Reasons:
I'm starting this blog because I want to have even more motivation into executing goals I will set for myself. I want to become a great poker player. I want to play midstakes someday and some big tournaments like WPT, EPT etc. Maybe meet some great people throu this forum. And most important: to have a good mindset throu life. And I belive this blog will help me. How? By reminding me what are my goals, by helping me achcieve them in time and by reminding me not to give up if things don't go way you planned. Hell no!! If you think about it life would be so boring and depressing if things would only go as planned. But anyway those are the most important reasons for me starting this blog. Ah, one more: Stop the Bullshit and start to act. A Bullshit is a subject for another post so let's go to the..
Introduction:
Hello!
My name is Paul, I was born and I live in Poland (so I apologize for mistakes in my English from now on, I will try to make as little of them as possible thou) and I am 24 years old. I finished high school and I even went to university but it wasn't what I expected so i quit. Then I had some boring jobs with low sallary while I was still meeting with my girlfriend that I started dating just after high school. I played a lot of WoW back then as I loved to play games my whole life and I also was changing my job very often because i didn't liked it, meeting with friends and moving to eventually set on our own with my family. In Poland it's hard to get job that is well payed (and by well payed I don't mean like 3-4k euro but the job that will let you live on your own in some rent apartment and have money to eat and pay the bills. I'm not complaining - those are facts) Some time 2 years ago when I was struggling to find another job my friend said "Maybe just play poker?". I was like "What? Oo" and he replied "My sister know this guy, on her university, that makes a living out of online poker". At that point I thought "If some guy can do this why I couldn't?", and went to bookstore and bought a book that will introduce me to poker because I only knew 5draw rules. So thats how it started. I would love to be able to write: "Now, 2 years later, I'm crushing midstakes, I live in Malta, I'm having a great time and I have a beautifull fiancee". While those last 2 are true, the first and second is only a dream. That lead's us to..
Present time:
After 2 years of playing poker I play NL25-50 FR with some 6-20$ MTT. I just quit another shitty job and I have some money saved but thats all progress from times when I haven't heard of online poker and was in othere crappy job without money saved. I had some hard time last 2 years with my self, thinking I will never achieve any succes and being depressed from time to time. But I won't blame the universe. I wont blame my family and my environment. I won't blame "A Series of Unfortunate Events". I'm blaming myself: my work ethic, lazyness, hanging with people that won't bring anything interesting to my life, bad attitude toward games, lacking of good habits, lack of plan for life, and so on, and so on.. But that's all done for now, because now i start new chapter in my life that's called:
Cut the bullshit:
I'm gonna grind and learn poker they way Gordon teaches - simple way. I'm gonna create some good habits, plan for next month and year and I will day-to-day follow that plan and do it by litle steps. I will work on my mental game. I'm gonna work hard on changing my work ethic so i can be example to others and I will choose people I spend time with so I won't waste a minute of my life. And the most important: I will be happy! So.. how am I going to do this? Well..
It's Simple:
I will put plans on my blog and then I will post every sunday saying how much I did this week. I'm gonna grind 8-9 hours a day 4-5 days a week and I'm gonna learn to do proper session review so I can learn from my mistakes. When I will be good at Nl25-50 FR I will start to move to SH and learn more from some videos and probably some coaching. So..
Let's begin!
Here is my plan for may:
- Grind ring games 4-5 times a week
- Go to gym 3-4 times a week
- Habits:
- Waking up when alarm clock rings
- Everyday that it is possible make a Session Review right after breakfast
- 1 motivational/mindset/theory vid per week
Not too many points because I want to keep it simple and focus on those things.
Here is my general plan for 2013 I will make it better by the end of may but will post them now anyway:
- Getting better at poker- Playing NL50SH / 12-30$ MTT
- Creating at least 2 good habits every month
- Have some great holidays
- Update'ing this blog EVERY week
Also I plan to write a some posts on subjects like mindset and how my approach towards gaming evolved over time but that's another story because I have other things on my head.
So, as I said before:
