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I'd be highly interested in what everyone's routines are for preparing for a long session. I'm sure there are some things I might be missing and I'd love to hear what you guys to do to optimally prepare for a long grind.

Here's mine:
- Most important for me: My apartment has to be all clean and tidied up. I don't know why but it bothers me if there's something dirty, even if it's not in the room I'm playing in.
- Eat something good that I highly enjoy: As a vegetarian I'm lucky that most of the stuff I enjoy is not too unhealthy as well. And whatever it is that I eat, I usually treat myself with this awesome salad from my favourite Italian place as well. Eating something I love makes me so damn happy which can't be a bad thing for starting a long session.
- Plan and write down my MTT schedule for the session: I'm not that kind of guy who just registers whatever he feels like, I like to have a plan and know what my expenses will be.
- Set up my work space: Wire up my laptop with my screens, shut down all software I don't need while playing (especially E-Mail, FB etc.), get my Spotify playlist ready.
- Make sure my cats are happy: Nothing more annoying when you play 8+ tables and then there's this little furball that keeps on screaming cause he/she wants to be pet or fed, so I make sure they have plenty of food and optimally are tired from playing.
- Mental training: Sometimes I listen to a course on the Primed app, sometimes I listen to Elliot Roe's "Online Poker Mindset". Definitely wanna get into meditating as well, any advice?
- Prepare food and drinks: I mainly eat fresh fruits and nuts while playing, and drink water only, except for one cup of black tea with fresh lemon juice at the start of the session.

Once all of this is done I'm ready. Any suggestions? Would you do something different? Anything I'm forgetting?
What do you do for preparation?

For some reason I can't post the hand history so I'll just explain the hand: UTG has 20BBs and raises to 2.5BBs, I'm in the SB with AJo.
I have only 4 hands of villain, so no reads. I decided to flat (first mistake?). The BB calls as well. The flop comes 8h9cJh. I check, BB bets 3.6BBs, UTG folds, I shove.
We were 45 left, the tournament already took 7 hours and I was tired, and I think I played this hand pretty bad :(

1) Is flatting pre an option? Looking back I think I would either shove pre (if I had reads on villain that he does play a wide range in this spot), or just fold, which I think would be the correct play in this particular spot.
2) As played, is check-raising on the flop ok here?

Sorry if this is a standard spot and I just suck :D

Hi, for some reason I can't post the hand history, but I think it's not really necessary. I'm ITM but still like 10 tables away from the final table, I get KQs with 20BBs UTG:
1) Is minraising or shoving the better play?
2) Unknown SB (13 hands) reshoves with 22BBs, what's the better play here? If I fold, should I even raise pre?

Thanks!

To be honest I wasn't sure if the investment into the RIO Elite plan would be a good idea or not since I didn't really know what to expect. Well, after registering I watched like 20 videos on all kinds of different topics that seemed interesting to me, and last night I played my first session, ending it with a 3rd place of +900 runners for 2k. So yeah, thank you RIO, it was well worth the investment :)

I'll attach a hand history at the bottom that I'd like to review. Can anyone here explain how you would analyze this hand in HRC? I'm opening, there's a flatcall and a shove, so that would be an advanced hand. I don't know how to tell HRC that there is a flat call though. I watched Stephen Chidwick's video about HRC but unfortunately it only covers the basic function. So if anyone here could help I would be very grateful!
Thanks!
Peter

Hand history:

Winamax Poker - Tournament "MONSTER STACK" buyIn: 18€ + 2€ level: 24 - HandId: #1042523961583206406-267-1532894928 - Holdem no limit (3000/12500/25000) - 2018/07/29 20:08:48 UTC
Table: 'MONSTER STACK(242731525)#005' 8-max (real money) Seat #8 is the button
Seat 1: PULL-OVER (315879)
Seat 2: sergio30000 (829412)
Seat 3: Roman n1 (830380)
Seat 4: GunsNRaises (1001799)
Seat 5: Lady LucKK (834085)
Seat 6: MenTalizZzer (1388931)
Seat 7: BRIK-A-BRAK (854065)
Seat 8: k1ssmyass (383691)
* ANTE/BLINDS
PULL-OVER posts ante 3000
sergio30000 posts ante 3000
Roman n1 posts ante 3000
GunsNRaises posts ante 3000
Lady LucKK posts ante 3000
MenTalizZzer posts ante 3000
BRIK-A-BRAK posts ante 3000
k1ssmyass posts ante 3000
PULL-OVER posts small blind 12500
sergio30000 posts big blind 25000
Dealt to GunsNRaises [Th Ts]
PRE-FLOP
Roman n1 folds
GunsNRaises raises 28000 to 53000
Lady LucKK folds
MenTalizZzer calls 53000
BRIK-A-BRAK folds
k1ssmyass raises 327691 to 380691 and is all-in
PULL-OVER folds
sergio30000 folds
GunsNRaises folds
MenTalizZzer calls 327691
FLOP [Tc 4h 6s]
TURN [Tc 4h 6s][9d]
RIVER [Tc 4h 6s 9d][Jd]
SHOW DOWN
k1ssmyass shows [Kh Ad] (High card : Ace)
MenTalizZzer shows [4d 4s] (Trips of 4)
MenTalizZzer collected 875882 from pot
SUMMARY *
Total pot 875882 | No rake
Board: [Tc 4h 6s 9d Jd]
Seat 6: MenTalizZzer showed [4d 4s] and won 875882 with Trips of 4
Seat 8: k1ssmyass (button) showed [Kh Ad] and lost with High card : Ace