Twitch update:
Resuming grind for the day. At 2.5 hours mark now, will aim for 3 more sessions all 1 hour long. Feeling tired and like I am getting sick today - went out on the snow storm without hat gloves and think that I caught some cold. Future days will tell.
See you on Twitch now until 11ishpm very likely!
Today 4.03 hours
Graph:
Initially planed to play 6 hours but stopped at 4 due to feeling sick. Feeling OK with the way I played today. There were tons of setups and despite winning 10x today I ended up 8 buy ins in -. Studying was great and so was HH review I did.
Again today I found hands that I am not happy with how I played. Also there were hands where I am extremely happy how I played but got cooler all the way 
Overall, happy with how improving and process of studying and applying new things works.
Hope my health situation doesn't diminish as it will decrease my grind ability like today!
Keep pounding away at those $15's man, I'll do the same at those $0.25's. Could you (maybe once a week?) post graphs for the YTD? You know, to keep us motivated and all ;).
Originally posted by NIVEKii
Keep pounding away at those $15's man, I'll do the same at those $0.25's. Could you (maybe once a week?) post graphs for the YTD? You know, to keep us motivated and all ;).
Sure thing man! Will post it every Monday!
Health update:
Yesterday I got the feeling I was getting to feel sick. Unfortunately, I was not wrong. Throat ache, headache, running nose. That is what is going on today. Throbbing head pain! I can't seem to focus. Lying in the bed , regenerating. Ate an hour ago, will drink tea for the most of the day and considering to visit store for some more food while outside is -7 degrees Celsius.
Studying and grinding today - likely will take a day off full and aim to recover.
Might Twitch 1 tabling 15s or maybe doing HH review.
Very free floating schedule when I am sick - priority is to recover asap, everything else is far 2nd!
Originally posted by NIVEKii
Get well soon!
Appreciate it bud!
Drinking tea, sleeping, eating, drinking water - feeling sick today whole day 
Master explaining range construction in relation to bet sizing. Why we balance and not always value or bluff!!!
The best coaching video in 2017 so far. So simple and powerful yet many people don't know it yet
Enjoy it! Listen and watch from 5:15
Health update:
Feeling better today. Yesterday drank 4-5 tea's + lots of glasses of water and ate through out the day while staying in bed. Went to the store for more food and that didn't affect me negatively.
Today I already ate breakfast, drank tea twice and am staying hydrated. Feeling better and will definitely do some poker related work. Studying for sure and grinding several sessions. Before that will rest for another couple of hours. Will likely do poker related things from 5pm on.
Tomorrow I am sending my passport to get visa for Thailand.Also going to bank for some cash and meeting a student of mine. Time is ticking away, I want to improve my starting position for when I get back on 2nd of February. Currently I am 1k in make up from starting deal with my friend after we cashed out over 1.5k - so really in profit over 500$ but that money is already used for my friend who I am meeting in Thailand! Now the main thing for me once I get back on 2nd of Feb is rent money on 15th. I feel things will work out. About 100 hours left in grind until then so everything should be OK.
I will announce study session on Twitch later today followed by grind sessions.
Twitch update:
5pm, HH review, leak finder, range vs range analysis. Should be lots of fun checking lost hands!
See you in an hour HERE
Originally posted by alonohara
awesome work ethicSpoiler
+ one fan from Brazil!
Appreciate it alonahara!
We will see what happens by the end of the year. With current work ethic I expect improvement in game plan in every way. Will it be enough to increase the win rate? I hope so but I am focused on just studying and putting in grind hours.
Just asked Doug and got my question answered by him via Live Facebook function.
He does not accept students currently. He is working on his Upswing poker project mostly and with people there.
Sad news indeed. He is 1 person who I can feel can teach me to be ahead of curve in decade to come in poker. Bots or no bots, he will always be able to adjust and stay ahead of curve not to loose $.
Also, asked Doug in regards to 25bb or less effective HU range construction. He said that they do not plan to implement that material for Upswing poker and he feels he is not expert on shallow stack HU play.
So there you go, can't expect Spins material from Doug yet in 2017 which is kinda sad news. I was hoping that he would either accept new students (would apply and jump in that opportunity right away) or create valuable range vs range hand analysis for 25bb or less on different texture with broken down ranges and "standard" bet sizes IP and OOP.
This is a lot of work and it just shows you that Spins are still profitable format. Until they load up bunch of bots who will be playing close to perfect river range construction and be very balanced - which I expect will happen in 2017 or in 2018 some time.
My goal to make 300k by the time I am 40 (7 years from now) can be very far away since bots are getting in the all the games online. May need to speed that up in 5 years or less. If this year I hit 50k, I will aim to increase the earnings in next year and keep pushing until I get to 6 figures yearly income.
Just my 2 cents on it all.
Twitch update:
Will be studying 30 minutes and hitting tables from my bed grinding on laptop!
Starting at 8:45pm in 30 minutes.
See you on Twitch
Still sick, day 3, want to give it a shot and put some volume in despite low energy and lack of focus.
Twitch update:
Starting now in real time to stream. Twitch won't let me access it so I can't get to chat function. I will start study session and try to refresh, hopefully during the study session Twitch will allow me to access my profile.
Starting now see you HERE
Twitch update:
Finished studying and 1 hour grind session. Still feeling very sick and I hope tomorrow that my energy and focus will be way better so that I can at least put in 4-5 hours of grind in. I miss playing Spins.
Studying went awesome. There was a lot of doubts covered and discoveries. My range construction now OOP on Mono texture is very strong as well as river calling range!!!
Check out that studying session HERE
Tomorrow will update when studying will happen + grinding. Expect it likely after 11am.
In the evening I am likely going to cinema to see comedy with a female friend. Until that happens I will study and grind. If my focus is very low I will rather study a lot of hours, not waste time on TV shows and sleeping. Might Twitch studying sessions from bed during the day - will see how I feel - very hard to predict this health situation. Going back to bed now, feeling cold here in the working room.
See you all tomorrow!
Grind update:
In exactly 12 days including Tuesday(today) I will travel to Phuket Thailand.
On 21st I travel so that is 11 days - no way to grind then. On 13th is my Sensei's weeding so no grinding then either!
So 10 days of grinding at best! Despite being sick past 3 days, I will push to get 60 hours of grind before I leave for Thailand.
On days that I feel better I will aim to do over 6 hours.
Tomorrow then I will study earlier in the morning and start grind ASAP.
Good luck me and lets get some Upswing before Thailand trip (1k+ - thanks) ♦
Financial update:
So after I put all the numbers down I got a huge load of my back!
Initially I was worried about what happens after Thailand for my rent money but that is now sorted out - despite over 1k make up.
So my situation is as following right now:
- Have both January and February rent saved up
- Have money for my friend
- Have close to 500 euro left for Thailand
In the meanwhile, I will have 10 days to grind in January + whole February (close to 4 weeks) to clear 1k make up and to make additional money for February.
I will also receive guitar and music payments in February so I will likely from that alone have money for March as well.
Overall, financially I don't have to worry about current state. There will be more then enough days and hours to turn things around. So I can chilled and focused keep studying and grinding and over time expect awesome things to happen.
Also, 500ish euro for 10 days in Thailand is pretty cool number. Initially I planed like 300 euros but 500 is awesome number for sure
Let the grind resume and Twitch while being in both bad and good health situation No giving up guys, lets go!
Tomorrow/today, study session + 6 hours of grind.
