Hello everyone!

I am one of the dinosaurs of poker that is still alive! I started playing poker in 2008 and I play our lovely game to this day, with just one 6-month break, but more on that later. I was never active here, just a bit of reading. I have had my blog on Polish PokerStrategy since 2010 though and people seem to like it, so I hope you will enjoy this one too. Time to go international, so here I am!

Everything started mid-2007 when I read about poker on a Warcraft III forum. Somebody made a topic about playing and earning money. Back then, especially few years earlier, I spent hundreds of hours on playing Warcraft 3: Reign of Chaos and obviously didn't make a dime out of it, even though I was pretty good, so playing a game and earning money sounded really awesome. I snap-registered on PStrategy, but didn't really do more than that... until Christmas 2007, when I finally passed the quiz, got 50$ and started grinding Short Stack Strategy.

I was doing quite well on NL10 on Mansion Poker (RIP), but I was getting owned on NL25. After 3 months I cleared the 100$ bonus though, and with 150$ in my roll decided to switch to playing 100bb deep. I conquered the Full Ring tables pretty fast up to nl100, playing mainly on Everest Poker. At some point I started doing poorly and lost 60% of my roll. I decided to make some changes and switched to shorthanded tables, which was a good move. Learned mainly from Leatherass and mbolt videos from Stoxpoker (does anyone remember anything like that? ) and moved up to nl200-400 with occasional shots higher, playing on my beloved BossMedia (RIP). Any BM midstakes regs over here? I might still remember some nicknames.

In 2010, after graduating, I went to Thailand! I mean, why would I spend winter in dark and cold Poland, when I can grind and then go to one of the lovely Phuket beaches. It was my first time outside of Europe. I spent 5.5 months there and moved up in stakes, great memories! If there is ever lack of material to post about my present life, I might go back in time and post some photos and stories from the past.



After spending summer in Poland some people went to Phuket again, but I wanted to try out more places, so I organised a group of 4 and we went to the Philippines and spent 7 months in Cebu City. We rented a 5 bedroom house (1 more friend joined us later) in Maria Luisa district and had a lot of fun. I switched to playing nl200 on Pokerstars over there, but after 3 weeks of playing 13 shorthanded tables simultanously I got burned out. Started learning PLO, but after 3 months of studying and playing I was just break even at PLO50 (which is not a bad result due to the high rake on lower stakes!).




Got impatient and started playing everything - HU PLO, then NL SH again, but didn't have good results anymore. Then I decided to give MTTs a shot. Started with 2.5$ 180man SNGs and quickly moved up in stakes, ultimately switching to MTTs.

After coming back from the Philippines I found a girlfriend (yay!) in Poland. She was finishing her college, so we had to stay in our cold country. Winter 2013/14 we spent on Phuket though. It was the easiest choice - I knew how everything worked and had some friends there.

After few years in Poland, in 2017 I went to Italy. I always snapjoined the table when I saw (Italy) on a BossMedia table, so playing on .it sites was a good idea. We chose warmer parts of the peninsula and went south - Trani. This place was a bit boring, but we wanted to focus on grinding. We rented a flat and.. played on every Italian site besides the most important one, where 80% of the MTT action was - Pokerstars.it. They wouldn't let us in because something was wrong with the postal code of some bullshit like that. **** YOU POKERSTARS.IT. After 4 months we went back home.

In 2018 I went to Cambodia to play live poker. Interesting experience, I didn't do well though. Not doing well both online and live made me quit poker and start trading cryptocurrencies in the autumn of 2019. After few months my results were poor and I was lacking the action. Staring at charts is not the same as having nonstop action while multitabling poker, so when I heard about PokerBros I went for it and.. bingo! Started playing in March 2020 and the games were as I remembered them from 2008! A lot of fish on every table, didn't even have to table select. After playing holdem for a bit I switched to 5 card PLO. I tried it few months earlier on PPPoker, but didn't get hooked. This time it was different. After struggling for a week or two, I started winning basically every week and moving up in stakes, from 0.5/1 all the way to 5/10 in like 3months. I was being staked though, so that made it easier. Probably got some rungood too Past few weeks haven't been successful for me, even after moving lower. Time to study I guess. If there are any PLO5 mid+ players, hit me up!

I am an agent on PokerBros as well, so if you want to try it out and get a nice deal, just DM me or contact me on Telegram https://t.me/kfasny or Discord kfas#1894 . I will help you out with everything. I have an access to all of the biggest unions and few smaller ones.

Since this is a PG&C thread, let's make some goals!
- Study pokers! I don't do that enough...
- Move up back in stakes
- Exercise more
- Worry less and enjoy life more!

Thanks for reading! Oh, by the way - I moved to Playa del Carmen 2 months ago, so you can expect some nice pictures in the coming days See you soon!


Corona is not that bad...

Good morning sexy

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Glgl from your roommate

I'm almost positive I played with you at Naga World in Cambodia in late March of 2018. Was one of my first times playing live, and you told me you played online for a living (which I didn't know was a thing, so you sparked some of my interest in poker).

Looking forward to hearing more stories, good luck.

It's 4PM, the longest journey of my life is about to happen. I leave home and hop on the train to Berlin. Why Berlin and not Warsaw? Well, the flight from Berlin is twice as cheap... and I prefer travelling with friends, so here we go. I should be in Berlin at 10 PM. I should... the train has a different idea tho and breaks up in Poznań. The USB socket is not working so I suspect problems with power and fair enough, every light in the train starts blinking and keeps doing that for quite some time. Nice disco! Oh well, at least I can watch a match on my computer, because the internet coverage in the city is obviously better.

After an hour we take off again, but on the border with Germany it turns out that they don't let us in, probably because of the mechanical problems (or COVID), and we have to switch to a German Regio train. We arrive to Berlin after the midnight, so it's too late to take a bus to Tegel Airport and I have to take an Uber. I can't believe my eyes after I order it.



What a combo! The Egiptian guy is very nice tho and helps me to find the right terminal and I pay around 26€ instead of 16-18€, because we went around Tegel like three times...

Obviously it's pandemic so I have my mask on the whole time, going for a record!

Our flight to Paris is just after 6am. It's nice, there is a gap between the passengers so there is more space. Then 3 hours at De Gaulle's airport. A bit of Open Face Chinese on the apps and it's time for the main flight. The queue is suspiciously long and yeah, the plane is almost full... It turns out there is no need to keep the distance during COVID! There is a chance for an empty seat next to me, because on C there is a young lady and she keeps looking around, standing up and then sitting down again. I ask her quietly, suspecting a bluff, if she is waiting for someone. She responds 'no' and smiles (kidding, everyone keeps the masks on. there might have been some eye-smiling tho). There was a guy on my seat before I arrived, he wanted to sit next to his wife but they got seats far away from each other and trying to swap now. The couple wins the battle, so there is no free seat next to me It is fine, I sleep half of the flight and watch some movies during the other half. The vision of me being at the sunny beach soon instead of a cold and dark Europe makes me smile.

Small travel tip: pick your meals while booking the tickets if it's possible! I am on keto so chose food for diabetics. They serve the special food first, so I got every meal like 30min before the people next to me

To be continued, next time with more photos!

Thanks sweetie!

Interesting! I have no idea who you are tho, would have to see a pic or something. Yeah I think I played there in March, later switched to clubs. How is it going?

Thanks for your comment! Good luck too!

hey man, I remember following your blog on Polish PStrategy few years back, there were some really fun live poker stories in there. Glad you ended up grinding the apps, as I don't feel like playing live for a living is very healthy, especially at high-ish stakes

Btw I did play close to midstakes at BossMedia around 2011-2012, but I played HU exclusively, and never higher than nl200 (there was never any action above that anyway). Was a great network, but after they started to get smaller and smaller I decided to move back to Stars, as keeping money on a dying network felt risky.

Also, the play level there was sooo fishy at BM that I remember getting absolutely crushed upon returning to Stars, fortunately it was around 2013, so I just got RIO for few months and was good to go.

Oh, and I also remember that big weekly MTT (100e bi I think) they had on BM, I played it every week and I had like 12 semi-fts and not a single ft It was pretty cool that they came up with a progressive KO MTT structure in 2012, though

I started on pokerworld in late 2007, it was a very small American site, most people never heard of it, lost maybe 200 USD then i started play on pacific poker(AKA 888 poker), nl25 games were very soft, i deposited 50 USD and turned it to 1000 in maybe 15 days, i had bad luck one day, i decided to play some Blackjack game on that software, lost all the money in that account I started playing seriously on everest poker since July,2008, bought PT3 and even downloaded some coaching videos, i made like 1700USD in my first month by playing NL50, i was kinda bad but games were really easy, pretty much everyone today can beat those games. One day, i heard there was a thing called rake back, i was like "oh, there was more money to be made then why not?" I started playing on Boss media network, the site i played on was Poker Heaven, it was in late August, 2008, i guess. I spent 2 years on Boss Media, i played from Nl50-Nl150 euro tables(back then 1euro=2TRY and i played at NL300 TRY table a lot), i started playing on pokerstars.fr in August, 2010, that site was a fish tank back then, i mean, boss media was easy, POKERSTARS.FR was even easier in 2010(especially for NL1000 games), i made like 10k my first month there(only played like 9k hands, played NL200, 400 and 1000, yeah, i had never even tried NL1000 before that, i took a shot and realised i could beat the game).

I remember a guy named MrGrinder when i played on BOSSMEDIA, a British player, he played NL200 and Nl400, He even started a challenge on 2p2, i remember..