Get rich or die tryin'
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Get rich or die tryin'
Dear Diary,
Was looking for a forum to create my personal poker/lifestyle blog and Run it once seems very friendly and very active so i think i can get help and improve a lot in here!
Will start by introducing my self. I'm 24 years old student finishing my master's degree and currently on vacations so with a lot of time to poker. Have been playing poker for the past 5 years. I used to play mtt's on pokerstars but unfortunately i can't play them anymore (because of lack of time) so i changed to cash games. At the beginning it seemed a little boring because mtt's have lot of actions and ups and downs while cash games are more "smooth". But after some months playing I'm really liking them. They are full of skill and the fact that i can start and stop every time i want is really good. The main problem is that the skill is different and i'm not really used to play so deep pos-flop so i make a lot of mistakes and miss a lot of spots. But i think that with help and a lot of study i will figure a way to fix all my leaks and move up on levels fast.
Off poker i really like to do physical activities and go out party with friends. I really like to go to the GYM, its my shrink and one of goals is to get leaner and shredder (atm i weight around 77kgs with 20% bf). Also study music and play the sax (its cool to relax after some bad sessions) and love to read! If you can please recommend some really good books (on and off poker).
With these blog i pretend to put some goals and try to achieve them and motivate myself towards them and also share some hands and strategy with you guys so you can help me improve. At the moment i am playing nl5 on bcp.
My goals for this month are:
- Meditate 15minutes every day
- Move up to nl10
- Get to 18% body fat.
- Read 3 books
- Play around 50k hands
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsSC2vx7zFQ
VAMOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!
gl boyz!
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Good luck!
Hey, welcome! I have similar gym goals :)
What was your master's degree in?
As for a book, I started reading 'Thinking Fast and Slow' by Daniel Kahneman - maybe you've heard of it? He's a very famous cognitive psychologist and the book so far is really cool. Lots of food for thought and maybe it can give a nice perspective on logical thinking for playing poker ;)
gl, subbed!
Hey bro,
Thank you. My master's degree is in civil engineering. Almost finishing it, only missing the internship!
Never heard of that book but will be next in list. Atm reading Meditation by Osho. Want to get deeper in the concept of meditation and this book is helping me.
GYM is hard because to achieve my goal the main thing i have to do is eat less and i love to eat so is hard! :P but last month dropped 3 kgs so i think is going really good. want to get to 11/12% bf and more muscular.
Just saw your blog and see that you are playing nl10. If you want send pm and we can share skype and maybe make some review sess's together and study some hands ;)
gl!!
GlGLGL
Crush!
Dear Diary,
Today was the day i putted more volume in cash games in my life. Played around 6 hours. Was used to play 6+ hours in mtt's but when i used to play cash i played maximum 3 hours.
Here is the graph of this crazy sess:
Overall i think i played it fine. Was really carefull with all spots and my main problem is auto-pilot. I start listening to music and wandering around and i loose focus on the game and this costs a lot of money. Was really carefull with this situtation and most of the time i was really focused and thinking on every hand.
My red line is really down. The main problem of this is playing pos flop after 3bet, specially OOP. Have a lot of problems playing pos-flop after 3betting and getting called by btn or wtv. this situation is costing me a lot of $ and will be the area i will focus my study on next days.
One great thing i discovered with this sess is the time to play vs donks. Figured whats the time that as the same amount of regs but a lot more donks so i can start my sess later and wait for the donks.
Overall today was a good day. Reviewed a lot of hands from yesterday sess, saw a video and went to the gym (surprised myself and instead of chest made leg day!!!)
Hope to get my red line better next days.
And don't forget: NEVER SKIP LEG DAY!!!! U RUN BETTER ON THOSE DAYS! :P
gl boyz!
Nice day! The red line is fine, you're winning 5 BI so it can't be that bad. But red line will also be blinds - maybe you don't defend enough, maybe you defend too wide, maybe you don't steal enough and take it away postflop. What you mentioned about 3betting OOP is a killer too...
Better do legs every day!
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