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LemOn[5thF] Czech Republic. Mar 02 2014 16:20. Posts 15163 | | |
What a challenging month this was!
It was so tough that I forgot how to divide paragraphs, so let's use, you know it:boobs!
*NOTE: Stuff in spoilers definitely NSFW*
You know what they say - if you don't face challenges, you never improve.
Winter hit, it was real depressing im not used to this. I got a cold and troubles with my back came back, my tooth got infected and after the cold ended a nasty sinus infection came (EWWW)
that tilted my sleep regime, it was around 4am to 12 at one point. Had to stop weightlifting because it was making me worse in goals and didn't manage to come back to a new routine (have to do high reps low weight, flexibility and balance stuff - way more boring that standard bro stuff). My landlord kept working on the bathroom waking me up at 8am with a drill and had a really bad internet connection at the start of the month. Added to that was a couple -12BI sessions in the month, and a getting raped by super bad regs HU (I lost like 8BI to this -7bb/100 fishreg). And voila - challenging fun stuff was ready to be handled :D
My mental game got so weak at one point I started throwing my mouse and broke it, punched a water bottle a few times and neighbors must have thought there's a retarded grizzly bear in the building as I was shouting in disbelief during a few sessions. So yeah the most challenging month so far pretty much.
All things considered, I love how I handled it and it made me much stronger. Near the end of it when I knew I just cannot lose because withdrawal's coming I did everything to bounce back.
Power walks to nature during the morning, hot baths during the day, I listened to hours of hypnosis by Paul McKenna (positivity - good stuff before sleep), revisited the 7hour seminar by Zig Ziglar on how to stay motivated, came to trainings 40 minutes early to do warmup, stretching and my tai-chi/yoga routine, forced myself to sleep around 1AM even lying in bed for 30 minutes before I fell asleep, went to Sauna twice, started using tomighty to limit my sessions to 1 hour, used the rule that after every suckout stack off I have to close my eyes and do mindful breathing 1-10.
I also set a day without poker - Every Monday after weekend push I set up a to-do list of chores and stuff I need to do, and during one Monday I booked 3 doctors, set up a new bank account did shopping for a week, dealt with my health isnsurance, cleaned my room did laundry etc. etc. so I can focus on grind for the rest of the week - something I will keep doing and definitely recommend.
This weekend I was still really on the edge, but especially morning walk and timing sessions with mindful breathing after every suckout made ma manage to drop 5BI in 500 hands and still come back on top without going crazy and managed 7.2hr grind:
+ Show Spoiler +
February graph:
Its around $1k including rakeback in roughly 112 hrs
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mostly micros, I made money at NL50 again but with the issues I had I rly wasnt fit to grind it a ton.
I also learned quite a bit - worked on PF ranges vs good aggro regs using Janda's book, Pokerstrategy and watching vids (got access to rio, ivey poker cr dtb, pokerstrategy), discovered that equilab has the same feature as flopzilla (hand strenght distribution on boards for ranges) and started playing with that too. I'm still looking into the whole range control/balance/exploitive/practical application thing and think I have a good grasp of it but March will be all about actually putting in work in practice and breaking down ranges for postflop as well - I started it in February started putting a group together but when I started tilting and throwing my mouse I had to use all my powers to stabilize my mental game and counter the challenges being thrown at me and push my C instead of A game
March
Tomorrow I go for a health check up for the first time in about 7 years with a list of stuff I need to deal with, will finally get new contact lenses (been wearing 1 month ones for a year now :D) and on 23rd I finally get to go to a dentist - I've been on painkillers for much of February because my tooth has an infected hole in it and hurts as hell. The spring is here so I am finally starting to like this country again. Floorball season ends next week so I will start focusing on physical fitness again as required for poker. Will need to take a hard look at floorball as doing gym stuff for it is less fun that popping bicep curls an pumping bench so im less likely to stick to it.
And as said already - from preflop I'll start looking at postflop and narrowing down ranges v ranges to know what I'm doing and why better. E.G. Gogol's nose video shows you how great it is to know your range how it looks like, amount of combinations in villain's range etc.
Equilab's really good in doing one tree and showing you what different ranges flop but CRev will be a must, just need to scramble moneyz for it and make sure Ill actually put in the work and it'll add to my ev.
Thanks for reading LP!
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bigredhoss Cook Islands. Mar 02 2014 16:56. Posts 8648 | | |
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LemOn[5thF] Czech Republic. Mar 02 2014 16:58. Posts 15163 | | |
oh and the equilab thing
Ive been using it for like 2 years had no clue that it's in there
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Nice blog only thing I would never trust anyone to meddle with my subconscious lay off paul mckenna imo.
Also I know I'm like a broken record but smoothie vegetables and fruit drink liters off it in a day plus some sort of real bread like rye maybe you have it for so much energy. |
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LemOn[5thF] Czech Republic. Mar 02 2014 18:35. Posts 15163 | | |
seems harmless really, just stuff like "think of a time when you felt confident, imagine the details, make the feeling stronger images brighter when you feel bad return to that place" etc.
It's like meditation, just easier as with meditation you try to go blank from busy mind where his stuff you just focus your mind on what he directs you towards.
It's the nuts for falling asleep too |
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longple  Sweden. Mar 02 2014 18:42. Posts 4472 | | |
| | On March 02 2014 15:20 LemOn[5thF] wrote:
Thanks for reading LP!
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totally |
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Highcard Canada. Mar 02 2014 18:48. Posts 5428 | | |
It is such a wall of text and boobies I can't focus enough to know how your month actually went
$ won and what stakes? did you make $1k total at like $25nl? |
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Fayth Canada. Mar 03 2014 00:31. Posts 10085 | | |
didn't manage to read, gifs are waaaay too distracting
I saw the graph though, good job keep up the good work |
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dnagardi Hungary. Mar 03 2014 03:50. Posts 1776 | | |
this is how u make a good blog |
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I... don't think you post enough |
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Mariuslol Norway. Mar 05 2014 21:11. Posts 4742 | | |
| | On March 02 2014 17:48 Highcard wrote:
It is such a wall of text and boobies I can't focus enough to know how your month actually went
$ won and what stakes? did you make $1k total at like $25nl? |
He played some poker, fapped a bit, he's doing alright it seems xD |
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