THIS GUY! Another over ambitious failure..

mko101 · 2013-03-01T09:11:33Z

I wanted to keep it short, oh welllsss... First of all, if you wanna understand my poker life, you probably need to understand my personality a bit. 19 year old, living on forbidden lands. I'm generally lazy but if I do something, I do it 200% (even writing this god damn intro that barely anyone will read took me 3 days of thinking). And I don't give up until I succeed. I'm a very calm person, and usually tilt-free. I'm also anti-BRM nit, meaning I succesfully played on 10BI rule (sometimes it was even 8 &diams;) Now on to poker, I played SH games for 1.5 years blahblahbalh. Long story short, thanks to my ambition drive was able to move up from NL30 to NL200 in 5 months, then hit an ugly DS, got back to midstakes in early summer followed by a bigger cashout and drop in stakes. From there, everything went downfall. Currently, I'm one of the biggest winners at NL50 at my site this year (graph below), but ran so horribly when shooting higher stakes every time that my mind got used to it, and I insta-tilt after just one cooler. It messed up my psyche so much because for a guy like me, every failure felt like a bullet in the chest. Fortunately, I'm too ambitious to give up. The next morning, after another unsuccesful shot, I'm ready to put in twice as much work and finally crush it. I won't give up until I do, and the boot camp seems a perfect opportunity to increase my skill even more. I love studying the game and wish I did a little bit more of it (now it's maybe between 80/20 - 70/30) ALERT: MENTAL BITCHINN One important thing to point out is that I always lack focus, both in real life and at the tables. I can focus for a short period of time then I drift away thinking of totally different things and I'll realize after a while that I'm not focused. When reading a book, I often have to reread every other paragraph. It is probably a factor of unhealthy routine. It probably affects my game a lot, and I immodestly admit I have enough skill to beat NL100/200 for a decent WR if I focused more intense for a longer period of time. (Psstt, Erik. You don't have to introduce yourself. I know exactly who you are, muaha) CH-CH-CH-CHANGEEESSSS RE-RE-REEDNESSSS - my redline's been aaalways horrible. Even though I'm not a nit post, overbet frequently and put pressure on people, it's still going down. Might be gameplan leaks, pre-flop game. No clue, couldn't find a cure for a long time. It's also the main problem of losing money higher (BUT ALSO flat blue line cause can't win shit) MORE GAME THEORY! - people don't pay nearly enough attention to game theory at lower stakes, and while playing GTO wouldn't be as profitable, basic math/game theory knowledge is very useful, espiecially when you're considering moving up. GET CR-EV - goes hand-in-hand with above. Getting ranges in order, frequencies and unbeatable gameplan. ADJUSTMENTS/ADAPTATION - after all, why are we intelligent species in the first place? It's nature's law that whoever adapts better, survives. That's why I want to improve my adjustments (deviations from my #2 unbeatable gameplan &diams;) towards my opponents and also foresee and react towards adaptation that others do vs. me (you can skip..) Less time on 2p2, youtube etc. - even though, I go to school full-time, play 40-50k hands a month on 6-tables, I still think I spend too much time on pointless activity when instead I could be learning more game theory for example! I love talking/watching/analyzing/anything-with-poker-ing so I'm always happy to add more people on Skype to talk to, or anything (just a subtle suggestion!) If I remember anything else I wanted to say (bad memory..) I'll post it later. Peace (& carrots) Pssttt..Giraffeeee! SpoilerLast 5 months:

mko101

Joined: 14.01.2009

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20.03.2013, 22:26 0

Originally posted by Schnitzelfisch
Hey again,

did you manage to improve your prioritizing? Did you perhaps run into any problems? Btw, still waiting for your sleep schedule ;).

-Primož

Yep! Trying my best. Unless I'm tired or have enough of everything (aka really tired) then I'm just screw it, I need to relax and spend an hour on youtube ♦ But other than that it's great.

And my sleeping pattern is pretty much very fucked up. I sleep 10 hours on the weekends, I sleep 3-4 hours some other days, and 6-7 the rest. Sometimes I don't sleep for 36-40 hours, sometimes I sleep for 16 hours. For example, I didn't sleep monday night, I came home on Tuesday, went for an "hour" nap at 4pm, and slept till 1 am. Woke up, stayed up till 6am, went to bed and woke up at 11:30.

It's b/c of school/poker/studying.
It's a lot better when there is no school!

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22.03.2013, 07:56 0

Originally posted by mko101
And my sleeping pattern is pretty much very fucked up. I sleep 10 hours on the weekends, I sleep 3-4 hours some other days, and 6-7 the rest. Sometimes I don't sleep for 36-40 hours, sometimes I sleep for 16 hours. For example, I didn't sleep monday night, I came home on Tuesday, went for an "hour" nap at 4pm, and slept till 1 am. Woke up, stayed up till 6am, went to bed and woke up at 11:30.

Is this because you decide not to sleep or that you can't fall asleep?

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mko101

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23.03.2013, 05:10 0

Because I decide not to sleep. I either have a test next day or I work on an essay or I don't want to sleep for 4 hours (I have to wake up at 6) because I have waking up and I'm really really hard to wake up, so I decide to play a short session or watch a few videos instaed.

This happens very rarely, though.

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