Hi guys,
So to introduce myself I am Mozza and I am known as Morris2790 on Pokerstars.
Think bit of background is in order around the title of the blog.
Poker has been a passion of mine for as long as I can remember and I started playing around 9 to 10 years ago.
My job at the time of playing was within the police however poker was always a passion and the dream was always to play professionally.
In 2017 I passed my exams within the police to become a Detective which had always been a long-term ambition of mine. Despite doing this for 2 years I still had that burning desire to invest all my time into poker.
Roll on a trip to Thailand, a persuasive conversation with Richard Sheils on a boat (who has his own blog here) and I found myself submitting an application for a career break from the police.
So January 2019 is where I like to think that my true poker journey started. At the time I was playing MTTS both live and online with relative success but I never liked the idea of playing tournaments for a sustainable income but knew I wasn't good enough for online cash.
So in Jan 2019, Rich started coaching me for online cash still whilst I was at work. I went from 25z to 100z pretty quickly. Following from that I actually went on my career break in April 2019 and headed to Thailand with Rich and couple of other friends.
I was grinding pretty much up until July 2019 and had some really good results (i'll post some graphs shortly)
Following a few weeks in Vegas playing mainly $5/10, I moved onto the LA Commerce grind for around 8-10 weeks which was really successful for me
as well as an eye opener into the true emotional roller-coaster that I had let myself in for. It was a rocky grind at times and I broke even for like 5 weeks and then won like $40k in the last 5 weeks which was sick.
Rest of the year was between Asia and then back in the UK for Christmas.
Then just after Christmas back to Thailand with Rich and another one of our poker friends, Jason for New Year in Bangkok.
Start of 2020 me and Rich headed to Aussie Millions for a couple weeks before we headed to Thailand for a 5-6 week health and poker grind before going off to play live poker again for 3 months.
Good news.. health grind is going great and I am down 23kg on my heaviest which was like late 2018 weight and under 100kg for the first time in a very very long time.
Bad news.. Covid-19 stopped pretty much all live poker.
So... online grind and time to focus on 200z -- around 70k hands from my 200z sample aren't showing as my HM2 decided to blow up so I decided to start a complete new DB from around one month ago now.
So graphs and stats ---
Pretty decent start to March/April but over the last 20-30k hands haven't played to great and ran pretty bad.
I have always liked the idea of starting a blog, I have always had a struggle with mental game and I feel posting my progress frequently will help me progress past those leaks.
I am hoping this blog can be fun, interactive, it'll have both poker related stories and life stories within too.
Currently based in Koh Samui in Thailand in pretty sick place which is mental because April 2019 I was sat in an office.. so to go from that to this...
... Feels pretty blessed
So yeah GL me and hopefully long term it'll be Poker Player rather than Detective