00471 Stands Up One More Time Than the Rest

I wish you all the best!

However...Exams are important dude. In my opinion I think you should solely focus on your studys. You said they haven't got long left anyway right?!

Crush the exams and then really sit down and focus on your game!

Remember variance is a bitch and even the pros go down across a 90 day period. Just keep that in mind. Don't be too result orientated

Good lucky buddy. I'll be watching for sure! ♦

There is no ''pro'' who is loosing for 90 days

Gl man

Originally posted by 00471
A guy that used to post at my blog (the Polish one, ofc,) ilidek, has meanwhile started to achieve a bit at poker. So I figured I'd try a similar approach to his. My English is not perfect but better than his.

Dude, Fuck You!

Write something about yourself. Post somewhere this cool quote that you have as a tilte of your Polish blog and crush everyone.

GL!

Guess gus hansen isn't a pro then.

Thanks you for the first posts, guys!

@NathanDavidLee - what I meant by visible progress is more of a confidence thing. Being sure that I made the best play despite the scores. For instance, I sometimes find myself reading the opponents range pretty well but not executing the best move vs that range, since I'm not 100% confident of my skills. Eg. I'm thinking, "I don't think he called down 2 streets w/ A-high in a 3b pot OOP and he hasn't got a single value combination, but what if?" And I fold. Or, "I think he has a 2nd pair-type of hand and he's a fish with low WTS, he doesn't realise that if the second K fell on the River, I'm actually less likely to have one," but I don't bet anyway, since I'm not confident of my hand reading. This is also a mindset issue but that improves with experience.

Answering to ilidek's post at my *.pl blog - thanks for the advice, mate! As for the cashout - I do realise that this is wasting precious time, but I have no other option at this moment. I consider depositing something back on my poker if my situation gets better, but for now I'm feeling much more stable with the cash on my Polish bank account and ready to use than the poker account.

You said that I should focus on the elements that often occur, like stealing and CBetting. I think stealing is the strongest thing in my game. At PP NL25, iPoker NL20 I was probably the most aggro reg on the BTN. I could work on playing from the CO. CBetting, however, is a key issue. According to yac, I should work on hand selection for that play and game planning. In order to do that I want to be sure most or all of the time, which better hands am I trying to fold out by the Turn or River and which worse hands do I want value from. This is why I want to focus on hand reading. I think this is a natural evolution of my game and the next big thing I should become proficient at.

I'm hoping for at least some feedback from you Please, if you think I'm bullshitting or completely wrong at something, feel free to state it, either here or on my Polish blog, which title is (writing that on your request,) "if you're going through hell, keep going."

That goes for all of you, readers. See you all until the evening

ps. I'll try to make my notes quick and clean, since I have a tendency to write longs posts

Three hours of play on NL5 Zoom with some change that I had lying around PokerStars. The scores aren't overwhelming, to say the least. I find it very odd to play readless vs weak players after such a long time. Will have to adjust. When I'll have 30 BI's, I'll move to NL10 and definitely be getting a hand subscription. That's 26 BI's to win at NL5.

BR: 173,47 $

Done some hand analysis, uploaded 4 hands on the forum. I can see a lot of issues during a SR.

Some personal info, which will give you some knowledge about me and my motivation: 26 years old, engaged and living with my girlfriend, the first fruit of our love is... a russian blue cat. The forum signature at my Polish PokerStrategy.com section goes like: Given the scientific evidence, knowledge of history and the world, I believe that the church is evil and drugs are good.

Now time for some breathing exercises and that wraps up day 1, I guess.

don't forget about small blind

You can even make profit from SB. It's my stats from NL25 at stars.

Just watched The Count of Monte Christo, which was a part of homework from Champions Stand Up One More Time Than the Rest. I delayed watching it a few... months. And as I expected, it was a waste of time. Everyone that knows me well says that I don't have a motivational problem but a technical or approach problem.

I did also watch the third part of the Raskolnikov series. Everything aside, I didn't want to do it before I watch the movie. Ilidek, motherfucker, want to be my accountability partner? You could donate the cash to the church if I'll fuck up. But I wouldn't count on that. Let me know.

Yeah sure. It works great for me and Franeczek. Sometimes when you don't feel like doing something it helps you, you swear a lot, you're unhappy with it but you still do it. I don't have any motivational problems too but I still think it helps.

I was procastinating with watching this movie for 3 months I have big problems with watching movies.

If something bad happen I'll take care about money, don't worry ♠_cool:

I'll PM you the details the moment I come up with two new habits. I'll probably pick only one and two more aims that I also want to achieve. But that may be delayed until after my exams.

As for today, almost 4k hands, 1 hr of analysis, I'm still b/e, with losing a couple of BIs on zoom and winning them back on the standard tables. I'm probably done with zoom and moving to normal tables. <captain obvious>fishes are much less nitty on normal tables<captain obvious' work is done here>. Didn't expect being b/e on NL5 after 6k h, but lost three whole stacks in bad beats or coolers, so I'm not pretty confident about my play nonetheless.

BR: 174,71 $

NL5 is hillarious, not sure about the pf 4b sizing, but decided to go small not to scare him and yac would probably trash me if I played that one bigger

vs a likely fish, did consider a xback F here, but I decided to protect my hand and hopefully get floated by A-highs/2OC/A4 or A2

<instert a f#$%ng zoom comment here>

overbet Turn? Gave up the idea, since the board isn't THAT drawy and I only had a few hands for the guy, who had searching him blocked. Would OB here if I had at least 20-30-something hands or if I knew he was one tabling.

I'd like to be famous and highly admired one day. I could then post on my facebook wall controversial, 4-chan like humour and no one would think that I'm socially awkward, but a cool dude

So, I have this fishy-looking guy sitting at my right, right? Guess what happens.

Act 1.

Act 2.

Act. 3

Talk about leveling.

Pretty productive day, although I cannot give you the exact number of hands I played, since I played some of them in the morning on another PC and I haven't copied them yet. It was about 2,5-3k in total. Analysed some hands for just 30 minutes, but discussed some of them with Bogdan on the hand evaluation forum. Discussion assures me that I still got plenty of work to do about my game.

Studied for my Saturday exams a bit. Will have to devote more time to it tomorrow, so I might play just a little bit. Not much time to write large notes on the blog too. I hope to write a bit more after the exams (27th May and later on.)

BR: 194,25 $

Originally posted by 00471
I'll PM you the details the moment I come up with two new habits. I'll probably pick only one and two more aims that I also want to achieve. But that may be delayed until after my exams.

Sure, let me know when you are ready.

gz those twenty bucks

What's 20 bucks?

Anyway, it seems that I won't manage to play any hands today, since I just got some extra work to do. Maybe I'll squeeze in some analysis time, but it seems to me that until Monday there won't be much poker time. I may prepare and print out some hand histories and count variations during classes tomorrow on lectures, which are just time wasters I'll probably post something in the evening or tomorrow morning.

from BR: 174,71 $
to BR: 194,25 $

Btw I use some programs to track literally everything. From gym to things I do on my laptop so brace yourself ♠_cool:

What I meant was there's nothing to congratulate. It's NL5. I won like 10 coca-colas ♦ You can start congratulating me when I'll be a winning reg at NL100. Then I'll know, I've made progress.

Ah yeah now I get it . Don't forget that 20$ is still ~10% your BR

Writing from my classes now. My exams went very well and I'm looking forward for the next weekend, when I'll have the most important ones. Nothing too difficult, will just have to devote some time to it.

No poker/analysis time at all, though. Wanted to do some variation counting at a lecture that turned out to be exercises :~(

Nothing interesting but still keeping the promise of making daily notes and documenting ever day.