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Djoksi 5 years ago

What are the upsides for playing there? I guess you dont have any rakeback (only chests but thats 2-4%)
Sorry if Im spamming your thread but I would like to hear from someone who's successful at these limits (NL25-NL100) and I think you're the one who I should ask. You can PM me if you dont like to talk about this here.

forCarlotta 5 years ago

You are not spamming at all, you are welcome.
I'm playing on PS but on a segregated market and I have a lot of fishes at the table.
On other sites, I can have much more higher RB (ranging from 40-55%) but the reg:fish ratio isn't the same as PS.
I think having most fishes at the table is much better than have high rakeback.

People grind on PS.com because many regs just have left so the reg:fish ratio went down.

Ah, also table cap sucks, but you know what? I'm a 5-6 BB/100 winner but I make a lot of mistake, so the table cap is a blessing in disguise, allowing me to focus on play much better poker

Djoksi 5 years ago

Thank you for your response. I agree with everything you said, been playing NL10 there for a week now and the field seems soft.

forCarlotta 5 years ago

8/4/2020

Today, no flow chart, no Excel road map, nothing. It was a very bad day overall.
Tonight I went to bed at 3 AM because I was awaiting Eurogroup's decision. I'm really really worried about economics of Europe and, specifically, my country.
I've also wake up early so I slept bad and not enough.

I began to play and lost, coolered by a reg and I felt overwhelmed that I had to quit and I had the urge to see my results. So I've failed my poker goals.
I've also failed my other habits oriented goals and I haven't strive to complete them.

I don't know whether it is something related to my person or I've delevoped it from poker, but one friend of mine told me that I have uncertainty and he is right, I fear it.
See this reality helperd, because I think that I can use poker to level up in my life. If I handle the randomness in poker I will handle it in real life.

Also my back pain was really really bad. I have to figure out something for it because this isn't life

Tomorrow will be another day, later on I will go to bed earlier and wake up tomorrow, another time with the knife within my teeth, to grind another day

Graph since the start of the blog

Aquila 4 years, 11 months ago

Hi there,

what kind of flash cards are you learning with Anki?
Also, when it comes to failing your "goals" for the day. That's perfectly fine, just don't miss it a 2nd day. No one is perfect. Give yourself some leeway :)
Also, have you tried yoga? I also think that walking long distances, especially up and down, is good for backpain. You need to strengthen and stretch it. Of course swimming is fantastic, but most likely the pools are closed in italy as well.
Cheers,
Aquila

forCarlotta 4 years, 11 months ago

Hi mate ty for your time.

what kind of flash cards are you learning with Anki?

Whenever I see a term that I don't know I put it in my anki, along with the definition and an image to help me to remember it better

Also, have you tried yoga? I also think that walking long distances, especially up and down, is good for backpain

I haven't, I know my posture sucks and it could be the issue. Also, I have some dorsal hernias that might cause the problem, we don't know yet.
I don't like swimming, but I heard wonders about it, I think in the end I will try it.
I can search for some yoga routines and put it in my flowchart. Will do it, asap and see how it goes

Best of luck mate

Entek 4 years, 11 months ago

I love this :) it reminds me of the best English teacher I ever had who always taught us phrases from popualr movies etc. Tbh I haven't really read the thread but I love the "phone in the shoe" thing :D

forCarlotta 4 years, 11 months ago

Hey ty for the comment, I will check the channel out for sure.

"phone in the shoe"

Basically it means, hide the phone in the other house. It prevents me to waste time and it is working very well

forCarlotta 4 years, 11 months ago

12/4/2020

Today was my day off and I've squander it, wasting my time doing essentially nothing. Well, at least I've rested my mind from poker, but I might have done something more relaxing.
Ok I'm in quarantine but there are better things to do than watch coronavirus/government news and wasting my time on the phone.
Seems the trend is pretty obvious, whenever i got the phone within reach I use it to waste my time. The problem isn't my phone, but the lack of interesting activities or things I enjoy.
No wonder poker feels like a job, because my entire day feels like a job. I have to think very hard about the last time I've really enjoyed myself.
The problem is, this isn't quick or easy to fix. Gonna figure out something, but for now, I'm going to ban my phone even on my day off.

I want to ban all the news for good, really.
It's ok to study for myself, in fact I'm studying the last Varoufakis's book, but it's def not ok to constantly checking the news. What's wrong with me? It seems I cannot understand that what I'm reading is just all noise.
I realize this is just another bad habit, so I'm going to start small and go from there. The next flowchart upgrade will include a total news ban since afternoon

I also realize I eat junk food, especially in the evening, because I'm bored. Another bad habit to obliterate. I will work on that but the real thing is I have to make my life more interesting.
If I don't, I will continue to feel the everyday grind completely unbearable and useless

Entek 4 years, 11 months ago

That's exactly my experience right now. I decided to get myself a mic today as lately I started rapping to myself for fun so I might as well record and play with it. I think so much about frequencies and numbers that I sometimes even dream about it lol. I need to schedule in more breaks. Hope you find something that you can enjoy doing during the quarantine. GL :)

radtupperware 4 years, 11 months ago

forCarlotta, I don't understand your flow chart, but I'm impressed by your resolve to keep posting. Keep it up man. I'll tune in for more posts.

forCarlotta 4 years, 11 months ago

Hi man, well it's ok that you don't understand it it meant to be only a guide for me. I mean, I cannot be more detailed on paper since it would cost me a lot on space, so I have to keep it short.

Basically it's a guide to not lose myself throughout the day

forCarlotta 4 years, 11 months ago

Hi PrankCallRiver , yes I know that it's pretty aggro but the games are super soft (most of the times I have 4 whales at the table) and I'm willing to level down again with no problem.
I hope that I will remain at NL50 but, if I lost more, I will play NL25 again and rebuild. For that I will have at least 40BIs.
If in any case, something will go wrong, I will return to my old stable where I have build a great business/friendliness relationship

forCarlotta 4 years, 11 months ago

27/4/2020
In the morning, I want to run for myself first, instead for others

I've much to say that my day was mildly productive but I haven't completed neither my habits nor my poker goals.
I'm not upset or anything, but I'm gonna tweak things a little bit in order to achieve more. One of the main reason of my yesterday failure was my whatsapp in the morning. Very often, I wake up and I find 5-10 chats to open up and reply to. Not only I reply but I spent a lot of time on them which is quite a waste. Most of the content is small talk, so really there's no need to prioritize it.
So I've decided to put my phone on airplane mode just before go to sleep till after my lunch.

Shaun Pauwels 4 years, 11 months ago

I noticed you have this 1.25BI stop loss on your sessions. Is this to prevent you from tilting?
Wouldn't this also mean you are constantly checking your results in your tracker which in general wouldn't be considered a good thing?

forCarlotta 4 years, 11 months ago

lIlCitanul

Hi mate, the reason is two-fold actually. Yes it prevents me from tilting, I'm not a spewer monkey but, I have big issue when bad run continue for days/weeks or even more. I feel an unbearable burden and my tilt threshold is lowered.
The second reason is to build up rules enforcement, I mean... I have to follow my steps and if I do, I would go to sleep without any remorse. Obv many things are suboptimal and need to be tweaked

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