Originally posted by Primrose6789
Oh boy, Pedja, you too? I was sick last week with a disgusting stomach flu. Against back pain you should do sports and strengthen your back muscles. If you have sage, make a tea out of sage leaves, honey is very good and anti-inflammatory. Besides, ginger tea strengthens your immune system, just take fresh ginger and put boiling water on it. Add honey and leave it for at least 10 minutes, even longer. This will help. And last but not least: Your body tells you that it needs a rest so listen to your body!
Hi Prim,
I am sorry to hear that you were sick. Hope you are feeling much better or better yet fully recovered. Advice you gave sounds very good and I will tomorrow grab these things from store and pharmacy to prevent this from spreading further.
My throat ache is problem the most now, my back is rested at about 85%+ and my stomach is not doing so well either.
It has to do with 3 key things I would say:
- Drinking on Friday a lot of Rakija after not drinking since Phuket's 1st night this much
- Eating tons of carbs and drinking soda in the meanwhile (after Friday)
- Mental game. Reaching my financial target incredibly fast, 2 months before I set it.
For alcohol its obvious. Hangover, after such high intake on Friday, Saturday is wasted , half Sunday as well. Lack of energy, body giving up (muscles soure etc). There is a reason I don't like drinking besides health and that is because it affects my productivity (fucks it up) in days to come.
Bad food and drinking soda adds up to the list. It messes up my stomach, I feel full and sleepy and its like it takes 20-25% of my energy overall from the day. This changes other way around when I eat good and steady.
Finally, mental state. I achieved something I haven't expected. From -1.4k on 2nd of February to + 6.5k or more by 16th of March. So that kind of winnings just made me feel proud and accomplished. What makes it even more mentally interesting and somewhat difficult is that I played and took shots at not only 30s but also 60s and 100s and saw only couple of opponents that really gave me harder time - in other words, put me in spots where even where I was strong I wanted to get stronger (to improve A game more). And now in my head I have couple of things going on regarding mental game:
- I know I am winner at 15s and feel I should be playing higher stakes soon to improve my hourly and keep becoming better player in the process
- I am at the point of playing on my own at the very early time in the year (plan was from middle May on) so that feels like I should take more time off and chill. That is not true of course because true hourly, EV that is will catch up always no matter what on large enough sample. On the other hand, most winnings that I made came from 60s and 100s in March + solid RB and hitting and winning 100x on 15s. So in that sense EV hourly won't be able to catch up for 60s and 100s until I move there and play full time.
- In my head, there is several areas that are important for future winnings and that is right now causing 10-15% doubt which is I feel affecting me to sit and play as I feel I am not 100% certain where my 1st future winnings will go. I have several options and all are equally important. 1) My life BR (future rents from 15th of May on + life expenses for the remaining of the year) 2) BR for my best friend (1.6k$ for him to have 300 buy ins for 7s) 3) PIO or SimplePostFlop - to keep improving with textures and increase my hourly + work more on my game plans 4) Money to pay off my dads car (less then 3k$) 5) Thailand savings for 2 months (6k$) etc
So due to those doubts in my head, last 2 days when I woke up early mornings, I didn't feel that drive and hunger as I always do. And like I said its due to these doubts. Where will future money go? I read every day document with goals that I have on my desktop and see those milestones there. I see that I am ahead of the pace. But things change in my head due to wanting to prioritize someday's studying vs money and on some days money vs studying. So that means that there is day where I say, play make money and save for BRs and Life BR, keep working in sessions with coach and it will be OK. Then there are days when I am like, invest right now extra money you have in PIO and do 1 texture DAILY on your desktop, go over each flop spot and hand type you are unsure and your EV in future games will increase significantly.
So right now, I am sitting at around 200 buy ins for 15s + over 500 euro of extra money that I can use for anything I really want. Besides this money, I took out 200 euro to have for living expenses for remaining of March (food and coffee with best friend) and then for some bills in April. So I can use that money for so many ways, like pay 2 more rents in advance or pay 1 rent and have 1 extra month of expenses, or buy PIO and send remaining to my friend to play 3$ full time already...
So that kind of doubts are making me think and to certain degree overthink it because I don't want to make a mistake or wrong step at this point.
I feel the biggest priorities should be in this year: BRs for both life and poker and then study tools (PIO) and then everything else.
I have to stop overthinking it all basically and just revert to my habit of playing 5 or more hours, study reviewed hands and work with my friend crusher in PIO on spots where I am unsure about.
Excitement of getting PIO is killing me inside. I really want to make those textures, do screen shots and go over each category of hand and create some tutorials of a kind for my best friend also, so that he can study it outside of our sessions and also learn why certain hand types are played with certain way.
I am basically procrastinating past 4 days (since Friday) due to power of choice. More choices one has, more difficult it becomes to choose. If you have only several choices, it becomes very easy to choose and go on.
I will just play until end of this month, see what the balance will be and then decide how to proceed. If I make couple k$, it will be enough for BRs and I can even invest in PIO. If I loose money or am BE, I will not invest in anything yet. If I will 1-2k I will just invest in my and my best friends BR and remaining keep for life expenses.
So that's what has been going on and whenever I have decisions like this, my body goes into different mode as well and becomes more vulnerable to virus. I noticed that in the past because I on purpose apply stress when making such decisions to make the choice ASAP and move on and as you know stress can cause body to react negatively and to get ill - which is what I think happened a bit in the past 4 days with my throat ache, back pain and bad choice of drinking Rakija a lot on Friday and eating bad food since Sunday.
Going to grind now remaining of the day and focus on just playing my best, testing my strategies and seeking most +EV plays while marking hands and spots that I am uncertain about for sessions with my friend.
