Hello:
My name is Santiago, I play poker 8 years ago and I can say that I am semi busted!. A quick introduction to these 8 years playing:
2010-2013:I start with 20 years old be a Recreational player of $ 1.50.Like i dont had money to play on my own ($ 300 from bankroll in
that time was a lot of money in my country, so i decide cashout this to pay some things in my home) I decided to access a bank with coach that sent me up to play $7 SNGs Where I got Stagnant for a long time , then I was fortunate to meet the coaches who catapulted my game until I reached $ 15 and $ 30 SNGs games.
2013-2016: I tried to play SNGs from $ 30 to $ 200 on my own with a 15k bankroll, was not bad at all but a degen bankroll management, being a pretty good life and playing high MTTs left me again with having to look for a banker that sponsor me Medium / High SNGs. For later in 2014/2015 (I do not remember well) I Try the SNE. Without success reaching the SNE and without so many hours of study, Feeling bad about myself and havig a poor mental game, they left me 3 years quite bad, in fact I still owe some of that money from my banker (make up) for a big down that I had in 6max hyperturbos.
2016-2018: Stop playing SNGs for the low traffic they have had and we decided to stop with me Banker too. Here things got a little better, since I started to play spin and go and climb stakes, already in 2017 I was playing spins of $ 100 to a pretty decent Cev (47) which allowed me to pay enough debts that i had for gambling and loans, but at the end of 2017 pokerstars left Colombia And I had to travel to Mexico to continue playing. I can say that this year was the best in financial terms since I start playing poker. I win 40k aprox in games, I knew a way to make money with BTC and I could make approx 10k more in 3 months.
2018-2019: My first 3 months in Mexico I be pretty lazy, it was the first time I was outside of my country longtime and Playa del Carmen is a great place to live. All this time I was with my girlfriend chilling, trying to reflect on things in my life and trying to change my habits a bit, at that time I weighed 90 kl (My height is 1.70) so I dedicated myself to losing weight and living life in general. Then I didn't have enough bank to play $ 100, I mentally thought I had to play 100$ and no other stake this because I have a pretty ****ed up ego (I hope it has come down a bit now) and there I decided to enter another spin and go deal, my plan was to have a minimum of 10k and then retire to play with my own money again. There were two problems here, I had to travel to Lima becuase my time in Mexico was over (3 months for tourist), besides I wanted a change of city and took the opportunity that I still had because i have some money to travel.The second problem is that I couldnt play in pokerstars again so I had to Find another site to play spin and go, most with bots problem. In the middle of 2018 I was in a MU of 20k and very unmotivated, I could not take the rhythm again and I also felt Stagnant. The truth This year I felt like a mediocre, very lazy, I didn't even have a month of 2k spins, at most 30 hours of study, anyway. From there until the beginning of 2019 continue and recover 5k, to live I kept up with pre rakeback splits (which my stakers very kindly gave me) and other activities that gave me extra money. I had to return to Colombia in August because of a personal problem so The year looked pretty bad. In the middle of 2019 I consider stopping Play spin and go Because the only place that offered spin and go in Colombia was winamax and the truth I was being mediocre in terms of study goals and work hours, so I talked to my stakers and we reached a payment agreement that I still pay month to month.
This brief summary shows several things that I already tired of being in my poker career and in my life in general.
One is to be a conformist and be fine with the fact of earning 1k per month, the second is to be mediocre,
since I know that I have the ability of crush levels but my bad work ethic and that of being a lazy ass put off of my goals , third personal finances in life are very important I so far I feel able to carry a balanced and orderly finances, I think that living in a country where you can do a lot with few money, earning more than the average of the people here and the fact that all my life I didn't have much money they turned me back a wasteful, who wanted to show himself as a rich type of TV, but obviously that makes no sense or anything. With this I say
ENOUGHT! The idea of this journal is to be able to keep track of my work, to know if I am doing the things that I set out in my routine,motivate me and maybe motivate someone in my same situation, but the main reason is to make a list of my debts and show them how am I going to pay all the people who trusted me and how am I going to have my bankroll to play PLO.
THE PLO is a game that I have found very interesting since I started playing, but the fact of not having material at that time available and the fact that I felt "Crusher" in SNGS made me put it aside, now I have something like 3 months studying solvers and situations and the truth that I love it.
I will start with a 5k bankroll and play the majority in pppoker since in Colombia we can only play in winamax or pppoker and there is not enough traffic, also because I have a very good rakeback deal that offers me a very good friend and I want take advantage of it and maybe encourage them to play there
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These are my debts:
Loan Amigo F (2019) Current 3.5k (Paying compound interest at 5% for 1 year)
Payment Agreement MU Stakers previous 7k
Debt Friend D (2017) Current 5k (No interest)
Family Debt (2019) 3.5K (2.5% Interest)
Debt Friend M 4k (Interest 5% for 1.5k)
Debt Friend J (2020) 3k
Debt Friend JJ (2020) 8k
Others low bets 1k
FOR A TOTAL OF * 35K OF DEBTS *
My actual cost of live (Food, Apto, gym, ect) is 900 $ Monthly.
Now my income:
-> Approx 600 $ For rakeback of other players in pppoker that play in the clubs where i work
-> For other approx 400 $ Monthly
-> PLO:?
My plan is now that I have covered my living expenses is to pay all my debts playing PLO with a 5k bank, my plan is to leave 60% for the bankroll until I haveBank comfortable to play PLO200 and 40% to pay my debts. I hope this year I can tell you that I am a debt free guy and that he plays PLO200 with his own bankroll.
This is going to be my calendar:
Minimum 60 hours of technical study / mental game
120 hours minimum gameplay:
https://prnt.sc/r9a6du
I will start playing PLO50 $ since the lowest levels there is no traffic in pppoker (Except in omaha 5 cards) and the rake in pppoker is very high. I hope to be in PLO100 in a maximum of 3 months, here I will put graphic thoughts, as I have done with my routine, ect. I hope you like it
If you have any suggestions I would love to hear it! Good day and thanks for reading me