Originally posted by dudiloiu
Hi!!
I watched your session review with uripeleg and really enjoyed it.I also liked your HUD display along with your pop-ups. Can you please share it with me?
Thanks.
Hi! Thanks.
Yes, I can share:
Download (double2+HUD+popups.xml)
Hey man,
Really like your "Tips to get out of the micros"-vids.
Do you do private coaching as well?
Originally posted by CamboCat
Hey man,
Really like your "Tips to get out of the micros"-vids.
Do you do private coaching as well?
Not sure if this is the right place to post this, or if Pedro still offers private coaching,
but I guess should be fine since he is a ps coach.
I would def recommend him as private coach. I would suggest you also to book a long term deal if possible.
Below a sample of my last 40K hands at 50nl rush. When I started with Pedro I was a be player at 25nl.
Note that my winrate is 8.25bb/100 in this sample and 1.5bb/100 over my whole sample at 50nl (170K) - which goes 6 months back though / that is why I post here only the last 40K which is 3 months old 
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Still don't feel like I have accumulated all the things we have discussed during sessions, that's why I need to study them again and again :). So far outcome is that I know I can beat 50nl and hoping to move up soon.
What is for sure after few sessions you will know you have a solid game-plan and feel a lot more comfortable about your game. Good luck
Thanks Asimos for the kind words
Originally posted by CamboCat
Hey man,
Really like your "Tips to get out of the micros"-vids.
Do you do private coaching as well?
Hi, yes, i do private coaching, I'll send skype contact info.
Hi guys, gonna start making some updates on my Poker adventures.
Since my failed shot at 500NL things are going pretty good. Results not great, pretty much break even on the last 20k hands or so, so new shot at 500nl is probably only gonna happen next year.
So why, you may ask, am I saying things are going pretty good? Well, because I'm basing my statement on actual "sucess" measurement tools and not on the very unreliable short term $ results.
And this is kinda the topic I wanted to discuss on this post.
Earlier in the year my Mental Game was in a very bad place, despite running like a god I was suffering a lot with Poker. Firing up the 200NL Zoom was always antecipated by a good amount of anxiety. I subconsciously procrastinated and postponed the begining of the session, ending up putting a very low volume. I also had a lot of urges to just finish the session earlier if I was winning big or losing big. My emotions were a rollercoaster, very high with very profitable sessions and a lot of negative emotions with negative sessions. You know the feeling for sure.
By that point I had already read the Jared Tandler book 3 times and listened to Tommy Angelo stuff. Both helped, but not nearly enough.
It was time to take a more active step in my Mental improvement. I didn't look for Mental Game coaches, I guess in my mind I already knew what to do. I have a long time friend ("Nhoca" here on Strategy) that is a Medical Doctor like me, but I always knew he had an awesome approach to life in general and was always very good at Psychology. I talked to him, asked if he wanted to be my Mental Game coach, he warned me to not have too high expectations since this was his first try at this sort of stuff, but we decided to give it a shot.
Before our first live (in person) session, he read the Mental Game of Poker. So on the first session we just talked for literally 5 hours straight, we tried to go through the questionnaire that was in the book and the additional questions he had prepared. By the the end we knew, more or less, what were my biggest issues and tried to come up with a plan to resolving them. Since that day (around 6 months ago) I do a Mental Game journal everytime I finish a session. I write about what I felt, what I thought/did, what I could do better, etc.
And this journal was a turning point, for a lot of reasons, but one of them is quite interesting: it gave me something to hold on to besides results. If I finish the session and have to write that I suffered a lot, that I tilted, that I felt frustrated to loose a coin flip, that's all on me, that's something I can work on and change in the future. If I write that I played very good, didn't suffer, didn't end the session earlier, etc, then I have some positive result to be happy about. And it's a RELIABLE result, and one that actually says something about my performance and the impact on long term results.
Not too long ago I decided to stop looking at results. I just look on a bi-weekly basis. It was a natural sequence of events, I just regret not doing it earlier (but I wasn't probably ready for that).
So, getting back to the "things are going pretty good thing" in the begining of the post. They are indeed, I don't suffer nearly as much as I did in the past, I don't feel anxious before or during session, my life off the tables is not affected, I put in more volume, I'm working on my game. So, why should I be sad or frustrated?
So, next time you feel that this last 3 buy ins you lost took a toll on you, remind yourself it doesn't have to be that way.
Sorry for the long post and congratulations if you read it all.
Hi double,
Now in english, congratz for all you success as player, coach (these i can see), doctor i supose too..
About that last post focusing on mental game: besides reading Jared Tandler book don't know how many times and the "sessions diary" any advice about how to work on our mental game?
Originally posted by IuriTPena
Hi double,Now in english, congratz for all you success as player, coach (these i can see), doctor i supose too..
About that last post focusing on mental game: besides reading Jared Tandler book don't know how many times and the "sessions diary" any advice about how to work on our mental game?
Thanks!
Trying to answer those diagnostic questions he has in the appendix is also helpful. Also, for me having someone to discuss my issues and to give me some insightful input was huge.
Originally posted by sirilidion
I might be interested in private coaching. can we discuss this sometime?
Sure, just added you as a friend. Send me your Skype contact.
Hey, double2,
I just read your blog from scratch. There was definitely some very interesting stuff! However, kinda often you left things without proper ending 
For instance, "I invite you to bring hands where we call from the BB and have to play post flop, because that's the next question: how to play post flop with such a weak range?"
Sadly, no one posted any hands about this topic, but it would have been very interesting to see your thoughts about this.
Looking forward to see more updates from your poker and personal life, the trip to USA seemed like a hell of a fun!
Definitely following.
Originally posted by EnjoyThis
Hey, double2,I just read your blog from scratch. There was definitely some very interesting stuff! However, kinda often you left things without proper ending
For instance, "I invite you to bring hands where we call from the BB and have to play post flop, because that's the next question: how to play post flop with such a weak range?"Sadly, no one posted any hands about this topic, but it would have been very interesting to see your thoughts about this.
Looking forward to see more updates from your poker and personal life, the trip to USA seemed like a hell of a fun!
Definitely following.
Hi, thanks for the visit!
You can check out my video series for PokerStrategy "10 Tips to Get Out of the Micros", I go into more detail about these topics.
Cheers
Originally posted by EnjoyThis
Oh, super. I'll check them out as soon as I'll get the silver
Yep, super +EV to get Silver
Originally posted by vonki
subbed!Cool, thanks for the visit.
My Christmas "self-gift" arrived today:
A 32 inch monitor and a portrait one with 24 inches. Plus new headset (Kingston HyperX). Let the games begin.
Originally posted by double2
My Christmas "self-gift" arrived today:
A 32 inch monitor and a portrait one with 24 inches. Plus new headset (Kingston HyperX). Let the games begin.
I m still waiting for Santa 
2014: A Review
2014 was a year that I have to classify as a success. And I start out by saying that money-wise it was not a lot better than 2013 (at least pre-rakeback). But that should not be our sucess-meter, even for bigger samples.
Okay, let's go step by step.
Am I a better player technically than I was 12 months ago? Yes, a lot lot better. The improvement was huge, pretty much thanks to private coachings (capitalized very well by me) with Uri Peleg and more recently with Paul "Internet" Otto.
Am I a better player, psychologically, than I was 12 months ago? The gap is probably even bigger than it is for the skill. I was a Mental Game fish, thanks to the awesome help from my friend "Nhoca" I am a lot more solid, and as a result I'm being able to put up more volume and, most of all, suffer less with Poker. I think I'm happier person because of it.
Foi este ano também que comecei a fazer vídeos/coachings/avaliação de mãos para a PokerStrategy English, um marco importante.
It was also the year that I began making videos/hand evals/coachings for PokerStrategy English, an important landmark. I also became the main and only NL coach for Strategy Portugal/Brasil.
The private coachings also went well and several students bought more session, which is a great sign. The multi-nationality was also pretty cool, from Ireland to South Africa.
I made SuperNova for the first time, although a "mandatory" goal for a 200NL reg, it's still a landmark.
I started out the year trying to stabilize at 200NLz (at the time I had only played 10k hands there). 12 months and 250k hands later I can consider myself properly stabilized. I manage to get enough confidence and bankroll to take a shot at 500NLz that did not went well. Looking back I think I did not have enough skill to do that, but since there was BR and drive, and cannot consider that a mistake. Also, it's very very important to try to grasp the variance factor. At this moment I could either be saying that I was still trying to take shots at 200NL or I could be saying that 500NL went awesome and I was planning to take shots at 1k. Things are the way they are, and accepting reality as it is is fundamental if we want to be successful players.
Pontos negativos de 2014, embora a primeira metade do ano tenha sido a melhor em termos de resultados, tenho que dizer que não estive bem. Os coaches de Mental Game só começaram em Junho/Julho e até essa altura debati-me imenso com o Psicológico. Pouco volume, muito medo, muita ansiedade, se os resultados tivessem sido maus as coisas poderiam ter sido bem piores. E nesse aspecto foi bom, já estava preparado quando os resultados começaram a ser menos bons.
Negative things of 2014, although the first half of the year was very good results-wise, I have to say that I was not good. Mental coaches only began in July and until then my mindset was very bad. Low volume, a lot of fear, anxiety... If the results had been bad things could have fallen apart badly. E in that sense it was very fortunate, when variance caught to me, I was ready for it.
Plans 2015
First and foremost, no backsliding regarding attitude. Keep focus on improving and giving my best at the table with the a decent volume. If I can do that it's already awesome.
I plan to keep working with PokerStrategy, EN and PT/BR.
More defined goals:
1) shots at 500NL, hopefully they stick.
2) SuperNova x2, try to make around 20k VPPs per month
3) Keep actively working on my Mental Game, with Nhoca's help (google document's rock)
4) Keep actively working on my game, with the help of the great Paul "Internet" Otto
Conclusion
2014 was an excelent year, in a lot a ways and not only Poker. I know where I am, where I am going and how to get there. It's just a matter of walking the distance. Let's do it?
Hi guys,
don't know if you already saw, but a new hand evaluating format is begining, the "Highlight" forma, check out my first attempt and give me your feedback, suggestions are very welcome: https://forums.pokerstrategy.com/forum/thread.php?threadid=331418
Hey, I really love your video series - 10 Tips to get out of the Micros - and was wondering when tip 5 is going to be posted?
