1k to 50k

31k hands in February 2 - May 20. I dont have a graph or anything like that but i added up the numbers it says on my rakeback accounts. I feel like such a n00b and that number should be like 10 times what it should be. Altho in may i only played about 3.5k hands because its finals month and i gotta pull my grades up. Another factor why i dont play much is parents :D but moving out after summer.


Poll: How many hands per month avg?
(Vote): 1-5k HPM
(Vote): 6-10k HPM
(Vote): 11-15k HPM
(Vote): 20-25k HPM
(Vote): 30-39k HPM
(Vote): Over 40k HPM

Edit... im not talkigna bout hands seen but how mnay flops you play. According to my rakeback stats ive played about 31k hands in 4 months?

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Finally i can stop buying expensive shit + food without hurting my BR. Ima start working partime/fulltime for local grocery store with buncha hot chicks(+EV). Came in for interview today and basically they gave me like nametag and everything. Ima start workign next wednesday right after my last Final. Lately i have not played very much poker at all maybe less than 15 hrs a week as opposed to 12 hrs per day.

Some changes: I will start following 20+ buyin rule, no EXCEPTION. Meaning i will wait as long as it takes for me to get up to 2300 before i take 3 shots at 100nl. I will try my best to keep playing a TAG game on 6max and FR. Also i will reduce amount of tables i play depending on my current mood. Sometimes ill be playing 2-4 tables sometimes i will play up to 6 tables max.

Also, I have found that shorthanded may be suited for my style more and theres also a ton of fish in SH low stakes.

My dad is gonna install a heatsink for my comp not to overheat again. I bought the 800 dollar fujitsu laptop yesterday so now i can switch to my laptop if my desktop freezes again.

Catch ya later fishes!!! (8 more days of school left)

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i got about 850 in my BR right now. Been grinding 50nl 6max tables the last 2 weeks.
I keep getting blue screen of death when im playing 4 tables or more. When i come back i have to pay blinds plus sb and im like fuck that!

So im cashing out $400 to buy a nice $860 fujitsu laptop. 1.83ghz core 2 duo, 2gb ram, 200gb memory, vista etc...

Ill have about 440 in my roll which is Great for 50nl and im getting 230 from RB next sunday. Then when my desktop freezes i can just boot UB/FT from my laptop no problem. Does anyone else have htis problem?

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Hrm... after switching to FT i thought i was on my way to 1k. I turned 50 dollar deposit into 283 in barely 3 days of playing(id say no more than 20 hrs of poker on 50nl). I thought i had it made, i had 25 dollar stack going all in with 44 vs my QQ (im last ot act) etc. everything going my way.

Then the downswing happens. I was multitabling 5 tables each time and I could not get over getting standard badbeats on maybe two tables. I lost 80 dollar pots AA vs QQ PF, and also, Set vs flushdraw on flop. Before i knew it, i was shortstack on all the tables and was forced to go all in with AK's etc. Ran into brick walls a few times. I'm a type of player that used to fold AK on the dealer button but something wasnt right...
i was raising with AK, getting reraised by aces and shoving... very unlike me i normally fold AK to reraise.

Today i played prolly over 2,000 hands and down about 50 bucks overall. I dont remember getting aces ever and havent really played any pots.

Im writing this as i bust off my last $40 on FT and last $30 on UB.

I got my 200 dollar UB check today, i got $230 in rakeback coming next month, hopefully i wont have to use any of the 200 i received today.


Yes i know im a Degen but i've reached 1k plateu a few times just gotta play more poker, and school isnt helping me reach the higher limits. I think i will stay at 50nl till i reach 1500 and take a few shots at 100NL

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Wow screw UB, their Jackpot rake is raping me hardcore. On a 4 dollar pot they get 50 cents on top of the rake for the hand. Ive hit the JP once for about 120 dollars or so compared to the thousands of dollars i payed trying to hit it...

I bought into ft about a month ago and bust because i wasnt used to the interface etc..
But today after no more than 5 hrs of play i turned 50 bucks into $236 on NL50 (5tabling $25 per table). The competition at FT is so much easier than ub imo and they dont do gay jackpot rakes. Plus a billion more players/tables etc... Today I had 25 dollar stacks going all in with 44 against my QQ... what a good day.

I know i got lucky today with the cards but im expecting ot reach 1500 in 2 weeks max! Ive set this goal at UB a few times but never met it due to tilt/badbeat rake/bad playing

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Theres this site called Pokertime... The competition there is really easy. I have a friend who won like 1k for 2nd place and another friend who won like 500 for 5th.

Theyr both mediocre players and the site is simply a joke. Im not sure about the cashgames as i have limited experience from it but the tourneys are ridiculously easy.
After watching my 2nd friend who sux really bad win 500 from a 25 dollar buyin it made me wanna play too. Anyways i built up $100 to $230ish, but the problem was i bought in from his house and played on his computer

After the session i log out and found i was banned! Both me and him were banned. I have 230ish stuck in the acct and my friend has $500 check that might not even come....... goes to show how ligit the site is. Right now were trying to contact what evidence they have against us for being illigitimate players and theyr having a hard time telling us.

Right now i doubt they will undo locking us out of the system but we contacted support again to see if they can do anything about it again.

Like someone mentioned its not worth it to bother with these small poker sites.

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i feel such a donk....

i had a 37 dollar stack vs a guy who had a full buyin (50).

The game was going really slow i bought in with 25 bux and the table was breaking up. I min-raised to 1 dollar with 22 and like two people call.

FLOP: 2h4d2c

Player 1 checks, i Check, player 3 thinks for a bit and bets 4.75 on like a 3 dollar pot.....

In fear of him having FH and drawing the last 4... i reraise to 9 bux. He tanks for about 30 seconds before folding. Lol im such a donk i shoulda just smoothcalled... i cant stop thinking about the hand Lol..

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1st blog post...... my blog originally http://flounder44.blogspot.com/

Hello guys my name is Mark P... I started playing poker 6 months ago with 5 dollar SnG's then started playing 25NL for 4 months and hte last 2 months ive switched to 50NL. The last 7 days i think i can crush 50NL now, i think i won like 75% of my sessions 4tabling.

I played 25nl for about 4 months before switching to 50nl, also lots of cashing out buying in etc going broke bad BRM. I've gotten past that and im starting to build my roll without cashing out.

Im following a 10 buyin rule but i always buyin for half the stack, so in reality i have 20 buyins... i think when i reach 1k ill start buying in for fullstack and then move up in stakes. I reached my first grand and thought i owned 50NL very quickly. But i cashed out and lent around 400 bux and then lost the rest of my BR slowly on tournaments/cashgames. I rebought for 50 last week and ive been crushing 50nl since then. My roll is at 600 and im not gonna cahs out till i get my br going more.

my goals in poker is to become a high stakes player 2000NL++ etc...... and be sucessful. I know im gonna need a ton of luck and skill but were gonna find out how far i can go. Two things that stand in my way are my Parents and School. I've done really well on 5 -15 dollar tournaments of 100-150 players but I rarely play those now cuz of school (16 units) plus parents interrupting etc when im 3 hrs in!!! I always paly at friends house now just to get away from my parents. My parents are not fully aware im playing with any money... but hopefully ill convince them this summer to let me move out, by getting a part time job.

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