Hi everyone! The pro poker lifestyle can be very lonely, especially for me as I have no poker pro friends. I hope with this thread I can share my journey and have you guys come along the ride with me. I would love to get feedbacks and constructive criticisms as I progress towards my goal. In return, I will do my best to keep this thread as entertaining as possible!
My Poker Background
- 2014 started trying hard at nl2 treating poker as a game I need to beat from the bottom and not for the money, climbed to nl10 and built $2k roll online from $30 over the course of 6 months playing a nit style. Withdrew and gave my mom 1k for emergency she had. Was unmotivated to grind after that as I was also playing a mmorpg at the time that I got addicted to, and ny roll just got cut in half. Also I didnt feel safe about having too much money online on a poker site at the time.
- 2015 dabbled with live poker whenever I had $300. Probably 5 times in total for the year. Turned another $25 deposit online into $500 playing $nl25 then tilted one day and gambled it all on online black jack.
. Didnt play much poker after.
- 2016 ran up a live bankroll of ~5k with $300 to start using aggresive brm playing $1-$3 and $2-$5. I would buyin $2-$5 for 1k so that 5k roll quickly busted after spendings and a few 2 outers for 2k pots. This period last a month
-Early 2017 built up another 3k roll playing strictly $1-$3. But I was playing the deep stack games buyin for $500 so It was not hard for me to go busto again after a few 2 outers for 1k pots.
-Summer of 2017 I manage to scrape up another buyin after driving for uber and built it up to 2k. This time I’m more careful and decided to stick to strictly $300 buyin cap $1-$3 games till i had 10k. I also decided to download a poker tracker app and started logging all my sessions
-August 2017 +5150
- September 2017 +5300 (started moving out of $300 cap into $500/table max games again, stopped playing $300 by the end of month)
- October 2017 +140
- November 2017 + 3400
- December 2017 +11800
- January 2018 +4587
- Febuary 2018 +2535 (was in Asia for vacation, playing smaller home games that runs less frequent then my usual game in the US)
- March 2018 +1500 (Asia home games)
- April 2018 +2978 (Asia home games)
- May 2018 +5200 (back to US)
- June 2018 +3030
- July 2018 +7600
- August 2018 +2078
- September 2018 -320 (first losing month)
- October 2018 +4114
And we are up to date! Will start posting monthly results and recap!
My long term goals moving forward
- To sustain my current $1-$3 winrate ($36/hr over 1400hr sample)
- Move up and beat $2-$5 for $40/hr+ (currently $11/hr over 300hr)
- To continue showing a profit in tournaments, win my first live tournament(chopped for first and got 2nd place a few times in small field small buyins, never out right win one) currently +$9700 in tournament net profit)
- Start beating online poker so I can have the flexibility to make money anywhere in the world as long as I have my laptop. I will start with nl25 - nl50 and low stakes $5-$10 abi MTT, will dedicate more time for online when I travel to Asia again in January. Online is also a great tool to get better quicker (even tho less money in the short run) so I must put effort into this.
Life leaks outside of poker, that I need to fix to play better poker!
- I currently have no excercise routine and am very out of shape, can barely walk for half an hour
- I have a very unhealthy sleep schedule
- I am a heavy addict of weed, cigs and coffee
* I know that if I wan’t to achieve my poker dreams I need to fix atleast 2/3 of these leaks, but it’s been hard. I hope this thread will motivate me to work harder and finally get my life together.
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Since it is almost the end of the month. I will kick this thread off with a weekly challenge, I will have monthly challenges once December kicks in. Today I am taking a day off so the challenge will start on Monday.
First Weekly Challengep
- Play minimum 40 hrs of live cash games (easy)
- Maintain a fix, healthy schedule of waking up early for work and going home early (9 pm latest) so I can prepare for the next day again. (Moderate)
- Excercise 15 minutes a day (hard)
- Meditate for 5 minutes a day (hard)
- spend 30 minutes messing around with equity lab (I need to study more)
- Make $1400 in profit from cash games so I can play $400 worth in tournament
At the end of the week, be able to bust and still profit $1k for the week
(stupid monetary goal that can’t be gaureenteed, But still fun to have)
- post atleast 1 interesting and honest hand history where I played bad, got lost in the hand for review
That’s all for now, if you plan on following please leave a comment, it will help boost my motivation a lot. I will update daily(ish?) poker results and hand histories and then recap at the end of the week next sunday after the monthly tournament.
Lets get it! Time to grind and shine!