2012 is going to be a challenging but rewarding year (hopefully). I plan to grind every Pokerstars game until I find the one that proves to be the most profitable for me. I shall start at the lowest stakes, sticking with every game offered until I am proven to crush a particular one. If I excel at more than one, I will continue to play the second game, but focus most of my energy on the one I am most profitable at.
My bankroll will come from the World Blogger Poker Championships on Pokerstars; for all I need is a minimum cash in one of the 20 tournaments I can satellite into. Along with this, there is $5,000 prize for the best poker blogger! http://www.pokerstars.co.uk/tournaments/wbcoop/
If I were to win the best poker blogger prize then a lot of my troubles would be swept away, honestly. $5,000 can pay the rest of my credit card off while the other half can give me a nice bankroll. I would play the 1/2c games, the low stakes sit and go's, and my personal favourite, the low stake MTTs. I believe that with consistent play on pokerstars, my game can bring me to the top of the MTT leaderboards.
Volume:
I will have to play 5 games at once in order to achieve this. 5 games is not that many; I've heard of friends playing 25 tables at one time! With a $5k bankroll I will be able to sustain the swings of a low to medium limit MTT player and hopefully get a big score early on. Once I get my score ( and you know I will!), I shall put a down payment on a house to financially secure my future. $5k is even enough for a down payment in some places.
In my new home I will grind Pokerstars while my kids play in the living room. They will do their video game, and I will do mine. All of my friends will wonder in amazement how I got a house and I will only have two words for them... Poker Stars.
Some might say they've heard of a lot of people losing money playing poker and that it is bad. My reply would be that, a lot of people start small business and many do not succeed. Poker should be looked at like a business. And the ones that can't manage it correctly will be filtered out, just like in the real world! If people think they can just turn on their laptop and money will magically be transferred to their bank account then they need to get their head checked. Poker takes many skills; discipline to make the right decisions, self awareness to know when you are too tired, and knowledge to know when to make the right move.
Like chess, it is a game for the cerebral man; now are you up for the challenge?
Let's face it, $5k can do a lot for most of us, so I don't want to miss out on this opportunity. You only get one life, so why not make the most of it?
Sumonkey
