I really need to work harder on maintaining routines and following schedule. For the last couple of weeks I did not perform very well in that regard. I became a little lazy and unorganized. Going out with friends on fridays and saturdays completly messes up my sleeping schedule. I really feel like I need to schedule my days to optimize time usage. This is something that I'm going to implement next year. I would like to put the days apart and have routines and time blocks for studying my game, reviewing with others, relaxing time and grinding hours. I do think that if I follow strict time schedule, I would perform way better. So many people say that poker is about freedom. We can play when we want, study when we want etc. But it doesn't mean that we can completly ignore basic principles and become hugely unorganized. At the end of the day, this is work and we should behave as professionals. Poker this month is going OKish. After good start in the begining, I have had some breakeven or slightly loosing days. This is mostly caused by myself though. Not grinding enough and not reviewing daily as I used to. Overall, I feel like I have improved my play on the blinds. I was focused a lot on BB defending and SB play in blind v blind spots recently. Feeling more confident everyday. I wonder if having possitive winrate on the SB is possible at these stakes. Anyone has it in green after good samplesize? I'm taking the rest of December a little slower as usual. Christmas time always has been relaxing time, time for family and friends. Still gonna grind a little, but no pressure. Happy holidays everyone! :)
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Hello again guys. I forgot to summarise my November, so there it is. I was a little lazy compared to previous months, but happy with it anyways. I have been discussing hands more and more on discord, meeting like-minded grinders this month. The group is growing and we also filter and kick inactive players, as we feel that sharing and not getting any value back is wrong. Hopefully in a couple of months we gonna get a strong, hard-working environment built by people that want to improve. I recently started thinking about my complete transition to mtts, as the bankroll is growing. I think I will play daytime mtts on different sites as a start and still adding some $3.50+R at the end of the session. Still waiting for the bankroll to hit that $10,000 so I can play $20 ABI (very conservative). I also had very good start in December on sngs. Really happy to be back on track after pretty bad November. Gonna start adding $7.00 on demands and $11.00 KOs to my sessions. More updates soon 🙂
I am someone that doesn't enjoy cooking at all and enjoy good food. That could be costly at times. Eating out or ordering online could be costly sometimes, but if we think about a value of our time, it doesn't look so bad actually. Let me explain. I did some calculations about how much my time is worth and compared it to 4 different 'food supplies'
First, let's calculate our hourly this year. Let's calculate first 10 months of the year, as November has just started. Let's take a October 2018 as an example here ( I am using rescue time to track time spend on PC and categorise different apps) As we can see business contains of pokerstars, pokertracker, discord and other poker related stuff - this is work/business for me = 160 hours/month = 40 hours/week = 5.7 hours/day From Jan to November I have made $14,900 + approximately $300 in PS RB = $15,200 Which is $15,200/10months = $1520/month Therefore, our hourly - I treat poker as a whole, not only playing, so reviewing etc is also work for me, is $1520/160hours = $9.50/hour Wow, this seems low. I am in a process of moving up stakes, so hopefully this number will be constantly increasing, but for now, let's work with it as it is a true hourly for now. Conclusion: An hour of my time is worth $9.50 so far So now, let's see how much time we need to sacrifice of our day to eat. And now let's compare our spendings and time saved. We assume that time saved we spend on poker. I am going to compare cooking for myself to catering only as an example. By cooking we spend 2.5hours/day and we spend $11 By ordering catering we spend 1hour/day and we spend $19 So, if we order, we save 1.5 hours but we pay $8 more. Is 1.5h saved worth more then $8? Of course, 1.5hours x $9.50 hourly = $14.25 So, in this example, putting our 1.5hours saved into poker will net us $14.25 and we spend $8 more compared to cooking. This is $6.25 net profit everyday. ($187,50/month and $2250/year). Actually, it is eye opening! Also, there is a huge benefit in ordering healthy catering as well. Firstly, we get 4 balanced meals with calculated calories and macro. We don't feel full and we deliver good balanced diet everyday. The food itself taste amazing, so it's definietely +lifeEV Maczfit is Polish catering company that I have used in the past, but it is only an example of course. Unfortunately, I don't have any affiliate links or promos for you I have nothing to do with the company itself. But I will definietely order 2500kcal for a month very very soon. Look at these beauties! October was good. Grinded hard, worked my ass off both indivudually and with my discord group. Mtt sngs are going very well, I feel like I have a massive edge over the field because of the hard work I put in recently. I am also very happy how discord is growing. We started with a group of about 10 players and now It's 50 of us with new players joining eveyday.
At the end of October I decided to add some mtts to my sessions. I will continue adding more in November as I feel that I gain a lot of experience which will help me to transition to grind them full time in the future. I also review a little with a cash game player, and I really like his approach. Cash game players think a little differently and I believe that it is a correct way of analysing hands. He seems to be very professional. Because of that, I want to add some cash game sessions (probably zoom NL25) to learn deepstack poker and to gain more experience thinking about postflop ranges etc. I really enjoy it. I believe that even if $ value in playing zoom is not that high, the value and experience that I will get will surely pay off in the future. Same goes for learning ICM in hypers. I think I might add few sessions of hyper 6max in November too. Some graphs and numbers below. Peace! Just a quick post about what I have been thinking about lately and what changes I have implemented because of a few conversations with smart friends and some tedx videos.
So we all live in a very distractive environment. Eveything around us fight for our attention. Notifications, buzzers, people, eveything wants to get our attention. I order to stay focused and driven (especially during grinding and/or studying) we should try to limit those distractions. It was always a problem of mine. Being on facebook, skype, discord, watching youtube motivation video or just browsing while loading my session. Since 2-3 months, I took a approach that I am going to limit those distractions one by one. At this very moment I can tell that I have achieved almost 100% of my plan. So what exactly did I do? Presession I: - meditate with headspace, go through 100 spots on snapshove and play 1 session on lumocity (brain teasing app) - close all tabs in firefox. I only have sharkscope and random number generator tab open - close skype and discord - turn off the internet on mobile devices - play music from random playlists on spotify (deep house etc, preferably with no lyrics at all)* - start reging sngs * music without lyrics or with very limited ammount is not taking too much of our focus as our brain doesn't have to concentrate additionally on lyrics and understanding/interpreting them. This also applies for listening to podcast or twitch while playing. We waste way too much mental energy on that. And obviously I was guilty of doing this in the past. I am really happy with my routine so far and I just though that I am gonna share it with you guys. For all that don't really believe that being a little distracted hurts their winrates - just try to avoid them for 2-3 sessions. You will see the difference and never look back. Social media and all BS that goes with it. There is so much information about how bad social media is for our development, self esteem and productivity. However, everyone is on it regardless. I am gonna post some links about social media impact below. In general, my take on this is that it is very counter productive to spend even a little time on any platform. It doesn't bring any value and all it does is broadcast fake reality and make us depressed. People only post good stuff, interesting moments and generally when they have accomplished something or went on holidays. Then there are us, scrolling through all that information about how perfect and fulfilling our friends' lifes are and we sit at home being miseaurable watching all that happening around us. I was guilty of having these thoughts before and I was also spending way too much time on facebook and instagram. I wasn't even involved that much. Not posting, just scrolling and judging. Looking back, I feel embaressed and really sad that it was such a huge part of my life. Yes, you guessed it. I deleted all social media platforms and I never felt eager to come back really. For all of you needing proof to what I am saying, please watch some vids and tell me what you think Peace! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Czg_9C7gw0o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3E7hkPZ-HTk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOchBnZJdEk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gM3KIvZO5oU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trVzyG4zFMU I think this is pretty interesting spot and way of thinking vs recs that came up doing my daily review.
https://replayer.runitup.com/hands/81c5a2e856 we play vs fish, so decided to go full exploitative here. I think that his range consists of small PP, some med suited connectors and broadways as well as small to mid suited Ax and hands that he doesn't want to raise and decide, but limps and calls so AJo ATo A9o. In theory we should be checking range oop, but here vs fish I think betting on the bigger side has merit as we want to maximize FE vs his wideish range. Maybe should bet 50% instead of 66% tho. Def see that we have immidiate FE OTF. Turn is interesting, decided to bet 1bb because I dont want to be facing big bet and also when 3 pairs, I think our FE goes way down and he calls whatever he called OTF with. OTR, having a Q sucks as we block his obv QJ combos, so I don't really think we should be bluffing this hand. He never folds a Tx (but he raises some of them OTT vs 1bb), I dont think he folds a 9x as they are really stationy. So the range we are targeting is Ax that peeled (he prob folds most of Ax so not that many combos left), lower FD and QJ. So maybe betting 10% pot just to fold out this part of his range is a way to go? I don't care about balancing vs recs. Pretty interesting spot IMO. $3.50+R are my main game this month, I focus on them mostly and been working hard on improving postflop play. I try to think deeply through a hand, focus on ranges (my range and villains range), apply sizings that I think are correct in any given spot and target specific parts of opponents range. Some people say that sngs are push/fold game only. I strongly disagree. Most people have this approach and they don't work on their postflop game. They don't have a gameplan and don't understand their range at all. I think that if we minimise mistakes postflop, then we can build stacks and chip up nicely. If we constantly build up, we will be on a shortstack less often then our opponents, so we will have less very marginal EV spots. AI EV in <15bb is around 5bb/100 or so, so pretty marginal and regs don't really make mistakes on this stackdepth, so we should work hard on postflop gameplan to accumulate as much as we can. This is where EV comes from in those games IMO. I also started adding some mtts to my daily grind. Yesterday I FT bubbled Big $7.50 :( Onto the next one!
October is going well so far. I managed to build my my bankroll so I can grind $3.50+R regularly now, which makes me very happy as I think I have a huge edge in this format. What I noticed however is that on demand sngs are not going as well as expected. I am running terrible and probably playing pretty bad in $15 and in $7 I don't think I can make double digit ROI. I decided to stop grinding $15s for now and focus more on $3.50+R and add some vanilla mtts to my sessions. This way I will lower variance and have a shot of building my bankroll more quickly. I do believe small stakes mtts are super soft these days and I can achieve 50%+ ROI in them. Sooo... Like I said, I will be posting whenever I feel like it :)
Last few months I was grinding quite a bit and managed to get get out of previous downswing rather smoothly. Now I am playing $3.50+r reguralrly alongside with $2.50, $7.00 on demands, $4.50 non turbos and $5.00 PSKOs to maintain clean, 16-20 tabling. I feel very confident with my game again and feel like I have improved a lot. Reviewing 5-10 sngs/day and working on some spots. Also, I realized that I have had so many people marked as regulars purely because of volume they put in or amount of hands I had on them. Sadly (or not really) majority of those players suck! So I am constantly degrading them into either loosing reg, or just fish. It's so amuzing to see that even guys that have 5-10% ROI in those games, have no clue about optimal lines, preflop gto and dynamics. I guess poker will never die. At least on micro/low limits. My bankroll curently sits at $2500 and when I reach $3000 I will add $15.00 on demands. Results since the last post are below. Peace and love! :) I feel very motivated. I realized that I need to put in the hours and hard work to succeed. I am hoping that July will be the month with the highest volume ever and that I keep grinding more after seeing results. My goal is to play at least 40 hours per week. It is absulute minimum. So far so good. Hard work pays off for sure.
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