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Performance Targets for the 2nd week (w40)
[ ] I wake up at the same time at least 6x. I will not snooze. I create a pre-bed time routine.
[ ] I focus on quality by tableselecting, and I play at least 10k hands.
[ ] I end the day's session with 30 minute cooldown HH' review 3x
[ ] I prepare for the session and create the basic warm-up routine. 5x
[ ] I watch 2x liveplay videos and keep short notes. Pause/think/play on interesting spots.
[ ] 3x 75-90m street workouts. Day 4 either cardio or workout plans.
[ ] I never miss twice meditation streak.
[ ] I Update this thread next Monday which is my day-off.
Sept. 28, 2020 | 8:02 p.m.
lIlCitanul Thanks! Stars only for now.
UPDATE:
I wake up at the same time at least 6x. I create a pre-bed time
routine. [75%]
Did it 5x. One day I went ool and woke up +3h of when I planned. Next step is to stop snoozing, and wake up in the same time 6x, in a 15minute range.
I focus on quality over volume . 5 playing days, 3-4h sessions,
3-4 reg tables. [110%]
I played 6 days. Hours went 2/3/2/3 8/4 for 22h total. On Saturday I had built momentum and went for it. Most volume was 4x around 25% was 3tabling, mostly at the beginning of the week.
Managed to book a winning week (+12bi !) after 3 loosing ones. Let's see if the sunrun from the posts will continue. Graph
I prepare for the session as it's super important during
downswings. 5x [66%]
Besides meditation, I did a bunch of HH +pio sims of marked hands, as a warm up to get me in the poker-thinking zone before playing. I am looking to set a structured warm up routine and have some alternatives for defirent phases. Like shot-taking/downswing/energize etc. Let's see.
I watch 2x videos and keep short notes. Pause/think/play on
interesting spots. [100% ]
I watched mindset and mental game content. Though it would be a good way to balance it with the strategic-focused routine.
3x 75-90m workouts in the callisthenics park, run a 5k in <30m
on Saturday after work [100%] .
Super happy for my workouts, did also run the 5k in 32m!
I never miss twice meditation streak.
On point but missed once[100%].
I Update this thread next Monday which is my day-off.[100%]
There you go! But went to update it and I deleted the whole thing. Had to re-write it again. Such a fish I am .
Sept. 28, 2020 | 7:54 p.m.
Performance Targets for the First week (w39)
[ ] I wake up at the same time at least 6x. I create a pre-bed time routine.
[ ] I focus on quality over volume . 5 playing days, 3-4h sessions, 3-4 reg tables.
[ ] I prepare for the session as it's super important during downswings. 5x
[ ] I watch 2x videos and keep short notes. Pause/think/play on interesting spots.
[ ] 3x 75-90m workouts in the callisthenics park, run a 5k in <30m on Saturday after work.
[ ] I never miss twice meditation streak.
[ ] I Update this thread next Monday which is my day-off.
Sept. 21, 2020 | 8 p.m.
My journey from little to a lot.
I am M. 26 yo, an ex -variance sample- *sorry, MTT player. At the beginning of the year after some unfortunate events, I had to get a real & low variance job (which I find a very dangerous thing to do for my personality and ambitions) . With 1k$ online I decided to have a shot at a serious game like the 25NL . After April and thanks to quarantine, I moved to 50NL. I had plenty of time to grind in that time period, and the games where soft enough. I somehow managed to play like 24 days straight or something. Maybe a low freq. daybreak may not, I can't recall. Which is a very unusual thing for me to do as I preach balance in every aspect of life and I try to manifest it with every cell in my bluffing river- body- frequencies.
Numbers. Around June I had $4K in profits and decided to deposit on GG poker, claiming the bonus and such, basically trying to run my roll up to around $6k and start shot taking Benjamins on 100NL. As I logically understood and many professional players advice, getting rakeback is crucial at moving up. The first month I ran on the sunny side and had around $1K only to whale it back a month later. Besides this first kinda real swing ( like -30bi) and hit to my NL100 plans, I decided to buy a share of a very +EV real estate property which I think I can 3-4x in the next 10years. That led me to have a roll of around 2000$ at the beginning of this month. (September for those who are reading this in the future)
Ok no-problemo I said to myself. Coming back from holidays, I started sessions again at 25NL, with huge confidence, a little tanned, and a little rusty. That bit of a break+no serious active study/practice (since regging 50NL)+ having my confidence meeting my redline (yeap you guessed it very south for a hot-blooded young fellow) led to -500$ and currently 60 bi to work with.
Anyway, not surprisingly enough I will start playing again on stars and keep this blog as a journal/medium to track my progress, get better, add discord buddies and strengthen the right neural connections so that I can start folding little and bluffing a lot.
Obvious patterns that one can spot from my first spot
[x] Not funny
[x] Talk too much
[x] Probably a breakeven reg
[x] Results oriented
[x] Good with girls, because fuck logic
The 3rd and specially the 4th point will be my main areas to work on for the upcoming season.
*The tittle is quoted from a nice comment SauloCosta10 left, stating that the greatest players in NLHE fold little and bluff a lot.
Results for the year so far, what you see in the graph - minus a couple ore hundreds- but who cares.
End of second (w40) week in the Books!
Mixed feelings about this last week. I agreed with my employer to start working from home which has obvious benefits and some drawbacks. Best thing is, I can be full structured on how I plan my day and dedicate even more time to chasing a full time poker career.
I managed to wake up at the same time within like +/- 10minutes, and completing everyday my 45' morning routine, except from today which I decided consiously to oversleep, since is my 'day off'
Volume was good, clocked 12K hands, a 20% increase from what I expected. Quality was poor though as specially at the beginning of the week I didn't prepare for the sessions and I played close to my B-C game. On the weekend I maned up and did my full time session warm up, it got me on the zone and I almost pull it off. Last 2 hours of yesterday's performance though dipped a little more -an overall mediocre performance week. Down 6 stacks for the week and we are good to go.
Main lesson, was how important is for me personally, is to warm up before each session, and how easily my A game can volatile, and result in a poor performance. I will switch back to the 3-table full focus mode for this week volume plan, and go from there.
Good thing iirc, is that I did the 30m coold-down hh review around 4times. I will try to implement it again this week. I did watch 3 videos of liveplay and did the pause/play excercise, but I am guilty of not keeping any notes.
And for the last point, did my daily meditations and missed once. Noticed that most misses are either Monday or Friday. Did 3 workouts around 60-80m each and I think I am at my all time high in terms of strenght and performance. Time to start learning some new moves. As promised to myself I updated this thread for the second consecutive week. Hopefully I get back tmr and post this week's goals and some macro thoughts on the developing of my game.
Cheers and run good.
Oct. 5, 2020 | 6:17 p.m.