Life changes

Ok so far this year has been worse then expected.

So finally my Girl and me quit our relationship. it was because of many different factors but in the end we want different things in life...
well as far as poker goes my stats since meetin sngprotege are pretty good i think...entim is great, i learned alot from him.
now i need to go from here and see what the future has for me.

But I think these are the spots where I show the world my best.....that i never give up and from now on i work at least twice as hard!!!! gl at the tables and before I forget:

here is a pic that made me laugh today. i shoved this hand and the next 4 hands and the guys always folded except one time where the shorty was forced allin in the bigblind...fold your way into the money till u loose the chance to win is their philosophy i guess

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Have a plan and stick to it

hi guys, i really hope this helps you guys as this is basically what i did before i started to play online.
i decided that i dont want to tilt, ever!! so thats what i did.

I wrote down what limits i wanted to play and what games exactly, then i searched for the 20 best players in that game and took their winrates and took 50% off.
lets say i play 12$ 180s and the average roi of the best 20 players is 25% i said to myself: ok i want to reach 12% roi, that equals about 1,2$/game.ok? to keep it simple lets say that i want to make 1$/game. Its crucial that you write down the exact amount!!!
next step is: how many games do you play per day/week/month?
lets say you play 100games/day and play 20 days/month. so that means you play 2000 games /month. so all you need to do is get to 2000$ at the end of a month.
As i am a longterm thinker and i understand variance, i (we) know that 2000 games is a small sample, so i decided that the only number that is important to me is: 6 months or 12000 games. if i do not make 12000$ after 12000 games then i can start to tilt infront of my computer if i played totally perfect and am still loosing and cry at home ;).
But before i reach that point i will not shout at my computer and cry because my aces got cracked the 10th time this day or i got one outered the 5th time today and so on. That happens, and we want it to happen. Why do we want it?Well thats simple, as variance is what keeps the fish in the game, they have to win sometimes, but in the end they will loose..
what this means, why it helps and what you need to do next is:
we do not look at daily stats, we do not look at weekly stats, we write them down, but they are of no importance to us exept that its important to play our 100 games/day. its only important that we get to 12k games after 6 months and 12k profit after 6 months.
that doesnt mean that we dont review handhistories, or talk about pokerstrategy till then, it only means that we dont allow shortterm variance to control our life.
and we avoid it by haveing a plan and following it.

For me there is no upswing and there is no downswing, there are only swings on my way to 12000 $.
Dont look at your bankroll, keep playing/working. you cant do anything except playing your 100games the next day...

It all adds up

Hey guys,
before i start i need to tell you guys about a situation that i had a few weeks ago with my son.
I was on my way home with him and we talked about what he did the last week, what he played , who he met and so on. Then i asked him about what he had eaten that day before i brought him to my house and he said that he had eaten a burger and salad.... Hmm, i couldnt believe it as he was in kindergarden that day and they dont eat anything that has so much fat. so i asked him again: are you really sure you have eaten burger in your kindergarden? and after me asking 3 times he admitted that he did not eat a burger there but salad and potatoes.
while this little story does not look like anything that could affect your life, i assure you it is and it will...as it all adds up:
children try things out and when they notice that they can lie to you, even little meaningless lies, they will lie and invent stories, and:  it all adds up!!! there will be a point later in life when they start to tell bigger more important lies and if WE stop them NOW and make it clear to them that they should not lie, those huge lies that will cause harm to them and others will never ever become reality.
Why do I tell you this and why is that important?
Well as i said before: it all adds up.
If you dont eat healthy , you will become fat or sick or both.
If you lie: people will notice it and you will loose your friends.
If you sit on your couch and dont go to work, you will get lazy and be poor and will never know how beatifull life can be, but we need to work first before life reveals its beauty to us.
If you dont do sports or go to a gym and stop walking for at least an hr/day you will become fat eventually and you destroy your body, as your body needs and wants to walk. Our body was created in a way that it needs movement, every single day.
It all adds up guys...
And here is the best part of this:
If you keep walking, running every day, eating healthy, speaking the truth, going to work, helping friends, family, and do the right things day in and out....
IT ALL ADDS UP... and you will become happier then you could ever imagine,you will NOT get poor, you will NOT get sick.
SO dont  forget: It all adds up...
good luck everyone

more things to be concerned

Ok guys,
you ve written down what your goals are, you have thought about what you need to do to get there,and....
But damn you now notice: that shit is killing me, lots of work ( yes poker is hard pure work!!! ) , lots of suckouts , variance to deal with, friends calling and all you can say is: dude i am on my way to make 60k this year call me in december!!! and every time you finish a loosing session you think: is all this really worth it, why dont i play less, spend more time with my girl, friends and things i like???
well to be honest i cant answer that for YOU, but i can answer it for me and my answer is:
Real friends will always be there for you, and you will also have time after working(not grinding, WORKING) for ten hrs/day. And your friends will not pay your flight to brasil to make holidays, they will not give you money to go out and party, they will not give you money to get a helicopter flight around sao paulo!!!! BUT, you will and thats why you have to concentrate and get your ass up and WORK!!!
And you will be amazed how much more you will get out of that.

Next thing is:
Visualize yourself sitting in the plane to brasil, to Mexico or whatever country you want to visit and KNOWING: I did this, and I will be the one to get me the best time of my life and no one else...

Bad thoughts:
Yes I started bad into the year.
Yes my gf left me.
Yes i am broke.
Yes i have Problems

Good thoughts:
Ma life is great, my friends are great, i have something to eat every day, i am healthy, i am happy
if thats not the case, then get to WORK and change it.

the bad thoughts above dont exist by themselves.

Do me a favor!!!
Look outside your window and tell me what you see, i ll tell you what i see:
some cars, some houses, people walking, children, some bikes, trees ....
but man as hard as i am looking for problems i cant find any...do it yourself, do you see problems? i bet not...
Realize man, problems die with you...so they only exist if you want to...
And to tell you the truth I DO NOT WANT PROBLEMS TO EXIST...
Life will always challenge you and you decide:
will you raise your hands and and cry: I am a victim, dont kill me , let me live?
or will you man up and grab every single challenge (erase the word problem from your vocabulary)  you get and solve it!!!
will your problems disappear if you cry? NO!!!
will your problems disapper if you dont do anything? NO!!!
will your problems disappear if you close your eyes and wait? NO!!!
will your problems disappear if you pray and do NOT do anything but that? NO!!!NO!!!NO!!!

will your problems disappear if you find a solution and work to make it real? YES!!!
You chose!!!! You choose and dont stop till its done!!
Good luck out there

Bad start into 2011

Hey,
i haven't actually updated my blog for a while now. this year started really bad, had to pay many bills, that weren't in my plans, had a 100+ bi downswing beginning 4th january, and breaking even the next 2 weeks playing lower buyins. everything combined its pretty disappointing. I played some cashgames to compensate my losses. i ve reached 10k vpp this month so far, and am mainly playing 16$ 9 men sngs as they seem really profitable. The regs are really bad and you can always tell when they have a hand and the fish love to bluff. I caught a guy bluffing on a k72 board I called his allinshove of 1470 chips into a pot of 60 chips with 73. the call is really debateable, but i was ahead and i was 100% sure about that, so i had to call he had 96...i really do not understand why people donk off their money so easily..but that makes my live as a pokerplayer alot easier.
my 9 men game has become really strong lately as i have put in alot of thoughts into this form of poker and sure the things i learned from bfizz help alot.
this has been my year so far.

i ve also thought alot about my goals for 2011 and so i have put them into words.

poker:
- reach 200k vpp
- play at least 2500 sngs / month
- play 27$+ limits regularly by may
- coach and stake at least one player live or online.

life:
- workout 3+ days/week
- eat healthier food, more vegetables and more fruit
- spend more time with my good friends
- always have time for my son, whenever he needs me

money:
- find good investments
- put at least 200$/month aside in private money from online poker only
- grow my online br up to 10k this year without touching my live br, so i can reach higher goals in 2012

I hope i did not forget anything important and i really do hope that we all get what we work for.
And i wish all coaches and students in team bfizz the best for 2011.

Your Pedro

2010 is over

hey everybody,
year2010 is over, and i can tell you guys i ve learned alot that year.
i started the year with the dream to make aliving playing onlinepoker, started with  a 100$ deposit without knowing anything else then cashgame strategies, but i wasnt and still am not good enough to beat online cashgames, so i started to play sngs, i started with 1$ 45men and without any strategy then being tight. then  i started to watch pokercoaching videos on sngicons.com and i started to multitable them, i wanted to beat the games by 5-8% roi and to play alot of volume just to make a living by rakeback. then i got coached, it was a desaster as the coach was a good player but a horrible coach and i lost alot. then i quit my contract with him and started to play higher limits with alot of confidence because i was sure that i hadunderstood how to beat the games. but i was wrong again so in september i wanted to give online poker the last shot. and then in  oktober i met team bfizz and now ia m 100% sure i can make a living out of online poker and i can teach anybody how to do it. i am actually coaching a friend who had absolutely no clue about the game and he beats the games after 2 month. so  i am very positive this year will be my year, and i will prove to naybody that i can be one of the few people in the world that can make a GOOD living from online poker...
all you need is the will to win, and u have to work for it..i finished the last two month of the year winning 3 times as much money as i won the rest of the year and i played alot less games...i wish you all a good year 2011 and i hope to see everybody at my finaltables.

downswing is over and 45s are easy money

Hi guys,
first of all, today is my sons bday, he is 6 years old, and feels like a man ;) so mature now
second, only 3 days left till i get to brians house, man i cant wait, i can hardly sleep as i am so excited.
since i updated my blog last time i got into a sick downswing. in one point i was down nearly 1,5k from my highest point.
Ma results are still really really good i guess, i still run at 51% roi.
One thing i noticed is that the 45s are really easy to play. i have not had a single loosing day since i focussed on the 45 men, i mean how can i expect to loose when there are no regs except bigdustycool and jaydoggie in them? those guys semm to have noticed me, as they call me very light and they dont shove too light into me anymore. thats a good sign guys, i finally seem to get noticed by the good players, nearly feels like an honor ;)
other then that everything is goin well as always.
One thing that ive noticed when talking to my gf. Since i have quit my job 2 years ago, i have been sick one single time, because i do what i love, and even if i loose and have nearly nothing to eat, and struggle with life, i feel alot better then working all day long for 1150€. i mean cmon thats nothing.
I wish you all good luck, and here are 2 true sentences that will always follow me in life:
winning doesn't feel as good as loosing feels bad!!!
Never ever ever ever give up!!!
gl guys

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