$200k in 2014: Crushing MSNL
03-24-2014
, 06:41 PM
Hey PGC!
My name's Donald, I'm 24yo and I'm from Inverness, Scotland. Right now I'm living in Playa Del Carmen, Mexico and playing MSNL on stars.
This is me on a recent night out wearing my kilt
I had a PGC last year (here) where I tried to make $100k and move up stakes. I managed to make $132k and move up from 100nl-200nl to 400-600nl (summary post here), right now I'm still playing solely midstakes but might start playing some 1kNL pretty soon.
The goals I have this year are:
- Learn Spanish to a 'decent' level (i.e. able to hold a conversation with a natice speaker)
- Live in a foreign country (already achieved this but was in my goals)
- Reach 12st lean weight (currently ~11st 6, was 10st 4 when I started going to the gym. I'm 6"4 so I'm still really skinny)
- Make $200k between playing + staking/coaching
- Start learning a martial art (set myself this goal last year and failed, think it would be a cool thing to do)
We're nearly 25% of the way through the year, unfortunately I've had very little chance to grind so far this year. In January I moved out of St Albans and back to Glasgow, also went skiing for a week. In February I was out in Portugal for a while, then moved to Mexico on the 19th. After getting here I've had numerous headaches getting everything setup and working, but I have a working setup now so hopefully volume will improve. On the plus side I've had time to settle into my new place in Playa and meet lots of other poker players living here. I've also been at a spanish school for 4 hours/day 5 days/week for 4 weeks, so making good progress there.
Will close out with a graph of my YTD, been fortunate to run pretty good for what little volume I've played. This is missing around 10k hands played on a friend's laptop on FTP where I won around $5k.
Thanks for reading,
D
My name's Donald, I'm 24yo and I'm from Inverness, Scotland. Right now I'm living in Playa Del Carmen, Mexico and playing MSNL on stars.
This is me on a recent night out wearing my kilt
I had a PGC last year (here) where I tried to make $100k and move up stakes. I managed to make $132k and move up from 100nl-200nl to 400-600nl (summary post here), right now I'm still playing solely midstakes but might start playing some 1kNL pretty soon.
The goals I have this year are:
- Learn Spanish to a 'decent' level (i.e. able to hold a conversation with a natice speaker)
- Live in a foreign country (already achieved this but was in my goals)
- Reach 12st lean weight (currently ~11st 6, was 10st 4 when I started going to the gym. I'm 6"4 so I'm still really skinny)
- Make $200k between playing + staking/coaching
- Start learning a martial art (set myself this goal last year and failed, think it would be a cool thing to do)
We're nearly 25% of the way through the year, unfortunately I've had very little chance to grind so far this year. In January I moved out of St Albans and back to Glasgow, also went skiing for a week. In February I was out in Portugal for a while, then moved to Mexico on the 19th. After getting here I've had numerous headaches getting everything setup and working, but I have a working setup now so hopefully volume will improve. On the plus side I've had time to settle into my new place in Playa and meet lots of other poker players living here. I've also been at a spanish school for 4 hours/day 5 days/week for 4 weeks, so making good progress there.
Will close out with a graph of my YTD, been fortunate to run pretty good for what little volume I've played. This is missing around 10k hands played on a friend's laptop on FTP where I won around $5k.
Thanks for reading,
D
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, 09:09 PM
Good luck! 
03-24-2014
, 10:09 PM
Is this all stars?
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