Quick update
Wanted to share with you 5 things that I decided to focus on in June. Those 5 things or categories are something that I can realistically time track and focus to accomplish with other on going life things. I have noticed a huge "Vacation" like mindset and feeling because after a long time I don't feel need to make any money urgently and I am enjoying days like a kid, taking it all in and appreciate it the fact that I am relived, debt free and can focus my time elsewhere. Still, in order to go to Thailand for vacation and to have much better starting position in 2018, I need to get myself in higher grind gear primarily and make more money in next 7 months. So that brings me to 5 key areas/categories/goals in June.
1) Grind 100-120 hours
2) Coaching and Working on the game 30 hours minimum
3) Teaching guitar and music 12 hours
4) Work out with Sensei 12 hours + time before and after training needed
5) Healthy eating with fasting and calorie deficit (to drop 4kgs per month in next 3 months)
Grind is the most difficult because I feel more motivated to help my best friend and coach others + work on my game range vs range then to sit down and play. It is affected greatly by the fact that I feel no financial pressure of any sort, with all the bills, rents and dads pension credit payed off I have about 600+ euro extra money so that affects my mindset for sure. I however want to prove to myself that on larger sample I am winning on 30s 3 tabling and that would help me then decide what to do later when Stars RB changes to choose max EV limit and number of tables for my hourly and variance involved.
Coaching is going really well and I am besides coaching Phuketinho every day on the way to accept 1 more student for at least 30 sessions (as I suggested). If this goes through, I will not accept any more students because I always aim to over deliver both in and outside of sessions + take time extra to answer questions on Skype and respond to all the hands students post for me. So for this reason I don't want to accept 5-10 people because that would mean less time for other life things for me and even less grind for me which is already at very low mark as it is and I don't want to sacrifice it any longer. Working on the game is going very well because I constantly work on textures that cause me trouble both IP and OOP and practice how to defend my whole range on different turn and river run outs as well as what sizings to use IP and OOP as initial agressor on different run outs. Feel that I have skyrocketed with my progress as poker player in this year in comparison to last 2 years for example and I don't plan to stop but rather keep going and clear up any doubt range vs range and texture wise for different effective stacks as much as I can!
Teaching guitar and music is 12 hours on average up to 16, that is going well and steady and I don't plan to change it as teaching music keeps me very happy and in check - it is one of the things I love doing and it is part of who I am.
Training with Sensei is going so and so. Actual trainings are awesome but in May we did 6-7 sessions instead of 12+ because it was raining heavy and we couldn't do them outside as planed. In June I suggested we don't skip but add indoor sessions as well (even though I will loose in travel time 40ish minutes total per session this way + pay for cab 1/2 price of sessions) but I decided to go for it in order to maximize my progress. On the other side, my eating habits are not going well. I do great until 4pm or so with calorie intake and then I screw it up with unnecessary extra things. It is primarily because my internal motivation is not strong enough to loose weight. I want to drop to 80kgs (now have 89kgs) or less by the time I go to Thailand which is in 7-8 months really. I know this is plenty of time so I am slacking and not taking right steps with healthy eating and calorie deficit. This is why I asked Sensei to cancel training yesterday to take a whole day and figure out how to proceed on my end. Because, all the sessions will have very little effect to my weight loss if I put in my body 2k calories per day vs 1.4 or 1.5k and that is the major problem for me right now.
So there you go, those are on going things in June and areas I will focus and target daily. I also wrote time management this morning and I will test it, experiment and see if it sticks/works for me - primarily interested for grinding and coaching if it sticks because sessions with Sensei and guitar and music lessons have very much fixed times hence I don't miss those vs grinding which has very open and loose time management which leads to missed grind hours!!!
Enjoy your June and thanks for following the blog!
P.S. Results wise 64cEV 3 tabling 30s on 10 hours of grind since 22nd of May - lol sample and runing below EV close to 40 buy ins still (pre RB).
I like his style he is a savage !
