Hey everybody!
I have been a longtime lurker on 2+2 who recently decided to make an account as part of a commitment to taking poker more seriously. This is actually my first post! I am a junior in college who started playing poker 2 years ago with a $100 deposit on Bovada. I love the game (especially MTTS), and I have no problem spending hours a day studying. My only problem has been not grinding as much as I would have liked.
I didn't build my bankroll up very much for the first year and a half, but over the last few months I have been playing MTTs semi-seriously and now the roll is a little over $2k.
I have also done a lot of life thinking recently, and I realized that a life goal that will give me something I genuinely want to shoot for in life is to take a year or two off after I graduate to live in Thailand and give playing poker a shot. I do not have any illusions of playing poker lifelong for a living. I could live in Thailand for about $500 a month, and even if I can't make that playing SSMTT I have the life roll to cover personal expenses. Also, I think having that time in Thailand to decompress and focus in on life would be great for me.
In order to reach this goal, I will now start grinding MTTs and keeping track of how I am doing. I will follow a strict 100 BI minimum bankroll management. I am busy with classes and friends, but I intend on playing at least 3 nights a week, hopefully around 70 MTTs. I know and accept that this will not lead to consistent returns, but I have a long period of time to wait out variance.
Probably even more important to me is becoming a better poker player. I will start posting hands to 2+2 consistently and commenting on as many hands others post as possible, and I also will continue to watch a good amount of training videos from TPE each week.
I am using this thread as a way to motivate myself and hold myself accountable. I plan on posting here every other night with a list of results and goals for the next two day. Life goals will be mixed in with poker goals.
I'm excited to grind tomorrow, GL everyone!
Goals For Next 2 Days- Play 25 Tournaments
- Finish Homework For The Week
- Post Two Hands
- Comment On At Least 10 Hands
- Watch 4 TPE Videos
- 1 Yoga Session
- 1 Gym Workout