Hello, readers of what will surely become a wildly successful and popular journal. Although given that I have started about three things like these in the past and never kept it up, probably not!

Well a bit about me. I've played poker on and off for I guess 10 years now, mostly in an extremely casual way like I would play a video game. Luckily, I was always a winning player from my first 10$ deposit at stars back in the day. I first started trying to take it seriously as a potential career about 3 years ago. My results were quite good, but I quickly became burnt out by the lifestyle, or really my poor ability to be a professional player in a healthy, sustainable way. My first "career' barely lasted a couple of months before I called it quits, and I didn't touch poker for the next three years.

Three years on I decided to try again, partly after being inspired by some of the journals on this site--a crazily amazing community here BTW, stay away from that numerical forum. I realised that, given that I have always won at poker despite my lax effort in the past, that I really do have the potential to make some serious money here if I actually put my all into it. This has always been my problem. At school, I always got decent grades, got into a decent university, was decent at sports, but I never applied myself to anything, never reached anywhere near my potential at anything. Now, being older and more mature than my younger self, and I have learned a lot about what it takes to succeed in life, I.E. don't be a lazy bum, and how to manage a sustainable lifestyle. Basically, I now eat healthy, exercise, and sleep well, living life in a reasonable fashion; yes, it sounds stupid but who does that when they are young and dumb?

So, around a month and a half ago decided to try it again. Given that I had not played a hand in three years, I decided to start at the micros and run it up from NL 10 with a 200$ BR. Given I have done this multiple times over the years I was confident in my abilities to succeed. Thankful, it has gone well, and I am now comfortably rolled for NL 100, currently playing a mix of NL £50, £100, and $100 NLHE.

In this journal, I want to share all my random thoughts and other nonsense I have in my head about life and poker. If none reads it, I guess it will still be cathartic! Like shouting in an empty room!