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locoo Peru. Aug 01 2011 02:43. Posts 4561 | | |
Hey, decided to reopen my blog for a few reasons.
Most important one is that in the past months I decided to embrace my profession rather than to be ashamed of it, what I mean is that I would always feel the need to lie to people about what I did for a living, because I truly felt that what I did wasn't a good thing and I wanted to get out as quickly as possible after making some bucks. This was fueled by the people around me mainly my parents, who never approved of it.
Nowadays it's no problem for me to say I play poker for a living and maybe explain a bit about it, in general people are pretty cool and some even wanna hear more about it.
I mean, how hard is it to find something that you are good at and enjoy and you can make a living off it? I should be pretty happy with poker and enjoy it as long as I can.
Now that I decided that I wanna continue being a pro as far as I can go I feel so much better and ready to commit again.
Truth is that because I have a family now with a wife and a 2 year old it's really hard to put in as much volume as I would want. But it's ok because I enjoy spending time with the family so much that I wouldn't have it any other way. I just have to try a bit harder everytime.
I'm really pushing myself lately to have a really balanced life, sleeping and waking up somewhat early, working out in the mornings, trying to see my friends as much as possible, spending a lot of time with my wife and kids and going out on sundays with parents as well all the while having to keep up with the massive swings that high stakes poker brings. It's no easy task but i'm getting the hang of it.
I want this blog to address many different topics, as I feel I'm pretty far and away from the naive, non experienced guy that started it so many years ago.
I'll start with a sweet ass graph of this month
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I've been having really good months lately playing mainly on stars, ongame and ipoker. Still not 100% satisfied with this month because I didn't put in as much volume as I would've wanted to, and because I didnt play my best all the time, I played pretty bad especially when I was losing which is a mistake I cant afford to make anymore, it can be REALLY costly but I'm working really hard on it.
Still I'm pretty happy because I picked up PLO and did pretty good at it, EV wise I did even better and I believe that EV in PLO says sooo much more than in NLHE. So I'm looking forward to improving there because the action at high stakes is pretty good.
I'll leave you guys with a series of videos found on tl.net http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=122917 I'm not quite sure why but after watching a few of them I played the best session of the month, not money wise but EV and decision making wise, for some reason those vids really inspired me.
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Syntax United States. Aug 01 2011 03:02. Posts 4415 | | |
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ns xD expecting to read more often your blog, actually i think u should love poekr since it gives u more time to be with ur family, any other profession would take more time out of you, thats for sure .
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Eluflop Estonia. Aug 01 2011 03:47. Posts 3835 | | |
nice videos man ... I got to be honest, your graph is so hot. Good luck in the future |
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Highcard Canada. Aug 01 2011 03:49. Posts 5428 | | |
glad you are blogging again, always nice to see some inspirational results |
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qwerty67890 New Zealand. Aug 01 2011 05:21. Posts 14026 | | |
| | On August 01 2011 01:43 locoo wrote:
I mean, how hard is it to find something that you are good at and enjoy and you can make a living off it?. |
its hard when youre not good at stuff that instantly nets you $85k/month |
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player999 Brasil. Aug 01 2011 10:16. Posts 7978 | | |
I like how you just "decide to try PLO" and crushes PLO2k right away |
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nolan Ireland. Aug 01 2011 11:21. Posts 6205 | | | |
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GoTuNk Chile. Aug 01 2011 18:49. Posts 2860 | | |
hero
for 85k / month I would do anything short of prostitution btw |
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player999 Brasil. Aug 01 2011 22:37. Posts 7978 | | |
| | On August 01 2011 17:49 GoTuNk wrote:
hero
for 85k / month I would do anything short of gay prostitution btw |
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