Intro
Hey everyone, I’m William AKA “Williaml666” on Stars. I’m a brazilian online MTT player playing professionally for about 6 years. I started playing a $ 2.6 ABI and I am currently playing ~$ 90.

I’m currently coached and staked by the Poker Detox MTT CFP <3


I’ve always considered starting a journal to hold myself accountable to my own actions towards my goals. I'm also going through a new stage in terms of games I want to beat + work I need to put into my game.
I’ll go deeper into my reasons within this project later on.


Endgame Goals in Poker

• 1.5kk profit in less than 10 years from now (to be adjusted if feel that this is too easy)
• Be among the best players crushing at least a $ 150 ABI in MTTs

(I’m actually more about detailed process oriented goals, but these ones will come on later posts)


The Blog

For starters I’m planning on posting at least 2 times/week here. I’ll be posting about my background, how I got to where I am right now, what I’m currently working at, my goals, results, daily routine and whatever.
I’ll also try to bring some of my other interests (art/music/books) that may or may not be directly connected to Poker.


Lifetime results so far



And a few of my best results:



These ones were fun, sunrunning the last sunday/monday of WCOOP after having the worst series ever.

glglglgl sick results so far

Tks mate, glglgl!!!

Small update finishing this week's grind, just had a bittersweet result (I know I'll enjoy it more in a few minutes or so)
This is a tournament I started playing at the beginning of this month, so it does feels good to FT it already:



Had my first grind with a standing desk today, felt really good, like it gave me a boost of energy/motivation when I was standing up.

Now I'll enjoy the weekend a bit and do some light studying tomorrow.

Gl everyone!

Hey everyone, got to be honest and say I'm still struggling to get the habit to post here, but I'll put some more effort and I'll start now by sharing some of the motivations to get my blog running and a not so short story of my MTT career (:

*Just a small update, I'm getting back to my disciplined routine bit by bit and I'm really enjoying the process so I'll try to post more about it too on coming days.

Why?

There are many reasons why I wanted to start this project, but I'll try to be brief and list the main ones that comes to my mind:

- Improve my writting: Long story short, I believe that organizing your thoughts in a way that results in an intelligibly and engaging read is crucial to anyone trying to be the better versions of themselves (I also sort of believe on the "pen is mightier than the sword" thing).
This is a big leak of mine and it alone would be a good reason for me to start blogging/journaling.

- Getting out of my confort zone.
I've never been a person who found it easy to share my ideas/thoughts, except when talking about the stuff I was most obsessed about, but I think this is a necessary skill to anyone to improve as human beings or just know yourself better, as it might work as some kind of self therapy.

- Being more accountable with my habits and goals
For a while I've been very good with planning, goals, habits and this sort of stuff, but I have to admit in the last year or so, I have relapsed a bit in this part, falling into the inertia of good results and lacking out on the discipline that brought me to where I am.
So this will also be a tool for me to get back to my discipline mode.

- Share some "knowledge" of how I got to where I am know and maybe give something back to the community
In summary I have got decents results and a good living from poker so far and I know I have been very lucky in my life overall. A lot of what I conquered was from listening/reading to other people I considered role models (I've always read and listened to tons of poker pros podcasts and other areas high achievers). So if I can help or inspire at least one person, that would already be an incredible outcome to me.

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Who am I?

I'll try to be short here (Edit: I failed). Like many poker players, I had a competitive background as kid (mostly in video games) and I have an obsessive personality, so whatever I would put my mind on, specially if it included competition, I would spend hours and hours immersed on that activity.

Fast forward to my teenage years (I was about 15 years old, in highschool) I saw a movie that would change my life: 007 - Casino Royale xD. Besides it still being one of my favorite movies, the main point for me was that I saw an oportunity as soon as I saw Le Chiffre showing up his pot odds x equity skills. Despite how it is presented in the movie, my first impression was that it was a card game that made you look cool while playing (not so much nowadays if you see me in my underwear grinding), you could improve your skills in it and it involved math and psychology. So with all that my spider senses told me that it could be how I could make my living having a decent income and not hating my life for the whole week while working in something I didn't like.

After that first contact, I quickly bought my first strategy book and started playing in homegames with friends. It was satisfying to see how with the help of one basic book I had created a gigantic edge against my friends, who didn't share the same love for the game and competition. Our gathering was more about friends hanging out and having fun while playing, but as you know there's always the tryhard ******* and that was me.
From here on, I was really in love with the game, stuyding here and there and playing when I could - I was studying chemical engineering and working as a temp, so that wasn't that much time left for poker.
I had to wait for some very long years before really diving into it, since my parents were absolutely against Poker (partly due to ignorance and partly due to my initial behavior with the game - and by behavior I mean tilt). So I decided to finish my graduation and get financially independent before really going after my Poker player dream. At one point I was even proihibited from playing or doing poker related stuff, by my parents, so those were some very boring years.

After the whole university "purgatorium" ended, I was working part time with my father and looking for jobs in engineering, but also studying poker and so I got to join a Micro stakes poker stable from Brazil in the middle of 2016. By this time my parents weren't being that much against Poker because with time and the insistence I put on it they knew how seriously I took it, how much I studied and loved the game.
I had a very decent beginning, progressing in tiers and abi very quickly on the team, so after 1.5 years playing for them and working with my father, I gathered enough results so that I decided to start my path to become independent and a full time player. That's when I started playing by myself in 2018, where I had an amazing year (a lot thanks to RYE courses which were my main study sources at the time).

In 2019 I felt like my progression was slowing down and I had already sorta devoured most of the courses and softwares in the market, that's when I decided to apply for bitB Academy, and I was really happy to know I got accepted.
Long story short, bitB Academy was a really game changer for me because I've never worked with that many high achievers. It was a really engaging and resourceful community. If anything you could get better only by being inspired seeing so many crushers and getting to know a lot of what they were doing to get better or keep crushing at their stakes.
The only "but" I would put for the time I was there is that I was learning so much theory and complicated stuff about the game that it most definitely was not the best effort to improve my game (since I was playing like $ 20 abi or lower). In hindsight, I was learning stuff that I should be learning today, at the stakes I'm playing now, but I didn't know that did I?

After working almost a whole year with bitB Academy and bitB Brazil combined (which both sadly shut down), I was immediately recommended by Yuri and Die to go to Poker Detox Mtt CFP. Luckily enough, not so long before I had listened to Nick Howard in a Podcast episode (I forgot which one) and the way he talked about the game, about the exploit/MDA vs GTO, about how to properly study the game, really clicked with me at a level that I thought that I would have to work with Detox at the some point. So after the recommendation it was almost a no brainer for me.
I sent my application, talked to Ivan (PD head coach) and in a couple of days or so I was a part of the admirable world of Poker Detox!

I'll continue on my journey with Detox on the next "Episodes", cheers!