Nice goal You will definitely have to run hot both in poker and investing to achieve this. Sky is the limit though, give it your best shot!

The book is called "Think and grow rich" by Napoleon Hill. Hasnt been sayed before

Thanks buddy, Im gonna make it


Thanks man, I will give it my all

Im not sure but I think I wont even HAVE to run hot. People have done it before, even in the very near past (but way shorter time periods).

Running good will help a lot ofc but it all stands and falls with hard fckn work.

An update and October recap will follow when im back from my vacation in Spain.

This is the sunrise I see every morning when getting up early and working out on the beach. I enjoy it a lot and I really look forward to actually living abroad next year.



Cheers boys!

nice. gl!

thanks bro!

Ok boys, long ass fckn update incomming!

Last time I posted was 4th november, now its 13th of december. Jesus christ.

Short october recap
I wont do as big of a recap as I initially planned, just because this post would be ****ing 400k words long otherwise. its also like 2 months ago now, so I cant remember on all the impotant details and deepruns either way.

What I can say tho, is that I was super happy with my work ethic. I played >600 games that month and I studied 18-22h/week, so thats exactly what I expect from myself. Im not 100% happy with my game, as I think that I lacked concentration sometimes and I was distracted from grinding with max focus way to often. Ive played super well when deep tho. In the end id just didnt go my way and this is my october graph:




Why did I not post for over a month? (including November recap)

Well, my last post was made from Fuerteventura.
I was there for vacation from 30th of october until like 7th of November. I travelled there with my mum, as this trip was actually a present from her to me, which I got at age 14 (10 years ago). She couldnt really afford to do it with me so far but insisted that we would do it at some point.

So yeah, we did it and I really enjoyed it a lot. The fact that it was a very important thing for her to have this vacation with me makes me really happy.

The island itself was somewhat boring, compared to Tenerife, which I visited earlier this year with my girlfriend. It was still very nice, as Fuerte has loads of nice beaches to chill out on, do sports in the morning and what not.


I do usually eat vegan, which I couldnt really do there because cooking every single meal ourselfes wasnt really an option for my mum. So yeah, I ate fish every day, which Is the most acceptable option for me, given my personal reasonings for why I turned vegan. Have a look


Anyway, when I came back from there, I instantly went to a city nearby, to meet friends with my gf and enjoy a public festival that runs around that time every year. We had a lot of fun there but dancing in a ****in tent for hours with hundreds of people and then walking outside where its ****in freezing was probably not gto. **** it tho, I dont get sick easily either way.
Obv sick 24h later, gg me.

I came back home on 11th of November and planned to pull up a sick grind. beeing sick while doing so was obv the most ****ed up thing. I still havent recovered from my cold/cough even up to now, which sucks a lot.
What I did between 11th and 27th probably was the sickest lockdown of my career so far. Ive played 550+ games in that timeframe, which is quite a lot, given that I had at least 4 full study days and 2 days off to spend time with my girlfriend.
So again, I can be pretty happy with my workethic, even tho I didnt reach the planned 600+ games.
Im unhappy with my overall game, even tho ive played latestages quite well again.
My level of focus was probably the lowest ive had this year, I got frustrated about "grinding it out" instead of max focussing on my highest buyins only, just for the sake of getting my games together.
I also had a pretty low overall confidence level, which is because I was doubting about Bitb's oppinion about me, because my volume this year has been far from great.

I set up a 1 on 1 coaching with our mindcoach to talk about that at the end of that timeframe, which helpedd quite a lot.
Having reflected it all, I think the main reasons for my struggles were these:

1.) No sports at all due to sickness
2.) low level of physical comfort because of sickness.
3.) very low level of inner balance, mainly because I stopped meditating and didnt do any sports.
4.) Not having had a bigger feedback for quite a long time, which made it hard for me to properly reflect on what I do.

What can we learn from this? Quite obvious I guess.

Anyway, I managed to win b55 and got 4th in uppercut too, which felt great. I played one very questionable hand that cost me big parts of my stack 4handed in the uppercut when I was 2/4 tho. Whatever, sometimes I win, sometimes I learn.

This is my November graph:


Well, after that grind, I went to Dresden with my Gf. we enjoyed the city, weve seen nice places and had a lot of fun too. I got myselfe a proper haircut for the first time in ages there too
Weve spent two full days there in total and then headed to prague, where we wanted to enjoy the city together, until we were supposed to meet our future roommates for costa rica before PSC prague started.
Right after arriving there, I got the message that I was promoted into the mainstable, which was a big big goal of mine inside of bitb.
Tbh, I danced through the livingroom with my gf, when I got that message

That didnt turn out too well, as one of the guys is ukranian and his passport expired, so he basically wasnt able to leave the country. gg.
Anyway, we met one of the guys, which was already great. weve been walking around the city, having lunch & dinner in great restaurants I knew from earlier trips there and we visited an "invisible exhibition".
The least was a super interesting experience, as It successfully made people aware of how blind people orient themselfes through the world.

We also (more or less by accident) met friends from our hometown in prague and we all had a pretty sick blast on my birthday together. Czech beer is fckn amazing, just to let u know

On 7th my gf headed back home and two guys from my studygroup arrived, ready to fckn kill it during PSC.
Imo we were all looking forward to play live for weeks, which definitely reflected in how we played.
We constantly talked through all interesting spots and weve all done a great job, apart from smaller mistakes (which we learned from, so thats def. fine).

I cant play 5k main this year, so I guess my first 5k has to wat until barcelona. whatever, I will leave prague in about 3.5 hours, after coming third in a 550 NLH yesterday for FCKN 24k. BAAAM

Having my first (big) live ft (53k first), was a great experience. I felt super confident, ft was super super soft and I think I didnt make any mistakes.
I had pads on the rail from like f2 or f3t and got the chance to talk through the 2-3 interesting spots that came up during the ride. when I approached ft, some more friends & bitbguys joined and it was just loads of fun.

Sitting on that ft, beeing super confident, and playing well definitely confirmed that these hours of ICM work in october and november payed off.
I have played some spots differently from how I wouldve played them back in september, I found more accurate ICM related reasonings for my decisions than I would have before.
I was sick CL 3 left and lost heaps of flips from there, which I didnt even care about. That kinda feels great too, as I think that it shows that I get more and more prepared for big Fts with huge $$$ on top.

Now I am looking forward to approach december in a more healthy and balanced manner. Im super hungry to get better, looking to fix all the mistakes I made in the last two months and take further steps towards the absolute top. LFG

I just realized that imgur pictures didnt work and I cant edit anymore.
let me try one more time

Update moar you slacker!

This has always puzzled me as cash game player as well but so far no one has given me a convincing argument why one should get staked(other than getting coaching/mentoring but you can usually get that without staking as well)
For example if i am playing 2/5 Live games with my own bankroll, why would I get staked to play 5/10 and only be in for 50% of my own money. If I am good enough for 5/10, I should be able to spin up my BR from 2/5 and then play 5/10 with 100% of my own action ?

Same for MTTs, Lets say if I have 100 BIs to play 1k = 100k BR, why should I get staked to play a 5k when I am only going to be in for 20% ?
I feel that all the high stakes live MTT regs are always invested in for the same dollar amount (which depends on their BR) regardless of which MTT they play, so surely there is an incentive to play a 10k than a 300k as you are up against a softer competition. So I am not sure what am I missing here.
The only backing arrangement I see which can benefit playing the biggest events is where backers puts in 100% of the BI and there is fixed percent split of profit. I am not sure what kind of backing arrangements are prevalent in high stakes live MTT scene.

On the other hand, I do wonder how would an aspiring MTT live player can even build enough BR to play a SHR if never staked ?