Originally posted by tonypmm
Tl;dr, but TV and PS3 are kinda Stone Age, the new generation tends to live in computers(that's bad, but staring into a TV set all day long isn't good either).
My old computer died couple of months ago - now I have a super strong one 
As far as TV and PS goes , I am big fan of both as relaxing type but in no means to spend 5 hours a day next to TV (it will just make you lazy)
Originally posted by 177272
Just popped in to see hi, been a while.
Nice to see you , how have you been Steve?
Ok not played much, had a small fall at work so laid up for a couple of weeks, but all is well now.
Hope that you are still bossing it.
Originally posted by IvicaIliev77
Regarding voicing that is Amin7/11. There is no easy way to play it instead of playing A note in bass (5th string) and not play D string 7th fret (A). Then you can use easier fingering.
Btw thats really cool voicing I like using those clusters, voicings in 2nds and 4ths they are really hip and jazzy.
Thanks. I'll try that later.
Originally posted by 177272
Ok not played much, had a small fall at work so laid up for a couple of weeks, but all is well now.Hope that you are still bossing it.
Glad to see you are back Steve!
Just life stuff lots of it not too much grinding but very happy with how everything else is 
Originally posted by TheLandlordUK
Thanks. I'll try that later.
Let me know how it works out
4th round HU championship announced HERE
Look forward playing my opponent. Don't know much about him except that he was in Vegas recently grinding cash games Should be fun match up !
Originally posted by IvicaIliev77
4th round HU championship announced HERELook forward playing my opponent. Don't know much about him except that he was in Vegas recently grinding cash games
I already beasted my match, see you in match 5 ♦
Originally posted by Gerovit
Good for all of you i didn't want to spoil your fun and own your souls ♠_evil:
lol a dreamer itt
Originally posted by variancekiller
Originally posted by IvicaIliev77
4th round HU championship announced HERELook forward playing my opponent. Don't know much about him except that he was in Vegas recently grinding cash games
I already beasted my match, see you in match 5 ♦
Very soon we will have an answer if I will join you or not 
Just registered 1st tournament with Matt, should be lots of fun!
Moving onto 5th round best of 16!
Super good match up, was difficult to play Matt , won by 3-2
Was leading 2-0 , Matt came back , in final game he even had chip lead, some post flop stuff brought me back and finally managed to level him with my 3 bets where final hand was my QQ vs his K9 , flop Q10x turn x river x ... I almost lost my life there cause of silly J If I lost that I would be down to like 5bb and would be super hard to win it back from that point.
Check the results HERE
Really look forward to best of 16, wonder who will wait for me there!
Originally posted by Gerovit
Good for all of you i didn't want to spoil your fun and own your souls ♠_evil:
My equity increased by 50% when I saw you missed to apply !
Originally posted by ThatGuyMatt
Fish got lucky.♠_evil:
Every looser has the right to be angry
Awesome match up, really enjoyed playing you. We should do it in future again!
Time for monthly update!
I will lay out all my goals that I set on 1st of February here and go through each of them
Some goals for February
- 3k games 15s turbos (100-110 hours of poker) - Played 1737 15s so failed this goal
- 15 tabling with tv shows/movies in the background with EV ROI of minimum 3% - Done, towards the end of month increased even from 15 to 17 tables. EV ROI is also 3.4% which is more then 3% so I am happy about it
- Coaching minimum 70 hours (7 students, 2-3 sessions a week per student) - Done, I now have 6 students but I coached 60-70 hours in February and it was worth it every single hour!
- Working on my game 5-10 hours (review some crazy reg plays mostly!) - Didn't work 10 but I did get to 5 hours for sure. Was mostly looking spots vs Elio and some other aggro regs that gave me new ways to play them.
- Teach guitar 12 hours this month - I taught 10 instead of 12 hours, 2 hours were moved one weekend , super satisfied how everything is going with guitar students.
- Attend one live jazz gig and perform a bit - Failed this goal, didn't attend a single gig but I did start playing guitar in the mornings home (acoustic) before coming to office to coach.
- Visit spa center in Niska Banja minimum once - Failed it, wanted to go with brother and best friend but they were always busy for it so I didn't go in the end
- Rationally spend money (aim to spend 1k maximum) - Done, completed this goal as my major expenses were staking my brother and others but life expenses were way lower then 1k!!!
- Keep daily track of money outgoing expenses - Done, was using whole month notepad and every single expense I input in there which helped me tons find where unnecessary money was going before (ordering food for example)
- Time for family friends and girls as much as possible - Done, super proud of this one. Was seeing my close family very frequently, went to family lunches and as far as girls go it was awesome cause I meet ex on numerous occasions so gg
- Set up and follow system for gym and healthy eating ! - Semi fail? Did set up system for both gym and healthy eating but I decided to quit gym and just cycle fitness bike I got home. In that sense I have been doing great cause now I am at 15 minutes cycling for next 5 days then I am moving it to 20 and every following week will go up by 5 minutes. For food I definitely didn't stick to strict regime and it is something I am looking forward to in future months.
Some other things that happened in February
Music
My best friend from Boston managed to hook us all up with some great booking agent and top notch musicians. I will be playing in line up this summer with two of the best regs for music that actually live in Serbia. They are both super famous and well known Jazz guys, both graduated from Berklee College of Music like I did.
Very much look forward to getting material, getting into practicing and taking it step further later on (doing the 1st instrumental jazz album).
This will require me to sacrifice some things in my time management but I will write about it more tomorrow when I set goals for March.
Life balance
Since January I have played about 3.7k games which ain't much but all the other areas in my life are pretty awesome. Finally I can say that I am living the life I want. I make more then enough money, I take brakes whenever I want with whoever I want, I find time to do tons of cool things this way. Really looking forward to continue to live this way, extend it with some traveling, for starters going to Belgrade then to Prague and London this year. Depending on my volume this year, I might drop USA trip but do couple of trips in Europe. Will talk more about it when that bridge comes
Poker
My knowledge is way better then it was 3-4 months ago that's for sure. I am confident with 15 tables I can easily have minimum 3% ROI on 15s without table selection of course. This is what you will see in results since January. I can also post my December graph cause that's when I sat down and fixed 4-5 leaks I had until then that were burning me money (wrote about it in past). So yeah, pretty much I am super confident my hourly is around 30$ now and I am not stressed, always sit down relaxed and know that I will make a living and some more, which is the whole point of this blog and why I moved to poker besides of course the fact that I like this game very much and find it challenging !
Coaching was just awesome in February. I now have 2 guys that can comfortably crush 5.5 limit pre rb with over 5% ROI! When I played 5.5 in October 2012 I had 3-5% ROI. These guys now have way better knowledge then I had there and I look forward what they will do until the end of the year! Reality is that Microgaming traffic for 6 max is dying so I am looking into other options (mixing with Ipoker, FTP alone, switching to Stars...).
I am really excited and can't wait for the day when my brother and best friend will get to the level where Curly and Shile are now. It would make me most happy to see them crush make a living and have extra time to do whatever and whenever they want.
Here are (finally) the screenshots from my HM1 (used old keyboard
February graph for 15s
Running with EV!
EV ROI 3.4%
Year graph for 15s
Running 470$ over EV!
EV ROI 3.9%
See you all in March!
Always impressed how you get so much crammed into every month with poker and enjoying life - nice job!
Originally posted by Ramble
Always impressed how you get so much crammed into every month with poker and enjoying life - nice job!
It ain't easy to do that's for sure. Poker can get you very addicted to grind for endless amounts of hours that's for sure. Key of course is to find balance in everything. Trick with poker is when you are learning and trying to make a living, you become a slave of poker. When you get to the point where you make living, poker becomes your slave so to speak , if that makes any sense
Here are my goals and expectations for March
Some goals for March
- Minimum 2k games of poker (60 hours of poker)
- Increase to 17 tabling with tv shows/movies in the background with EV ROI of minimum 3%
- Coach 2 sessions per week 6 students between 40 and 50 hours total
- Work on my game 5 hours mostly readjusting vs crazy reg plays
- Teach guitar 12 hours this month
- Practice (both jazz and electric) guitar 10 hours minimum this month
- Attend minimum 1 gig and perform jazz
- Continue with quality spending time with family friends and ex
- Build on cycling daily habit bring it up to 35 minutes by the end of the month
- Eat fruits and vegetables every day (apples, oranges, bananas minimum)
- Continue taking care of all daily expenses tracking
- Start taking care of all the income tracking as well
- Play some PS3 with my brother and friends whenever I got free time
- Continue with sleeping 7 hours minimum and waking up latest by 9:30am
My expectations in March - related to goals set
- Increase my hourly at the tables and earn 2k post RB
- Do about 50% sweat and remaining theory and hh - expect my students to grind a lot more in March and make more money
- Expect Shile to clear his whole make up, Curly to make even more money then in February, Nikolas to fix his pre and post flop leaks, Bjorne to start grinding 7s Stars with positive ROI, my brother to fix all the leaks we found in sessions in the past, my best friend to grind minimum games that we set + work on his pre and post flop thinking process
- Continue teaching guitar and look into adding more guys to my schedule in the future
- Focus a lot on practicing performing, get back into it slowly now as in July I got this very important tour and I want to be prepared on time for everything that will come my way then
- Continue my life balance I have had since new years as it makes me very happy and satisfied with my life overall
- Improve my fitness and healthy eating which should eventually also bring some weight loss
- Fun time with ex, ps3 with friends, going out for some beers on weekends etc
Anything on top of all this will be just extra for me , like going to Belgrade for couple of days or some special events celebrations etc
Month started and I 17 tabled today 2 sessions 50 games each it took me 3 hours tops to do all that. Was playing well, was running bellow EV 10 buy ins but regardless of that I am happy with my play so look forward to 17 tabling in future also.
Hopefully I will get far in HU Championship but I don't want to make predictions - anything is possible as there is only 16 of us remaining now
Enjoy your weekend and whole month on and off the tables!
Signing off with this amazing Eric Johnson instrumental
