AFTER 19th WEEK UPDATE
Progress in 2016 BR Challenge:
- current BR: $30,41 & 280,63 SC
- current profit: $505,38 (PokerTracker4)
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AFTER 20th WEEK UPDATE
Progress in 2016 BR Challenge:
- current BR: $39,38 & 5,63 SC
- current profit: $535,29 (PokerTracker4)
GL at tables!
Hello mylove190207,
Nice progress 
and I look forward to future update.
Good luck at the tables.
Regards
Matt
Hi metalmonkey80.
My progress is not reall so good if you are looking at time frame and especially the fact that I didn't update for about a month. But thanks for nice words.
If I can be honest I was absolutely terrible one in the period that I didn't update. The fact that I need to cashout and don't have enough even for playing my regular games put me in position where I put my head down and didn't do anything to get out of that. I realized that I have really bad work habit. How to overcome that? I don't know. Maybe I am not good enough to be able to live from poker. And I don't mean here about my poker skills. I mean what is going on in my head. I have tons of great plans on how to overcome current situation, but when it comes to realize it, I came short. And this is only thing why I am where I am. I know that, but still doing it.
Will be something different after that confesion? I don't know. I don't trust too much in myself if I am honest. The fact that PokerStars doesn't provide poker for real money anymore in Slovenia is not the reasone why I coudn't suceed. I start playing twister on Gala immediate after PS anounce that. Make excel progress bar for daily graind, etc. As I already mentioned. I have at least good strategy how to overcome the situation, but I don't have even near enough good work ethic.
Really the craziest thing is that I am aware of that, but keep doing same mistake.
I even stop updating my Spin challenge on private forum of Ivicailiev77 where I get tons and tons of great info. He was helping me so much that I will not be able to repay him ever. He is really amazing guy and player. If I only have his dedication to complete challenges, we would probably talk about different stuff right now. So yea. I miss sooo much opportunities that you can't even imagine.
I REALLY WANNA TO THANK PEDJA(ivicailiev77) FOR EVERYTHING THAT HE DONE FOR ME!
Because of all of that I don't know what to do. I wanna give out my verry last challenge. How it will end? It can go eathere way. Only thing that I wanna to stick in hole my challenge to give everything out there as it is. Don't wanna to be ashamed of anything. Will let out every aspect of my life.
MY LIFE CHALLENGE
This challenge will not contain only poker. Poker will be basically just part of it. What I wanna change is my life. Will take step by step of it. Firstly I wanna change what is holding me back in my life. Most likely is that I will be left without anything because of the dept that I have to my bank. So will need to find another way to update that challenge. Also will need to start working again, probably at my last job.
1st challenge: DON'T HIDE FROM PROBLEMS
I made a lot of demage from hiding my problems. In recent year I didn't make enough from poker and because of that I came into situation when I will be left without anything. But not getting enough money from poker is not the reason for the situation that I get into. It came to it, because I didn't do not even near enough to get situation not so bad as it is.
- I didn't answering on my phone when I get calls from bank.
- I didn't grind enough to overcome variance in pooker.
- I didn't study game enough, because I think that my game is high enough to do well on microstakes and because of that spend 3h for playing video games, some day I even spend for vedeo games
So those are areas that I will make change but step by step. First one that I will change is that I will not hide anymore by start ansewring on phone calls and taking out letters which are coming from lawyers. Also I will grind and study to the moment that I will have my comp. Probably till end of the August. After 8th of August I will start to find a job, unless something rediciolus happen and I build up my BR high enough (to €2k) to find office where I will be able to continoue to play poker. But BR is not enough for that. I need to prove myself also that I will be able to put in sustained grind of at least 250 twister games per working day and at least 2h of studying the game. If I fail on any of them, then I will look for regular job.
GRIND CHALLENGE:
- period: 11th of July - 25th of July
- games to play: 3500 twister games on Gala
- study: 28h
- update: every day
This is first part of my challenge. I don't mind if I don't get to big enough of BR. BR is just decision maker if I will continue with poker as my "full time job" or will need to find "real job". My mine focus is on study and grind when it comes to poker.
THIS IS NOT ABOUT POKER. IT IS ABOUT MY LIFE. I will always try to make living from poker because it is in my nature that I don't wanna to work for anybody and poker gives you freedom in every aspect of it. I DON'T LOVE POKER, I LIKE IT.
GL all of you. Next update will come on Monday at night time.
Hello mylove190207,
Sorry to hear you are having hard times. Don't worry though as you can make it!! Reading back on your posts you have achieved many goals and have the determination to win 
It has been 2 years since I started my path to making poker my job and have hit many walls, sometimes I just want to give up and get a 9-5. But I remind myself every day why I ran away from that!
I don't know if you have already read this thread but I recommend reading it. The Quick Guide to Skyrocketing Your Poker and Life Productivity
This still helps me today and certainly would have failed before I started If I didn't adopt the program in my life.
Schnitzelfisch also did some really good videos on the mental game and productivity and I have filtered them for you =en&submit=Search"]here
1st challenge: DON'T HIDE FROM PROBLEMS
Certainly don't hide from your problems. I would recommend before touching the tables to sit down and make a plan you can present to the bank when you call them. I found this helped me when I had problems in the past with debt. Working with them will be better than annoying them by ignoring the issue. Plus when you have a plan you won't be worrying about it at the tables and getting tilt from it.
I have also read many blogs where people are finding it hard to make a comfortable living from poker, and many recommend having a side job to top up on that. It might be worth looking into.
Hope that this is some help to you and I wish you all the best in overcoming your difficulties. A problem shared is a problem halved!
Regards
Matt
Jernej thank you for your more then kind words. I am always here to help, you know you can always count on me.
I like the idea of Life vs Poker challenge. A lot of the times some outside of poker things actually affect focus, motivation, determination, improvement and results at the tables.
Before I used to just play poker and it was awesome. I improved a ton and made very good money and hourly.
Now I teach guitar and music and play poker. This is even better for me because I get to do 2 things that I love to do and that I am passionate about. One without other doesn't work. I play way less stressed now because its multiple incomes and variance is automatically less.
Btw, I am on 5805 15$ spins running 100 buy ins bellow EV. Its poker, you get used to it or you don't, its what makes a lot of people quit (not accepting variance that game brings but really being impatient).
Look forward to future updates and when you feel ready continue with your hand posting and challenge update in private forum, I will always try to help whenever I can.
Thanks @metalmonkey80 and Pedja for kind words!
@metalmonkey80 I am familiar with @Schnitzelfisch (he is from Slovenia 
). I also take his nutrition guide for some time, but I like more Zone diet from dr. Sears, because it is not diet for loosing weight, but it is more about eating right. And I must add taht it is really great thing to do. Only problem is that you need to weight everything that you eat. But it is good that you can also eat junk food or chocklet, ice-cream, etc.
Yea will need to go over again that @Schnitzelfisch productivity blog, but this time I need to finish it.
Yea I can't get into Gala poker client so I didn't start to play this week. I write them and they say that it can take up to 72h to fix problem. WTF! So I have planty of time for other things like studying game and building productivity. I really hope that I won't need to wait 3 days or even more to get back to tables. Ok this is for now. See you later on if I get back to tables somehow. 
GL at tables!
Afterall I was able to play some games. Acording to my tracking softwear(PT4) I played around 140 twisters and around 20 MTT's. But PT tracks hands from Gala absolutely terrible. At least mine. I have some MTT's tracket as twister, at begining it also tracks without prize pool. So when I won tournament it shows that I lost $11c. Crazy! I put buy-in now in filter, but still doesn't trust it completelly.
MTT's are done some good things. Manage to get 2 final tables. First one I came 2nd for €36 and 2nd one I get 6th for €20, both for €1 BI. I feel really well at those MTT's and play some good poker. On 2nd FT I lost 2 times with JJ. Against AKs (lost 1/2 of the stack) and KK (busted). Probably I made mistake in second scenario, when opponent busted me with KK. I probably should just call PF because I still have 30bb and there was opponent with just 3bb. So yea this was mistake which costs me probably around €8 at least. 
Twister's was absolutely terrible. It seems that I always run into better hands. I was playing against opponent, which 3bet or iso raise every time and when I r/c him with ATs he wake up with AQo. It was little bit frustrating, but this is poker. Anyway. If I look at cEV (which I don't really trust because of problems with importing hands) it show that I have 0cEV over 580 games. I can't imagine even the worst player to have such a redicilous low cEV. I am not saying that I am any better, but when I played on stars, I have around 85cEV. Variance? I don't know. Just need to grind over that and see what will show when I will have more then 3k games.
I will posting hands on Pedja's private forum, since there I get awasome feedback and can also discuss about game plan. Once again I really wanna thank Pedja for letting me do that and for his help.
Ok. This is is for now. See ya tommorow. GL at tables!
IT was long day so I am updating now and probably all other days will be the same. Am too slepy to update at 3am.
Another terrible day for twister. I just can't get on track. I also review hands and from 100 of them I find 2 clear mistakes. I don't say that I coudn't play differently (more +EV) in some other hands. For example shove with 10bb or 9bb where I could also r/f because opponent is tight. Nothing wrong with open shove from me, but to lower variance it would be better to r/f that hand. At the same time I must add that at the end I find potential leak where I am r/f or r and then fold post flop from 11-7bb. I will review that and see what is going on.
Because of the situation on twister I also tilted little bit and made some mistakes at MTT tables (some mistakes I did also at twister because of that). Played tonkaaaap freeroll on ACR and manage to get 5th and get $2.5. There is also interesting thing when you can spin the wheal for as low as $0.01 in tournament lobby and get ticket for that tournament. So I do some gambling on high, mid, low and micro tornaments (one time each) and off-course didn't get ticket. But where is option is possibillity. So I will spent $0.04 each day. Maybe I get some great ticket.
PROGRESS IN CHALLENGE
study: 5h
grind: 272/3500
I am way behind with my grind and study. I will try to step up. Bar is high, but still I made it like that and now I need to jump over it. So go back in action!
GL at tables!
Will made quick update.
It was good day at the twister tables. Not by profit (big multiplyers are cursed for me right now), but by cEV (99:f_love: ). I also feel like playing good. Problem is still volume as always, but I did some study work and taste it at tables. But volume, volume, volume. Always the same. Just can't do enough. Need to find time for it.
I also wanna ask you if someone is playing on ACR (American Cardroom). It seems that is almost the same as Stars. They have familiar rake sistem and software seems to be good and tables are also very familiar to Stars. Only problem is traffic and time, since they are 6h behind my time and because of that I would need to play till 4am if I decide to go there. Spins are for $2, $10, $25 and $40 and rake is 6% on all of them. So this seems really interesting for me. But I wanna get some feadback before I decide what to do. Maybe someone know when are peak hours there in CET (central european time)?
GL at tables and off them!
Weekend is off and time for update is already pass. Poker wise it was superb end. But let start at the begining.
Lately I was really strugling at the tables and because of that I start just 2 tabling. More focus and more time for decisions but at the same time it became clear that I won't make my volume goal. But steal I wanna reach the highest VIP level on Gala and becasue of that I start to make things little bit more exciting. What the catch?
I play €1 twister. If I win I step up to €2 if I have on my account at least Ł20. Yea I have account in pounds. Already send message to support if they can change it but they say that they can't. So I am loosing some € because of that for sure. I see BI for a game converted in € constantly change. But what it is it is. I will most likely go to 888 poker when they introduce there version of Spins late in this month (if they didn't change there mind). So most likely I will go there next month.
Ok. I get little bit off the topic. So. If I won €2 twister and have at least Ł30 on account, I register to €5 twister and playing them untill my account get under Ł30. This is definitelly more exciting thing than just play one level all the time. Also I can get boost and when I just 2 tabling my game is really good so I am confortable of playing higher limits.
In those days that I do that I get over 100cEV on €5 twister which is definitely unrealistic to expect, but I am sure that I can be well there. And yea I still don't trust completely to PT4.
I was playing like that and get a lot of 4x and 6x on €5 limit but lost all of them. This frustrate me a lot. I was outplayet only 2 times in HU match and I lost 6 of them for €20. Also I can't win 10x multiplayer and I played like 10 of them. So yea this was really frustrating and I must admit that I tilted because of that. I was just thinking on punching bag and how I punch it. :f_mad::f_mad:
But yesterday everything came back to me with interests. I hit 200x on €1 and I won it. I was really over the moon and need to stop playing for about 2h to calm down. Then when I get back I start with €2 limit won some of them, move to €5 and also won 3 in a row. So I end my day with around €220 in profit. Poker is really weard thing. It tasts you in all extremes. Today I will continoue to play €5 limit. Also cashed out most of yesterdays winnings so I left for playing Ł73. If will need I will deposit, but it is more safe to have money on Skrill. Don't get me wrong. I don't have any complains about Gala cashier. In fact I am really pleased with it, because I get my money in 6h period from the time when I cash out. But still from black Friday and "black Monday" when Stars close there doors for Slovenian players, I am more cautious.
Here is another phenomenal video from ET.
GL at tables!
Uf it’s bean a wile when I last time posted here. A lot of things changed in those years, but let’s point out just few of them.
I moved several places in those years. 2 years ago also started NO DEPOSIT CHALLENGE, where I prove that it is possible to make decent BR without deposit at all.
I started also streaming that challenge on twitch at time, when I have €3 on my BR.
Yea twitch was probably one of the best things, because it was kind of boring for me to just play poker. Twitch definitely add some more excitement to it and it makes me more thinking of what I am doing at the tables.
But yea let’s go to the challenge that I set out for next 12 months.
€40k IN PROFIT, CRUSH MID STAKES MTT’s AND HAVE AT LEAST 200 avg. VIEWERS ON MY CHANELLE
How to get to that? Well let me show u my 1st quarter (1.3.2019 – 31.5.2019) to do things:
• Play poker at least 6x / week
• Do at least 6 PF – river hand analysis / week
• Watch 1 poker video on playing days and make notes
• Outdoor run
• Eat food which will fill me with energie
• Maind training
• Make new overlay for my stream
BANKROLL AND BANKROLL MANAGEMENT
Right now my BR is around €130. It is real rollercoaster lately. So this is my BRM (just click on BRM ) until up to €10 tournaments.
TWITCH:
At the moment I am running 90 day challenge, where I am about to stream every single day for about 90 days (already in day 59 😉 ).
My schedule at the moment looks like that:
- Every day at 7pm CET
- U can watch and chat with me here.
Ty for ur time and gl at the tables!
Ok. Here we are at the end of the week.
What I accomplished? Well not really much and I am not happy about it.
First and most, I didn’t make as many hand reviews (PF – river) as I should. I did watch videos and make notes, my eating habit was not really good and I didn’t do hmmm anything for twitch. Terrible start. Can’t even bother about results at the table. If I can forgive my self by not running every day, because I start feeling my knee (which I had injured), but I can’t forgive myself on other things.
It is f… beginning and I am already struggling on that?!?! Next week need to be better.
Anyway here is my week in numbers
- Green is done
- Orange part done
- Red not done
Weekly goals:
- Evaluate at least 6 hands from flop to river
- Play poker at least 6 times
- Watch 1 poker video on playing days and make notes
- Daily outdoor run
- Eat food which will fill me with energie
- Maind training
- Improve twitch
BANKROLL: €141.24
Also did little change to my playing desk ♦
https://imgur.com/PXMaltk
Yea this is my standing desk ♦
Next week goals remain the same. Let’s make a progress.
See u on my channel every day at 7pm CET.
Gl at tables!
Hi everyone,
Another week is over and I can’t say that it was the most productive one. There is still too many not done things in my weekly goals.
For real. Why is so hard to make them done? Is my why wrong? I don’t think so. I wanna be my own boss as well I wanna have or do all the things that I write down. Maybe wanna is not the right word?
Next week I am back at my FT job and will be interesting to see how I will handle all those things.
Goals for next week will remain the same. Need to done all of them at least 2 weeks in a row to add some new ones. It is possible that I will stick to those one for now. Anyway here is what I did and what I didn’t do:
- At least 6 hand analyses from PF to river
- Play poker at least 6 days / week
- Watch at least 1 video / day and make notes
- Daily outdoor run
- Eat “healthy” food
- Mind training
- Making twitch better
BANKROLL: €123.78
GL at tables!
Hi, just came across your blog and i just want to wish you good luck with your challenge and what you are trying to achieve and also good luck back at your FT job. Keep up the good work mate...:f_thumbsup::f_thumbsup:
Originally posted by cms81
Hi, just came across your blog and i just want to wish you good luck with your challenge and what you are trying to achieve and also good luck back at your FT job. Keep up the good work mate...:f_thumbsup::f_thumbsup:
Ty @cms81
Hi everyone,
I just finnish my 1st longer session. We get 3 final tables:
- €1 DeepStack: 1st for €41,12
- €1 Western: 6st for €27,82
- €1 Turbo: 2nd for €12,07
Tomorrow (today 
) I will have much longer session and will start at 3pm and will do it untill morning hours 
I also get 2 €2 tickets from sattellites, so we will have those tournaments on our schedule:
- €2 MonsterStack €2,5k GTD at 4:30pm
- €2 Popcorn €2k GTD at 8:30pm
See u at 3pm here: https://www.twitch.tv/mylove190207