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#2 Dear readers,

The second post will be mostly related to the science side since I have played not so much for posting any results.
The laboratory I'm working at is specialized on the laser optics and laser-matter interaction. It is called "Lаborаtоry оf thе lаsеr studу tеchniquеs". We study photovoltaic properties of different films, optical limiting of various materials and other nonlinear effects arised in matter under the laser excitation. Until recently these studies were fundamental mostly (like almost everywhere in Russia). It means that we investigated new phenomena in well-studied materials or found old ones in unexplored, but did nothing to apply them in the devices that are used in everyday life or at least in some specialized kind of devices. In other countries like US, Finland, France etc the science is more "applied" and we see the benefits of such approach. Now we want our studies to be directed to applying somewhere where it can make life easier.
As for me I'm working mostly at the Rаmаn spectrometer. It is really cool stuff that can determine the authenticity of jewelry in 2 min for example. Another cool feature of this device is opportunity to identify the counterfeit of pharmaceuticals, but unfortunately to deal with that we need to add another laser source in the spectrometer but it costs almost $30.000 :( So I usually deal with carbon materials and thin films - that is my cup of tea)
There is stereotype in Russia that a scientist is an old men with grey hair, staggering, who wears strange O^O type glasses, without any other interests. I think it comes from 80-90th when all young Russian scientists moved either from science or from country (who do you think was Mr. Berezovskiy before?). Now it is the different time but this stereotype is still alive. So people here usually don't believe me when I say where I'm working ) They suppose me to be anyone even a street gang member but not a scientist). I suppose there is the opposite story in other countries, what would you say about that?

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Hello!

While $7s regs (don't laugh at this, future me) and I tried to find out who is who, my scientific work was driving pretty rich. A lot of experiments were carried out, one paper was prepared for publishing and a new project for a huge grant was started. Basically it is not so hard to do that all of stuff, it just need time.
I'm happy that I became a member of the HU staking program really. There are a lot of interesting people, nobody speaks with a sence of superiority no matter from the results, age and experience. What it is very important it is not used to complain about bad sessions how it is in some other places. Cool people, cool coaching, respect you, guys!
Here are my first results. Hope the next ones will be better.

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Hi,
The end of the year is coming and the volume of the work is increasing. However I'm trying to play as much volume as I can. Here are my lifetime results. Can't wait to play on 2 tables.

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Hey,

I finally hit 4% EV ROI on $7s for 1500 games, so now I'm waiting my level up to $15. The first goal to bit $7s by the end of the year is reached.

See you, guys!

Heya,

I've played not so many games, since moved up to $15, but anyway another 750 games were left.

I know, the main problem is that I'm playing not enough volume, but I'm doing my best really. I get up early at 04:30 a.m. and play for 2-2.5 hours. Then I go to my work, and after that I play another 2-2.5 hours. Ofc, somedays I have to be more with family, so in those days I play even less. However I don't feel that I'm staying in one place. I'm moving towards to my aim. Slowly, but moving)

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Heya,

Happy New Year, everyone, wish you doing your best, always be in a good mood!

My trip to $15 is very bumpy, but EV is going up, so everything is ok.

I'm still onetabling but I'm expecting going 2tabling in next 500 tourneys.

There are no new goals to 2016, they all are just the same. Moving up, getting more money, be a wise man.

As to the science I won a grant for my research, so 2016 is going to be hardworking one. It's pleasant when best of scientists support what you do and give money for that ;)

And 2016 is going to be majestic for my family, but I can't say the details yet.

By the way, if you are interested follow my instagram: @kosmikheew

See you soon,

Bye)

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Heya,

Making an experience at $15. Sometimes I begin to understand what I'm doing and why. But, nevertheless, I don't happy with the results. I can do it much better, and I will, but I have to work on that. The thing that hurts most of all is that I got my EV line down during just 2-3 days. Now I know this feeling and will be better prepared to the same one in future.

Hello, everyone!

I'm ready to 2tabling finally!

As to the science now I'm dealing with some kind of experiments connected to the effect of laser radiation to the film materials, constructing optical scheme etc. I'll post here some pictures later, perhaps.

At the gym I began to use one cool exercise. It is a push up standing on the hands with the legs up (near the wall ofc). In the beginning I could only stand for 15-30sec, and now I can do push ups 7x3. 

That's it for today. See you, guys!

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Heya,

I've come to realize that I've been waking up early at each morning not in vain.

Definitely significant result for me. Now I more or less 2tabling comfortably, that is nice too. The next goal is to move to spins $15s or to hu $30s.

Hello, everyone!

There are some news. I completed another block of 750 tournaments, playing 2 tables. EV ROI is not so cool, but I'm working on it.

To describe my  progress I'd like to tell the citation (unfortunately don't know the author):

"Knowledge is a spot of light, while the lack of knowledge is the border of this spot. The bigger the spot the bigger its border - the more one knows the more he doesn't know."

I hope that by the end of this month I'll be able to move to $15 spins.

I began go to the fighting courses. It was my dream from very early childhood, because I was kind of sick boy, who was afraid of any fighting even with classmates. And the dream is to block this fear. I'm a man and I have to know how to fight to be able to defend my family, friends and myself. I found the experienced trainer in my gym club and asked him to train me, and fortunately, he agreed. So, now I'm training 4 days a week: 3 are for general training and 1 is for fighting. Btw the general training contains mostly of the exercises with my own weight, not including additional weights (there are few ones).

That's it for today, thank you for reading this,bye-bye)

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And this is me again)

Another 750 tourneys block is completed for only 10 days. This is a good result for me) I'm going straight to the $15s spins! Hope this goal will be done during next 750 tourneys.

Finally! I achieved 3.5% evroi at $15s, so I'm waiting to move up. Definitely moving up to spins.

Good luck to you all!

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Heya,

Have played first 750 spins. At first it was very difficult, I didn't know what to do in 3 handed play) There were even thoughts to move back to hypers, and it was a weakness of mine. Reminding my final goal and 12k multi possibility returned my thoughts in the right way. Theory work improved them a little bit, so now they are more or less ok. 

Hi!

Have played first 1500 games at spins. Results are the following:

EV ROI = 1.75

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Hi, guys,

Meanwhile results are not wonderful, so I lifted down to $7s spins. EVROI is about zero for the last 1k games. So I should work, work, work and study, study, study...

I'm still not playing $100 spins so there are no reasons to stop the show.

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Uhh, shitty results this month.( EV ROI -1.28%

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Finally, I'm ready to move up to $15 spins, just waiting for confirmation to that. It was tough and I couldn't even believe my eyes when saw the EVROI being above the needed one.

Meanwhile I was on a short vacation when I visited my parent's house. It wasn't an easy walk since I had to work hard there helping my parents to built a new house.  I told you that you can read here about science a little bit, so here it is. My father is a doctor of technical sciences. Can I call him as a smart person? Sure. But.

Once we were discussing about the theory of evolution, and I was shocked that he believe that it is wrong!!! When I asked him how mankind did appear, he told me that most likely we were grown by aliens! "wtf, you,a doctor of sciences, say me?" But it is only a top of the iceberg. I know really a few people who are sure that the theory of evolution is not a hypothesis. I wonder what the situation is in other countries? I know that our country has a special group of people that fight against the pseudoscience, but TV and huge fantasy of internet "writers" significantly eliminates that. But in general it was funny to hear about the aliens from my father)

Hey guys,

Sorry for late reply, I made eyes laser correction, so I wasn't able to answer.

Vadiu, I'm not sure that I understand it rightly, but people don;t accept the theory of evolution mainly because they can't realize/imagine that they came from the monkeys. thanks for the luck)

CalvinLinus, as I said before, I'm in the staking group, so, this is a custom stat from here.

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Made statistical analysis of the game and came to to the result that the most "EV days" are Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Monday. Sunday as well, but it's super unhappy) And better not to grind on Tuesday and Wednesday. 

Though one can argue that the sample is small, for me the tendency is super clear.

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Hi guys,

You can congrat me, I hit the top prize in my life!)

We've got a baby!!! I'm super happy father! Her name is Alexandra, she is cute and she loves to sleep)

I easily escaped from all tilt problems, since the only thing I'm worry about now is she. I understand that life is life and it will not last long, and I hope on it basically - I want to worry about many different things) So I try to memorize this moment, these feelings they are incredible I should say.

I'm at 15s now, EV is negative for 1k games (hope it is a variance) and I suspect that I'm going NOT under EV and I'm happy to say, that I almost don't care. Didn't have much time to analyze the game, will do that asap.

Ok. time for grind now, gl guys, take care!

Hey, guys!

Thank all of you for congrats! I really appreciate that.

Meanwhile September was one of the worst month in my poker career. The volume was about 1k games, so I didn't reach platinum star, EV was below zero, profit was below zero. The positive thing that I got from it is that it could be worse. And also I understood that while grinding I should keep poker face (what a news!) literally. Sometimes I start mimic(not even crying))), and somehow it gets me to tilt. For example, when I dissapointly (interesting if there is such word in English) close my eyes, the some process launches that results in the swearing and other bad things. In contrast to that, when I sit with poker face, i.e. don't react to any kind of shit or suckout, it results to nothing. Nice notice as for me.

To another news with one sentence.

Seems that eye surgery went ok, so now I see super clear world without any glasses or lenses!

The book of Feynman "You are kidding, mr Feynman" (not sure that it sounds precisely so) is super, recommend it to any who are crazy about interesting people.

Alexandra can sleep all day long and cry all the night, uffff.

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There are different ways to motivate yourself for grind, my way is visualization of the process. I planned for this month 101 hours of grinding. More than half of the month has passed already, while I did exactly 50% of the plan. From this visualization one can see that I should grind more on Mondays and Fridays.

Here is the visualization of the last month

I screwed up mostly at weekends.

Yesterday, btw was a good day, there were a lot of 6x and I lost only one of them.This day would be the best in this month, likely.

You can be surprised, but my daughter is already listed in the kinder garden. It is common for us to list a child in the kinder garden right after the birth, just to be in that list and have the place there guaranteed.

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When did I get crazy making this stuff?

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For those, who are crazy about making plans as I am, I decided to share personally made plan, which I use. Don't know if you will find it useful or not though. As for me it is very helpful in achieving the volume goals.

If you decide to use it, you should copy it and fill the columns @planned and @played (after you play it obv). All other stuff will be calc automatically, and the diagram also will be plotted automatically.

Feel free to use it, guys.

 https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1bOExOzz4KuGYx5x_Tz445HAKRqgFfjEe...