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Originally posted by IvicaIliev77
Not sure how healthy alcohol is but in general I am pretty sure its bad
Just the fact that I need 48 hours to recover from hangover at age 30 tells me itself I should leave it.
Also I tend to go to extremes in that matter, it will be very difficult to go out drink only 2-3 beers
That's why we have this internal joke with Gavron , every time he was in Nis when we went for beers it was only 3 beers when in fact 3 beers lead to another 6+Just faced that I am not in my 20is anymore, want to live longer by eating healthier working out taking care of my body more.
As far as creativity goes, it was never a problem for me to sit working and ideas to flow.
Having good time with or without booze is different definitely but I would say it more matters who I went out that night. If people I am with are in bad mood or down, I will need drink to lift me up, with people who have lots of energy laugh and joke there is no need to drink a single drink cause they/we naturally appear drunk or on drugs to people all the time !
It is a poison for sure. And I'm like you in that 3 beers leads to an all nighter lol. But enjoying yourself releases life enhancing chemicals.
Enjoy yourself now though buddy. You will be old soon enough and regret every night you stayed in. Some poker guys are going too far ( imho). Take care of your heart and knees/ joints, and flexibility. Fitness goes in a few weeks. Look at boxers like Roy Jones. Years of training, yet done in their 30's.
I apologize though mate. As you get older, you seem compelled to advize people, even though they are doing extremely well lol! You just want the best for everyone.
How is the rehearsing going for the gigs?
Are you still doing skype lessons?
Originally posted by TheLandlordUK
It is a poison for sure. And I'm like you in that 3 beers leads to an all nighter lol. But enjoying yourself releases life enhancing chemicals.
Enjoy yourself now though buddy. You will be old soon enough and regret every night you stayed in. Some poker guys are going too far ( imho). Take care of your heart and knees/ joints, and flexibility. Fitness goes in a few weeks. Look at boxers like Roy Jones. Years of training, yet done in their 30's.
I apologize though mate. As you get older, you seem compelled to advize people, even though they are doing extremely well lol! You just want the best for everyone.How is the rehearsing going for the gigs?
Are you still doing skype lessons?
Hey my friend,
Don't mind you giving me advice at all
I went out twice this week with my friend from London. Each time didn't drink a sip of alcohol, was rather drinking tea and coffee. Had amazing time cause we laughed so hard on both occasions that I was crying from laughing
I am not worried on missing out on good times. I had so far amazing things happen to me in my life only because I choose to be open about life in general.
I have now chosen not to drink anymore cause it affects my life in a sense that it takes me 48 hours to recover after getting hammered (drinking 7+ beers). That and added health things that it affects, its better without it trust me
The true enjoyment for me would be having sexy Asian girl next to me 24/7. Then you don't need anything in life really and booze is the last thing on your list ♦
Not much has happened for rehearsing and gigs except that there are already 2 gigs booked - waiting for 2 more to be confirmed. I haven't asked for dates yet for these 2 but they are all in between July in August.
Since yesterday I have hired my student to teach micros at poker for SNGs. It will help me teach guys who play 7s +, he can teach them all the game plan and basic approach how to get to 7s!
This will get me extra hours to grind and to do whatever I want really.
Plan is to dedicate May for heavy grind, make 4-5k , add more people to work with (get my student/coach busy with new students) and in June I will do far less coaching and grinding but rather spend whole month on preparing repertoire for the gigs !
Still doing skype lessons yes just with 2 of my students, sometimes they travel to Nis on weekend sometimes we do lessons during the week over the skype (depending on their transportation availability).
How are you doing my friend? Are you playing something right now? How is life in general?
Just a quick update
Meet with friends for drink earlier on, final arrangements for Belgrade will be done tomorrow!
I am certain I will go, definitely watching football derby Partizan vs Red Star on Saturday; tomorrow I shall get info on final 4 basketball tickets.
Will sleep either at friends place or rent one of those apartments in Belgrade that go for 30+euro a day. Have some girls in Belgrade that I want to meet up with and its better not to bring them at friends place ♦
Poker, 10 games so far. Still not feeling 100% good but will step on the volume and go for 200 by the end of the day (by 1-2am I expect to finish)
Today had a session with coach for HU, we went over some more game plan stuff, really useful session and laughed hard cause every time its super fun
Enjoy your day on and off the tables!
Long awaited update on HU hypers HERE
9 days remaining in the month, will spend 3 in the Belgrade! So basically 6 days to grind 1.8k games to finish my HU hypers deal
300 a day - will try 4 tabling tomorrow to speed it up !
New day - new plans
Today officially finished my HU hypers deal with coach.
It was coaches suggestion that we finish it now and I really want to thank him for it!
Reasons for finishing deal now:
- Coach said he taught me (almost) everything in those 20+ hours and that there is no need to keep me there
- He wants to see how I do in HU in 6 max games !
- He doesn't want to keep me just to grind when there is no additional value in coaching!
- He is the best coach I had so far !!!
Yes I can say he is the best and most awesome coach
Every session we laughed so hard but yet I learned tons of things because he has system setup and knows what he is doing and answer to every question I had.
At the end of the deal I made my coach 719.15$ , that much left for me also in 2k or so games.
Super grateful that I had chance to work with him . In future definitely want to work with him more but right now here are my plans for the end of this month:
- Import my HM1 database into either PT4 or HM2 (more for PT4 cause of HU hud I've been using)
- Make new hud in PT4 for SNGs
- Start recording game plan videos to make coaching for my assistant coach easier and future students
- Post in staking part of forum offer for SNGs
- Finish video reviews for all my students (have 2 more left)
- Call the agency about Prague trip and book it soon!?
- Play some 6 max SNGs before the end of month (to get used to the new hud and software)
- Belgrade Friday until Sunday , sports and good times!
All this awaits me in next 8 days, really look forward to it all.
For Prague trip that was originally planed with my friend Stanko, now there is possibility that my HU coach will join us + Gavron!
Would love for that to happen and not only that but also for my brother, best friend and Curly to come along - but that will be their decision and choice!
There are these really cheap bus tours for 69 euros from Belgrade. 4th to 9th of June is planed tour and it would be ideal I think to go then!
Other options are to go by car, earlier but have to see who will go - more people the better ! Also we can go by plane from Sofia but have to check the prices for tickets for that option.
Either way tons of cool stuff planed for next 45 days or so!
Originally posted by MilanBurdych
Come on am in LV those days...postpone? repeat?
It will be 2nd time I will be in Prague and we won't meet 
Repeat for sure !
How soon are you leaving for LV?
Originally posted by IvicaIliev77
Originally posted by MilanBurdych
Come on am in LV those days...postpone? repeat?It will be 2nd time I will be in Prague and we won't meet
Repeat for sure !How soon are you leaving for LV?
20th May - 9th July
Hey,
Long time folower, great blog, keep it up:.
I hope you will enjoy Prague, its really lovely city with a lot to offer :-), if you would like to meet up while tou are here, pm me:-)
Originally posted by IvicaIliev77
Also we can go by plane from Sofia but have to check the prices for tickets for that option.
I'm a nerd and have spent a few minutes researching this option for you 
The Sofia-Prague flight (a return ticket = €220+, fwiw) departs at 10:30 AM Sofia time (and lands at 11:20 CET), and you'll be in a bit of a hurry with the transfer (unless you prefer to spend a night or more in Sofia) because the train, departing from Nis at 2:45, arrives at 8:13 and the airport is still 9 km away (fortunately, in the city, unlike Moscow airports which are all at least an hour away from the centre 
).
Going by train only, you'll get to Prague in 21 hour (Sofia 20:30 - Nis 23:40-0:02 or the Skopje train @1:21 - Belgrade 4:54 or 5:33 -> 6:45 - Prague 22:21), which is not that bad.
The return goes like this: Prague 5:39 - Belgrade 20:50 -> 21:50 - Nis 1:57-2:45 - Sofia 8:13 by train; Prague (by plane) 12:10 - Sofia 15:10 -> 20:30 (train) - Nis 23:40 [the bus variant Sofia 16:00 - Nis 19:00 of course fails].
The Belgrade - Prague flight (in the evening both ways; return = €195+) connects with the train schedule even poorer
Originally posted by MilanBurdych
Originally posted by IvicaIliev77
Originally posted by MilanBurdych
Come on am in LV those days...postpone? repeat?It will be 2nd time I will be in Prague and we won't meet
Repeat for sure !How soon are you leaving for LV?
20th May - 9th July
You will celebrate my birthday there on 7th of July - awesome! Drink some alcohol for me and most importantly somebody should hook up with some sexy Asian girl there in my name ♦
Originally posted by ProActiveK
Hey,
Long time folower, great blog, keep it up:.
I hope you will enjoy Prague, its really lovely city with a lot to offer :), if you would like to meet up while tou are here, pm me:)
Hey man!
I know you, you know me - we know each other ♦
Would love to meet you in the Prague. Will add you via community tool, we can exchange skype and arrange it all.
So far 3 of us are coming for sure ♦
P.S. Prepare some place with Asian girls ♦ 
And yeah, go crush those HU hypers!!!
Originally posted by tonypmm
Originally posted by IvicaIliev77
Also we can go by plane from Sofia but have to check the prices for tickets for that option.I'm a nerd and have spent a few minutes researching this option for you
Going by train only, you'll get to Prague in 21 hour (Sofia 20:30 - Nis 23:40-0:02 or the Skopje train @1:21 - Belgrade 4:54 or 5:33 -> 6:45 - Prague 22:21), which is not that bad.
The return goes like this: Prague 5:39
The Belgrade - Prague flight (in the evening both ways; return = €195+) connects with the train schedule even poorer
Tony you are a star!
Thank you so much for this very valuable info.
Plane is way more expensive then bus. I taught there were some low cost flights from Sofia with Fly Niki or Wizair for 50-100 euros return. That would be brutal price and steal but for 200+ euros I got already 100+ euro left spending money in Prague!
Train can be cool, I used to love train rides when I lived in London and Boston. Trains in Serbia suck, smell bad and are not that comfortable ♦ So definitely not looking to travel by train anywhere unless its like a road trip group of 10+ backpackers going to see whole Europe and stuff
The way it seems now, I will go with this bus tour for 69 euros for 3 nights with breakfast included. It is the best deal , leaves on Wednesday and I can be back in Nis on Monday some time or whatever so that's fine.
Also good thing is that it will give me extra week almost in June to do extra grinding and more life things!
Well sofia Airport is still quite far(not by Moscow standards of course) from Sofia train station, i would be quite surprised if it is below 10 km..
I dont think fly niki has as much cheap flights as before, they've been taken over by Air Berlin, so even the flights to Vienna with them are not that cheap anymore... Unfortunately there should be some good promotion etc. for flights from Sofia to Prague (with return) to hit below 200 euro mark...
Originally posted by Gavron23
Well sofia Airport is still quite far(not by Moscow standards of course) from Sofia train station, i would be quite surprised if it is below 10 km..I dont think fly niki has as much cheap flights as before, they've been taken over by Air Berlin, so even the flights to Vienna with them are not that cheap anymore... Unfortunately there should be some good promotion etc. for flights from Sofia to Prague (with return) to hit below 200 euro mark...
Used to find tickets to London for cheaper price then to Prague which is really weird!!!
We need some good RB deals for plane tickets ♦
Well, ideally, the airport must be outside the city because then 1) the runway can be made longer, 2) plane sounds (and crashes) disturb fewer inhabitants. For the first reason, if we take examples familiar to me, Boryspil has replaced Zhuliany as the main airport of Kiev, Minsk-1 has been closed (after being replaced by Minsk-2), and Saratov (in Russia) is building a new airport right now.
The problem is that Moscow is extremely huge, plagued by traffic jams, and has rolled out express trains (still uncomfortable to those with a lot of luggage; the same modern red model of trains was exported from Moscow to Serbia in 2011, btw) to the airports only in this millennium. (But there are nine main train stations, and many of those who arrive by train from other cities struggle with commuting from the station of arrival to the aeroexpress station.)
Originally posted by IvicaIliev77
Trains in Serbia suck, smell bad and are not that comfortable ♦ So definitely not looking to travel by train anywhere unless its like a road trip group of 10+ backpackers going to see whole Europe and stuff
The way it seems now, I will go with this bus tour for 69 euros for 3 nights with breakfast included. It is the best deal , leaves on Wednesday and I can be back in Nis on Monday some time or whatever so that's fine.
Also good thing is that it will give me extra week almost in June to do extra grinding and more life things!
Strictly speaking, the Belgrade-Prague train is served by Czechs 
and you might as well go to Belgrade by the 2:30 Nisekspres bus (it would be harder to take a nap there, though), plus there's also one more (night) Belgrade-Budapest train served by Hungarians (it's easy to get to Prague from there), but of course the bus tour is so cheap that it can't be missed out on 
Originally posted by IvicaIliev77
Used to find tickets to London for cheaper price then to Prague which is really weird!!!We need some good RB deals for plane tickets ♦
There's no wonder as London is a big air hub (so planes always fill up and can be quickly sent to work on a different route without a long stay in the airport) and Gatwick and Luton are excellent secondary (thus cheap for companies) airports. Plus of course low-cost airline companies provide very economical service; compare it to iPoker's software (lacking good built-in hotkeys, written in 'lazier' Java instead of C++, etc.) vs Stars'
Yeah it makes sense actually that London would have sicker deals then Prague, still 200+ euro is too much IMO for such short flights
Couple of cool things to share with everyone following the blog
Here are the plans by the end of this month:
- Import my HM1 database into either PT4 or HM2 (more for PT4 cause of HU hud I've been using)
- Make new hud in PT4 for SNGs
- Start recording game plan videos to make coaching for my assistant coach easier and future students
- Post in staking part of forum offer for SNGs
- Finish video reviews for all my students (have 2 more left)
- Call the agency about Prague trip and book it soon!?
- Play some 6 max SNGs before the end of month (to get used to the new hud and software)
- Belgrade Friday until Sunday , sports and good times!
Tomorrow PT4 should be finished with all the database import from HM1 (left it overnight to do everything!
Definitely will make new HUD for SNGs, perhaps when I take bus to Belgrade or back (3 hour drive each). Thinking of checking my old hud, tweaking some stats, checking some advanced features PT4 has vs HM1 , should be tons of fun without even getting to pop ups!
If somebody knows a way for different huds to display at different number of players or blind depth (without pop ups or extra clicks but rather shoving up automatically), please let me know ! I would not enjoy the idea of 17 tabling and then when HU comes to load and set the HU hud on that table etc (it will take too much time and valuable focus from other tables!
Haven't gotten yet to post the offer here on Poker Strategy for SNG staking. The main reason is , 3 days ago created the ad posted it on another forum and got massive interest from people. To be honest I didn't expect the interest to be that huge but apparently I am doing something right ♦
It has gotten to that point where now I realize one assistant coach won't be enough, already thinking of hiring 3rd guy to join us with coaching for micro guys.
All in all, super pleased with interest from people past 3 days; now have to reconsider whether or not to post offer on PokerStrategy cause it might be way too many people to handle at this 1st posting (good kind of problem?!?)
Game plan videos will be in near future, within 1 month most. In the meanwhile I am finishing whole game plan via text that includes what each session from zero to complete game plan needs to contain , broken down and assignments for students to complete.
This will be awesome once I finish it very soon cause I can use it for power point for videos later on !
Definitely plan some of the game plan video(s) to use as Poker Strategy application for Coach position !!!
Did tons of work with video reviews. It was really awesome to do them and enjoy doing them a lot actually cause you never know whats going to happen next - its like I am in real time playing but actually pausing before during after specific hands discussing different lines and approaches. This way of working will speed up students process a lot only if they do it frequently learn from their mistakes and work on their game!
If they don't put the time to fix the leaks they have, this will be close to useless of course - its not enough to know you are doing something wrong, you have to work on fixing those things ! (so simple yet so many people don't do it expecting it will disappear by itself
Will call agency for Prague trip once in Belgrade cause its located there (might even go live and talk to representatives)! Will also discuss about additional accommodation to purchase for my friend Stanko, hopefully my HU coach also ♦
Look forward to some 6 max when I return from Belgrade with new hud complete HH and everything - should be tons of fun!
Belgrade trip will be so fun - today spent time contacting family and friends that I will meet while there. Will also see one girl that I was seeing on occasions while she was in Nis Tomorrow have to book accommodation from Friday till Monday morning and also purchase football derby tickets (final 4 for basketball done!).
That's it for this update - for those of you that made it all the way through it
Will keep you updated with how things are going in near future regarding all the things.