Is he alive?

I had a conversation at the tables last night that resembles the last few pages of this thread. Me, a gym brah, and a rich rec in his 40s talking absolute broscience for about an hour.

Abbreviates to absolute BS.
Coincidence? I think not.

After quitting poker almost 2 years ago for a business job I filled a lot of my spare time with researching nutrition. Just like a lot of you guys I was a 30ish y old guy out of shape and I couldn't take this anymore. I ate badly.

It is quite shocking how like in this thread but also in real life almost nobody cares or has any knowledge about nutrition. You eat 3+ times a day. Nutrition is the biggest contributor to health and diseases.

I advise everybody to check out the work of Dr. Michael Greger. In my opinion the best nutritional science doctor in the world. His book "how not to die" is insane value and a must read.

He has his own website: https://nutritionfacts.org/

It is incredible how improvements in nutrition can change your life! Give yourself an hour or two a week to figure out what sources you can trust and where to research. Good luck!

isn't this basically the same as shilling coaching, pretty sure it's not allowed

90 minutes of exercise a day, no big deal

rofl tasty, nutritionfacts.org is free........

WSOP update? (non food related)

Got a weekly game of football organised during the summer in Vegas if you're here. Feel free to get involved!

How's the summer going pads?

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Whats uppppppp

SCOOP bets I ended up 2.5k total there was lots of HU bets, some other team bets, Girafganger, FU15 etc that was a relief!

2 days before Vegas i decided to sack it off and come to Russia for the world cup. Vegas had so many exciting tournaments, 10k 6m, 5k 6m, main event, 50k, 1m one drop, 25ks and 10ks every day in Aria etc, but I just really love football and this is once in a lifetime opportunity.

Been here for a while now, Moscow easily top 3 favourite cities i've ever been to, very very very likely its number 1 and somewhere I would love to live. The propaganda against Russian people and lots of small things in the press has made me reconsider anything i've ever read in the press before! Literally amazing city, if you can still come out for the semi final and the final do it!

I haven't missed the poker side at all, really weird, I've started to question my whole poker future, what do I want from it? What do I want to invest in it?

I spend sooooo much time studying poker and dedicating myself to it, but the difference in ev from me studying a lot to studying a tiny bit won't actually be that high in reality because of volume of games I play. I don't like the SHR scene anymore, since those 3 400k banks last year i think I played 5 high roller tournaments, around breakeven or w/e, I just don't really see the appeal in them as much anymore. I find them very cliquey, god knows if anything dodgy is going on and the edges of course aren't going to be huge. If I play a $25k like a 7.5k for bankroll management and have a 20% roi (thats fkn huge!) i make $1500 which is of course good, but there travelling, being away from things, health etc and if i want to make $1500 I can just stay online and do it instead, I don't see the appeal at all really. Sure you can go to a nice place and visit, but you can do that anyway lol and actually see the place.

I'm 100% skipping Barcelona, have no drive at all to go and play that series, I know there is some cool events and stuff there, 5k main, 10k hr, I just don't have strong urge/desire to go. Weird!

Just want to stay home, be with family, be healthy, play lots of football and start transitioning into some other kind of business. I'm really driven by success, not financial success, but just being successful, achieving things, I'm not sure what would be really motivating to achieve anymore in poker. I got to n1 in pocket fives, won scoops/wcoops etc, I thought that going live and doing that would be the "success path" that would keep motivating me, but thats completely out of the window now. I don't really see cash games/ spins or other games as being something that will drive me. I don't know really, kind of a weird situation.

Anybody been similar/similar now?

judging by your love towards football and reasons for your transition to mtt I suspect you always wanted to be an athlete and still can't get over the fact you couldn't become one.
imo poker/esports career is the closest substitute to a sport career, you can become an entrepreneur, make money, gain influence etc but there'll be less "direct" competition.

ignore this post if my assumptions are wrong

PS. so after all I guess it's true that the grind itself is a better experience than achieving the actual success

I had the same feelings as you. Once you are comfortable financially making more money doesn't affect your day to day happiness much at all. Money is only one of about 5 things that one looks for in a career (fulfillment, recognition, teamwork, status, a challenge) and I found poker does pretty poor on most of these after a while. I've started a business and although it isn't financially rewarding yet I love it as it is creating value, I am building something, learning and eventually I will have built a concept and team from scratch. Given you position, I would come up with an idea that you know can be successful if executed well then start to build a very strong team to do that (first off one or two business partners, then a mentor, then build from there). Good luck!

Also starting a business doesn't stop you being able to play poker. You can still flick in Sundays and the tourney series anyway.

Isn't BitB enough of a business as it is? Maybe play less volume and focus on that for a while? Kind of interesting to hear how you're somewhat over it at the moment at the same time as everyone is hyped up due to WSOP. Do you not have any bracelet aspirations or anything like this?

At the end of the day though, just do whatever you feel like. You're in a unique position to be able to do pretty much just that, just make sure whatever it is you are doing you actually want to be doing.

In before pads' post about finding the love for the game and that it's online full speed ahead.

No hate here, I do it alot as well

Completely off topic but your writing in the last post you made reads incredibly like the way Donald trump gives speeches :/

As your past threads have shown, making these “big decisions” doesn’t actually lead to anything long term for you so my advice would be - especially as you are financially and otherwise fairly satisfied - focus on what is fun for you in the moment and do that to the fullest. Bc in a few months time you ll prob change your mind anyway

I think you can try and work in young boys soccer ( less then 16 years old) academy as coach or smth simular to that i think you will find great motivation and drive when you are working is mix of your soccer love + team /competition /sport+ improving young boys/girls life ( motivation, goals disicipline etc)
Btw i remeber u were owning a bar in Budapest and want to buy some building to make it hostel or w/e... whats up with that?did u own the bar still??

On other note what you think about Croatian mental game, imo beasts

Gg england rip

Can you elaborate please? What dodgy stuff might happen?

Also thanks for the big update. Always great to read from you

How long do those SHRs (25k etc) normally take? I always figured they didn't make much sense but never did the math before.

Buy an English lower league side already. How much budget do you think you'd need a season for a national league north/south team? 100k max? Go into partnership with a mix of experience and money and mitigate the risk.

i wonder how inefficient tier 5-7 leagues are

Pads - ever consider getting into Sports Analytics/Data as a stepping stone to coaching?

I guess combining your interest in new businesses, with knowledge of HUDs, stats, etc., to develop some sort of program/methodology that could be used by soccer clubs. THere must be a big cross over in skills from top end poker...

I mean you even your 2p2 name "OurSurveySays" evidences a dedication to a data driven approach ...

EH-EHHHHHHHH!

Or he could have watched a fair bit of gameshow TV when he was younger