Hello!
I'm a 30 year old guy and father from the UK. I've been playing poker online for about 10 years and I've been moderately successful depending on what perspective you take. Done a lot better from it than I could've done in other fields. Managed to pay cash for my own home at about 25 yo (I know not optimal but safer than cryptos
) and given my low living costs/lifestyle I've never stressed about money. Even if I was making $20k/month I would barely spend anything 
The cool thing about Poker was that you could exercise trial and error and get feedback from forums/peers on what you'd done wrong so the process of learning was pretty straightforward in some ways. But it was also a big learning curve in terms of mindset and character.
I talk about Poker in the past tense because although I can still make a reasonable living, that's all it is. There was a lot of money to be made in the early days but now your time/reward ratio is much lower and it's not something that would be healthy for a lifetime anyway.
I never bought into the slowlane idea in life but seeing it all laid out by MJ in TMF was very helpful. I've got unscripted but not read it yet!!
After reading some of the other intros I feel pretty intimidated, I have literally no business experience and I'm not the greatest at taking action which is obviously something I need to work on.
The path in poker was a bit clearer,just sit down, play and then analyse your play after. Rinse and repeat. At the minute everything seems kind of overwhelming and I'm really not sure how to start but this intro and participating on these forums is something. Coming from Poker I feel is a very taking mindset, it's a zero sum game and my opponent's loss is my gain whereas what MJ tries to get across is something quite different. Give first then get your rewards much later.
Looking forward to being around and hopefully one day I'll be able to contribute as well.
Peace guys
edit: @MJ DeMarco!
I'm a 30 year old guy and father from the UK. I've been playing poker online for about 10 years and I've been moderately successful depending on what perspective you take. Done a lot better from it than I could've done in other fields. Managed to pay cash for my own home at about 25 yo (I know not optimal but safer than cryptos
) and given my low living costs/lifestyle I've never stressed about money. Even if I was making $20k/month I would barely spend anything The cool thing about Poker was that you could exercise trial and error and get feedback from forums/peers on what you'd done wrong so the process of learning was pretty straightforward in some ways. But it was also a big learning curve in terms of mindset and character.
I talk about Poker in the past tense because although I can still make a reasonable living, that's all it is. There was a lot of money to be made in the early days but now your time/reward ratio is much lower and it's not something that would be healthy for a lifetime anyway.
I never bought into the slowlane idea in life but seeing it all laid out by MJ in TMF was very helpful. I've got unscripted but not read it yet!!
After reading some of the other intros I feel pretty intimidated, I have literally no business experience and I'm not the greatest at taking action which is obviously something I need to work on.
The path in poker was a bit clearer,just sit down, play and then analyse your play after. Rinse and repeat. At the minute everything seems kind of overwhelming and I'm really not sure how to start but this intro and participating on these forums is something. Coming from Poker I feel is a very taking mindset, it's a zero sum game and my opponent's loss is my gain whereas what MJ tries to get across is something quite different. Give first then get your rewards much later.
Looking forward to being around and hopefully one day I'll be able to contribute as well.
Peace guys
edit: @MJ DeMarco!
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