10 days challange : Swim effortlessly, Day 4
Things are going better and better on this challange (at least here ) . Today I introduced in my practice the exercises from the video bellow. I am getting closer and closer to swimming. I have to put together all these exercises I did until today, and then learn how to breathe , add them toghether and I will be a shark in the water ♦
And a picture with the pool :
2 green days in a row. Unfortunatly just on the daily tasks, as on the tables I run like /\/\/\/\/\/\/\ this.
X session review(previous session or previous day)
X do Equilab/Flopzila exercises
X set daily poker goals
X watch one poker video
X worm up before session
10 days challange : Swim effortlessly, Day 5
Today I was not in the mood for swim. I even thought about skipping the day and do 2 sessions tomorrow but then I remembered I have to explain my reasoning here, and there is no good reason for this, so I got my ass off and went to the pool. Ihave put toghether everything today and starting swimming for real, the only thing I have to add is breathing. I will start to work on that tomorrow.
10 days challange : Swim effortlessly, Day 6
Today I did some more swiming, trying to put together the pieces that I practiced in the previous days. Then I did some breathing exercises, and it is more difficult than I expected. But I am getting here, lap by lap I feel like I am improving.
So I have 4 more days, I think I am on the right track of acomplishing my goals for these 10 days.
X session review(previous session or previous day)
X do Equilab/Flopzila exercises
X set daily poker goals
X watch one poker video
X worm up before session
Today a decent day at the tables, I also felt like I played good, and also when analyzing yesterday game I didn;t found big mistakes. Didn;t had time to complete the flopzila exercices because I was in town to find some souvenirs for family and friends from back home and it was a real pain in the ass. And also one of those Colombian girls that now is in Burma asked me to buy for her some flags for every country she has been to. I searched for the damn flags for 90 minutes in a huuuuuge mall.
Tomorrow I have to go to the embassy as I try to obtain a Thai bank account and I need a letter from them, it might be usefull for poker as the legislation in romania will posibly not allow me to play on many platforms in the near future, so it would be nice to have a foreign adress. This means another half day lost, I hate when i have to do those things but it need to be done.
10 days challange : Swim effortlessly, Day 7
Yesterday I did the 7th day of my challange. It was tough. I can't tie together 2 lengths of the pool. This breathing thing is really challanging me. I have 2 more days to try to figure it out. I will watch more videos about how to do this easier.
10 days challange : Swim effortlessly, Day 8
Things were going a little better today. But still I have to make a break after every length of the pool to catch my breath. This means I am still not breathing efficiently and/or not dosing my energy as I should.
I was using this nose clip for preventing the water to enter my nose. Usually I dont have a problem staying under water or swimming without it, but when I first tryed to breath and exhale under water, the water was entering my nose so thats why I decided to use that. Funny thing happend today though, somewhere at the biginning of a lap, I lost the clipp off of my nose and didnt even noticed until the end of the lap, so I gues I don't really need it anymore, but I will still use it until I can be really confortable in the water.
Yesterday poker results:
X session review(previous session or previous day)
X do Equilab/Flopzila exercises
X set daily poker goals
X watch one poker video
X worm up before session'
Today I spent half of the day in the airport with my friend Ivonne from Colombia who had her flight back home, and then again went to buy some more things for taking home with me, then went swimming and the day was done, I barely played a few hundred hands but didn;t do anything from my to do list, just played with no purpose.
X session review(previous session or previous day)
X do Equilab/Flopzila exercises
X set daily poker goals
X watch one poker video
X worm up before session
10 days challange : Swim effortlessly, Day 9
Today I managed to tie together to lengts of the pool with no break and doing proper breathing. Then I had to take a breake. In total I think I did like 15-20 lenghts of the pool. But that was it, I wont be able to have my target of 30 lengths of the pool with no break, but it is ok because when I set that number I wasn;t really awere of what that means. But still I will try to do tomorrow the 30 lengths but taking the necesary breaks between them and I can call it a succes. I am curious though about the number of strokes I need to finish one length of the pool. Will see tomorrow.
10 days challange : Swim effortlessly, Day 10
End of the challange. I call it a succes!
I had 2 goals at the biginning of the challange. One was to reduce in half the number of strokes that are necesary for me to swimm one length of the pool. Before the challange I needed 31 strokes. Today I have done it with 16 strokes.
The second goal was to swimm 30 pool lengths. This I would call it 80% complete. I did those 30 lenghts today but I needed to take a 30s break every 2 lengths so I can catch my breath.
Maybe tommorow I will write some deeper thoughts on this. I want to write about something verry important but dont feel like doing it right now as I have to pack my things. Tomorrow I am going back to Romania, I will make a one day stop at Rome and then straight home.
I feel like I will miss Asia, maybe I will be back in a couple of months. But right now I miss home more.
Back on business.
I have made 8 days of break because I have been traveling back to Romania and on my way I stopped some time in Rome to visit my mon and then finally Cluj Napoca where I spent a few days meeting friends and hanging around.
I will post the final thoughts on my swimming challange and then some poker review for last month and the plan for the next weeks.
Stay tunned ♦ (I halucinate that someone is actually reading this hahaha)
10 days challange : Swim effortlessly - Final results (video- DAY 11)
I had an awsome ideea after the 10th day of the challange. I went to the pool and made a video of myself swimming. This video proves everything about total immersion tehnique and about the 80/20 rule that says that 80% of the results are due to 20% of the actions.
Before I got in the pool there was this guy that was swimming. He looked like he knows what he is doing and was keeping a constant rithm but for me it was obvious that he is doing some things wrong, and then I had this ideea to film him while swimming and then compare his swimming tehnique with mine.
So in the begining of the video you can see him swimming a length of the pool using 30 hand strokes, and then at 00:25 you can see me doing the same length of the pool with 17 strokes. At this point you may say: "yeah but he is faster because he is using more strokes", and actually that was my first feelling also. I look like moving in slow motion but, at 00:52 you can see us side by side(the same 2 videos put toghether) swiming the same pool and I finish one second faster.
So, same distance, same time, but double the efort for him. And its obvious where the extra energy that he consumes goes: the waves that he makes. He is splashing the water with every hid while I make verry little waves and I am traveling in front with every stroke.
Now, I have to say that the guy was swimming for an hour with no break. I have to give him credit for that, but the reason I cant do that yet is just the lack of training, I think I can swimm for an hour with 10 more days of training. But he also could swim for 2 hours if he would change is swimming stily into total immersion.
Hi guys, I guess it is time for an update about what I have been up to in the past 2 weeks.
Moving back to Romania wasn't as smooth as I thought it would be. It is hard to play poker when you are not settled in one place, I had many bad experiences with this in the past. So this is the reason I decided not to play any poker in the last few weeks. In other words I prefer not to play than to play poorly, unconscious poker, and I am really happy about this because I had the chance to spend some good time with special people, reuniting with my family and stuff like that.
Now I am settled and ready to grind. I started yesterday slowly to reenter in shape by studying alot. I installed the PokerRanger trial and I will play with this program for a while.
Yesterday results:
X session review(previous session or previous day)
X do Equilab/Flopzila/PokerRanger exercises
X set daily poker goals
X watch one poker video
X worm up before session
Yesterday did not play alot but I did studied more than usual.
X session review(previous session or previous day)
X do Equilab/Flopzila/PokerRanger exercises
X set daily poker goals
X watch one poker video
X worm up before session
I have these mixed feelings. On one hand I feel like I have an edge on 90% of regulars, if I play focused I can find and exploit 2-3 leaks that they have. On the other hand I feel I run like shit, always some crazy hands or runouts that destroy everything, or if not, just cold deck and I feel I can't do much about this. I have this feeling ever since I started to play HU.
Let me show you some hands from today sesion against a spew regular with 35% 3bet :
And then there is a hand like this, when, after beeing down 3-4BI (the staks were 500bb his vs 100bb mine) I managed to recover everything back and he had left with only 68bb, butthis happend:
Finaly I am glad that I managed to keep calm and not spew around, I even had to make some tough folds with big hands in the right spots I think, and thus saving some money. Eventually I managed to win all his money and ended with 1BI in profit and I think another 1-2 BI in rake.
Anyway, I will not play these agro guys anymore because it introduces alot of variance and this is the last thing I need right now in my game. I just hope the variance will come back to me and I can score some winnings.
Last 2 days actions:
X session review(previous session or previous day)
X do Equilab/Flopzila/PokerRanger exercises
X set daily poker goals
X watch one poker video
X worm up before session
X session review(previous session or previous day)
X do Equilab/Flopzila/PokerRanger exercises
X set daily poker goals
X watch one poker video
X worm up before session
Did not made the session reviews as I found alot of spots to work on from the random flop generaor in PokerRanger.
I hope in the beginning of the next week to make another coaching with Pavel because I can't really figure out what am I missing about my game, I feel that I play good even with regulars who usually sit out after max 50 hands, so that means that I should be able to make money (as I assume they are making) but this is not happening, I am kind of brek even for the whole period since I started playing HU.
I need to work more on my game and put in some big volume, there is no point in focusing on anything else right now so I have nothing left to do than practice practice practice.
Last week review:
X weekly "live play video" (play a session and record it)
X weekly review of previous week "live play video"
X database review for last week hands -- I think I will give up this, there is no point in doing this for the whole week If I am doing it every day.
X weekly productivity report analysis
This is the graph for last week
And here is my productivity report for this week. I feel good about it, finaly break the 50% and I am moving up, the target is to pass 80% next week.
Last month(June) I didn't made the reports so I will put them now.
Shitty volume because I only played half of the month, and of course shitty results in direct proportion with my implication.
Also not a lot of logged time in the productivity app, as I was away from PC for half of the month.
Considering today has started a new month I will end this week here and post the weekly review.
I played 4 out of 5 days this week and did all the tasks every day exept sesion review because I worked alot on what I have discussed on the last coaching with Ilidek. I had a few AHA moments, and found some spots where I was doing wrong. Interesting fact is that I knew I some things were questionable but I was doing them anyway reasoning that thats he way it should be because everybody says that.
X session review(previous session or previous day)
X do Equilab/Flopzila/PokerRanger exercises
X set daily poker goals
X watch one poker video
X worm up before session
The graph for this month does not look so sexy, 20BI under EV, shit happens over and over for me, but again, no point in keeping focus on that. I have new things to work on next week so I am excited about that.
My productivity score droped this week. I spent 6h:43 min on facebook on my phone. Oh my gosh. And when I did this? when is the worst time to do it, right in the morning after waking up I was spending like 30min scroling damn facebook page. That is not a good routine to have in the morning, I will change this immediately.
The next week will be made from the next 9 days. I will play in 7 of these days as Monday I have to make a trip to Cluj -Napoca (350km drive) to bring some stuff I left there in the apartment I was living before and hopefully I can be back by wednesday to play again.
BACK ON PLAYING
Things continue in the same manner unfortunately. I run verry bad and it is really frustrating when a reg plays like shit suck out 2-3 BI from you and leves, thas just cruel.
This is todays graph, I will stop it for today because I don't feel I can play well after these 500 hads:
