60+30

Day17.

I was worried about this delayed analysis from the previous day. But I did'nt expect such serious problems. It took me 5 hours to analyze 75min video, this is 2.5 times longer than I expected.
I was thinking clear, but my mind wasn't on the poker tables shown at the footage, every single little thing coming into my mind looked much more important than the hands I was analyzing.
In the second part while visiting my grandparents, I was thinking about the roots of such mind discipline failures. My insomnia is not the cause, it only adds fatigue and makes me think slower.

I came to several conclusions:
1.) How you spent your free time can influence your readiness to put some work when the time comes. Some things can make a predisposition to procrastination and discipline problems. (This needs testing, it's only a hypothesis for now)
2.) For the off-table routines discipline is much more important than you current condition. I checked that on practice. My last hour of the day (it was 16th) I took some half-year old footage and analyzed 30mins of it, even when I was tired it took me only 65 mins to do the work (which not that longer as planned 1.5times=45mins). I achieved that result because all that thinking about poker in my free time made a predisposition to regain my normal working condition later.

Off table work 2hours (I couldn't write my 5hour struggle as full 5 hours), 1.5 training with my friend, 1 hour at the end.

After Day17:
Practice: 40
Off the tables: 67
Overall: 107

Day18.

How to use your worst day.

Again due to screwed sleeping schedule I woke up feeling like a piece.
Situation reminded me of my university years, when I was dumb and didn't pay much attention to sleep and to my own health overall.
So my head was heavy as if my prefrontal cortex turned into sand and the back of the head (where some brain was still left) responded with dull pain every time I move my head.
This is a good reminder, what can happen if your sleep quality far below average.
Usually in this situation I don't play, but:
Since I can't be in the best shape 100%, but I have to play every day. I need to train not only my skill, but my ability to use the skill in any situation.
So I decided to play quick sessions with good off-table work in-between. I already wrote that I should pay more attention to what I do apart from poker practice. So I also planned to do some deliberate relaxation and to stay away from all things which can worsen my condition further (usually any procrastination variants like browsing internets, watching TV shows etc could make things worse and lead to a wasted day).

I played 4 sessions around 15 min each.

As far as I could remember these were the hardest 59 minutes I played in the last couple of years. I could play a little bit more, but I always sit out on the tables when I felt like I'm not playing, just sitting on the tables waiting for something.
The best part, I did 2 mistakes by folding hands preflop by timeout because iof the difficult postflop situation on the other tables. I didn't do any other moves that can be classified as mistakes at all.
as always I was analyzed all footage and coached a friend for an hour (he plays lower limits).
In between sessions I looked through non-poker theory material, mostly about brain and learning. Also I moved all non-poker stuff to the other computer to keep my workplace clean and distraction free.
this took almost all of my day, everything that I did, I did very slow. Partially because I could think faster, but mostly because I wanted to be sure that all what I'm doing is right.
I lost myself around 14th hour a little bit, when I began to browse internets trying to find some music. At the moment I thought that it's very important thing to do (as always).
So technically it's 1 hour of play, 2 hours of analysis, 1 hour of older hh repetitions. 1 hour training.

Lesson for today:
Even you need to try to be in the best condition most of the time, you have to be able to do best with what you have at the moment. To do this you need to train hard even when you feel bad.

After Day18:
Practice: 41
Off the tables: 71
Overall: 112

Day19.
I didn't posted anything at the end of the day. That's because it was embarrassingly bad. After I started pretty good at the beginning of the day. I switched to do some sort of useful things in between sessions which after some time degraded to simply doing useless stuff and procrastinating. And as a result I lost around 8hours in the middle of the day.

More to that I found that if you sit and play after such loss of time, you perform very badly. Partially because you are out of the zone, partially because of the guilt feeling about the lost time.

1.5hour of play, 2.5hours off the tables, that's all I did that day

As a result, I made some basic rules to keep me from ever repeating such mistake.
The main problem was the transition from doing useful things to useless ones. I noticed, that when you are distracted or deeply in thoughts, in very hard to see the moment you are switching. For that purpose I made a couple of simple rules to follow, I use them as a markers to keep me on the right track in any situation.

Day20.
Good day. Very difficult but I like what happened.

I played 3 hours, 6 tabling instead of 4. I think if I have to play more I should learn to play more. And judging my performance I have some attentions problems only at the beginning if the first session.
And I did 5 hour of analysis, and 2 hours of special FZ analysis.
Basically first 12 hours were poker only, with breaks for lunch and dinner.
Still I have some problems at the end of the day, I wasn't satisfied with the quality of my relaxation. It was more like "I did great, now I can do whatever I want".
Also I will try to group my analysis hours together. I think I should play more in the beginning of the day, and do off-tables work closer to the end.

After Day20:
Practice: 45.5
Off the tables: 80.5
Overall: 126

Day21.

As Geoff Colvin said in his book: "Practice is designed, it can be designed well or badly".

The idea with semi-drill schedule of playing is an example of bad design. Full analysis of footage usually takes the same effort as the session itself. That's why after 3 hours of play yesterday felt like 15. I could even make a physical training session. More to that at the morning I felt that at least half of the fatigue is still there after full night sleep.

Due to such semi tired stated I totally screwed the first to sessions. I didn't make big mistakes, but overall performance, overall thinking patterns were poor, I felt weak.

From now on I will play more, analyzing only critical situations. And I will watch footage from only one session at the end of the day.

3hours played, 3.5 off tables

Lesson to be learned.
When trying your best you need to be smart. Extreme overstraining yourself as bad as not trying hard enough.

After Day21.
Practice: 48.5
Off the tables: 84
Overall: 132.5

Days 22 & 23.
Bureaucracy sucks.
These 2 days I was helping my grandparents to get some documents.
First day, I played around 45min session, and went for the documents. I expected to do it quickly, and return in 3 hours to play more. But I forgot how getting any simple documents can be. Instead of my planned 3hours I spent close to 6 and since I wasn't prepared for this situation, I got tired quickly. And after I returned I made a mistake at my relaxation planning. I began to do some useless stuff, then watch something in the internets, than something else, etc. As I understood later essentially it was simple procrastination that I rationalized as resting.
For the next day I took some precautions, not to repeat this mistake again. First I allocated some time especially for the day planning. I remembered some material about brain function momentum. "Doing something increases chances that you will continue to do it though the day". Something like that, I don't remember the exact quote. So I added some practice material to my ipod along with ripped audio from several theory poker videos. Also anticipating tiring environment I added some relaxing ambient music (this actually helped me greatly).
Despite all precautions, I still expected to be tired at the end of the day. So I also needed ideas how to do my best at the poker tables in this condition.
When I watched footage from some session when I was tired, I noticed that most of my problems were the results of my lack of attention. Where I do some moves automatically not even thinking deep, which raises possibilities of making simple stupid mistakes and almost guarantees mistakes in any difficult situations. I decided that main idea during the evening session will be "Be sure that you recognized the situation before you made a decision".
Another one expected difficulty was to prevent too much rest (read - slacking off instead of playing) right after returning home. But this usually can be fixed by being aware and not doing stuff that predispose to it.
So when I returned home in the evening, even tired I could play a 40min session without any problems. I made 2 small mistakes preflop, I missed one OR from MP with sc, and I missed 1 bluff 3bet vs weak player in MP.

Summary:

3:45 played, 3:30 off the tables.
I do not analyze all the footage now, while playing I make notes at what periods during the session I have problems. So I can look at the chosen parts, saving some time and energy. But I still need to add some more off table time to watch vods, I think I still not learning effectively from this type of material.

Lesson to be learned.
Careful planning can be a great help when dealing with non-optimal conditions.

After Day23:
Practice: 52:15
Off the tables: 87.5
Overall: 139:45

Day24.
I tried to optimize my practice strategies. Because my previous attempt to make practice deeper failed (cause it was too time demanding), I switched to different method. Instead of long post session analysis of the whole footage I would concentrate on observing myself more closely while playing (I think it's called meta-cognition, sort of thinking about your own thinking) to determine my condition and to find problems right on the place. But due to bad condition in the middle of the day I played only a little in the morning, waiting for drowsiness to pass. When I finally was ready to play, PokerStars shutted down their servers for 2 hours. Here goes my second mistake, I was too annoyed that I missed the announsement that I was not able to keep my condition at any decent level. When Pokerstars came back online, and I sat at the tables 3/4 of my atetntion is already gone. As always PokerStars likes to teach me a lesson in such situations, and I instantly got 2 difficult situations when I had a set and opp had something bigger. Of course I got insta stacked off both times, with very little thinking about postflop situations, and ranges, "I had a set, I do not care about anything else, I put my money in" mentality kicked in. As a result I stopped playing for the day.

Day25.
I learned from yesterdays mistake. And planned more carefully for same practice routine (playing with increasing session lengths to train my attention, carefully observing what I'm doing during the session).
I found that I had some problems in the beginning, because I started to use TableScan Turbo, and first 10 min were attempts to sort 100500 tables.
Also as I expected at the end of the session I'm playing a little bit tighter preflop, not exploiting thin situations enough.
I got the same situation with set against flash, and I was able to read it correctly and fold with out stacking off. (still 1:2 not in my favour)
For some reason my eyes start to hurt at the middle of the day. I guess my new table theme is the problem, bad gradients lead to increased eye strain.
Beacuse of it I had to stop my session somewhere in the middle, goal of playing last session 2 hour straight wasn'r reached.

Day26.
After sleeping a normal amount of 8.5 hours I wasn't able to think clear for almost all the day. no playing, some off-table work is done, but overall day can be considered lost.
This led to recheking my condition for last couple of weeks after I shifted my schedule of sleep from 7am-3pm to 9pm-6am.
And I perform much worse. Half of the days are dead n the middle due to long periods of drowsiness. Some times I woked up in the morning without feeling well rested which led to lost huge amounts of time while I tried to regain playable condition.
Will shift back to my usual regime.

Lessons for the future. It's necessary to check trends in your game and condition weekly.

Summary.
Played 4:45; off tables 8.5

After Day26.
Practice: 57
Off the tables: 96
Overall: 153

Day27.
First session, 1:15. Initially wanted 1 hour, but I felt pretty good, so I began to stretch it until while I was in the zone.
Exiting the zone was expressed by mind jumping from poker to other stuff during the hands which led to longer thinking time and even some timeouts.
I managed the initial part of table selection pretty good too, without any fuss even having 12 tables opened at a couple of times.

Second session. 1:35. The same as first, I played perfectly through table selection stages (due to length of the session there were 2 of them). After 1:15 mark, my condition started worsening. I stretched the session as far as I could without exiting the zone. I specifically checked the last minutes of the session, I was very attentive until 1:33 mark, where only 3 tables were left.

After second session it was 10:30 into the day, so I felt a little bit a pressure, about how much I could play today. So I thought it would be a good idea to make smaller break and then play paying attention to how my condition will be affected. I took a rest for about 40mins, watching some learning material for 20 and then just relaxing for another 20.

I played 45 mins more at 3rd session. Since the very beginning I felt tired, my reaction time was slower than it should be when I'm in the zone. I still have to check this situation closer, because I don't exactly know what caused it. Maybe 40mins was too little, maybe it's just the end of the day fatigue.
Nevertheless, I played again with full attention. I think this was possible due to 2 major factors. First, I was fully aware of what's happening, and I paid close attention to my condition. [5min pause, I totally forgot what the second factor is; actually I invented 3rd one before I could recall the 2nd J ]. Second, my initial goal was to train my attention, and this goal could keep my motivation up, even when I was not in the zone, and usually such condition leads to leaving the tables. Third, almost all my day I did poker realted stuff, so even when my wondered from what was happening on the tables, I was thniking about poker one way or another, and get myself back on track took much less time.

result 3.5hours practice; 4hours off tables.
Also I found important, I didn't procrastinate at all today. Other than poker I watched some lectures about learning (instead of usual timekilling inernet videos).
I have some flopzilla and general math poker problems left. But consciously leaving them for tomorrow morning, cause I feel quite exhausted now, and I don't think that I can do more off table studies today.

After Day27:
Practice 60.5
Off the tables: 100
Overall: 160.5

Day 28

1st session.
Once I read some article about how mind works. The big portion of it was dedicated of the connection between past thoughts and current thinking patterns.
While reading such articles in free time is useful, getting some practical confirmation in your own field is much more beneficial.
In the morning I analysed quite a lot of hands from previous days before I started playing. As usual my goal was to play with maximum attention to everything what was happening. But my thinking was influenced greatly by that previous morning study session. It was not worse that yesterday one, it was different.
I paid a little less attention to what happens on the tables overall, some problems arised during table selection routine, nothing serious though. But when I played particular hands, I paid much more attention to it. Not only thinking about what happening now, but also about what will happen if. (if the flop was different, if oppen make a diufferent bet sizing, if I had different type of hand). The only real downside of that I sometimes thought too deep. Unfortunately I leveled myself in one particular location, overestimated opponent's abilities.
But such deep thinking is much more demanding in a long run, so after 55mins my condition worsened very quickly. I couldn't make myself play another 10-15mins for attention training purpose like yesterday, because my play almost turned into mindless grind.

2nd session.
Bad session by me. Somewhere in the middle I slipped off the rails. The play didn't become the mindless grind, but I somehow distanced my self from the hand happening on the tables. I still paid attention preflop but everything else was played by default. I felt that I wasn't seeking the answer to the situation my opponents create.
So I stop playing today and will look through footage of the 2nd session to determine what was the cause of such changes.

Summary: playing 2hours, off tables 3.

It was really hard to concentrate on analyzing the footage, because after a dissapointing session, motivation sort of gone. In this condition it easy to invent 100500 rationalizations to stop studying. Simple distractions become almost irresistable.
I lost about an hour, but somehow recovered by doing physical exersises.
I thought that I slided out of the zone in the middle of the session, but footage analysis shown that I was not in the zone from the very beginning. The only reason for that which comes to mind is mediocre day planning. I did too much mind work in the beginning of the day, and most of it was not that essential and could be done after the sessions.
From tomorrow I will dedicate first 8-9 hours of day to play and activities which directly connected to playing, will try to recreate yesterday playing conditions.

After Day28:
Practice 62.5
Off the tables: 103
Overall: 165.5

Day29

1st session. I started to play right after breakfast. Actually I somehow managed to keep both attention to the whole picture and to particular hands. Thought that I could keep it up for 2hours or more. But after 1:30 mark, my condition worsened, so I played only 15mins more strictly for training purpose.

2nd session.
While resting between sessions and having a lunch, I made a mistake. I started to watch lecture about braising beef. So not only I lost about half an hour. Also for first 5-10 minutes half of me wanted to cook some beef instead of playing poker. But that feeling passed very quickly and I was be able to play good session. I played until 1:55 and again added 20mins for training purposes.

Now will go for a walk, and after I will make a decision about throwing another session or switching to off table work, depending on my recovery.

3hours of hand analysis. I looked through all marked hands from the beginning of february as a preparation for training with my friend from midstakes. 1.5hours training itself.
While looking through hands I noticed that I'm making much less mistakes than I did 2 weeks ago. This is a good sign.
Another good sign was my feeling about studying at the end of the day. Desite the usual tiredness I still wanted to study even more. It is the first time as far as I remember.

Summary 4hours of play, 4.5hours off tables.

After Day 29:
Practice 66.5
Off the tables: 107.5
Overall: 174

Day30.

When most of people in your contact list are poker related, looking through skype statuses can be an amusing thing. "I hate PokerStars!!!" - one says. NUFF SAID.
I won't even go into reasons why somebody will hate the pokerroom or network which is not even a living entity, being able to deal cards in some particular way. I like PokerStars, it helps me a lot in my practice, even if the methods could be considered mean (in this case they could be described as trolling).
Every time when I loose attention during the play, with the probability of 75% Stars does one of two things:
1.) It gives me a very borderline postflop situation. The chances of screwing such situations during periods of inattention are roughly 95%. Mostly because getting unwanted community card leads to emotional not analytical response. With some knowledge about probabilities the response can be quite long: "There were only 3 cards that bad in the deck, how could I get it right now? Why this happens every time?". And the half of basic time is gone, adding piling preflop decisions from the other tables, almost no chance to make a well-thought through decision.
2.) It gives you a nice setup, sometimes several in a row. "Sleeping at the tables? Get your 18%. Still sleeping? Here is your 7%". De facto this situation is not as tough as the first one. Almost anyone playing higher than nl5 is got used to preflop AI situations, thus the emotional reactions and tilt factor is eliminated. And the natural response is to recheck the math of the situation, where you went AI. Such exercise help to regain previously lost attention in effective manner.

Today was the Aces day. I caught by opponents aces 6 times. 5 of them happened when I wasn't paying attention(but only 2 all-in situations were thin). First session was especially tough. For some reason I forgot that I trying to practice with maximum attention. And instead of practicing I began just to play. Level of my "just playing" game is higher now, but forgetting the main purpose cannot be excused by that. The main problem of the 1st session was inability to evaluate my own condition during the game. I was sure that everything was normal while it was definitely not.

Too sleepy to write anything else. Sorry.

Summary:
4:15 played, 2.5 off tables.

After Day 30:
Practice 70:45
Off the tables: 110
Overall: 180:45

Day 31.
I played 1:10 at the morning. PokerStars showed me that to win anything at all I should put 130% of effort. The difficulty of situations is always appealing to me, with only condition - me being in the zone. That's because I still trying to avoid difficulties when tilty or tired and frankly it won't do any good putting yourself in difficult spots with zero chances of gaining something.
I played very well today, though I made 1 mistake which caught my attention, so I'll write about it later.
But due to very high concentration I got a headache at the end of the session. And instead of relaxing, preparing to the next session, I suddenly decided to "do something useful" while recovering. My hm2 database got much slower in the past month and I attempted to fix this. Unfortunately I ad no idea that purging hands in hm2 could take enormous amounts of time. Like 8-9 hours of so, with out any possibility to stop the process. In comparison in hm1 it took around 1 hour even on large samples, if your base is on the ssd drive, like mine.
Again my sub par organizing techniques cost me precious playing time. I did some off table work, but I'm not even close to being satisfied with how thing went today.

Since 30 days passed, I guess it's time to give some conclusions to what happened during past month.
The results after day 30 were:
Playing 70:45, off-tables 110, with overall result of 180:45.
This is the most time I put in for poker in one month in past year, which is good. it's still not even close to what I want to achieve, but I'm thinking about as a stepping stone to my goal. I never tried to really train for playing poker ever, so my mediocre result was expected. Nevertheless I discovered quite a lot of useful ideas to use.
How I see my poker practice of near future.
First. Everything should be build around the practice - playing poker. The best time of the day, which is always the first half of it, even if I like evenings more than mornings, should be dedicated to practice. In the first 8-9 hours of the day 4-5 hours of practice is mandatory. Everything else should be devoted to make yourself practice with 100% of your abilities.
Second. In the evening you need to allocate enough time for the off-table work. I want to say the more the better, but some critical minimum of 1/2 of the practice time is required. I still working on adapting some ideas from different fields of expertise for the poker off-table practice, so I will include my findings into the next report.
Third. Even you allocate you time perfectly through the day, the most important is to stick to your schedule. Not allowing to anything to distract you in any major way.
I you read my earlier posts, you could find that there are 2 general types of distractions which I encounter on the regular basis.
One is regular procrastination attempts. They usually manifest in the desires to do something unrelated to poker. Like find something "very important" in the internet. Last time I had and urge to check the new 27" monitor review, the one before that was some information digging about headphone amplifiers, what was the last performance test of different linux distributions, etc etc. I can fill the whole page with different ideas about what useful info I should look for right now. It's not like I need a new monitor, or headphone amplifier, I'm pretty happy with what I have now. And as a poker player I can't use linux. But still I experience desires to fill my head with some technical information which really is of no use to me.
This is not the only way to procrastinate I found. The other one can be called false relaxation. Basically that's the same procrastination, but it comes from a different desire, desire to rest. But sometimes this leads to activities which can only kill time, not really helping us to regain the optimal playing conditions, or helping too little, so the time demands are way to big. Our brains have simply tendency of how future thought patterns are influenced by previous ones. If you thinking about poker, the chances are in favor of you thinking about poker more. But if you start watching TV, youtube, playing games. And after some period of time you still didn't feel rested, the odds are in great favor for you to continue the useless activities, which can easily lead of the rest of the day being lost.
Third way to do things wrong is the result of very bad days or sessions, which leads to negative emotions overload. A natural response to it in most people is avoidance. Here is the place where desire to postpone things could kick in, resulting in days or even days lost. It's very easy to justify skipping a day. I once said to myself: "Screw this, I can't even think straight right now, I'll do it tomorrow". This doesn't work, because tomorrow opening the session in hm2 or video player makes all these negative emotions, all that ego damaging experiences to reappear. The odds are that you can never make a decent analysis of that session.
If you are counting these were the subcategories of the one general type of distractions.
The second type refers to desire to do some poker related activities, just not very important for the moment.
I, for example, spent too much time reading material about practice. The amount of scientific researches on this topic is limited, so most of the material repeats the same information over and over. At the end I understood that, but kept looking through with desire not to miss anything, sometimes sacrificing precious time for other really important activities.
The subset of this problem is, what I call, substitution. In the middle of the month, when I messed my schedule, my sleeping times, I was in a bad general condition, which led to my inability to put in any reasonable amount of practice. And instead of of fixing the roots of my problem, I started to spend more time off-tables, because I was sure I could push myself through off-table work even when I'm tired or sleepy.

These are the potential problems which I encountered during the first month. Being fully aware about them, usually lowers the chances to step in the same traps again. The only thing which is left is to keep doing what was planned in more efficient and fail-safe ways, which were discovered in the first month.

Just read Leatherass's blog post about him damaging the brain. From the beginning to end it sounds like a scary story for noobs.
Being an expert in your field, the real expert achieved by training in the field for years, always changes your brain. It's brain's nature to adapt to activities performed to be more efficient. And this doesn't mean that anxiety and problems with concentration are the result of those changes.
When you make a claim that something can damage brain, you definitely need more than 1 personal example. Having 1 example is like trying to analyze opponent with only 1 played hand. Of the hand is distinctive from the default ones, you can make some assumptions, but nothing more.
If we assume that Dusty's example is applicable to all people, it almost impossible to consistently recreate the conditions which lead to such problems. And here is why.
First, for most people after the standard period(4hours a day) where great attention could be sustained is over, quality of the game degrades to simple grinding. You can't damage you brain if you do not strain it hard enough. I consider myself average. I have such experiences myself when I thought about playing a lot like 8hours+ a day.
Second, most people even can't concentrate really on something day after day after day.
The Dusty example is rare combination of ability of concentrate for long periods of time combined with bad idea of playing too much which could lead to such consequences.
The more important part is what did he wanted to achieve by playing that much? Being a solid player who can 15 table nl1k obviously deserves respect. But it is not the highest achievement in the poker, and playing 10 hours a day is not the way to go towards it.
On the other thought, to sustain your skill level to be able to play mid-high stakes for years, you need to study. If the person plays 8-10 hours a day, with some 2 hours of study, it leaves what, like around 6 hours for the rest of the live? If you have wife and kids, this is clearly not enough after 12 hours, filled with very demanding and exhausting work. With such life you can get much more serious psychological problems than just anxiety.
After reading that post my initial impression was: everything Dusty described was the the long term result of bad career planning. The SNE itself is not harmful, some of the methods to achieve it are. Just like sweets or deep fried foods,if you know moderation everything is ok, but if you eat cakes 5 times a day, then you will have serious problems.

Day32 (2.2)

Perfect day.

Seems after 30 days of bumping my head to all available obstacles, and testing any possible mental and organizational problems, I finally decided to start working.

I already making progress in practice routine for a couple of days. So I decided to try and implement the same rules to the off-table routine which was still a mess. I tried to do a lot of things at once, which led to constant task switching and exhausted me a lot showing only moderate level of progress. So the main idea today was to do one task at a time, in predefined sequence, with moderate time frame allocated for each task (hand analysis, video watching, math and flopzilla exercises).
The day started quite badly, I didn't feel 100% ready. Stars tried and set me up every second hand. But I felt calm for some reason, and continued to do everything as I planned, limiting number of tables and watching for possible distractions. This organizational precision really paid off, I dodged nuts post flop three times in a row, and got stacked only 2 times vs complete fishes, set vs straight, and flash over flash. Overall number of mistakes made by through these 4 hours were at least less than a half of usual amount, mostly with small missed opportunities preflop due to concentration of postflop hands on other tables.

After the practice working off-tables, I found that not only I'm thinking faster and being more attentive overall, but my condition improving hour after hour. And I didn't even think of any procrastination attempts at all. I just have stuff to do, I know what I'm doing and why I'm doing it. It feels great, really fulfilling.

After 4 hours of play, 4 hours theory work, I through out a session of physical exercises doubling the usual intensity. And even after that I was thinking clearly and was ready to play. Unfortunately too little time left before sleep, and I really don't want to mess my sleep schedule again. So I do a half an hour of hand rehearsals instead.

If I will be able to repeat the same pattern tomorrow, I will definitely play a session at the evening too.

After Day 2.2:
Practice: 5
Off tables: 6.5
Overall: 11.5

Day 2.3

My personal best for 1st session while playing mss.
That exactly what happens at a weekend morning with 2-3 fishes at each table, having average folds lower than 40% while you cannot connect your broadway hand to the board at all.
Also I understood that fish 75/50 with pocket kings is an ultimate weapon, you can't dodge it.

I will check all the hands in the hm, to find if there any unusual deteriorations in my game due to overall negative situation.

I took a pause for several hours, relaxing and finishing reading material about performance, that piled up earlier. I did that to remove a slightly negative aftertaste that the session left. I can sustain a session that is going bad, but continuing to deal with negative poker for longer period of time can influence my ability to learn and analyse. To prevent some issues like substitution of carefull analysis whatever hand was played good or bad with some emotional evaluation based on the outcome.
After that I made a full 3.5hours analysis of all hands I played. As I predicted sessions played during downswing influence the ability to think really deep and play hands vs thinking regs on the upper limit of your current ability. But since I was aware of it and I was got ready for such situations, in a very end of the session I other thought my self in a hnd vs reg and donated 6$.
Second group of mistakes that comes to mind, is playing really hands like gs or made hands as weak as Ahigh vs fish who performs strange moves 95% of the time. The main problem with such situations that they are quite rare (such fish is rare + streaks of missing 10 flops in a row w BW hands not a usual session development), thus the lack of experience shows up. I will think about how I can train those lines off-tables.
Third, since there were so much fish w no folds on the flop, I totally ignored unraised pots for the possbilities to steal flops. In a course of 2 hours I missed 6 opportunities.
As always I played better that I would a couple of months ago, but the room for improvement is huge.

After some group training, as I expected my condition was still good (lol, I'm feeling like some energizer poker bunny). So I through a session, keeping in mind fixing all mistakes I've made in the first one. The session was short but good. I only through away 1 hand in steal rest situation due to lack of time to make mental math which looked pretty close. Again not enough hours in a day, cause I could continue and play a little bit more.

After Day 2.3:
Practice: 7.5
Off tables: 11.5
Overall: 19

Day 2.4

Today's main problem is how integrate family obligations in my intensive poker work. I visited my grandparent for the half of the day.
Since I spend around 7hours away from poker, so when I returned it was quite hard to get good level of concentration. After couple of hours doing hand analysis I somehow managed to get a short 40mins session. However after those 40mins my attention quickly fall to almost zero and the situation overall felt badly planned, leaving unpleasant aftertaste.

After Day 2.4:
Practice: 9
Off tables: 13.5
Overall: 22.5

Nice work. First month with 180h is pretty impressive. It's more than 8-16 or 9-17 and the idea of playing mms to improve your play is pretty good too! Maybe I should make same thing with SSS.

thx
but what is 8-16, 9-17?
and I guess you meant mss not mms?

I mean short guys because they're pain in the ass.

Sometimes when you want to tell full time job you use 8-16 / 9-17

those 3days were a disaster.

like it was on Monday I had a huge pile of things to do away form the home. And the problem of this situation - I was not ready for it. I had no plan considering this turn of events. Now I'm sitting and analyzing the while situation, it's not that I had no plan, it's plan I don't even thought about a plan like until an hour ago. Where it took me 40mins to decide what physical exercises to do, because I missed yesterday.
Looks like I have huge decisiveness and planning problems when things go wrong.

I actually don't know what else to write because there still a shitstorm in my head. I have a couple of simple ideas, and I still frustrated that didn't came with something at Tuesday.

After Day 2.7.
Practice 11
Off tables: 18
Overall: 29.

It's because of very low volumen. It's less than 1k hands. Less than some people make in hour ♦