My Proof of Dignity

I'm 22, live in Minsk, Belarus, work as a programmer and a programming coach. Got familiar with poker in 11 y.o. or so. At that age I started to gain interest in ways to make money on the Internet. Poker was one of them. Then I found books about poker in bookstores, freerolls at PokerStars, PokerStrategy... I started playing online in a very young age, so I had to set my birth year to 1992 in order to get through the registration. I would meet difficulties when trying to cash out, of course, but I never needed

When I got 18, I immediately started playing the cheapest offline tournaments of Belarus Poker Tour and re-registered in the poker rooms, this time with legal personal info. Since then, I won tournaments sometimes (online and offline), but was losing bankrolls because of psychology issues (and bad play sometimes even when I felt stable, of course), and then took pauses for months before repeating it.

Now I am not really looking for money (my profession is a more reliable source of it than poker) but just want to challenge myself. I know that I can become a great player capable of beating offline cash in Minsk. I mean not only fish but also professionals, because I see that they also are far from perfection. A bad thing is that I'm further from it right now But I'm going to work on it.

I'm going to read a couple of books which I already have in paper, these are

1. Harrington on Online Cash Games; 6-Max No-Limit Hold 'em by Dan Harrington.
2. Theory of Poker: A Professional Poker Player Teaches You How To Think Like One by David Sklansky.

I know they are quite old, but the rules and science of poker didn't seem to change since they were written, so I think it would be very useful to read them. The plan is to finish them (and to write down kind of summary) before January. Then I will add some other books to the reading list.

Also I'm going to watch some video streams from professionals, to participate in analysis of hands here on this forum, and of course to analyze my own hands thoroughly and regularly.

The dilemma is whether I should play in rooms where HUDs are working or in those where they are prohibited. I think, taking into account that my goal is offline games, I should start with playing without HUDs, on PartyPoker, as they prohibited it and therefore HUDs won't be used against me. On the other hand, HUDs are good at showing leaks which I may transfer to the offline games without stats, just because I'll know the patterns and will be able to recognize them easier.

So I'll maybe change my mind later, but for now let it be Party.

My bankroll here is way larger than 100 buy-ins, so I'll just play until there's evidence I'm profitable on the current limit (NL2, to start with).

I'm going to play several hours per week on Fridays and/or Saturdays, as there are a lot of weak players in clubs, as far as I know. I will not stay late at night, this will be approximately between 7-8 pm and 11 pm.

Here my bankroll is $3000, and I'm going to play NL100.