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02-22-2019 , 08:07 PM
Not bad for a former English teacher in Korea.

Congrats dude.
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02-23-2019 , 04:40 AM
Just read the 2017 & 2018 review. You’ve done a sick job these past two years! Much respect. All the best for 2019!
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02-25-2019 , 03:59 AM
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Originally Posted by Egption
It’s pretty surreal to think this has become a reality. I’ve been playing poker since I was 13. From playing playmoney, to spinning up and torching my first $ won from freerolls, to when I made my first legit account on my 18th birthday. I’ve played so many years as a recreational dreaming of going full time. Dreaming of being on the major final table on TV. And here we are. Getting 6 figure scores. Playing $25,000 Buy-in MTTs. Signing with partypoker.
CRUSHER! Haven't been around your stream regularly for a year+ but you were the only poker streamer I ever watched. My first stream I saw watching you lose hundreds in minutes playing PLO cash was an amazing introduction. You're a great personality and you'll be a great ambassador for Party. Keep crushing it. Love the sappiness, you earned it
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03-25-2020 , 08:28 PM
Hey


So it’s been a while. Several factors for that. Primary one being laziness. Day-to-day life while typically just grinding/sleeping didn’t allow for much time off in general. Any sort of time off was either spent wisely or spent doing 0 to reset after some intense grinds. I also didn’t want to half-ass a 2019 in review post. If I wasn’t going to give my best I didn’t want to do it at all.

A lots happened since I joined partypoker. I had a pretty sweat highstakes upswing. I got absolutely buried in SCOOP. I had my first significant WSOP deep run. I played the WSOP Main. I started to hate streaming. I got super buried in WCOOP. This one in particular hurt.

Going into WCOOP I was barely in any make-up (Still backed, yes). WCOOP was my first true foray into the highstakes MTT world. I was brimming with confidence given prior success throughout the year. I proceeded to lose around 30k in the first 9 days of WCOOP. Whoa, that’s a big number. I remember sitting there thinking wow that was quick. A couple Day2’s but no real runs. These types of swings were unprecedented. I continued to push forward, and it culminated in me losing around $55k poker results + 5-7k in action buying of my own $. It seemed to surreal at the time. Such an absurd number to be down in such a short time. A number if I told any normal people would gasp in horror (I know because I told a few). I tried to climb out of it the following 2 weeks but to no avail.

I then took the entire month of October off. It had been preplanned, but ended up being truly needed. I hit the reset button. I was able to take a step back, re-evaluate, and refocus myself. Make myself aware of the swings, why it happened, and how to fix it. I returned in November/December and tried to steer the ship. I dropped in stakes, played lower variance games, and lower variance time slots. I made some progress but the hole was still deep come January. Oh January. It was my worst non-coop month ever. I would somehow find ways to lose thousands every day with 0 hope and 0 runs each day. It just blew my ****ing mind how poorly I could run. I wasn’t discouraged and to be honest wasn’t that upset. I’d moan as I always do, but knew I could/can win and it’d eventually fix itself.

Then February rolled around. I’ll break this up into two parts. partypoker and poker.

I’ll be leaving some things vague. I’ll prob emit some other things. I’ll focus on the core reason(s) that led to my exit. I will be honest and say I was pretty confident I was leaving party months prior to this eventually happening. I said earlier I started to hate streaming, I’ll divulge in that. Let’s rewind a bit to when I first signed with party. We were given autonomy with what we where able to stream. Obviously, party was priority #1. Focus on party as much as possible. But you could show that deep run, flash a few hands, etc of other sites. Those were the unwritten guidelines that lead to me signing with party at the price point I eventually decided. I was happy with the situation until MID SCOOP of all times where they eventually laid down the hammer. No streaming any other sites during peak time. Well ****, I’m a peak time grinder playing 500s-1ks on stars, and I can’t stream them? Those were what I’d stream to bring viewers in. Twitch is very competitive and I needed every edge I could get to draw people in. My draw is playing high stakes stuff and making deep runs in big tournaments. But now I’m kneecapped and unable to show 50-60% of my volume. No party tournaments got significant/important during peak. Whereas you had the GG/stars tournaments that’d be wonderful bait to draw people into the stream. My numbers started to decline as well my enthusiasm to stream. I’m now handcuffed to streaming an inferior product (self-admitted by Rob otherwise I wouldn’t say this publicly) to an audience that typically can’t be ****ed to watch a party MTT. The excitement just isn’t there for the $55 Daily Grind like it is for the $55 Marathon.

I’ll quickly tangent about the topic of being capped to streaming 1 site. Let’s first look at the big picture. Stars monopolized the twitch market. They capitalized first and were the only site to invest into twitch. Because of that, everyone grew to know and love stars related content. Enter 2018/2019 where other sites finally step in. People are less familiar with their products and thereby less interested. Now it’s our job as ambassadors to change the narrative. To fix the issue and bring party to the spotlight it deserves. But it takes time and will have a direct effect on a streamer’s viewership. The majority of partypoker’s streamers saw a decline/stagnation in viewership in 2019. I think one of the major causes of that is because of streaming exclusively partypoker. It’s not a hot take or some wild revelation either. My view on the situation is the site gains value regardless of what we stream. Who cares if we’re showing other sites. As long as we bring viewership in, we’re able to eventually funnel them into partypoker content, and hopefully the product as a whole. partypoker gains it’s value from us being as big as we can possibly be. You also have people tuning in who see stars games they know, and get introduced to partypoker in the process. Of which they might not have ever seen if not for that stars deep run.

But I get it. We’re paid to sell a product. At the end of the day if that’s what the employer wants, then unfortunately that’s what they get. I bi-monthly campaigned and tried to push for a change in the rules but to no avail. At the end of the day, I understand where they are coming from. I understand the request and understand the reasoning. I just don’t agree and don’t see it the same.

Let’s get back on track. Due to the change, I proceeded to stream less. I found less desire to stream and would end streams significantly earlier. I didn’t want to switch my grind time to offpeak because I was still hungry for peak competition and games. Come WCOOP, I streamed maybe 2 days. I didn’t want to focus on the $55 10k PKO when I was playing 500s-1ks on stars. By November, it was time to start thinking about contract re-negotiations. Realizing my poor statistics, I decided to try and focus on improving them to create a case for why I’m valuable and could justify arguing for more $ come February. I streamed offpeak and put in heavy hours November/December/January. Despite no real heat poker wise, I produced some reasonable numbers. For me negotiations were simple. A change in compensation or a change in the rules. If neither happened, I was going to walk.

I’ll be honest and realistic; I had a strong feeling neither were going to happen. At the end of the day, looking at the numbers, it’s hard to justify a raise. For what was initially agreed upon, a decline in #’s across the board by me and my fellow ambassadors wasn’t going to instill much confidence from the higher ups. When negotiations came, it wasn’t a shock when I was delivered the news that no raise was coming. I did however hold hope on a change in the rules regarding multi-site streaming. While technically there were “changes”, the changes were effectively moot. I still wanted to stream, but wasn’t willing to do it at the price-point set last year.

February marked the end of my tenure as an ambassador for partypoker. As a whole they were great to represent. I enjoyed being an ambassador for a site that made it easy to say “yeah I’m a party pro!” Their constant pro-player changes and strive to improve their site was something I appreciated. While they aren’t #1, they’ve done a good job to close the gap and grab a healthy piece of the pie. Have nothing but love for the people I worked with and were employed by. I’m incredibly grateful for the opportunity and happy to have been even considered for the position to begin with. It just wasn’t the right fit for me. Talking with Jaime throughout during meetings, the question would consistently be brought up of what’s more important to me, streaming or poker. At the end of the day, it’s still poker. I’m trying to be the best possible player I can be while simultaneously making the most amount of money possible. At the moment I’m just not ready to cockswing the 215s+ on party. I’m not willing to take -ev flicks especially when I’m on 651 dime. I also wasn’t willing to do a half-ass’d job for partypoker. I could have re-signed and streamed less and cash in a paycheck. Seems dumb to even say that out loud. Definitely don’t deserve a medal or any merit for doing the right thing there. But what I’m getting at was there was no reason to disrespect management and the site as a whole by not giving my all.

Poker wise, February was pretty good. I got a big cheque (see photo below), the first of hopefully many. (2nd in the WPT Niagara 2500)



I proceeded to go on a 100k upswing online to decimate my makeup and profit split for the first time in a very long time. The heats subsided to a degree. I’m aware the silliness when saying this when I’ve had a fair number of ok scores including a great score in the Hot215 Monday. But given my ABI at the moment it’s just been some breakeven efforts. I consider sun running a consistent straight line up. Perhaps some regs will consider me not losing in the 100s+ already sun running enough. The recent upswing reinforced the beliefs I always had. I was still a winning player that was just dealt some standard variance. The rough patch humbled me and made me a better player because of it. I’m nowhere near the player I need to be to crush the games I’m in. I’m not able to hang with the big boys in the 1ks and 2ks. But I want to be and I think I can. I’ll be continually putting in the work and striving for greatness. The reality of the situation is I’m battling players who have been at or near the pinnacle of the game for 10+ years. A lot of these regs have been in the nosebleed games for a long time, and have more experience and knowledge than me. To put it simply, they’re better. It’s my job to work harder and work smarter than them. To close the gap and eventually remove the gap entirely. I’ve got the right support in friends, coaches, and mentors to make it happen. I’ve got the drive, the time, and the health to make it happen.

And I will. You can tell how dramatic I’m getting by making that the start of its own separate paragraph. But seriously, I want to be mentioned as one of the greatest NA regs that ever existed. I want to be in the conversation when people talk about Greenwood or Adams. To quote a fellow great poker player, “**** these guys bro.”




And on that note, I’ll end my 2019/2020 ytd update. I’d like to finish on a lighter note. An important-to-me thing that happened in 2019 was the end result of my charity stream in 2018 for Gamers Outreach. After all the paperwork, all the hoops that needed to be jumped through, the Karts were finally delivered. I look forward to working again with them, hopefully in the near future. Here’s the Instagram post I made, as well as a quick little youtube video featuring a proud mama/papa.


https://www.instagram.com/p/B1wiFmSg-Mv/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYdid6whS78 (just linking because youtube embedding doesn't seem to work)
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03-27-2020 , 01:36 PM
It's level 1 thinking to say, "we're paying them X amount, they should only stream our games", but level 2 is realizing, the more popular our streamers are in the community the more our exposure for our brand.

You pretty much nailed it, the best streams you had were on Stars with the Sunday mill and the WCOOP, the software and prestige really boosts the experience. And makes total sense on your decision to leave now, being a party only streamer limits provides a safe floor, but also a low ceiling.

You've come a long way from the $30 spin life in a relative short amount of time and it's not by accident- there is no ceiling on what you can do in this game, LFG.
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01-21-2021 , 08:01 PM
Any 2020 results / updates?
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02-01-2021 , 08:13 PM
As is tradition, I wait until February to start doing my year in review. To be fair I’ve been pretty lost in the sauce with the streaming and grinding. With the pandemic, my lifestyle changed from going outside once every week or so with the occasional 1 to 3 week trip to never going outside and grinding nonstop. To be honest covid restrictions had next to zero effect on my day to day lifestyle. It really just simplified it. I was already going on large stretches without leaving my building. Now I had a legitimate excuse to just grind and grind and grind. I put in more games and hours in 2020 than any prior year and it wasn’t close. I didn’t take a week off until around late September. I’ve always been good with throwing hours into the grind, but with travel restrictions and provincial/city lockdowns it’s hard to justify doing much else.

2020 was in all aspects the best year of my career, Twitch and Poker. I saw exponential growth in my twitch numbers, started to crush my bread’n’butter daily games in the $55-$330s, and am arguably making my next push towards the $500+ buyin levels. I think the best way to review the year is to break it down into segments, highlighting what happened with twitch and poker individually. I think putting a story to each of the five and six figure swings will better explain my mindset/thoughts during those time periods.




January 1st to February 9th “The Slump”



We came out the gate with some ****in’ heat baby. This was probably most frustrated I’d been in a while.



To preface, here’s September 2019 to February 9th 2020. I swiftly dumped around 55-60k during the series with 0 scores. October I took off, and November through December was a slow build back up. January crushed me. It was a consistent 1 step forward 4 steps backwards all month, and it was my worst non series month to date. Every session it’d just be a question of “how much will I lose today.” These sorts of months really **** with you mentally. Doubt creeps in. You always question whether you really have what it takes or you were just on a heater. I dropped my ABI, cut off my top of buyin games, game selected, and continued to dumped money. I’d overcome adversity in summer 2018, but this hole felt deeper. It was deeper. January was also my final month on contract with partypoker. I knew contract negotiations were on the table, and I had very little bargaining power. My 2019 stream numbers started off promising, but a lack of effort and volume amongst other aspects, there was a decline in my stream. Party’s game selection during peak schedule August to January was pretty awful. Very few games, no re-entry. I had 4-6 tournaments to make a run in the $100-300 buy in range, and if I didn’t my choices were stream a $33 6k or end the stream. It led to a lot of half assed streams and a loss of motivation. As I’ve stated before, I passionately hated the “only stream our site” rule that got imposed mid deal. One of my strongest ways to grow and differentiate my channel from the pack was deep runs and big scores.



My stream numbers had been pretty soft and overall I was slumping. With renegotiations looming, I was entering a situation where I needed to decide what I wanted out of twitch, party, and poker overall.




February 10th to July 23rd “The Upswing”

I don’t know if I’ll be able to top this stretch in my career in terms of heat, especially the February 21st to March 1st. I won over 80k online and drilled a 2nd in the WPT $2500 for $211kCAD (see fresh photo below)





It started out with some small online success, building some confidence going into WPT Niagara. I double bricked the $1100 side event, and was on pace to double brick the $2500. I busted my 1st bullet around level 5 with 9 levels of re-entry and immediately jump back in. 2nd hand I proceed to get it in preflop AJs vs AA. Cool going home -5k. I thought GG no re. I proceed to bang off the straight on some nonce runout like KQQ7T and the rest is history.

What followed was chopping heads up and a 2nd back to back Sundays in the 250 Phase event on GG for 37k and 29k. It was one of their largest events at the time and one hell of a feat. Sidenote, I found a 10th immediately after, almost going 3 for 4 on FT’s in a month stretch.

I had a few 30k downswings during this stretch, but I’d proceed to bink out of them. With the beginning of the covid games, things were big and plentiful. It was a struggle to stop myself from just firing 16-hour days 7 days a week. It felt like a goldrush and I had to play for every cent. This stretch roughly peaked somewhere up 120k, and YTD up 90k. I was swinging around but felt good about my game. I felt the improvements as I put in more hours.



I feel like it’s worth noting that my 0-330’s graph is pretty nasty. I was absolutely crushing my main games, and dumping it off in the 500s+



It’s worth noting how insignificant the high stakes MTT sample is, yet how huge of an impact it had. Despite absolutely beaming a 3k+ game sample, I was torching it off in the 500s+ in 200 games with 0 good results. Now as a counter point, I absolutely punted off the $525 Millions 16 left, which butterfly effect, could have changed everything here. That one was my fault lol. Could’ve just won 100k there and graph saved.

Anyways I was peaking mentally and felt ready to swing. With a new batch of series and a boatload of 1ks and 2ks, I began my attempt to battle with the bigboys.



After negotiations with party, I opted to leave. I felt streaming independently would be better for my career long term. There’s always a bit of uncertainty when you give up a guaranteed paycheck, especially in poker. Fortunately, my results in my poker career leading into February made me not dependent on it. Poker has already given me incredible financial freedom. I was confident that streaming whatever whenever would produce better content and I’d be happier. I would like to take a moment and again thank Jaime, Jeff, and partypoker for the opportunity. I know in the end it didn’t work out, but y’all reached out, took a chance on me, and I appreciate that.

I started to see an uptick in viewership. It wasn’t substantial growth, but it was growth. Twitch growth isn’t overnight. It’s often just small progress over weeks and months, which eventually leads to an exponential growth and a boom. I started putting in more hours and switching up my timeslot of grinding. With the covid games beginning, I began to start my grinds and sessions at 6 to 9AM EST and grind through peak. I loved playing the tail end of the GG morning schedule, and peak on all sites was incredible. Guarantees absolutely popped in March and April.

Obviously during this time the globe got smacked by the pandemic. I was already pretty heavy into the grind when Canada shutdown March 17th. The last time I left the apartment was March 1st. I didn’t end up reemerging until Mid-April. I had a Streamhouse planned for Vancouver April 1st with Trav, Henri and Pav. Life was going to be gravy. What resulted was Henri and Pav being unable to enter the country. I was fortunate that my current landlord allowed me to extend my stay a few more months even though I had already given my 2 month notice and was planning to move out in a few weeks. I also began to fall into a pretty bad spiral of with my diet and exercise regimes. Prior to COVID, I had been gym-ing 3-4 times a week and eating very clean. With closures of gyms coupled with intense grinds and laziness, I began to just eat whatever I could order on ubereats. I undid all my progress and got peak obese again.





July 24th to October 24th “I’m a High Stakes Reg!”









I think one of the toughest things about moving up in stakes, especially at this level is just the sheer $ amount that gets swung each way. I got saved in May and June with some runs that masked the absolute beating I was taking in the high stakes. When I proceeded to breakeven in July to October, oh boy did the bleeding start. I was max late-regging 1ks and 2ks because of overlay. I fired the 525 Millions on GG for $4-6k a week. I bricked a few 5ks. All along with just regular losing. In reality, these kinds of swings are just what can happen in poker. Sometimes you’re going to lose. Oh boy did we lose. I don’t know what to really highlight poker wise in this lmfao. I had a couple on 5 figure scores, but no momentum. However, I wasn’t discouraged. I had a lot of confidence this time around. I’d dug out of massive holes already in my career. The problem was easy to identify. Cut the highest flicks, stop max late-regging top of buy-in, and grind it out. I knew I was crushing the lower stuff and it was just a matter of time until I found success. After a certain point, it eventually turns into a brag that you can even lose that amount of money and be comfortable. I just couldn’t tell my parents or most of my friends outside of poker the exact details of the swing ^_^. It starts to get unrelatable and incomprehensible at a certain point. I defaulted to going “yeah pokers not going that great but no big deal” when asked. I think the big mental hurdle is just preparing to buckle down and grind it out. It sucks knowing this could take 3-6+ months to grind out of, but so be it.



Twitch continued to boom. Average viewership began to climb and I was really feeling it. It was during this timeframe I started to work with and talk with GGPoker again. I love to boast I was their first ever streamer and one of (if not the first) streamers to stream the GGNetwork on twitch. I loved my initial time with GG and continued to play there during my tenure with party. I think deep down I kind of knew I always wanted to go back. It just seemed like the perfect fit for me. I love me some emoji spam and dabbing on people with the snapcam. With the WSOP coming online, it looked like a good opportunity to re-introduce myself. With my booming twitch channel, I felt I had exactly what they needed and what they’d be looking for. We came to terms with promoting the WSOP on my channel, and reevaluating the situation after the 6 week series concluded. Evidently, both parties were happy as I proceeded to become an official ambassador and member of the #GGSquad along with a wonder group of handsome gentlemen.
With losing comes reflection and self-introspection. When things were going well, naturally I didn’t feel the urge to reflect and see the mistakes I was making. I started to reflect upon all the poor habits I was wrapping myself in off the virtual felt. I was doing zero physical activity and eating awful. I began to steer the ship back on course. I started to reduce the amount of garbage I’d order and looked to cooking more. I tried to adjust the amount of time I spent grinding. I wasn’t taking any real time off. My days off were just mental resets after burning myself out from excessive grinding. I hadn’t taken a week off throughout all of 2020. I limited myself to 4 grind days, 1 study day, and 2 rest days. I took my first week off in the middle of September (Well Monday to Saturday). All of which I felt were necessary steps to get my ducks in a row.





October 25th to November 30th “Making Day 3 and Day 4 an online tournament is a thing?”







We erased any issues and doubts about getting out of the downswing quick. A lot happened in this stretch to say the least. It started with an absolutely fire Sunday session, where I won a Bounty Hunter Series event for $19k and took 4th in the $100 Global Millions for $43k. Two beast scores on their own, but combined was a huge weight off my shoulders. I eliminated so much of the previous swing in one day, easy peasy. My stream and runs ended around 1:30am, and I needed to be up for 7am sharp. I had my first big charity stream for Gamers Outreach since April 2018. All the feeling you get from runs like these and then trying to decompress is an experience. You get showered in love and support on socials and DMs and it’s kind of hard to just turn it all off. You’ve gone from this intense hyper focus state for an extended period and all the sudden it’s all over.
We managed to get about 2 hours of sleep and powered through it. I had a banger of a charity stream and it was an absolute success.



As a community we raised $8,768.69, enough for 2 and a half GOKarts. Quickly for those unfamiliar, GOKarts (Gamers Outreach Karts) are mobile gaming stations for hospitals that are transportable and can be moved in-between rooms. The stress of being in the hospital and all that comes with it is a lot for grown adults, let alone children. Sometimes they’re not able to leave their bed or interact with people outside their bubble. The carts are a way of bringing a distraction from their day-to-day situation and allow them to be kids again. If friends visit, they have something to play and enjoy. It also is an opportunity for parents bond with their child. The carts I fundraised for have gone to Sick Kids Hospital in London Ontario. It’s humbling to be able to use my platform for something like this and to be able to give back. It’s easy to be caught up in the moment and forget how good we have it.

It was an extensive and exhausting 36 hour stretch, physically and mentally. I took off a few days and jumped back into the ring. I didn’t have to wait long for my next run. I proceeded to final table the $2650 Venom. Despite the quick exit and finishing 8th, cashing for $72k total was a nice consolation prize. Just like that, I completely annihilated my 90k downswing in a week. I found some calm results with a few close calls in the weeks that followed. I then found myself making a run in the $550 Battle of Malta Main Event on GG. I’m barely 3 weeks removed from my last major Day 4 playing for over $900k and here we are again final tabling a tournament with over $600k for first. Honestly what the ****. My second chance to hit a career altering score. With the Venom, there were no days off in between. We played 4 days straight. What was different about this one was I had a full 5 and a half days between making the final table and before it started. I opted to skip grinding that week. How can I play tournaments with $3-5k for first when I could be prepping to be playing for $600k+. I basically just spent the week chatting/strategizing with friends and 1on1 time with Greenstone25. I felt prepped and confident. I’d had so many situations in 2020 alone where I was playing for large sums of money. I was as comfortable as you can be. Unfortunately, the win wasn’t meant to be. A couple unfortunate pots and some lack of cards and we found ourselves a 7th for $66k.

We peaked at over 200k in this period for a brief moment. From a near 100k downswing to a 200k upswing. It was a lot to take in. I’ve been fortunate to just up and bink out of some pretty large downswings in terms of ABI’s.



No surprise here, you final table two of the biggest online tournaments of the year, you find some growth and increased numbers. I enjoyed streaming the highs and lows of these tournament runs. All of them are highlighted on my youtube channel ( https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGz...z_w8XK6sfyWsJQ or search IrEgption Poker ) If you’re looking to check that out. Throughout this stretch I started to feel the community building more and more. One of the most important steps to a successful stream is the community. At the end of the day without the chat the stream’s empty. They’re the heart and soul of a stream. I started to mold my ideal stream schedule too. Start early, go long. I’d stream 3 days but for 10-14 hours a pop. I think it’s helped with my discovery and allowed more people to discover me.





December 1st to Present










We proceeded to give a lot of it back, as you can see. It didn’t take long to just sauce off another 50k+. In my opinion it’s nothing to crazy and I’m not too worried. Both 10ks I played have asterisks next to them. The 10k WSOP Main was a ticket I won from GG in a Battle of Malta Streamer challenge were I outdid my fellow streamers in placings in BoM events. I also sold majority of it. The 10k Heads up was another heavily sold one, and a bit of a yolo to ride the heat. We recently 4 bullet bricked the venom as well, which is a “oh well whatever” kind of feeling. At this point as we’ve learned we’re not too worried about the swings. They happen and will continue to happen. You can’t (in theory) continue to sunrun and deeprun all your top of buyin events. It was kind of annoying because I wanted to end 2020 off on a high note and starching off 50k was a bit peeving 😊.



the last few months have just been consistency solid. It’s pretty wild to think I naturally hover around 400-600 viewers, and whenever I get a significant deep run we have no problem with getting to 1000-1400 viewers. It’s easy to overlook just how many people that is sometimes when comparing to some massive streams like xQc or Mizkif. It really has been quite the turn around from this time February last year. We’ve basically 4-5x’d our daily average viewership.
I’ve been making strides towards living a healthier lifestyle as well. I’ve corrected my diet by ordering premade meals from a food delivery service. It absolutely eliminated any of the hassle that comes with not knowing what to eat and how much to eat during my 10-14 hour grinds. I get the right food and with the right portions. I’ve also been getting more active due to a sick project I’m doing with MMA crusher and absolute stud Elias Theodorou. We started recording a series that’ll be on the GGPoker Youtube channel (release TBD) where I’ll be training him in poker, and he’ll be training me in fitness/health/mma. We’ve been primarily doing video call recording, but we’ll be looking to do more in person stuff as covid restrictions lax in the coming months. I’ve never taken part of a project like this. It’s been exciting to learn as I go. Elias has been a delight to work with and I’m looking forward to showcasing our work when the time comes 😊




Without further ado, Here’s what you’ve all been potentially looking for. Perhaps what you first popped in hoping to see. My 2020 Year to Date Graph.








It’s an interesting way to net around 140k. With the 211kCAD live score and the incredible growth on twitch, 2020 was one hell of a year for me. To me I love how clean my lower buyin graph is. But I’m striving for greatness and am aiming for the top. I’m looking to cement my legacy in the poker world. Battling in games I’m not the strongest or not even winning is part of that growth. Sometimes it’s just got to be a trial by fire. We made some noise in 2020. Looking forward to beaming some nerds and headlocking some dweebs in 2021.



Bonus content: January 2021 results



I filtered out the 10k HU because it’s my graph I’ll form my own bias if I want. Anyways, take away the 11k we dumped into the venom (and sold for) and we’re looking at a solid 30k+ month. Produced a lot of strong results and a couple close calls. Looking forward to pushing the envelope in February and onward.

It’s nice to finally get this done. I procrastinate because I didn’t want to half-ass it. I wanted to be thorough if I did do it. I look forward to what the future brings and hope you’ll come along for the journey with me. egptSuh
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02-01-2021 , 10:10 PM
i like this post, i like you.. im gonna keep watching. GL in 2021
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02-01-2021 , 11:55 PM
Nice write up bud, really enjoyable read and glad you got around to making it! Best of luck going forward I ll be dropping by from time to time

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02-02-2021 , 05:34 AM
Great write up, great dude, epic results!
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02-02-2021 , 05:51 AM
Wow, what a wrap-up post. GG's and best of luck this year. Will be watching the stream.
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02-02-2021 , 08:28 AM
went back and reread the whole thing great journey mate, thanks for sharing!
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02-02-2021 , 09:58 AM
!play (is that how this works?)
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02-02-2021 , 10:19 AM
Is the 211k CAD your biggest tourney score? Are you still staked to play poker? Do you play cash games too or just tourneys? Do you still stack your chips in 10s?

Nice write-up. Good luck in 2021!
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