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Ok beginning of new week.

After doing some reevaluation of my last week I figured out that I am gona do some changes to my working schedule for this week, and see how that goes.

So this week goals:
:club:Playing 5h/day / 25/week / 100/month
:club:Study 5h/day / 25/week / 100/month
:club:Ratio 50:50 playing/study
:club:Do daily goals
:club:Be active on blog

Monday goals

Do schedule for this week in sheet, regarding weekly goals DONE
Post on blog DONE
:diamond:Analyse
- problematic hands and answers from last session (Friday) (passive improving) DONE
- review marked hands (pass/act improving) DONE
- post my opinion on 5 hands 5$ forum, and 5 hands 21$ forum (pass/act improving)
- post problematic hands (pass/act improving) DONE
- review 2 hh with my mate (pass/act improving) DONE
- read (passive improving) and implement (active improving) one part of Motivation chapter in book "The Mental Game" NOT
- refine next warm-up based on what i found in previous session DONE
:diamond:Prepare DONE
- sngwiz quiz/nash (pass/act improving) DONE
:diamond:Warm up DONE
:diamond:Preformance
- play 5h DONE
- mark problematic hands DONE
- focus DONE
:diamond:Result
- evaluate my game in worksheet DONE
:diamond:Cool-down/Evaluate
- evaluate my technical/mental worst/new idea poker DONE

In future I am thinking about doing some sweat sessions (not coaching and not charging!) with low stake grinders / starters considering technical/mental side of poker, so if somebody is interested let me know, and i get back to you when time comes.

"It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things." by Leonardo da Vinci, the renowned Italian painter, sculptor and engineer.

Originally posted by variancekiller
This weekend was crazy in some way. I didn't play on Friday and Saturday. My girlfriend needed some attention apparently. Something I obviously won't say no against ♠_love:

I put myself a goal for the last few days of June. It's a pretty sick one wich is makes me rake $624 in the next 4 days. That means probably about 10 hours a day. This is because I only did $106 today. Not so many games I could join in about 4 hours play time.
So I need to rake $156 a day from now on. I am pretty busy with other stuff aswell so going to be long 4 days.

Today was pretty hectic since I started with -$150 straight away. Gladly I came back to only -$48 after 52 games. Redline was on +$240 bringing my downswing to 70 buy-in for this month.

For this month I am down 10 buy-in so with rakeback and bonusses I still made about $900 so far wich is a pretty awesome feeling.

Kind regards,

♠_cool:

P.S. next update Thuesday
P.S.S. Nice videoclip with fatima de morero de melolo or something like that

Wow sick goal. Gl with that! Will you mix in 5max or just 10 max games?

I will just play my regular games, so now 5/6 max (didn't they delete the 5-max or was that only cash?) going to be a hard to reach goal indeed. I am 100% motivated so that makes it easier!
Thanks for the added luck!

Kind regards,

♠_cool:

Originally posted by variancekiller
I will just play my regular games, so now 5/6 max (didn't they delete the 5-max or was that only cash?) going to be a hard to reach goal indeed. I am 100% motivated so that makes it easier!
Thanks for the added luck!

Kind regards,

♠_cool:

now = no? No there's still 5 max sngs. Concidering they have much more volume on higher limits I thought it would be good idea to mix them in. I still don't get it how you manage to find that volume on 22s+. When I play there's max 4 games running. ♦

I also struggle to put in enough volume. You are a real inspiration for me that you play so much even when you are on a downswing.

Keep it up!!

Hello,nice blog!

PS.
VBZg,ti si iz hr. koliko sma skužio ili?Ako da dodaj skype ako imaš

Originally posted by VBZg
Ok beginning of new week.

After doing some reevaluation of my last week I figured out that I am gona do some changes to my working schedule for this week, and see how that goes.

So this week goals:
:club:Playing 5h/day / 25/week / 100/month
:club:Study 5h/day / 25/week / 100/month
:club:Ratio 50:50 playing/study
:club:Do daily goals
:club:Be active on blog

Monday goals

Do schedule for this week in sheet, regarding weekly goals DONE
Post on blog DONE
:diamond:Analyse
- problematic hands and answers from last session (Friday) (passive improving)
- review marked hands (pass/act improving) DONE
- post my opinion on 5 hands 5$ forum, and 5 hands 21$ forum (pass/act improving)
- post problematic hands (pass/act improving) DONE
- review 2 hh with my mate (pass/act improving) DONE
- read (passive improving) and implement (active improving) one part of Motivation chapter in book "The Mental Game"
- refine next warm-up based on what i found in previous session
:diamond:Prepare
- sngwiz quiz/nash (pass/act improving)
:diamond:Warm up
:diamond:Preformance
- play 5h
- mark problematic hands
- focus
:diamond:Result
- evaluate my game in worksheet
:diamond:Cool-down/Evaluate
- evaluate my technical/mental worst/new idea poker

In future I am thinking about doing some sweat sessions (not coaching and not charging!) with low stake grinders / starters considering technical/mental side of poker, so if somebody is interested let me know, and i get back to you when time comes.

"It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things." by Leonardo da Vinci, the renowned Italian painter, sculptor and engineer.

Originally posted by OOMMbager
Hello,nice blog!

PS.
VBZg,ti si iz hr. koliko sma skužio ili?Ako da dodaj skype ako imaš

Hey, yes I am from Croatia. I added you to skype.

maybe it's just luck. And when I have to play 10-12 hours to play about 80 games I don't think that volume is that good.

Originally posted by variancekiller
maybe it's just luck. And when I have to play 10-12 hours to play about 80 games I don't think that volume is that good.

Yeah that sucks. The only good think there is rakeback at bigger limits. Or 5max games which have traffic.

Tuesday

Didnt study, instead had to solve some real life stuff, and played only 2.5h.

Wednesday

Study 3h, played 5,5h, some of standard goals reached others not. Still didnt use to my new schedule, but ok.

Thursday goals

Post on blog
:diamond:Analyse
- problematic hands and answers from last session (passive improving) DONE
- review marked hands (pass/act improving) DONE
- post problematic hands (pass/act improving) DONE
- review 2 hh with my mate (pass/act improving) DONE
- post my opinion on 5 hands 5$ forum, and 5 hands 21$ forum (pass/act improving) DONE
- read (passive improving) and implement (active improving) one part of Motivation chapter in book "The Mental Game"
- refine next warm-up based on what i found in previous session DONE
:diamond:Prepare
- sngwiz quiz/nash (pass/act improving)
:diamond:Warm up
:diamond:Preformance
- play 5h
- mark problematic hands
- focus
:diamond:Result
- evaluate my game in worksheet
:diamond:Cool-down/Evaluate
- evaluate my technical/mental worst/new idea poker

"Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind." by Leonardo da Vinci, the renowned Italian painter, sculptor and engineer.

Time for my monthly wrap up again!!

:heart: :heart:JUNE WRAP-UP :heart:

June has been a very good month for me in more than one way. Unfortunatly it sucked at one point aswell.

It's always better to start negative and end positive so here's the bad thing.

As our staggering 2 followers know allready I had a injury on my leg wich forced me to sit tight at home. Since I teach tennis for a living that is not the best thing to happen. I don't have insurance on my body since that is pretty expensive. So no income besides poker for me this month.

But all the good that has happend more than makes up for that loss gladly.

My volume this month rocked wich made me a nice Rakeback/Valueback. I didn't run that great in the whole month (about 50 buy-in under EV at the end of the month) But since I made some nice profit still I couldn't care less.

After my first roughly 70-80 buy-in swing I am ready to say I am mentally very much ready to go play this game for a living without having to worry I tilt off my roll. At the times I felt I was going to play differently I could finish and not look back at the Poker screen for the day, so that's a big plus.

I didn't have such a big month to surpass last month but atleast I came close to it. Off course most of my profit came from bonusses and not from the table this month, but since my redline is steadily trying to surpass the top of my screen it's all good.

After watching Faarcyde's new video I came to realise that I need to turn things around a bit. So I have a trial of a budget program wich I am going to start with and will be trying to daily update it with incoming and outgoing money. This will help me maintain my funds far better.

I also started taking a walk before I go to sleep. Since it's 04:00 than and there is no one on the streets yet at that time, it's very relaxing to do so and I have been able to sleep faster and more relaxed.

Off course no one reads this and just want to see a graph of this month and maybe just maybe read on to see a update of my goals. So here goes!

[ ♠_thumbsup: ] 850 games on current network. 1114
[ ] AVG buy-in $28. didn't go for this because of bankroll management!
[ ♠_thumbsup: ] Maintain a good vip status. done
[ ♠_thumbsup: ] play 100 hours. 100.2 hours I would say I made it ♠_cool:
[ ♠_thumbsup: ] Stay mentally strong. Easy Yes
[ ] Run Good. Epic Fail!

I will post my July goals in the weekend or Friday!

And now all that you have been waiting for offcourse!

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