...(or April in English) has been a really good month. Most likely it was my best month ever. Managed to play a lot of hands 8-tabling 6-max games at Stars with a good winrate. At the end of the month I got pretty fed up with SH games so I decided to play a little HU, cause it's alway sick fun. Unfortunately it's also really tilt-inducing, so I set myself a 2BI stop loss. Thank god, it has never happened (only 3 days of playing tho).
Regarding May, I am going to continue playing 1-on-1 games for some time (probably till I reach a $13k roll; then, FWIW, I'll play 6-max until I win a grand and after reaching $14k I'll finally move up to NL200 :D).
My bankroll is $11,100 ATM. It increases slowly and I cash-out a few hundred bucks from time to time, whenever I need money. Looks like I'll reach my goal in a few weeks.
BTW, I finally started going to the gym regularly. Hopefully I'll be as beautiful as Floofy in 5-6 months.
I view all these NL100 6-max hands from PS that are posted here (not all of them obv), both in the 'Hands' and 'MSP' section, and I can't remember seeing me at the table in any of these hands, not to mention being the villain.
It's some paranormal stuff, I gotta tell you that.
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Doing great and, more importantly, playing good, solid nitty poker so far this month. 60k hands in April still reachable - I'm a bit above 2k/day right now.
Was hoping for 2PTBB/100 so I'd make $2.4k this month. Things are turning out differently and my roll boosts up every day. Still a lot to go before NL200 tho - I'm a bankroll nit and I enjoy being one, so don't force me to move up . Hopefully I'll reach the required amount before the end of May. + Show Spoiler +
I'd like to have 14k before I move up, now I have $8270 and 90k FPPs, which I'm going to use to buy the $1500 bonus.
Besides poker not much going on. Still haven't started going to the gym, but I promise I will in the near future (a week or so). Billiards - same old boring stuff. Guess I got into a rut with my life at the moment. I feel like going to the LP meet up would be a sick n' awesome thing, but I don't want to spend that much money while I still grind low stakes.
March was just meh. I broke even in poker and didn't make it through group stage in a countrywide billiards tournament . Thank god the month is over.
My plans for April: play 60k hands (have never done it before - 55k is my personal best), play a lot of pool and start going to the gym finally (gotta drop some kilograms, 93 (205 pounds) doesn't sound or look nice :D).
I'm starting to lose motivation, cause now I have a roll of $7050 and I had this much like a month ago. I have to rebuild myself mentally so I'm going to play NL50 till I reach $8000. This is a barrier I cannot get through at NL100 and I'm sure it'll take me just a few days to get there on a lower limit. So far I've been destroying these stakes at Everest and hopefully that'll continue.
Playing NL50 will be for me like going on vacation .
Ship! I made to to the top 64 in the billiards tourney I was writing about in my previous entry! Obv I lost the very first match the next day and finished 33rd . Gained a lot of confidence and motivation to train even harder thanks to this achievement.
Here are my group results (I'm Kapka):
Told you. Just another boring February summary. Anyway, now that you're here let me entertain you with some sexy PT and PokerGrapher pics:
All in all, I'm happy with my results and the amount of hands I played. On Everest I'm able to play 6 tables at once so to make 2k hands in one day I have to play over 5hrs. I started off really great, but eventually I had to encounter some downswings, thus the 2nd part of the month is swingy as hell.
On a side note, my roll reached over $7200 and I'm eagerly awaiting March (I hope I'll reach 10k by the end of the month, yay!).
Non poker-wise, tomorrow in the morning I'm going to Mikolow (a small town in Poland) to play in a nation-wide pool billiards tournament. I still play A LOT and improve greatly so I have a little higher expectations of my performance in the tournament. Hopefully I'll reach the play-off stage, which would be a great achievement (it means advancing to the top 64). Regardless if I make it or not, the most important thing is to play my best. If the opposition will be too tough for me - no big deal, not my fault . I'll just have to keep on "grinding" at the local pool hall and try again in April .
For the last three months I played a lot of poker on Stars with a 2ptBB/100 winrate (NL50 & NL100) and read a lot of stuff here, at LP.net. I have never been a poker genius, just a decent grinder with a dream of becoming a successful player one day. I have been fully concentrated on my game since mid November and grinded my roll up to 6300.
The other day I deposited $400 on Everest, cause I was staying at my friend's house and he's playing NL50 6-max on that site. I decided to join him while being there. Everest was my first room ever and the last time I played there was in August last year. Having in mind that I improved a lot during the last few months I decided to play there a bit. Games are a lot easier than on Stars so I actually did expect good results. At first I played NL50 SH until I boosted my roll up to $1k. Then I started 6-tabling NL100 SH and now my roll there is about $2750, after less than 2 weeks of play.
I honestly feel that it's the best time for me to finally build a good roll. Even though I have the Supernova status at Stars I'm not going to play this site for now, because I don't think I can beat the games there with a higher winrate than 2ptBB/100. I'm gonna stick to Everest for some time and grind NL100 until I reach 18k there. I know that's one strict BM rule, but I have to open up my game and start making moves and even now, despite having over $6k on-line, I'm scared to do it :[. Hopefully I'll stop playing 17/14 sooner than later and I'll switch to a more profitable style as soon as I feel totally comfortable with my roll at .5/1.
I'm definitely going to play at Stars again, but I'll probably start from NL200 there with a really decent bankroll .
To make this blog entry entertaining, here's a song:
As for live game, from 18th to 20th January I'm gonna visit the most beautiful Polish city - Krakow and play in the Polish Poker Tour there. This time I'm gonna stick to tournaments, play the main event and one side event freezout. I'm definitely going to spend some time sightseeing, even though it's pretty cold here in Poland this time of the year.
As for non-poker related stuff, from 25th to 27th January there is a big pool billiards tournament held in Lodz, which I'm not going to miss. I have already signed up for it. I'll try to play my best and, who knows, maybe I'll even win a couple of matches. No big expectations tho, even though I significantly improved since mid November, which is when I started training really hard.
Didn't party much lately, mainly because of lack of funds. I had an UK Neteller account and they asked me to send them some documentary so they could change my address and I could still use my previous account here, in Poland. I did send them my ID, passsport and bank statement scan. Unfortunately I don't get paper statements from the bank so I had to go to the branch myself and ask the lady there to print me it. Unfortunately #2 this printed document didn't look as "professional" as the paper statement they send home so Neteller did not accept it. So I had to go to the branch, ask them to print me another document and stamp it. So I did it 4 days ago and sent it to Neteller. Hopefully I'll have my address changed on Monday so I could withdraw money. No big deal if it will take a little longer, because one of my friends agreed to give me $800 through a bank transfer and I'll give him these dollars through PS.
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(only 3 days of playing tho).
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