IvicaIliev77 May SNG grind

Day 18

200 games - 8.85 hours

Day started great, first 20 or so games then the rest of the day was just crazy setups.
My strong hands never stood a chance turn to river and stuff like that.
I did 3 sessions today , 1st 50 games, 2nd and 3rd 75 each. I prefer 4 x 50 games better but I have extra things to finish tonight so I did it this way today.
Important thing is I put volume in and bought 1.6k bonus today. I will continue doing this mix by the end of May and hopefully purchase another 1.6k bonus by then.

Results graph

ITM distribution graph

HU 36 vs 28 or 18% vs 14%

Day 19

200 games - 9.57 hours

Finally good card distribution to turn/fix my ITM up to normal expectations.
Satisfied how I played for 95%+ of time, 4 sessions 50 games each. Also coached 1 hour and taught guitar 1 hour so 12 hours working today.

I know exactly what I will focus on to gain even more edge on 30s in June , very look forward to it.

The graphs

Results

ITM distribution

HU 46 vs 32 or 23% vs 16%

Day 20

152 games only and 3 sessions only

I am posting this update from laptop from home. I don't have graphs here to upload but I can tell you it was negative day (400$ or more - with tons of setups and running below ev 10+ buy ins)

I went to sleep last night just before 3am, got up early at 9 and just whole day felt extra tired. It didn't help that I ate 3 times and drank Cedevita (vitamin C type of drink) 3 times also. It was just one of those days where my energy levels couldn't take it.

Before today I was at 2.2k games mark which meant 1.8k games left to hit before end of month. So there were 11 days left (including today) and I needed to grind 9 days of 200 games. I could have taken day off today but decided to play as much as I could.

Tonight I will hit bed much earlier to rest for tomorrow (1 am latest as usual past whole week) and will go tomorrow for 200 games.

Hi,

Try lemonade without sugar next time. And eat nuts during play and protein bars. Also very important is to take power naps or meditation during brakes. I am sure it will help you to be more focused in those sleepy days.

Also I must say that you are doing very well lately and you are my role model. You realy work hard and deserve every success you get. Keep it up.

GL at tables!

Almost forgot. Drink a lot of water. Cedevita have sugar so it is not so good choise. After 15-20min you will get slipy even more.

Originally posted by mylove190207
Hi,

Try lemonade without sugar next time. And eat nuts during play and protein bars. Also very important is to take power naps or meditation during brakes. I am sure it will help you to be more focused in those sleepy days.

Also I must say that you are doing very well lately and you are my role model. You realy work hard and deserve every success you get. Keep it up.

GL at tables!

Hi my friend,

I eat nuts 100 grams a day minimum. For the past week that is what I have been eating mostly because I was eating real meals once a day at most because of everything that happened I don't have appetite to eat at all.

I also drink water about 2 liters a day or minimum 1 liter a day. I drink 1 to 2 coffees a day maximum, someday I don't drink any but average is 1 coffee a day.

Appreciate your kind words and I am glad I inspire you to become better at poker. It takes a lot of dedication and hard work to make it big but so does everything in life. Only advice I can give you is treat is a real business with emotional aspect of loving what you do and fanatic approach will come naturally.

All the best and thank you for following this thread and blog !

Originally posted by mylove190207
Almost forgot. Drink a lot of water. Cedevita have sugar so it is not so good choise. After 15-20min you will get slipy even more.

Yeah I know but I like Cedevita a lot , I also started drinking it minimum once a day. It energizes me to certain extent and I haven't noticed energy drops from drinking it yet.

Here are the graphs for yesterday's grind

Terrible distribution and day overall - read previous update about it.

Day 21

200 games - 8.32 hours

1st session 22 games only as my computer was acting up slowing down action and braking up on tables.
2nd session was 78 games
3rd session 100 games

This is why I managed to do 200 games in 8.32 instead of 9+ hours.

Finally decent distribution, played well for 90% + in HU. Also worked on my game in the morning for 30 minutes, checked hands from 30s etc.

Things are starting to look up on 30s, look forward to what will happen once I continue with my reviews and note taking on all the regs.

Anyways, here are the graphs for the day

Results graph

ITM distribution graph

HU 44 vs 32 or 22% vs 16%

Day 22

200 games - 8.53 hours

3 sessions
75, 75 and 50 games

Felt I ran very bad on 30s. Setups keep happening over and over there Really look forward to upswings, I feel there will be some 25buy ins + days on 30s in near future!

HU today was brutal also, only 1% difference. There were some mistakes I made but not to the extent to get 1% only difference. Definitely tons of setups overall .

Bubble 21%! What to say then setups?

Long day, heading home, 200 games waiting tomorrow also.

Results graph

ITM distribution graph

HU 37 vs 35 or 18% vs 17%

Day 23

200 games - 8.8 hours

3 sessions again, 75 75 and 50

Ran well today, finally ran good on 30s. Not happy with HU distribution and set ups + many times entered HU as very short (12bb or less) which happens very rarely to me.
Still, managed to pull of nice win rate today overall!

Just a quick note, now at 2925 games mark, 1075 left to hit 4k games.
This Sunday I will do 2 hours guitar teaching, do sessions with my students, if I get time play 75 games and in the evening hang with ex.
I still have 7 days (without Sunday) to hit 1075 days which will be more then enough with current pace.

Results graph

ITM distribution graph

HU 41 vs 30 or 20% vs 17%

Day 24

125 games - 5.08 hours

Massive earthquake happened that was shaking whole apartment on the 10th floor for 2 minutes. This is the reason I stopped running new tables in 1st session, did only 22 games. After it went to coffee with best friend followed by lunch with my dad and brother. 2nd session was super long, did 103 games total in that session to top it up to 125 games for the day.

I played really well today and yesterday, very happy with my play overall.
Also glad to see that distribution on 30s is going my way as now I have 35.9% ITM and over 3% ROI pre RB there. I think I can get it to 5-6% but it will take couple thousand games for it to happen.

Anyways heading now for CL finals match at best friends, I leave you with results for the day.

Results graph

ITM distribution graph

HU 29 vs 20 or 23% vs 16%

P.S. Tomorrow don't plan to grind any games. Now at 3050 games for the month, 6 days (not including tomorrow) to hit 950 games for 4k total, think I will do it in 5 days from Monday.

Really looking forward to your 25BI days, i suspect there will be more than a few.
Enjoy the football and your friend's company, I think lots are going to be watching it.

As for the earthquake, I hope it was uneventful, what with so many disasters happening around the world lately.

Have a good weekend,

Mal.

Well, I think the Greek quake is meant, whose waves must have reached Serbia as well. It was 6.9 at the epicentre so definitely not uneventful :f_cry:, just Serbia is far enough and didn't suffer much.

Originally posted by gadget51
Really looking forward to your 25BI days, i suspect there will be more than a few.
Enjoy the football and your friend's company, I think lots are going to be watching it.

As for the earthquake, I hope it was uneventful, what with so many disasters happening around the world lately.

Have a good weekend,

Mal.

Negative variance is almost over as I am close to 36% ITM on 30s. With 35.8% ITM I have 3.3% ROI now. With 36+ % I will have 5%+ ROI which is what will happen once variance in next 1-2k games does its work. Also I have tweaked and adjusted to some well know regs on 30s and now feel that have big edge vs anybody there. Overall expect 3% + roi on 30s on average each month with 36% ITM.

Football match was not so great but we hanged out and enjoyed company of another friend of mine who lives in Belgrade but comes to Nis every other weekend to hang with us. Good times.

Quake was crazy, happened in Greece felt it all over the grind office as we are in building that has originally 7 floors but then they rebuilded it by adding 3 more floors. Imagine how quake felt on 10th floor? Everything was going up down left right for 2 minutes. Very stressful for shure, hope it won't happen anytime soon.

Appreciate it Mal and have a good weekend as well!

Originally posted by tonypmm
Well, I think the Greek quake is meant, whose waves must have reached Serbia as well. It was 6.9 at the epicentre so definitely not uneventful :f_cry:, just Serbia is far enough and didn't suffer much.

Tony people who live in buildings on fewer floors didn't feel it that much but this was definitely one of the strongest ones we felt in a while!

Peđa crushing, nothing new on the forum keep it up bro.

Originally posted by FFRRAANNKKIIEE
Peđa crushing, nothing new on the forum keep it up bro.

Appreciate it Frankie

Day 26

150 games - 5.77 hours

2 sessions only today, 75 games each. I went to bed fairly late last night (after 3am) so I didn't get enough sleep. After 1st session felt tired and like I needed a quick nap.
2nd session was full of setups and HU mostly as ss and card dead.

Overall 150 instead of 200 games which leaves 4 more days of 200 games to complete the challenge within next 5 days.

Results graph

ITM distribution graph

HU 29 vs 28 or 19% vs 18%

It got leveled cause of bad distribution in 2nd session 75 games - no worries.

Day 27

200 games - 7.68 hours

Again 3 sessions , 75 75 and 50. I got used to this already and will hopefully resume with it in June or at least do 2 x 75 sessions when I grind.

Day started great, 1st session was EV + 260 , running bellow EV 160$. 2nd session slaughter house, setups and loosing to 2-3 outers backdoors and such. 3rd session continued like 2nd but towards the end some HUs finally to lower minus for the day.

Standard bad day results wise but very happy how I played overall. Felt I was playing my B game , B- at worst so that makes me happy.

600 games left to complete the challenge - can't wait!

Results graph

ITM distribution graph

Look at 4th and 5th place finishes , it tells you a lot about setups.

HU 37 vs 30 or 18% vs 15%
ITM total 33.50% only !!!