Thought I would post an update as some interesting things have happened recently and have been spending a lot more time in poker.
First off, I played 2 MTT sessions in the path month and binked a couple nice scores, which was great for the bankroll. After I shotted some 500nl app games and ran very well in them, so things were turning around.
I do feel that my ultimate goal has to be to play high stakes. I'm quite young for the poker world and very ambitious, so I feel anything but reaching high stakes would be a failure. I decided to set the short term goal of beating 1knl on GG as that is a stake/position I have coveted for a while. But the brutal reality is that I need to put in a ton of work just to get to that point, and I'm not where I thought I was skill-wise.
After a bit of thought on the matter I started working with Metal_ouda's/Captain robur's stable. They have a ton of experience on GG so I thought it was a perfect fit and after a few 1on1 coaching sessions and pouring through their video library, I felt I made the right choice. Not only are they very knowledgeable, the community of players has made me more ambitious and more ready to put in the work in studying as I see all the guys around me putting the work in. And the split is very very reasonable, better than I've seen really anywhere.
However, getting back on GG didn't start out great, and I went on a 25 bi downswing pretty quickly. I can't lie that this wasn't mentally tough, but I think I have actually come out of this as a much better poker player both in soft skills and technically. With rakeback I was able to grind out of the hole and show profit in the sample, and will be starting to shottake 500nl on GG soon.
Bankroll wise, we're looking good at around 41k for ~26k of profit since I started the blog. I was extremely lucky considering I normally hold a fair amount of crypto but literally sold it right before the crash bc I was going to transfer it into my investment account while my withdrawal on ACR processed. So I'm getting a crazy discount on crypto. Although maybe I should be like Buffet and stock up on bonds.