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Hi guys!

I finally decided to start something like a blog here just after seeing faarcydes video http://www.pokerstrategy.com/video/19035/ tonight I found out that I miss a lot on the mindset, motivation and this sort of things. I hope that I´ll find some support here on PS, because I think its starting to cost me money and nerve.

Let me tell you something general about myself. I´m 24, university student, born and living in Czech Republic.
I´ve been playing poker for the last three years, at first mainly for recreation purposes, than after something like a year of (mostly) live games a found myself somehow miraculously ahead, so I decided to keep some records of the results and study the game a bit, but I still wasn´t taking it much seriously. Last year however I started hooking up with a few guys to "grind" live cash, and despite the huge variance coming from you playing so few hands, I came to found out that there can be some fair money to be made playing.(mostly because the games are pretty soft, compared to online ♠_cool: ) Being a regular at live tables however is REALLY time consuming, considering that it was hard for me to keep a bankroll for bigger games.
Nevertheless, it was a lot better than any other part time job I was able to find as a student. Of course, the first problem I had was with money management. I got into some personal financial trouble at the beginning of 2011, had to "cash out" most of my bankroll money and, left with something around five BIs, I was kind of forced to work as a card dealer instead, because I no longer could afford to play...

Long story short, I came across Pokerstrategy, where i was already registered earlier, and had sent the 50usd starting capital to FullTilt.

I always liked the idea of tournament poker so I read a few articles about SnGs here, spent my time on breaks at work clicking the ICM trainer and in something like a month I was able to easily beat the superturbos. I climbed very quickly to 5usd level, where I stayed for a bit longer due to a long breakeven stretch, in the meanwhile I played other formats also (6.50 18man turbos, 4.40 rush mtts...) which I all found to be quite beatable.
In like three months total (with some cashouts!) I made a 150bi bankroll for 10.50 superturbos that I began to grind vigorously with roughly 5% ROI over a few k games. I started with a huge heater, that caused me to make nearly 2000usd in two weeks (!), I paid that back later, was breakeven for a whole month then ♦

Then of course, what would you do... I quit the boring card dealing job and decided to focus solely on poker. And on money spending... I started to 8-12 table and playing for just a few hours a day got me to a lovely income. (for a student of course) Needless to say, I cashed out like 500-1000 a month, (let´s party,eh? ♠_biggrin:) didn´t save a dime and kept my whole bankroll on the site when it got down. Pretty cool, heh? One day I felt like I was printing money and then... I was broke and cursing myself.

Had a few staking offers from friends since, but never managed to get a serious agreement. A month back a got a mail offering me another starting capital at Poker770 And guess what? With that and some 60bucks my buddy owed me and sent me from his PS TAF program I started nearly from scratch again ♦ Now playing 5.50 FR, but its another story and I will deliver
Going to bed, will update tomorrow. Cya!