2016 January (starting Jan 11th) results
Poker
I hit off really good in the beginning of the month running both hot and lucky. Quickly got 10 buy-ins up over like 5k hands playing 4 tables everyday. Then everything went back to normal and I lost around 20 buy-ins by EV over next 20k hands. At that point I had to stop and thing about everything - and I've decided to slow down a little bit and play just 2 tables for a while. Quickly it became 3 tables and that format suits me best for now. Over the last 10k hands my EV went up for about 10 buy-ins - and most importantly I run BELOW EV now, not ABOVE!
In the beginning of the last week I came up with the idea of streaming on Twitch - and so I did. It gave me some troubles at first - setting up everything and stuff, but in the end it felt like a good addition to my daily routine.
Strategy-wise - I've been working whole month with asimos, he's doing a great job being patient and a good friend, but at the same it's great when he's criticizing my plays and goes harsh. It really helps me to get my mindset right and focus more mentally and physically on my game. I feel that overall I'm improving, I feel more confident and less tilty, especially last week when I had to stream and talk through most of my sessions. I express my thoughts and discuss hands during those sessions and that also helps a lot.
Stats are finally coming back to somewhat normal - a bit tighter that is. VPIP/PFR went down to around 28/24, 3bet is 9%, WTSD/W$SD are great 25/51 - overall it feels much solid and reasonable. Unfortunately I couldn't hit 45k hands planned because I had to play 2-3 tables instead of 4 last week, but 40k is a solid volume I believe for now.
Didn't play much Spin & Go's this month. Together with some VIP freerolls had maybe 20 tourneys total at max with profits around 10$. Grinded 10 new VIP steps too, getting around 100k 
which worth 100$ I guess. And on top of that I got sick all of those Cash Game Quest rewards, I mean ALL OF THEM! That is 33 days, everyday - with total profits of 127$ (including 1x50$, 2x10$, 18x2.5$ and 12x1$). And there's more - deposited 3 weeks for the bonuses and got around 50$ there as well although cashed out that 50$ by mistake at the end of the promo when I was getting back what I've deposited 
Spoiler
Current bankroll: 764$
Played at Zoom 10NL 6 max: 39544 of 45000 hands
Net result: +52.97$ and -54.78$ by EV
Waking up at 6 a.m.: 15 of 15 days
Workouts days: 7 of 15 days
Deutsch study: 14 of 15 days
Poker playing and study: 68 hours
Game dev and study: 74 hours
Zoom 10NL stats
Zoom 10NL graph
Programming
I've joined and been working on four projects now, one small which is almost finished, there's just me and one other guy who is an artist. We're making a simple 2D runner game for the mobile and the whole game is basically ready with the design and gameplay programming. What's left to do is some polishing, testing - and we're going to try to release the game during next month.
Three other projects are rather huge. All teams are young, talented and inspired people who have a vision of the game they wanna make, but the vision isn't clear and lack of management and leadership bring the projects down a little bit. But I'm trying to do my part and most of all - learning of the whole project management and team work. Sooner or later I'm planning to start my own project, already have couple of ideas and one of them is actually written down as a full game design document, it was a part of one the courses homework assignments.
Speaking of which - finished two courses, they were rather interesting and somewhat useful actually. One was Introduction to Game Development by Michigan State University and the other is Introduction to Game Design by California Institute of the Arts. Both are parts of the 5-course specialization series and for the following month I've signed up for other five courses already - I hope I'll have time to finished them all.
I'm also working on improving my C# skills. Reading some books and watching tutorials a lot - but mostly related to game development and Unity engine. Unfortunately those Microsoft certificate exams are too distant from my current goal, they deal with multi-threading and stuff - all that I don't really need right now. But at some point I'm hoping to jump into it and work some with the XNA, .NET and Visual Studio.
Sport
It was rather a good start of the month. I've been doing more advanced workouts and at first it felt overwhelming. But after a week or so - I felt so fired up and was putting even more effort. But unfortunately in the beginning of week 14 I hurt my neck and upped back really badly - I still don't know what it was - the cold, the stress, or the effort I put into those workouts - but in any case I couldn't continue with workouts at all. I could barely sleep - in fact laying down in bed was the most painful for some reason, I was struggling with finding a calm and relax pose to sleep and EVERY single move would just hit me with incredible amount of pain - so I was waking up even if I was asleep.
I had to skip all the basketball sessions as I mentioned in the beginning of the month and I also didn't go for a single jogging session. Well, being lazy, overwhelmed with other chores and the fact that the weather was actually very shitty - those are all excuses but not valid reasons, I know. But something had to drop out - and it's fine, because I didn't want to force myself to something that I would really hate and bring me down. So I am still hoping to add it back to my schedule someday - but for now I'm dropping the jogging out.
Deutsch
I had to miss just one day of German learning, don't quite remember what was the reason, but anyway - I'm pretty happy with progress. Finished the A1 book and moved to A2 - it goes slower and it might take more time than I planned for it - but still it's good, slow but steady.
Other stuff
I'm pretty happy and proud of myself - I woke up at 6 a.m. every single day this month! Most of the time I got out from the bed and did some stuff. Sometimes I stayed in bed, reading and snoozing sometimes - which I don't like too much. But overall - I fucking did it!
I've been looking for a job almost on a daily basis. Sent out tons of resumes but so far - not a single positive response. I'm starting to feel even more desperate about it to be honest. Signed up or refreshed my accounts at Xing, LinkedIn and Monster.de - so far no luck.
Trying to spend as much time as I can with the kid and work on our relationships with my wife - but not much progress there neither. Gotta think about it and come up with a plan I guess.
2016 February plans
Plans for the next month are simple really. Continue with playing 10NL Zoom 2-3 tables, streaming and recording all sessions - aiming to get 2k per days so it's 40k hands total. Hopefully I'll do good and will be able to take a shot at 16NL during this month. Going to wake up at 6 a.m. 20 days and do 20 workouts at least once a day. Pain is almost gone so I'll start with easy ones and will try and build up on that. Plus I'm going to play basketball twice - have to skip two more weeks but then - boom! And will look for additional sessions - hopefully will be able to play 2-3 times a week next month. And maybe I'll sign up for a swimming pool once a week with the kid. I am also going to learn Deutsch 20 hours, gotta finish A2 and move to B1. Well I explained programming earlier - will keep doing the courses and code stuff, hopefully will release the first project or at least the beta version of the game. Will keep looking for a job and more projects to work on, maybe something more promising will pop up.
That's it for now, guys. Thanks for your support and good luck in February!
