[Closed] Peak performance poker with TLN

TheLastNail · 2011-02-22T02:51:39Z

hello whole community, so here it is, my new blog, and i can bet on it, this will be the last one as well for the entirety of my poker carreer. (esp here tho) I am entering a very special phase of my life, both professionaly and personally.. But let's start from the beginning, firstly why am I writing here? It's obv a big deal to be writing a blog esp a public one, i got to know that many of my RL friends were following it, which i honestly didn't expect that much. I thought nobody rly cared coz nobody rly talked to me anyway and i am not very active in Slovak poker forums. But the thing is it deffo messes up my personal life somewhat, unknown ppl know prolly a lot more abt me than they rly should and it can have negative impacts ofc. However, I pondered abt the whole thing for a while, u might have seen me being quite less active in the last few weeks, I rly wasn't sure how to proceed till I ultimately got to feel that this is pretty much the only poker community I rly got attached to and is just way too important for me to keep contact with :f_love: :f_thumbsup: The amount of positive feedback I got is just unrivalled by anything I got anywhere else and obv I want to give sth back as well (from what i was taking in the past) What should u expect from this blog? Well, well, well.. hopefully a lot of quality stuff :). Some insights from the life of a poker pro (i deffo consider myself a big online specialist, but i am starting playing more live as well and I deffo want to travel around for few EPTs / WPTs and such so there will be various reports from the pokerworld as well as just: yeeeea! awkward real life stories! &diams; Who wants the next part of TLN vs realworld?! &spades;_smile: Firstly, the last blog which i was involved in more actively Bratislava pokerflat was a bit of a fail i d say. There was never any konsenzus betw Ivan and me of how we want to be keeping it more interesting as well as the initial goals of the pokerflat were a big big fail too. I don't rly want to talk abt it that much coz that would be an essay on its own. The key thing here is just that: I am positive, I am looking forward, and I will make this blog a lot more structurized as well as interesting as well as interactive. At least I will try, that i can promise. ... let's get into the core of things a bit: ... Who am I? I am TLN.. I am nailing, u know &diams; .. so, I am dangerous.. obviously :) Some ppl would use adjectives such as "weird" or "socially awkward" more often I 'd bet. :f_confused: :f_cool: Yea, anyway, but I 've shaved now, also having my hair cut every week. The latest pic: Allright, so I play NL600-2k now, mostly SH, but also HU somewhat (more or less still starting). I am a "pro" now for almost exactly 2 years. First year I played exclusively FR, then i needed switch, last year I played almost exclusively SH. The big debate echoing in my poker life ofc was: Choose ur destiny: or ... yea... u can guess.. ... &spades;_evil: very briefly (in further posts more): I got rly rly sickly demotivated by any amount of money I would earn monthly / quarterly or such. I am just too much of a gamer i guess. I need to feel the challenge, otherwise I just cannot force myself to anything. And earning money for the future generations of my family is not exactly what I can visualize so well to be thrilled abt doing right now (tho this also doesnt mean I will just gamble it up HU 4 rollz or sth (Isildur-fubar :) )). Ok, so: I was never before coached, I never before took poker super sportwise seriously. I did decent amount of analysis (ofc i could have done a ton a ton a ton more - which i still plan on doing), but I never rly DESIRED TO CRUSH BONES. Till abt last period of time, when I rly recognized I cannot play poker at all anymore without having that internal drive. I offered a HU challenge in Slovakia without haveing literally ANY HU exp :) - i just wanted to test myself and improve. Ofc I practised and then won quickly vs 1 HU SnG specialist the first challenge (he resigned after just 3.3k hands of me being 4.5k up on NL1k and a sidebet of 10k) and now i offered my 20k :P .. well.. no action for almost a month now. I might offer 3:1 but that's not important- the important thing here is: what drives me further is the CHALLENGE.. i was a lot around ppl who had money-orientated mindset and ofc it's nice and all that, but it ain't work for me that way. It's just not me... I need to feel I am alive by putting myself up there and trying to push my limits, exploring my full potential in the game. So I took on a coach now, a performance coach, Travis Steffen, u might have heard abt him, he is well know for Shuffle and Flow mindset series on DC as well as an author of a revolutionary Peak performance poker. This series and the book totally changed my perspective on poker and life! I got into best physical shape of my life within last 3months (...

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Originally posted by TheLastNail
btw: for all FPS fans: grand finale of Quakecon 2011.. rapha-strenx Quakecon 2011 final

awesome stuff, and my longtime favorite proves his valor once again.. good that more and more sponspors coming to such games, now 1st prize 8k$.. starting to get a bit more decent.

Actually, a lot of money has left Quake Live in the past few months with most major tournaments and competitions dropping the game. QuakeCon is like almost the last competition with big prize money left :(.

Only game that is really booming right now is StarCraft 2 tbh. It's a shame, I really think Quake Live is the king of shooters when it comes to skill, just like StarCraft is for RTS.