a journey to the unknown

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quoified for 6 events, 109$, 2x 215$, 2x 320$ and 700$ tournament, cashed in two of them for ~550$ and ~250$ and i invested in quolis i think around 400$ so i profited but not as much as i hoped i would..
one pic of me busting Humberto Brenes out, it was so cool, we were at the same table from the start of the tournament, and i was playing like a monkey, was reraising the whole table, playing pretty aggro and i guess i tilted him..

anyways, i cashed out 5k$ before i moved to NL50, wanted to get back to NL100 asap but with no less than 10k$ roll, and today i had a successfull comeback at NL100 FR..

very happy right now, think i`ve overcome one big problem that i had up untill now and hopefully never aggain and that would be TILT... it was a few days ago that after the first session i was up 600$, 6 buy ins, and when i returned after a break to the tables i finished the day breaking even, and that was just not normal, i got so frustrated, not because of the money but when u r 24 tabling and cant win a single hand in like 30min, that was unbearable, started hitting with full power with fists aggainst my desk, just couldnt handle it and after the session i was really worried about my health when i got sooo upset..
anyways, the next day i said to myself that i am not gonna allow that to happen to me aggain, dont want to get any heart problems or anything else only because i want to become a poker pro, so i really started not to care about the moneyz at all, and hands, i am now just trying to play my best, if i get unlucky, even if i dont succeed in playing good sometimes, i dont get frustrated anymore.. ♠_biggrin:
so here is my graph from today, and im proud to say that i really didnt let it bother me for one bit!!!

i havent updated my blog like forever, pretty pissed about that. anyways, october recap: it wasnt successfull month, extremely stressfull, graphs below, well just embarrissing results, won 728$, ev wise -236, raked nice 7k$ so most of my profit obviosly comes from rakeback but yea, cant complain even with that its waayy above average pay for serbian people.. would have reached 20k in my bankroll and i would have gone to NL200, but i cashed out 5k$ because of a lot of work that we have in our house, we will be investing a loot of moneyz into it, alltogether i cashed out 10k$ since 1st september for it and i definetly feel proud, there arent many 21 year old guys investing that kind of moneyz in their own home that i know off..

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i was really contemplating of tightening my game a lot when 24 tabling full ring, but than i watched 1st two vids of multiple coaches video series and i got motivation of trying 6max once aggain and being pretty aggro, and by watching a ton of vids and posting a ton of hands i really think i`ve improved during the last month as a poker player, pretty happy about that.. and one graph from todays 6max NL100 @ pokerstars..

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ok, so as its the end of 2012 i think i can write a review for december and a little before it.. havent updated here like forever, lol, gotta feeling i start almost any post like that but whatever..
anyways, so i think in mid november i made a coaching deal with oblioo, so i am extremely happy about that, needed smth that is going to help me improve and start beating NL100 6max @pokerstars well and yea, here comes the graph for this month..

it says i have 13.3/100 this month even though my winnings are 4x bigger than ev adjusted, but even 13.3bbs divided by 4 is a huge improvement for me as i had 0-1bbs/100 before the coaching.. and there is still plenty of work to be done, im playing pretty loose atm, 27.7/22.9/11.5 are VPIP/PFR/3b in december, so there really is work to be done here but i am very optimistic for next year as i have a very good poker player who is working on my game with me.

im not sure which goals did i make for this year, too lazy to read my own blog now xD, but i guess i am gonna write about what i hope to achieve in 2013..

ok, so 1st thing, before i started to work with dustin, i actually planned to get 20k br, and go to NL200 from the start of 2013 and go for sne chase, but since he wants me to focus really hard on every decision, i had to reduce amout of tables to 4 6max tables untill i get very comfortable with good thinking process, so to sum up my sne chase is postponed for hopefully 2014...

so 1st real goal for 2013..
i want to as soon as possible get the 20k br and finaly take a shot at NL200 6max, in the last few months i had cashed out very big amouts of money because of a lot of work around my house, so im currently at 17k, but considering that im giving 50% of my profits to my coach on weekly basis its not a very easy task...

2nd thing
i`d really love to get my old german discipline back, i lost a bunch of it as a result of living like my own boss, so i think this should be my priority.. soo, after the party tonight and possibly even tomorrow, and christmas, and serbian sylvester which is on 13th.january, i intend to start going to the gym at least 3 times a week, 4 would be optimal.. healthy lifestyle, disciplined learning/playing poker, good time menagement are goals for next year..

to sum up my wishes for 2013..
getting to NL200 as fast as possible, possibly by the end of january, getting more disciplined, hopefully achieving at least 1 big tournament win, so over 5k$ in a single mtt as i have never had even 3k cash i think.. hmm, what else... yea, by the end of 2013 i really hope i am going to be at a level to beat NL400 6max games at pokerstars... that would be all i think..

GL to everyone, may u all have a successfull and happy 2013!!!
cya

took a shot yesterday at nl200, it went well baby!!

31.2/26.9/13.6 were my stats yesteday, so i think i didnt have scared money problem..

Cool graph, congrats on a nice shot

tnx man, but i actually am losing now at nl200, -525$ after 7.6k hands, yesterday i felt like i played pretty bad, i just leveled myself like: ooh, its nl200, everyone is much better and everyone is making too many moves, so i started making too many plays myself, but i realized what i was doing so i tightened up a little.. today felt like i played pretty good, ran horribly however, -700$ today, -172ev adjusted... anyways, im off to bed, lots of work tomorrow..

Very inspiring blog Perica - whats happening lately ?

Attention!! Long post

hey Ivice and everyone who stumbled upon this blog!

sooo, the year is comming to an end and well, i sure hoped it would be more successfull..
where do i start... well, when i parted ways with oblioo, i really feel that my poker was at its peek, i was really nicely beating nl100 sh games on pokerstars, everything was good, but i realized recently that i have made one big unexperienced mistake like 2 months after finishing with the coachings. i thought that i`ve learned almost all the concepts dustin teached me to the level of unconscious competence and so i started to play on autopilot a lot and didnt continue working well on my game... the point is, i think my game was not good in last couple of months, but i definetly have not been running good for a while now for sure
so here is the graph for the year

as the year progressed, i had to constantly cashout lots of moneyz for the house renovations, and im very happy to say that they finally are coming to an end, but it was long and stressfull process of getting here, my plans to move up were amongst other things cancelled because i just crippled my roll till now investing in the house, but, i cant really complain much, i love the way it looks, it is completely renewed and i wont have to invest much money in it anymore for a long long time!
i did however achieve one of my goals, and that is a good score in a mtt, finished 5th in 109$ the big after being the chipleader since beggining of final table till we were 5 handed and u guy sucked out on my after squezze pushing 40bbs with 99 vs my AA...

i guess i cant complain much since that was my biggest score so far, but one or two places higher would definitely solve some monaterry problems for me and reduce the stress for sure.. after the big score my roll was again nice and steady at 10k, then followed a downswing and a cashout(again) and then,
after that score, i quolified for a live event in malta, the trip was awesome, went there with a poker buddy from my town, i`ve played 5 tournaments altogether, main event, two side events, and two local tournaments, one of which i won for 550e and reduced the cost of the trip as the side events were pretty darn expensive.. one thing that i think will never happen to me again is playing vs 3 women when we were down to final 4 in the tournament that i won

here is the link where it shows what my package included
http://poker.365planet365.com/malta-100k-freeroll
malta qualifier pic

and here are some pics from malta

after malta i had one more nice mtt score for 3.8k$, which again saved my br, after that again came a downer in cash games..

however, there is one nice thing that happened lately and because of it i am going into 2014 with a lot of confidence that it will be a very successful year, but im gonna comment on that later... maybe...

soo, i think i summed my year pokerwise pretty well, i guess im gonna finish this post with goals for 2014 and that would be it.
:spade:Goals for 2014

work a lot on my game, get a good learning habit that im gonna follow throughout the year
:club:learn to balance a lot better rl and poker, so making a good schedule that im gonna follow and thats going to allow maximum efficiency pokerwise, having most fun and having a healthy lifestyle
:club:post here at least once a month

im not gonna be writing about wanting to reach certain level till the end of 2014 because i really dont know how far i will get, the potential is definitely there, soo just good hard work is the goal and hoping that results will show my effort

thats it, thanks to anyone who read this monster post, i will update as i said more regularly in 2014 so it wont be this long, wish you guys lots of success, happiness and a happy new year!!!

Nice to see you blogging again, man.

Congrats on a good year, I wish the next one is even better

Happy new year and all the best to you Perica!
Congrats on your successful 2013
I hope you will update this blog often, definitely look forward to updates!

so i guess its time for january summary..

im very pleased with how i worked, but i overdid it a little, i didnt play poker for only two days in the whole month, so thats not good, but i was and am motivated to improve very much and fast, and i am motivated to earn some nice moneyz, so yea, pretty happy about january.. i moved from pokerstars to microgaming where i am not tracked, so i will be losing even gold status next month, but i dont mind, i have a ton of videos on my computer and i am working with two very good players, so i wont lack material for learning.

so for january i was at 5.38/100, which is nice, i moved from nl50 to nl100 on 24th, so for most of the month i grinded nl50.. profited almost the same amount with rakeback so pretty nice profit for mostly playing nl50
the plan is to move from one microgaming site to another till i clear 1st deposit bonuses, eventually i will also sign up at 24h poker to be tracked and hopefully get black member till the end of the year, but we shall see about that..
:spade:so here are a few goals for february

working on my game regulary
playing at least 50k hands with not more than 8 tabling
having at least 1 day off every week
getting used to again to practice regulary, so sports 2-4 times a week, so tennis or gym or crossfit on regular basis

so that was about poker, rl, nothing really interested happened in january, there was one good rave in my town i think on 13th january or so, but other than that, nothing really cool happened.. so that would be it, wish everyone gl at the tables and successfull february! cya

so february was pretty stressfull, i started out very motivated, started rereading many articles on cash games, watching 1 video a day and played, but right from the start i hit a downer, after first 2 or 3 days i lost 8 buy ins on nl100 and had to move down to nl50 again which was really something i didnt want to do.. on nl50 the downer didnt continue but i was breaking even for like 30k hands and so at ~20th february i got demotivated, got too lazy to read articles and to watch video like every day which pisses me off really..

as shown in the grapht, i did end the month in solid profit, 500 in winnings, 1-1.1k in rakeback, 200 in mtt winnings, so yea, nice profit but it could have been less stressfull man so im back at nl100 again, i feel pretty good about my game atm, im playing pretty aggro style atm, 32/26/10.5 i had in february, so its pretty fun to probably be the most active guy at the table and the guy who probably tilts people a lot..
im gonna finish this post with some goals for march..
play at least 50k hands, pretty confident im gonna be well over this goal this month
watching at least 4 vids per week, reread as many articles as i menage to make myself read as i still am not on peak of my motivation atm
do sports at least 3x a week and hopefully get to a point when it doesnt feel so hard to make myself do all these thinks, so hopefully ill menage to become more productive with less effort to start working and stop waisting time on some random things...

late with the update again.. anyways, march wasnt successfull, more precisely it was one of the worst months i had in my career so far buy in wise i think.. lost around 13 buy ins on nl100, and like 22 on nl50, which sucks obviosly, but im happy with the rest of the month, i think i was quite disciplined, watched a bunch of vids, read about poker, did sports, oh, and i had a birthday as well, and that was a nice party.. so yea, i guess everybody has got to go through that kind of months where you just run like shit throughout the whole month...

the cool thing is that i didnt lose lots of confidence about my game, which i would often do when on longer losing streak, so its easier to play when you dont doubt yourself(a lot) every time you play when under pressure of needing to make moneyz with poker..
about april so far, last week was one of the most productive weeks i had i think in a loong time, did sports 6 times, played lots of poker and watched 1 or 2 vids.. april thankfully started a lot better than last month, but last 2 days again, just a horrible run..

i am gonna try and update this blog like once a week, just so that i can post weekly goals, results and some interesting happenings coz i often dont mention for example some nice partys or interesting weekends etc when i wanna write like 4 weeks after the event, so i guess my blog became pretty boring when only talking about pokerz...
so yea, this week so far havent done any sports, and havent watched any video, so didnt start very productive so yea, the goal for the rest of the week is go jogging at least twice, gonna be playing tennis at least once, and yea, besides trying to grind 3k hands 4 more days i want to have at least 4 hours spent in working off the tables

Hi Perica,

Sorry to see that you experienced big ds lately

However, it seems that your working habbits are great and that you'll go up again in no time.

Just keep up the good work and keep us updated please,

Best of luck sir,
Fran

thanks Fran for nice words, i hope that i will continue to improve my work ethic and become much more disciplined, and that my hard work is gonna inspire other fellow grinders to start working much harder themself although i have to say that i made quite an improvement in last couple of months in regards to really trying to work as professionally as i can because i really look at poker like its my job and i really want to move up the limits dispite having to constantly cashout to support my family so yea, lots of work is ahead of me..
in regards to last week, i wasnt very productive, did sports just 2 times i think, once jogging, once tennis, didnt watch poker videos or do anything off the tables, so i have to watch out to really stick to the plan i make and strengthen my will and do stuff even when i really dont feel like doing it... my volume is solid though, and i am happy with my game atm, so yea, hope this month continues to be successfull ♠_biggrin:
the graph for the month

its actually not accurate, i made ~700 euros, but my ev should go up, the reason for that is that i have bugs with my windows i guess and my poker client not rarely crashes during play and then hem cant track those interrupted hands...
guess im gonna finish with this weeks goals:
:club:sports at least 4x this week, which is going to be easy as i went jogging today and i have booked tennis trainings for next 3 days..
:club:play 2-3k hands for 5 more days this week
:club:do off the tables work for at least 5 hours this week, by that i mean sweats, coachings, videos watching etc etc and i feel like thats gonna be the hardest part as when i play a lot and do lots of sports i dont feel like doing anything else.. so we'll see how this one goes, i am gonna try hard for sure

didnt menage to do sports 4x last week, trained tennis on tuesday or wednesday, cant even remember, and got myself a stiff beck, i think what i have is discribed that way... ♦ so yea, last week was unfortunate that i had to make a break for a few days and lay a lot in my bed, so i didnt get there volume wise, didnt do sports as often as i wanted to, but at least i did spend at least 5h learning last week... anyhow, i was thinking about going to temisoara for a live event this friday, wanted a little change for couple of days from my standard online grind, i would be going there with other serbian players so i think it would be a cool experience, but that would put me in lots of stress as i would potentially be there for 3 days if i got to the final day of play, and i need to rake like 750 euros more to clean my 1st deposit bonus, so i would have really tight schedule, so decided not to go and not to put myself in some ugly situations... anyhow, i still have some pain in my back, hopefully i will be able to go jogging tomorrow as i miss it really, but we'll see about that, dont want to rush and injure myself again.. about my results up untill now, im in + mighty 270 euros this month from poker and 1-1.2k i think from rakeback, so yea, not successfull again and im really looking forward to cleaning my 1st deposit bonus and moving on to another site..
here a couple of hands from yesterdays session..
http://weaktight.com/6653753
http://weaktight.com/6653780
after the second hand i had to finish my session, really fed up with not being able to run normally for a pretty long period of time now i think.
if anyone has a question about my thoughts on the hands just post them and ill be happy to answer them, too lazy now to write more, so yea, cheers everyone, gl at the tablezz

update any time soon?

waiting for the big news.. ♦

ok, so im gonna start this post with some sad news and the reason why i havent updated my blog for so long.. my father passed away in mid may, i was planning to update it right around that time, so yea, since that happened i made a very short break from poker.. after the break i basicaly didnt know what to do with all the time, so i started donking around with mss on planetwin365...
anyways, since than i have been on my biggest heater in my carreer, i think i made ~9.5k euros by the end of may i think, most of it came from having played 15 final tables on mtts on planetwin and 888 poker, the rest came from cash games, finished june and july with over 3k euros profits, and as of today i am a proud member of Online Team Pro on PlanetWin365!
i want to thank PokerStrategy, without you guys this achievement wouldnt have been possible, so special tnx to you guys, u all!
also, i want to thank PlanetWin365 for making the promotion and giving me a chance to fight for a place in their Online Team Pro, so yea, lots of love for those guys too!
gl at the tables everyone