My plan how finnaly to reach 1250$ poker bankroll till december 26 (in 30 days) and to star living from poker

"When there is hop in the future, there is power in the present

They say that you should have a dream and then a plan how to achieve that dream, plus commitment to follow your dream.

Today I withdraw my 23 $ from pokerstars website to pay bank, electricity bill and hopefully ill have like 2 dollars for food next month. So now I'm left with last 10 $ on titan poker room.

Dream? I have a dream till December 26 christmas to reach 1250, this would be ultimate bankroll limit after which I can start to play for living, then till new year (5 days) to win on NL0.5 - 600 dollars, which would use to pay my January rent and finally normal food.

My schedule

after some drafts i finally come up with the best possible productive schedule that feels possible to try:
06:00-09:00 poker studies(to blog about yesterday sessions, 1 article summarize,watch 1 video)
09:00-10:00 walking time, just to get fresh air and at least once per day to leave a day
10:00=11:00 Lunch (watching tv series)
11:00-17:00 1st poker session 6 hours
17:00-17:30 Dinner time, just break
17:30-23:30 pokeris 2nd session 6 hours
23:30-24:00 notes taking, what to review tommorow
24:00-00:30 reading not poker and sleaping

Money
I need to reach 10/100 BB winrate with MSS. My most productivity - 6 tables and 400 hands per hour. So if i reach this winrate, then with 12 hours of poker session per day I can play 4800 hands and to get 480 BB per day

Ultimate rule - leave the table when it gets to tight and to look for new table with fishes it was a big leak in all my previous games

Bankroll steps (i choose to follow BSS bankroll since later I want to switch to BSS so it would better to keep on it) anyway here is bankroll goals:

Formula - money goal/level BB= BBgoal/480 BB= how many days that can took me

NL2 (bb -0.02) - to win 100 $ or 5000BB = 10 days
NL4 (bb-0.04) - to win 150$(250$) or 3750BB = 8 days
NL10 (bb-0.10) - to win 375 $(625$) or 3750BB = 8 days
NL25 (bb-0.25) - to win 625 $(1250$) or 2500BB =6 days

in total - 31 days. So if I start at November 26 I will finis at December 26
Then I move on NL1 and play all the rest 4 days which makes 1920$ then I can have a decent and normal new year...

Is it possible? If I would be a betting company and needed to make a odds, considering that I failed so hard all time before(above diagram -60 dollars in 3 monts) and that I didn't not have a discipline to follow my previuos goal "20 days challenge, consider all this I would go with 1:50 that I will reach all those goals. In other words - almost impossible. I have one day today to think about that and to find motivation and how I can reach that and to write a new blog psot, then to go

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

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