Grinding software development, art and poker theory
Hello everybody,
I'm a fulltime software developer working on an accounting web application/software that's going to try and use this forum to get some further insight into life, news, poker and also just to keep track of things and have a solid maintainable plan, that I'll look happy forward too. In around 2014-2016 I tried to play poker full time, but it went downhill pretty bad, then I took whatever jobs I could get, until I ended up being a developer at current company. Due to huge life changes in my past 2-3 years and finally being in a more stable position, I'll try to start playing poker again the right way. In the past I played NL50 comfortably, even NL100 and in most sweet spots with fishes bumhunted up to NL600. Due to being young and irresponsible, this of course didn't last so long and I also wished to have some other proficient career path other than playing poker.
After couple of years of not playing poker, I messed around this week with playing micro stakes on GGpoker just to forget about the work and life and just relax while playing some cards.
What I want to do differently this time is my approach to study and moving up in stakes, therefore I'll be probably doing a lot more studying for the next couple of weeks for couple of spots I'm not sure of and then start grinding, so I have some sense of learning and applying it to my game. I'm also going to start as low as NL10 and be taking a shoot up higher for every 20-30BIs I win. The goal is not to really make money in my first <100k hands, but to learn at stakes where money doesn't "hurt". I thought about playing SNGs, but I think I'll stick to cash games and add some MTTs in between sessions.
Since I'm quite busy through the week, I think I'll mostly play fridays/saturdays/sundays. I also started painting this year and want to learn the basics and move up in that regard.
However, what is most important is me moving up as a software developer. I'll be 28 this year and have been at current company for around 1.5 years, it's going well, everyone's happy, I'm getting good feedback, salary raise, etc.. but I'm not so happy about my programming skills. While I never failed to not deliver or finish a task, no matter how impossible, I always find a way and make things work in the end, but it's not always in the most "pleasing" and smart way and this is one thing that I want to work on, just learning how to write better and more maintainable code and not to leave a mess (such as another programmer left and then quit, so everybody suffers right now). I'll write what I'm working on, with what technologies and the problems we are facing right now in future, it's already a long introduction.
Other than that, I'm looking this summer to visit more mountains and spend more time in nature, cut down some weight (I'm fit, but kinda bulky right now), do more running, quit smoking or just smoke on weekends when I'm out having a drink and drinking less alcohol.
That's it for now, I'll be updating every 2 weeks probably on a Sunday.
