Very happy and excited that you and Jernej started working together. Really expect great things to come out of it for both of you!!!
Don't slack on time management! 
Keep crushing!
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Yea, its great thing that we are doing together and i`m sure we can benefit both from it a lot just like you said.
And for time management, i have got things back under control now 
I have tons and tons of work to do and the only thing i`m sorry maybe is that i haven`t made any serious profit or results so far, but i know you have patience and i`m not rushing so i`m sure we will get to that point soon 
7th Week challenge (Saturday) - DAY 50
- 9,5/11 studying hours completed
- 96/224 tournaments completed
- 0 session with my dai-sensei ♠_biggrin: completed
- 3/3,5 workout hour completed
Had another good session with Jernej, we did live sweat session with me and talked about spots and game plan.
Watched video that our coach made for us and it was super useful! I have tons of study material for post flop game plan that i need to get.
ICM trainer results:
4-6 MAN: 
BUBBLE: 
To study on Sunday:
- ICM trainer sessions
- Analyze marked hands
- Memorize ranges
- Session with coach
Again I have to give praise where praise is due.
After session with Darko today, I was nothing short than thrilled.
I recorded live play video on 3.5 and 7s for all my students and the assignment was for them to watch it and learn from it. I suggested rewatching, pausing, taking down notes, understanding concepts. Basically instead of watching video for entertainment value they needed to approach it with way more serious note and learn from it.
Darko shocked me super positively today. Unlike most guys in the group, he was one of the rare ones that took the notes with some fantastic observations + questions.
Guy is playing micro stakes and is already understanding concepts that he needs to implement in his game like today to increase ROI in future games. There was everything from pre flop range, post flop bluff catching, stacking off, playing draws, ICM, Bubble play and dynamics and HU approaching. Darko did it all on his own, took time to watch video, write down all the concepts that were interesting to him that he took out from 1 hour 20 minute video and we covered it all with additional examples for his future games today.
Huge respect and something that I don't see every day and so far I have coached over 80 people easily.
Darko please continue with this approach, you have very bright future ahead of you in SNGs and you know I do mean it from my heart!
All the best and keep up the great work!
Thank you coach, you shouldn't really
But i cant tell how much it means to me to hear such praise words from the person i respect very much.
It will definitely give me more wind to my back to work more and more focused to do the best possible job and improve more rapidly.
7th Week challenge (Sunday) - DAY 51
- 13/11 studying hours completed
- 116/224 tournaments completed
- 1 session with my dai-sensei ♠_biggrin: completed
- 3,5/3,5 workout hour completed
Week has ended and tournaments played are short again, i just have so much to work on and study that i dont have time to put enough volume to grinding atm. This week will be the same i feel, have tons and tons of material to study and to work on so i wont be surprised if i dont complete 224 tournaments - i must sacrifice some grinding volume to complete level of focus while playing and level of knowledge that i need to have to play profitably.
ICM trainer results:
4-6 MAN: 
BUBBLE: 
To study on Monday:
- ICM trainer sessions
- Analyze marked hands
- Memorize ranges
- Session with Jernej
- Study post flop video
You welcome and keep up the good work Darko.
Very soon you will reach the point of having very positive ROI on micros. It is essential that during your studying phase you also keep playing. Through playing you encounter new situations, get to experiment with new concepts, test your mental game and auto pilot etc.
If I was you now, I would 4 table going for 25 games per day (150 per week 6/7 days grinding) which should take you about 3 hours of grinding and continue studying/working on the game 2 hours per day. So roughly 5 hours per day of poker activities, with brakes in between sessions and studying 6.
Once you become even more comfortable with game plan in most areas, it would make sense to start adding 1-2 tables and reach higher volume (30-40-50 games per day).
With this sort of pace (3 hours grinding, 2 studying) within 2 months you could be playing 7s with positive ROI pre RB. Don't forget that in those 5-6 hours per day you will have to add on our sessions + working with Jernej and posting on forum your daily work. It will come out to 6.5-7 hours average per day in poker. Without it, it will just take you even more time to get to part where you are crushing and can switch FT. This is why time management is essential and following it too, being fanatic about it really.
Hope that helps and look forward to next weeks update!
I have changed my studying hours for weekly goals to 14h per week - quality hours!
8th Week challenge (Monday) - DAY 52
- 5/14 studying hours completed
- 0/224 tournaments completed
- 0 session with my dai-sensei ♠_biggrin: completed
- 0,5/3,5 workout hour completed
As you can see, today was all about study ♦
When i got home, i did ICM trainer sessions and ranges, session with Jernej which was super good and useful, then i had to go out for 1h and when i get back i studied on post flop video for additional 3,5 hours.
I recommend once again to anyone who is not doing so to find some one with you can do things like thins together, its much more fun and productive!
All in all 5 hours of studying and it was worth it to pass grinding as i can make up for some of it on weekend with some new tricks in the bag 
ICM trainer results:
4-6 MAN: 
BUBBLE: 
To study on Tuesday:
- ICM trainer sessions
- Analyze marked hands
- Memorize ranges
- Study 3rd post flop video
Brutal studying, congratulations! Look forward to grinding part and experimenting with all the new things you learned
8th Week challenge (Tuesday) - DAY 53
- 8/14 studying hours completed
- 9/224 tournaments completed
- 0 session with my dai-sensei ♠_biggrin: completed
- 1/3,5 workout hour completed
Today, study again, went back to 1st video and studying it more then 2,5 hours 
Have great material to work on and i am using it.
Have played about 2h but im not sure my PT4 is displaying accurate results, it says i played 9 tournaments but im pretty sure i did more.
Need to test it and write numbers when opening new tables.
Grinding session was ok, i had few light bluff catches.
Variance was so funny, fishes kept shoving and calling ridiculous hands and suckout
ICM trainer results:
4-6 MAN: 
BUBBLE: 
To study on Wednesday:
- ICM trainer sessions
- Analyze marked hands
- Memorize ranges
- Study 3rd post flop video
8th Week challenge (Wednesday) - DAY 54
- 10/14 studying hours completed
- 21/224 tournaments completed
- 0 session with my dai-sensei ♠_biggrin: completed
- 1,5/3,5 workout hour completed
Today had session with Jernej again, useful as always 
We did some early spots analyzing and found out about some BE NASH shoves that are better as min raise for bluff or value.
Didnt go for studying post flop video but rather did some analyzing at constructing ranges post flop.
Going to continue with videos tomorrow.
Grind went as usual now these days, im BE on the end of most sessions, constantly have bad beats against fishes, few hands in a row and that enough to prevent me from ending with some +ROI short term.
We will see what happens when i get some bigger sample of tournaments.
ICM trainer results:
4-6 MAN: 
BUBBLE: 
To study on Thursday:
- ICM trainer sessions
- Analyze marked hands
- Memorize ranges
- Study 3rd post flop video
Update for yesterday! PokerStrategy was down last night so i could not update
8th Week challenge (Thursday) - DAY 55
- 12/14 studying hours completed
- 39/224 tournaments completed
- 0 session with my dai-sensei ♠_biggrin: completed
- 2/3,5 workout hour completed
Yesterday i have studied 3rd post flop video and continuing today, it takes little more time to do study because sound so little bad.
Grinded 20 tournaments and as always finished session BE, + or - few $ but essential its always the same, i would make some profit if variance is not hitting me and ofc. if i dont make some bad moves after that. It is hard thing to surpass but at least i know what i am struggling against and what my flaws are, all i need to work hard on it and i will prevail!
Its almost 60 days of my updates, man, time is running fast
Yea, i had Royal Flush last night, was super fun and i won whole 80 chips! 
ICM trainer results:
4-6 MAN: 
BUBBLE: 
To study on Thursday:
- ICM trainer sessions
- Analyze marked hands
- Memorize ranges
- Study 3rd or 4th post flop video
Your blog is turning into something really big. Great journey so far, keep up the level of dedications and results will follow.
Future sessions focusing on live sweat - we need to bring your auto pilot + multitabling skills up so that you can start making money and feel good about that part also !
8th Week challenge (Friday) - DAY 56
- 13/14 studying hours completed
- 43/224 tournaments completed
- 0 session with my dai-sensei ♠_biggrin: completed
- 2,5/3,5 workout hour completed
Hey all, so today it looks like i had a day off, was not planned, i started to study post flop video but i was loud background noise so i downloaded some software to fix it. And since i didn have a day off from poker in this year i guess its ok to skip one in almost 60 days, even if i did work on that video most of the time
Basically you need Free Studio to convert video to mp3 and Audacity to remove noise. Both software are free so you dont have to search torrents
And this is tutorial on how to use those software to remove noise.
Its quite simple and useful, doesn't require much time.
On the end of the day i played few tournaments and it was fine, variance did not haunt us and we had some 
To study on Thursday:
- ICM trainer sessions
- Analyze marked hands
- Memorize ranges
- Study 3rd post flop video
8th Week challenge (Saturday) - DAY 57
- 16/14 studying hours completed
- 57/224 tournaments completed
- 0 session with my dai-sensei ♠_biggrin: completed
- 3/3,5 workout hour completed
Today i had nice session with Jernej, we did some more on constructing post flop ranges.
After i studied post flop video but it takes time to do study on so important stuff.
Played some free VIP MTT`s on PS , 100k GTD, 30k GTD and 5k GTD busted in all of them in first hour
Grinded SNG˙s and it was really bad, in terms of variance, i did make some mistakes too on light bluff catching but i run below EV big time, around 80 BI now from the start of the year.
Tomorrow i need to play about 40 more tournaments to stay silver in next month.
This is ICM trainer:
4-6 MAN: 
BUBBLE: 
To study on Sunday:
- ICM trainer sessions
- Analyze marked hands
- Memorize ranges
- Finish 3rd post flop video study
8th Week challenge (Sunday) - DAY 58
- 18,5/14 studying hours completed
- 80/224 tournaments completed
- 1 session with my dai-sensei ♠_biggrin: completed
- 3,5/3,5 workout hour completed
End of the week, as planned, i have put some extra studying hours and grind has suffered a bit.
Continuing to work with Jernej and it is great, we both have benefits from sessions.
And im back to chrome star because i thought that Sunday is last day of February 
Anyway, these are ICM trainer results:
4-6 MAN: 
BUBBLE: 
I wont be posting these ICM trainer results anymore because i have made it to constant 95% results, going to switch now to about 100 hands but without range % showed and gonna go deeper on some thinking process while doing training sessions, like with what is aggressive/passive/tight opponent shoving BVB, how much tighter or wider then NASH for example and that kind of stuff.
And for monthly goals, these are results for February:
February
51/44 studying hours completed
354/900 tournaments played
4/8 sessions with coach completed
14/14 workout hours completed
Finished February with low grinding volume but with some nice studying hours, planning to do so in March too!
Sessions with coach are now not so often so it will be 4 per month for March!
So, goals for March:
March
Complete 54 studying hours
Complete 900 tournaments played
Complete 4 sessions with coach
Complete 14 workout hours
And some news for the end, since tomorrow im changing my working place again, same company but different place, i had just enough of it and from today im looking for another job, i plan to switch to poker full time but i need some safe money for now until i become steady earner in poker. I must change my time management again but wont write anything about it, will post more about it at the end of the week when i find out what is my working time etc.
GL to all!