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RoskoBeast's Journey
Hi everyone,
It’s time for an update, the last one was in february, so quite long ago. You can find the previous blog here : https://discourse.jnandezpoker.com/t/roskobeasts-journey/6094/36At the end of february, I was down 1000 € after shot taking PLO50 that went wrong plus a mix of bad run and bad plays in PLO25. It was a tough time mentally and I fell short on updating my progress log.
Then I played for 2 weeks at PLO10 before going back to PLO25. I actually had an “exclusive poker offer” at this time on PokerStars that gave me at least 40% rakeback. It motivated me a lot and I accomplished one of them for 200 € .
In the same time, I played a few NLHE MTT sessions during afternoon because PokerStars was very slow for me from 4:00 pm to late evening. Luckily, I won around 500 €.Then since the bankroll was back above 4000 €, I shot take again PLO50 and it went better than the first time. Even though I only won 6 buy-ins, it was a well needed upswing.
Unfortunately at that time (beginning of May), I wasn’t taking enough care of other aspect of my life (sleep, food and sport) and my focus and motivation for poker was also down. So I stopped playing poker to take care of that. I completely change my diet, I started to count calories/vitamins to make sure I eat enough of them. I eat much more vegetables and nuts and much less industrial food.
Then I started doing sport everytime before taking a shower, even if it’s just for 5 mins.
And for my sleep, I stop watching screen 30 min to 1 hour before going to sleep and I read of clean my appartment during this time.
I feel much better know and motivated to go back to the poker tables. I am going to watch again the 10 Weeks Transformation, as I started it in August (the first weeks), I probably forgot or didn’t apply some fundamentals.
I did play in PLO10 this week to slowly come back, I will play in PLO25 at least next week and go back to shot taking PLO50 the week after if I am happy about how I play in PLO25.
To conclude with some numbers, this year I lost 260€ playing cash game (EV: + 380€, graph below), won 500€ in MTT and won 875€ in rakeback. So, starting from 4000€, the bankroll is now above 4800€.
Cheers,
RoskoBeast
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Glad to see you’ve got the motivation again @RoskoBeast as well as the fact you noticed other things needed the attention and you took the time to focus on them, this is something that is generally really difficult especially during these difficult and somewhat uncertain times where the poker games were and have been so good that you almost forget everything else and just want to grind.
Good to see you back in high spirits and that the second shot at PLO50 went much better, hopefully you’ll be ready soon to continue with that shot once you get fully back into the swing of things!
Good luck and look forward to seeing the updates come again.
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