (currently BE with low ITM and variance killing me)
- Improve my game in key areas I feel I need (will keep this for myself for obvious reasons!)
- Positive ROI on 30s, whatever it may be (as long as improvement happens I will be happy!)
My goals for 2 years from now
- Establish myself as one of the best (if not the best) regs on 30$ 6 max turbos
- Play 30s with mixture of 60s (if I crush 30s next year will start mixing sooner obviously)
- Prepare for some 100k a year post RB profit plans in 3 years from now
- Dominate with knowledge in all areas, cover all the edges and exploit opponents in every way possible but be balanced and unexploited
Music
Returning to music life is one of the priorities for me. I enjoy music very much, it is my true love, poker is my 2nd love and something I enjoy and love doing.
Goals for next year
- Move to Belgrade from January
- Resume practicing/improving/recording/composing 2 to 3 hours a day
- Perform in Belgrade with friends and jazz greats
- Organize crew for album and rehearsals
- Record my 1st jazz instrumental album
- Continue teaching guitar part time (couple of dedicated students only!)
- Develop relationships with places that accept jazz music
- Activate my personal website
- Begin working on business website
- Be active more on YouTube as well as online collaborations with colleagues around the world
- Appear in some medias (required for album promotion)
Goals 2 years from now
- Promote album and tour Serbia as well as Europe (hopefully America or Asia also!)
- Work on the instructional material for website and publish it
- Work on material for new album
- Start cashing in from business related website (to multiply incomes)
- Re-establish myself on world map as Jazz guitar player
Life
I prefer not to go too much into life related goals simply because life is very unpredictable. Today you are here, tomorrow you are not. So in that sense, I prefer living every day with 100% of my capacity and ability, doing the things that make me happy and enjoy life absolutely.
This is the goal now and will be goal forever!
Hope you enjoyed reading this update as much as I did writing it all in one go.
Have a great week on and off the tables!
Thank you my friend, I really appreciate it that I was mentioned on your blog !
I think it was my best decision in my (poker) life so far to start working with you. Of course I am happy with the results so far, but more important, that I feel much more confident at the tables, and I can see my gameplan getting better and better after each session with you almost immediately.
In spite of the great results so far, I always remind myself, that I have to keep on studying and working, especially in harder times. I don`t want to get too comfortable at the level I am at now, because there are still tons of areas to improve.
I am also greatful for the life related advices you gave me, these helped me a lot to use my time more effecient! I am looking forward to continue working with you, moving up in limits, reaching SN and improving a lot of course :).
Very happy to see you here my friend!
You welcome, all the praises were honest and truthful and you deserve all of it!
I love the attitude you are projecting. Stay firm on the ground, keep working hard (like you did so far) and great things will happen.
My projection is next year in July you will have SN and positive ROI on 15s, getting ready with knowledge to move to 30s. Perhaps even continuing to work together for another year to tackle all the regs at mid stakes.
All the best and keep up the great work!
Done for the day - 150 games!
Things about tonight's grind
Good distribution,good focus 1st session, focus dropping in the 2nd session and interesting HU battles.
Before grinding I worked on my game and found 2 more areas where I saw regs are making mistakes on 30s. I am not perfect of course but from all the areas I found I am happy that I know what I need to do to crush those 30s so I am doing it with positive ROI expectations in 2015 for sure!
CrossFit - Completed 30 pull ups through out the day, walked again to the beach and around would say 3km today so good day.
Coaching - as mentioned earlier in the post today,2 sessions and completed goal of 35 sessions set since 19th of September.
I now have 152 games remaining to hit 3000 games and I am DONE!
Have a good night on and off the tables!
ALERT - LONGER UPDATE
Done for the day - 152 games!
Total games since 19th of September = 3000
Tonight was brutal in so many ways. Card distribution terrible and despite that when having decent and good hands loosing to weaker ones. So ITM of less than 30% tells you all
Also during tonight's game kept spotting leaks from regs again which is great cause it makes me feel good about edges and where I am heading with my knowledge.
Tomorrow 3 coaching sessions, chilling, spending time with family , doing the laundry etc
Thursday plan to pack and chill some more, do some pull ups also etc and then Friday leaving for Belgrade.
Would like to take this opportunity and thank all of you that followed this mini challenge from 19th of September. I am going to list things accomplished and some observations since 19th of September now.
Poker
GRIND
3000 games in 28 days total. 2 days was not grinding cause my brother came to Herceg Novi so 26 days grind total really. There were also couple days where I had less energy for grinding and did more life related things with friends.
Positive thing with this grinding is that I got back into groove for it and can definitely continue steady grind back home. So moving to shake myself and grind was absolutely right thing to do with success!
Results wise, since coming to Herceg Novi I have -800$ pre RB. Post RB I am in profit 1035$. So financially I can say I didn't accomplish my goal which I am not sad about at all!
Variance played big role in this sample, I kept getting low ITM and set ups in every phase possible. Did I play bad and make mistakes? Answer is YES but I did not play as bad as I saw my opponents play (with exception of very few of them!)
STUDYING
Working on the game wise, a lot of things happened and this is what makes me extremely happy.
I discovered new edges for myself and ways to improve and crush midstakes without anyone's help or advice.
I really love it when in my life things like this happen because they are milestone and set a ground braking thing - would call it a new era. While working on the game, discovered also a lot of leaks from regs that I play day to day on 30s. Some guys have couple, some have 5 or more leaks but definitely I discovered a lot of places where they can be and where I already adjusted vs them.
Really look forward to future games on 30s because I am 100% sure in my knowledge and dedication, mark my words - positive ROI will happen there, and I don't mean 1 or 2% , I mean 3-4% as minimum expectation. This is something I plan to hit next year for sure cause if I don't , I am either a) not working hard enough on my game or b) I am simply not smart enough and need guidance to move to next level.
Right now from this perspective, I can say that I have been dedicating way more time to my students this year then to my game. This of course was awesome and am very happy to help my students see them crush and succeed. In this process I left out myself a bit and I already started changing things around.
Also expect next year to have more time to work on my game simply because I will aim to automate my coaching to maximum but will talk about it some other time! I will also aim by the end of this year to put more hours into my own game to get those edges sooner and feel even more confident for when I switch to 30s exclusively with steady volume!
Music
Another very important area of my life, something that I love doing is back.
I wrote in the blog how I connected with Rambo Amadeus, how I played at Jazz Jam Session for the festival. I have also mentioned that he invited me next year to perform at that festival. In the meanwhile he also invited me when I go to Belgrade to call him, meet up, check out his studio and if I find it appropriate to use it for my 1st instrumental jazz album!
Thanks to meeting special girl and connecting with her, I brought my guitar and amplifier here in Herceg Novi. Recorded with her Caravan for Berklee, which got very good response from the professors (she got A for it which is great!). Through her I connected with another local musician who performs 4-5 times a week all around Montenegro.
During all this happening I started networking with tons of musicians that share the same passion for music I love and enjoy playing via facebook. Also I have started networking with different music festivals and places in Belgrade where to perform.
Another important thing to mention is that I contacted all the jazz greats in Belgrade and they know I am coming from January there. They were/are very happy to hear that and look forward performing and hanging out.
The most important thing is that I contacted musicians for my future album. Already got me saxophone and drums ready. By the end of the year will pick appropriate bass player and then rehearsals can start from January when I move to Belgrade.
Really good thing to notice and know is that I will have a backup for each position in the band because I would not like missing festivals and tours because somebody is double booked. So it never hurts to have substitute around ready to jump in and fill in the spot perfectly!
I can say that since 1st of September, I feel recharged and I have everything that happened in music for me to thank for that also.
I have realized very important thing about myself and that is that I simply can not leave without music in my life. I am emotional guy, I enjoy playing guitar,composing, teaching, recording, arranging. All these things make me feel great and make sense in my head what I am doing not only for myself but for the bigger picture.
Now that I make ENOUGH money via poker there is no excuse not to dedicate back to music 1st part time (couple of hours a day) making it a steady part of my life again.
Herceg Novi experience has certainly reminded me how much I love it and can't leave without it.
Time management wise this will be close to impossible to accomplish because there is already tons of things I do already and just look at this updating blog at 4:27am tells you a lot
It will take excellent time management to have time for these things
Music (practicing,performing, teaching, recording,networking)
Poker (working on the game, teaching and grinding + networking and updating blog)
CrossFit (This alone is 6 hours per week on average and plan to do more of it as I improve)
Family (visiting my father and brother back in Nis, finding time to hang with my brother and sister in Belgrade,finding time for Herceg Novi visit again next year)
Friends (finding ways to see my best friend, hanging out with my close friends from Nis and Belgrade, hanging out with my future band mates etc)
And on top of all this
Relaxing, traveling and finding time for some long term girlfriend and relationship
I am positive I can do it all except long term girlfriend simply because I either have a) very high standards for girl I want to spend my whole life with or b) she will never accept to be with someone like me who puts all the other needs 1st before his own (meaning I will grind to make money to support my familly 1st, then coach students to crush, play music cause I can't live without it, workout cause I can't imagine my life anymore without it and then after all that have time for HER - whats left - not much ... )
So I have come to conclusion is that to find some girl for me I either have to a) lower my standards or b) slow down my lifestyle , take things from it, change my time management to suit the relationship.
I don't see myself changing for any girl + I don't like lowering my standards as I always expect best from myself and finding a girl that I want to spend rest of my life with together has to be pretty damn special for it to work out!
To summarize Herceg Novi trip in one sentence would say something like
Fantastic overall experience, really enjoy being here and already look forward coming back here for 3 months or so in 2015!!!
Enjoy the rest of the week on and off the tables ! (I will connect my desktop in Nis on Sunday so most likely no blog updates before then!)
Hi Ivica, are u gonna make some more 6max STT 15-30 bi videos for pokerstrategists?
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Thanks Megalodon1988
There is plenty of clips on YouTube. Will send you my personal and band YouTube page via PM.
Thanks for following and being interested in musical part of my life!
Originally posted by MartinsCool
Hi Ivica, are u gonna make some more 6max STT 15-30 bi videos for pokerstrategists?
Hi MartinsCool,
Good question and a difficult one to answer right now. I am up for it but it depends on Poker Strategy team, if they approve those or not, if they need them in their database or not etc
I will certainly update in the blog as soon as new things develop in that area.
Back in Serbia!
Yes, I am back home
45 days in Montenegro was fantastic and now I am back to Serbia. Different things lined up and goals/challenges waiting for me. By the end of this update I will list different goals and possible scenarios I am preparing myself for but 1st about some immediate things.
Since I arrived in Belgrade on Thursday, had a great time there for 2 days. Including derby game between Partizan Belgrade vs Red Star Belgrade. Partizan won 1-0 and was very blessed to be at that match, so much joy shouting screaming cheering.
Saturday came back to Nis and since then been unpacking all my stuff (slowly), went to 1 CrossFit training (3 in 1 training where I was dead by the end of it!) visited my favorite coffee place and did all the family things in the meanwhile also.
I kept in touch with all my students on daily basis, letting them know of whats going on + resuming sessions with them this Saturday.
Tomorrow I am heading back to Belgrade where I will spend 2 nights and come back to Nis on Friday. Partizan is playing Besiktas on Thursday so I plan to watch that game live. In the meanwhile in Belgrade hang with my family and friends, spend time checking some flats etc
When I get on Friday, I shall resume with sessions, studying and steady grind!
Now onto some breakdown of goals/challenges until end of the year and beyond!
CrossFit
Started it on 30th of June 2014, had 93kg and was out of shape and form too much. Yesterday, 20th of October 2014, was 83kg and my conditions, strength and flexibility has improved tremendously.
Making CrossFit part of my habit and including it in my life was absolutely right thing to do! Now I can't imagine myself going 3 days without a training. I simply feel the need not to abandon my body, to do some sort of work out , even if its just doing 10-15 minutes but basically not letting myself go up in weight and be lazy about my general health ever again.
Future goals for CrossFit were discussed in some previous posts. I will aim to increase my strength, condition and flexibility , attend 3 trainings per week on average and maintain healthy eating lifestyle.
Poker coaching/staking
Right now there is 9 people in my program. By the end of the year 1 of them is continuing to play on his own for sure. I will have talks with 2 more of my students and see what their plans are from January. If they decide to stay, they are welcome, if they want to play on their own they are also welcome to do so. I will be cool with either.
What this means potentially is that new spots might open up in my program for 2-3 more students. I will be accepting people who are already capable to multitable, grind steady 2000+ a month and are slightly loosers or brake even minimum. Total beginners have to be exceptional candidates, having tons of free time for studying, sessions , grinding and extra work. Along with it, I will be doing coaching for hourly.
Another important change that I notified all my students about ! I am working on automating my coaching. Basic idea is to create huge database of videos covering every topic and edge in today's games. In these videos there will be assignments also so it should work out like this in the future:
- Student gets the video to watch and complete all the assignments
- After he/she completes everything from it using his/hers pace, he/she contacts me via skype for consultation call (15-20 minutes long) to ask additional questions regarding specific video and to set up new session
- In order to get new video, student has to complete everything from the video assignments including daily grind target by then. Meaning if students studies like crazy, does all the assignments but slacks in grind, no new session, and vice versa.
- Live 1 hour sessions will be used for sweat sessions mostly!
- Part of student's assignments from videos will be to post certain number of hands on our private hands evaluation forum with in depth thinking process.
This concept and system I invented has a goal to help every student move at his/her personal pace.
Just think about these 2 points:
- What is the point of doing steady number of coaching sessions with somebody, if that person doesn't complete all the assignments, doesn't do the reviews regularly, doesn't show interest to become professional SNG player?
- What is the point of doing steady number of coaching sessions with somebody, if that person does phenomenal job with assignments, grinds hard, has a drive to become as best as he/she can etc
This system will resolve this problem by giving time to each student based on his/her tendency to study/complete assignments/grind.
Important thing about this system is that it allows students to be flexible! One week student might complete assignments and grind for 3 videos worth of stuff but then next week maybe life related activities stop him/her from studying/completing assignments/grinding and then they do 0 or 1 video.
Bottom line of the system is that it will fit anyone's need and what you put in from work is what you get out of it.
I don't have complete database ready for it yet but my goal until end of year is to have minimum 50 videos with different topics covered!
I will update the blog as new things develop in this area.
Poker studying/grinding
My primary goal by the end of the year will be to fix my leaks and exploit on new edges I discovered for 30s 6 max turbos.
This basically means that I will aim to do minimum 1 hour of daily study which will involve mathematical analysis, ICM study, hand history review and such things. With constant work on my game, I will pay close attention to my regular opponents on 30s and their adjustment tendencies.
Idea is with all the future studying to get to minimum 3% ROI on 30s pre RB. With this ROI it will be definitely worth to switch to this limit 100% without any mixing. Anything less then 3% will bring more variance, bring less money and more hustle with traffic issues during the day.
Grind wise it will be fairly simple. I will aim to mix 15s and 30s with minimum 3000 games in November and December. If I go lower in volume it will not affect my mindset as long as I maintain daily habit of 1 hour working on the game and improvement happening!
From January if I feel my game will be ready and my bankroll is sufficient, I will move to 30s exclusively aiming for 2k games a month 10 months per year minimum.
I feel this is fairly realistic and managable goal with other life activities going on.
Back up scenario, in case I don't do enough work and don't have sufficient roll is to continue doing what I am doing right now, that is mixing 15s and 30s preparing for the inevitable switch.
Worst case scenario, if I go on some sick downswing of 200-300 buy ins combined, will drop to 15s, even consider going all the way down to 7s for some 20+ tabling to print money and move back up.
Either way I am mentally prepared for each scenario and most important thing is that studying/improving goal is set in place with minimum grinding goal as far 2nd goal/challenge!
Life/Music/Moving to Belgrade
January is right around the corner and time really flies by when you have your day filled with different activities.
Moving to Belgrade and working on my 1st instrumental Jazz album unfortunately doesn't depend purely on my decision right now. This decision is affected by couple of really important factors:
- My life roll by 1st of January 2015
- Number of students in my program and roll invested in them by 1st of January 2015
- Situation with my close family
- My mental mindset
So ideal scenario would be to have strong life roll, most students staying in the program, my brother finally making a living from SNGs, my father finding some extra income and me feeling way less pressure to provide steady money each month to have space to move to Belgrade and dedicate time to practicing/recording/rehearsing/performing music.
As I nor anyone can predict 100% things in life, I can say that I am flexible with whatever may happen.
Bottom line is that I will keep coaching working on my game and grinding. I may have to postpone Belgrade move and sure that will make me sad and unhappy (just thinking about it puts my mood down) but the upside of that may be saving more money, having time to expand my coaching/staking business worldwide, investing even more time in my studying and improving my win rate, grinding more solid next year compared to this year etc
This was everything for today's update from Nis, Serbia.
In near future expect another surprise update regarding something I hope it will work out
Now heading to work on my game and perhaps play 1 session (2 hours)!
72 Days Study Challenge
Starting today until end of the year, I have set challenge and goal for me.
Idea is to work on my game every day on average 1 hour until the end of the year.
I will aim to discover a bit sometimes what I worked on but not to discover too much as other regs I clash with often on 30s are following blog so will keep future edges for myself.
Will also aim to bring out observations regarding discoveries found.
Day 1
- Using note pad wrote out 7 different areas where additional edge can be made on 30s to improve my ROI in future games
- Spent 1 hour creating excel tables and filing them in using appropriate information
- Already discovered some astonishing things that are definitely going to be game changer
- Tomorrow since I am traveling to Belgrade, will aim to work on the game in the morning , continuing with the same area of study!
1 hour completed out of 72 hours set
During following 72 days, I will also aim to complete following things
- 6000 games total grind
- 100 hours/coaching sessions
- 30 CrossFit trainings
- 1 video for Poker Strategy
- 10 videos for automated coaching/staking system
GL ME
72 Days Study Challenge
Day 2
- Spent 90 minutes studying today
- Completed 1st out of 2 in depth parts of one of the key areas/edges for 30s
- Look forward to the 2nd part of the study in the future where new knowledge will explode
- Things covered yesterday and today have already reassured me and given me great knowledge to work with in the future
- I will have to keep an eye on all the opponents and apply this knowledge wisely
2 and a half hours completed from 72 hours set
In 2 hours I leave for Belgrade. Charging my laptop now, will try to continue my studying during bus drive which will be 3 hours long. If I squeeze another hour of study that would be phenomenal!!! Will surely aim for that to happen and more (if battery and my focus allows it).
Tomorrow is Partizan - Besiktas game which I will attend. During the day I plan to coach 2 sessions (11-1pm), morning have some coffee with my brother and rest of the day squeeze in 1 hour of studying after coaching sessions + contact my friend who will also move to Belgrade (talk about possibilities of living together, apartment search etc). Tonight I will head out with my brother and a friend and hopefully meet up with my sister (if not today then tomorrow some time during the day).
Today is very cold and windy outside, they announced even possibility for snowing so I will dress up warm for Belgrade as I really dislike cold weather and winter overall
Already look forward returning to Nis from Belgrade and resuming my grind - miss it really!
Have a good day on and of the tables!
Quick update
Did additional 1 hour of studying while on the bus!
- Discovered some additional things during analysis
- Filled more notes + excel tables and payed very close attention to specific things
- Look forward to future hours of study.
Can already say that 72 hours will not be enough for road to master all these edges for future crushing on midstakes but will keep that number of hours and go for more whenever possible! Most important thing is to rebuild solid habit for studying, get back in that zone just like CrossFit is set as habit and coaching + grinding!
Total 3 and a half hours out of 72 hours set.