It's about time to start a blog. I like to interact with the comunity and read quite a few blogs here.
Personal stuff:
I'm a 24 years old from Brazil and I have a decent 8h/day J-O-B. I have a 6 year relationship with a girl from a diferent city (200km away).
Pre-Poker history:
In my past job we started playing a weird form of poker once a week, just for fun (it was like $1 buy in). A silly game: pretty much texas holdem, but with antes, no blinds and no pre-flop betting round. After all, you make your hand on the flop, right? 
We did make one game with pre-flop betting round. I was kicking ass, but the boss wasn't and didn't like it so we switched back.
Then in my new job, about 18 months ago, we startet playing home games, still just for fun (but now real NLHE) and I started playing on pokerstars with playmoney. Poker was a fun gambling thing for me, just that. I had no idea one could make serious money from poker long term.
So one of my friends introduced me do PS.com and I was a bit skeptical, but as it was free money I gave it a try, got my 50 bucks on FT.
Poker history:
So I starded playing $1 SnGs, the Daily Dollar and other MTTs, some 2/5 CG, pretty much a bit of everything in NLHE. Was building my bankroll slowly and started focusing on MTTs.
Then BOOM: I nail an early double for 1.4k. That was pretty awesome. So I kept on playing MTTs with no real results, losing a little bit of my new BR.
So I started to look for something where I could make some money every month. I knew playing like 8 MTTs a day wouldn't do much. CG weren't realy my thing, I got bored very quickly.
Then, after reading <3's blog and how good he was doing I decided to go with SnGs.
SnGs history:
So I started with the $6.5 turbos. I was rolled for the $12, but decided to learn a bit first. Ran pretty good.
So I moved up to the $12 and lost a bit, but was confident on my game and kept grinding, tryin new layouts. Got SnG Wiz, witch helped a lot. Learned what a downswing is, whined a lot about it, including on the forums. But eventualy, it passed.
So another heater came and I was sitting with about $2k, but wasn't confident to move up yet. ATM I liked playing tiled, but that was hard on a 15' laptop screen, so I cashed out $600 to buy a 22' monitor (yea, Brazil, the thing costed me like $500).
So I was realy confident I could beat the $12 by a good margin, kept grinding until I got a 2.5k BR to move up. The $24s hitted me in da face :f_cry:. No big deal standart variance, running a good amount < EV.
So I got back at the $12 to regain confidence (and BR), and after the next heater, moved up again. This time the $24s were nice to me and I moved quickly to something close to 3K BR. I was concernd with my volume since it was very hard to table select the $24s. So I decided to take a shot and mix up some $36s to fill my set. I figured if my avg BI was inside my 100 BI BRM it would be ok. I could always move down (I hope I would). But the $36s loved me and I started with a heater.
Now:
So now here I am, with a confortable BR to the $24/$36.
I am a low volume player. It's hard to get 500 games in a month. I still play the live game with my coworkers every monday (we have a ranking system, going for a medal this semester ♠_cool: ). I see my gf every weekend: no poker.
So basicly a play 3 days a week. Sometimes I play Sundays, sometimes I manage to play on fridays, but that's it.
Enouth here. Goals, graphs, doubts and other stuff to come.
11% / 4.8%EV
4.4% / 6.6%EV
-0.6% / 3.8%EV
4.8% / -3.2%EV
(Main goal is to have fun, obv.). Hard one today. Got an awesome beer from my home town.
