Mastering Mental Game and Mental Health
Hey guys,
I'm a 24 year old online pro on Pokerstars playing under the alias BenaBadBeat. I've played full time for around 4 years with relative success in both cash games and MTTs. At the start of 2013 i started off chasing SNE but unfortunately the high volume and hours took its toll and i had to quit at the end of January. I spent the next 5-6 months regrinding my losses. I spent a lot of time working on my game and since then my results have picked up a lot!
2013 graph and stake breakdown:
Sharkscope (not so subtle brag 😉 ):
I live in a grind house in london and over the time I've played poker i've met a lot of cool guys. Name drop time - Glanza, ishipKQ, vinivici, xela, D7, Mayo, Smb, MeleaB, coinflip, bigchiefds, R1aki, gutter, jrock, peter804, tonna, smitdude, sniper_arnie and c$shmoney and others.... All of these guys have helped me a great deal in one way or another and continue to do so.
The reason I'm doing this blog is for motivation and to track my own progress in all aspects of my life. Hopefully the updates are interesting to some!
Poker goals for 2014:
[ ] 400k vpps
[ ] 50k table profits
[ ] Play at least one big live event in another country
[ ] Keep updating this blog with HH and results
[ ] Keep working on my game off the tables
[ ] Be mixing in midstakes FR by the end of the year
Other than poker I'm taking a counselling and psychotherapy course which will ultimately lead to me being a qualified therapist in 2 years. I've just been accpeted into an agency volunteering for teenagers.
I'm also part of a 6 aside football team playing in goal on a weekly basis with the guys from my house. We've won the local league twice and are in the running for the new title! I'll keep the blog updated with regards to these amongst other aspects of my non poker life.
Here's to a great 2014 and good luck to you all! 😀
18 Replies
Great update, happy new year and good luck crushing your goals in 2024 <3
Congrats man!
How is the hypnotherapy coaching you were doing? Did you stop that?
Well done. Any chance of a break down per site? Wondering how well you went on iggy this year with all the talk of games being much harder now and lots of regs struggling. Cheers!
I've seen worse years, not bad for a 200FR grinder
can confirm i was put in a deep sleep state with just a pendulum by Ben
Congrats Ben, best of luck for 2024!
am very pleased to make a rare visit to 2p2 and see this for 2 reasons
1) bena doing well, top bloke
2) wtf timstone still exists
gl friends
Im sorry all this happend to you or I am happy that it did.
Tl;dr
Now bomb that 200k into kripto currency & next year can play 3 hours / month
Glgl
ahaha same as always, never change timmy <3 speaking of crypto thoooo 🙂
love that you came back for end of year updates [emoji3590]
And very sorry you had such a bad start to the year, must have been hard to come back fro……WTF?!
looool. always come back for the EOY updates (while i'm winning obv). btw we are all fkn waiting for the blakkman update of kings. fair few small things happened in your life i heard
thanks bro!
tytyt slug, you still grinding?!?
Man shaved his head and got glasses like Bryn Kenney to run like god, but the opposite happened.
lmfaooo gold. sadly true 😃
ayyy seen you in some of david kayes vids! assuming that is you...
Those pics are INSANE. Congrats on getting married and gg on getting through all of that this year. You're an inspiration.
"...and Bena has him! BenaBadBeat the master!"
yoo thanks mate! yeah the photographer did a sick sick job. so many amazing ones. thanks for the kind words <3
cheers bro! hope youre good
Sorry to hear about the failed HS shots, but congrats still having a great overall year!
thank you!
thanks a lot ben! enjoying your updates as always
tytyty
thanks mate!
ayy ty man. will be back in the uk for the summer so lets do something then
Congrats man!
How is the hypnotherapy coaching you were doing? Did you stop that?
triggered 😃 not practicing hypnotherapy but psychotherapy haha. i stopped because i'm not protected by the governing body in australia. also my visa doesn't allow 'work'
Well done. Any chance of a break down per site? Wondering how well you went on iggy this year with all the talk of games being much harder now and lots of regs struggling. Cheers!
breakdown was; good on iggy (although i think i ran well), bad on gg, ok on acr. yeah iggy is a shitshow atm for sure. the collusion and botting is out of control but really hoping something positive happens at some stage.
your results were also not bad. for a footgolf whale that is
ahahah
cheers gaz! <3
am very pleased to make a rare visit to 2p2 and see this for 2 reasons
1) bena doing well, top bloke
2) wtf timstone still exists
gl friends
loool tim's gunna outlast us all mate! cheers for stopping by!
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shameless plug update today i'm afraid. i've made a youtube channel which is pretty much going to be exactly what i did here for years; hands, graphs, and thoughts on being a poker player. you could say i am flogging the deadest horse of all time 😃 but there also doesn't seem to be any kind of content like it atm, so hopefully some of you will enjoy it! Here's the link if you'd like to sub/save it for later. The first video will be dropping later this week. Hopefully catch you in the comments <3 (i'm looking at you tastyyy)
https://www.youtube.com/@BenaBadBeatPoke...
Peaaaaace <3
SUBBED
Subbed
We would apreciate some stuff in mental health also 😀
Glad to see u doing fine mate !
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jHt9NQr...
Posting Ben's video for him on here
lmfao the last hand, was that a dig at one of your buddies? it is a torch but I get why he called it
Subbed to youtube!
I'm a bit surprised to see you mixing in 2k ignition given the recent 'drama' that I'm sure you're aware of. I've wanted to mix in 500NL/1kNL on Iggy back in but have heard too many horror stories from the past year. What's your take on the state of the games there?
yooo guys - got a new video that we spent a LOT of time on. if you wanna check it out here it is!
Yooo incredible video dude, thanks for posting it here!
It is super clear you spent A LOT of time on it any viewers even new ones can tell easily you have a good heart and are passionate about helping others succeed in the game
