Hi Ben! Awesome thread.
I have contacted you from your website but I have Just seen that you are full from your IG profile.
Hope to have some possibility in future.
Anyway I wish you the best for the end of this year.

hey mate. yeah i'm still full atm and actually for a couple reasons i'm not taking anyone new on for the foreseeable future. appreciate your understanding!

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we have found ourselves with another rather problematic couple thousand hands



5 weeks left for the year. gl closing out! Will likely do an EOY update. 2022 gunna be a huge year

<3

u easily gat dis

ouch, i guess that is 2knl & 5knl?
GL ending the ben!

in b4 rostucko

big F for month but can't wait for the year update

Indeed! Going to have to change my name.

Looking forward to the EOY update glgl for the last month.

Toys for kids

Yooo, it's that time of year again, where we have a really great opportunity to give back to those who are less fortunate than ourselves.

toysforkidscharity.com started 11 years ago right here on the 2+2 forums. They've grown every year to giving away thousands of toys a year.

This year, they are going to give gifts to the kids that are too sick to travel home for the holidays at a local Children's Hospital. The remaining money will go towards filling their new play room with toys for the kids to use during their stay.

Donations can be made via Venmo/Paypal/Bitcoin

Please consider giving whatever you can this Christmas!

Peace <3

Yo. I was recently a guest on the Pokerambition podcast where we discussed all things life, poker and psychotherapy/mental game. Give it a listen/watch if you're keen!



Gl closing our your month/year! <3

Recently I've resumed psychotherapy, a long-due action than needed to be taken many moons ago. I'm 100% my upbringing is holding me back with invisible ball and chain.
All this to say that I'm going to watch this episode very carefully, ty for sharing it and GL for the next year

Yo thanks for sharing this and I really hope you're able to unpack that invisible ball and chain in a safe environment

2021 Results - a little update.

So imma keep this one a bit shorter than last year, simply due to a lot less has happening. 2021 was the first year in six where I hadn't been in any form of therapy training and also the first year working two PAID jobs side by side... That feels like a nice segue into something I've given a lot of thought over the last six-months or so.

At some point in 2021 I came to realise that earning money through non-poker work didn't give me the satisfaction that I had hoped it would. I can't pinpoint exactly why that was, but I think it's something to do with my own feelings of needing to 'balance things out' with regard to being a poker player. I always loved volunteering during my training (even thought it was a requirement), and as soon as I began to be paid for my therapeutic work, something shifted in the dynamic. This coincidentally (or not, depending on how you look at it) coincided with the decision to move to Australia with my gf (corona dependant/waiting on visa's). My license won't cover me out there which means i'm closing down my therapy practise for the time being - another huge change.

So where does this leave me now? I'm still a little unsure. However, what I'm dead certain on, is the importance for me to be doing some kinda philanthropic work alongside being a poker player. The idea of just playing poker feels completely empty to me (not to say that others should or shouldn't feel this way). Poker is incredible, don't get me wrong, but I just don't see it as being the be all end all for me, it's there to facilitate whatever else I want to do in my life. The steps I've taken thus far is volunteering at an animal charity where I help with adoption/matching applications. I'm honestly absolutely loving it so far! It feels kinda wild to have taken so many years of ridiculously deep academic/personal study, to packing it in to volunteer somewhere I need no qualifications whatsoever

Poker stuff - what you're really reading this for!

As you can see there were some SWINGS this year. Several 40-60k up/downs. Overall we ran about 13bi above ev with a wr of around 3.5bb/100 - still plenty of room for improvement, especially seeing some of the other results posted up this year (@YMB)! It feels aweeeeeesome to have established myself (at least to myself) at high stakes. Definitely v proud of that one.



Taking into account some rb and some hands missing, my total was a little over $250k. My best year to date!

Goals moving forward

The goal posts around poker have totally changed this year too. Big up to Clanty once again for giving me the confidence to be better, try harder, and shoot beyond the limitations that I had set for myself. Reading back my EOY 2020 post, I shared that my goal was to play more 1k and 2k while continuing to play 500z. I've now totally dropped 500z and am playing an average stake of like 1.75knl while mixing in 5k every so often. Sounds mental reading that back.

The goals for 2022 are to maintain what I have been doing with regard to study/grind/life balance. Because I'll not be playing fulltime poker again (wtf) I think it would be so easy to revert back to some old and unhealthy habits; not taking enough breaks, bad sleep schedule, making excuses to play more/less than I set out to, but mainly resenting the fact that I have to play.

I said it in the podcast, and I'll say it again here, being a poker player is a privilege, and I/we mustn't forget that. This is where I feel one of my biggest edges over the pool has come from over the last few years - being fresher/having a greater desire than a lot of my opponents.

Off table goals are to become an established v6 boulderer (climbed 3 this year!) and to do some more travelling!

There are a lot of other things I feel i could talk about right now but let's leave it at that for now. I hope you all have a great New Years and here's to a massive 2022.

Peace <3

This phrase strike my heart, you are right.
Congratz for your results and gl next year

Absolutely normal results for someone also having a full time job. Killing it mate, huge congrats!

Wow! Some lovely insights into the human condition here. These are the sorts of things that you can read about indefinitely but experiencing them first hand leads to a different type of understanding. Huge props for developing the toolkit to help you recognise these things in yourself and very glad to hear you are enjoying the steps you are taking thus far. Good luck in 2022!

very sick results ben, great job!

do you per any chance want to share the stake breakdown too?

Wheeee, congrats on the best year Ben! Wpwp on the resolve re:shottaking and moving up this year too

Congrats on the year, incredible!

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thrilled to read this update!

You know where in Australia? I spent 6 months in Sydney during uni, loved every minute.

Sick year mate wp


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Insanity you can crush such a good poker year alongside any part time job, never mind two.
Good to hear you've found something beyond poker to give you purpose, without the money being the main motivator.

Great work, Ben. Thanks for sharing so much. Very inspirational/relatable.

Best of luck in 2022!

Wp, sick year.

haha love it bud

gg 2021 year and gl in all your endeavours in 22