Well so far I'm failing hard against the title as I just turned 31 at the start of the year and currently sit plunged at the depths of my overdraft once more
after coming out of another extended spell of just smoking weed all day and basically just giving up.

This year I really need to change and want to put steps in place to become a more productive adult and hope people can contribute with financial, health and fitness and general lifestyle advice (which I will actually take on board unlike paisting and 6bet if your thinking it's going to be another of those threads, well I hope not!)

First though we need to focus on poker and getting a working bankroll. When It's comes to poker I'm pretty rusty just now but have plenty of experience with grinding up rolls. In my approx 10 years playing online I've grinded up small deposits ($100-$500) into $3k+ rolls a dozen times and to $10k+ 3 times. My biggest problem isn't degening them away playing too high it's that I way over spend when winning and really struggle with downswings and moving down levels so I just withdraw what I have left and stop playing for a few months then get the itch but by that time the moneys all gone and I have to start at the bottom again.

This is the main point of this thread so hopefully have some support to keep me grounded and cut the ****. Not going to post my full poker story at the moment but I used to post here as JesusEatsCheese and was a reg in the uNL BBV thread and such so if you remember me give me a holla though most of you seem to be ****ing millionaires and poker gods now so I imagine your busy.

Anyway here is my plan:

- Deposit £100 on Ipoker and start at 2€/4€ (had been playing party past 2 years but feel like a change but may switch back)

- Look to get to 10€/20€ asap (this will involve taking aggressive 15 to 20 bi shots whenever we can)

- Once I have 40bi for 20nl i'm going to withdraw winnings until i'm way out of my overdraft and a bit more financially secure

- Actually study and look to get settled at 50nl

- Make the push for 100nl where we can earn a nice bit monthly and look to invest.


Here's my graph and stake breakdown from last year, as you can see I can still crush the upper ends of the micros but struggle from there.





Payday is tomorrow and a Friday is always a good day to start so lets ****ing go!

Good luck brother, I also play on iPoker so imagine I'll bump into you soon!

Well I've not been updating this thread like I initially planned. Problem is my written English is terrible and I usually type stuff out and wonder who cares cause I don;t half the time.

But thats not what this blog was meant for so I'm going to look to update this at least twice a week from now on.

Now since I started this I had 2 days at 4nl on Ipoker and it went really well



From there though we had an very frustrating run at 10nl. I just couldn't seem to have a winning day no matter how hard I tried. Now I'm defiantly a bit rusty and was making a ton of mistakes but these games are so soft I can't see my being a loser here. I have to admit I did tilt alot. This wasn't helped with me trying to quit smoking/vaping at the same time so was ****ing raging at points!



I was having lots of lag on Ipoker and things would just seem to freeze if I tried to open more than 6 tables so decided to head back to Party. Lets be honest though if I was comfortably winning at 10nl I would probably have put up with the lag.

I then get welcomed back with this!



I've been slacking, as always , and haven't actually did a session review but going to do one tomorrow as luckily my work in quiet just now so actually have large periods where I can do this. I'll post some hands there and hopefully can fix some leaks.


On the lifestyle front things have been going well. As I said I've quit smoking/vaping after doing both for over 10 years. Using the nicotine gum and am on about 3/4 pieces a day of the 2mg stuff and it's been 18 days now. Any advice from ex smokers who quit is very welcome.

One thing I have been struggling with is getting out of bed early enough to do a 1 hour workout before work a few days a week. Anyone who was also a massive lazy **** but then found motivation to change there morning routine please chime in here aswell.

So Party seems to hate me now for some reason



Had these 2 within 400 hands of each other. Originally didn't have RIT on but decided to use it after the 1st hand.

partypoker, Hold'em No Limit - $0.05/$0.10 - 5 players
Replay this hand on Upswing Poker

Player3 (UTG): $11.56 (116 bb)
Player4 (CO): $9.61 (96 bb)
Player5 (BU): $11.08 (111 bb)
Player1 (SB): $10.55 (106 bb)
Hero (BB): $11.75 (118 bb)

Pre-Flop: ($0.15) Hero (Hero) is BB with A♣ A♥
2 players fold, Player5 (BU) raises to $0.30, Player1 (SB) 3-bets to $1.20, Hero (BB) 4-bets to $2.60, Player5 (BU) 5-bets to $11.08 (all-in), 1 fold, Hero (BB) calls $8.48

Flop: ($23.36) 3♦ 5♣ K♠ (2 players, 1 all-in)

Turn: ($23.36) J♠ (2 players, 1 all-in)

River: ($23.36) T♣ (2 players, 1 all-in)

Total pot: $23.36 (Rake: $1)

Showdown:
Player5 (BU) shows K♣ K♦ (three of a kind, Kings)
(Equity - Pre-Flop: 18%, Flop: 90%, Turn: 95%, River: 100%)

Hero (BB) shows A♣ A♥ (a pair of Aces)
(Equity - Pre-Flop: 82%, Flop: 10%, Turn: 5%, River: 0%)

Player5 (BU) wins $22.36

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PartyGaming - $0.10 NL (6 max) - Holdem - 5 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BTN: 101.5 BB
SB: 126.2 BB
Hero (BB): 100 BB
UTG: 105.4 BB
CO: 179.9 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, Hero posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has A A

fold, fold, fold, SB raises to 3 BB, Hero raises to 9 BB, SB raises to 21.5 BB, Hero calls 12.5 BB

Flop: (43 BB, 2 players) 9 7 J
SB bets 13.9 BB, Hero raises to 78.5 BB, SB calls 64.6 BB

Turn: (200 BB, 2 players) K

River: (200 BB, 2 players) T

Players agreed to run it twice.

Turn #2: (200 BB, 2 players) K

River #2: (200 BB, 2 players) T

SB shows K K (Three of a Kind, Kings)
Board #1 (Pre 19%, Flop 15%, Turn 95%)
(Three of a Kind, Kings)
Board #2 (Pre 11%, Flop 11%, Turn 95%)

Hero shows A A (One Pair, Aces)
Board #1 (Pre 81%, Flop 85%, Turn 5%)
(One Pair, Aces)
Board #2 (Pre 89%, Flop 89%, Turn 5%)

SB wins 95 BB
SB wins 95 BB


Oh well time to drop down to 5nl and hopefully get a bit of rungood

Subbed. Good luck with your goals