Hey,
Can I ask you what basic stats you have when you play (vpip, pfr). The redline seems to be going down too much which imo. indicates you are autopiloting (not spotting good steal spots and good bluffspots enough). Maybe playing less tables and taking more breaks could help.
Thanks for your blog and best of luck!
Hi, thanks for the input!
i'm aware my redline is not too good. I've tried many things to improve it, but didn't quite figure it out yet. Even though in may it was around -5bb/100, which is a slight improvement vs previous -9bb/100 and is not that bad i think.
i had a couple of stat reviews before, so i don't really know if some basic stats could solve the issue, but fwiw i play like 28/20 3bet 8, AFq 48, WTSD 31, W$SD 52, WWSF 49.
i mostly play only 2 zoom tables + 1 normal, which i don't think is too much, i feel quite comfortable.
overall i think there are surely leaks that drag my redline & winrate down and i'm working hard to try to identify them, but it's tough, you know...
I put in almost 30h of play during first four days of june. The results are not that good (i checked them, i'm a bit too result oriented atm and don't feel completely comfortable even on nl100), but taking also the studying hours into account, i am quite content with myself. Despite the run and my result-orientedness i feel quite motivated, maybe even level-headed, even though sometimes it might not look like that. I figured out i just need to study harder, because i rly dislike these swings and BE stretches (cannot imagine how is it like to be a mtt pro), so the best thing to do is to improve my wr.
So now i'm going on a trip to Athens, but as soon as i come back, i'm gonna grind hard. I also wanna put in a lot of volume, because once the football euro starts, it's gonna be way harder.
I will probably get private coaching again for a couple of hours, even though i'm not a big fan of it. i feel like 1on1 conversation is a bit ineffective financially, but maybe i'm wrong and there is some merit to it. Recently i've been watching only videos (a lot of them actually) and i feel like it's not enough. Ofc i can implement a couple of things from every vid into my game, but it doesn't make me think about the game too deeply unless the vids are combined with another form of study. therefore i will also buy a pio license if my BR allows that.
I put in almost 30h of play during first four days of june. The results are not that good (i checked them, i'm a bit too result oriented atm and don't feel completely comfortable even on nl100), but taking also the studying hours into account, i am quite content with myself. Despite the run and my result-orientedness i feel quite motivated, maybe even level-headed, even though sometimes it might not look like that. I figured out i just need to study harder, because i rly dislike these swings and BE stretches (cannot imagine how is it like to be a mtt pro), so the best thing to do is to improve my wr.
So now i'm going on a trip to Athens, but as soon as i come back, i'm gonna grind hard. I also wanna put in a lot of volume, because once the football euro starts, it's gonna be way harder.
I will probably get private coaching again for a couple of hours, even though i'm not a big fan of it. i feel like 1on1 conversation is a bit ineffective financially, but maybe i'm wrong and there is some merit to it. Recently i've been watching only videos (a lot of them actually) and i feel like it's not enough. Ofc i can implement a couple of things from every vid into my game, but it doesn't make me think about the game too deeply unless the vids are combined with another form of study. therefore i will also buy a pio license if my BR allows that.
Once I just had like 70k hands BE stretch I felt during it that I just have to put more and more volume in to get over it but it didn't help cause I was always playing on "semi tilt" or atleast very stressed. All I needed was a break for few days and then starting with less tables playing less hours. Anyhow your 3 tables is not too much I think.
Maybe you just try too hard and think about poker when you are off the tables and your brain doesn't get enough rest which means you start your day playing B-game and end playing C-game when you normally would start with A+ / A game and end with B-game. True my exp. if you play when you're super focused & motivated you play well and at the same time think more of spots and alternative lines & improve actually by playing which is great.
Gl just wanted to share a few things cause I see you struggle with same stuff I did
thanks.
atm i feel like i can rest pretty well when not playing/studying. i had problems with this in the past while on a downswing; but now i think i am able to turn my poker mind off while doing sth else. don't know exactly why is that the case, but i think/hope it's a result of daily meditation routine.
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who can stop me?
i'll probably start to turn those graphs upside down, i'm already almost 50 BIs down; 5-10 more BIs and i go to nl50. when the time comes, i should be ready. otherwise i feel i play quite decent, but it's certainly debatable looking at the results.
Athens was fine, a bit too messy here and there, but i'm really fascinated by southern cities, where u can see the same number of people in the streets at 3am or 3pm. the plan for the next 10 days is purely poker, on 21st i go to vienna again to see the doctor and we'll see what next.
Nice blog :f_thumbsup:. I usualy take long brake from poker when on downswing, it helps me, but i am only micro stakes 
Originally posted by Pnnkaznk
Nice blog :f_thumbsup:. I usualy take long brake from poker when on downswing, it helps me, but i am only micro stakes
Hey,
thanks! Well, i usually use the swing as a motivation to work harder. Ofc unless i feel like i cannot play anymore. There were times like that in the recent weeks, but i usually got over it after a few hours.----------
Since the last update i've played mostly on stars; it seems like the pool is softer than on party and rake minus rakeback is similiar, so i will continue mostly on stars. I would never expect that someday i will go to stars because of softer pool.
I've also won a bit + found a couple of positives of the swing - it made me work harder, improved my mental endurance and acceptance of the variance. Recently i work 9-10h/day on average and i've also improved technically quite a bit. Mainly i have to get rid of some bad habits like playing in a way that i like instead of playing for highest EV. I also have to return some creativity to my play regarding sizings - oftentimes i would try to find a solid rangesizing instead of playing really explo. Work in progress...
What bothers me more than usual atm is human silliness. I feel like it's not common to live like you want. Firstly, i hate it when sb tries to plan a nice conventional life for me - forget about football finally, there are many other nice things in the world - you'll find a nice job, build a house and get married. Secondly, i feel sorry for some of my friends who fell into this trap - especially when it comes to relationships - they are with their GFs for 5 years and every day i feel like they don't want it. But they never change anything, because that's just how it goes. Ofc it cannot be awesome all the time but if i'm in a relationship with somebody, it's because i want it and because the positives are bigger than negatives. Not because 'that's how it meant to be'. And finally i also feel a bit bad about the society in general - or some parts of it - for example the fact that Trump even has a chance to win or when i read a 2p2 blog of NL400 reg who thinks that earth is flat. wtf. I mean i don't think everything is fked up - almost surely we live in the best times of mankind ever; but sometimes i just feel bad about some things.
Tomorrow i'm visiting the doctor, so hopefully i will get some new information and will be able to make plans for upcoming weeks/months.
Originally posted by bedofour
Originally posted by Pnnkaznk
Nice blog :f_thumbsup:. I usualy take long brake from poker when on downswing, it helps me, but i am only micro stakes
Hey,
thanks! Well, i usually use the swing as a motivation to work harder. Ofc unless i feel like i cannot play anymore. There were times like that in the recent weeks, but i usually got over it after a few hours.----------
Since the last update i've played mostly on stars; it seems like the pool is softer than on party and rake minus rakeback is similiar, so i will continue mostly on stars. I would never expect that someday i will go to stars because of softer pool.
I've also won a bit + found a couple of positives of the swing - it made me work harder, improved my mental endurance and acceptance of the variance. Recently i work 9-10h/day on average and i've also improved technically quite a bit. Mainly i have to get rid of some bad habits like playing in a way that i like instead of playing for highest EV. I also have to return some creativity to my play regarding sizings - oftentimes i would try to find a solid rangesizing instead of playing really explo. Work in progress...
What bothers me more than usual atm is human silliness. I feel like it's not common to live like you want. Firstly, i hate it when sb tries to plan a nice conventional life for me - forget about football finally, there are many other nice things in the world - you'll find a nice job, build a house and get married. Secondly, i feel sorry for some of my friends who fell into this trap - especially when it comes to relationships - they are with their GFs for 5 years and every day i feel like they don't want it. But they never change anything, because that's just how it goes. Ofc it cannot be awesome all the time but if i'm in a relationship with somebody, it's because i want it and because the positives are bigger than negatives. Not because 'that's how it meant to be'. And finally i also feel a bit bad about the society in general - or some parts of it - for example the fact that Trump even has a chance to win or when i read a 2p2 blog of NL400 reg who thinks that earth is flat. wtf. I mean i don't think everything is fked up - almost surely we live in the best times of mankind ever; but sometimes i just feel bad about some things.
Tomorrow i'm visiting the doctor, so hopefully i will get some new information and will be able to make plans for upcoming weeks/months.
First of all, Nice blog mate
ill hope u get there with pokerdidnt thought about stepping 1 limit back ?
Goodluck tomorrow at the Doc
hope u can continu ur football career
Gr Wes
Originally posted by Wazzza16
First of all, Nice blog mate
ill hope u get there with pokerGoodluck tomorrow at the Doc
Gr Wes
hi,
thanks a lot!
well, sure, i was only a couple of BIs away from stepping down to NL50. fortunately things got better since then and now i have at least 20 BIs to lose before dropping a limit. as far as my confidence to beat the game goes, i feel have decent edge, especially now on stars. obv i don't consider myself a top crusher atm.
hi,
thanks a lot!
well, sure, i was only a couple of BIs away from stepping down to NL50. fortunately things got better since then and now i have at least 20 BIs to lose before dropping a limit. as far as my confidence to beat the game goes, i feel have decent edge, especially now on stars. obv i don't consider myself a top crusher atm.
well then its fine right 
Just keep up the good work and u will be a Top crusher 
So it's seems i'm done with football for good. I knew for a long time that the chance to come back is not that big, but after tuesday it's super small. There's only half of cartilage left in my left hip and unless i want a hip replacement in 3-5 years, i have to stop playing. It's not 100% yet, i will visit one more doctor, but i consider it to be almost a fact.
I know that if i'm ever able to get over it, it won't be today nor tomorrow, so i'm trying out a strategy of not thinking about most of my life being a lie at all.
Sometimes i just don't feel like doing anything, but mostly it's not that awful. So the following days/weeks will be in a normal poker mode, but i won't try to break any grind records or sth like that, we'll see. atm i usually play like 5 hours a day + studying + private coachings. The recent results are reasonable - not great, but at least i don't face moving down to nl50 every other session.
Finally i run well, i am even up for the month, weird awesome feeling.
100z is for some reason rly soft and the amount of fish and random spewy plays is incredible. Let's see what happens when i put a decent volume in there. My BR is quite comfortable now, so all i have to do is work. As far as motivation is concerned, i don't have the best period ever, but i don't have much else to do besides poker, so i just do poker and sometimes i play some fifa or watch some random physics documentary on youtube. At least i am able to enjoy my freedom sometimes - every morning i go out and do a small workout combined with some swimming and i know that many people just can't do it anytime they want.
In a month i am going to Munich to see a doctor who is the last stop on my way out of football - when he says it's over, it's over. The chance that he says something different is small, so i am starting to think about my midterm plans, especially regarding traveling. I'd like to try living abroad probably. In autumn, my GF goes to Ljubljana for erasmus, so that's certainly an option; i am also quite attracted by Central America or Columbia or something like that. And i also wanna go somewhere far far by bike. The following days/weeks will be probably spent at home though, then we'll see.
so june was not an awesome month (again), but at least i didn't have to move down to nl50 and ended in positive numbers. i'm satisfied with the volume, it's around 170 hours of play + sth like 40-50 hours of studying.
unfortunately PS is withdrawing from Slovenia, so im def not going to Ljubljana in autumn. so i still don't have any idea where i will live, im leaving everything open.
in july i'd like to play at least 150h again and finally also win something.
Really nice blog, so shame on me for spamming like that, but do you know anything new about future Czech online gambling law so
you consider migrate, or it's just pure fun adventure and there is nothing related to the above?
Originally posted by erefkey
Really nice blog, so shame on me for spamming like that, but do you know anything new about future Czech online gambling law so
you consider migrate, or it's just pure fun adventure and there is nothing related to the above?
hey, thanks!
the plan to live abroad is basically just for fun, i wanna try living in a different country and poker allows to do that, which is awesome. there is no upcoming regulation of online poker here in slovakia, but i heard about the new czech laws too. i don't know that much about it, but afaik a couple of big companies should stay in czech republic even after the law changes. also pokerstars stated that there are no plans to withdraw from any other country in the near future. they just need to apply for a license and meet a couple of conditions.
heya,
firstly a silly mainsteam hit
i haven't written here for a while, i was quite busy, i am mixing party and grind and now i'm kinda able to make it; i'd like to go through the whole summer like this. for the first time i was at a grindhouse with fellow czech/slovak grinders for a few days, which was awesome experience & inspiration and i'm glad that i could finally match a few faces to nicknames. i was able to play 12h/day there without much problem, so once again i pushed my limits a bit and now sth like 6h/day doesn't seem too much.
i am still grinding maily zoom and i like it even though i've been too result-oriented recently, i've gotta stop watching the results again (this happened to me 568 times already). once again i'm trying to have as high winrate as possible and prove that i'm better than the others. but fk that, i should just try to be better today than i was yesterday and i feel like it's going well. i've changed quite a few things, i'm trying to get into way more pots with recs and also i wanna be less polarized in some spots. that was one of the things that i simply did because i liked it; that's so stupid obv.
i'm still thinking about where to go in autumn; if there's no great opportunity to go to a grindhouse or something i'll maybe go to ljubljana in the end and grind somewhere else than on stars. but i don't really wanna leave stars, i don't enjoy table selection and chasing fish; i prefer just opening the zoom tables and play, put in more volume and improve faster, even though with a bit lower winrate. zoom100 is quite soft anyway (hope i'll beat it lol). plus i'm not attracted to dataminers outside of zoom; datamining is def sth i don't wanna do.
you dont say good luck, you say dont give up
Good job! Looks like you're figuring out zoom games as your redline is starting to level off!!
What do you think is the main difference between Party and Stars? Is it really that much different?
Anyway, good luck and crush them zoom junkies!
Also I don't like it when people blame sites for being more fishy or less fishy since most games don't run unless there's a fish anyway. Just keep working on your game!
