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Important update

250k views baby!
Thank you all for following, reading, commenting, sending me messages via Skype and community tool. This blog is a diary type which focuses not just on poker but also other important things that I consider of value in my life. I hope you find things that are of interest to you and that you can apply in your own life or simply share with someone else who could use your help. My hope is that with another area of improvement related to internet, in some future updates there will be a lot more talk about passive income stream(s) and living a happy and rich life.

As a reward for 250k views, I will play 1 100$ spin and share how it went with you all.

Once again, thank you for following and contributing in my blog and next milestone will be 300k with hopefully new and improved IvicaIliev77 version

Here is how 100$ spin went:

Made a video, rendering it now. Might post it on YouTube with a private link or something or just share it with my students.

30s today:

Grinded in the coffee place, 2 tabling. Had a chance to win 25x on them, opponent won the flip, very typical story for spins
Rest of the day spent grinding some satelites for Vegas! Invested 150$ in 3 satelites and busted on all of them.
For MTTs definitely need to think of best solution with Spins. Doing both at the same time could work but I need to test 3 possibilities: 1) use 2 monitors, Spins for 1st and MTTs for 2nd 2) Use 1 monitor with table placing software 3) Continue grinding independently
1st option requires me to switch from laptop to desktop computer which will be a bit of a hustle I feel. 2nd option I can still use laptop + 1 monitor but just add table placement software. 3rd solution seems most realistic right now because a) I don't plan to play MTTs full time (not my interest right now) b) I just want to play them for Vegas. After Vegas promotion is done I will resume my Spin full time grind.

So ridiculously low volume due to MTT satellite grind which will be adjusted in June for sure with different time management. Very likely will pick 1 day per week where I am taking time off from spins to play those satellites (like Sunday).

Here is just list for tomorrow's activities planed:
- Sports 1 hour
- Coaching 1 hour
- Teaching 2 hours
- Studying with fellow Spins reg 1 hour
- Grinding 3 hours
- Finishing personal and house things + automation 2 hours

Tomorrow going for 30s 4 tabling. Not planing any coffee time or grinding in a coffee place (2 tabling) so should get 100+ games in on 30s tomorrow! Look forward to it.

Enjoy remaining of your week on and off the tables!

Good couple weeks man nice.
Agree with you on the differences between 15s & 30s, reg dynamics really start to come in to play, lot of fun.
Keep it up

Appreciate it man. I would even say great 2 months!
Initial plan and expectation was to start making 2k steady from June to January, 6 months x 2k = 12k to save. I also was cautious about predicting when and how I would move up. In previous updates I talked about playing 30s as a reward only or even playing them once I save 12k or more!
Less then 2 months in and I am already taking shots at 30s with intention to play them exclusively.
Most important aspect was and is working on the game, finding edges and ways to maximize EV and game plan. I see that I can play those 30s without feeling pressure now (might change if I drop 1k!) so I will just go for it for now. The fact that I am at 6k+ life and poker BR right now allows me to take those shots more aggressively. If I had now 2-3k instead of 6k I would not do it but would rather focus on having 4.5k for 15s and then do it. Financially things are looking excellent after very short period and I feel that within next 100 days I will manage to save another 6k minimum, after which I will start saving for poker and life BR.

Hopefully I will not drop 30s and there will be a 2k-3k sample of them to talk about by 1st of July. That should be a decent sample and indicator whether I would be BE, slightly winning or loosing, burning money or having 4-5%+ pre RB roi. I would predict now my own skill from 1,2-4,5% range pre RB. It will very much depend on times I am playing B game vs times C game enters (since I am 4 tabling), playing rested, avoiding to play very late due to focus going down (before bed time, whole day passed, need to rest and regenerate etc). Also, my working on the game with fellow Spins reg and doing session with another reg tomorrow should in long run give more EV, especially because we all play different styles and in different spots may or may not have different expectations. So 60-70 cEV on 30s would be very nice on 2-3k sample which would be indicator to consider switching to 60s (or mixing them in with 30s) or simply add 5th table and keep playing 30s for 5k+ months.

BTW, no sports today
It is raining here now and I won't be able to go and do shooting practice for basketball. Need to find another solution also obviously. Will consider buying a thread mil, for the off season thingy and even grind as I am walking on it (Ben Sulsky style xexe).

Originally posted by IvicaIliev77
So 60-70 cEV on 30s would be very nice on 2-3k sample which would be indicator to consider switching to 60s (or mixing them in with 30s) or simply add 5th table and keep playing 30s for 5k+ months.

If you load tables of both 30s and 60s at the same time, you won't be making use of the only kind of game selection possible in Spins - playing time selection.

Imo: play sessions of exclusively 60s on weekends when you're rested and focused so that the expected ROI is not critically low; play exclusively 30s otherwise (on a non-fishy day or when tired).

Pozdrav drug, super blog, i will follow ♦

Originally posted by tonypmm

Originally posted by IvicaIliev77
So 60-70 cEV on 30s would be very nice on 2-3k sample which would be indicator to consider switching to 60s (or mixing them in with 30s) or simply add 5th table and keep playing 30s for 5k+ months.

If you load tables of both 30s and 60s at the same time, you won't be making use of the only kind of game selection possible in Spins - playing time selection.

Imo: play sessions of exclusively 60s on weekends when you're rested and focused so that the expected ROI is not critically low; play exclusively 30s otherwise (on a non-fishy day or when tired).

Sounds like a solid advice. I will very much consider applying it. Thanks Tony!

Originally posted by Pnnkaznk
Pozdrav drug, super blog, i will follow ♦

Pozdrav - hvala!
See you around

Quite a busy day

- Finished private chores (haircut and such)
- Taught 2 hours guitar and music, 1.5 hours coaching session
- 1 hour working on the game with fellow reg through live sweat
- Grinded total 3.4 hours today exclusively 30s
- Hanged out at friends place for 3 hours or so
- Worked out at home (pushups)

So I managed to again complete all the activities planed for today and some more (hang out with the friend).

Grind wise it was very weird. 1 hour grinding at friends place just 4 tabling on laptop alone was very -EV I feel. I missed spots (played B- game on average) but had very nice distribution, winning flips. So won in the 1st session 390$ or something (won 10x!). My cEV in 1st session was negative one despite winning 13 buy ins. 2nd session I played home 1 hour before teaching guitar and music. In this session I played with better focus and after that session I had cEV of close to +50! At this point I was up close to 900$ or so (graph bellow). Final, 3rd session of the day was absolute worst. Very few multipliers in the whole hour, tons of setups, playing HU's almost constantly as SS and being card dead and I swear it felt like they were looking at my whole cards or something ♦ Just funny how that session went. I ended the day with 12 buy ins profit and negative cEV due to setups in 1st and 3rd session.

Now, the most important thing is to draw some conclusions from today's grind, which I did. I now have way clearer picture of where I can make additional edge on 30s which is awesome. This means that future daily studying hours will be dedicated towards that. Limit is very reg infested!!! It looks like whole Hungary moved to 30s spins. Probably bunch of smart spin members?

Finally, today I also played non regs and they are better then average 15s players.

Need to continue working hard, fixing leaks and improving edge on 30s. This limit should be my home limit by the end of this year (if all goes well with challenge and BR building!).

Here is graph after 2 sessions today:


Here is the graph for the full day:

Tomorrow's time management:
- Working out at home (rained today and yesterday!)
- Studying with 2 Spin regs 1 hour each (11 and 3)
- Grinding another 100+ games on 30s
- Studying on my own 1 hour (edge and leak fixing)
- Check HH from today's grind for realistic estimation of setups vs bad plays
- In between spend time with my Dad
- Do several HH reviews from private forum

Enjoy rest of the week on and off the tables!

Kind of a low key day today.

Studied close to 2 hours, grinded about 1.6 hours (44 games). Spent about 2 hours with a friend unexpectedly, also did some things for my music teaching.
Today had close to 60 cEV in those 44 games but ended up loosing 10 buy ins. Had a chance to win 25x but lost it as 2 days ago in the coffee place.

Key takeaways from today poker wise:
- It is of vital importance to keep working hard and kick the game into even higher gear
- Some things that I studied today saw in the actual games how they work in my favor
- Saw 2 more potential edges for 30s today which means more time to spend in the lab to implement them over long run
- Grinding 30s is fine, don't feel I am crushing or owning the limit but with 9k roll I would easily do them full time - for now just 30 buy ins shot starting tomorrow

Time management wise things today didn't simply work. I need to set up alarms with my calendar in sync with my cell phones. That will definitely help me be even better on track with my to do lists. I never miss lessons because those are my highest priority but the other things are getting moved around quite a bit on days like today.
For June, time management is coming along nicely.
I will likely post about it update here with all or some breakdowns. Key thing for poker will be to keep improving, play 30s and beat the limit with 4%+ ROI pre RB with cEV of 50-60 (variance will play key role on small sample of course). Volume wise 3k games would be phenomenal in my opinion due to other things and priorities in life. For other areas of life, health and fitness along with dentist are a must - something that I will invest myself deeply and truly in the next month. Fitness will be a go to thing with personal trainer as most of people that I know are too lazy to do some sports or go for a run (think this is common everywhere, cultures that embrace sport health and fitness do way better on this - ironically Serbia is among the best if not the best country for sport yet people I know have very little interest to be active with it - the beauty of irony in my life and experience with sport here!). Music has been going great, very happy with practice and playing all my students are putting in. It makes me very happy and full filled to work with them and help them. Some gigs with some of the students are in plan and I will very likely perform at one jazz festival this year in August!

Tomorrow
- Start implementing new habit, running 1st thing in the morning
- Working in the lab minimum 1 hour
- Working on the game with 2 fellow regs up to 2 hours
- Grinding 3 hours (going for 100 games)
- Resting and regenerating enough, to play solid B game through out sessions
- Possibly meeting with a friend for 0.5-1 hour

For the end of the update, graph for today:

Good day with several key activities!

Worked out at home then meet up with a friend that I haven't seen for 10+ days. Spent 2 hours with him, having coffee talking and laughing hard.
Came back home and then worked with 2 regs , 1 hour each. Very productive sessions and feel that it will be very good for all of us long term to beat 30s and keep moving up. After that finished some house chores, talked to my friends online, ate and then studied some more! Time in the lab is unlocking some interesting formulas and solutions. Very excited every day about studying. Finally, set down and started 4 tabling 30s. After 1 hour of grinding was down like 16 buy ins in 33 games or so. Took a short break, regenerated and decided to come back to it but this time 3 tabling. Ended the session with -5 buy ins running bellow EV.

The most important takeaway from today's grind:
- Made mistakes which I am not happy about
- Didn't play with maximum focus when I started
- Saw some surprise lines and unexpected showdowns vs certain players
- Still very reg infested but games are still beatable

Tomorrow's time management:
- Work out
- Meeting with my guitar and music student
- Working with fellow reg 1 hour
- Lab 1 hour
- Teaching 1 hour
- Grinding 60-100 games depending on 3 or 4 tabling

Here is the graph for today

Day for friends and family!

Spent 5 hours with my dad today and about 3-4 hours with one friend of mine. In between did live sweat with my study partner and played another 0.5 hour session. Also, taught 1 guitar and music lesson and watched champions league final. To end the day, just spoke to one girl that I will see soon and two of my friends living abroad (London and Boston).

Month is getting close to an end. My expectations for June are higher when it comes to time put in grinding and financially I would be very OK with continuing to save 2k+ each month. 15s or 30s, that will be decided based on my comfort zone at the actual tables, swings, expenses, how good I ran on 30s etc. I am feeling good about my game but still aware that I have more to improve if I want to have steady 50-60 cEV on 30s. This keeps me going to work on my game and prove to myself that I can beat that limit as well which would bring 50$+ post RB hourly with 4 tabling. However, considering that I have 1 major challenge this year and that is to save 12k, I may just switch back to 15s and grind 90-100 hours in June just them 4 tabling. It is somewhat of a battle where whatever I choose as a path it will have consequences. Playing 15s will make money but I will feel semi bored while playing them because they already stopped being a challenge. Playing 30s could and will bring massive swings but I get to improve as a player which long term increases my hourly as well. I am the kind of person who prefers to choose long term vs short term solutions (not looking for a quick fix - realize that everything is a process!).
Also, in June and on, I will set another side challenge which will be related to health and fitness - so look out for that in one of future updates.

For tomorrow I have following things planed to complete:
- Lab 1 hour
- Study with fellow Spins reg 1 hour
- Grind 30s 3 tabling 3 sessions
- Talk with my friends from London and Boston (audio and video calls)
- Pick up more of things for my new place

Here is the graph for today:

Tom

Today was one of those days where clarity was the main theme.
Poker - 2.37 hours of grinding + 1 hour of studying with my Spins partner and 1 hour in the lab.

Key thing about poker today is that I made the list of 12 edges that I need to work on to crush 30s and be able to move to 60s+. Each one of those edges should take 1 week to implement minimum in my opinion since the work spent in the Lab with applying and testing at the tables is massive. Along with this, mental game, swings and BR play also very vital role along with proper sleep, regeneration, nutrition and overall life things.

So now you may wonder why clarity today? Having played 500 games on 30s (with 15 cEV - LOL) and seeing the reg infested playing field, gathering some sample and learning about their play, I can now take even more serious and systematic approach how to beat those games with high cEV. My expectation is to apply all the things I mentioned, with time management that I have in place, it would take me full 6 months to do those 12 edges (2 weeks per edge) and that is without any vacation time (seaside, Prague, Malta or just taking 7-10 days off).
This all then leads me to my decision for June - I will go back to 15s and 4 table them constantly but going for 4k games in June instead of 3k. I will also keep improving my time management and finding more time for other things in life that I find of value.

Tomorrow and day after, being last days of the month and all, I will play 15s a bit but I will spend most of my time to set up automation for whole June. Things that I have in mind are weekly maid service, daily food delivery, 3 times private fitness training and on top of that continuing to work on the game but also have more consistent grind then in May. Also, no distractions in terms of Vegas satellites or any MTT type of things. I will play exclusively Spins, study the strategies to improve me as a player in this format and along the way help students that I work with.

I will post a bit more detailed info regarding those areas tomorrow or day after. The most important takeaway is clarity. 100% being certain that I will not play 30s nor be tempted to play them until I improve and implement new edges! Financially,(if variance is kind and I put the volume I plan in June and July) I will aim to save 12k by 1st of August and then spend rest of the year to save for life and poker BR another 9k or so.

For the end of the update, here is a graph today on 30s 3 and 4 tabling for most of the day:

Hey nice to read your progress I'm currenty trying to learn spins my self ( I play at winamax) and im currently at the 1e level and i seem to be crushing this stake but due to variance i cant move up just yet so im a little bit stuck for a short time atleast i hope ♦ Anyways the question i wanted to ask you is how long do you play each day that you manage to get that sample size by 3-4 tabling?

Special day today!

Played my absolute worst since I switched to Spins. Auto piloting all the way with some D- game or so. Dropped almost 20 buy ins on 15s.
I tracked the pattern when that happens. It is when I have tons of activities during the day and then I sit down and grind with focus and will power lower. This is not a great thing to do so there are possibly 2 solutions: 1) Grind much earlier during the day (get some sessions in early by noon) 2) Grind less on days where I am busy or don't grind at all.
Today taught a session and then meet with a friend where I did some calls for Thailand trip to figure out prices and time periods. After that got home and studied with fellow reg and played some 15s. Meeting my student was next where we meet for 1 hour to receive payment for future set of lessons and talk about performance plans. I then got home and talk to a friend of mine over skype 1.5 hours. It was then time to go get some food and eat.
After all this, I sat down to play and now that you get a more vivid picture how my day went before actual grind, you can see why it is -EV to play after all these activities.

Tomorrow is the last day of the month and I will now post some things in regards to June expectations:
- 4k games on 15s (3.5k will be acceptable, bellow that I would consider it a fail with time management) 120 hours
- Studying with Spins reg 30 hours (this is going great definitely plan to continue it)
- Lab 30 hours (going for 1 by 1 edge from the 12 I have lay out for 30s+)
- Teaching guitar 30-40 hours (continuing with this, loving it, not planing to drop a single minute of it!)
- Coaching sessions from 5 hours (expected) up
- Working out minimum 12 times in the whole month
- Eating 5 meals per day with snack food also within reach and prepared
- Spending time with family and friends 60+ hours

From the time management list for June above you can see that for Poker I plan 180 hours + coaching 5 hours minimum. 6 hours per day average is a lot considering that I will have also other new/old activities such as working out and meeting my other friends in June (ones I haven't seen since I came back from USA). So negotiable time will for me in that case be Lab and studying with a fellow reg. The reason for choosing this is because right now, my goal in June and July will be to play 8k 15s and to go for 1$ post RB on such sample. I think that working with fellow reg and spending times in the Lab is not necessary for such results but I still want to do these activities to keep myself in check for a lot of games that I will be doing daily + to prepare for 30s more methodically (as I mentioned in the previous update). Since grind in May was not on satisfactory level hours wise (even though I made enough and saved great again) I expect in June to be certain period of swings and adjusting to my 4 hours per day grinding with all the other life things going on.

Now, I would like to discuss side challenge within main 12k challenge.

Loosing 10kgs in 12 weeks!
Why this and why now? Well, since I came back from USA on 13th of March 2016, I noticed that I gained 7kgs!!! I noticed this by accident of course (was watching champions league final with my dad and used weight scale in the half time) but I have to say that I am not surprised much. There are several reasons why this didn't shock me. 1) My sleeping was hectic and not adjusted for month and a half or so. I was going to bet at 5am, waking up at 11am, not completing nowhere near enough things in comparison to now when I wake up at 9:30am for 2 weeks or so. 2) My eating was mixed and not consistent. I was eating some days 2 meals per day, some 3, some 1? And, the food I was eating (bakery products, sandwiches and using bread a lot) is not a great way to go at all. 3) I was not doing enough sports. Hooking up with a girl ocassionally is not enough, just like it is not enough to play sport once every 2 weeks or so.
So all these things lead to me gaining 7kgs and I want to prove to myself that I can get back to weight I came here with + loose some more.
Right now I am sitting at 94.6kgs. Let's round it up to 95kgs! Starting 1st of June and 12 weeks later, I will fight my bad habits and replace them with good ones (personal trainer, cook and smaller portions with proper number of meals) to have 85kgs by then!
This (side) challenge in my opinion will be way harder then for me to play 8k tournaments in next 2 months. For tournaments I just need to sit in front of the monitor, use alarm clock and grind day in and day out with or without things in the background (podcasts, tv shows, music etc). But to drop 10kgs, I will need to change whole bunch of things including introduction of workouts 3 times per week then going for more lighter work outs during days off; eating healthy and at constant times 4-5 meals per day!
I am not looking to take or give any action but I certainly think this would be a very good thing to bet on ♦ Insider info also is that my CrossFit trainer can not train with me in the mornings because he teaches group classes then which makes it even more difficult for me. I am looking to work out 3 times per week at 10-10:30am not later in the day. My willpower goes down as the day progresses (energy levels and focus have to do with it). Feel this will change all for the better once I start exercising and eating right!

Before finishing this update, some insight into how I plan to construct and finalize my June time management.
- 3 times per week after breakfast is work out time as a must do in calendar
- Times that work out is not happening, I will be grinding to make my 4 hours easier and more within the reach
- When I am teaching 2-3 hours, I will very likely not meet with anyone and spend whole day in to complete both grind and those activities. This may potentially lead to burnout but I plan to test this and see what will come of it in June. If it proves to be too much, I will grind those days 2-3 hours not 4 and spend 1 hour doing something else.
- Time with friends will happen in between 12 and 3. On days that I am working out I will play 1 session and then meet them, on days that I am not working out I will likely play 2 sessions and then meet them.
- My studying time with fellow reg is set for 3pm for the past 2 weeks and it has shown great results, plan to keep it for now and shift it only to later time.
- Ideally reaming 2 or 3 hours of grind in the day will finish by 9 latest on days when I am not teaching and by 12 on days that I am. This will be very interesting to test and see the results on those days. So far it has shown negative expectation for myself.

To all this add dentist appointments and meeting with my friends that I have not seen in a really long time + scheduling performances and possibly traveling to Belgrade to rehearse for Jazz festival performance - June is looking as the busiest months of all.

My monetary expectation with all the time put in will be to save 4k. If I put all that time into it and save 2k, I will feel bad a bit since I am already aware of my hourly on 15s. Hopefully variance won't mess a lot with me. Also, improvement wise, I expect to improve and implement minimum 1 new edge for 30s+ in the lab, ideally 2.

Enough about June expectations. Tomorrow (already today) I will do the final balance for the May and money saved along with some graphs.

For the end of the update, here is the graph for games played today:

Lovely start to the day!
Woke up as planed 9:30am, ate breakfast (tuna) and then studied for 0.5 hour. Then went for a 4 lap run (1.6km). Temperature is 26 degrees Celsius so it is hot and burning but I am very happy that I started this new routine of running 1st thing in the morning!
Remaining of the day I have 2 guitar and music lessons, working on the game with fellow reg, finishing time management for June, updating blog with May break down and grinding. Some extra will likely happen, meeting a friend for a coffee around 12.

Also, when I woke up I took out weight scale and checked my weight in my apartment. It is 93.3kg. So I will use that as a starting point for the challenge starting tomorrow. 12 weeks from now going for 83.3kg!

Graph for today on 15s:

2 hours of grind. 1st session happened after work out around noon time or so. 2nd session was just completed now. In between tons of fantastic activities such as going for a run, lab, teaching 2 lessons, meeting with my CrossFit Sensei, talking with my friend in London (expanding on Thailand trip).

So very excited to share that I arranged with my CrossFit Sensei to start training next Tuesday! 3 times per week, Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday will be days for our 1 on 1 work. Most of the training will happen in the morning times, 8:30am or so (before its too hot out). This of course means that I will readjust my habit for going to bed and waking up from 9:30am to 7:30am. So 2 hours earlier going to bed (12 or 1 maximum!). I arranged 36 sessions or 12 weeks of training and on Tuesday I will make the payment for them all as I want to fully commit myself to all the workouts. I got very good price from my Sensei who is also a friend of mine. I owe him a lot for getting me back in shape and feeling very strong when I trained CrossFit 2 years ago or so with him. I give him full support to push me to drop those 10kgs in 12 weeks but more importantly to get me back in shape so that I go and train by myself (like I did today but more importantly like I did while in Montenegro - running swimming doing crazy outdoor trainings for time!!!).
There are several things here that will affect our 36 training sessions. My Sensei is going to a seaside around last week of the June until 10th of July or so. So during that period I will need to push myself and do workouts on my own. Also, we are starting 1 week from now so for full week I will need to adjust my sleep, go for a run every day (4 laps minimum, keep the same time for each lap and increase laps) until we start working out. So actual 12 weeks challenge will not be 12 weeks due to the break with my Sensei. I will likely train with him 9 out of those 12 weeks but I still believe I can drop from 93.3kgs to 83kgs in 12 weeks!
We talked about ZONE diet again and that is something that I will be applying starting tomorrow.

So, very happy that I arranged 1 on 1 training with my Sensei who is absolute master of his craft. I have full trust in his abilities as he already proved me how awesome of a trainer he is and helped me get back in shape when I was attending CrossFit 2 years ago or so. This will be slightly different since all the trainings that we will do will be in outside with very little to none additional weights. Most weight exercises will be body weight ones and occasional kettle bell or two.
Sensei mentioned that he will create 36 session plan for us and I very much look forward to it.

Another cool thing that happened today is my conversation with a friend who wants me to be a part of his jazz quartet. Performance is scheduled for mid August and until then I will need to prepare whole album of his and visit Belgrade for rehearsals. My 1st visit will 99% happen on 18th of June! I will take my laptop and try to grind of course while in bus (3 hours) as well as there - not to loose my 4k game goal.
So that is another big thing lined up that I need to account for in the time management.

Anyways, awesome stuff today, really great day with tons of activities.
In next update I will lay out the numbers - profit and expenses as well as money saved, and I will see you all in June!

May results

Profit
Stars
565$ RB + 950$ pre RB = 1515$
Satellites for Vegas
+ 27$
Teaching
2188$
Total 3730$

Losses
Investing
238.7$
Satellites for Talin
161.3$
Satellites for Vegas
150$
Life expenses
650$
Total 1200$

Total saved 3730 - 1200$ = 2530$

So a very successful month when it comes to saving money, similar to April where I saved 2510$ which brings it so far to 5040$ saved for 12k challenge in 2 months.
Having a Spins student contributed to this saved amount in May a lot. I played a bit less then 70 hours spins this month and that is just not acceptable at this stage - from August on, yes, but now when I want to finish the challenge as soon as possible not cool! In June grind is set to be 120 hours but I will settle for 100 hours as well considering new habits and the fact that I will need to leave town for 2-3 days at least. So 3-4k games grind both June and July each should bring minimum 1$ per game and get me to save 12k total. That is the micro goal within a large goal.
This month I rewarded myself quite a bit with family and friends. I would say that I spent anywhere from 60-100 or more hours with them. Also, I set up things for automation such as cleaning, food delivery and today 1 on 1 training 3 times per week. I did not however meet a dentist yet but I did contact one and waiting to hear her available times to go and see her and get the estimate for all the things I need to do.
When I look at back at the amount saved I am very happy with how it is going so far. When I consider how little I played this month Spins, I am not happy but when I take into account how much I improved and started to work with a fellow reg then that immediately makes me feel happy. Also, the profit is smaller then expected as I took a shoot at 30s where I was loosing pre RB on 500+ games sample.
June will be very special as I will be taking out investing from the picture for the time being but I will rather invest in CrossFit training, dentist, birthday, guitar set up + additional adapter for my effects unit and of course maid. My hope is to save 4k in the June which means I will need to make about 5k+ with teaching both music and poker and grinding (assuming that I will spend about 600-650$ on living expenses then pay for CrossFit, dentist, Belgrade trip and all the rest). If I save 2.5k like in April and May I will also be cool with it but for 120 hours of grind I certainly expect results to get closer to EV which is surely cEV 60+ in my opinion.
Finally, due to June and July being set as more grind heavier months and setting somewhat monetary goals to complete the challenge sooner then anticipated, I will not be taking any trips to Prague as I was initially hoping. I am fine by that, my determination and mind is set on finishing and saving those 12k ASAP so I will push and grind solid 4 hours on average next 60 days or so to complete it!
Once I go through all my time management, financial break down in June should look something like this: Poker grind 4k post RB; Teaching music and poker 2k; Life expenses between 1.1k-1.4k. Very much look forward to June!

Here are the graphs from Stars for all the limits. Satellite graphs for Vegas and Tallin are not included since the software does not track them properly.
Total on Stars info box:

Total graph for all games on Stars:

Total graph for 15s:

Total graph for 25s satellites for Scoop:

Total graph for 30s:

Total graph for 100s:

I know, I should skip 30s and go to 100s right away ♦

Enjoy your day on and off the tables and see you all in June!

Woke up 7:30am, breakfast and ran 4 laps x 400 meters. I am feeling better and more in shape in comparison to yesterday + conditions were better for running at 9:30am.
My times for each of the laps are- 1:32; 1:36; 1:56; 1:52.
Tomorrow I will go for 5th lap and get to 6 laps before I start training with Sensei on Tuesday 7th of June.
Also, I will take every day pictures in the morning for measurable purposes. To notice the body and weight change!

Time to hit the tables and complete 2 grind sessions before going to family lunch at 2pm.