INSPIRATION FOR MY 20 DAYS CHALLENGE

would it help if every day before shcedule start I wil lwatch thsi video? hmm.. will see

November - breaking point, now or never !! 20 days MSS challenge

what happend before
Nothing good, was so passive, played some seesions cash games on NL2 but get broke with overpairs againts sets several times, also played some freerols but got

current bankroll - 40 $ (separete througth two poker rooms) total los - about 60 $

the only good thing that i did until now is to finish NL begginers course on pokerstrategy.com

Besides that my days where full depression, sad and bad mood and complete melancholy

So while facing such a hard start in my poker career i decided that is enough to be drifting and it is time to finally have a breaking month and to finish with two option - a) finnaly managing succesful week with growing profit b) get tottaly broke and finish poker carrer for a while and focus only on work search

I decided to switch to a Medium stack strategy which is very simple and have a good explanation what to do in all streets, example proflop chart:

so 20 days challenge:

20 days challenge

At first i had aplan with some sundays off but my laziness made a longer preparation therefore now i have to go with 20 in a row plan, Anyway:

From today every day with a goal of 20 in arow days I will be following this schedule every day:

07:00-08:00 - sport (jogging)
08:00-09:00 - breakfast time + sending CV to all new job ad that can find
09:00-14:00 - 5 hours poker session 4 tables with MSS on NL2
14:00-15:00 - lunch time
15:00-20:00 - 5 hours poker session 4 tables with MSS on NL2
20:00-21:00 - dinner
21:00-22:00 - sessions revision the best/ the worst hands + evaluating other hands+ blog post
22:00-23:00 - articles about MSS summarize on notepad
23:00-24:00 - video watching about MSS

Rule no 1 - never give in let's say I will lose a discipline oversleep or smth happen one day I still have to go back to a schedule just look what I suppose to do that time according to schedule and do it, maybe i wont manage to discipline myself to follow this schedule from morning til evening all 20 days in a row, but my goal still must be as much as possible days

Rule no 2 I will have stop limit which will be x4 buy in also I'll play with auto buy in, when ill reach my stop limit I'll stop playing poker and mvoe to do education stuff (writing summarize of articles, watching videos) if I'll finish MSS materials I'll go with extra education materials

Rule no 3 I have to discipline myself to follow like a robot everything what is said on a theory and not go to left or rigth from it, even if I feel that oponent bluffing or whatever i have never go beyond the theory. I simple whant to chek how really good is this MSS and also if I'll end up broke then I can put blame on something.. strategy !

My finnacial situation at the moment - i have only money for my next rent bill so i wont have to pay till new year, some food supplies maybe will be enougth till the end of month, nto sure with electirity but till nov 31 should be enougth of my electricity cards so basicly i can go forward and hoping that in the best scenario at the middle of december i will can to withraw some money for food


Buy inn and stopp limits Buy in every table with 40 BB that means 0.80 on NL2 limits and I'll leave the table with 1.50 and go to another tabel with 40 BB, stop limit is 4 X buy inn lost aka 3.2 $ then i stop for next day and also i use auto buyin so that i always have 0.80

Education material Articles MSS bronze (9), Silver (7) MTT basic (8) silver (7) Video - MSS basic (7) bronze (18) silver (11)

extra education material my 90 poker books and NL BSS silver 41 articles MTT 42 videos on basic bronze silver

Freerolls I will constantly be looking on what offers is on freerolss and whenever will be a good one with a minimum 100 $ prize and on my schedule it is a poker time I will play but just puting one more extra table for my 4 tables not like I would stop MT MSS for freerol it will jsut be on top of my 4 tables

Posible scenarios (including december):

scenario version 1 - the best super - find a job so I'll have funding for poker then all my free from job time till the last minute i'll divide into 70/30 procents- poker playing/learning and reach NL 25 Ill be playing mSS 4 tables on titan poker till i go broke or till i get 2500 points and be able to withdraw all my money then all money i will divide througth 3 poker rooms - partypoker, pokerstars 888poker, because they have the best point store facilities and ill be multitabaling 6 tables till i reach NL 50 then finishing summarizing all articles on BSS and going BSS on NL50 with 6 tables till i win 10 000 (money away from bankroll, to payd debt and ect) then move bankroll with extra money to NL1 and play it till i win 10 000 $. Not neceserarry everything on two months but hopefully till februrary and then I'll quit job and play poker full time and winning per month more than 10 000 $

scenario version 2 - middle good - nto go broke maybe even reach NL4 and gold status + 20 free dollars at the end of november- it will be still to small bankroll so I will need to stop poker and go to job searching plan and all my time from morning till 18:00 oclock spend on searching a job, all the rest with still playing poker, but only with 1 hour for education (revising hands just it no more materials) if till new year i wont find a job and I wont get any unemployment benefits I'll neded to go to give up plan - go back to parents home, cause i cant afford my own living here

scenario version 3 - the worst - get broke before the end of 20 days challenge, if i follow my stop limits with 3.2 that could happen only after 12 days, but still can happen, then of course i switch to work search plan and play only freerols after 18:00

scenario version 4 - the most worst - no discipline, doing nothing the worst is that I be such a terrible live being that wont be able to force myself for any work and days will fly with no work tottaly wasted, well more than 5 like that days and I quit 20 days challenge and switch to work finding full time plan and if that wont work to give up plan with keeping in mind that I will need to see a doctor for some help with my melancholic depression that keeps me in such unproductive moode

Now is 3:39 AM at 2011 11 11 a good date for having a breaking moment in you life, huh? What next? I propably wont sleep all nigth till 7 when i will start a first day at my challenge day so till then I will clean my computer and defragment it because recently i had some problems with him, he was laging and frozing for some time while i'm playing poker, also i'll will delete all my videos, games ect. because i wont needed them and keep computer just poker, then I'll revise again my notes and the new challenge will begin

NOW OR NEVER

freerol - 104th place 2.75 win

o freerol 2000 $ tournament just finished for me at 104 th place from 2000 players I won just 2.75 $
If id had such terrible time at cash game maybe id be even happy with this but now it really sucks and i stil lfed up, I could go much more forward from just sitting, lost with top pair 7 againts 10 10 had a good game before that.

In cash game my total los for todays was 7.10$

What i learned today at cash game that you need to pay strong attention on a board not only searchign for flush or straigth posibilities but if there is a pair I can identify that oponent migth have full house or four hand and his strong bet can mean that, i really need improve my read on players cause so far im fishing with so many bad players on NL2 that i always assume that im playing with bad palyers and they are bluffing i need to drop that thinking and tigth up my game


now i move on on finishin my begginers cours and videos

btw i really enjoyed tournament i should play one more in the near future

mine discipline

My donk game

So I had one good day when in three hours i earned 1.98$ and then i had two donk days when with stupid donk moves on all in I lsot all my buy in and winnings from session boom one day -5 another -3% and in total now november is - 6.02 $ Just great. The most anoying thing is that i was playing good and those stupid donk movies took all my buy in and now crushed me again and i really am in deep depression with my other problems and that this poker career seems not progressing.

i don know what i was tkingkindI saw heavily draw board and knew that oponent might have flush he raise and i suddently start to play liek monster catch a drill with thinking that he maybe is bluffing and I will be extremely lucky with catching hes blufff so I go all in they call and Im broken, The msot stupid thing that after two times liek that i realise my mistake and do that again ...

WHAT A STUPID DONK

I need to realise that it is not a shame to fold on a bluff and especially when it is heavy draw board with option that your oponent has a better hand and you dont have any information about your oponet or even worst - when you know that he is a tigth player and suddenly starts rising on 3 couloures board jesus christ how bad i played

here is some examples :
i have As9h in Mp1 in that position actually needs to fold but i limp together with co and BB checks board - Th8h7h co bets 0.05 i call cause i have flush/straigth draw turn comes j so i have nuts straigth i bet 0.14 CO goes all in i call and it turns he has a flush my nuts straigt loose, what was sick about this hand that i lost to the same oponent when he had a straigth so i guess i was ego to get back my money but it was mroe than obviuosly that he is not bluffing because it was tigth palyer and flush was posible


other stupid play - i have As7h (sounds familiar?)and im in mp1 again and again I should fold but i limp board comes Ah kh 6h BB checks, UTG2 bets $0.05, Hero raises to $0.19, 3 folds, UTG2 raises to $0.33, Hero calls $0.14. Turn: ($0.77) 8 club
UTG2 bets $0.38, Hero raises to $1.43, UTG2 calls $1.05.

River: ($3.63) 2 club (2 players)
UTG2 bets $0.38, Hero raises to $0.38 (All-In).

UTG2 shows a flush, ace high (Qh Th)

FML

Anyway that is a past now i have the smallest bankroll ever but need to go forward

I also start using program sidekick and enter 888 and poker 770 rooms and ogt free money (about 8 dollars in each) everything jsut so i get some extra points pon pokerstrategy.com website cause I lost my silver status this month, i sill maybe will player on some tournament at one of those rooms but my mind focus is still on titant poker poker starts and partypoker)

My plans for this week - today im gonna play on freerol tournament with 2000 dolars prize my minimum plan to get to ITM, maximum - 6th place after that tommorow ill be working on education amterials and try to finish begginers course andto watch all ivdeos about small stack strategy and on the weekend i want to do go to ful lgear and do 50 hours MT with SSS my current goal on bankroll is to get back 100 dollars and to move to next limit Nl4

i really feel terible these days, i have a problem with balancing my time - not sleeping at nigths sleeping at day terrible feelings and no progress in fiding job so depressive mode and that really efects poekr game too

october sucked or why discipline is more important than the results

Foto: my all time bankroll chart since september -47 dollars current bankroll - 60 $ or 37 pounds


so almost all october month i did not write anything here and basicly my poker carerr was the same as this blog that month - nothing what to tell about. I simple did not maanged to force myself to go for those goals that i put on me. there are many reasons for why that happend but everythign sums up to one reason - lack of discipline. first two weeks i had some personal problems that pull me out of the rythm later i tried to finish first education tasks that i set up for myself in previous post, but it appearce that a simple begginesr course at poker strategy tooks longer to do than i taugth. Well technicly i could done al homeworks quicly jsut after viewing any videos, because i already before read all basic and bronze articles but i lacked confidence in my game so i wanted to review everything with a writing a notes of every single artic to my notebook and this takes time but totally worth it. After finishing 5 lessons i started to play a little bit and kind of get to exited that did not continue on education and kept just playing.

But i was still going down in my bankroll, my session possed of some good hands a little profit and then i always go broke on stupid hand that takes all my session profit and makes day numbers down. It keep happening because of my stupid idea to mix watchin tv series and movies while playing hands. It started because i waskeep getting bored waiting for good hands on that time while you have to fold many hands you anyway do nothing so you are not focused and concentrate, also i did not want to go back to 4 tables and after great losts in multitabling I wanted to shape my skills on one table and more slowly grow number of tables till Ill be confident to play 4 tables again. So i taugth hey Ill jsut watch smthn till playing and went i get good hand Ill stop the video and concentrate on a game. But eventually you anyway start loosing concentration you mind flys not around poker and you start doing mistakes.

Money lost broke my spirit of poker but then the last day of poker i had 3 hours of poker sesion where i concentrated and won the bigges profit so far -200 BB. Maybe I was lucky but it gave me confidence to continue, honoustly i feel that i developed poker theory and my game I jsut need to force myself to be discipline to focus on game and I will progress.

While i was thinking about poker in last month i realised that I learned two lessons - 1) discipline and concentration is more important then knowledge of theory in poker (and basicly in everythin else) with idisciplini can develope my theory knowledge and with concentration i can put theory on practise 2) poker is such uniqe game that even if you play good yo ucan still lose money so i need to be concentrate not on making profit and coutned my winrate but concetrate on my game if doen a rigth choise or not. Even if i win it still can mean that i jsut get lucky so with bad play in lon run I ll lose anyway and with good game even if i lose one or two games in long run i have more probabilties to make money of that. At the end of the day the good game is something that i need to look for not money result.

And more improtant that if i want to get to my results i need to force myself for hard work even if that means to forcing myself to focus my mind on poker and paisantly waiting for good hands. It wont be easy but nothing in the world that worth having comes easy

besides that i learned that i should not lose my spirit just because of failures. Failures is compolsury if i want to learn and develope myself because how else ill knew what i need to develope if i wont faile?


So lets start a new month fresh

My goals for November

discipline myself to play to spend 6 days per week every day 10 hours of playing poker and 4 hours spending on education + every day to write this blog with what I learned and did that day.

Besides that I will have to find a job to pay my bills and probably to sponsor my poker (Ill be looking ofr it in the mornings and sending cvs, when ill start a job or if ill start a job obviuosly my previous goal will change to - just spending all the free of work time to poker)

Bring on November

First week # busted in one hour

Above - money chart of 1st october

SUMMARIZE
So last week as i mentioned in previous post I had only two days for poker. And I lost 16 dollars, a good start huh? I started MT with 4 tables at 0.10 big blinds but after one hour i lost 6 dollars due to my bad playing with middle pairs so I've moved back to the smallest possible amount 0.02 $ BB, cause obviously I needed to shape my game and couldn't afford such big lost, i obviously were losing in that level too but with smaller amount and could slowly develop my game. Next day after new 4 hours of game i started to make progress (at least i thought so) in preflop, because in MT 4 tables i felt very comfortable with quickly seeing in what position i am and how I should play according to starting hands chart. So far I decided strictly to follow this char with no exception, at least for now. on the second day after the lunch i was in very good mood, cause i was feeling that i developed my discipline on poker and a good sense how to play and more improtant i started slowly to melt my loses so i was hoping to see a plus at the end of the day, so small were left to that and than boom i got busted againts complete idiot who called my all in with a flush draw againts my set. Tha put me on a tilt and I lost even more to him later. So i needed to finish cause couldnt play normaly anymore. But Im not upset sicne it was a good tun that showed a lot of my weak sides and I learned something, needs just to keep hard work and finnaly starting to on profit, cause otherway i simple will be bankrupt and left with no money to play so my poker career will end.

In bad news i did not do alot work in poker learning througth those two days, propably because i was really tried after 8 hours of playing. All what i did is soem reading on book "Ace on a river" (very boring and useless book, only 100 pages left so i hope to finish next week and write a review) one coaching sesions on pokerstrategy and lessons one NL begginers course at pokerstrategy.com

oh and I recieve a silver status on a pokerstrategy.com that means: 73 extra articles (excluding omaha and 7 stud which im not playing) and 380 extra videos (OMG) in which - 20 are for NL short stack strategy. I hope to remain silver status for the next two months and than hopefuly finish all learning materials and jump to a gold

So that was my first two days

TWO WORST AND BEST HANDS

On such heavily draw board i was stupid to believe that i have the strongest hand with a set. In other hand the oponent slowplayed very well :


Preflop: Hero is BU with 2, 2 (Comment)
4 folds, Hero calls $0.02, SB calls $0.01, BB checks.

Flop: ($0.06) T, 3, 2 (3 players) (Comment)
SB bets $0.04, BB folds, Hero calls $0.04.

Turn: ($0.14) A (2 players) (Comment)
SB bets $0.09, Hero raises to $0.18, SB raises to $0.54, Hero raises to $2.98 (All-In), SB calls $2.44.

River: ($6.10) 6 (2 players) (Comment)


Final Pot: $6.10

Results follow (highlight to see):
Hero shows (2h 2c)
SB shows a flush, king high (Kd 9d)

SB wins with a flush, king high (Kd 9d)



Second:


Preflop: Hero is BU with Q, Q (Comment)
MP2 folds, MP3 calls $0.02, CO folds, Hero raises to $0.10, 2 folds, MP3 calls $0.08.

Flop: ($0.23) T, 4, 3 (2 players) (Comment)
MP3 checks, Hero bets $0.1, MP3 raises to $0.20, Hero raises to $0.97 (All-In), MP3 calls $0.77.

Turn: ($2.17) 7 (Comment)
River: ($2.17) A (2 players) (Comment)


Final Pot: $2.17

Results follow (highlight to see):
MP3 shows two-pair, fours and threes (4d 3d)
Hero shows (Qh Qd)

MP3 wins with two-pair, fours and threes (4d 3d)



Befor flop our odds: 80 againts 20 procent in my favor But I had a position so should sense that he had something on a flop :(

Anyway what good I did:




Preflop: Hero is MP3 with A, 2 (Comment)
Hero calls $0.02, 2 folds, SB calls $0.01, BB checks.

Flop: ($0.06) A, 4, 2 (3 players) (Comment)
SB checks, BB checks, Hero bets $0.1, SB calls $0.10, BB folds.

Turn: ($0.26) 8 (2 players) (Comment)
SB checks, Hero bets $0.16, SB calls $0.16.

River: ($0.58) 9 (2 players) (Comment)
SB checks, Hero bets $0.29, SB raises to $1.45, Hero raises to $2.04 (All-In), SB calls $0.59.

Final Pot: $4.66

Results follow (highlight to see):
Hero shows two-pair, aces and deuces (Ah 2c)
SB shows (Ks 4d)

Hero wins with two-pair, aces and deuces (Ah 2c)



Maybe a little to risky since he may had a flush draw and so far i don't really pay attention to those things, should start now




Preflop: Hero is MP3 with 9, 8 (Comment)
UTG2 raises to $0.08, 2 folds, Hero calls $0.08, 2 folds, SB calls $0.07, BB folds.

Flop: ($0.26) J, 7, 6 (3 players) (Comment)
SB checks, UTG2 bets $0.16, Hero calls $0.16, SB folds.

Turn: ($0.58) 2 (2 players) (Comment)
UTG2 bets $0.3, Hero calls $0.30.

River: ($1.18) 5 (2 players) (Comment)
UTG2 bets $1.18, Hero raises to $1.18 (All-In).

Final Pot: $3.54

Results follow (highlight to see):
UTG2 shows (Ks Kc)
Hero shows a straight, nine high (9d 8d)

Hero wins with a straight, nine high (9d 8d)


pokerstrategy starting hands chart sugest to fold on a middle position, so this is one from time when i wasn't folowing so stricly the chart and it shows... well it just show that you can get lucky and i did a rigth thing with shiping all in at river


WHAT I NEED TO LEARN

Try to memorize much better starting hand chart (sometimes i still need to look)
develope After flop game on how to read a player
How to understand HUD and all this stats that elephant programs show on a player
Basicly to read player and how to recognise bluffs
TO measure amounts on after flop so i would not call to much what im doing now

NEXT WEEK GOALS

to play: 50 hours
for education to spend : 30 hours

What i want to do for my poker education:

to finish pokerstrategy.com NL begginers course
to finish read and review a book "Ace on a river"
to read silver articles about Others, No-Limit Short & Mid Stack Strategy,
to watch videos on NL short stack strategy at basic, bronze and silver status (40 videos in total - 10 in basic. 18 in bronze and that left about 12 in silver ?)
to review all poker learning materials on popular internet spots 9youtube, wikipedia)

that sounds like enougth

but the most important:


I T IS TIME TO EARN SOME MONEY