Whats happening boys and girls,
basically newcomer on here, My names Patrick Brooks and originally come from London but now living in |Monterrey in Mexico. I play as thebigdog09 on Pokerstars and dotcotton1939 on party. And been donating 40k as omgpatbrooks on fkn 888. Been playing for pads and co at BITB for last 3 years or so and formerly a coach and mentor for the development part of the stable.
lil bit of Background
Originally I left school at 16 but was still crap at poker at this point so went into Tennis coaching after playing at a decentish level as a kid. after like 4 years of making poker economy a lot healthier, ran a million miles above ev and found a stable that were willing to take a punt on me. joined Pocarr and have nothing but great things to say about them as a stable. Great support and great people and Robtinnion one of the real heroes in poker. Was still unbelievably bad but made some money and made switch to Pads1161 stable in late 2014. Pretty crazy to think at the start was just me and gil3000 who also has PGC thread and is one of my best friends in poker to see where it started and how it has progressed is pretty crazy. So after being super pumped to join huge stable gave it my all and promptly lost for the whole year
2016 picked up a bit for me and 3 years of hard work made me stronger and more confident. Moved to Costa Rica in april of this year with one of my best mates and had absolute whale of a fkn time. Probably cant tell too many of the stories in here in case my mum or dad have a butchers at this. I lost a chunk of money but was still brilliant. Had pretty insane Wcoop getting my 2 biggest scores of my career in space of a week. Ended up living in Malta for abit, did the whole Barcelona Prague live grind and had a right laugh but still was not happy with where i was and wanted so much more for poker.
Not sure if anyones even still reading at this point but il keep going for the troopers out there. 2017 moved to Mexico in January with Jonaj10 top top guy and ended up falling in love with a Mexican girl and basically never left. Lived in Playa for 4 or so months (shoutout Little Kraut guy should have a statue built of him in Playa and shout out American Pat if you know you know!) after Playa went back to London to see family chill for abit before going back to live in Monterrey with my misses and her 5 year old daughter. Its without doubt one of most beautiful places ive ever been and my misses isent bad too
but Its definetly huge culture shock as theres not 1 gringo for like 200 miles but its interesting and think opening eyes to different ways of life having to adapt and change is important for anyone that sits in front of a screen 60 hours or so a week.
right enough of that, lets get back to the thread. main reasons for starting this blog is want some actual accountability with goals i set and Im going to be completely honest in this. All huge punts going to be included, all blow up rants not going to hold anything back in this blog. Main hope is that this blog going to get me to start owning my ****, start taking responsiblity and actually get to where i want in poker and in life. Us grinders deep in the back of our minds are all aware we have finite time in this game and i just been treading water for way too long. And with games getting tougher, stars willingness to make life as hard as possible for regs its harder then ever.
Time to start delivering and either **** or get off the toilet so to speak. Would be awesome to be able to look at this in a years time and be able to see how much Ive progressed and to look back and be proud of my work.
Goals from now till end of 2018
-$200k clear profit for calendar year. 2017 i am probably going to finish on around $110k up give or take so looking to AT LEAST double that next year. yeah i know about money oriented goals not being GTO but for me if the process is in the right place then even if i dont achieve it I can say i have given it my all and be at peace. By setting a goal that will change my life gives me much more motivation, the process is what i care about and if i hit the goals to help me get to the 200k.
-top 10 pocket fives top of Uk rankings (currently like 80th or some ****) everything i did as a kid, its a cliche but i wanted to be the best. Second might aswell have been 5th. Also for my parents who were pretty against poker actually have some ranking systems and being high in that would be pretty nice to show them and have some justification for what i do. Also had enough of the rankings and seeing 10 Swedish flags and want to see some British flags in there again. Its pretty tough as dont play any High stakes turbos and anything above $1ks atm but thats going to change boys!
-100% focus during grinds, think as us grinders so so easy to think we focusing 100% but in reality we are far from it. If i have one table that is 530bb or the b22 my focus is just not the same at the moment and its main area i am aiming to fix this year. My A game is good but not able to play it enough or for long periods
-10 hours self study a week (aswell as group coachings from the fine gentleman at bitb on top of that) hard with misses and kid and finding balance but surely 2 hours a day 5 days a week is achievable.
-be better boyfriend and step dad, will post some updates on here with this and how its going. I am by no means a relationship expert il tell you that for free but anyone having problems hit me up!
-Gym 4 days a week. this seems like its everyones goal but no excuses. this big one for poker and life in general, if i go under 3 times 2 weeks in a row I will send $300 to REG charity. And $100 every time i dip under 4.
what you get
-100% honesty, no filter blood guts and hopefully some glory at the end of it
-some strategy will post at least once every 3 days. i can promise some Shots will definetly 100% get fired in this thread. Anyone that knows me personally can confirm this for me
-and a little bit of banter chucked in
this might go down like a **** sandwich and noone gets involved but feel free to sub and join in for the ride and for the biggest year of my life yet. We going to war boys
LFG vamos arriba andale andale
Last edited by thebigdog09; 12-20-2017 at 11:41 PM.