I'm playing poker full time for almost 4 years now. Was always interested in poker since i was a teenager, always had the dream of becoming pro. Started playing at 18yo but took it super lightly. Played MTTs during uni, but was more like a hobby and didn't study at all (i understood later passively watching poker vids doesn't count as studying). Towards the end of uni i decided to take it seriously and made a 500 deposit (which was a lot to me as a student obv) : "last deposit, now i'll take this seriously and cherish my roll". I started studying and doing things in a more professional way, even tho was still faaaar from what i would now considerer professional, but, well you have to start somewhere. Ran that deposit to like 11k in 3 month running absolutely insane and i thought I was some kind of genius. Moreso thinking that everyone else was so bad, and that this path would be easier than what i thought initially.
I obviously was running like god and was terrible at the game and went from 11k roll to like 2k in the same amount of time. That hurted because it was near ending uni and i was telling to friends and family that this master thing wasn't for me and that my plan was more to go live my best life in Thailand playing poker for a living: Felt cool a the time.
Well uni ended and i still decided to take a sabbatic year to try MTTs full time being more conservative with my roll. Got my expectations down and i was ok to live of 15k a year in some cheap place if that meant playing poker instead of working 9-5. Made like 5k that year and decided i'm not going to live with my parents grinding full time to make this little money so started working in restaurants. Never forgot poker but at the time i thought i had my shot and failed, and that i had to move on and do something better with my life than grinding MTT for 4 euros/hour.
After working a few months in a restaurant i got so tilted at the manager that i quitted. Work was hard enough that i couldn't take that we had to work even more because he couldn't manage properly.
Went on a little trip to Prague with plan to enjoy for a bit and play lowstake live cash. The plan was to go for a few weeks and extend my stay if things go well at the tables. I had no expectations at all at the time, just a fun trip and planned on going back to work in a restaurant after that.
Well things went well and i stayed there 6 month, went from youth hostel to renting a flat and it felt amazing. I was finally living off from poker, and i enjoyed every second of the freedom i felt. I had no clue how much it would last and didn't have a plan either to became a live pro. I was just enjoying the moment and not worrying about the future. Also had a little blog on a french poker forum at the time as that's the kind of stuff i enjoyed reading a lot when younger so i thought i'd at least gave that back to the community (this detail is gonna be important).
Then covid hit and that was tough. Had to go back to my parents and the whole country was locked. It gave my a lot of time to think about my life and what i wanted to do with it. I knew i still had the fire for poker and these few months in Prague left me with a taste of the kind of freedom poker can give you.
But i had close to no bankroll and obviously probably wasn't beating any stake of any format of online poker.
At this point came what have been probably the luckiest thing in my life, litteraly life changing kind of luck: While in a covid one of the best cash player of the country decided that he'd use his covid free time to coach 3 struggling low stakes guy for free for 6 months. I decided to apply even tho i've played close to 0 hands of online cash ever at the time. I explained basically what i just explained here and had the luck that the guy was actually following my blog about my Prague adventures. I got in.
I knew this was it.
This was my shot of actually getting good and really start my poker career. For 6 month i gave it all. Worked my ass off and climbed the stakes from 10nl to 100nl. When coaching ended i was playing 100 and shotting 200. I almost inmediatly found 2 guys with similar profile to share a flat abroad and here started my poker career.
Fast forward a few years later, i've been through a lot poker wise, and experienced a lot life wise too. I'm livin in Mexico for 2 and half years now. Been playing about everything you can imagine at average stake 250 300 probably. Masstabling nl100-200, few tables "higher stakes" like mainly 400-600, regular 6-8 tabling 200s and some 500. All sites basically and not a lot of stability. Quite a ride.
Last year was my first time having a stable grind for more than like 6 month. Grinding Bodog for a year and that went very well.Played like 90% 500 zone and god did i love it. But end of 2023 it kindda died and i had a hard time adapting to the 500 reg table. Also had the sensation of facing more and more bots which was confirmed a bit later by Patrick Howard and others. Wasn't happy about it but decided to quit Bodog.
Early 2024 i was kinda lost on what to grind and also a year of playing exclusively Bodog had considerably changed my game and i hadn't work at all on the game for a year except population exploits. And i could feel my game had suffer from it.
I was never the guy who enjoys working off the tables alone and even if i had a few working groups and got to surround myself with very strong players and got motivated from it, this time i was alone.
As you can guess fom my SN i then played on WPT. I thought well at least competition won't be so tough and i get to study a format that is kinda new so i can sort off get ahead of the curve at least for preflop. Did that for a bit and it went kind off well but really dislike not being able to track hands and results, as well as soft being bad, rake being huge and now 0 RB for regs so i decided to come back to regular 6max.

Also made lots of EV dollars on Coin


So yeah pretty insane run, i'll take it !