Hello everybody, I come here with the purpose of enlightenment, progress tracking and experience exchange.
I will introduce myself...
I am newly graduated musician and piano teacher from Portugal who started playing poker some months ago (when I was still finishing the Course). I found myself deeply disappointed with the academic and professional environment in the specific location where I was studying and also with the firm conviction a lot of my colleagues have that proceeding their studies in the Education Masters (the best translation I thought of) is the ONLY future even if they don't want to do it and feel it is sucking their love for music and making music, which is at the moment an obligation imposed by the government without any kind of structural firmness and pedagogic thought.
I always regarded freedom of choice and freedom of thinking and feeling as some of the most important things we can have in life, so I didn't see myself holding almost penitently to my choice of becoming a pianist and a musician and especially a teacher, using that only as a means to get money, and I preferred to look at it as a marvelous "tool" that is capable of, not only making me able and fulfilled artistically, but also of getting money while doing so.
I am very interested in entrepreneurship and in lifestyle/well-being subjects so I thought of poker not only as game that is very fun to play with some potential of earning some money but also an activity where I could put in practice the things I learn and experiment.
The first book of poker I read was the "Theory of Poker" by D. Sklansky, It was quite enlightening and interesting and I started getting a better grip of the game and how it is so much more than just cards and bluffs.
The second was "Treat your poker like a business" by D. Schmidt and this was the real game changer because I could see clearly a guide like approach to the business quality of this game. So I kept reading more and studying business basics and stuff and elaborated my very first business plan, a formal document where I exposed the purpose, market analysis, strategy, and so on...
I got excited and went on to play with this new mindset: at first it went well, I don't have PT or HM so I learnt the basics of Excel and built myself a spreadsheet. I was starting to make some small profit but then life takes some turns and I got injured in my knee practicing my favorite sport, Judo, my life balance and discipline got a bit slacked and lazy and I stopped profiting...
I quickly forgot my business plan and mindset, my schedule, my workout routine... From the initial 50€ there are now 21€...
This post is, in a certain way, a mean to share my thoughts not only about poker and bankroll progression but also to create in me this joy of self and others acknowledgement, and to seek some feedback in a community that can really help me with my goals.
Bankroll Goals:
Get back to 50€ in late June;
Reach the 100€ Milestone (yes, it is a Milestone xD)
Strategy:
21€ - 50€: 0,25€ Sng and KO tourneys, and Freerolls.
50€ - 75€: Same but adding the 0,75€ Ko Sng's.
80€ - 100€: Cash Game Nl2, 1€ Sng's and Mtt's.
By the way, I play in Pokerstars.pt. In 2015 there was the Portuguese Black Friday, and only in late 2016 did online real money poker came back to us. At the moment only Stars as a license to operate in Portugal and with the handicap of being a closed market (we can only play with Portuguese players). I hope this is temporary and I can join most of you in the global market!
Please send some feedback and keep in touch!
Big Hugs!
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