About blog :
This journey is about poker player who got tired of being average reg... Time has passed and Its time to either shine or quit this chapter of my life, so lets not be a failure, cause Failure Is Not an Option as
I know deep in myself that I can and I Will achieve my goals !
Sit down and follow me !!!
Now you probably ask yourself who da f*** is this guy
Well let me write some cliffs !
Introduction :
My name is Daniel and I am 26 years old... I am coming from Zagreb (capital of Croatia), typicall guy who is just another college dropout and who got in love from the first date with poker...
In poker world Im better known as BugsBunnyD (stars) and i have been everywhere from sngs, cash games, spins to todays format which Im playing MTTS ! I am playing poker "seriously" since 2013
so lets do a small recap.
<<< Late 2013 - 9 man hypers
So I started here from the bottom Ive receieved staking deal from Jordan Rich (Octavian_C) and started registering from 1,5$ where i ended up at some point playing normally up to 30$ and cherry picking 60$ when I look back
at that point poker was gold mine... But one thing which we must accept is that we cant live in our past and on old glory...
<<< 2014 - Still 9 man hypers ocasionally adding some MTTs
That year was really rough and had bunch ups and downs... First time achieved supernova and decided to go for 200k vpps which kinda brought me into bad spot and I first time digged into 5 digits MU which led to depression and
isolation from society... From that story I really learned alot and got some good lessons...
In mid of 2014 my backer Octavian_C had to drop all players from his stable and at that point we got sold to one german poker player and I continued with hypers&mtts and ended up in december clearing that MU when Ive achieved
millestone etc... My german staker was high stakes cash player and he demanded that all of us move to cash and I had big decision to make on which I regret every time i look back at it, tho real truth is - who knows what would happen
So during 2014 I was working on my game with Aaron Barone (abarone68) for hypers and he offered me staking deal which I rejected as I was in kinda mindset where I was depressed and had enough of hypers and variance.... So my german backer told us
that he will help us with our game and that cash games arent that hard...
<<<2015 - Cash game nl25-100 cherry picking nl200 mostly eurosites was better known under screenname "TrollFest"
So Ive took a deal as I thought well this guy is good hes gonna help me and its time to move to real poker which for me is still cash games and 100bbs
But fact that this backer was doing ton diffrent bussiness stuff and he was getting out of poker to trading
He really didnt have time and he got us coach who was playing mostly on eurosites and IMO he was quite shady when it comes to approaching to player and he wasnt good at transfering knowledge so I was quite fast out of that deal cause it was making me quite unhappy
Later I had short staking deal w Seb Karlsson but he had to drop stable so I decided for some time to play on my own and that actually went well....
<<<2016/2017 - MTTs
Ive started playing mtts and ive ended my deal w TPS and moved to friends stable (markan991) where things were doing quite good up to 35$ so Ive got moved to games which I wasnt able to beat and got crushed at higher stakes so in mid of 2017 I had situation where
I was sitting at 19,7k MU and my backer decided to sell me so I bought myself out for 5k.... And in may 2017 i made a deal w Aaron to join psyduck where Im playing now...
As you see there was alot of ups and downs but what I can say is that for the first time i feel good and happy with my stable/boss... I also met personally Aaron who came in Zagreb in may and hes really helping me alot with my game so If i push myself into right direction
you ll definetly see me on many final tables....
About main goal:
At the moment my main and most important goal is to work my ass off and just listen to Aarons advices and try to improve my game, tho in terms of evBB/100 I already doubled my winrate which is 11,48 on 170k hands and before I came to his stable i had around 6-7 so progress is good but
thing is that for some reason my game is having swings and certainly im not playing always my A game...Once I do these things Im sure Ill be ready to move up in limits and stop being average bad reg
Other goals :
First two are about getting rid of bad habits and other two are more about my hobbies
So last sunday i had breakdown where Ive tilted off during my session and thankfully it was early so I decided to unregister everything and take day off go somewhere and think about my acts and what the **** I want from my life.... I came to conlusion that my side income actually took over my "poker career"
and that I am actually happy by that what made me sad as I always wanted to live from my own poker skills and not by affiliate job and getting lucky by binking from buying other peoples action...
1. Stop smoking weed
Over the last two years I pretty much always played high where I would light up few joints and sometimes it would feel great but actually main reason why Im stuck w my game and have mental swings during grind is cause I played always high...
So from this point I want to grind w calm head and actually think more during gameplay and see where that goes...
2. Loose more weight / hit gym regulary eat clean and feel happy !
At start of this year I was really disgraceful where ive got on 03.01.2017 my weight came up to red area and I was standing at scale with my 129,9kg so from that date I started going to gym every week 5 times and once a week go somewhere in nature and mostly it would be mountaineering and around may ive lost
17kgs but then I had again problem where ive stopped going to gym for 5 weeks and gained 4 kgs...
Last weighing was on monday 17.07.2017 and I had 114,8kg plan is to drop to 95-100kg by the end of this year and later on work more on gaining muscles...
3. Go to Thailand in early January 2018
I always wanted to travel around the world and my biggest wish as destination is Thailand but most important is that I want to get introduced to new cultures so I believe thats perfect place to start with that journey
4. Learn more about trading world / cryptocurrencies
Atm Ive invested some money in BTC,ETH & Zcash and Im willing to make some kind of skype group where we would talk about news from that world, what are next good potential investments and how to trade with them...
So which are my goals for rest of 2017 :
Work harder! Mainly studying off the table and focus on improvement
Put volume ! Plan is to grind extra 3-3,5k mtts by the end of the 2017
Earn 20k $ which is imo realistic goal and I will give 4x 50$ freeroll if I fail on this (claim it by posting Im in for freeroll)
Be active member of 2+2 community
Update my blog atleast once a week pokerwise and lifewise things !
Also here is my graph since Ive joined PsyDuck staking atm IM playing mostly mtts up to 44$ but I started also playing at 888 with same nickname....
Cheers and I wish you all good luck at tables
Thanks for reading this !!!