My name is George, i am from Greece and I play under the username Belthazorrrr. As you may already know I am one of the most beloved regulars. Some would say I am adorable


I play 200-1000$ 6max hyper sngs on Pokerstars, mainly 1000$. I havent reached supernove elite this year as my life consists of lot outdoor activities and travelling. I am currently on 750k vpps and if I manage to keep my sanity I ll reach elite by the end of October. My grind is 99.99% 6 max hypers but I plan to mess around with other formats



I had a very interesting discussion with a girl last week who made me thinking about my life. During our discussion I realised that even though I am happy with my life I dont feel fulfilled. I couldnt be happier as I have the possibility to do whatever I wish, but it seems that the things I choose to do arent enough to make me feel accomplished anymore


I had extremely interesting life the last two years and I did felt satisfied, so I need to discover what is going wrong now. Actually, one of the reasons I believe I feel empty is because I lived so intense that is very hard to be impressed by anything. I have travelled in UK, Curacao, Malta, Thailand, Laos and Malaisia in less 1.5 year and I experienced everything a human would wish for. I met many interesting people in every country I stayed. Everyone helped me reconsider many aspects in my life, honorable mention to Jesse, Puk, Luuk, Carlo, Ramy, Adam and Ted as they all helped me in my life in their own way(indirectly, some of them taught me even humility. It may sound as a joke to most regs I am playing with but I used to be way more arrogant). I didnt agree with everyone but this is the least important. I think we should always take into consideration what someone says no matter if we agree or not. It is much better to have two bad opinions about something than none as we can lead ourselves to the right (from our point of view) conclusion

I dont take photos of the places i visited, because i think that photos create memories and memories hold you back, instead i try to create new memories but i have saved these photos

Thailand:


Curacao:



Furthemore, I managed to climb the limits from 7$ to 500$ in the same time. (Un)fortunately, I am quite a drinking/partying person and I didnt manage to put enough volume for supernova elite but I didnt felt bad as I was enjoying the sh.it out of my life



I was trying to solve the problem, reading many psychology/mental articles. Most of the articles were leading to the conclusion that I dont have any goals in my life. This is so sad and so true. Every year I had a goal. This year is definitely one of my worst in business for several reasons. One of them is that I had a goal of reaching x amount of money but it quickly went down when I started running bad. I had no motivation to grind, playing 10-20 games and stopping my session as I was feeling there is something wrong in my account. Second reason, is a person who I considered a very good friend of mine scammed me for xx,xxx amount of money. This is when it really hit me. What I am doing, what I want from my life, who I would like to be with. Money was never a big factor for me. I made huge sacrifices to help some people or to do what I thought it was right, bleeding so much money at my own expense. I always consider money as papers to have good time with the people I want, nothing more nothing less


It was heartbreaking how my ''friend'' acted. Even the other friend I helped didnt act properly who is a total different case. I never expected people to think like myself and do what is right. When I do business, I act in a way to be satisfied with myself no matter how the other person will act in the future. Unfortunately, 90% of people I had business with are ungrateful

The last days, I took some time to think what I want about my life and set my goals. I came in conclusion that I need to achieve these from now on:

1)


1 000 000$ I dont know the exact amount I have made from poker so far. I am playing for 6yrs but spent 4.5 of them playing at abi of 13$ and I never saved any money for the reason I mentioned above. Its not about the money but I feel it would be very cool if I could say I made 1million while I did what I love. My goal is to make 1 000 000$ from October 2015 to October 2017

2)


Learn new formats. I plan to learn many formats and mess around with them including mtts, spins, nl cash, plo cash

3)


Be 77kgs steadily with 15-17% bodyfat. When I was younger I wanted to be a proffessional football player. I used to train from 3 to 6hrs per day. As a result I was 70kgs with 13% bodyfat. The last 7 years I am drinking a lot and eating junk food 3-7 days per week depending on my mood to cook. I have a thyroid issue as well. The result is a very high variance on my weight of 15kgs. I think at least 3 times per year the last 7 years I am from 80 to 95 to 82 to 93 to 82 to 91kgs. This should be done till June of 2016

4)


Save 1k per month for the first year and 2k per month in the second year

5)


Win a trophy in a football competition with my friends

I will post summaries at the end of each month. I may post funny hands, stories from the past or present. The challenge will start when I reach 800 000 vpps so around a week or two as I will travel back to Malta

Summary:

6 max hypers:
cash holdem:
cash omaha:
mtts:
spins:
betting: (including prop bets, sports bets, freerolls etc)
live cash:
live mtts:
Total: 0 / 1 000 000$

You seem to be pretty smart guy enjoying your life to the fullest Will definitely follow your journey and would be interested in hearing more about your real life stuff, travel stories etc. Best of luck buddy.

looks great. best of luck in poker and personalo life

don't you think that if your goal is to make a milly, that you should be saving more than 1k a month?

gl with your goals, will be following

sorry to hear about your friend taking you for whatever sum it was. consider it an investment as to how good of a friend he was. learn from it, move on and grow stronger. gl with the challenge.
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Yeah if you're hoping to make a milli in two years and not have most of it in the bank/investments you might want to rethink it. Plan it right and you'd be able to live off the passive income if you wanted.

Hey man good luck with your goals! should be fun to follow

subbed, glgl should be a fun journey

Damn feels like yesterday that you were the worlds worst running 7/15 grinder. Nice jump you made, gl.

re 4) surely you could save more than 60k if you'd make $1mil

Thank you. I ll try to update for my personal life. No guarantee

Thank you. Gl to you too

You are right. The savings will be dead money. Meaning that these money should be put aside if something happens and i need them. I will reinvest another part. Thank you both

We helped each other climbing up the stakes and he was among a very small group of poker people that i talked about strategy etc. He was a good friend and a very smart person, we both lost

Hopefully Gl

Thats the plan

I ran 625-650bi bellow ev back in the days but i closed the gap to around 350bi bellow ev. Last year my biggest upswing was 10-15k abi around 150$ and i finished the year bellow ev. This year i am 155bi bellow ev with abi 670$

For me saving 1k-2k is a decent amount as i havent saved anything yet


Another news Lewandowski scored 5 goals in 9 minutes yesterday

https://pbs.twimg.com/tweet_video/CPkVeP6UAAA3wpd.mp4

If anyone knows how to insert mp4 let me know

Had to learn this as well (inserting MP4)

You can do this for youtube vids:

[yoXutube] INSERT ID [/youtube] (ELIMINATE THE "X", otherwise it will post a video and u wouldn't see the code...)

This is how an ID can look: K5d4Jaq3fgU (i didn't insert cuz its a vid. You can find the ID at the link of each youtube video that u wanna post)

Also best of luck to you. I think i know who you are and afaik you have some history, but very good guy who turned it around! Hope i didn't confuse u with somebody else.

Hope to welcome you in the poker millionaires club very soon!

Best 1st post...nice read!

George is a cool guy, we smashed up Thailand pretty hard together. One time in Laos he delivered a (good) hot girl to my room just because he felt like it. True story. It's not exactly mission impossible finding girls in Asia, but with Geroge it's actually hard not to get laid.

Still hoping to claim him back to Thailand one day.

GL bud, I'm sure you'll reach your goals and then some. Should I buy out of our end-of-year profit bet? :P

Everyone has some history. Thank you for the kind words. I think i am the same guy you think i am



it seems it doesnt work It works with youtube videos but not with mp4

Well i gave you 2:1 odds I will return to Thailand one day for sure. I would like to play some live mtts this year and it will be hard to do if i am in Thailand but i keep thinking of what to do. You know me. No plans, live each day at fullest

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Thank you DanteA. Gl!

Nice read! Just wanted to add that I see a lot , very good players,who are consider themselves arrogant ,trying to change It. I don't think "being arrogant" is necessary a bad quality . As a matter of fact , It's the way the things work and the way they are always going to be.If you want to reach a certain target, goal or whatever you'd like to call it, you have to have at least a small portion of that. Especially in an extremely competitive environment like poker. It's probably something that you should try to balance , but not consider it strictly a bad quality

@Grindation I do remember you , you ruined my poker career with your monkey style poker ... : ( Just kidding , gratz on the success in the wcoop,scoop ( I'm not kiddding, but whatever .... haha no one cares )

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good luck.. will follow this thread...looking forward to more post!!!!

gl ! i will follow

Gl with goal and change

Competitive and arrogant are two different words. I like how i am. I dont try to change the core of myself. I know my advantages and my disadvantages. I try to improve but i am very happy how i am. The issue is that i am way too arrogant The goals are made to give me a feeling of fulfillment not to change myself

Thank you Gl in your games too

I am starting the challenge today. I am at 760k vpps. It feels i am procrastinating more than eager to start


In order to achieve the bigger goals, we need to break down each step how to achieve them

Poker goals: I need to play 1200 sngs/mtts in the next two weeks. I ll give 3 freerolls of 50$ in the first 3 posters. The format doesnt matter

Fitness goals: I need to do 10 workout sessions of minimum length of 30 mins. I ll give 3 freerolls of 50$ in the first 3 posters



Starting at:
91.5kgs
waist 106cm
chest 100cm
bicep 38cm

You should expect updates every two weeks from now on, including graphs like these



I am going to grind mtts today. Hopefully, i ll ship something for a good start. Good luck everyone playing the main event

The fun ride is starting

Glad to see you have another thread mate.

Good luck with your goals and stop posting graphs that hurt my eyes

use this as inspiration

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/17...et-me-1375118/

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gl man!