Hey guys ,first of all i wanna apologize for my english im not english native thats why
Im 27 and i have been playing poker since golden era 2007. Started to taking poker seriously in 2011-2012 and since then i can say that im making a living from poker. The main reason im creating this blog is to tell you my story and my personal huge challenge what im about to do in 2018.

START OF MY POKER CAREER: I started to play with schoolmates some poker during breaks of our classes and i immediatly fell in love with the game the only problem was that in that time i was only 17 and i couldnt enter any casino for live game so i tried online poker for the first time. Opened an account under my parents name and i deposited first 100usd what i won in live home games i used to play back then. Immediately started to play MTTs withouth knowing anything about bankroll managment or so ,but i was doing pretty good ! That time i was playing on PKR.com and i made from 100usd very easily and fast almost 2000usd just playing MTTs as almost everyone i cashouted out almost all of my winnings and lost the rest of it playing some cash games. During that time i was playing almost 4 times a week home games at different venues and i was doing OK ,winning little bit ,but i couldnt catch it up with high school ,so very soon after that i was kicked out of school for not attending almost at all.Few years after that i bought high school diploma for money i won in poker (i know sad ,but true) So here im after being kicked out of school not knowing what to do ,but i was pretty sure i wanted to play poker regulary and make a living out of it. I was 18 and still was living with my parents when i friend of mine who was at that time playing the home game with me asked me if i would be interested in doing a poker dealer in local casino , i thought to mysefl that it might be interesting for me to have a real job and also play by side poker . My bankroll that time was around 2500euros ,but my expenses were almost at zero since i was still living with my parents. So shortly after that i started to do poker dealer and i spent almost every night in casino either playing poker or dealing poker. It lasted about a year when i qualified for live event in our casino and i got a chance to play 3day tourney with 200entries what i managed to win for almost 7000euros,the day after that i resigned from my poker dealer job and i started to focus fully at my poker career.

MIDDLE PART: After my win i finally had a decent roll for NL200 what was playing at my home casino, so i played almost every day and i was doing ok until i got quite a bad run and lost almost all of my bankroll i was left with around 1k eur that was the time i decided to try to put it online and do something with it with regular online bankroll managment so i started from the bottom of NL25 playing at fulltilt and i managed to run bankroll up to almost 10k in about 5-6 months (2010 still amazing time of online poker) That time i was mixing it i was playing both live and online and was doing good until one day when my friend introduced me to the devils game of roulette and i was immediatelly hooked up and i find out that im degen gambler this is when my story got quite interesting and very sad also. There were days when i could win at poker and then loose it at roulette wheel ,of course some days i won ,but as much as you guys know the losses were always bigger than the wins.

DEGEN INTERESTING STORY: Around September 2012 i was ****in broke at home (that time i was already living on my own) there was this highroller tourney at my local casino and the buyin was 1100euros and i had 900euros to my name i decided to give it a shot and i borrowed 200euros from my friend and i played the tourney around 40 players and i managed to win it for almost 19 000euros not a bad day right after this win i started to go wherever the bigger games around my city were i travelled to few poker trips and i was playing everything ,but i was trying to stay aways from casino games and focus only on poker and i was doing amazing that time i won 20k playing just private cash games in a month. After this very succesfull month i decided that i wanna buy a new car and it wasnt just a random car it was Mercedes-Benz C 63 AMG ( who likes cars they know about what beast im talking) the price of that car was 60k euros i payed 20k for first payment and the rest was monthly lease. Such a dumb idea right? Yea it was ,but i was smilling every day,but i had some new monthly expenses ,around 1100euros every month for a car and 700euros for apartment.I was still left with some ok bankroll around 25k and i wasnt scared i played all the live private games up to 10/20 (back in my country the private games were absolutely amazing) Just to tell you an idea – guy walks into the private poker room with bathing suite,flip flops,two bottles of wine and a 5grams of cocaine and leaves the room after 12hours down 35k euros payed in cash playing 5/10 holdem. Back then we had amazing games really. I have got so many degen stories about me and people around me that i could write a book about it. Playing playstation FIFA for a 1k match against guy who asked me in the beggining of the game with which button do you pass the ball etc
Anyways this lasted around 3 years what i was really gambling with life playing roulette,poker kinda high ,sports betting , a lot of weird prop bets and so on.

2015 WORST INVESTMENT IN MY LIFE AND SUNNY BARCELONA: In beggining of 2015 i was asked by couple of my friends (who were making good money that time ,but i was just guessing from what) to invest big portion of my money to one thing what wasnt that legal as i thought it was ,but a good return of the money was supposed to be from it. In January i borrowed huge portion of money from a guy who was lending money for good interest ,but it was still worth for me since i was supposed to get a good return of my money back. Well the bussiness got super bad and my friends got busted by a police and i had to pay myself not to go to jail. They were sentenced 4-6 years . Thank got i got only 2years provision ,but i was ****ed up without money and with a huge debts on my head. Very shortly after that i decided that i needed to have a huge change in my life and i decided to move to sunny Barcelona and try a life there by playing live games in casino Barcelona so i sold my car and i had some money left to rent apartment in Barcelona and have money to play regulary 2-5 NLH there. It was summer 2015 when i was playing daily in Barcelona and i loved it ,but one day i got pretty drunk and lost almost 80% of my net worth playing casino bull****s, when i woke up the next day i told myself this has to stop or i get myself to grave very soon. Since that day i stopped to all casino games all sports betting and everything around it. During that time i met an amazing girl from my country in Barcelona and we fell in love together and after year we decided to go somewhere else and i found beautiful Marbella with amazing 2/5 and 5/10 games played every day and did fine ,but it covered my life expenses and made little savings ,but nothing hilarious.

DEBTS and REASON OF THIS BLOG: My situation right now is that i can proudly say im degen-free im not playing any casino games or sport betting and im super satisfied how it is,but the main reason im writing this blog is that its a start of new year and im facing very huge DEADLINE of paying off my debt from the stupid decisions i made in the past of my life.

CHALLENGE: My challenge for this year of 2018 is gonna be make from 1000usd to 50,000usd including rakeback and bonuses starting from 7.1 and ending 1.11 so i currently have 10months to go from 1k to 50k playing at partypoker and playing strictly PLO games, you might ask why PLO (big variance etc) i played online almost 1 million of NLH hands and i think nowadays online cash game NLH is super boring game and i dont want to play game where i will be scared to stack off myself with KK vs. Any regular.For me NLH its too solved and i still see a lot of potentional in PLO games. Always loved the dynamic of PLO and with a loooot of study material for PLO nowadays i believe i can get better if i sacrifice the hours for it. The reason why party i think i dont need to explain right? FU Pokerstars.
Im not new to PLO i used to play little PLO online back to Fulltilt days and also played a lot of PLO live (i know different game right) ,but im ready to dedicate it my next 10months of my life to put my life back on track and be debt-free and forget about my past. I have passive income now what covers my day to day expenses and also rent so i dont need to worry right now about these things, the important part is to pay off the debt i have to pay till end of October 2018. If i bust? I still have some money behind me ,so i might reload,but im not planing to
WHERE: Partypoker
BANKROLL: 1000usd
STAKEK: plo50 regular tables
PLAN: Aggresive bankroll managment moving up and down- for now play up to 3000usd PLO50 and then try to shot PLO100 for 5 BI
HOURS: i wanna dedicate every month around 200hours strictly to poker there will be months where i will play a lot and the other little less ,but average 200/monthly

What happens when i succede in this challenge? If everything goes right after that challenge i will go to Thailand for some months just chill and think about what are my next plans and where

If i fail? i will heavily have to consider option of getting real job and paying off that debt with some bank loan or whatsoever.

So this challenge for me its kinda real and i wanna give it all i have now..

I might consider taking some propbets ,but not a propbet for whole challenge.
I will be posting every 10 days about my results and also plans for another days. For sure i will offer some propbets during this time to you guys
If u got to the end of this post i gratefully thank you and i hope you were not bored and hope you guys will not give me a hard time ,because people make mistakes and im trying to make it right ,give me some positive energy please

Oh yea and im also starting to workout and eat healthier , i will try to loose 20kgs in next 10months.
Yeah i know a lot of promises


Thanks cheers
Mark77

what a story ! gl !

In for the ride... i wish you the best and hey it took me 28 years to figure it out buddy... everyone deserves 2nd chances as long as the person is humble and mature enough to leave that in the past and not just sorry because of the current situation and as soon as the money flows again will go back to the old habits.

Hey !
Im gonna post my goals for this week :
HOURS OF PLAY: 40
PROFIT: 500$ + Rakeback
WORKOUT HOURS: 5
Im going to play just 4 tables for start to adapt since i never played before on party regulary .

Gl guys i hope you follow me on this crazy route
Bye

Hi !
So i just finished my first week of my challenge and i think it ended up result-wise well ,but not so good with hours of play since i got sick and didnt have energy to play much so my GOALS for last week were:

HOURS OF PLAY: 40 /18 FAIL!
PROFIT: 500$ + Rakeback /1193$ + 605$ rakeback SUCCESS
WORKOUT HOURS: 5 /2 FAIL!

GRAPH:



Yea so i guess this week was okish ,but i have to work harder and harder if i wanna make this challenge succesfull. I played mostly PLO50 ,but a little bit of NLH50 also ,mainly because i wanted to try that fast forward mode on Party and i gotta say it wasnt that bad as i was expecting to be. Compared to stars i think it was much softer (or i just was lucky enough to play in the right time)
yea well anyways next week my plans are:

HOURS OF PLAY: 40
PROFIT: 800$ + rakeback 560$
WORK OUTSIDE OF PLAY: 5 hours
PADEL: 2 hours (game similiar to squash or tenis played outside)
WORKOUT:3 hours with my GF somewhere outside

And focus only on the great game of PLO!

I also wanted to ask you guys if some of you are looking for some study PLO partner or you are in some skype group or whatever? let me know im kinda interested

thank you guys again for support and good energy
appreciate that
GL at tables
Mark77

GL! I have a similar plan and hope we both achieve what we are expecting!

Gl, always nice to see new PLO blogs.


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Hello guys,

so here i go with report of last week, my goals for last were:

HOURS OF PLAY: 40 /17 HUGE FAIL AGAIN
PROFIT: 800$ + rakeback 560$ /2763$ from cash game tables and 510$ MTT win of small 11$ bounty so together 3273$ + 765$ rakeback so huge success !!
WORK OUTSIDE OF PLAY: 5 hours / 0 this is HUGE FAIL!! just watched some pokergo streams ,but it cannot be as accepted as study
PADEL: 2 hours (game similiar to squash or tenis played outside) / 3.5 hours of padel so i take it as success
WORKOUT:3 hours with my GF somewhere outside/ just 1 hour , i need to work on this one much harder

GRAPH:


Well this week was huge for me, i took a shot at PLO100 and it worked out perfectly and also i binked a tourney for 510$ it was 11$ bounty and i won it for 300$ plus the bounty. It was the only one MTT i played the whole week )
If u take a look at the graph i ran a lot above EV as you can see ,but its PLO right. Rakeback was runnin pretty good at the higher stakes and i also cleared 125$ of the 500$ reload bonus what i got from party.
So conclusion is it was pretty good week and i hope i can stay at the PLO100.

50K challenge left: 44 174$

HOURS OF PLAY: 30
PROFIT: 1000$ + rakeback 560$
WORK OUTSIDE OF PLAY: 4 hours
PADEL: 3 hours (game similiar to squash or tenis played outside)
WORKOUT: 2 hours with my GF somewhere outside or go for running

Keep on the good energy guys and thanks for support
GL at the tables
Mark77

BTW: still looking for study partner for PLO let me know if you are interested

Subscribed to this thread, I have recently begun to study PLO and play PLO10 online. If you find a PLO study group I'm interested in joining as well! Also this is my first post on 2+2, here on your thread