MasterofLaw

Hi everyone!

Finally I've decided to take my poker my seriously. A thing that's included into that decision is to sign up here and read a hell lot of more about poker. I'm not totally new to this place, been lurking around for a while but without making my presence noticed.

I've been playing poker for like 2.5 years or something. But I have always underestimated the aspects of BRM and variance. Eventhough I think I could beat 0.5/1-1/2 maybe i've never had a bankroll big enough for those games, especialy not since I mostly play HU. The results is often me depositing 100USD or something making my way up to 1-4k USD and then losing much of it.

This Friday something huge happende, I decided to take my poker more serious. The main topic for this will be BANKROLL MANAGEMENT, that's been my biggest leak so far in combination with the fact that i'm a natural born tilter. Can't recall how many times for the last 2yrs i've deposited a sum and built i up for a couple of weeks and sometimes months as I earlier stated. Then always this distrasous night or evening comes, sometimes for a reason but most often not, when I totally fuck my bankroll over, ending with no bankroll left at all or me withdrawing the remaining cash about 10-50% depending how fast I can get out of totally tiltmode and calm down to just tilting and hating poker and therefore witdraws. I think the most common way for me is when i'm being to fixed with numbers. Say i've deposited 100usd then I play to 1.500usd. Then I get a fix of that number so when i lose so i've got like 1330 left or something I move up in level to quickly get it back or passing 1500 instead of just call the day and quit or move down i levels.


This time this won't happen. I have been staked by LP's DustySwede and I'm not allowed to play any higher than NL25 for a great while. It pretty much sucks, mostly because it will take long time to win money and the fact that there's no NL25 hu tables, but I'll take it both as a challenge and a punishment for earlier behavior. The deal is that i will return him 150% of the stake after some months from now, and I'm also obliged to send over some of my hands for mainly two purposes, firstly so he can coach me further and secondly so he can see that I follow the rules. (Feels pretty strange to be his apprentice, back in law school I was the teacher. But i'm not that stupid and I realize that this is a different sport).

The purpose of this blog is mainly to show my progress and make my play more public. I think it will be harder for me to tilt all away. In the beginning I cant tilt away the roll because of my obligations to Dusty, but this blog will keep me not tilting away when I've slowly built a new roll of my own.

Ty Dusty for giving me this opportunity and I wont let you down ;-)

The challenge started 2days ago. Played a lot on the friday evening and night at Dustys place. Lost 1,5 bi all in all after som rigged hands ;-) and some spewwing i guess. Saturday I didnt play much at all. Today I've so far had a short session which started out totally bad with me getting AQ all in vs A7 when the board showed AA6. But I managed to climb back and at the moment my bankroll is 0,5bi at NL25. Now I'm heading for a new session! Whish me luck!

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