Hello guys, I'm making this thread as a blog and to motivate myself in the daily grind and in my life and maybe make some positive impact in ppl who struggled in some aspects as I did in the past. I'll start by introducing myself a lil bit.

My name is Gabriel (screen name getpuzzled at PokerStars), I'm from Brazil and I am 31 years old (recently made) and have known poker for almost 10 years, long story short I was a average college student when met poker got a $50 bonus during a class (used notebook to make class notes) and played some HU PLO and made 1k profit in 3 hours while in class (of course ran like the sun at the time an lost everything the next 30 min but tought I could start learning and make some money haha) I started playing professionally and making some profit around 2013~2014 on my own, in 2016 I joined bitB and stayed there for almost two years, I learnt a LOT there and made some really good friends, but on my last months there depression stroke me hard (personal issues) fwiw they were very helpfull and comprehensive, Sam Vousden (€urop€an) even came to Brazil and had some nice trip with me to Rio de Janeiro where we had some really nice fun and it helped me a lot at that time, but even after that depression was still very hard and I had to leave bitB and stopped playing poker regularly for almost 2 years, I played one session or another from time to time but nothing much. In that period I gained almost 25 kgs and felt like doing nothing but after getting some professional help (Psychiatrist, psychologist) I started to get better, started to get back to exercising (Crossfit, which saved my life and mental healthy) lost the 25kgs back and went back to college (started studying Phisycal Education) to change some environment. And then this is what happened, I decided to deposit some money and get back to grind since I always trusted my skills but knew that my depression held me back a lot to play good poker and whilst being a college student I knew I could grind some hours a day and some good grind on weekends/holidays, also I was kind of broke and wanted to make some money again ofc . I deposited $300 at PokerStars January 30th and 1 Sunday Million, and 1 SCOOP SM FT after (both 5th places ffs haha) and here we are:



Mental healthy is EVERYTHING and depression is serious stuff, if you going through it look for help and let ppl know, you're not alone and don't need to be, and most important EXERCISE it saved my life. But let's get back into Poker.

I'll try to update this thread as often as I can, post some hands I feel interesting and even some life stuff if I feel like too.

I'll start with some goals for the momment for this month:

[ ] Lose 4kgs+ this month since I got back on my diet and gained too much weight in this quarantine for eating more than I should and not training, I also bought some equipment to get back on training and am waiting for it to arrive.

[ ] Increase study to at least 4hours/week since lately I've been just grinding and studying less than I should.

[ ] Grind properly at least 4~5 days a week and not just Sunday and some random days on week.

For now these are the goals, will improve/increase them as time pass. Will try to keep posting and updating the thread posting hands and some tourney results and ofc some nice sweats and also post some life stuff goals if feels like, if you guys have any question I'm all ears, LFGO!

Cliffs:

- Retired for 2 years due to depression
- Went to college for some environment change, started exercising, lost 25kgs
- Deposited $300 start of this year and ran it up to ~$160k in 4 months

Congrats on the progress you've made so far, and good luck with your future goals!

I agree completely that mental health and exercise are so important... it's tough being in lockdown and having gyms closed, but it's good that you were able to buy home gym equipment and hopefully it arrives soon.

Thx bro, hopefully scientists find a vaccine and world can start getting back to normal things.

Coronavirus is the apocalypse of the new age. There won't be a vaccine. At least I don't hope.

Just saw your topic, congratz and gl at your goals too bro!

Just forgot to update it since I took some days off, but grinding today, had some runs but nothing much so far for a Sunday, still have some tables running and hope to turn it into profit. Will do my best

Also took some days off due to an eye surgery, so got some rest after that, thats how my eye was right after the surgery, kind of funny how it looked haha: