KingKrab, Homeless to Poker Pro

For those of you who don’t know me, my name is KingKrab and I’ve spent the last two years of my life playing live poker in addition to battling a cycle of depression and homelessness (sleeping in my car). And it all started with trying to escape the grueling oppression of worklife.

In my career as a live poker pro, I’ve learned quite a bit about sh** that you can’t learn on forums or online. Scummy people, angling, thieving, degenerates. I’ve been dealt some angles, learned to see the angles and reverse them, I’ve learned to mitigate aggressive bro situations. I’ve learned how to nit the fu** up when you’re dealt the bottom 10% hands for 40 hours straight.

I’ve gone busto a couple times, but since have been able to turn things around and turn myself into a winning player over the sample of almost two straight years. As long as the level of play at my poker venue does not significantly improve in 2016, I’ll likely stay a solid winner at the $3/5, $200 cap buy in game. (Yea, I know, it’s a weird game.)

Between drugs, alcohol, smoking, anti-depressants and relationship issues, happiness had been very elusive in my life. Hand in hand, depression and addiction had been my worst enemy, but for the past half year, I’ve been able to maintain a (mostly) sober lifestyle, with the occasional bowl but on my terms. I use pot to enhance my life occasionally, not control my life.

My life still not in the best place, but things have been looking up. I’ve been able to grind up from almost nothing to the 11.4K I have at this very moment, exceeding my personal BR goal to obtain temporary housing which I will move into the third week of January.

These were my prior goals, most of which I have met. Granted, it took 2 years…

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New Goals 2016-2017:
-Continue to beat my current game, take shots at true $500 NL

-Invest in learning something besides poker, possibly online

-Write more. Some people on my previous thread have asked me to bind my personal accounts into a book, it’s definitely something I’ve thought about. Even if many people have not read my writing, it has been very therapeutic and beneficial for me over the years. There’s some really dark sh** in my personal journal that I’ve never shared with anyone before. I’m certain that it’s one of the reasons I still have my sanity intact, especially when I had nobody to confide to.

-Maintain good contact with a certain girl I fu**ed up with. When I make it, I want to come back to her and offer her the world. Maintain better relationships overall.

-Possibly travel to other states/venues to play poker. Adding a little diversity to the daily grind might just be the trick to keeping it fresh. The Great American Poker Road trip???? maybe during the summer.

I’ve made some helpful acquaintances on here, and as before, any tips/recommendations are appreciated. Looking forward to hearing from you, and hope everyone else has a positive year as well!