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About You
1. What is your name, age and where are you located? What is your personal twitter account?
My name is Leszek Badurowicz, I’m 30. I live in Poland, this week, I’m moving to Warsaw.
2. What are Your online poker Screen names?
Currently I’m playing only on Stars and my SN is DidYouLikeIt
3. How would you define yourself as a poker player? / What poker games do you normally play? Are you learning any new games?
I’m not a full time pro ![😉]()
I am invloved in a several mindset project, I write articles, run a fanpage and rest of the time spend on playing poker. I play PLO200 zoom – 4 tables.
4. What do you most enjoy about your job?
I love intelectual competition among players and I love winning in this competition ![😉]()
The most satisfaction gives me situations where I am clearly outplaying another player.
5. Who are the top 3 players in your main game from your home country in your personal opinion?
GramGrubo is definitely far the best Polish PLO player. I have a lot of respect for MDUczuczukwe, Fejhoa and Miszczunio85 as well.
6. What reg in your game do you respect most? Can you briefly describe why?
Currently I’m having hard time playing against Krondix. This year, he has the best results on PLO200 zoom and he’s tough. His style differs a lot from mine. I must spend some time to analyse him better and outplay the next time ![😉]()
7. Besides yourself who do you think the most underrated poker player is?
In Poland most of attention is focused on the tournament players so in my opinion a lot of good cash players are underrated in my country, e.g. NLHE player Gumis aka „Ganicuss” on Party. He has over 7bb/100 on 700k sample at Midstakes within last 2-3 years. This is an amazing result, still most of players are not aware of that
Past
1. Why and when did you start playing poker? Do you still play for the same reasons?
It was a funny story. I was going on the Academic Polish Chess Championship together with the team of my Technical University. My friends taught me how to play and we were playing for small money all the way, which took 7 hours. I was amazed how great this game was. I immediately realized that this is just the beginning of my poker journey. I can say that I fall in love with poker from the first moment ![😉]()
I still love the game, however, when you play for a living you can’t just Focus on having fun from the game. Of course fun is very important but you need to add certain level of profesionalism and discipline in order to be a winning player.
2. What were the best and worst months of your poker career? What happened?
I don’t have a huge swings and even though I play PLO, my results are pretty stable, but I really remember the September 2011. I wasn’t really sure if I should play profesionally or go back to work. I was playing PLO50/100. Within 1 month I made over 130 BI. After that I decided to stick to poker and I don’t regret that decision ![😉]()
That month was a real breakthrough for me.
3. Are you satisfied with the last 12 months of your poker play?
I am very satisfied. Because I am involved in some other projects I was afraid that my results will deteriorate. Sometimes I sit down to the session at 22-23 when I am a little bit tired after whole day. I am aware that this impacts my winrate in a negative way, but I that was my choice and I am not complaining about that.
That’s why I didnt have very high poker expectations for this year. I decided to Focus most of my time on mindset education, sport psychology studies etc. Fortunately, this year my results are even better than the last year, my wr improved and I managed to almost avoid playing my C-game.
4. How did Black Friday impact you? How did you adapt after Black Friday?
It didn’t impact me at all.
5. What was the biggest factor in your development as a player?
I think the most important factor was a significant improvement of hand reading. I spend a lot of time on that and it affected my game the most in the first stages of my poker career. Hand reading took me from low stakes to mid stakes so I think that was something really important for my game.
6. What was the biggest mistake(s) you have done as a poker player?
Games were really good in 2012 and I was running good as well. I wish I was playing more that year and took maximum advantage of the last in my opinion golden year for online poker.
Another point is unclear law situation of online poker in Polnad. This made me doubt a sense of dedicating my career to poker. Because of that I lost like a half a year looking for other options, e.g. I wanted to start a doctor’s degree in psychology.
7. What’s your biggest prop bet?
$10 bet at the airport – whose suitcase would come first. I am not much of a gambler ![😉]()
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Present
1. How do you prepare for your poker activities?
I have a special „start routine”. I have been working on it for quite long with sport psychologist and it really helps me to start the session in optimal emotional state.
2. If you could pick the brain of anyone in the world for 3 hours, who would he/she be?
Garry Kasparov. I have read a few interviews with him and his book. He is a pure genius.
3. What 3 poker pros should PokerStars sign to their team online roster?
Maybe Robert Lewandowski ![😉]()
4. What is your favorite way to relieve stress when running bad?
I Focus on mindset projects, read books, do some sports, watch movies.
5. How much volume are you playing on Eurosites?
Currently I am playing only on Stars
6. Why are you not playing mid/high stakes already? If you are, what are the 3 most important things that got you there?
Mostly because this is my conscious choice. This year I’m beating PLO200 for over 6bb/100. I have no doubt I could play PLO500 but this limit is much much more demanding than PLO200. You can’t just sit a little bit tired and hope to crush these games. Because of that, I am aware, that this will require from me, quitting some of my projects. And that’s the point, I really wouldn’t like to limit my life just to poker. I would like to do something for other people and develop myself in terms of being an expert in sport psychology and poker psychology as well. This way I can really have a job with a positive impact on others. And this is much more important for me than beating the next limit.
3 things that got me here:
-well-considered work on my game
-discipline
-constant improvement in terms of mindset
7. What is the most important positive change you’ve made to your poker approach this year?
I am much better at exploiting people’s stats and I really cut on playing my C-game. I can really feel the difference made by those 2 factors.
Future
1. What are your poker and other goals for the next 12 months?
Write book about poker mindset
Make a series of mindset videos and articles for beginning players
Make 300k hands of very high quality poker
Improving my game on the BB to the level where I will loose <30bb/100
Also within the next 12 months I will have finished my studies, get married and hopefully have a wonderful honeymoon
2. Are you confident that you will meet those goals? Why?
Yes I am. The point is that sometimes we find more attractive opportunities and change our plans.
3. Do you see yourself still playing poker in 10 years?
I know what I would like to achieve within the next 2-3 years. However, the world changes so fast and dynamically that I don’t think we are able to predict the future in 10 years. I hope I would still play poker, but probably more recreationally than today.
4. Do you have any ambition to coach/teach other players?
Yes, and actually I feel I’m better trainer than a coach. I have been a mindset and PLO trainer for 5 years, mostly for Polish poker communites and it gave me tons of satisfaction. This year I became a trainer at RIO and this is not the end of my plans in this area. So, yeah, I really like teaching others.
5. What’s the poker dream for you?
I would love to win a live PLO tournament. It must be a great feeling.
6. How do you see the poker landscape changing in the next five years?
Poker players adapt very quickly to changes, and information are spread very fast. Because of that poker community is aware of the profitability of different games. Therefore in my opinion we will observe equalization of hourly rate of solid MS regs. Most of MS level regs will be winning $70-$150/hour. If there is a new profitable game like Spin & Go then very quickly it attracts many regs and after a few months, games get tougher and again most of regs start earning less than $150/hour. If hourly rates would drop below $50/hour then a lot of playrs will quit playing poker and start normal jobs.
7. How much time are you putting into studying financial issues like investing. What are your preferred sources for this? What investments are you making with your poker winnings?
Probably not enough, but I have already started saving money for the pension ![😉]()
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Other
1. Do you have any regular non-poker hobbies? Whats your favorite way to spend your spare time?
It may sound trivial but I love reading – especially psychological books and I really like watching criminals. I enjoyed crazy parties 5 years ago, now I calmed down and prefer calm lifestyle. Now I love spending time with my fiancee and the closest friends. I also like walks and I am big fan of tasting new dishes and cuisines.
2. If you could give you from five years ago (make it ten if over 30) one major piece of advice, what would it be?
Don’t hesitate too much with making decisions that you know are right but tough to make. Just do it.
3. What are the 3 things everyone should have on their bucket list?
Be in a happy and loving relationship
Get a job that gives them a full satisfaction
Try snorkelling/scuba diving
4. Do you follow any poker podcasts or poker players on Twitch?
No
5. If you could change one thing with online poker, what would that be? What if you could change one thing with live poker?
I would definitely ban sitting scripts and try to stop the development of complex IT programs which gives regs bigger Edge. This direction will kill online poker within a few years. Recreational players should have fan. Most of them are aware of those programs. This knowledge takes out the fun element and make them looking for another sources of entertainment
The same is with live poker. Is playing with somebody in a hood, sun glasses and with headphones funny? Some of those things should be prohibited. Recreational players want to have fun, talk, get into some interactions. If we will not do it, they will go somewhere else, e.g. to the roulette table.
Poker became more professional than ever. From one point it is good, but from another, poker community should find a balance between development of poker and providing fun for recreational players. I think within the last few years we have lost this balance, and because of that games are tougher.
6. What is the best place and the best restaurant your have ever visited?
I had a really great time in Las Vegas. I have been there twice for 3 weeks and can’t wait to visit the city again.
When it comes to a restaurant, I would distinguish Comme Chez Soi in Budapest. I have never experienced so outstanding service. Of course food was delicious as well.
7. Who do you challenge to do the Poker Player Snapshot next and why?
I would challenge polish NL500 player Yac. He is really a well-mannered guy. I think it’s pretty rare in the poker environment. Many players can gain a lot by listening to people like Yac.
I am invloved in a several mindset project, I write articles, run a fanpage and rest of the time spend on playing poker. I play PLO200 zoom – 4 tables.
