One Step Beyond- My 60k Journey-From Thailand to Bali

Hey cordaci,
haha nice 3 years, would have been cool to meet up. For sure, see you if I am back.

2nd week of May, or the beginning of playing again.

I feel much better after the end of this week. Finally I am back to grinding and doing things. I still didn't do everything, but I am kicking it and moving forward again. On top of that I also was doing pretty good and erased my first day of stop loss.

I wanted to play 40 hours, but in the end did around 30. I haven't played on thursday, that is why. And on saturday I had that party event that I promised I'll be there two months ago already and was almost out of Slovenia so I slept over and couldn't put in 10 hours both days.
I watched some videos and analyzed a couple of hands and did equity first two days, but then forgot about it. I mean playing is my priority anyway, but I want to develop that habit that I'll just do some equities and those basics everyday. But overall I am happy I put the wheels in motion and got my motivation and energy back!

During the breaks I was also working out a lot. I didn't have structured working out session I just did it during the day a few times. Lifting some weights, pull ups, pushups, sit-ups, planks, squats etc. I try to do a few series when I get on it, to really go to the limit. I will probably keep it like that next week as well.

Otherwise I am again in Vampire style, playing whole night until 8,9am and then sleep. I don't like it, hope I manage to change it, but I will just play and see what's up next week.

The main graph of MAy first 2 weeks:

There quite some hands missing, but after the first day bump (much bigger than on graph), this is how it went more or less. First week, or day to be more exact I went down cca 350€ and now we recovered a bit with 750€ profit these days. I played just about 5000 hands.

Next two weeks I will play 60hours and then I have 2 days more to end the month, so that would make it around 175hours of playing which is not that bad, considering I missed more than third of the month.

Next weeks plan is so:

- I will play 60 hours- (6days 10hours), 1 day free.

-every playing day will do equities first thing in the morning, and while playing mark and analyze hands, also the ones other students ask about

- Workout 4 days a week. Monday, tuesday, thursday, friday probably.

That is basically it. I would go for learning Spanish or Thai as well and running in the morning, but now with sleeping all day and playing all night I am not yet completely ready. If My schedule will be good though I will try to squeeze it in. To get back into a habit, I just need to foremost do the first 3 objectives.

3rd week of May:

It was intense 7 days. I did play according to the schedule, 6days 10hours and had yesterday free, where I didn't even turn on the computer, but spent it outside all day, saw different friends, had barbecue etc. I also had a surprise party on Thursday, but I still stayed on schedule. I was playing mostly during nights and didn't have best traffic some hours in between. Also two nights in a row I think they were working on something as I had some internet problems, which are basically nonexistent for me otherwise.

I did exercise a bit some days but I think more 3 days than 4.

Equities and studying I didn't do that much. I did watch 2 videos, when not having action for long stretches and discussed a few hands, but when I play 10 hours I don't study much, so maybe for next months I will cut down a bit on playing and study more. I had 5 similar opponents that were making me some troubles and I did get a bit better playing them, but I want to really sit down and break down their ranges, do some math and analysis on different board textures etc. I think I should do this at least once a week if not more. Or every time I have a special case and one area I feel weak at.

Graph of 3rd week:

someother one in bb:

Lately graphs are not the most accurate, some sites have main hands missing and same with converters and have a few untracked ones.

I played just about 6517 hands in 60 hours, because of night hours and some internet problems and the profit for the week was 915€

Plans for next week are pretty much the same:
- play 60hours
-do equities
-workout

Results are pretty good, I am still not playing NL200 as I wanted to get my feeling back a bit, I still had some spewy calls I am not happy about and was pretty mad at myself. Next week I will maybe start with NL200, not sure if I am mentally ready at the moment as I am a bit tilty, feel a bit under pressure on more fronts so am too much results oriented

This week I had a lot of problems with my mental game.It is not that I am running bad and can't deal with it. I have a lot of thoughts on my mind that I need to think about and decide on what my next move is. Mostly poker related. It affects also my performance as I am unsatisfied a bit and then try to force some things. So basically everyday I played I could have a pretty good day, but then I made a lot of mistakes, tilted a bit and just spewed so much money away. Yesterday I almost hit stoploss and was mentaly really in bad shape, so I quit early and went out to relax and cooldown.

I decided to stop my grinding challenge as I feel it is not the right way to go at the moment. My tilt was connected with a few players that beat me and I just couldn't find a way to get them.Because of that inability to adjust, next day I wanted to try some other stuff and again put myself in the same situation. It continued every day until two days ago I lost 4 stacks to one guy and also tilted in the end. I never felt quite like that before. I felt soooo bad. Yesterday it didn't go quite to that proportions, but was very similar and on top of that was not running best.

Better efforts right now for me will be to put more time into studying as I have quite some things I need to finish and playing 60 hours a week, I just cant do it. I think it will be better if I take time to analyze these opponents and get my game to higher level and get all my answers answered.

So, the end of the 4th week:

It was not a good week, as I said I spewed a lot of money unnecessarily. Otherwise could have a pretty good week.
On Monday I was sleeping all day so the plan was then to play from Tuesday to Sunday to complete my 60 hours. But everyday I just threw money away with my battles and tilting. On Friday it was too much and I decided I quit and take a few days off and just figure some stuff out that was bothering me and there were some decisions that needed to be made.

But that is done now.

I played 37hours, 5683 hands and profit of whooping 48€. (could have been more at 600 -700€ area for sure.

Graph of this week:

And this one is pretty explanatory on how the week went.

4 stacks vs one opponent, another 2 or 3 vs another. Some pots won are missing so it is not true result but yeah.

I took some days off, and on Sunday I was studying a lot. Have a lot of concept and strategy videos I need to work through. And so the ones I had I need to really go over and drill them.

So this is the plan for next week:
-I will play 35hours this week (maybe 40)
-I will study cca 20 hours-have a lot of things planned that I need to do
-I started Tapout XT. it's a bit longer workout, but I feel bad physically so it will be good.
- I almost completed my diet plan

I think it will be easier to schedule my day now, as I was usually playing 10 hours straight. with studying and 7 hours per day playing I can have things broken down. Also serious workout will do me good I really had some problems lately with sitting too much, my sit and stand desk was really golden at times, but I needed a good trashing that I got today with Tapout.

So that is it. I feel quite rejuvenated and excited on studying more I think for next two weeks at least it will be great and then I might switch to grinding more. But it is a necessity for me at this time to do my analysis and kick my game up another notch.

Guess who's back!

Been a long time since I wrote something and to be honest I didn't have much inspiration to write. A lot of things are the same all the time anyway. I've been thinking a lot about my life etc. Some things changed and also things in poker are changing so I needed to weigh my options and decide what is the best way for me to proceed.
I think now I am mostly set and know what I want to do.

What was I doing last 2+ months?

In June I started with a lot of studying and a little less playing, but even my winning days seemed like losing and then one big losing day just did it. Poker was really tough with so much stuff on my mind. I made some big decisions later and also got an opportunity to explore some other business outside of poker with a friend of mine. As my mind was off poker I decided to try to, it was more for the test and if anything would come out of it, I could slowly do it and scale it on the side. However I spent waaay more time than I thought on that. There are a lot of small things you have to figure out when jumping into the new area. In the end there was some smaller success, but I would need to spend a lot more time and money for it. For now it is best I focus just on poker and maybe somewhere in the future venture forward.

In July I finally did a stronger schedule. As I was studying a lot some new stuff I tried that in the first days and got completely destroyed as I found myself in a lot of new situations. Also after one month of no playing it was not easy to do it. Second week I went to the sea side with a friend, I took my mobile workstation with me and had really full days. Was working out everyday, then swim and realx on the beach, ate super good food and then played poker and studied. In the evening it was UFC or soccer time. It was the week of UFC200, which meant 3 days of event with the celebrity finale (damn you Jon Jones!!!), EURO finals etc. It was very productive and fun. I still spent quite some days outside with friends after at various events, but slowly got more discipline and poker back into my life. In the end I managed to get out of the red numbers I got in the first days.

First week of August I had my very good friend from Spain visiting me in Slovenia. I knew I wont be playing any poker. It was again eventful, first day before coming even to Slovenia we got "stuck" in Italy for the whole night, next day had a great Slovenian lunch at my friends house with millions of homemade liquors to test that took whole day and next day we went to Belgrade for a few days. There we had some awesome culinary experiences, lots of beer, some party, swimming at Ada Ciganlija and some sight seeing. Last days we ended up on the Slovenian Coast, where again was pretty sweet.
But that will not stop the poker motor I started in June

Poker Summary:
in May I had about 1500€ profit
June didn't play
And July about 300€ (didn't play much)

Overall I was doing better and better until January and than basically stopped playing. A few weeks here and there, but otherwise a pretty bad year.

So what now?
Now is time to finish what I started. Before April is the deadline I would like to finish my 60k journey. That I still have a lot to do as this year was as it was, but I think I can do it. There will be no more lost weeks or months.
Travels, girls, whatever must come only after poker things are completed.

From now on full speed ahead!

The return! (completed quite successfully)

Man, it felt great to put a nice week of playing in again. I did 40hours which is not huge, but it has been awhile since I put longer sessions in in consecutive days. First two days of the week I couldn't get myself to play, vacation really does get me off the track, but then I had no choice, but to start as I also had some barbecue/celebration on Friday. I did get 20 hours in during the week and then 20 hours in the weekend.

In the beginning I got pretty much owned left and right and I didn't find good adjustments and I somehow got beat even by quite an easy opposition. I think I was running bad, but also playing not so good. When things were at the worst I even got a nice QQ<A8 dagger for about 120€ to really make it worse and I was just super frustrated... But I was beginning to feel better and better as days went by and last day I was really happy with my play, got some very good creative ideas and adjustments down and just knew much more what is happening at the tables

So I think rust is coming off and I am quite happy with progress and starting this 8 or 7.5 months journey. Also feeling I am gaining momentum back as lately I didn't feel it inside, even with setting my goals and all. But action is what makes all the difference. It is good to have a strong goal and know where you are going, but maybe sometimes just going and taking action for some smaller thing even if you don't have stuff figured out makes all the difference to get you back in the groove.

Another good motivation for me was Doug Polk's (WCGRider's) challenge as he played an almost 20hour session on NL2. That just got me thinking how much determination does the best guys have, if millionaire is going so hard at it at NL2 for his challenge, it just shows what kind of sessions he had when raising through stakes and work off the tables when he was still more active in the grind. Also going down that much and still being so uplifted etc. I mean so many lessons to learn from that session and then I am slacking here with my low hours while trying to build up my dream... So yeah,note to self: what the hell bro!

I also started to do kind of Hour of Power again, but do the shorter versions of it or similar things to it as it worked really good when I was doing it before.

Anyway results are not good, but I got out of the red and finished at about 247€ profits and played 6300 hands.

So see you next week, hope some crushing will be happening and I also can't wait again for the UFC202 this week

RETURN of the tres:

This is only the beginning! Don't get comfortable. One step at the time and don't put too much pressure on yourself about everything. One thing at the time and you will reach your goal faster than you expect.

Good work and keep crushing it!

Hey all, just finished this week's playing.

Hey Yax! Yeah write me this in about 2 months please That is when things usually get comfortable or I forget to keep on climbing and improving and am satisfied go enjoy myself to reward me. Not this time though! Thanks for the encouragement. You can do some update as well on what is going on in your life.

As I had an unexpectedly busy friday and some things came up I needed to do and solve and I had a whole afternoon birthday barbecue I had to go to scheduled on saturday. The last 26 hours ended with 19hours of poker, 5 hours of sleeping and 2 hours of UFC watching. Action packed from midnight till 2am the next day

I don't think I have played the best and made quite some questionable calls. Mostly at the end of sessions. Today I was surprisingly focused.

I have played 40 hours, 5480 hands and made 498€ of profits. Especially because of today. I didn't study as much as I wanted so definitely need to step up here and do my routine so I won't need to do extreme weekends anymore and even up my workload. But just getting 40hours as minimum is much better than before.

I don't put much graphs lately as they are pretty messed up with lots of hands are missing from it etc. So they are not the most representative, I think this weeks is though. Half of the hands are missing but this is kind of how the week went. Started very bad and then recovered.
The run good graph:

The game is not yet on the level I can have it, so I hope I become better and also have better results next week !

Other than that I finally got DispalPort-> HDMI active adapter so I can use 3 screens, adding the one I bought in Thailand. All I have to sa about it is that it is pure heaven!

Now I am really thinking about 4k 40'' display, to get someday in the future.

About UFC… man it was an awesome event, was quite excited watching it, was a good break between playing .

Tomorrow is a free day and then back in action!

gl. you doing great

Thanks Upping the workload next month and let's make it greater

CATASTROPHY:

On Monday I went to the sea side for a free day. slept just 4 hours before going and also got stuck in traffic. So instead of needing about an hour in each direction I needed about 5 alltogether. So I was super tired on Tuesday and also Wednesday. So I started playing on thursday it was much smoother with hours than last week, where I played 19hours last day. Although I still played 14 hours on Saturday just as I felt like it.

So how was poker?

1st Day: All seemed good, disciplined playing was up about 150€
2nd Day: In first half hour I was already down 200€ and then I was grinding all day and got pretty much back to zero.
3rd Day. Lost some win some and started building my stack. was quite over 200€ already, played 10 hours, week was looking promising again if Sunday would be nice, but as I was not sleepy yet. So I played some more and I met my opponent who changed the course. I thought I have him and then he just won every big pot and then I lost some flips as well and all of the sudden in last hour and a half I lost about 300€ and ended -50... What a shocker that was from being totally satisfied not long ago.
4th Day: I was still in a bad mood in the beginning, so started a bit later. Aaaand the first opponent is my old buddy from last night. I was happy to get the opportunity to get some money back, but it went same way... I lost another 100€. Then I had some NL200 action where just a few pots made it -300€ for the day. So again I begin my battle up and by the end I almost do it. BUT I get some nice opponents on NL200 but things just don't go, made a bad call on nL100 as I was not so concentrated and boo, I was back in black hole and close to 300€ in the red. Just nothing hold up

So that made a stamp on the week and also the whole month. pretty horrible and hard to get over. But to make it worth the money lost it I need to learn from it, get better and not repeat it. I want to analyze opponent and solve him or see if it was variance, need to check my playing versus some villains as I noticed I am doing some mistakes.

I figured out some tracker issues and now graphs are again more correct: Here you can see the crazy happenings:

I played 5250 games, 44hours and had -215€ It went bad on highest limits in bb we would be about 6 stacks up.