Cash Game Blog from NL 0.25 to HS.

Just a quick recap for November and december and then will talk about how everything went to shiiittttt :(

NOVEMBER RECAP: Played 136 hours with a profit of 1940usd (44100czk) Around half of my profit is from mtts.

DECEMBER RECAP: Played 93 hours with a profit of 1293usd (29400czk).

2023 RECAP- Played 259 days 1695 hours with a profit of 19750usd (449kczk) profit, hourly 11.66 (265czk)

The new year didn't start well for me at all. I needed to move outside of Mexico or do a visa run. So my decision was to move to El Salvador but more I was thinking about moving to El Salvador and how much it will cost me plus I would be alone without my girlfriend I did change my decision and I just went to do a visa run to Belize with my girlfriend but she didn't know I will come back with her I want to surprise her. So we went together to Bacalar Mexico spend New Year and I told her in Bacalar I would go to Belize with her and come back with her to Mexico she was so happy. New Year I did spend on hostel food sick :( So we went to Belize we wanted to go back to Mexico and on the immigration, they told me they would let me go to Mexico just for 6 days. They didn't have a reason to do it everybody should get 6 months visa. When my girlfriend heard that she started crying but the lady on immigration was a real bitchhhh. So I was at Belize/Mexico border and didn't know what to do and I just decided to go with my previous plan to move to El Salvador without my girlfriend she just went back home :( I knew it would cost me a bankroll to move to El Salvador and that's exactly what happened.
In Belize, I spend 3 nights in a hostel in a small fishing village called Hopkins, an absolutely paradise so beautiful place with nice people. The only think I don't like about Belize is that everything is owned by Chinese people like I mean everything every restaurant every store every liquor store just really everything.

After Belize, I went to Guatemala obviously using only busses and boats. I did spend one day in Guatemala City in my friend's apartment. I love Capital Cities but Guatemala City is dangerous and really nothing there didn't like it and then I went to El Predobn to beach because my dream has always been to learn to surf and I had still a couple of hundred dollars in Guatemalan Quetzales from my previous stay in Guatemala so I decide to go to surfing for first time in my life. Definitely a good experience and I will continue learning how to surf here in my new country EL SALVADOR 😀

The first few days I did spend on a hostel looking for an apartment or room to rent. In San Salvador, it's hard to find cheap accommodation. BUT I was lucky I met a girl on tandem application basically im meeting just people on that app its a language exchange app. And one of the girl whom i was talking she told me to stay the first days in her hospital in a hospital room 😀 but I didn't take it and went to the hostel because I found a nice hostel for 10usd a day. Then she takes me to dance with her friend and her friend offered me a room in the nice big house for 200usd a month plus a share of the electric bill. So at least at this point, I was lucky to find a nice place for a reasonable cost. In Mexico, I was paying around 160 USD a month for a 1br apartment. Outside of San Salvador, there are many options for unfurnished 2br houses for 200usd a month.

I have to say they just changed visa policy and gave me a visa for 6 months which in 2023 I would just get 3+3 months for C4 visa Nicaragua ,Guatemala,Honduras and Salvador but Salvador just changed that for 6 months which is super good for people who want to stay for a longer period and don't want to deal with visa extensions or visa runs.

Today I just finished buying things for my work it was hard to find Egro chair for normal cost so I have just a small chair for 200usd and bought the cheaper Xiaomi 24inch monitors two of them and a small desk.

This moving with that little vacation cost me my banroll and had to use my credit card again and I will need to start building my roll from the beginning so flustrating plus the Czech government to decide put a tax on poker and now I will need to pay 15% of my winning to taxes so always everything is harder.

This time I feel so flustrated maybe angry because I was ready to stay in Mexico with my girl and play nl50 from the new year but shhhiiit happened and I have only 450usd bankroll and minus 4500 usd on my credit card so it will be hard the next few months. I will be on a very tight budget.

The plan for El Salvador grind is to play 10h a day for 10 days and then go to the beach for two or 3 nights to learn surfing. I saw places in El Tunco for 12usd a night.

Before I went to El Salvador people told me it's expensive here but it's around the same as in Mexico and Guatemala. Chinese and Salvador food is around 5usd a meal and their Pupusa dishes one dollar for 3 Pupusas so here you can definitely live on a budget.

2024 Goal is to make it to NL100 with 100buy ins and pay all my debt on the credit card. Learn surfing and more Spanish language.

GL everyone and stay humble because poker will always humble you 😀

Thank you for sharing your detailed journey and experiences.

Best of luck with your goals in 2024, and may your efforts lead to a successful and fulfilling year ahead. Stay humble and keep pushing forward!

Best of luck on your journey glgl!

February didn't start well first two weeks I was break even and then I did finish 2nd in mtt for 550usd so that helps that time because I did double my bankroll with that mtt and then I get sick for 8 days and didnt play at all and even I didnt study because i had headache every day so want to stay out of screens. When i get finally to grind again I did finally start winning even in cash game and finished 2nd again in that same mtt for 500usd and my bankroll get to 1500 usd and I did start shooting again NL 50 but I dont feel confortable there with a small bankroll so Im playing NL50 just when is really good tables. I did start study again and I get recorded coachings from guy whos on youtube Play It Smart and I have to say those coachings helped me a lot with sizing tells and timming tells specially and after that coaching im paying more attentions on sizing tells specially and its working like a champ definitely good coachings from that guy.

I dont know if is in El Salvador is live cash game or tournaments in casinos and its hard to find something online so I decide to take a Sunday off and I will go to visit casinos here if they have live poker, they have around 4 casinos here so i will visit them all and then I saw online some poker room in hotel but didnt find it on google maps so I will try to do more research and find it if the poker room is open so in next blog I will let you know.

February recap. ( Did you know February have 29 days every 4th year? I didnt know 😀

PLAYED HOURS: 111
PROFIT : 1390usd (32500czk)
HOURLY: 12.5 (293czk) ( usd going up against Czech Koruna so winning is smaller :(
STUDY HOURS: I dont know not many

My most profit is from mtts at February I dont know exatly how much because im tracking cash and mtts together in iphone bankroll app but from March I will track it separately exatly how much Im winning from cash and mtts. I play around 20 mtts a month just have it on my second screen one tabling.

Will definitely continue study from the Play It Smart coachings for this month.

GL everyone and stay humble because poker will always humble you

MARCH RECAP: WAAUU This month was the best month what I ever had since I start playing Cash Game. I started this month on NL20 tables and end up shooting NL100.
Im playing most of the time NL50 but when the tables are not good im playing NL20 just table selecting a lot. This month really opened my eyes how bad I play in some spots not thinking properly because I did play every day just one day off this month so far. I was pushing the hours to make best month moneywise but Im completely tired after playing 204 hours and studying 25 hours this month. I think I have some mental leak when sometimes spewing stack even I know Im beat and many times I catch my self in situations when I know I should jam the turn but I rather call to see safe river and thats cost me this month lots of money and future ev because than I think how stupid Im in some spots even I know how to play that particular spot. Next month I will really try to work on that and think more and take more time to make decisions and not just clicking buttons. I dont know why but I do play so quickly even before when I was two tabling Spins I did play 18 spins in one hour two tabling and my roommate playing same spins same stake and played 14 spins hourly because he was just thinking to much.

Definitely lots of leaks I have but the good think I know about them and Im still winning even with my leaks.

Soon I will really need to take a coach. If i find some with ok cost I will do it but still have plenty of material to study from.

I started shooting NL100 but honestly I dont feel comfortable there so I will play it just sometimes when table will be good good otherwise I will stick with NL50. I have now 100 buy ins for NL50 so hopefully April will be my best month and first months to grind only NL50 with ok bankroll 😀 Im bankroll nit 😀

PLAYED HOURS 204
MTTS 39
STUDY HOURS 25
CASH PROFIT 2736 USD (64000czk)
MTTS PROFIT 614 USD (14362czk)
TOTAL PROFIT 3350 USD (78700czk) HOURLY TOTAL 16.5USD

APRIL GOAL:
150 Hours to play
50 Hours to study
30 MTTS
Go more outside to have fun 😀
DONT PLAY TIRED!!!!!! Really Im playing tired just because the table are good but most of the time It costing me money to play tired.
Take more breaks.
Start meditating again.
In April I want to study 50 hours I want to finish the Play It Smart coachings and start study from Doug Polk from his new HU video pack. Many times I do play HU and 3 handed and Im little lost deep stack so thats why this month I want study more than ever 😀

Tomorrow it will be Sunday and I think last day of the month I will take a day off and go to beach to take surfing lesson 😀

GL everyone and stay humble because poker will always humble you

I dont know where to start but im back in Mexico here is what happend. April 4th my roommate ask me to leave the the house after 3 months even the deal for 5 month. She ask me to leave because she needs my room for her family member so she told me I dont have a contract so i have to leave. She basickly give me just 10 days to find something else. I didnt know what to if I should stay in San Salvador and find different accommodation or go to Nicaragua or try to go back to Mexico even last time they didnt let me go back but I want to try it to go back to see my girlfriend and also its the cheapest option. After I left my room I went to airbnb in El Tunco for 4 days and take surfing lessons. My long term dream is to learn surfing and I was finally learning even it was just 4 days I was so happy to take a break from everything and go to nice restaurants with my friend in airbnb and just talk with people out of poker friends. After that is time to go 😀 So lets go to Mexico. Everything went well IM KIDDING nothing never going well in those countries with me. First crossing border from El Salvador to Guatemala should be not a problem only I had the problem from all people what was going with me in a bus. I went to border and they told me they cant let me go to Guatemala because I stayed in El Salvador for 4 months even I have a visa for a 6 months. They told me I overstayed which I didnt. Guatemala,Honduras , Nicaragua and El Salvador have 3 months plus 3 months extension visa but from new year El Salvador have 6 months visa but other the C4 visa have still 3plus 3 months thats why they told me I overstayed.I dont understand they didnt understand nobody didnt understand this. So after 45min they let me go to Guatemala but they gave me visa for 5 days and i needed to par 40usd all other people didnt pay nothing.

I come to Antigua Guatemala where I did live before and stayed there for 4 nights in same house what I lived before.

LITTLE ROMANCE in Guatemala. Im talking with a girl from Guatemala for over 3 years now and when i was living in Guatemala she never visited me and now I told her I will be in Guatemala for 4 days and she told me she will come to meet me. I was suprised and she just come with hand bag and stayed with me for 3 nights. It was nice to meet someone who you never met and talking so long.

After that few days in Guatemala it was time to go to Mexican border so I book the bus to Chiapas Mexico and I was so stressed they will not let me go to Mexico and of course something always go wrong so it just did. I went to border with a bus and on the border they told us we should not go with this border because cartel fighting with police just few km behind border so bus driver decide to go to different border which was around 5 hours in a bus but let me tell you those road of middle of nowhere is no roads just pure dirt and stones it was horrible ride but better than meeting cartel. So we came to another border I was so stressed and on immigration he just ask me how long I want to stay in Mexico and I said 6 months and he just gave ne 180 days visa. I was so happy after all those stressful crossings of borders.

So I went back to Merida to see my girlfriend AND she didnt know Im coming because I was telling her Im moving to Nicaragua (If they didnt let me go to Mexico that was my plan) I just show up at the door at 7am morning and when she saw me she start crying she was so happy and didnt believe im back in Mexico. Last time she went to do a visa run with me and she just went back to Mexico and I did stayed in Belize so she has no idea I will ever come back to her.

Obviously like always it did cost me a bankroll to move back and with a month without poker and vacation. I just have bought new two monitors, chair and A/C because its 38celsius for gringos 101 Farenheits here and May is the hottest month and an other 300usd I had to pay because my girlfriend dog was sick and stayed in Hospital for 4 days but shes ok now thats most important. I love my girlfriend 4 dogs 😀

I spend a roll last months BUT im so happy because I bought BGB coin crypto for almost 3k usd at 0.47cents and sold for 1.27 and from that I payed all my debts all my credit cards and Im debts free after many years. I just read my first post here few years ago how I moved to Mexico with no money and just trying to be a poker pro and now after 3.5 years in Latin America im still playing micros but making more money than I would in my country plus living in cheaper country than Czech Republic. Definitely a emotional ride with many obstacles but I would not change a thing.

Now Im starting with a 600usd bankroll again and still have 2500 bgb coins which i dont want to sell (1.13usd now atm) so hopefully I will not get busto because I never want to use credit card ever again.

I did recorded few videos for youtube and they are almost done so maybe next month I will post my few videos for youtube from Mexico, Guatemala and El Salvador.

GL everyone and stay humble because poker will always humble you

MAY RECAP :
I didnt play much this month because we have electric problems. Electric didnt work for couple days and when it start work again my pc get broken :(
Its so hot here every day its over 44 Celsius around 110 Fahrenheit. Electric is fine now but sometimes drop at night.

The site where I play the traffic going down a lot so I decide to add few mtts to my session and make already few final tables 😀

PLAYED HOURS: 99
PROFIT : 540usd (12300czk)
HOURLY: 5.5 usd (125czk)
STUDY HOURS: 30

GL everyone and stay humble because poker will always humble you 😀

Any updates? These sort of blogs are my favorite

Hey, I will at the end of the month 😉

It's been over a year since I last posted here. Many things happened in my life, and that was my hardest year ever; everything that could happen happened. This post will be long and negative, but this is what happened from the start.

I left Mexico for my favorite country, El Salvador, to live there. I told my girlfriend I will go there and when I set up house, she will come. So I went to live in San Salvador, rented a house, bought a chair, a desk, a two-monitor, and a bed, just all the stuff for grinding and living. I was so happy everything went well, started just playing NL100, and then I called my girlfriend, she can come to El Salvador, and then the problem started. She told me she just got home from a doctor and she has Tuberculosis, and so I googled what it is and how dangerous it is that and I couldn't believe what I was reading. She could die from this. That time I was thinking if I go back to her, I could get it also, but then I said to myself, I will go to support my girlfriend and be with her when she needs it most. I didn't want to come back to that city because I hate it there, but what can I do? So I didn't wait for anything and just left everything in El Salvador, and everything that I bought cost me about 3k, but it's just money. After I come back to take care of her, I get really depressed here. I didn't know depression was a thing, but it is. After 2 months back in Merida, I just couldn't do anything. I was just in bed, sleeping, and eating unhealthily.
When I started playing after the first suck out, I always quit. And after some time, I got health problems and didn't know what was wrong with me because my chest started hurting every day. I went to the doctors many times, and they always told me the same it's stress or something. But after 4 months in pain and the pain was getting stronger, I decided to go back to my country to see doctors. Before I left, I made a Mexican residency for 2200usd for 4 years. My girlfriend was getting better, but she was still on the medications, and I asked her if she wanted to go with me to my country and obviously she said yes, and so we went to her doctor and ask him if she can fly with Tuberculosis and he make her test and told her she cant tranfer the tuberculosis to someoelse so she can go fly but need to continue to take plls for another two months. So at least my girlfriend was getting better while I was suffering every day with a pain in my chest.

So we went home, landed in February in Prague, and it was so cold there, and my girlfriend told me she loves the cold weather, and after 20 minutes of waiting for a train to my city, she told me the cold is not that fun anymore 😀 But it was so nice to see her see snow for the first time in her life.

Arrived in my city and want to surprise my mom nobody knew I'm comming home after 50 months in Latin America and what did happened I left traing station and I have bandana on my face and my mom said Peter and I turn my head and my mom was on the train station but I ask her how she recognize me and she told me she just saw tall guy and try to say it if is me so I didnt suprise my mom she did that was so beatifull. So went home, and then I took my Mexican girlfriend to see my dad and all my family. Everybody was so surprised because they knew I hate winter, so I explained my situation to I needed to go to see a doctor because I didn't feel good.

The next day, I was looking for doctors, and I could find a doctor, but to make an appointment with a cardiologist, it's a 3-month waiting time. But I was in pain more and more, so I went to the emergency hospital, and they did all the tests, and they told me it's probably depression or reflux or something. So I left, and the next day same thing, chest pain, and the pain was the biggest pain in my life, so again I went to the emergency, and same, you're ok, and that continued like this for two months, and they didn't know what was wrong with me. I went to the emergency 14 times in 2 months, so my girlfriend saw more hospitals then Czech Republic. They found I have reflux, and the pills for reflux didn't help me. I was always with my sister and my girlfriend, and then my sister didn't know what to do anymore after two months going to different hospitals, and then she told me she had an idea and took me to the emergency, but for the crazy people with depression.

The doctor gave me some depression pills, and from that day, I was getting better after many months in pain..

After I was getting better, and we got horrible news from Mexico, our dog died just 9 years old, crying now while typing this, and after she told me this, I thought my chest would explode, so I went to the emergency again because the only thing that helped me with the pain was IV.

For a few days, I could stop crying and went to the hospital for depression people and asked the doctor if I could stay because I couldn't handle my life. I was again in constant pain and crying all the time.
I knew in that hospital for crazy people, working mom from my first love, she has known me since I was 17 years old, she doesn't like me much because I left her daughter at that time. But everything in that hospital was fine. It was in a place where I felt safe only thing was that my girlfriend was with my mom, and she had just 30 days of visa left. We did try to extend it, but we couldn't, and a visa run is not possible because Mexicans have to leave for at least 3 months to come back. So after a week in the crazy hospital with really crazy people, I asked the doctor if I could leave, and they didn't want to let me go, but because I came by myself, they couldn't keep me if I didn't want to. So I left the hospital, and I knew I couldn't come back to Mexico now because of my health, so I decided to marry my girlfriend so she could stay with me in the Czech Republic. Marrying a Mexican citizen is not easy, so we couldn't get married because she didn't have some papers from Mexico, and the embassy couldn't get those papers, so she needed to just get them by herself in Mexico, so we didn't get married :(

3 weeks left of her visa, I take her to Prague and see other cities in my country, she really loves Prague. So 3 months and she went back to Mexico, and we didn't know when we would see each other again.

She left. I continued to stay in my country, be depressed and unhappy, and even didn't play poker for many months, and maxed out all my credit cards. It was not cheap to stay with a girl in Europe for 3 months without income. I was lucky I did find her ticket to Cancun from Prague, for only for 220usd, but without luggage, so all her stuff stayed in my country.

Then I didn't have any money and continued to be in my country and looking for a job, but I was still depressed and I didn't want to work, do nothing, I was just in bed for many months doing nothing :(

3 times I tried to stop eating pills for depression, but every single time, my head was like a rollercoaster, and chest pain started again every time. For 4 times, when I was trying to stop taking those pills, I said to myself Stop it, it's not good for you and you haven't taken pills for ten years now, so I did stop, but first 4 days, I couldn't move by myself because
I was dizzy and couldn't even go to the bathroom by myself, and I was in pain all the time. But then I survived those 4 days, and since then I haven't taken any pills, and I was ok.

After that, I realized nobody would help, only I can help myself, so it's time to move on and go back to life. But how without money? My goal was to get back to Mexico to my girlfriend.
I called my fiancée and I told her I want to come back. I think this was after 7 months in my country, but I told her I would not go to Merida because I hate it there, so I told her to move to my dream place, Puerto Escondido, where I can learn surfing and live. So she packed her luggage and went to Puerto Escondido. She found a nice 2br apartment for 7k pesos, 400USD, it's a big, nice place, only 15 min walking from Zicatela beach. Zicatela has the biggest waves in Mexico 😀 So after a month, she was living in Puerto Escondido. I told her I don't have money, but she said just come when you have money.

Also, she told me she loves Puerto Escondido and she's happy to stay there.

So I went to my aunt to ask to borrow me money and she lent me 2k USD, so I was ready to go, but I knew it was not enough. So my mom also helped me with a loan from the bank, and I could go. I'm so happy for my family.
Obviously, I didn't tell my girlfriend I'm coming, and I just showed up in her new apartment. She was so happy and she started crying, and finally back together.

Then, when you think everything will be ok from now like always, **** happened. So for two weeks, I was on the beach relaxing, waiting for the internet and my monitor. So after they installed everything, I started playing poker again. First 3 days everything was fine, and then every day the internet was dropping and obviously I couldnt play so I decide to get a starlink ordered Starlink and asked guy to install it and after that I went to pay starlink and it says because in my area is high demant for Startling they just add 15k pesos one tine fee :( i was like **** so instal Starlink with fee is 22k which is 1200usd and then we need to pay rent next day 7k and just try if it will be working. I couldn't try it and pay for it because I already didn't have money. So I explained the situation to the owner of the house. I can't stay there because I can't work. They were nice and even got us back the deposit 😀 And I didn't have a choice and went back to that place where I hate it, but what can I do? So we went back to Merida, where we have a small apartment and pay only 2800 pesos a month, 150usd. We come back, and my girlfriend's family is living under us, but different apartment, and they told us yesterday they just found 3 dead bodies next to our house. I was like ****. Merida is probably the most secure city in all of Latin America, but it's still Mexico.

So, from dream Puerto Escondido back in Merida.

Now I'm completely broke, owning around 24k USD, and don't have a bankroll to play poker.
I deposited the last 320usd to poker and started grinding.

I applied for CFP, but Poker With Riskie, where I applied, doesn't take people under 200 NL. Nachos CFP wants a 1k deposit, so I'm really in a bad situation now. I didn't play poker for a year, almost, but I'm in Mexico with my girl and dogs 😀

Started playing 2 weeks ago, and from 320usd I made 1300usd, and then I hit dowswing and my bankroll stopped at 876usd. The most important thing is that I'm ok and my girl is fine from Tuberculosis, nothing else matters for now.

In November, I will work every day. I don't have a choice, then just work because my monthly expenses are around 1000usd for paying rent, food credit card, so the next few months will be stressful and hard.

But you know what I'm confident I will make. After I survived everything from last year, hopefully things will get better, and I will move on.

Later, I will seek professional help because I'm still crying every day because of our dog, and I just can't get better because every day I'm thinking I should be here with him when he was sick. Life is hard sometimes, and now it's hard for me and my girlfriend.

Will be trying to find coaching with Backer, but I think it will be hard because I have never played on other site than the Czech site, and it's without HUD.

For November, I will make a plan, and I will try to stick to my monthly plan/routine.

Will continue to post at least once a month, I'm back in poker 😀

Stay humble because poker will always humble you!

And a few pic from the Czech Republic and Puerto Escondido

GL and take care!