Thoughts of an American Grinder

Hello everyone !

This is my 1st ever blog post , so being that my 1st post as well as not being around DC very long I'm goin to start off with an introduction.  My name is Shane I am 26 yrs old , and live in the middle of nowhere Missouri , USA lol .  I have been playing poker now for about 4 years , the last 2 of which it has been my main source of income .  I am a college dropout due to some bad decisions i made freshman year , and my family never had a lot of money which meant you only get one shot in my family.  So i worked shitty jobs for shitty pay until i found poker .  I worked really hard at learning the game at micro stakes , and had only deposited one time in my life .  I found some early success grinding 180s on pokerstars and was able to put together a decent starter roll from those games .  I then started playing a lot of mtts , i once again had some early success and was able to make a decent amount of money for where i live .  I then decided to quit the shitty job i had and go at mtts full time .  I had moderate success for a yr playing midstake mtts and then a downswing came that was worse then i thought was possible (trust me it can happen to anyone esp at mtts) and i had basically a losing year over a pretty decent sample of mtts , my frustration and laziness made the situation worse than it should have been.  I was still however motivated to continue to pursue poker because of a love of the competition and the lifestyle .  Then .............

Well you all know the rest of the story . After "Black Friday" i was pretty discouraged and very worried about what i was going to do , and thought about going back to slaving a shitty job for "the man" but then i thought about how much work i had put into becoming semi decent at this game.  So i decided I needed to move to cash games to survive the current poker climate until online poker is fully legalized for US citizens.  I re-subscribed to Deuces Cracked and started watching some videos .  I then made two small deposits on two US facing sites.  I went with the two that i could get money on the fastest at the time and deposited $40 onto bodog and $40 onto carbon.  I have played almost 80k hands so far and have ran the 80$ into around $1500 as of today.  I have went from 4nl to 25nl and 50nl mostly.  I have found that all of this change has sparked a new interest in the game after grinding mtts for a living . I plan to update this blog with daily reports from the tables as well as any poker ideas or experiences i might go through on a daily basis .  I am excited for what the future holds and am truly happy i came here to learn from the best ! thanks DC , best of luck to everyone at the tables.

If anyone would like to discuss hands or just bs holla @ me on skype = permatilt420

Sincerely

Shane