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Daniel breaks down the years between dealing tournaments for ten bucks an hour and sitting in Triton fields, and he is unusually direct about which parts were skill and which parts were variance. He covers what he got wrong about bankroll management, why taking oversized pieces of yourself destroys the cash flow you need to survive a downswing, and how markup and staking arrangements actually work when you are trying to move up. He also explains why downswings, not money, are what push players out of the game.

We dive deep into the twelve months that changed his results: losing 43 kilograms after a friend pointed out that nobody at the highest buy-ins looks the way he did, a 400,000 dollar blunder on the way to his first seven figure score, and what it felt like to finally win the trophy he had been chasing. He talks about winner's tilt, why he thinks players use theory as protection from being judged, how he reverse engineers the adjustments top players make, and why discomfort is the signal that tells you where to study next.

Timestamps:
0:00 Intro and why he chose the toughest fields
3:51 Chess, football, and why he needed a trophy at the end
6:58 Matthias Eibinger and the crew that proved it was possible
8:57 Down to his last 5K with no bankroll management
12:00 His dad: give me the money, you are going back to uni
13:26 Treating tournaments like an ATM
15:21 Why he kept repeating the same mistake
18:40 Markup, selling pieces, and the liquidity trap
21:12 The friends who warned him and why he ignored them
23:37 Patrick Leonard on shot taking in your twenties
28:43 Setback after setback without a victim mindset
33:27 The better you get, the more you realize how much you suck
38:19 Sponsor: Hand2Note
40:11 When high stakes beat the overconfidence out of him
44:16 170 kilograms and the friend who called him out
47:54 Why discomfort keeps you improving, and how he manufactures it
54:42 The last twelve months on a heater
57:15 The 400K blunder inside his first seven figure score
1:01:12 Why the trophy only felt good for a day
1:03:56 The next ten years, and no more FOMO
1:08:04 Winner's tilt and respecting your opponents
1:10:13 Reading form and mood, and the myth of the emotionless high roller
1:14:09 Why tournaments, and what the pandemic did for his game
1:20:55 Turning an individual game into a team sport
1:23:05 When a coach helps and when it is a waste
1:25:16 Sponsor: Mechanics Leak Buster
1:26:35 Studying backwards from the money stage
1:29:16 He studied river nodes and found out he was a station
1:31:28 Why players memorize solvers instead of thinking
1:33:46 Reverse engineering how the best players adjust
1:37:38 The most valuable lesson poker taught him
1:38:59 The hardest lesson
1:40:47 Do not be a passenger in your own story
1:42:20 Toxic circles, Atomic Habits, and choosing your environment
1:46:53 The biggest contributor to his success
1:49:24 The Triton trophy and the friends with six of them
1:51:49 Advice to his 2017 self
1:54:03 The main takeaway
1:55:08 Adam and Rene break it down