The fear of the past

Thinking about whom I fear the most, it is actually mostly people that already know me for a while.

I am not scared of entering a room full of strangers and telling them I am a professional pokerplayer or I am a lifestyle-coach.
But when I talk to my uncle/my old neighbour/old friends from kindergarden I find myself searching for different things to say.

It somehow feels wrong to tell them I am a pokerplayer. It is not very clear to me if I don't want to tell them what I do because I make more money than they do and have more freedom or because I somehow feel ashamed that I left the conventional life.

It seems to me that people forget that humans change along the way. I am not the way I was when I was 5 years old and so are you. But somehow people remember that you ate too much chocolate when you were 5 years old or you lied a lot or you never used to brush your teeth. Whatever you did 25 or more years ago doesn't matter anymore. But people tend to forget that. They look at you and immediately all their memories from 25 years ago get projected on the "new" you.

So, when I stand infront of an "old" friend, my 5 year old self shows up and I see all the things I did back then and I assume that the person infront of me judges me that way ( which very often is actually true ). Then I feel ashamed, because 25 years ago I lied to him to impress him, when I told him I received that new Lego Star Wars fighter for my birthday, and he knew I was lieing.


Get rid of that!
First of all. If you think this way, it is because you have not seen that person for a long time. Meaning that neither you nor him tried to get in contact with eachother. So you lived your life happily without this person and you most likely will stay happy without him/her. If you both decide to keep in touch you are most likely going to laugh at the things of the past and be impressed at how you both changed over time. and discuss the great things you both learned.

You are great! You have experiences to share that are valueable for the world.
Even if you think you don't. Believe me, you do. Even if it is only that fire burning in you that you need to light up.

Don't be ashamed of who you are, what you do or what you are about to do. Life is there to serve you.
And you are here to serve yourself.

I wish you an awesome day, full of hard work, love and passion.

Pedro Goncalves

What we want to do in life?

Hey everybody,

so for a few days now I've been deeply thinking about what I want to do for the rest of my life.
Poker is going pretty well. I didn't manage to win anything major since February this year, but I guess we have to be happy there is some variance in this game.

But besides that I have been listening to Elon Musks Biographie and I think it becomes very clear how brilliant this man is. He has a clear vision of what he wants to accomplish and then just destroys everything in his way. That book really got me thinking about myself and what I want to acomplish.

Way too often do I sit infront of my PC and grind full weeks and don't really spend any time with other human beings besides my girlfriend. The people I talk to over skype could as well be AI and I wouldn't even notice it. This gives me a false feeling of "not" being alone.



I have, for a long time, been thinking about getting into real estate and investing in stocks.

In 2013 and 2014 we actually generated about 40K in winnings each year in renting holiday apartments in portugal.
But  because we did that for other people we only received our share of 20%. But not bad considering we had never done this before.

So I thought: "man, you have some money saved up and you do know the market a bit now. Let's call our bank and buy 1-2 apartments and make 50K per year."

And again this is the wrong start. Again the money came first.

What I really want is to have more fun, to spend more time with other human beings. I want to provide value to the world. Create Jobs. Make people happy.



So the questions are:

1. what am I really good at?
2. what do I really love doing?
3. what can I imagine myself doing for the rest of my life?


So how do we solve this?

The solution had to be to dig deep and envision myself doing lots of different things. And then ask myself how happy I would feel doing what I envisioned doing.

"That has to be pretty simple and easy to do!" - I thought.
Just lay down, relax and Imagine being a real estate beast.

Not really. It took me hours to really relax and be able to feel everything that would go thru my mind when imagining my (alternative) future.

- Pokerplayer
- Real estate BOSS
- Investor
- broke dude :)
- .......................

In the end, after hours of laying down and thinking I had that random thought of twitching and having a very active youtube channel.

- Interacting with people.

Something I always loved to do. I envisioned sitting infront of my PC and stream for hours infront of 10000 people constantly. Having fun and doing lots of charity stuff.
Getting into trouble with friends and make videos out of it and stream it with you all.

For the first time that day I felt really really happy. I opened my eyes and thought:

"This is what I want to do! I want to have fun and provide you all with a great time and then invest my money into people who provide value in areas I can't spend my time in."

So here I am now. Starting the grind again! Years earlier I started the poker grind and it took me away from germany and brought me to the beautiful beaches of southern Europe and Brazil. It allowed me to meet amazing people from all over the world and learn a lot.

I listened to some interviews and I would like to share something that Steve Jobs said to the CEO of NIKE in a phone call about quality:

" Look, you guys at NIKE produce wonderful products. But you also produce alot of crap. Get rid of your crap and focus on the good stuff."

( it starts at 5:40 Rule no4 )

So now my new journey will be to produce high quality every single second I spend time with other people and have more fun than I could have ever imagined along the way.

If you are interested in helping me out and having fun along the way with me just contact me or leave a comment here.


I wish you all an awesome week. See you soon.

Pedro

You are sick! Actually we are both sick!!!

We are all sick of too much information!!! Every day you search for better ways to live your life, better and more effective ways to spend your time! Let me tell you how the opposite site looks like.
( I wanted to start to teach these things people look for every day )

I started my website: Changethewhy with a good friend and  we had the idea to share all the things that allow us to live wherever we want, learn anything we want, get out of the boring life. Very soon after we started, people started to criticise us and really attack us.

SO:

About 2 months ago I stopped coaching, adding new students, answering any question, and socializing with anyone besides my already existing friends/family and students.

I was so pissed that I couldn't stand anyone else stealing any time of my life!

Then I listened to a Tim Ferriss Podcast, where he got asked how he deals with clients who are acting weird and his answer was genious:

" Everybody says: Customer is King. Bullshit!!! There are alot of stupid people out there. Treat your loyal customers better than yourself!  "


That really caught my attention. Not every customer is King. Only the good customers are King. Why should I allow people to attack me? I am not attacking them. And the point here is not that it is not their right. It actually is, but the point is that I don't want to deal with these people. As long as all I do is to help other people and provide insane value to everybodies life, then I shouldn't spend my time with negativity.

If you want the best of me, then I want the best of you too ( most people confuse "the best" for being money, but it is actually, you not acting like an asshole and respect me and my time like I respect you and your time ).


There is so much information out there that no one knows which lead they should follow.

What should my nutrition look like?
How should I workout?
What to do with my money?
Whom can I trust?
How do I make more money in my Job?
..............


There are soo many important questions and to me it feels like we are getting to a point where there are more answers than questions.

Today I saw a commercial on TV where a guy promoted his "NEW" body-weight workout. " Only 3 times 20 minutes per week. And all you need is your own body weight and within 8 weeks you will have your perfect body."

I mean..., really? Are you kidding me? How is it possible, that people still believe this BS?

No one ever heard about Elliot Hulse, the 5x5 workout routine, Frank Medrano, or anything compareable? These guys don't BS you.

It takes time. And media wants you to believe that it is easy if you follow these 3 steps for 7 days....you will have huge biceps, more money, more success, better sex....

COME ON!!! Wake up!

Anything you want takes time. You can not treat your body like shit, eat unhealthy stuff for 10 years then follow these guys for 1 month and then be discouraged if you don't find the results you want.
Start with these things, but continue!!! Do it over and over and over again!
If you lift weights 1 time per week and stop eating chocolate chips and cookies every day, that's a good start. That is a big improvement and your body over time will show results.

The magic words are : over time!

The main difference between you, me and the most successful people is not that they got insanely lucky.
The main difference is that these guys consistently do the right things. They have habits and follow them every single day. They have values and don't allow anything in their lives to interfere.

So I am going to start something here on my blog. It will help me taking track of what I do, the ideas I have and I hope it will help you find some aspects in your life you could improve too.

The first thing I will do is listen to all Tim Ferriss Podcasts again and take notes and share them with you. You will be able to read all my notes and find all programs, apps, books and many more stuff that I use to be more productive and effective in my life HERE on my blog.

One very special thing that I never did for free is giving away all my ideas. So if you are interested in using my ideas to start a product, a site or anything else just contact me. I will be more than happy to share ideas with you that can potentially create you a new source of income.

Let's start. Life is great, and I hope that my blog will prove you how great it can be.
Please share with me your story.


I wish you all the best.

Pedro

Unique

Over the years of coaching I have had at least 20 people living with me in Germany or Portugal between 1 week and 8 months.
I am still friends with all these people and I am always interested in hearing how their life went. I love to see what life has given them.
However, very often I find myself in a situation where I have given tips to a person and shown a working path, but that person then walks out of my house and starts ignoring it. I wonder why. I don't understand that need of uniqueness.

I want to be my own boss! I want to show the world how big I am!
I can do it on my own! I don't need any help!

I admit here in front of everybody, now and forever:

I, Pedro Goncalves, need help. I search for help, and I accept help forever.
If I have leaks in a certain aspect of my life and I search for help from someone who is better than me or/and has more experience than me, I will do exactly as he taught me. I will ignore my own ideas and habits until I fully understand the way my new teacher taught me and I will change or alter the given advice once it worked for at least 3 months.

It is funny sometimes. People reach out to me for help and when they get the help and see that it works, they start changing the system. Because they don't think it matters much. Altho it is fact that following a working path is the way to go. Why change a working way?

- Because I want to improve -

In Poker very often people want to get coached and start winning immediatly. I am sure if you coached people already you also experienced this phenomenon. But after some time they start loosing money and blame it to variance or " the others play terrible and hit ALWAYS".

The truth is: You changed!!! The game is always the same. The ranges are always the same. And the spots are also: ALWAYS THE SAME!

My search for reasons for why people do this in the end come down to this:

We think we are smarter than we are. We don't want to accept the fact that we suck at lots of things in life. I mean, who wants to admit to his wife that he sucks at managing the money? Who wants that?
Who wants their friends to know that they can't afford to go to the movies? No one wants that! So we lie. We lie to others and to ourselves.

Constantly. We wakeup in the morning feeling like a little piece of shit. We take breakfast alone, and hate it. If we have a person to take breakfast with. Sometimes we lie and do as if we are ok, but most of the times we say shit like: I am not awake yet!

One thing I started to say in 2013 to all my friends, students and family:

We are all idiots! We truly are.  I searched for help so many times before 2013 and I ignored it. ALWAYS. Think about yourself. How often in life did you ask for advice from someone, so that in the end you could ignore it and do what you chose to do before you asked?

In October 2013 I contacted Andrew Brokos and asked for coaching. But before that I looked myself in the eyes infront of the mirror and said:

Shut the fuck up you idiot and listen to what that man has to say. AND follow it.
The moment you start doubting it and want to put your ideas into his concepts you shoot yourself in the head!

From that point on I started winning in Mtts. I cashed constantly. It was the start of a new life.

With help of friends and people who are way smarter than me we launched a new site: www.changethewhy,com where we launched a video series for 52 weeks so we could guide you thru a full year. Be constantly in contact with you. Force you to get better.
We don't accept you to give up.

I already know, that people will start with our program, follow it for 1-2 months, earn more money, read more books, save more money, do all the things that allow you a rich and fullfilled life. But after some time the old habits will kick in. Because we forget about one last and most important thing:
We suck! Not the system. We need to constantly remind ourselves to follow the working system.


In the end all that matters is YOU. I want you to feel good, to live an amazing life. I don't want you to suffer in avoidable situations.

But you decide if you want to do the things you did already and pray for different results or change and get new results that might lead to the ones you actually want.

Your friend,

Pedro Goncalves

Consistency compared to the BIIIIGGG BAAANNGGGG

Hey everybody.

Some of you might know that I am right now producing my first Video Series for changethewhy. In order to provide the best content possible I have been reading hundrets of articles on psychology, nutrition, money management, health, and much much more.
During this research I have found myself answering one big question over and over. I would like to share this question with you here.

If you could get 1 million dollars without any preparation and any work at all or prepare yourself to earn a million dollars in future and learn what it takes to reach that goal along the way, so that when you reach your 1 million dollar goal you keep it. What would I choose? Would I take the headstart? Or the loooooong road to my goal?

Before you answer, let us consider the pro's and con's of both options:

1. Headstart:

Pro:

- I'd have money immediately
- I'd have more money to get good advisors and accountants right from the start
- I'd have more options right from the start overall

Con:

- Easy to fail and spend the money I have, too fast, to profit enough from it
- We have bad habits right now, because if we had better habits we would have achieved higher goals already
- Teaching other people our way to the 1 million dollars is not possible

2. Looong Road to my goal:


Pro:

- I'd be prepared when I reach my goal and it is less likely to loose the money again, since I already am on the success track for a long time.
- I'd gradualy have better and better and stronger habits that assure me to keep and actually make even more money out of the profits I made up to that point
- I'd have amazing habits on my way to my goal, because it takes dedication to reach such a big goal.
- We could teach other people how to get there

Con:

- Takes very long to reach our goals
- I might not live until I achieve my goals, therefore I would have worked for my goal, but never achieve it


I am sure there are more Pro's and Con's but these are the most important ones for me.

So did your answer change now?
Think about this for some time, because this question reflects you as a person.

Do you take instant small profits over big longterm success?

One thing we learned on changethewhy is that steady and guaranteed is always better than fast unnatural results.

Just think about the fat guy in the gym. Most want to loose weight fast.
They workout for one week every day 1 hour and the second week they don't see the gym at all.
They don't see the results so they get discouraged.
Success comes when you do something over and over and over and believe in the Plan you set for yourself.

I would like to share this amazing Video with you because it is still one of the best Videos ever made on this topic.

This man is absolutely amazing, and altho I never spoke to him in person, he spoke to me for years now and we know eachother.

For me, and many smarter and more successful people than me, the answer is: steady and guaranteed is the answer to any question in life!


I wish you an amazing week.

Make sure you don't loose the start of our 52 week Success Program launch on changethewhy.
On our site we also release lots of free videos and Content to help you in your everyday life.

The first podcast will be released on the  2/Feb/2015 so stay tuned.


I wish you all the best.

Life is about..... LOVE, Passion and ENERGY!!!

Hey everyone,

so first of all:


Happy new year. I hope you all survived the New Year's Party with a huuuuuuge headache. haha

I spend my Party in Rome with good friends. We flew from Germany to Rome for 1 day, and wandered around this magnificent city.
Beautiful by day and by night for sure.

The old City center is amazing. These old Romans were just super crazy good in building that area.

Here are some cool Pics we made on our trip:

 Arrived in ROME at Noon 31/12/2014

 PIZZA is mandatory in ROME of course. Was not as good as I hoped, but still pretty awesome!

Yes, it was really really cold down there, but look at this beautiful area and sky.

Every year we spend New year somewhere else, so looking forward to 2015/2016. Where do you think is the best country or City to spend it? I'd love to hear your stories and Party with you.




Since the Start of this Blogpost had nothing to do with the topic ( haha ) let's talk a bit about Energy.

Over the years of coaching People in Poker, Lifestyle, Finance and Personal developement I have invited every single Person to come down to Portugal and spend time with us at the beach and re-gain much needed Energy and enjoy Life with us.
I think I got really lucky over the years. We had People from Poland, Lithuania, USA, Costa Rica, Romania, Germany, Africa, Netherlands and Spain here ( I hope  I didn't forget a country ). Great, amazing people, all of them.
What I realized very often when we talked 3-6 months after they left Portugal is that the energy often got lost after that time, and mine always stays up.
I get asked this question alot: How do you stay so high-energy?

It is very very simple: I just don't stop!!!! I think it was in a very cool song by Linkin Park where they said:
The hardest thing about stopping is starting again!


Especially when I had students here all they needed was to recharge their batteries.

Most People did not come back to Portugal, I assume because they felt bad and thought they let me and my beliefs in them down, which clearly is not the fact, because they honored me with their time and company. So I feel very blessed actually and if they come back I don't think stuff like: Oh look how great I am, these people come back to me. ( What type of person actually thinks like that? )

Today I watched a cool Video that one of my students posted on Skype and I would love to share this video with you too. This man is so much more than just an entrepreneur, he is a huge inspiration for me and many more people all over the world.

One of the key things he mentions on the way to success is "the amazing people you gather".
He mentions several times that a company is a group of people and the quality of the company is determined by the quality of people in it.
So the way to do anything big and amazing, that will increase the value of anyone's life, are the people you surround yourself with.


The next thing is the energy these people provide to eachother.
You could compare it to a Live concert compared to listening to an album at home.
The Live concert has an amazing energy. All these people enjoying their Life and their time for 90 minutes with this great band.

In the end I realized that I actually do have alot of great people in my life.
I am fortunate enough to be able to call them: friends.

Now all I/We need to do is gather our forces and create big things.

Let us all create big things ladies and gentleman. Together it's easier and we can achieve more.

Let's forget our fears and our barriers. Let us all do something big and help as many people as we can along the way.

I believe in ME, I believe in You and I believe in US.

Your,

Pedro Goncalves

Saturday 320$ KO and Huge progress on changethewhy

Hey everyone,

I hope your year started as awesome as mine. Last saturday I was fortunate enough to get second in the saturday 320$ KO for a sexy 23000$ score. It was a rough grind, with amazing opponents.
They never gave me any easy chips from last 4 tables down to Headsup, so I am very proud of myself.

Especially T-Macha I think played amazing till at some point it looked like he tilted or got tired, I think the MTT lasted about 11hours or so.

Well deserved 1st place for Davy...


Outside Poker we are working extremely hard on www.changethewhy.com and we have two awesome announcements for all of you.

1. We will be launching our Podcast on the 1.February.2015. Our first guest will be Daryl Jace, who reached the sunday million finaltable 5 times, won it twice , won the ftops ME for 385000$ and many more.... The interview with him was very interesting and we covered topics like: bad moneymanagement, grinding too much, how lifechanges can affect your goals.

2. www.changethewhy.com will stay completely free even after february's added new features.
All videos will be free and we will start off with a full 5 year financial Program on how to get financially independent as a poker player.

All of this completely free!!!


We are almost finished with a 52 week program for poker players that will allow you to focuss 100% of your time on poker and everything else will be taken care off.


In terms of where my Girl and me are going to stay in 2015;
I am currently talking to a friend in Rosarito/Mexico, and I am very positive that we will go there pretty soon.

The pictures and the weather look amazing there.


I can't wait to see Mexico and Los Angeles.... Yessssss

As always I wish you all the BEST !!!

When it´s not there you can´t fail

You want to change something that is haunting you for a long time. It seems so simple, but you fail over and over and over again? And you really search for a solution???
Share with me just a few minutes of your time, this might be the solution you were looking for.



I think it´s almost 12 months ago that I watched a Ted-Talk from a Personal trainer.

His idea was so simple that my Girl and me decided to give it a try and stick to it and loose alot of weight and even change the quality of our lives for ever. The impact it had on us and our lives were not even imaginable at that time.

So what was it?

He told a story of his brother who was overweight, and the way he lost weight was to not buy things that make him increase weight. So rather than explain to him what exactly to eat and what to not eat. His mom and him stopped buying bread, noodles, rice and everything  hig carb related like cookies, cakes and so on.

Here is the link to the video

Wow I thought, what a simple idea.

We followed it religiously. Bread became a premium food to me, since i only ate it every 1-2 months and even then only in a restaurant with friends or family.

This is me in summer 2014 with my Girl on a festival ( remember: at this time I was already working out 3-4 times/week for almost 3 months. I started with 102 Kilos. At this picture I had about 91 Kilos on )

I will post a picture of today and of last year, once I am in germany so you can compare what is possible to achieve in one year, And even I failed a couple of times to go to the Gym. But it is possible, and every time you don´t go, will make it harder to go the next time.


Please allow me to give you an example on how this can also be used in other areas of our life:


Today I was sitting infront of my laptop just randomly watching my favorite motivational videos. When I looked over to my clothes I realized how much i disliked my style.
And how lazy I am when I grind poker the whole day or have coaching. Mostly when I give coachings I do not use the webcam, because I didnt shave or am looking like a degen. I do not wear nice clothes, because I think: What for? That I am doing it for myself, never crossed my mind.

So finally today I thought:

If I only had amazing clothes, how can I not shave? How can I fail if I have nothing that looks bad?

So today I decided to buy myself a bunch of clothes that really suit me.

I am about to fly to germany for christmas. It is 3 AM right now, as I am writing, the 23/12/2014 and I am sitting here infront of you wearing a Suit, perfectly shaved, hair done and I just finished a 30 minute workout before I got all this done. All this between 1 AM - 3 AM.

I love it.

There is alot to be learned here, I hope that you see what is so important about this story. If you change your surroundings to a way that you can not fail... You really need to try hard to fail.

Think about this little boy who was overweight. How should he gain more weight, when all he has at home is protein based and vegetables and fruits?

It is impossible for him to fail.

That´s what I wish for you too. Create your environment in a way that denies failure.

Yours

Pedro Goncalves

2014, great time, insane developements

Ok, so it´s been a while since I used this blog. I always wanted to blog somewhere else, but it endet up being good intentions :D

Well, I can´t really say that I was lazy in 2014, I clearly wasn´t (will show some results).

2014 was my first year playing exclusively mtts ( not 100% true since in mid 2014 I took a hot at playing 6max 9man and 18 man sngs, didn´t go too well. Breakeven in the end, which is a perfect result ).

The results were better than expected I think.

It could have clearly been better, but who complains about a year like that?
Some of my biggest wins include:

3rd and 6th in sunday supersonic for totaly of 46000$
1st and 3rd in the sunday major on pokerstars.fr for total of 30000€
4 ept seats 3 worth 9000€ one worth 5300€
2nd in the hotter 55$ for 13000$
1st in the hot 44
and many more smaller wins....


Also our students with our coaching site:

pokerlifestyle-coaching

Made huge progress, I am very proud of them. The results and friendships I developed due to this site are amazing. I know that we will have an awesome 2015 infront of us.

Portugal also has been an amazing time, not as good as 2013 I must admit since we worked more on stuff outside Poker. We rented 3 apartments and 1 house in summer, which sometimes led to huge amounts of work. Helping the clients, explaining things to them, being available 24/7 and so on....
But we mastered it and my girlfriend and me did a very good job in our first year. And we also met very nice and good people over the year.


Including dombomain33 and his girlfriend. Very cool and nice people. Was funny at the beginning since his GF is from Costa Rica and over there its super warm and beginning 2014 when they arrived in February it was super cold down here in Portugal. So she was freezing to death and was also wearing jackets all day every day even in 20 degrees sunlight.
We also had guys down here like dreiven, szepard, rvmvnvs and many more...
Overall it was an amazing year, we learned alot and we grew alot as people.

I think this truly relates to me...In terms of Poker I think I developed an insane amount, I am still not as good as others, but clearly I start to see the little things and it starts to be very awesome.

Whenever I play versus amazing Pokerplayers ( mostly str8$$$homey, cal42688, pistons, and other mtt giants ) I watch them extremely closely and pay attention to every move. And you can bet your ass that next time we meet I found some plays to counter them a bit more.


On our site we work very hard with our students on developing their Pokerskills but one thing People don´t know I assume is all the Mental game work we put in.

We talk alot about books, Videos, Lifestyle, Friends, Family and Money....
I realized that most people have the same Problems in these areas. And while I still think having a girlfriend is one of the hardest things in Life I think mastering the rest is peanuts.

There are clear signs and paths we can follow to get the desired reward in each area.

Also in 2014 my inner need grew to help more and deeper. I started to coach and help people in finance related Problems and questions.

I realized that when you live you life with all you basic needs beeing paid for, your life is filled with alot more happiness and Joy. So even if you sleep all year, on the first of January you will have all your bills paid for the next year. Just imagine how much more happiness and freedom you would have if that happened to you for the rest of your life... It is amazing...

Is there really a way to achieve that????  The answer is clearly: YES!!!!!!!!!


On my new website: here I show easy ways to understand why we fail, and how we can change that.
All information there is free. We will also plan to deliver a full YEAR of videos for a very small fee, including coaching packages for anyone to get from where you are to total freedom.


I was sitting at home in my garden in a sunny day invisioning to myself: man, how amazing would it be to have all my friends wakeup on the 1.January of a year completely drunk still from last nights party, after a nice breakfast reaching to their laptop, opening their bankaccounts and seeing 10000€ more in there.

Then reaching to a piece of paper they keep in their pocket the whole year with bankaccounts of their electricity company, their bank, water, and so on, take that out and send out the bill payments for the next year. Then going back to bed again and relaxing till next year they get another payment...for the rest of their lives...


Imagine how you would feel??!!

Never having to pay for your bills again....I did that years ago, and I always wanted to share my system, but I never knew how and when..But I think now is the time. I want people to be happy and live the life they deserve.

This will take alot of work since I know how sceptical and undisciplined most people are. And how hard it seems to get to that point ( altho its incredibly easy to be honest ).


Anyway, things are perfect right now. Life can get better, but damn it was an amazing start :D

I wish you all the best. Make sure to checkout www.changethewhy.com , it is completely free, and also what I love about it is that you can see all my early attempts to make videos, a new website and much more...how the quality of my videos changed and how I changed along the way.

Progress is the NAME of the GAME....



I wish you all the best.

Your Pedro Goncalves

MUST-LIST / state of MIND!!!!

Hey everybody,
now I am in portugal for 2,5 months and a few days ago my brain started to understand what an idiot I am.

It happened when I was listening to a Tony Robbins video on youtube. He said something that hit me like lightning.

" Being a Hero is a state of mind!!!!"

WOW....I stopped the video and listened to it a hundred times....over and over again I understood more and more what an idiot I am.
I started playing 6max Turbo sngs and made roughly 6k $ in 17 days and then hit a downswing of 40 buyins and all of a sudden I started to freeze and thought that I wasn´t good enough to beat the game and that everybody now had my game figured out.

WHAT A FISH!!!

A friend of mine showed me some simulations. we took a 1% ROI winner and let him play 26tsd games per year and ran 10000 simulations.

We found out that the chance to hit a 350 buyin downswing are 11%.....
So the guys that I highly respect in 6max Turbo sngs have the same swings I have in them, and still make SNE every year. And I think about quitting after my first downswing?

The day after this I played 90% 60$ 6max turbos, hit 4tsd Vpps and was breakeven, the day after I did the same, and today I will do the same. Its just our state that determines what we will achieve.

Next big thing I learned from Tony:

We all have HUGE Should-Lists.

I SHOULD workout
I SHOULD spend more time reviewing handhistories
I SHOULD make 4tsd VPPs per day
I SHOULD..........



And then he added:

As long as we don´t change this list into a MUST-LIST, we will not be successfull!!!

BAAAAAMMMMMMM!!!!

There is not much more to say about this I guess.

Altho I have achieved so much in my life already, I still have alot more potential.
I still have a Person in me that is capeable to do alot more, and achieve higher goals.

Lets unleash the dragon!!!

Next time, I ll show u guys my list, to show you what is necessary and then discuss how we can achieve higher goals.

being mediocre is the first step to failure!

cya, wish you all the best that life has to offer.

HIGH5

This is worth a Blogpost

Hey everybody, hows it goin?
As most of you might know, I am now settled in Portugal (Altura) with 2 fellow grinders and our Girlfriends.
I will talk alot more about the traveling and the grind in the next post, I promisse I am gonna finish it today but first of all I am gonna do a small Post about something that happened yesterday.
So, right now I am playing 6max Turbos 30-100$ stake. And a funny Situation happened. It was BB200 with 2800 effective stacks blind vs blind.
I am in the BB with A9o and the SB minraises , I rejam and he snapcalls!!!!!! A4o. Interesting call buddy....but I didn´t really put much thought into it as the player was totally random to me.

But then he decided to write this as his comment to the situation:

The setups I have constantly in my favor???? OH really buddy? so A4o is a snapcall on the bubble of a 6max sng.
Sry bro, my fault, will fold A9o next time, what can i reshove then? please lemme know what my correct handrange should be against your minraises then, so next time I don´t make a mistake.

Anyway GG, wish you all the best. It will comeback soon I guess :D

CYA Everybody

one more week!!!!!

Hey everybody,


whats goin on? last few days have been amazing poker wise and the closer it gets to me leaving germany, the better my mood gets.... :D

I mean, Germany right now is a mix of rain and cold days and sometimes 1-2 days every ten days it gets warm...that`s it.

In terms of Poker everything is pretty cool.

I´ve watched Dave Emmons vids on TPE, and it pumped me up alot. It has been 2 weeks since I´ve seen them for the first time and I did not tilt a single time since that, which is really good for a big tilter like me hahahahahaha.

On the mtt side I managed to get a second place in a 55$ turbo for 1,8k and a 4th place finish in a nightly 25$ hyperturbo 6max for another 1,5k.. plus some nice cashes in few other mtts too...
I had one sick day last week where i got top20 of hot16,50-22-55 and 8r 2x turbo in one day...so close to huge money and then failed to win the huge flip in the end...Oh well, it will def come...

Hard work always pays. And with my pokerbuddies in Portugal things can only get better!!!


Outside Poker we now booked another festival for August:

http://www.sudoeste2013.com/cartaz-meo-sudoeste-2013/

There will be guys like Calvin Harris , Snoop Dogg ( now: Lion ), Fatboy Slim!!!!!!!!!!!! woooohooooooo
5 day festival and its only 95€ including camping...so sick.

I thought this would be a really cool start for our Pokerhouse in Portugal as dunc and his gf arrive few days before that.

Kings of leon yesterday was amazing. what a voice that guy has..so sick
Def was surprised to hear his voice so clear and deep...perfect day.

Today its BBQ-day. we invited everybody we knew and bought lots of beer and meat. lets celebrate our last days here.

wish you all the best..

HIGH5

money management

Whenever we talk about moneymanagement people talk about how to manage a pokerbankroll, but no one really talks about LIFE-moneymanagement.

What happens when i actually made 100k in 2012??? what do i do with the money?
spend it all on woman and shit i dont need?

well, here is my sugestion, and its basically what I did in my life before I got to this point, that I am in right now.

And I want to point out that I am NOT rich by any means and I am not super smart or anything like that, but one thing I definitively am, and that is organized.

So, what I did in the past was work until I somehow reached 100tsd Euroes. Once I had that money I went to a few Banks and asked how much interest they offer me, if I invest this money for a few years. and after searching for one month I found a Bank that gave me a really good offer.


From that point on I recieved 50% of my profits to my bankaccount every January and the rest stayed, so my 100k could grow.

I highly suggest NOT stopping to work and NOT spending any unneeded money until you reach this first goal.

This provides you with safety and some money to pay your debths and rent. And once you have this, you can start searching for bigger goals.

Wish you all the best

Hamburg-The Lion King

So last week i turned 30, damn I am old....when is my expiration date?, must be close...

Well I took my girl and we drove to Hamburg, a pretty sick town. Spent 3 days in a Hotel in the middle of the redlight district called "REEPERBAHN" and had a really awesome time.

I highly recommed visiting the Port over there, it´s definitely the biggest I´ve ever seen in my life, and we spent a full day walking around it and watched a ship being made.

This is the Port in Hamburg its tough to take a good pic of it, as its soooo huge and it looks nice from far away, but obv if u stay near a ship u wont see much as that shit is HUUUUGGGGEEEE

Really amazing, and whenever you go to Hamburg there will be Parties and lots of people ever single day 365 days / year.

Also I highly recommend the Dungeon, where they take you to a 90 mins tour through the history of Hamburg, its interactive and the explanations and history telling is really really good.
Its so cool as Hamburg has a deep and important role in the history of Germany and europe. And it had to be rebuild several times after being destroyed, either by natures desastrous powers or by mistakes people made in the past. 100% must-see!!

Make sure to search for discounts, we found 33% discount on a kalendar in our hotel.

The second day we saw The lion King musical, I highly recomment that too, the actors are really amazing, its not the cheapest experience, but definitively worth it. 

After that we spend the full night partying, and as it was my b-day I got totally drunk, and my girl tried to take some pics, but they all looked like this

HAHAHAHA...

so all in all it was a really cool trip.

Today I will be going to a brazilian restaurant will my best friends, I ve invited them as it will be kind of a b-day celebration and also to see them all together maybe for the last time before me and my girl leave to Portugal for 2 years. And today its really sunny ( thats not really the case in germany much ), so, thanks GOD, my 30th b-day present i guess.

I will talk more about poker in my next post, as I definitively expect big things to come in the near future.

Right now all I can tell is that I increased my results in 180s even more. now I am at 5$/180 man in 2013. so where everybody is comlaining about games getting tough i still cruise at 30%+ roi constantly and broke the 20k profit mark for 180s in 2013.

wish you all the best guys/ and ladies...

HIGH 5

portugal 2.0 and the grind!!!!

hey everybody..hope ya`ll doin well in life.
So, for now I am in Portugal vising my family and was searching for a house. and basically after one day of search found it. i fell in love with it the moment that I saw it...

our barbecue place, there is a really nice garden on the side and back of the house too...love it !!!

 the front part, i will get better pictures later, as there is still someone living in it right now

the house is in a very calm zone, with mostly rich people around me ( well, rich for portuguese standarts ).

My girlfriend and me will move in in July, her studies will finish in June and then we ll finally leave germany behind and start strong in Portugal.
I already have some friends that will visit us, they were only waiting for me to find a house actually lol.
And I am currently discussing a coaching and living deal with a future student of mine. And another friend is currently thinking about moving in with us for half a year too.

So as you can see life is always getting better, we just need to work for it. we still have one more room to rent/share, so if anyone is interested just let me know, i made a post on 2+2 http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/92/travel/poker-house-portugal-500m-beach-1323179/
feel free to contact me there, and it doesn`t have to be for poker, just come down and spend a few days of peace, party or whatever you want, we always love to have people there visiting us and enjoying the good side of life with...


Ok, and now some poker.

Geez, VPP-grinds are freakin hard. Last month my girl sat next to me after a 10hr hyperturbo grind and said: Pedro to be honest you are not happy since you are playing these games, so i decided to play some 180s and boom here are the results

I guess i dont need to mention that this made me really happy actually.
Then I looked at my MTT graph and I was down like 5k for the year in mtts only, so I searched for some coaching and found a good friend of mine BFIZZ11, who offered me a few hours of coaching and well, guess what

;

guess where the coaching started ;)
I cashed the hotter 44,55, and got 20th in the hotter 75 this sunday.
Cashed all major turbo mtts yesterday and got 3rd in a 82$ hyperturbo and many more cashes. everything makes so much more sence now.

oh and finally i crossed the 100k profit mark, sux that i spend so much time on hyperturbos without results, i think so far i am breakeven pre rb and up only 5k in rb i think

Also I will start a nice mtt/180 work with a friend who is alot smarter than me imo. he comes up with alot of cool ideas all the time. its crazy, every time i talk to him , he comes up with something new. sux that he can not play right now as he is in us...but when he is back, he will be a force!!!I really believe that our work will help eachother and we will crush the tables even harder.

well all in all I am really positive about our future in general. I really hope that USA will be back in the online Pokerworld in the near future, and then who knows...bigger mtts,....I AM PREPARED...

I really wish the best for everybody out there, lets make it a really unforgetable 2013...

HIGH5

fish on a heater

i guess not the worst 180 graph ever....

but besides that i ve been loosing time in other games....thankfully i didnt loose any money in them , and i almost passed Supernova on Pokerstars already, but besides that, i lost almost 6 weeks, not making any money. suxxxxxx

ev-line goes up, winnings down

Ok for the first time my ev-line crossed the profit line, and i am now officially running under ev ;)

Kinda cool feeling as I ve never had that before, and everybody is complaining about running under EV...

Vpps per day are still under the amount that I need per day...but I am working on that really hard.

Am at 2k per day now... need to bump it up 45% then it will be no problem...

Going out to eat a huge Burger now....yay life is good

Running up-hill with my ev-line

Hey everybody....

So a few days ago I decided (again) to go for Supernova Elite, so I started to talk to friends that already made it and others that are extremely good at 6max hyperturbos and 6max Turbos.
So far I`ve worked really hard on all my ranges and on peoples tendencies and am really confident that I am a winner in any game, I mean my results prove that, so there is not much to fear.

I just need to get in the Volume. And that`s where the top earners are separated from the poor people...

And as I am generally really lazy I wondered how I could motivate myself to play. And I found this:

I can consistently grind 6 tables of 6max hypers at a time. All regs so far are really familiar to me, and I have them perfectly categorize, so if I need to play, lets say 10 games at a time, because I need more Vpps, I think that will be no problem.
And also by 6 tabeling them and sometimes ( when I feel really good ) put in more games for a short time...
I will stay motivated and be exactly on the race to those 1 000 000 VPPs that I need for the year.

Now I am focussed on making the best play at any point, and I am really happy with my decisions and Pokerstars right now rewards me with some winnings, which is always good..lets hope for me to improve more and learn more...

Here are my last 4 days in 6max hypers

Also one thing that people don`t do enough imo, is observe great players... I do that a ton and it helped my game so much...It is NOT a waste of time....ITS WORK!!!!!


gl everybody

6max alot more aggro after 6pm

Yesterday I had to play 2 sessions ( 1 early 9am my time and 1 late 6pm my time - german time )---

what I realized is that there were a lot more of the best regs in these games and that the games in general were alot more aggro in itself. Is this only me realizing that? And also, is theat standart? If so, I need to avoid these times 100%, its almost impossible to register into 100$ and 60$ for those reasons.
besides that I ve put in two really nice days this week. One 3400 Vpp day and one 3100 Vpp day. Also I am sitting on 1 Step 5 ticket, and am waiting for the games to start. I want an EPT  London ticket, and after booking one, I will play any EPT satelite out there ;) boooooyaaaaaaa

As once u have one ticket for a certain Event u get your 2,3,4,5,6..... ticket cashedout . And steps are definitively a really good way to get them. And they are worth 13100$ for the full package or 8000$ for Tournament entry only.....

PRAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2013 here we gooooooo

Hey everybody... hope ya`ll doin well , and that 2013 started really good...

For me everythings cool, I started the year pretty well.
If we divide 2013 in  a few sections it would be like this:

Life outside Poker:
Well, I ve been a bit ill for a few days, and my GF was the last 4 days. But besides that everything s cool.
We went to a Spa a few times, it was awesome every single time, I love to chill in a Sauna and in water in general.
Investments so far have been on hold, and I don´t think I will be able to buy a flat in February, as there is nothing really available near me to buy in with a Price that I want it. But, we can wait...

Poker:

Well Poker is going pretty well, made good money in the higher stakes 180 man Sngs and recently started 6 max SNGS. Today was my first day of 3400 VPPS to go for Supernova Elite on Pokerstars.

the results are pretty good:

hope to be grinding those for a longer time now and really make SNE in 2013, would be really cool to do that.

Results for SNGs in 2013 overall:

I heard Poker is dead ;) hehe
Only in MTTs I am actually down 3k for the year, which is pretty normal for those things...

Well besides that I am really working hard on my new site, which I will open pretty soon, already made a few videos and am currently working on the actual website.

Here is our LOGO:

I really hope the site will be helpfull to alot of people, that will be my biggest goal for the site.

I am really 100% sure that the biggest problem people have, thatcauses them to not get Pokerpro is that they don`t have confidence in themselves and then, they are not sorted well enough in life. So they play Poker and win some money, but besides Poker everything starts to just blow and soon they loose all their friends and don`t talk to their family anymore. Loose Social Contact and eat unhealthy and get fat really quick...
And it takes a really big struggle after all this happening to get back on track...


As always I wish everybody the best possible in life...cu soon.....

HIGH 5