What’s up guys. Name’s Dustin. I’m currently 27 and was feeling lost for years. I had a 50k roll 3 years ago and found a way to torch almost all of it. Casino, poker, sports betting, investing, drugs, you name it. Almost everything in my life that I enjoyed to do from age 20-26 bled me out. I always found a way to spend money instead of saving, I never quite really “understood” how important saving and stacking was until I pretty much lost all of it. Here I am 27 years old with $2,000 to my name. This isn’t intended to be a sob story, but perhaps the beginning of a real rebuild. For 1 month I’ve been sober off drugs, which doesn’t sound impressive but for me it’s fucking monumental. I’ve cut unnecessary spending completely (besides girlfriend expenses lol), I haven’t played poker in about 6 months, haven’t placed a single bet in 4 months, and I honestly have no intention of looking back at the moment. I’ve had a serving job where they allowed me to work 1 day a week and that’s literally what I did for years, because I had it in my mind that gambling would reward me far more than waiting tables ever could. The upswings were pretty nice, but the downswings? Absolutely fucking brutal. You could see I set myself up to fail, I was just too blind to realize it I told myself I was gonna make a change and 2 months ago I’ve been picking up more shifts and set myself a goal to work 4 days a week (at the very least) and put in 10-12 hours each shift to get me back on my feet. I’m doing well in following through so far, just this week I’ve put in 43 hours By the end of 2026 hopefully I’ll have at least 20k from honest work. I’m really aiming for 30/40k but after bills, groceries, gym, and girlfriend, I think 20k is much more reasonable. If you’ve made it this far I genuinely thank you for reading my story, and by the end of 2026 hopefully I’ll have something good to tell you guys. Until then, I’ll just be grinding.

New here. leak is punting on tilt and then chasing the losses thinking a mini bank roll challenge will help. I got a few live events coming up I can’t miss. But I wanna improve my game as well as my discipline