Getting Stronger

Awesome post my new friend. Very great intro and I look forward to following along with your journey to become a better poker player and of course person. 1 handed chin ups!? Bruce Lee could do those but he was a god try to add me on Skype if you can figure it out shouldn't be too hard. I have always wanted to write about my career because I think it helps keep you motivated and discipline to keep on working hard. Let's move up in stakes together buddy!

Everyone knows that im going to troll. What else could i do?

I like your schedule. The only thing i don't get is how can you do something after sport, but running might be easier i guess. I can barely walk after trainings ♦

See you at the tables!

Nice plan there. The exercise is really going to help. Everything else will show its way, get ready for the bumpy journey, it's definitely not going to be easy, yet at the same time fulfilling. The biggest challenges I faced were from poker and so are the biggest learning lessons. Good luck

Haha, thanks for your comments guys!! ♦

Waking up 6am was a bit too ambitious to start with, cause I usually get up at 12 and go to sleep whenever I want. Anyhow at 8:00 I managed to get out of bed and went immediately jogging. And I did it just because I remembered what I wrote here yesterday. Made also chin ups and trained shoulder at a training station. Wasn't very light after sleeping 4h only but 2x10 clean reps. Next time I make 1x12 and 1 x max. After I manage to make 20 I start again going to gym and make with extra weight's but before that I need to lose weight.

About poker. In the morning after running I played 60min session. First 30minutes I played my A-game, next 15minutes my level of focus dropped to my b-game. I started to forget positions made 1 river call which I wasn't sure if it's right and which probably could have been avoided by betting turn. After the last 15minutes I decided to quit cause my level of focuse was going even worse.

My 2nd session I played my A-game and concentrated 100% ended my session after playing 1/2 hour. I'm not trying to force myself to play high volume anymore if I don't feel like, just trying to focus on my mental game cause there are the most mistakes.

1 handanalysis, feel free to comment!

Villain F3b 45% large sample solid reg. BB a fish, preflop I think espc. 200bb deep the reg calls so wide that we can 3bet for value. Fish may cold call worse dominated hands too.

Flop I ch/ usually 200bb deep AA, KK, QQ cause our hand on this texture has 2 street's of value and is hard to call down facing raise. KQ I'm ch/folding on the flop facing a bet. Flop goes ch/ch. Turn by betting twice we can make villain fold 99, 88 and A-highs, we have enough Jx in our range I think. It took villain long to call the turn which made me think he mostly has an ace. 99, TT can call faster but he tanked a little. River 99 get's there but I doubt he has it often with the timing he took on turn and on the river he prob. doesn't
see me bluffing a lot and he prob. folds TT. So betting 1/2 pot to drop Ax's and TT.

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Playing my b/c-game I would have probably just bet the flop and think oh, he has something and ch/fold the turn without concentrating on ranges and timings properly.

Poker Stars, $0.25/$0.50 No Limit Hold'em Cash, 6 Players
Poker Tools Powered By Holdem Manager - The Ultimate Poker Software Suite.

BTN: $57.80 (115.6 bb)
Hero (SB): $112.65 (225.3 bb)
BB: $18.69 (37.4 bb)
UTG: $67.09 (134.2 bb)
MP: $24.12 (48.2 bb)
CO: $110.79 (221.6 bb)

Preflop: Hero is SB with K Q
2 folds, CO raises to $1.50, BTN folds, Hero raises to $5, BB folds, CO calls $3.50

Flop: ($10.50) 8 8 J (2 players)
Hero checks, CO checks

Turn: ($10.50) J (2 players)
Hero bets $4, CO calls $4

River: ($18.50) 9 (2 players)
Hero bets $8.83, CO folds

Results:

Played today 1,5k hands only. Woke up at 12am, had no fun to go run but I started to play after I woke up and ate breakfast. I had the feeling I have too much agression. I was cappable to play well and concentrate but I had realy force myself hard not to spew and to think objectively. My first session I played only 300 hands and after that I took a break and meditated for half an hour. After that I was cappable to play my A-game for round about 20minutes but I still had the feeling I have too much energy and agression. Went to gym trained hard and came back fresh. Played 40minutes. The first 1/2 hour I was in the zone but then my concentration was totally scrapped. Quit after 40min session, went for a kebab and beers with my friend and just came back. We tried to pick up two german tourist but they were lesbian. :((

My redline and results are better on the last 2 days when I concentrated hard on my mental game and I feel I'm moving to a new level. I'm actually not sure if it's better to have a schedule when to play or not, or just to play when I feel I can play well. Drinking damages concentration but it's important to keep up social life and have fun - so it's also an two piped deal. I guess optimal for poker is to have an sex relationship and to have frend's to party with and to have a family without a lot of problems. Problems always harm the controll and concentration. The high agression is maybe the biggest problem I have now, which affects me while I'm playing. I realy need sex and sport regularly to keep myself more focused on the tables. My goal is to live somewhere abroad and just focuse on playing and having fun. I also want to move up stakes and beat better players. I don't give a shit about money - I want to become better in the game. It's like chess, the master nerd's didn't thought about money when they started they just wanted to become better and better. I have the same passion and no one is going to stop me. Nl50 zoom is totally beatable when I can play with full concentration. When I play and don't realy concentrate and give 100% I lose! To improve in the time I can play my A-game I'm going to write in my own notebook about why and when my A-game turn's to B-game and what are the mistakes I make on my B-game. The new A-ha feeling I've become is that it doesn't matter how much volume I put in if the way I play is a loosing way. If my A-game makes 9bb/100 and my B-game makes -19bb/100 and I can only play 30min A-game and the rest is B-game I end up breakeven or losing. As the great book "mental game of poker2" says - analyse ur A-game, analyse ur B-game, analyse ur C-game. That's what I'm going to do!!

Sad story about those 2 girls... Were they good? ♦

I feel really sad. I've fucked up with my schedule and with everything. I really need to find a girlfriend and I need to quit smoking pot and drinking. I feel so shit about everything from start to end of my life. It has been a hell and I just need to get out of my family. And I need to find a way to be happy with no drugs. All bullshit reflects to poker and I feel I need to fix my mind before I really can improve and find the real motivation. I'm going to quit drinking and smoking pot today. For real 0 tolerance - no alc. at even in my graduation party. It just doesn't pass to me at all. Sucks to post stuff like this that doesn't realy interest anyone but it's in my mind the most important thing. So I write it.

Sounds like a big plans, and hope that you can realize them but:

Hah, picking up girls is easier for me if I'm clean!! But finding a girlfrend is hard if u look for quality. But I hate drinking cause I lose control and weird stuff just starts to happen..