My Road To Profesional Poker Player

Hi everyone,

Finaly back on track. Morning session was again superb. Just need this to keep going.
Here are stats:

And also a little to sweat untill the end of the week:

Now I am going to my job. When I came back, I will make another session of 35 games, so I continue pace with 70 games per day.

GL at tables!

Hi everyone,

Second session wasn`t so succesful as morning one. But overal I am happy. Still have plenty work to do off the tables. So I go straight to bed to wake up earlier to do some stuff.

Also I update my challenge.

Here are stats and graph from June:

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ITM is a bit higher, most likely getting good card distribution.
Having said that, with this ITM it is possible to get 10% ROI which means we need to work harder to get to that level. Still same things apply!

Hi everyone,

Just get another homework to do and is about my HU. so I will dig in it as soon as possible. I realy wanna step up in HU, so I am realy excited what will happen when I do homework and learn some things that coach gave to me. Thanks again Peđa!

Now what happen last few days? I keep pace in 70 games per day, so I need to continue that to catch 150 games that I am behind right now (more in my challenge).

Also very important thing for me is study and learn, so interesting weeks are in front of me.

I was also thinking of going to the sea (Duga Uvala - Croatia), where I have trailer, to look how it is, but it seems that will be raining. Hope it won`t. I need to prepair everything for the time, when I will go there with my girl and dog. What it special there is that we don`t have watter and electricity. We are like in stone age there, like Flintstones, so we can realy just relax and ejoy. But this year I will also have to grind there, so I already looking for some solar charger for my laptop.
If I won`t find suitabel charger, then I will rent a room for a week.

Now I must go to work. Here are stats and graph from June:

GL at tables!

You welcome and look forward to work you will do from today's session.

The place looks lovely, even without electricity and water I would go there for a short weekend to chill

Don't worry about volume, primary focus is studying always and don't forget to find time to enjoy life with trips like one mentioned!

Hi everyone,

Week is almost over. There is just few minutes left. I just finnish my session. Now I will be watching football and chear for Bosnia to get good result against Argentina. Since there is no Slovenia team, I chear for Croatia and Bosnia. Especialy for second one, because it is their first big tournament.

So as I mentioned previous Sunday, I was on the top on leaderboard of Battle of the Planets high orbit promotion (Mars). I finish on 40th place, so I will get $15. It is my second bonus of that promotion and I will do my best, that it wouldn`t be the last one.

Also my HU game is improving and I am realy happy about that, because I was realy bad in that area. I still have a lot of work to do, so I am realy optimistic about what will happen after this month, when I will be much stronger in HU.

Also here is link to updated challenge: June Challenge

Here are stats and graph from June:

GL at tables!

Hi everyone,

wow how fast time passes. I didn`t update that blog for about 10 days. Nothing big happen, but I am just short with time. My day is too short for everything to be done. I was also start to work in cold store (-20°C) and that exhausted me, because I drink a lot of water and there you can`t drink or you will froze. I get out every 2h, but in that period of time I usually drink 1l of water. So because of that I came home realy exhausted and wasn`t able to function properly. Just went to bed. And also I work from 8 till 9 hours. If I tell you that I have to ride home for about 1h, that is 2h per day or 10h total.

But next month I have week off, so I will go to the sea to fill my batteries.

What happen in poker? I must admit that because of all that I wasn`t able to grind as much as I should and also my profit wasn`t soo good because of that. I rather spend hours with my full energy to learn HU game. Also I have contstant problems with my HM2. Crashes almost every session. Or better word, frozen. And I have to wait around 2-3 minutes to get message that program doesn`t respond and then I close it and reopen it. So total of 4-5 minutes I am without of HUD and basicaly sitting out. :f_mad:
Because of that I decide to buy PT4 and I will do that this week. Maybe I also should reinstall my comp, but this take sooo much time. And I know I will have to do it in near future, to speed up working proces of my comp. Or buy another one because that one is like 5 years old. Will see.

From everything that happen last few days, I must also admit that I wouldn`t be able to complete my challenge. I am not proud of that, but I am also not very sad about it. Why? Because I didn`t rather play video games or watch some movie or go out for a drink or something, but I spend those hours for improving my game, to do homeworks that I get from my coach and watch videos that can improve my game. Like that one. Amazing video, recomend it to everyone!

So here are my stats and graph from June:

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Hi everyone,

I finaly buy PT4. I was so excited that totaly forgot about promotion of PokerStrategy. And yesterday also my coach told me about that promotion, but still forgot. So I basicaly just blow $10. What is done is done. I can`t change it.

Now I just need to wait that my database from HM2 upload to PT4. What will take a lot of time. Now is about 2h since I start to install it and still importing hands. Hope will finnish till 20:00, because then I have to go to work.

But now I have planty of time to study and owerlook homeworks that I get this month. And watch some videos, so there will be no time spend, but invested

Look where upload of my hands in to PT4 was 2h ago and where is right now:

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And it seems that I have some errors, but my HM crashes like every day, so I am not suprised about that. Will se what I will have when all will done.

Hi everyone,

Finaly I install PT4 on my comp and laptop. Only thing that I must do is to upload my database from comp to laptop. Will do it today when I wake up.

I get unexpected week off from my work, so I will go to the sea from Tueasday till Sunday, and I need to prepare laptop to be able to analize hands that I play this month and to be able to watch Colin`s coaching. And have session with my coach. But as I mantioned before I don`t have electricity there, so I will be looking for some room or something to be able to fill laptop. If I won`t be able to fill it, then I will be left with papers. So basicaly my goal for next week is to do a lot more work away from the tables than grind. I was thinking of playing (if I will play) just $1.5 hyper HU so I will get back with much more HU knowledge. In this week I must get known with all things that coach gave to me so far for HU.

Lets start working vacation. But I will also relax and get drink or two (or much more). My friend is already cooling in fridge

And in Duga Uvala is also outdoor disco, which is realy great. Only thing is that you never know if it is open or not.

I also made 2 day challenge in my June challenge, which you can see here.

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This 1st month was educational. Look forward to goals you will set for yourself for July !

Hi everyone,

Great footbal game tonight between USA and Belgium. Have some drinks and good music after it.

Today some new things will hapen. Maybe I even write some about of my goals for that month. But more about it afternoon today.

fale mi samo drugari (I need some friends to have some good times; to party) :

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Ou Im am so nasty. But anyway untill new grinding/learning month begin:

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Hi everyone,

Finaly get my room, so I can write little bit more about everything. Today I came in hotel to get room, so I will be able to study things that I need to learn as quickly as possible, tonight I will also watch Colins coaching and on Friday I have session with Pedja.

Last month was actualy good one. I end it break-even. Was this good thing? Of course not. Good thing is that now I know what is wrong with my game. What are my major leaks, what I need to improve away from the tables and what attitude I need to have to be able to go from break-even player to player that opponents will look to avoid because of too small edge or no edge at all. I am confident that I can have more then 10% ROI on $3.5 6-max turbos, so this I am looking to achive. But for that I will need to work every day. Thats whay I rent a room in my vacation destination.

So what I will be doing this month? Lets talk a little bit about my goals for July.

I need to improve bubble play in first place. I have way too much 3rd places and also a lot of 4th places. I will improve my bubble play, but I will also look for some spots when I was out on 4th to be sure that I don`t waste too much chips there and that`s whay I can`t much do on bubble.

Second thing is HU. I made big improvment on that area, but still it doesn`t show on my results. So whay I say big improvment? Because before I basicaly didn`t know what I was doing. Now I have very good game plan, which I still need to learn to master it, but as I say, now I know what I am doing and whay. So results will come. No worrys.

Third thing that I need to improve is my livestyle. Yea I again left out all activities, so this will be again on my goal menu. And also food. I start with zone diet but stop very quickly. I even don`t know whay. But now I will stick to it again. I won`t follow it blindly, so I will left place to eat some bad food, but more or less I will try to follow it.

JULY GOALS
Improve bubble play, so I will have at least 5% less 3rd places over 1500 games that I have in June
Improve HU game, so I will have at least 2% more 1st places than 2nd
run everyday for at least 30min - swim at least 200m/day on vacation
eat at least 3 big meals with adding 2 snacks

Those are my goals, which I will put in my July challenge, so I doubt that I will write here much more about them. Only if I will achieve them or not.

Have a nice day off and at the tables and see you in my July challenge.