Hey readers. A bit about my self and what I'm doing here:
My name is Mantas (screen names later on), I'm 25y/o, living in Lithuania. I was thinking about my own blog some time, when I saw my ex-colleague blog on facebook. Till this day I didn't know how my blog will look like, just pure tree months of thinking what to say?
And here I am, sitting on my couch writing. Okey, lets talk about my career (or should I say careers?)
It's 4years as I'm working as a bartender in the same company in Lithuania.. These years was.. Let's say that was lots of changes in my life during that time. Before that I broke with a girl, went to live in Scotland, found a job at a bar as a barsupport. Had all the week free except Fridays and saturdays, and what did I do? What would you do?
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Haha, then I found online poker
started with some video packs, found huhypers. In our local poker forum found a skype group, we studied the game, talked about hands, I played from my own money (imagine me, changing my Doritos pack to one buy-in that time
) ) than I got staked. I grinded a lot, every free evening out of work I worked on my game, had really busy day schedule for grinding, sleeping, napping, eating, really pushed my self.
After a year or so, I decided to come back home, I rented a flat with a friend, and guess what.. He was a huhypers crusher
So I got staked by one of the biggest these days hu format families, started working in the bar as a part time job as a bartender. Grind, friends, alcohol, parties, girls, looks awesome right? Then I met my girlfriend, thing were awesome but I couldn't manage 3things in my life these days. So I dumped poker, asked for more shifts at the bar, moved together with my girlfriend.
I was really passionate about bartending, talking with customers, making drinks so after one year I decided to go to European Bartenders school in Milano Italy, came back after that, won my first bartenders competition and went to Paris represent my county. Didn't go well, but I came back with feeling I'm missing something, so started to watch videos from all over the world, hired a bar coach to help me. After few more competitions went to most serious one.. Worldclass. It's like a wsop for poker players
Top5 Lithuania, top12 Baltic countries (LT, LV, EST), not so bad, huh? Never won first again, but gained respect in bartenders community, my employers. I was a manager at my bar that I worked, I felt I'm doing everything right.
One and half year ago I broke my wrist and... I found poker again
Still reading? Good. Because now things going serious.
Started to play mtts 2-3-4tables at the time. On my coach. On my big tv screen. Yeach. Dind't have a monitor, my laptop was pretty small. So played just the way I felt. No coachings, no videos, nothing. Then hitted my first $500 or so (I was playing $1-2bi) and things went really good. From money I won, hired a coach, started watching a videos.. Another win.. Had one coaching a weak, learned a lot.. And then I remember my school times, I met a guy, who dated a girl from my school... (another long story).. So I wrote him (PS, and p5s nick name arbaarba), maybe he knows a staking group, because I have no referral, no one knows me.. And he took me under his wing
I had 5 coaching sessions a week, 1-2hours every day two months or so. Few months later I could sing a song:
LOOK AT MY HORSE
And then... I had to choose, what to do (like 3years ago), because I couldn't manage 3thing in my life.. So I choose poker career and girlfriend.
Things went really cool, I studied a lot, had -2k downswing, didn't understad a varience of poker that time.
So so so.. I played a lot, and my coach arbaarba and benasg (they coached and staked me together), asked me if i want to move to bagodart (bagoch and dartazz) stable and I said YES! But first had to clean my mu ant give them back their money. Next week I hit a tournament, making profitsplit and moving on
'18 January I started as a bagoch and dartazz horse, and arbaarba was coaching there. I was so happy, that things moving such a good way that I didn't realize -1k..-2k..-5k...-7k.. downswing.. And mental downswing as a bonus.. Really dark times, 5months or so I didn't have a job, playing 5-6days a week (realods every week needed!), studied a lot, hh, videos, meditation..
Had to do something with money, because my savings was gone after 6months with no job.. I thinked about that 3weeks, to make a call or not.. And one morning just woke and realize that I have to do it. I made a call, made an apointment with a bar manager that I left, and went back to work as a part time bartender. So from now, my fridays and saturdays nights is is the bar, working
Then SCOOPS started. As a tradition, all the group going to resort and grind all together. Got my motivation and self control back, won some tournaments, had really funny BIG deep runs that didn't go well.. Came back to homegrind, had heater again, like Gus said "It's gonna be a great summer". And it was. Lots of grinding had +++ two months in a row, worked on weekends, grinding on Sundays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays. Things went really good again, 30+final tables in 2months.
August decided to make morning sessions, because wanted to have summertime, evenings with my girlfriend, friends. Really really lot's of final tables, lots of winnings, like 4final tables at the time time, 2 tournaments won another day.. But all in all finished month in minus profit. Poker is cruel game leaving you with nothing and smiling at your face when kicking your balls same time
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Moved to offise from home grinding, with few players and my coach arbaarba. Wcoops, powerfest and other series.. Bankroll reload needed.. And now I'm ant the same stage before bootcamping with teammates.
All years I'm playing mtt's I never asked my self, do I really want to play this game, or can I beat this game. I just know that I want, and do everything to kick back.
Now I'm managing not 2 or 3 things.. Now I'm playing poker, working as a bartender, managing 5bars once a week (just going there and checking them, making manu changes and so on), attending sportclub with my girlfriend, being with her. Thanks to her patience and trust in myself. Never been so high as I am now
Okey, I'm at my crutial point of my MU, not that high?
but this blog is not about me crying about variance or how my AA breaks up on ft bubble in chip pot. It's about.. Um..
JUST KIDDING!!
It's about to help understand myseft what is missing in my game and improve that. Learn from my mistakes. Sorry, this blog is for future me, to read everything I wrote.
Ye. I started missing something in my game, in my daily routine, in my everyday normal life.. Happiness
I understand that happiness is not coming with success. Opposite - success comes with happiness!
Watched few podcasts with top-noch players. Grabbed few ideas for my dailylife and poker.
Lets start with goals. My main goal is to think about goals and set them correctly. I want to find a system, to learn, live, work and play, and... put all these things together
I made a plan for every day till next monday starting tomorrow 25/09/2018.
25/09tuesday - morning meditation, checking 5bars in few hours, coaching session with my coach, cash night with boys.
26/09wednesday - 7.5hours of night sleep, morning meditation, postflop analysis hour (have really good coaching videos, want to watch them AALLL), sport club (x-fit). Grind session at the offise (not much than 8tables)
27/09thursday - 7.5hours night sleep, morning meditation, check my preflop ranges, are they correct, do I really play taking them in mind. (1hour). If my couch can, make a coach session. Make dinner with girlfriend at home. Evening grind at offise.
28/09friday - 7.5 hours night sleep, morning meditation, one hour of ICM spots, that i marked during a week. Podcast hour. Time for my selft till 6pm and bar shift starts
Let's meet at Sunday...
30/09Sunday - 7.5 hours night sleep, morning meditation, have a tradition with girlfriend, go to sauna and swimming pool every Sunday after my weeked shifts, to relax, concentrate to my evening session. After that, taking a lunch and I'm goint to offise, getting readdy to sunday grind. Goal for sunday: live play review (30mins).
Monday... next blog page about my all week, my thoughs during my week plan
will make a notes all the week, how I felt, about my mood while grindind, about next topic.
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