Hi guys!

So after some thinking I came to the conclusion that I will give PGC a shot.

WARNING:
This is probably going to be a long and boring first post – so you better switch to the cliffs at the end and come back to this post whenever you feel like you need to know more about me.

My background:

I am 25 year old degen screw-up from Austria. Currently I study Economics, and work part-time in an office, and sometimes help out at my uncles company. I moved in with my girlfriend last year, so I am pretty much in a good place and somewhat satisfied with where I am now.
I started playing poker when I turned 18, more or less by „accident“, because I was just playing BlackJack online, when I discovered that the site offered a poker room too. I was intrigued and installed it and made my first steps. Obviously it started out the worst way possible: I made 30 bucks, from my initial 10 bucks…So I thought: Damn, why play BlackJack..this game is way more fun, and way more profitable.
The first few months I really played just for fun, for the thrill of the game – I loved the game – and I even played freerolls, just because I loved to play cards. But somewhere down the line something changed. I stopped enjoying it and playing it for the sole purpose of playing. Suddendly it was all about money, and how I could move up fast, live the baller life, win big, get the girls, the million likes on facebook and whatnot.
And so started the long-lasting phase of deposit-degenerate-deposit-degenerate and so on and so forth.. Seriously, I don´t want to go into detail more than I am already. Lets just say that I degenerated away a lot of money.
The only positive thing about that: I only ever gambled with my own money – so no poker debts – thank god that I used at least a bit of my brain.
During that time I totally lost controll of my life – I just let everything pass by, pretending to just live life and enjoy it, study at the slowest possible speed, always telling everybody that I want to enjoy my life now while I am young, because I´ll have to work until I am super-old anyways. Reality is, I was still having that childish dream that I´d earn a ****load of money playing poker, without putting in much of an effort, other than depositing every month.
Well I guess, that is enough of my background so far – I´ll happily answer any questions you have, so feel free to ask.

Where I am today, what I want now:

As I mentioned earlier, I am in a pretty good place right now. I am in a healthy relationship, and my girlfriend is probably the best „thing“ that ever happened to me. Having said that, I made the year 2016 the year of „getting my **** together“. Meaning that I finally want to study hard, pass every exam and graduate ASAP and start working full-time. So why a PGC thread, without mentioning poker even once in this paragraph? Simply because I decided it is enough of the deposit-degen-deposit vicious circle. I finally agreed that I am not made for the poker-superstar life, I don´t have „it“. I am not the kind of guy who studies and reviews hands for hours. I am just the guy who loves to play. So my goal is to finally enjoy poker again. The game itself. The beauty of the game – being better than others, outsmart people.

My poker-related goals (long term):

-Enjoy the game
-Stop playing Hyper HU´s..or any Hyper Sng´s for that matter
-Be a winner at the limits I play
-BRM!!!!!!!!!!! And **** stick to it already!!!!!!!

My personal life goals:

-lose 7 kilos until the end of June
-pass every university exam this semester
-read one non-poker, non-university related book every month
-enjoy every single moment with my family, girlfriend and friends, because life is awesome, but short

So, I´ll probably post later today again with the specific goals for February..just wanted to get this started now, cause I am feeling hyped

Cliffs:
-25 year-old degen looking to get his s*** together
-wants to win at poker, no specific $$ amount in mind
-wants to eat healthier, get healthier, get in shape

Thanks for reading this wall of text, let´s see where this journey will lead to…but you know what they say:

The journey is the reward!


Oh, almost forgot…there is only one who can save this thread now (don´t tell my girlfriend tho):

So, as promised - the February goals post:

Since I don´t have a lot of time in February, cause I got exams coming up at the beginning of March and will go on a week-long skiing/spa trip with my gf, I dont expect to come up with a lot of volume. Generally my goal is to get an average of 2-3 hours of poker a day in.

I love both, tournaments and cash, but since I don´t have that much time, I will focus on cashgames.

Goals for February:
- 25000 hands
- a profit of at least 0,01$ on February 29
- get in at least 4 workouts per week (except the week I´m skiing)
- lose 2kg weight
- NO HYPER TURBO SNG´s (gonna check if I can exclude myself from these)

BRM rules:

Cash:
Stay within a limit when I have between 15-30 BI
take shots when I have 15 BI of the next higher level
stop-loss at 4BI a day

MTT:
at least 100 BI until I hit 1k $$

Guess that´s it so far!
So, gl me and everyone who happens to get lost in this thread!