I’ve kind of abandoned this blog, maybe trying to make one
entry per week is putting the bar way to up so I’m just going to aim for 2
entries per month. I’ll try to give a quick update on both poker and real life
once every 15 days or so.
A lot of people have recently asked me how I have got better
in poker over a short span of time. To be honest this goes all the way to life
mentality and not just poker itself. Since a long time from now (actually about
8-9 months) I wake up every day knowing I’m human and therefore I’m full of
mistakes and defects. Everyone hates being wrong. Waking up with this idea
every day opens my eyes and lets me see my mistakes. Knowing I have them makes
me want to become a better person than I am. Each day I wake up trying to
become a better version of myself.
This translates directly in to poker. Every day I try to be
better. Sometimes it’s all about humility. It’s not easy to see your mistakes
and sometimes you need feedback from people outside your mind (both for poker
and life). If you want to become better at something you must first acknowledge
you’re actually bad at it. Look for help! Coaches, forums and poker playing
friends are a great way to get you in the correct poker mindset. Lucky me I have
all three of them.
Believe me, getting in this way of thinking helps you feel
better about yourself day to day.
So updates:
Pokerwise
Couldn’t be happier. I got the chance to join Team Bogan
being staked by the Salter brothers. Although I’m pretty comfortable with my
game and I can’t wait to play with my own money I’m also really happy with the
way things have gone so far since I’m part of the team. Great place to discuss
strategy and they’re always there to cheer you up when poker is heartbreaking.
As you know I moved up to 8s and 3+r and started crushing
them. I pushed myself to quick to 15s and didn't realize how big of a step it was between games. Needless to say I caught
a downswing of over 4k. I didn’t let this get to me and grinded out of it. As
for now I’m playing 8s, 15s and MTTs turbo all the way to 27s.
Graphs or it didn’t happen:
15s
Lifewise
Same as above. Everything is good. School could be better
but I actually don’t care that much about it. I’m going to San Diego to play
the WSOPc (I’m going to sell shares of a package with the events I´m going to
play). Also I’ve been with my girlfriend for a little above 1 month and I’m
very happy. We’re always in the same book and this make the relationship pretty
easy going and constructive. She’s very intelligent and just as a plus she is
very pretty.
I also wanted to use this blog to tell everyone whose life I’ve
impacted in a negative way that I’m really sorry for all trouble I may have
caused because of my nervousness, immaturity and fear. There’s no way I can’t go back but there’s a big pack of people who I
owe and apology, you know who you are.
GL at the tables!
