200,000$ Within One Year – Page 2

Thulium · 2017-01-19T16:40:26Z

Updated Results Janury: est. $30,544.62 USDFebruary: est. $15,990.22 USDMarch: est. $8,777.52 USDApril: est. $9,767.75 USD Introduction Entrepreneur, poker player and traveler. Just another individual in his mid twenties traveling from country to country playing poker for a living while slowly (numbingly slow) building his e-commerce empire (village). How Did I End up Here? Like many before me, what attracted me to poker wasn't the promise of fame or fortune, neither which has ever truly appealed to me. Instead, it was the need for complete autonomy, largely driven by moderate social anxiety. Yet despite my shyness I didn't hesitate (much) when a couple of fellow poker players I had never met in person suggested we pack our things to setup shop on the other side of the world. And so we did... only a short period after having just graduated from high school I was sitting on a plane (the longest and most painful flight of my life) with two other poker players, almost complete strangers. An Exotic Life We had big plans with high expectations. We were going to grind like maniacs, study as if we were possessed and work the gym like beasts knowing that greatness was all but guaranteed, or so we thought at least. Unfortunately, as people often do, we underestimated how difficult it would be to walk that narrow path known as "productivity". In fact, we underestimated it so much that after only two weeks we completely abandoned the road and began walking, nay, running, in the opposite direction. We ended up living the lives of hedonists to an extent which could almost be classified as borderline degenerate (depending on who you ask of course). It seemed as if each night there was a new party or event going on and it was almost impossible to steer away once we had been captivated by the intoxicating (in a literal sense) party atmosphere we were surrounded in, especially while indulging in the most addictive drugs of all, women. A year passed this way, party after party, and event after event until I woke up one morning, feeling particularly embarrassed reminiscing about the charades of the previous night. Reality finally caught up with me and it was a sobering moment. I had barely been grinding, I had made zero progress with my game and I wasn't working out at all. A year of decadent living had also left a hole (more like a meteorite crater) in my bankroll and I began to genuinely worry about where I was actually heading from here. A feeling of worry that quickly compounded with the blurry memories (some slightly disturbing) of my nights out, making me feel all the worse for it. So it should come as no surprise when I finally decided it was time for a new chapter in my life. Leaving my friends behind (we're still in touch), I packed my shit and got the fuck out of Asia. My time in Asia had been anything but productive, at least from a financial point of view. That said, despite whatever regrets our past tends to push upon us I'm still grateful for that time in my life. Because, not only did it help me grow up in many ways more than one, it also revealed a number of insecurities and other issues I hadn't been aware of before, giving me the chance to deal with them, and for the most part overcome. In the end, I guess that's just part of life and growing up... However, I suspect that some environments are more conducive to this end than others. Rite of Passage At first I returned to Europe, I settled for a small apartment in the coast of Bulgaria. In the beginning I was barely scraping by, my time in Asia had left me relatively poor and my poker game was worse off than ever while the games were quickly getting tougher. Needless to say, it was a time of struggle, but also a time of growth, a time which would eventually lay the foundation for who I was to become (or at least for who I am today). A dwindling bankroll ensured my motivation remained fairly high, however, as I wasn't particularly good at poker while also being terribly inept at handling the long and cruel breakeven stretches I was anything but a happy and productive person at the time. I often contemplated giving up, projecting my recent but depressing results into the future, hopelessly thinking that things would never turn around. Despite the difficulty I remained the course and continued to push through. Years went by, and so did the countries I had been living in. By the age of 23, I had lived in more than six different countries located on three separate continents. Progress was slow, painfully so, fortunately as evasive as it seemed at the time, I eventually reached the point where I was no longer feeling financially insecure. I dare even say that I made enough progress to become complacent. Which brings us to the next hurdle, complacency. Desperation was no longer fueling the fire that kept me going and my progress became static, which is a problem, because as you progress, if each progression isn'...

Thulium

Joined: 19.01.2017

Posts: 16

01.05.2017, 18:40 0

April 2017

A slow and unforgiving month. I began adding Microgaming to my battleground due to being unable to get enough games running on PartyPoker, a lot of it because of the global waiting list (partially) breaking down, making it harder to face-off against the seating scripts. Unfortunately, despite the complaints from numerous players, PartyPoker's official stance is that "Everything looks good on our end". I believe over a month has already passed since the issues began, and it remains to be seen when or if it ever gets resolved, sigh...

This brings us to the next issue, a few days after starting to play on Microgaming, they decide to remove HUDs making it impossible to track hands. This means that I can't provide accurate graphs anymore, but will do my best to provide graphs for that which is trackable.

I'm currently experimenting with Hand2Note. Hand2Note unfortunately can't track rake afaik which means future graphs will look grimmer than in reality, especially this month's. I'll include rakeback below.

I added my results from Microgaming in the final tally, but I can only estimate the number of hands I played while also having to ignore whether or not I ran above or below EV (I ran below on Microgaming, and above on PartyPoker).

I played a bit less poker this month, my motivation was somewhat lacking, but I got in acceptable (in my opinion) hours nonetheless. Instead, a lot of my time went towards business.

POKER

NET: +2,507.75$ (including rakeback)
AIEV: -789.25$ (including rakeback)
Hands Played: 60,000+