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 😀

Hey, I will at the end of the month 😉