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Amazing. Thank you for reading, following, contributing, connecting. I am truly happy and feel blessed to be part of this amazing community and to bring value to my readers and followers.
Here is for many more years to come 
Twitch update:
I am feeling sick, got a cold due to sleeping 6 hours total past 3 days. Regardless, I promised you Twitch study session today in 48 minutes (12 am Thai time, 6am Serbian time zone) so I will see you HERE n 48 minutes 
Twitch Session:
Twitch conneeeeeect !
Starting session NOW. Topic, HU SB LOST hands. Tons of things to learn from good and bad plays pre and post flop so hope to see you there now.
Check it out HERE
o come on 6 in the morning i jos nedelja brate:f_biggrin::f_biggrin::f_biggrin:nista selim se i ja na tajland i jos cu ustedim drva hahaah
Hi,
hopefully next stream will be in a more suitable time for Europeans 
Enjoy your stay there mate
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Don’t hide that stripper from us!
LOL
I have to 
I have a girlfriend now and very happy with her 
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o come on 6 in the morning i jos nedelja brate:f_biggrin::f_biggrin::f_biggrin:nista selim se i ja na tajland i jos cu ustedim drva hahaah
Wake up 5am, its great for you come on! :f_thumbsup::f_tongue:
Yeah, you should come to Thailand, its the best place to be for sure - low stress, high energy, great vibe, weather and people are super friendly and easy going. I want to move here and I would suggest it to everyone as well.
Originally posted by Jakks
Hi,
hopefully next stream will be in a more suitable time for Europeans
Enjoy your stay there mateHi,
Yes, next one will be more suitable for Europeans. Something in the range from 3pm Serbian time zone on or before strip club
I will announce it on Twitch tomorrow or day after as well as here on Poker Strategy. Keep an eye out for it.Thank you, I am really loving it and strongly considering to move here for 1 year next time (now in for 11 weeks/3 months).
See you here and on Twitch soon!
Poker update:
Despite being on vacation, I have been playing poker steady as well as working on my game and bringing value to poker community via my Twitch channel. Variance has not been kind to me but I have another 60 hours planed to clock in before the end of the month for the grind and lets see what happens.
Thailand update:
Right now in Bangkok until 20th of February and then I return to Phuket. In Phuket I will be until 13th of March and then I head to Tokyo for 1 week , coming back to Phuket on 20th of March. I will then stay in Phuket from 20th of March until 1st of April and then I return to Serbia.
This is the way things look now, I have all these tickets, accommodations and such, I just need to extend my visa for another 30 days while here (before I leave to Japan).
If any of you guys has experience extending visa in Phuket/Patong, I would love to talk to you more about it. I have single visa entry visa which expires on 15th of March but I need to return and stay in Phuket from 20th of March until 1st of April. Any suggestions? Appreciate it!
Investing update:
I have started investing in Crypto as well as couple of other streams of income. My goal in 2018 is to build passive income streams, at least 3 of them. I have already built one in late 2017, Crypto will be another one for long term hodl and the 3rd one I am getting myself into is related to online websites. My goal is to get to minimum 1000 eur a month from passive streams of income and then I can live of it monthly in Thailand easily as well as in Serbia or travel to see my friends all around the world. So that is the 1st target and I am working towards NOT giving my time for money, but rather letting money work for me.
Great book/audio book/videos that I suggest is Robert Kiyosaki - "Rich Dad Poor Dad" and all the rest of his work. Eye opener, something that I have ALWAYS wanted to do and push myself but never took right steps. I am glad that I am pushing myself now and EVERY DAY I set aside money for savings, investing and charity as well as have plan where investing will go and what my vision is with each investing projects. Assets vs Liability, key thing.
Remaining of the "holiday" plans for poker:
- Grind 180 hours minimum in next 6 weeks (30 hours per week)
- Study daily and work on the game applying 80-20 rule fixing leaks in most leaking spots that cause win rate dropping
- Twitch 2-3x per week, focus on finding European time zone that fits followers
That's all for this update gang.
Speak soon here and on Twitch!
P.S. In 20 minutes, Partizan Belgrade is playing a game vs Victoria Plzen and I expect us to win by 2 goals margin. Betting odds are 2.5 and I expect Partizan to win this game 60% of the time because in the league we are behind 9 points from Zvezda and all the cards are put on going all in with Europe this season. If you like investing in odds, I think there is HUGE EV in the way this one is skewed so go for it. I already invested my money in crypto, website and my Thailand/life roll so I won't be able to invest until March but if I had money to do so, I would definitely invest 2-5% of my investment bankroll (or even more aggro bankroll - depending on how much you put aside each month for investing, your risk to ruin etc).
What's up Gang!
Time for another update, this time from Phuket.
Bangkok was amazing. 5 days there with very good friend. Saw a lot of historical monuments, temples as well as shopped in malls and had great time going out. Nana Plaza was crazy, 3 floors like a mall just with strip bars - never seen anything like that in my life!!! Got several numbers, LineIDs, Instagrams from strippers, massage girls and waitresses - pretty happy with my game here. Asian girls naturally get attracted to me because I really enjoy joking around with them, flirting, trolling and such. Also, they can see in my eyes sparkle that I am really attracted to them so they dig me easy. If you saw me in strip bar, you would think that I own the place - which is why most strippers go crazy for me, coming onto me, trying to figure out why I am so easy going and behaving like a boss of all of them ♦ Great times overall Bangkok, I strongly suggest you visit it guys!!!
My friend was here 2 weeks and he went back home. Crypto Puppy aka Elpsycho was in Phuket with me 4 weeks and he is back home also. Now I am here ON MY OWN which is weird a bit. I am used to doing daily activities with both of them, going for trips, excursions, checking out places, going out together... Will need day or two to adjust to new situation but great news is I have girlfriend in Rawai which I look forward seeing tomorrow for 2 days...
Poker wise, I have already played over 80 hours of poker in February. My plan is to hit 120 hours before month is over. From crazy losses in the beginning of the month, I am now BE and I have 30ish hours more to grind so lets see what happens before month finishes. I am playing very solid, my mindset is super strong and my habits for grinding are awesome. I also work on my game daily through Twitch as well as HH reviews that I do on my own. On top of that I work now with 2 students, very soon will add 3rd student and I am happy to see that they are doing very well.
Outside of poker, I am studying passive income streams. I made decision and I stick to it, to invest not just in Crypto but to actually create 2 more passive streams of income in 2018. I already created 1 passive stream of income in late 2017 and that one brings me already steady money flow, Crypto is long term investing for me and for immediate gains I will invest in online business models. My targets are to hit 500 then 1000 then 2000 and then more per month from passive income. Now I make close to 300 eur in passive income but that is only from 2 passive income streams and in this year I am doing also Crypto + expect 2 other passive income streams to bring me more. Idea is once I find profitable business model that makes steady income flow, I will scale it and multiply it by however big amount I want to increase passive income stream.
So that's what's up and what has been going on.
I will update Twitch session in following days - expect session by the end of this week!
Enjoy remaining of your February on and off the tables!
Hey, great to hear about the adventures man!! Sounds awesome!
Also good luck with passive income streams, I will also try to get something cooking this year!
To be a bit helpful:
Originally posted by IvicaIliev77
Poker update:Despite being on vacation, I have been playing poker steady as well as working on my game and bringing value to poker community via my Twitch channel. Variance has not been kind to me but I have another 60 hours planed to clock in before the end of the month for the grind and lets see what happens.
In Phuket I will be until 13th of March and then I head to Tokyo for 1 week , coming back to Phuket on 20th of March. I will then stay in Phuket from 20th of March until 1st of April and then I return to Serbia.
This is the way things look now, I have all these tickets, accommodations and such, I just need to extend my visa for another 30 days while here (before I leave to Japan).
If any of you guys has experience extending visa in Phuket/Patong, I would love to talk to you more about it. I have single visa entry visa which expires on 15th of March but I need to return and stay in Phuket from 20th of March until 1st of April. Any suggestions? Appreciate it!
I extended my Visa in Phuket town at immigration office, but I think this doesn't apply to you, because you want to leave the country and have single entry Visa. So in my non expert opinion, once you leave Thailand, you need a new Visa to get back in. Extension will only work if you stay in the country. So you will need to apply for a new Thai Visa while in Japan at Thai Embassy.
Originally posted by Mystt
Hey, great to hear about the adventures man!!
Also good luck with passive income streams, I will also try to get something cooking this year!To be a bit helpful:
I extended my Visa in Phuket town at immigration office, but I think this doesn't apply to you, because you want to leave the country and have single entry Visa. So in my non expert opinion, once you leave Thailand, you need a new Visa to get back in. Extension will only work if you stay in the country. So you will need to apply for a new Thai Visa while in Japan at Thai Embassy.
Thanks a lot man!
Yeah, I advise getting into passive streams of income ASAP. Poker will always be profitable in some way and I have it as my high level earning skill as well as teaching music, but the real money game is making money work for you not you or me working for money. So stop trading hours for money in the long run, make a plan/strategy, start investing and see money grow while you sleep. Sounds like some get rich fast scheme but actually the more that I look, research and talk/network with people, the more I see this is 100% reality. I am right now very happy with 200+ euro of passive income monthly. Very soon, within 3 months period I should be having 500 eur monthly passive income. This alone is enough for me to live in Serbia and not work a single day - which is awesome because I can always have that backup By the end of this year I am looking to hit minimum 1k eur in passive income which would allow me to move to Thailand and continue earning money through high skill income (poker and music) while focusing on investing and increasing passive income streams. Best thing is, people put this off thinking they need such and such amount to start investing. It is 100% not true. You can start passive income streams today. I can write about this all day and probably will do it in some future blog post but basically you should find what suits your current skills and try to make passive income stream of it or invest in your education in areas that can bring money (affiliate marketing online for example, ranking sites on 1st page of google and such). My natural passive income streams would be to do video courses for poker as well as for music - this is on my TO DO LIST. But I also am dedicating time in my day to study online business models as I want 1$ profit monthly model that I can just multiply by thousands (look into how McDonald's makes money or any huge franchise business!). So yeah, that's about that for now, I will write more ideas and ways in future blog post(s).
For Visa I talked to Consulate and went to Phuket Immigration office. They have 2 forms and ways . One is for extension , another one is for RE-Entry. So I need to file for the Re-entry one and pay 50 euro's or such in TBH as well as fill in the extension one. I have return ticket to Phuket from Tokyo and this will be enough as proof for extension + re/entry. This is what Thai Consulate in Belgrade informed me. I will go 1st week of March to Phuket Immigration office and see whats up there with it all. Should work out in the end - will let you how it went as other people might be or find themselves in same situation.
Partizan Belgrade is playing tonight. We crushed Plzen in 1st game and they scored goal thanks to GREEK referee who let them score it from clear Offside. Partizan played PERFECT GAME but NO LUcK (VARIANCE) took it away from them (just like it happens in poker!). So tonight, I expect Partizan to go all in and score goals and pass Plzen. Odds are 5 on Partizan which means bookies expect Partizan to win 20% of the time this match. I expect Partizan to win this over 60% of time in regular time, to draw 1-1 and go to overtime 25% and chances to loose are 15% IMO. So HUGE EV to bet on Partizan which I will gladly invest around 300 euro via Betfair.
Enjoy your February on and off the tableS!
What's up Gang!
Let's talk more about investing and passive income streams. Before I get to it, I want to cover what I consider very important.
In my opinion, it is very important to 1st have some sort of passion, career, life calling if you will that will make you high income steadily. For many people, they never find their passion or simply don't dedicate to things they do in their life but rather hate their jobs. In my case, I have 2 high income levels that whatever happens in my life I can always depend on them. 1) Music 2) Poker. I am 34 years old, I play guitar for 22 years now, graduated and taught at Berklee College of Music, have taught 100s of students all over the world. I also played on cruise ship, did masterclasses both as sideman and main act, ran my own guitar and music teaching website as well as worked for top 3 guitar website online for lessons. So for me, I can always do music and guitar whether I will go play on cruise ships, hotels, get a job in school(s) or run my own thing online like I do now. It took me a lot of time in my life to get to level I am at and that is why I am able to choose people that I work with and charge what I want and when I want. When it comes to poker, I have also a lot of things working for me. I make steady living from poker since very 1st year I started playing it back in 2012. I worked with many amazing coaches and players, helped dozen students and constantly strive to bring value to Poker Strategy community. Thanks to my poker results I can also choose who I want to work with, when and under what conditions.
Those 2 high level earning income streams are very important in my life. They allow me to stress free live my life, help my family, travel and spend money on things that I find of great value such as education (constantly improve myself in all areas of my life!) as well as travel and invest.
I think it is very important that you 1st figure out what is it that you are passionate about, what are you good/great/amazing at or have will and determination to be amazing at, create a plan and stick to it so that you can get to steady high level income stream.
Once you have high level income stream that allows you to live life in a "regular" or "normal" way (whatever that means!), it is time to consider and act on making that money work for you.
These things they don't teach in schools but luckily information is the most valuable asset in today's fast paced world and technology. I will give you some shortcuts and things that I discovered through thousands of hours of study , research and SOME applications.
Passive income
My definition of passive income is following: Invest time/and or money upfront into a project and have it return you income in future with little to no maintenance on your side.
What are some of the ways you can make passive income?
Here is a quick list (from top of my head) and there is so much more:
- Affiliate marketing
- Sell your own product
- Automated services
- Investing
- Websites
Affiliate marketing
Here you are basically promoting someone else's product(s) and getting commission for it. It is very popular to do this with Amazon products as well as Clickbank (courses). This is what a lot of people online choose to do and the most difficult part is not choosing what to promote (which can be difficult as well) but rather getting traffic to the website(s) they are getting commissions from. This is art of its own but people who master it do very little to no maintenance once they get the traffic coming in and they make a ton of money steadily each month.
I recommend this if you are good/great/excellent with SEO as well as internet marketing overall because this will print you money long term as people always look to buy things from online.
Sell your own product
Say that you publish ebook, book, course or anything really in online platform. Now the work that you front loaded pays off in the long run because you did it once only and money will keep coming in for it forever. Again, here you need to consider if you are expert in the field that you are doing product for as well as traffic, competition and realistic hourly for it short and long term. Udemy is great example as place that automates income for people that publish things. Kindle also pays you cut for publishing your book through them. You can even do all this through your website but then you do more work for bringing in traffic but you keep higher cut in the end.
Automated services
Say that you offer some service on Fiver (for 5$) for SEO optimization. You find person in India that does it for 3$. You outsource all the work to him and now on every Fiver gig you get and send to him/her, you get 40% for doing nothing. This is one of the examples and there is so many - just think how you can automate anything and you will get the brain to work in the right direction.
Investing
Crypto is most popular now, before that were stocks, bonds, real estate and business owning/buying selling flipping.
Also, when it comes to investing, education should always be your top priority to stay sharp and on top of the game.
Websites
Here there is so many things you can do. Start website, build it up then flip it (sell it). Create a website, drive traffic, promote products (amazon, clickbank and such) and do google adsense and have money pour in every month.
I will tell you now another important thing when it comes to business and investing. You should always consider MODEL of your investment. If your business has clearly defined model, then it is very easy to scale it and multiply it. Think McDonalds. They have clearly defined model even though their food is shit but its cheap and accessible and it allows them to multiply like crazy and get profit.
I gave you all this info, I will also drop you a hint what I will do online with investing:
- Websites
- Affiliate marketing
Obviously won't go into details what niche, what keywords, how many websites, when how etc. Doing this would just make my future work with time and money investment more difficult. But I will tell you that once I create passive income stream with website that will offer affiliate products and adsense, I will simply multiply that business model as many times as possible to keep increasing my passive income. In other words, if I make everything and set it up to make me 12$ year or 1 $ a month profit, I will then multiply that by thousands and now I will have thousands of $ of monthly income.
Must read/listen/watch things:
Kiyosaki - Rich Dad Poor Dad and ANYTHING FROM HIM
Dan Lok (check his youtube channel)
Hope you found this post and information in it of value. I also hope that many of you will take the road of investing and building passive income streams because it is absolute must if you want to free up time from grinding/working 180 hours every month and have time to do things you find of more value - like spend time with family, loved ones, friends, travel, exercise, educate yourself, help others etc.
Wish you great remaining of the February!
Hi Pedja,
I am glad you are having fun and enjoy life! Keep it up!
P.S. I am gonna spend 2 days in the mountain this weekend, climbing a small peak, so hopefully I will not miss the next twitch stream
Originally posted by Jakks
Hi Pedja,I am glad you are having fun and enjoy life! Keep it up!
P.S. I am gonna spend 2 days in the mountain this weekend, climbing a small peak, so hopefully I will not miss the next twitch stream
Hi Jakks,
Thanks man, I am really having time of my life in Thailand. I am already taking steps researching best long term stay options in Phuket. I am super productive here for work and most importantly, outside of work I have these amazing things like Asian girlfriend, super friendly and kind Thai people, lovely weather, beaches and monuments to see and be amazed from.
For Twitch session, I will announce it later today when I finish my grind, in about 4-5 hours. I may even do Twitch session today sometime between 4 and 6pm Serbian time zone as starting time. Will keep you updated in next blog post.
See you later today on Twitch !