[Blog] Can I change my life?

Hi guys

WARNING: My longest post ever coming !!!

My name is Michal and I've been around for almost 4 years now, posting in czech part of the forums, but since nobody there plays what I play AND because I study english (in business) in college, I decided to launch a blog here ...

History

I began playing poker when I turned 18 with PSGY's $50 bankroll on Full Tilt (way before black friday)....I obviously busted it, not using bankroll management at all, then I moved to Everest and started grinding their free SNGs, making some cents, I enjoyed poker very much, so I saved some cash IRL and deposited $36 on Full tilt......

NOTE: there are tournaments missing - I hit rush MTT for $2,1k 2 weeks before shut down of FTP and for some reasons they are not reported on Sharkscope....

I cashouted a lot a left $500 to play with - and then FTP shut down for more than a year...

so I moved to Stars...

I played all kind of SNGs and MTTs with safe BRM

Graphs look quite look right?

Biggest problem was my IRL money management - I spend all of it, most of it for useless things, unnecessary food and stuff and there was a period of time where I was going to casinos to gamble - I managed to get out before it was too late - that was two years ago - nice life experience if nothing else...

As you can see in my Stars graph I am almost breakeven for last couple thousand games, I even wanted to quit poker for good several times, cashing out everything only to deposit again later with really bad mindset...

Which brings us to...

Present

I realized a ton of things I was doing all wrong, almost everything was mindset/psychology related, I dare to say I think my A game can be pretty solid sometimes

One thing I needed to do the most was to not count poker roll as part of my RL money - in order to do so I left only 20 bucks on Stars and decided to move humbly to the lowest stake possible and playing only one type of game....my favourite....HU SNGs...regular speed (yes that's right - not hypers) - I knew the 1.5 stake is extremely soft and the chance of busting would be low even with only 13 buy ins....and I also knew IF I would bust it, it would not hurt me financially and I would quit poker for good probably.

Bust out didn't happen....

(oh yeah I am using PT3)

I am now sitting on almost $70 roll (I was ITM in 30k weekly freeroll and won two 3.5 HUs - I didn't play them until I was over 50 bucks deep)

I feel that having a blog could help me even more with everything, that is why I am writing all this....

OK enough text for today, I will set some goals later - thanks very much to anyone who will read this, feel free to leave any comment...

Mikeš