I'm sitting at my computer and Casino Royale is playing in the background. I've seen it before. It's just noise. But something makes me look up. It's the exact moment Bond walks into the casino to face Le Chiffre. They sit down across from each other. The tension. The reading. The cat-and-mouse of two men trying to see through each other at a green felt table. I didn't know then that those hands weren't real. That situations like that almost never happen in actual poker. It didn't matter. The atmosphere grabbed me. The mystery. The observation. The confrontation. A game played face to face, breath to breath, where every blink means something. That night I started Googling. I wanted to understand what this game was. I wanted to be in that room. And the first thing I did was sit down to play online. Within a week — maybe a month — the first dopamine hits arrived. A pot in a freeroll. A micro-stakes win. Money appearing in my account like it came from nowhere. The dream got buried before I even knew I had one. The thing that pulled me in — that initial spark, that scene at the casino table — was smothered by pings and graphs and volume. Gone in a month. Maybe less. For years, through my entire poker career, I never thought about what that dream actually was. I invented new goals instead. Win a WSOP. Move up to high stakes. Build a real bankroll. They sounded right. They looked like vision. They were never it. I only understood what poker was for me — what it was supposed to be — when I stopped playing. If I could start over, I would do one thing first. I would describe the dream. Not vaguely. Not as some distant "someday" goal. I would write down exactly what it looks like. The room. The table. The people sitting across from me. What kind of players they are. What it feels like to sit there, chips in hand, reading another human being in real time. I would be specific about the emotions I want to feel. The calm focus. The aliveness of a big decision. The quiet confidence of knowing I belong at that table.

I played poker for 10+ years as my job. I failed. Now I know why. 1. I forgot why I started. | The Story | 2. I chased the graph. 3. I set goals and forgot them by lunch. 4. I planned but rarely executed. 5. I thought planning was doing. 6. I grinded hard, then studied hard. Never both. 7. I procrastinated for too long. 8. I made to-do lists I never finished. 9. I missed deadlines and felt sorry for myself. 10. I treated everything as urgent. 11. I did tasks unrelated to my goals. 12. I had no system. 13. I learned, forgot, and relearned. 14. I context-switched nonstop. 15. I was jealous of winners. 16. I compared myself to others. 17. I never asked what was stopping me. 18. I walked into the same barriers repeatedly. 19. I started every day lost. 20. I never reflected. 21. I warmed up randomly. 22. I never repeated a warm-up. 23. I ignored how I felt before sessions. 24. I stopped warming up. 25. I let the graph define "playing well." 26. I never defined my A-game. 27. I never defined my B-game. 28. I never defined my C-game. 29. I judged myself differently every session. 30. I tagged hands but ignored context. 31. I played to win, not to learn. 32. I let the same distractions win. 33. I only saw variance when I lost. 34. I never saw bad sessions coming. 35. I played to recover. 36. I quit early when winning. 37. I played too few tables. 38. I played too many tables. 39. I made decisions on emotion. 40. I skipped cooldowns. 41. I called hand review a cooldown. 42. I waited for the perfect course. 43. I hoarded materials. 44. I consumed more and more. 45. I trusted Full Tilt. 46. I trusted the wrong people. 47. I failed the good ones. 48. I cheated. 49. I played not to lose. 50. I was the best off the felt. 51. I was brainless on the felt. 52. I played for volume. 53. I laughed at fish. 54. I called regs fish. 55. I studied too much. 56. I implemented too little. 57. I ran the wrong sims. 58. I got bored with what mattered. 59. I created game plans and never stuck to them. 60. I listened to every coach. 61. I rarely played what they said. 62. I played under financial pressure. 63. I played under financial pressure and got staked. 64. I played under financial pressure, staked, deep in makeup. 65. My study didn't feed my play. 66. My play didn't feed my study. 67. I treated Poker After Dark as a learning session. 68. I studied sims to remember frequencies. 69. I blamed variance. 70. I ran bad. 71. I ran good. 72. I didn't run at all. 73. I let my son's birth affect how I played. 74. I played sleep-deprived. 75. I let my daughter's birth affect how much I played. 76. I cared too much about opinions of irrelevant people. 77. I didn't listen to those I should have. 78. I went pro too fast. 79. I cashed out too big. 80. I cashed out too often. 81. I never played live. 82. I played online too much. 83. I joined too many study groups. 84. I did only one public challenge. 85. I burned out three times. 86. I played on autopilot. 87. I played for rakeback. 88. I called vs check-raise bet bet all-in too often. 89. I folded vs one street aggression too often. 90. I was surprised by villain's action too often. 91. I played regfests because of ego. 92. I bumhunted too long. 93. I quit.

Everything you want to know about the ecosystem. 1️⃣ The Basics ❓Why was GetSharked created? I played poker for over 10 years as my job. I failed. Not because I lacked talent or didn't work hard — I failed because I had no system. I made 93 mistakes (still counting). I've written them all down. 👉 93 Reasons I Failed At Poker Every part of this ecosystem exists because of those mistakes: GetSharked OS — because I started every day lost. No structure. No clarity. No system that told me what to do. GetSharked Games — because I measured the wrong things. I stared at the graph. I judged my days by results I couldn't control. I needed a way to measure the right things — effort, actions, consistency. To see progress, even the tiniest one, and compete over that. Not in waves. Every day. GetSharked Tribe — because I grinded alone. I trusted the wrong people and failed the good ones. I had no community that held me accountable — with honesty and without ego. I can't go back and fix my poker career. But I can make sure you don't repeat my mistakes. ❓What is GetSharked? One mission. Three engines. GetSharked helps poker players become system-driven instead of result-driven. It's an ecosystem: GetSharked OS (your structure), GetSharked Games (your momentum), and GetSharked Tribe (your accountability). ❓What's the difference between result-driven and system-driven? Result-driven: Your mood follows your graph. Up = good day. Down = bad day. System-driven: Your mood follows your actions. You know exactly what to do and what matters most for your growth. You stay consistent, build confidence from effort — not results. You apply more, consume less, learn from play. ❓Who is this for? Mostly low-to-mid stakes, live or online, players tired of being too result-driven. If your mood follows your graph and you want to become system-driven — consistent, focused, actions aligned with your goals — you're in the right place.

$299. One time. You become a premium member for life (normally $99/m). That's 75% off the yearly price. If you stick around for two years, it's 87% off. Five years? 95% off. The longer you stay, the crazier the deal gets. So what do you actually get? ✅ The full GetSharked OS. Not the free tools — everything. Knowledge Management, Implementation, Execution, Anti-Burnout. All four systems. ✅ GetSharked Games. Leaderboards, points, team competition — but you're not competing on winrate. You're competing on execution. On showing up. ✅ Your player profile. Effort points, consistency streak, System-Driven Score, Session Performance Score, Skill XP, achievements. Everything you do — tracked and visible. No more relying on the graph. ✅ Your founding team. 50 founding members. 10 teams. 5 players each. You go through challenges together, compete together, hold each other accountable. ✅ The Success Path. Stage by stage, challenge by challenge. Beyond The Graph is just the first one — the front door. Each stage has its own challenges that help you hit milestones until you reach success. You're not watching a course. You're walking a path. ✅ Referrals. Every person you bring in who goes premium (the regular one, not the Founding Member Offer)—you get 40% of their payment. Every month or year. As long as they stay. As long as you stay. and much more. You can read the FAQ here to learn more. Why am I doing this? Because it's early. There might be bugs. Things might change. Maybe we'll need to build something different from what I planned. And you'll have a say in all of it. 50 spots. That's it. Go to the 👉 Classroom 👈 and search for "Founding Member Offer" to reserve your spot.

The best run I ever had wasn't when I was running hot. It was when I had a buddy going through the same grind. We were both doing the same challenge — win 100 buy-ins as fast as possible. Same check-ins. He'd text me "you playing tonight?" and I'd feel like an idiot if I said no. When I wanted to skip a session, I pictured him posting his update and me having nothing. I finished that challenge second, right behind my buddy. But honestly? I don't think I would have finished at all without him. Turns out there's actual science behind this. A 2024 study found that people who chased goals with a friend had 35% better follow-through. Another one looked at 100+ studies and found that having just one accountability partner boosted success rates by 47%. Makes sense when you think about it. So here's my ask: if you're starting in GetSharked, don't do it alone. Grab a friend. Someone from your poker group. That guy from Discord who's always complaining about the same stuff you are. A buddy from your local card room. Go through the system together. Jump into GetSharked Games. Send each other "did you log your session?" messages. It sounds small, but it works. And there's a bonus — if your friend joins Premium (the regular one, not the Founding Member Offer), you get 40% of their subscription as long as they stay. No limit. Bring three friends and your membership basically pays for itself. Bring five and when I finish building the Teams tool, you'll get it free plus you can create your own team in GetSharked Games. Skool handles the payouts automatically. You don't have to chase me for anything. But honestly, the money is just a nice extra. The real win is having someone in your corner when Week 3 hits and everything feels hard. Your referral link: Right side of the community page → "Invite People" button → grab your link → send it to someone. Not sure what to say?