My biggest personal win was $162k at the Niagara Fallsview Poker Class in 2016. It was a $1k buyin tournament and that payday changed my life forever.
It gave me the freedom to take a break from grinding it out, working 60+ hours a week, and enabled me to invest time and energy into my education where I focused on Healthy Living and Happy Mindset material. I am so grateful for it.
I also had a pretty big payday in 2012 when my Roommate at the time Greg Merson won the WSOP Main Event. I had 2% of his action which was worth about $172k.
Same story, this freed up my mental energy from daily working to get into a more creative state and build something. With this shift in mindset I focused on becoming the best poker player I could be (not just grinding it out) by teaching others how to do the same. That's how I created
http://youtube.com/gripsed.
I learned from Zig Ziglar that you can get whatever you want in life if you'll help enough other people get what they want. Back then it was success in poker that I wanted so teaching others how to be successful (and learning as much as I could along the way) was the approach I took.
I'm confident the next few years will look similar but will involve teaching people how to feel more fulfilled and follow their passions, live their dreams and experience more happiness on a daily basis. Big Thanks to the poker gods <3