They say good things come to those who wait.. So I'ma be at least an hour late.

Pkrpains · 2013-08-22T23:21:52Z

Hello pokerstrategy, I am 21 year old student from Lithuania and I want to become a better man. Better in poker and in life in general. Therefore, I decided to take action. This is my first step. Why blog? You know, the last couple of weeks I've been browsing through blogs a lot. And noticed that successful players, guys that are going in the right direction, have one thing in common: they work a lot. They set goals. They keep track of their progress. They re-evaluate themselves afterwards. They keep focused on what they want to achieve. They have discipline. And they reap the rewards. This is what I am going to do too. This thread is going to be my main guide, a tool not to loose my way and stay on the right track. // Background info Unfortunately, I was never like that. I never set clear goals. I did not have discipline. I did not sustain continuous improvement, my work ethics were poor. I was going somewhere without a clear direction. Based my actions purely on my mood, desires and past events. Like a float in an ocean, you know. At times I did study a lot, work on my game hard, but lacked consistency. This and everything mentioned above was limiting my success. Somehow, I still am a winning micro stakes player. Won't dig into the past much, I'll just say that this year I started @ NL20 and now have 30 BI's for NL100. But I feel that this is not enough if I want to go anywhere further and these successful guys here at pokerstrategy are doing more than I am. I started to see things differently than I used to see them before. As a result, I am going to change my approach. Significantly. // Aim and purpose of this blog In a way, I am going to treat the upcoming year, counting from this September, as a test of what could I achieve in poker if I really tried. I do not have any illusions about beating mid-stakes or so. If I find myself successfully playing NL200 - I'm super happy. But I'd be even more happy if I can sustain clear, continuous improvement, do not get affected by motivational swings, have stable confidence and stick to the plan. This blog is here to help me achieve this. // What to expect I'm planning to update this every week. Every weekly update will have goals for the upcoming week plus a preview, and a recap of the previous week. Also, if you haven't noticed, I mentioned that I want to become a better man. So, real life stuff will not be untouched. Planning to start the journey in September. And this should already be pretty huge for me, since I am going to have my first ever personal coaching with a very good player. I'll be more specific about my goals and plans in my next update. This was just an introduction to what will start in September, since I cannot commit myself 100% to this till then. Hope this is a start of something positive.

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04.10.2016, 13:03 0

Hello everybody! It's been a while.

So it's already 1 full month that I am successfully working as a cabin attendant! I'm on the right with my mate who I'll happen to replace as he's going to leave our company soon.

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The courses were quite intense, definitely. But overall, had a great time in Budapest for almost 6 weeks. Successfully passed all the tests and exams (some were really interesting, like practical emergency training. Fighting real fire, ditching situations, etc. Awesome.)

Then I came back to Lithuania and had 1 month to relax. Spent most of it with my family and GF. Knowing that I wasn't going to have much freetime in the nearest future, I thought it was the best decision to devote as much time as I could to the most important people in my life.

And then the job started. Obviously, every new beginning is a challenge, but I'm really happy about how's everything unfolding so far for me.

This means that I haven't played poker since June. Quite a shame in a way that I've been doing really well up until then, results were finally coming at me.

And now it's a complete reset. Tbh I don't even remember my HUD 100% But hey, we all have life and now I have a perfect chance to have a very decent main job and the best hobby in the world. :f_thumbsup: Just as I am writing this, I am preparing my HEM for my comeback, actually I'm planning to play my first session today.

Obviously now I am never going to be able to play tons of hands. My schedule is really busy (40 landings in September for example, so you can imagine...) but I should be able to grind every now and then. Oh well, I'll have to emphasize quality to make those hands count.

Will drop down a level for a start, to get a feel for the game back and see if I can still do some damage. And if everything's fine, I am hoping to get back to 50nl quite soon. Goal for the remaining year is to move up to 100nl and stay there.

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