Gawuss is bankin !

...I never asked for this. I got here only by accident. I’m grateful for what happened to me and yet..not fully. Am I a happier person than I’d be if I hadn’t experienced all of it ? I sometimes wish I could go back and do it differently but I can’t. I tend to think that I screwed things up and wasted my only opportunity but did I ?! Now I give myself another chance. I know - it requires more work, greater commitment and some sacrifices but I got to do this. I’m ready for it. I need it. I want it.
Some people say it’s stupid, some wish me good luck, while I truly believe I don’t need any. What I need is an honest willingness to make these dreams come true. And I believe…No! I KNOW I will reach my goals. That is what I’m aiming for and I won’t let myself stop. It is the last chance I got and I will not waste it this time.
Believe it or not – I WILL DO IT !!! I took a year off to chase my dreams and I won’t even think of stopping to take a breath till I make them real. Don’t wish me luck. I would be greatly thankful if you gave me a helping hand instead.

I’m looking forward to hearing from you.

Greetings,

Mike

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I was going to write this blog post over a month ago but oh well...I'm a slacker and didn't really feel like it until now.

2010 was not a very good year pokerwise even though I played more hands that in 2009 (214k - soooo many, right ?...NOT) - mostly because of the bet with my cousin to play 125k hands in 3 months. He's got some doubts but I definitely won it. The quality of my play was not at the highest level when I was desperately trying to play for X hours a day just to play as many hands as possible and I was behind the pace in the end of August (the bet was to end on September 30th). I was going mental in September as I had to play almost 60k hands in a month and the most I had played before was I think around 30k. I was running like shit and was forcing myself to play because losing the bet would just suck...I must say that I haven't been more (life and poker) tilted than in the last September.

I ended the year slightly in the green but the final score is still pathetic and I'm not going to make it public heh because I'm just fucking embarassed. Alright let's finish talking about how poker went for me in 2010 and focus on the good stuff.

I closed a great chapter of my life - I graduated from high school and passed my matura exams. I know nothing lasts forever but I still miss those times cause I met really awesome people there and we spent a plenty of great time together. I am going to stay in touch with some of them for as long as possible - hopefully for the rest of my life, but everyone knows that eventually most of us will go on separate paths in life.

In October I moved to Warsaw and started my first year in university. I live here with 2 friends and we're getting along pretty well I think. I pay for everything with my own money, except for uni. My parents insisted to pay for my studies because they feel kinda bad about that my brother, who is 4 years older than me, still gets money from them for pretty much everything he does and they think I should get sth from them too. I'm not complaining that they decided so but I must say it feels nice to be financially independent I would love to be 'food-independent' too but I just can't get myself to cook anything and I'm eating out every day.

Here are a couple of my blog posts with stuff that happened in 2010 for those of you who would like to read sth more:

PCA trip + prom pics
The bet, Hip Hop Kemp and university
Last year as a teenager
Funny stuff

Alright, that's all for 2010 I think. Let's move on to 2011 !

January was pretty cool. I knew that after a pretty long christmas break I'd need to motivate myself once again to play as much as possible and I took part in a challenge one of the members of Polish LP organized and I set myself a goal to play 60 hours of poker. I know it's not that much for most of you but considering the fact that I'm a lazy slob and I love (no, I don't..) wasting time and that I spent 4 days in Vienna with my gf (I went there to play a poker donkament but busted during the first day, TT v QQ) and also had to study for the exams it felt great to be able to pull that off. But unfortunately, since I came back to my hometown for a 2-week-long winter break I haven't play a single hand of poker in February. I wanted to start grinding today but without going into much detail I changed my plans and decided to finally update this blog and clean up my hard drive. I'm still going to aim for that 60 hours of poker in February cause I need to warm myself up for the gap year.

Oh yes, the gap year. I'm taking one year off from school to focus on poker and travel around the world and just to experience something awesome. I and my friends are most likely going to Thailand for at least 3 months in the end of this year to play poker and chill. I'm pumped about all this and am really motivated to achieve as much as I can pokerwise during that 15 months of freedom. I will probably write much more about the plans for the next year some time soon so stay tuned hehe.

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Good luck to everyone,

Mike

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A couple days ago before falling asleep I had this idea to go on a spontaneous trip by myself to some random city in Europe for a few days or maybe a week. I would turn off my mobile phone, not say anyone where I'd go and just spend the whole time on a whim doing whatever I want without any worries. And now here's the question: Who would put me up for a night or two and hang out together, show me around and just chill ?? If you'd be willing to do so, just write where you live so that I can make a list of places I could visit It's not that you'd have to be with me all the time. I even think that going to a city where I don't know anyone would make the trip more interesting but it'd be great if any of you wanted to meet up if there was such option.

Mike

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