Do boju Polsko!

As some of you may know, I decided to become a pro player this season. I've been living in London for 1,5 month and recently I moved to Crawley with a friend of mine, who works at a nearby airport. I didn't have Internet at home until this Tuesday (yuk!) so I couldn't play full time. Internet Cafe was my only option. I started playing NL100 again and, to my amusement, I became a winning player there (finally, FFS). Because of not playing much I won only around $2000 in like 35 days or so (didn't play every day). Cash-outed $2500 in the meantime. Why so much, when it should've been a thousand less? Well, my dear friend had an argument with his parents, he left home without saying a word, spent a month somewhere in Poland and came to England with barely any money. Fucking joke. Had to lend him $1k for the rent, food, bus etc.
Anyway, now that I have Net at home I can play as much as I want. Won $300 two days ago, $350 yesterday and lost all of it today. Fuckin' Europeans calling my PF 3-bets with A5, hitting 2 pair on the turn and busting my AK. And some tilt involved as well, of course. This beautiful mixture allowed me to drop my BR from $1280 to $630. I still have some cash left, and my friend is going to give me back some at the end of the month, so I need to withdraw only $500 in like 10 days. I cannot afford losing anything more so I just need to grind a bit on NL50. He'll give me back some more money next month, so withdrawing $700-$1000 should be enough at the end of November. No need to worry then. I promised myself that I'll have $10k BR before 01.01.2008 and I will. I'm very happy that I became a winner on NL100, and all the experience I gained here will definitely help me to beat NL50 soooooooooooooooo easily.

OK, now just two screens of my (almost) total NL100 play and that's it.

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I have been playing NL100 since last blog entry, but I didn't win anything. I'm going to spend september on NL50 - I was a big winner there and I hope to keep up my good run. If I still won't be able to beat NL100 after a month, I'll prolly take a few lessons with one of LP's coaches. I'd like to stay on NL100, but it's not possible due to my regular cashouts.
My goal is to make 4k until October. Wish me GL.

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Hi,

NL50 was a nice adventure - 12.95ptBB/100 after 25,5k hands. I withdrew enough money for August and September (at least I hope so) so now it's 30-35 days of BR building. Because of my great winrate on NL50 i decided to move up 5 days ago. Throughout first three days I made a lot of mistakes and forgot that it's all about EV, not about money. I constantly looked at my balance while playing just to see how much I'm up or down. One bad beat and I was tilted, to much to continue playing. Hopefully on the 4th day I braced myself up to play like on lower stakes. I won 3,5BI yesterday - enough to be +0,5BI on NL100 overall.
And, as ought to be after yesterday, today arrives. Arrives with a bunch of pretty ugly bad beats. That was a test of my mental strenght and I passed it with a good mark, that's sure.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/255393
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/255395
Last one is my favourite. It's against a guy who played every hand and had no clue whatsoever. For instance, he bets pot on each street to show a missed FD, and the very next hand he check/calls after flopping 2 pair against a guy betting pot on each street with KK. Pure genius. I decided to make a move and...
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/255397

Even with all these beats I managed to win $20 today so I'm very happy. I'll prolly play some more later so if you like to see the flop w/ T5o for 15BB, fell free to join me. Maybe you'll suck out on me too.

Cya

P.S. From now on I hate Todays.


EDIT: Oh yea, almost forgot. Today I watched redargoe playing on Stars. This guy totally owns NL1k and NL2k 6-max.

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I think it's about time to say 'goodbye' to PokerStars for a while. I'll stick to Everest and try to make a decent roll there. I'll definitely come back to PS to gain Supernova VIP status, but not before I'm properly rolled at least for NL100.
I really don't know why, but PS's soft somehow makes me tilt. I play a couple of hands and then I become more and more irritated due to not winning anything. Finally I donk off a buy-in or two before eventually end playing.
That's the reason of transfering my Stars roll (I ended up even on their site) to Everest. Everest is full of retarted Frenchman and Italians, mixed w/ fishy 40-year old Germans and nitty predictable Dutchman and Swedes. I have a sick winrate there and hopefully it won't decrease.

That being said, it's time to concentrate fully on NL50 at Everest.




1st column is available money, 2nd shows the amount of cash in play.

As some of you may know, currently I live in London. I decided to spend a whole year here in order to improve my English and start studying in Manchester from 2008. At first I wanted to find a job, but I think I'm too lazy to get up early every morning. So finally, after some thinking process (it hurts a lot, I gotta tell ya), my decision is to play poker for a living and withdraw $1200 every month. Of course if I continue winning on Everest and increasing my roll even cashing out each month. If not - it's time to get a job, bitch .

Well, looks like you finally reached the end of this post.


Thx for reading,
GL everyone!

P.S. Actually, I have a job now. I'm translating English CardPlayer articles for the Polish edition. Not a well payed job though.

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July review ofcoz. I cashouted everything and left myself w/ 800 bucks. As I write this post my BR i $2200, so it looks like I spewed 900 on donkaments in July.
No more freakin donkaments in August! Once and for all!

I'm going to update this blog once in a week or sth like that so keep an eye on the next entry .

EDIT: Oh yea, almost forgot. I play mainly on EverestPoker, some Stars to achieve Supernova status (18k left).

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I'm gonna make this post even though it's 4:30 a.m. and I'm extremly sleepy. I decided to start blogging again cause things are getting worse and worse. And I'm not talkin bout my skill. I'm talkin bout my concentration, mentality and all that shit. OK, so let's start from the beginning.
The whole time I wasn't posting anything I was playing SH games on PS and some FR on EverestPoker. My BR was going up and down, and one day I finally reached 5k. That day I decided to play on Stars only. Transferred my whole cash, bla bla bla. On 1st June I deleted my PT database and opened a new one (why not?). I won some on NL100 and decided to give it a try on NL200 (I cashouted some so I had only 4.5k back then). I won 100 bucks in three days and went back to NL100. I played there for a week or so and then went to NL200 again. This time I dropped sth like 6BI and was really pissed. I grinded sth back on NL100, cashouted again and played on NL200 again today. I also played my 1st PLO cash game today (lost 200 though). Lost 200 on NL200 also, and I'm done. Fuck this shit. I gotta grind my way up, with proper bankroll management, dammit. So now I have only 2.4k on PS. I'm doing pretty good on NL100 this month (4.5ptBB/100 after 15k hands), the trip to 1/2 helped me a lot (even though I lost a huge amount of cash) cause now I see how EZ NL100 is.
I still have that fckn Fancy Play Syndrome, hope that blog helps me to get rid of it.

I moved to England a week ago, I'm going to work here for a year and then start to study, prolly in Manchester. I'm decent about no cashouting throughout the time I'll work, so hopefully I'll make 8k BR in less than 3 months. Of course if I run proper bankroll management.

OK, so goal nr 1 is:
Make 8k bucks and improve my game a lot.
Reward: NL200.

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I played a lot during the last 2 days, won almost nothing .
I didn't play my A poker all the time, made some serious mistakes. After 2k hands I had been down about 3BI, but then I started to play really well and I managed to win more than I lost. The last session was terrible, no good hands, bad beats, just no way I could make a profit there. I lost about 50 bucks, but that's OK.
A few hands:
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/145851
I had played it definitely to slow on the first two streets and I was punished on the river for my bad play.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/145852
Suckout.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/145854
I guess too slow again .
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/145855
Standard.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/145856
Ppl get lucky against me, but why can't I be the one hitting his 2 outer?
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/145857
Implied odds were absolutely good enough to call on the flop. Luckily he had an 8 .
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/145862
I think I wouldn't call that against a good, solid player, but he was a total fish.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/145864
I think I made the best possible move here, my all-in wasn't even a pot raise and he could have so many drawing hands that an all-in was necessary here.

Hands: 4,290
Balance: +$59.45
Total hands: 5,808
Total balance: +$300.20

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Welcome again!

I had some serious learning recently (fckn exams) so I didn't play poker for some time. I have signed up at CardRunners, watched some videos from their site, closed PokerTracker while compacting my database (hahaha , I'm a total idiot). So seems like I start from the beggining again . No more tourneys, no more fucking around on other rooms, time to play seriously.
I had to cashout more than the half of my roll, my long-term goal is to grind my way up to NL400, short-term - $4k --> NL100. I have a little more than $1000 after this session, so wish me luck .

A few hands from this session:
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/144548
I really don't know why he called that . I put him on an Ace with a good kicker and thought that he'll be a bit confused after my move. Seems like he was LOL.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/144551
I keep calling situations like that, over and over again, even against good, solid players (that guy is one of them 4 sure). I think I should've played it more aggressively tho.

Hands: 1,518
Balance: +$240.75

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Shorthanded tables under way! Aggression, aggression and once more aggression - this is the key to be a winning player. I hope I'll keep up the good work, stay focused and win a lot of candy $_$. Please, Poker Gods, make my dream come true .
Because of tougher opponents and many tough desicions occuring on SH tables from now on I'll post not the biggest pot hands, but the most interesting ones. Enjoy!
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/140719 - the only thing that fitted here for me was a str8 draw
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/140721 - should I fold it on a SH table?
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/140722 - was that call too loose? 88 was a great possibility, especially with that scare card coming out on the turn.
My stats will be posted after 25k hands.

Hands: 5,526
Balance: +$220.45

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