My name is Tadeas, I am a 19-year old guy from the Czech Republic. I have always been intrigued by games. My first game that I picked up was chess. When I was about 6 years old I joined my school chess club and I've been in love with the game ever since. I still play but only sporadically. At the age of 11 I got into video games and my all-time favorite was Track Mania. I played a lot and I was pretty good peaking at 1500th place worldwide. My parents were never really supportive of me playing video games so I played for about an hour a day. I also fell in love with WoW and I played on various free servers as well as on the official server. As I was getting older I was looking for a new challenge and I discovered poker for the first time but I was only 16 so I deposited through my dad and I started playing just for fun. Soon after I had to leave for my year abroad as a foreign exchange student in the US so I couldn't play anymore. When I got back I changed a lot and I have forgotten about poker and all my friends started playing this really cool game called League of Legends. I immediately started playing and reached gold III in about a year a half . I wanted to be really good at LoL but it didn't work out + I got into a love/hate relationship with this game . All my life I wanted to do something extraordinary and I really hope of achieving greatness in poker.

I am a beginner poker player that started taking poker more seriously about 5 months ago. Like almost everybody I started playing on Stars. I tried 888 and party as well but the traffic was really low. I went from FR CG to 6-max pretty quickly because I wanted more action and then I discovered Spin & Goes and I was hooked. I immediately started researching about this exciting format and I found this great video pack. The one problem was that it was very expensive so I got a job as a dealer in a local casino to save money for the video pack and my trip to Thailand. I didn't play much poker during that month and a half because I was working and going to school at the same time so my time was limited.

I spent about month and a half in SEA and I absolutely loved it. I finally understand why poker pros go crazy about moving there, it truly is worth it and I hope to make the move myself next year either as pro or an English teacher(I got TEFL). I was suppose to go with my friend who lives on the same street with whom I went to India last year but he cancelled last minute so I was going alone. Luckily for me I met this really cool guy named Alex at the airport who was wearing a Pokerstars shirt so we talked for a bit, exchanged Facebook and went on our way. I was going to travel Thailand and Cambodia and his plan was to "enjoy" Pattaya . He got sick of that place fairly quickly so we met about 5 days after that in Chiang Mai and we travelled together the whole time. We did northern and central Thailand, Siem Reap, PP and settled for about 10 days in this magical place called Sihanoukville. Where we met and partied with the coolest broke bros on the planet. You probably guessed that I am talking about Yazzx and Izit who totally lived up to the hype and showed us one of the best time of our lives. After 10 days of constant poker and partying we had to say goodbye because Alex was leaving for Europe and my plan was to teach English in Thailand for the remaining 10 days of my trip. I found a volunteer job online pretty easily and I got to teach kindergarten in a small village near Chaiyaphum. The kids were really friendly and tried hard to learn the basics and it has always been my dream to teach abroad. I got a girlfriend while I was there so that made things even more pleasant. The last two days I spent gift shopping in Bangkok because I was too “busy” to do it before. Overall the trip was amazing and I am especially glad I got to meet awesome people from the poker world.

Glgl man!! Im a bit drunk now so will read in the morning.. best wishes xx

Subbed. Just started playing Spins over the last week, so looking forward to hearing your story!

Haha, thanks bro

Thank you and that is awesome, we should help each other out

I started a little later than I would have liked because I went to a friend's party yesterday. Got home at about 9am and immediately picked up my notebook and started reviewing notes that I have written down over the past few days, afterwards I watched another video and wrote down the most important concepts. After lunch I got on the grind and played hours straight but after hours of constant playing I sometimes get distracted by music or the internet and my focus shifts from poker and that something I need to work on. At 5pm I met a friend who I haven't seen since I left for my trip so that was nice but I had to leave pretty quickly to have time to finish my daily goal(still short of 30 games=feel like an idiot).

• Get comfortable playing Spin & Goes
• Maintain a 80/20 play/study ratio
• Update this thread daily
• Review hands after session
• Improve drastically
• Eat healthy
• Exercise daily
• Play 130 games a day

I am happy with my play today and I finally run over EV so that's always nice. I am only sad about my volume and I hope I will make it up throughout next week.

Felt like sh*t the whole day and had a headache for the major part of the afternoon so went to bed at like 5pm . Woke up at 2am and watched Poker night cash game(GO JAIME ) for couple hours and then went to bed. Nothing to really report from this day, I will post the couple tourneys that I played with day 3 update.

I still wasn't feeling so good because of yesterday but managed to put in a decent session with mixed results. I am certainly not happy with my play from the last 2 days and I hope I can get my chip ev up tomorrow. I also hit a lot of coolers so hopefully everything will be fine tomorrow

• Update this thread daily
• Maintain a 80/20 play/study ratio
• Get comfortable playing Spin & Goes
• Review hands after session
• Improve drastically
• Exercise daily
• Eat healthy
• Play 130 games a day

I would like to leave you with a great country song that I discovered yesterday

It's a new dawn, it's a new day, it's a new life for me. Day 4 is here and it was a spectacular day. Played my A game and was really focused the whole day and finally managed to put the desired volume in. Spent the whole day at home but at around 7pm my best friend came over and we watched Draft Day and The Town. Definitely recommend these 2 movies

• Play 130 games a day
• Get comfortable playing Spin & Goes
• Update this thread daily
• Maintain a 80/20 play/study ratio
• Review hands after session
• Improve drastically
• Eat healthy
• Exercise daily

Good luck. Nice story by now, time to make it epic

And you remind me: I should install Trackmania again

Thank you and you definitely should

Not every day ends in a victory chip wise but over all I managed to win one 25x so that kind of put a band aid on my suffered wounds. I think I played fine but that wasn't enough and I definitely need to improve my HU and my push/fold because I think I am pushing too light 25bb readless so I need to work on that. Full of coolers, full of bad beats=RNG God was pissed at me today.

• Play 130 games a day
• Get comfortable playing Spin & Goes
• Update this thread daily
• Maintain a 80/20 play/study ratio
• Review hands after session
• Improve drastically
• Eat healthy
• Exercise daily

After having a long discussion with my good friend I decided to transfer the whole bankroll to Winamax. We will see if this decision was a good one or not While me funds are being transferred I continue to improve my game through videos and hand analysis.

Day 7 is a fun day so I chilled the whole day and absolutely 0 poker.