PLAY POKER AND ESCAPE THE MATRIX

MONTHLY UPDATE - DECEMBER
What a crazy month! It was the most profitable one by far, although I have to admit that hot run tricked me and I wasnt that sharp with studying, making it probably the worst month in terms of improvement. During first 12 days of the month I didnt have single losing day. The next 10 days were around BE, followed by Christmas where I took full break from poker for entire week. It was the first time I took a longer break from poker than one day since May (when I joined Nachos CFP) so that was nice refresh.

Overall profit 11.705€ and 49k hands. Played 81hrs and study around ∼40-60hrs

I can share some graph from December although I dont have HHs form my second site where I made half of my profit.

+2.5K€ from rb

At first I want to say I am aware it was mostly, if not entirely just good run. Until I have like 200-300k hands on nl200 I dont know much about my real winrate. So in January I want to be back in 50:50 study:grind ratio and finally finish resilient lines module from Nachos I spoke in the last post..

Also want to mentioned that I played on EPT in Prague. Was interesting experience to play live poker. I played mostly 5/10€ (with 50% action sold). On my table one recreational drank 7 drinks and lost 2 times 5k€ in 3-4 hours. That was pretty wild. I played just for one day tho. Rake there was brutal. 5% with 30€ cap. I think this could translate to a loss of about 15-20bb from my win rate. Considering you play 25 hands per hour instead of 600 which I play online. I think online poker has like 3 times bigger EV for me unless I would have crazy fish, play very deep on 5/10€ and have 100% of my action. Still its was very nice experience and I plan to play live poker more in the future.

Life outside of poker
I am always trying to balance wealth (poker), social life (family, friends) and health. However I didnt do good job with health in most of 2023. My habits have been incredibly poor, with no exercising at all. I still weight around 83kg but feels like i gained 5kg of fat and lost 5kg of muscles in last two months. On the top of that my sleep is very bad. I am sending report from my Oura of each month in 2023 of my avg sleep below. 6.5 hrs would not be so bad but there are always like 3-4 random wake ups every single night because child scream which destroy my sleep hygiene. Hopefully it will get better soon. Bad health habits make everything more difficult.

Quick tip at the end:

Routine
I have tip from book called The Grit which Patrick recommended.
I think most of you know about importance of deliberate practice which is main point of the book. However there was one more super important thing as well and its how to implement consistency in deliberate practice. Answer to this is Routine '
If you have to do something difficult and unpleasant on daily bases sooner or later you will lose motivation and stop doing that. Only one option how to be consistent in that is create Routine. So do certain thing at certain time in certain place every single day. You will not even realize that you have started with that thing. You just do it.
For example every day I start with studying my anki flash cards than GTO wizard drills than HHs review of 15bb+ spots. I don't even think about my will if I want to do it or not. I just do it

See you in the next month and Stay hard in 2024!