Poker life routine.

Journaling day 1 24/11/2021

Hey guys!

Today was a great day overall in terms of routine and my strict optimal habits. Woke up early, had a little walk, had a good breakfast and started my grind feeling really good.

Now, about the grind: wasn't a great day. Started well, clear-minded and stuff but things weren't going right during the early and mid-stages and I felt a drop in my mindset, TBH I think I am having a problem with it in terms of accepting variance and accepting losing pots and will set a meeting with the mindcoach from Detox, Nick Howard, who is an amazing guy and a insanely good profesional. At some point during my day I was down $1.8k, which is a lot but hapily this didn't affect me during my play that much.

After 7 hours of registering, I managed to get kinda deep in some tourneys and got some ITMs which saved my losses a bit. Another thing to mention is that I've commited an ugly mistake on the F2T of GG masters daily which made me pretty upset, so I got up from my computer, ran str8 to the gym and only after it I am writing this blog and ran my daily HRC sims, and this for sure was an amazing choice. If I stayed at home, got up from my computer and started to play on my cellphone or layed down in my bed, I wouldn't have made any cooldown routine and my mistake for sure would be pursuing me for a bit. Really happy about that.

Now, I have some great news: During this morning I decided that I'm going to play the Brazilian Series of Poker!! This will be my first big live event and I am really excited about it.

I will travel from my city to São Paulo by saturday morning, getting there by the end of the evening to see the event and hang out a bit with some friends. Some teammates from Poker Detox are going as well, so fur sure it will be an amazing experience! On sunday I will grind online from there, and will play the main event from BSOP on monday. It is a $670 buy in with a $1.3kk GTD, I am even feeling anxious to go, haha.
I will travel from my city to São Paulo by saturday morning, getting there by the end of the evening to see the event and hang out a bit with some friends. Some teammates from Poker Detox are going as well, so fur sure it will be an amazing experience! On sunday I will grind online from there, and will play the main event from BSOP on monday. It is a $670 buy in with a $1.3kk GTD, I am even feeling anxious to go, haha. Detox let me sold my action to outside people, so I offered to my friends from school (who doesn't know anything of poker) and they all bought it in minutes!! This made me fell happy a lot and even more excited to play this event.

For sure when I get there will take a lot of pics, I can see myself like a kid in disneyland for the first time when I manage to get there.

First day of journaling concluded guys! Cheers, CYA!

Originally posted by mjez1
I'm looking forward to your daily journal.
Thanks man! Really pleasing to see some people following my thread, hope you like it!

Originally posted by Teixeirapokr

For sure when I get there will take a lot of pics, I can see myself like a kid in disneyland for the first time when I manage to get there.

Enjoy!

Journaling day 2 and 3 (25 & 26/11)

Hey everyone!

On the last two days there were nothing really interesting. On thursday, after coaching and quick study session It was my sister's high school grad celebration so I took the rest of the day off to hang out with my family.

On friday I had a pretty good grinding day, made my optimal routine and played the sport that I love (beach footvolley) by morning and grinded pretty well, with a good volume and great presence throughout all my grind. Despite that, didn't had any great deep runs, but nevermind, results doesn't matter on the short run.

Today my journey on trying to be a brazilian poker champ begins! Will travel by night to São Paulo, getting there by sunday morning. Since I will travel on a bed-bus, will have my sleep there and get to SP well rest, and will do a great warmup in "Ibirapuera's Park", which is a really cool, green & enjoyable park, before sunday grind. On monday we will, in fact, begin our jorney! You can wait for a big amount of pics in here!!!

Cheers!-

Hey guys!!

Long time since my last post, right? Sorry about that, live events are such a marathon and I didn't had time to post, rest, study or nothing, was only playing and playing and playing, I was only able to rest completely by last night, haha.

Despite the exhausting week on São Paulo for BSOP millions, it was by far the most enjoyable experience I've ever had in poker. I played 3 tourneys, highlight to the Main Event, which had 4115 entries, the biggest in history of Brazil! (Perhaps latin america as well). This total entries generated a prizepool of ~11M BRL (~2M USD), and I managed to get deep into it, finished 83º, busted on the last hands to make day 4 on a 140bb all in pre pot .

Despite the frustrating end, I had a really great time, played my best poker ever, talked to a lot of people and, the most important, had fun! I've managed to maitain my stack throughout all days on ~50bigs, didn't went all in pre before the busto hand and played really, really nice, I just can't remember any mistake throughout 3 days of play.

That's me playing during day 3. I can identify the happiness on my face behind the mask


Look at this hall, it's just AMAZING! Have never seen such an great structure in terms of organization, punctuality and stuff.

Now, a picture of it fully crowded.

I just can't describe how I felt playing on this stage. It was the closest to a dream becoming reality that I've witnessed, since I had the will to play on this huge live events since I started playing and watching poker. Getting deep on Brazil's biggest event it's also an amazing sensation. When I was on the deep run, I could look around and see lots of media guys around the tables, taking hand notes, filming stuff and taking pictures, I was feeling a superstar. Not to mention that, outside of the playing limits, there were loads of people just standing and watching everyone play. Another thing that it's very pleasing to me (for sure to every poker player) is: Chips castles. OMFG I managed to build castles on BSOP Millions Main event and this was a pretty unreal sensation.

This is my biggest castle from the tournament in terms of chip volume (look how beautiful it is, OMG)

I just can't resume optimally what was the experience there, but I think I did my best in this post. Still have a lot to talk about this event and the consequencies it brought to me, poker and mindset-wise.

Cheers!

Nice pictures!

I've only played live a few times, and I found it very hard to sit still and do nothing hour after hour — with only occasional interruptions to actually play a hand.

Originally posted by Teixeirapokr
Despite the exhausting week on São Paulo for BSOP millions, it was by far the most enjoyable experience I've ever had in poker. I played 3 tourneys, highlight to the Main Event, which had 4115 entries, the biggest in history of Brazil! (Perhaps latin america as well). This total entries generated a prizepool of ~11M BRL (~2M USD), and I managed to get deep into it, finished 83º, busted on the last hands to make day 4 on a 140bb all in pre pot .

You really posted that so we can ask about the hand details, did you?
So... share the hand,pls! Sick that with 83 left your stack can still be 70BB (assuming it was 2-way allin)

Originally posted by VorpalF2F
Nice pictures!

I've only played live a few times, and I found it very hard to sit still and do nothing hour after hour — with only occasional interruptions to actually play a hand.

Thanks!! Yeah I can get it, used to feel this way as well. One thing that helped me on this event was listening to music and chatting with the nice recs at the table, (this turns mine and their's experience more enjoyable, and gives me even more edge!), between hands I used to get up, stretch, dance a bit with my music, all of this while observing the hand. Pretty amazing experience!

Originally posted by SvenBe

Originally posted by Teixeirapokr
Despite the exhausting week on São Paulo for BSOP millions, it was by far the most enjoyable experience I've ever had in poker. I played 3 tourneys, highlight to the Main Event, which had 4115 entries, the biggest in history of Brazil! (Perhaps latin america as well). This total entries generated a prizepool of ~11M BRL (~2M USD), and I managed to get deep into it, finished 83º, busted on the last hands to make day 4 on a 140bb all in pre pot .

You really posted that so we can ask about the hand details, did you?
So... share the hand,pls! Sick that with 83 left your stack can still be 70BB (assuming it was 2-way allin)

Haha, sure!! It was a 3 way all in, really really sick hand. As I said, this was my first all in on the tournament, and thinking rationally on all situation, I found out a personal leak, which I would discuss more on the next post. Now, the hand:

Rec player (46bb) opens from the BTN to 2bb, I have 47bb on the SB and 3bet to 7bb with KK. On the big blind there is a very good reg (Dan.Almeida, one of the bests in brazil) jams covering me and the BTN. BTN calls and I overcall. Showdown is KcKs for me, ThTd for the big blind and AKhh for the BTN. Flop is AQJ and I am drawing dead to a chop . This wasn't the oficial bustout hand, but are players, we can see it is, haha. It was the biggest mix of emotions in my entire life, going all in as a favourite for a ~140bb pot on a huge event deep run, and then seeing me drawing thin OTF, it was a roller coaster on it's top and it's bottom, haha.

But, what we gonna do, right? That's poker, was the toughest beat of my life (not in terms of probability obviously, but in terms of situation) but we do not have time to cry about it. Let's keep going!! Will talk more about my feelings before and after this hand/this tournament and stuff that I will do in order to improve mindset-wise.

Cheers!!