The COVID-19 virus is killing people at an unprecedented rate, but there is an even more destructive virus doing the rounds.
The Fear Virus.
Fear is spreading around the globe faster than when Superman spun the world to save Lois Lane’s life. Even the churchyard angels are looking morose.
It’s not only the fear of death that’s spreading. There’s the fear of the unknown, economic loss, and getting your basic needs met. On the financial side, it’s time for us all to think of ways that we can make a living from home.
Physical constraints aside, it’s fear that prevents change. If there was ever a time to look at this belief from a different perspective, it’s now.
Take Sami Kelopuro and Conor Beresford, for example.
When considering a career in online poker, fear must have been present.
“Playing online poker for a living is a pipe dream?”
“Get a real job.”
And yet here they are, knocking six-figure sums out of the park in nothing but boxer shorts and slippers while outside the door, the birds feel that something’s not quite right.
Sami Kelopuro Wins a $10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Event.
Kelopuro could have been a chemist, kindergarten teacher or accountant. Instead, he’s carved out one of the most successful online poker careers of all-time, competing under the iconic pseudonym ‘Lrslzk’.
The Finn has earned close to $12.5m playing online tournaments and recently added $200,376 to the kitty claiming the victory in the $10,300, $500,000 GTD Pot-Limit Omaha (PLO) 6-Max at the PokerStars High Rollers Series.
The event attracted 57-entrants and $570,000 in prize money.
Incredibly, it’s only his 11th most significant online cash, with the $735,300 he won after taking down the Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) Main Event in 2011 his personal best.
Here are the final table results.
Final Table Results
1. Sami “Lrslzk” Kelopuro – $200,376
2. Yara777 – $132,717
3. Zagalo87 – $87,903
4. Terror777727 – $58,221
5. MITS 304 – $38,562
6. Pkrbt – $28,321
7. Xnrobix – $23,896
Conor Beresford Claims an Even Bigger Win
Ranking #2 in the PocketFives World Rankings, Conor’ 1_conor_b_1′ Beresford, has a paintbrush in hand, slapping a new life on a blank canvas.
The British star topped a field of 422-entrants to win the second $5,200 No-Limit Hold ’em (NLHE) Main Event of the PokerStars High Rollers Series, banking $378,204.52.
It’s the most significant score of Beresford’s career, doubling the $180,438 earned after winning the $5,200 buy-in NLHE Kick-Off event in this same series – an incredible feat.
Beresford has now earned $10.2m, playing online tournaments.
Here are the final table results.
Final Table Results
1. Conor ‘1_conor_b_1’ Beresford – $378,204
2. Vicenfish – $281,108
3. Powergolf – $208,939
4. Laszlo ‘omaha4roolz’ Bujitas – $155,429
5. Prof.Hitman – $115,429
6. Alberto.m7 – $85,794
7. Parker ‘tonkaaaa’ Talbot – $63,768
8. Niklas ‘Lena900’ Astedt – $47,397
As a core emotion, fear should be handled like a magpie’s egg in your mouth as you slide down the trunk of a tree. It keeps you on your toes. It’s a protectorate.
Still, if you let it become as snug as a pearl in an oyster, there will be trouble ahead. We’re not guinea pigs, operating on instinct alone. As human beings, we have the capability of introspection.
Use it.
Place your fears under an Auric Goldfinger laser-like focus, and you’ll learn that fear of the future, and concerns from the past, create inertia, procrastination – two debilitating actions that prevent you from realising your true potential.
Find a way to break through to the other side.
You’re more capable than you will ever know.
Don’t become infected by the fear virus.