Back in Serbia!
It's been almost 6 months in Boston USA for me and I really had some great and life revealing things happen to me.
Since this is poker blog, I will start by telling you that I played close to zero poker while in USA! I was thinking about playing it but there were no options (at least ones I found profitable for my level of knowledge) to play while there. Playing live is whole other world for me, tried it before in Serbia and Macedonia, didn't enjoy it that much to be honest - just thinking of all those hours sitting and seeing people to be rude and retarded many times really pushed me away from live play.
So, since I didn't play poker, what did I do past 6 months? Something that I love and enjoy doing the most, music, guitar, teaching, performing, recording, helping people all over the world with my true love and life mission!
I initially went to Boston USA to visit my good friend for a month but in the end decided to stay for almost full duration of stay for my visa. Was it worth it? Absolutely! There were both great and very hard times that I had while there but that didn't stop me appreciate my life path and what I had to give up to get there and be now here in Serbia.
Some things that happened in no specific order:
I finally got to date and be with Asian girlfriends again (and I already miss them so much)
Connect with A list jazz musicians for my future album
Made great new friendships with people that showed to be amazing human beings
Spent time with my friends and people who truly appreciate having me in their life and for who I am willing to do amazing things for
Realized who my real friends are and who deserves little to no attention in my life anymore
Went to amazing concerts and networked with fantastic musicians for future tours
Connected with studio folks and agents for my future arrival in USA
Looked into possibilities for full time move in USA in future (teaching jobs, performing opportunities, tours etc)
Went to NYC about 5-6 times and had a great time there with my close friends
Had a lot of time to reflect on my life path past 8 years (after getting back to Serbia from USA) and very unpleasant period of past 3 years where I lost a lot of things important to me in my life
Recorded Jazz album for a friend of mine which should be out within next 2 months
Taught a masterclass in one of the most famous music schools in Boston
Had numerous media appearances in Serbia (some major publications, more to come in the near future)
Saw my favorite musicians and my mentor and legend that I look up to in Jazz world
Lived in 5 different locations in past 6 months in Boston (all at different friends places!)
From 0 guitar students before leaving to Boston, now I am teaching 12 students (2 live here in Serbia and 10 via webcam lessons all over the world)
Learned a lot about finances, investing, online business and have a clear vision and mission for my music teaching business
Analyzed all the expenses in Boston for 3 months straight and now know what realistic target I need to go back there and move potentially for full time relocation
Decided to return and help my dad with some unexpected expenses
Moved to a new place where I am living on my own now
So that is all for the USA update, now let's get to what I am doing in Serbia and what my plans are.
As I mentioned above, I am teaching 12 people guitar and music. Thanks to that I can make enough money not to have any additional stress in life and to do what I love to do. I am looking to teach 3 more people, total of 15 and to keep amazing value for all my students. Besides that, I am working on my 1st music instructional book as well as online music course and new website. This is where my main focus is right now but in the near future that is about to change.
The reason why I came back to Serbia is to help my dad paying off apartment mortgage. From Boston USA I couldn't save enough money, I made enough to survive there but to save and send back home - that was not possible at this time.
So what did I decide to do? Come back to Serbia where my expenses are 500-600$ per month and save as much money as possible using combination of music lessons and online poker.
What are my plans for poker?
Simply put, by the end of 2016 I want to make 10000 euros or 12000$. A year or two ago, this amount was a "joke" for me since I was making 3k+ a month playing 15s and 30s 6 max SNGs. Now it has been close to a year since I played last time SNGs professionally and my CG studying and switch wasn't as rewarding financially for me. During this period of past 2 years I had massive family expenses and I made some very bad decisions that lead me to having very little to no bankroll.
Now 2 years later, my BR for poker is very low and now you can see how 12k$ profit by the end of the year is not as easy as it sounds.
How do I plan to get to 12k$ profit by the end of 2016?
Spin and Goes!
It is the most popular format, there is tons of fish in it and I have spent about 10-20 hours past week or so doing sweet sessions with my great friend and study partner elpsycho where I realized that they are very soft and that I definitely have very big edge in them at least up to 15$ limit which with correct multi tabling skills, steady grind and study habit will bring me such money.
Detailed plan for the next 2 months (April and May):
April = 3000 games 3 tabling on 3$ limit using 200 buy ins bankroll and studying 90 minutes per day
Expected earnings with a bit over 7% ROI over 800$ post RB
May = 3500 games 3 tabling on 7$ limit using 200 buy ins bankroll and studying 60 minutes per day
Expected earnings with a bit over 5% ROI over 1470$ post RB
Total expected earnings a bit over 2270$ post RB in 6500 games
If everything goes as planed, from June I will potentially go to 15$ Spins with 200 buy ins and go for SN chase until the end of 2016 with expected ROI of 3%. But, let's talk about this once April and May are over! One thing that I am definitely sure about is that my motivation is to help my dad asap with 12k and to do that playing 7s with higher ROI will definitely be less variable road vs taking on 15s or higher stakes which is why I will most likely stay on 7s by the end of year and perhaps just increase table count to 4-5 tabling and try to stay at 5-7% ROI.
This will not be an easy challenge as I will be teaching around 60 hours per month guitar and music so my time for poker will not be allocated as before. I will still however be very dedicated and motivated to combine music with poker with easily over 180 hours each month. When you add to this spending time with family, friends, dating some girls casually, taking some days off, we are easily talking over 210 hours on average each month.
Until April comes, I will start studying 3 handed play 1st and then reviewing some HU game plan plays daily.
I am very motivated and know I can make those 12k$ by the end of this year. My dad deserves this help and I will do everything I can to help him out asap. My mind is set, my body will need to catch up (introducing some work outs in the very near future asap) and thanks to my music teaching and great students I will make sure to keep my balance of things that fulfill me (music and helping people) with things that I need to do right now (helping my dad with apartment mortgage by playing poker for 20+$ hourly) .
Finally, I hope you have had a great 6 month period in your lives and that you were good to people around you and got some very special people in your lives. I know I did and I am very grateful for past 6 months of my life. I very much look forward to each of the remaining months in 2016 as I will push myself more than I have ever pushed before!
See you on and off the tables soon 
P.S. I am very grateful to have my friend elpsycho (Puppy you the best! ) go with me through this journey. His support really means a world to me and together I am sure we will crush those spins very soon!
AK 4 bet fish who 3 bet fish from BTN had 50ish BBs and got it in I called he had QQ standard spot. 3 bet BTN vs CO AQo, fish 4 bets I defend, flop is QTx fish x/shoves I call he shows KK where in this spot I expect also AK AJ QK AQ AA KK QQ (from which I block AA QQ KQ and i block AK AJ a bit but he has tons of those in his range and + random bad bluffs if he is aggro enough - didn't have enough hands on him for it). 
