The start of my true poker Journey, my personal progress and goal thread.

Hi everyone, some of you may know me already but if you don't, what going on? I'm my name is Roy but most of my friends just call me Outlaw. I'm a 27 year old living in Indiana. I have a dream, and my dream is to one day win the WSOP Main Event, and make as much money playing this game as I can, so i can stop working shitty warehouse jobs, once and for all. I got in a bit of trouble when i was younger, dropped out in 9th grade so my job options as an adult are very limited, and limited to hard labor that doesn't pay too well at that. I know its a long shot, but something tells me with hard work I can make it. I'm a pretty smart dude when I want to be, pick things up extremely fast and retain it, I can apply concepts i just learned, but I've never applied myself to anything for some reason, just kind of spewed anger at how my life worked out in no particular direction. Just kind of hated the world I guess, just for existing; I wandered aimlesslessly for most my early 20s looking for somewhere i could fit in, without ever really finding it, or anyone. This game is the only thing I've found In life I actually enjoy doing so far.

I have been playing for a little over 2 years now, and basically taught myself how to play by watching videos online and playing in NLOP freerolls and 5nl online with my winnings. I lost my first few $25 dollar deposits when i first started playing cash games on real sites, but quickly started to break even. Once I was pretty sure I was winning a little bit I bought poker tracker 4 with the last dollars i had at the time and decided to track my results. My plan was originally to grind up a roll from basically nothing like I heard of people doing in the golden days of poker, but that quickly turned into 6 months of making very little progress, and me becoming frustrated with the game and my lack of results, I felt like i deserved more with the time I was putting in. I took a short break and took the time to study for the first time, came back, and built up a small 200 dollar bankroll at 5nl over a few months at Bovada. Even though the amount was small, I felt proud of my self for the first time in my life, seeing something through and actually becoming a small winning player. My biggest issue was tilt control when running bad, and i found that out when i hit my first downswing. I eventually broke even again and was devastated, but over time grinded everything back up at 5nl with a plan to get it to 500 and move up to 10 until i had 1000, 25s to 2500 and so on. I made 300 and decided to take a shot at 10nl against better players recently, did even better than i did at 5nl, realized i didn't need to be intimidated by higher stakes, I was good enough to move up. That's where the current story begins.

Recently, over the last 3 months I've been studying extremely hard and absorbing a ton of content for NLHE. I am improving very quickly and have developed a good exploitative mind for the game I feel. I have about 600 dollars I've got playing with buddy's in cash, and I've made almost a 500 dollar roll since moving up online. On advice of a couple friends who play and a couple of people on here, I plan on moving up as soon as I've made another 250 at 10NL, to 25NL. If i can beat 25NL over 50,000 hands for a good win rate (aiming for above 6.5BB/100), i will deposit my entire roll and start grinding 50NL to see how it works out. If its too much i will move down, and try again after another 50k. After that, I am planning on using a 25 buy in roll for the stake im at and practicing aggressive bankroll management after hitting 30 buy ins, to see just how far up the stakes i can go. I will be 2 and 3 tabling, and thinking through every spot and trying to play my A+ game at all times, I will use a 3 buy in stop loss and 8 hours a day maximum of play, along with 2 hours of study and hand reviews.

I will be posting updates on my progress every week or two. Full graphs, wins, losses, punts, all of it, full transparency. My main goals right now is to start making as close to 20 dollars an hour playing as soon as i can so i can quit my shitty job, get a decent bankroll built up, and help my mother pay off her home so she can retire. She's worked hard her whole life helping others as a nurse never missing a day of work, and hasn't got much to show for it, and she's never once complained. Just a simple woman who sees the good in everyone, but nobody has ever seen the good in her. I want to pay her back for everything she helped me with over the years, and all the selfless things she's done for the people under her care. Before anything else, that's coming first.

I don't have much to fall back on if this doesn't work out, if it doesn't ill probably end up just another statistic on some graph somewhere, or a wandering drifter alone int he world. The stakes are truly high for me, this is my one shot to greatness ill ever have in this lifetime, i don't intend to squander it or take it lightly. For once in my life, I'm going to give my entire heart and mind to something. I'm going to direct my soul into one thing. By hard work, along with blood, sweat and tears---I truly intend to become one of the most feared players to ever play NLHE. There is no other choice, this is it.

I'm all in.