I’m somewhat of a nerd when it comes to tracking numbers… On Wednesday October 7th I opened my 2000th set. In Istanbul, of all places. Although this moment was much less impactful than hitting One Thousand Sets in Prague, I nevertheless felt accomplished. In that blog post, I wrote that my goal was to hit 2000 sets by the end of 2025. That didn’t quite happen. Nomadic travel, winter hibernation, and my new sales job had a big impact on my work rate. Still, I feel I’m doing enough sets to make progress. ...
Today I defined my focus for this winter until begin February.I’ll spare you he details; it boils down to: Doubling down on my corporate sales job instead of daydreaming about returning to entrepreneurship. Looksmaxxing: cut down to ~10% BF and then decide if I want to hardmaxx (sliding gynioplasty). Enjoy high-quality leisure: learning Turkish and reflecting on my daygame journey. My Sales Job I switched into tech sales because I was fed up with my nerdy data engineering solo-business. Though introverted, I just didn’t enjoy being alone staring at a screen all day. More importantly, I feel my sales jobs actually improves my daygame: every week I make over 200 cold calls, practicing my speaking skills (pace, objection handling, tone of voice). ...
I’m writing in my favorite Caffè Nero in Nişantaşı, looking back on the last ten days of daygame Istanbul. These stats conclude my third daygame trip to this city: Opens: 80 Numbers: 22 Replies: 9 Dates: 01 Lays: 0 This was by far the worst conversion from numbers to dates since the beginning of my daygame career. About half of the numbers replied, which in itself is better than my average. However, all of these leads eventually fizzled out over text, with the exception of the 3 leads that left town. ...
This Saturday was my last evening in Istanbul. My flight would leave tomorrow at 14:40 and all my leads were dead. Given that I had already two near misses this trip, I was determined to fly home with a new notch. The night before, I agreed for my long term Turkish girl to meet me in Amsterdam end of September. Combined with a proper gym session that Saturday morning, I started my last daygame session with an outstanding vibe. As this was my last evening, my game automatically became more r-selected: I started filtering for rebellious girls and refused to take phone numbers unless I was certain that I could get them out on a date that night. ...
This was my first solid number on my first 2026 trip to Istanbul. A short, nice-looking, Turkish local with wavy brown hair and light-brown eyes. I opened her in a side street of the main Nişantaşı shopping street. The set was rather light and not overly sexual, but I could tell she was really into me. The number close was easy and we agreed to meet for coffee later. She was quite inexperienced, as would become clear later: ...