Hey guys,

I've recently moved back to MTT's after playing husng's & spins for a while, and I've decided to make a thread to keep myself focused & motivated on my grind.

About me:

I started playing when I was 15, started poker more seriously when I was 16 and when I was 17 I had a big winning year playing mtt's & hyper husng's, which is when I decided to quit high school and give fulltime poker a shot.
Unfortunately I was quite bad in handling money, and all the money I made was spent quite quickly, resulting in me having <2k left when I turned 18 (febuary last year). This is why In april last year I found a stake.
I played ~7k 15$ husng's in the first 2 months, and then Moved on to spins. Unfortunately this didn't work out for me as I seemed to lose interest in spins quite rapidly, and running ~300 bi's under EV at 15's. After 8k games I finally got to breakeven, paid of the make-up and left the stable.

It was around this time that I had just moved to Malta to grind from there, and a friend of mine suggested I should grind side events at EPT Malta and he would buy a large % of my schedule.
So I did and ended up bricking most tournaments on the schedule, until I decided to play a 10pm 500 hyper before going out with my roommates, the one tournament I didn't sell 50% for, and I ended up binking 3rd place for 9k. Two weeks later I repeated this for 6.5k in a hyper during the MCOP, which gave me the roll to grind mtt's again online.

I then dabbled a bit playing anything that ran online, but realised I'm probably better off taking the lower variance route and starting at the bottom. So since 21/12 I started playing anything up to 22's, and these have been my results since:



Avg BI: 16.93 ROI: 61%


Goals for 2016

This sunday I moved to Bangkok, where I'll live for the rest of the year if all goes well. I decided to start with a 4000$ roll for poker, so that I can apply some brm.

Goals for the end of 2016:

[ ] Win $100k
[ ] Prove to be a winning player at stakes up to 215$

January goals:

[ ] Buy-in for 2000$ per week minimum.
[ ] Keep my ROI over 50%
[ ] Grind 5 days per week, not more & not less
[ ] Start grinding between 7-8AM.
[ ] Find a local gym and go 3 times per week.


Will try to give some updates after every grind day, thanks for following & good luck at the tables!

2016 winnings before Thailand: $1254

Starting Roll: $4000

Day 1 (12/01)
+ $1805

New roll: $5805

Day 2 (13/01)

- $121.50

New roll: $5683.5

Total winnings 2016: $2926

In.

Glad things are looking up for you after leaving the stable!

GLGL

Good luck! Id like to follow you on this

Gl!

Haha, thread got a ****load of potential.

As a boring old live cash player I know nowt about tournaments of any variety - so this should be interesting...

GL Kid!

Gl gl!!

Thanks guys!

Just woke up before 5am for the 3rd day in a row, guess I've underestimated the jet-lag quite a bit. Got some plans this weekend however so will get out to get some food and then get some volume in today anyway.

Really important to get food before the grind. I remember starting some long sessions at 8am and was in a bad spot when I got hungry, nothing to eat and at lot of deep tables going..

GL dude, don't forget that their fastfood have a delivery service ahah

Yea experienced this a couple times when I just moved back to mtt's. Since I'm currently staying in a hotel for the first month I'll have to deal with just a water-heater and a fridge, so I stashed up on a bunch of instant noodles

Will also look into the delivery services around here, but trying to avoid eating too much fastfood, altho noodles aren't that much better

Gl man, will follow

Ya, eating healthy and playing poker works good but isn't that easy too achieve. I remember one day I made a plate for the session with fruit-picks only to have 30 flies sitting on it within 10 minutes. Damn summer..

Day 3 (14/01)

- $317

New roll: $5366.5

Total winnings 2016: $2609

One of those days where everything just goes wrong, mincashed 1/25 tournaments for <abi and bricked everything else. Feel like I played quite well however so happy overall, except for the misclick below in the only tourney where I had a deepish run lol.




Is there anyone who's had some experience with <33$ mtt's on US sites? I can just barely Bi for 400$/day if I start at 8 right now, so I'll either need a site with more action (fr's, Ipoker & 888 are completely dead after 9am), or start dividing sleep so I can get up 1-3 hours earlier and then nap in the afternoon.
A suggestion for US sites with decent action would be great!

Subbed.

You don't play on PokerStars?

I don't know, how are the biggest buyins on the bitcoin sites?

Ty and actually since I arrived in Thailand all my action has been on pokerstars (and a little on .fr). However I don't love it since after 3am CET it's just not possible to keep 12 tables open at my stakes.

As for BTC sites, no idea, never used bitcoin.

You from France OP ?

Nope, Netherlands.

So yesterday I decided to take a 'nap' right after my session (~2pm), ended up waking up at 9pm, which led to me being unable to sleep a couple hours later.
While desperately trying to fall asleep around 2am I realised I could instead just play poker and sleep after grinding, and so I did.

Had some deep runs and bubbled an ft, no big cashes. However quite happy with my game again.
Especially happy with my post-flop game, will spend the next 2 weeks mainly working on 3b/4b ranges and EP os ranges given that I find to struggle with these the most. After that I think I'll finally get myself a CRev license and start studying 100bb+ post-flop situations.

Day 4 (15/01])
- $96

New roll: $5270.5

Total winnings 2016: $2513

For now I'll be taking the weekend off since I've made some plans with a thai girl to explore Bangkok a bit, will start playing early in the morning on Monday for a late 'sunday' grind.

Already on the Thai girl grind. You know pics would make this PGC thread more fun.

Succes!

Subbed! GL my friend

Yeah we want pic OP.