How you know you're busto
edzwoo, Jan 10 2011
So I cashed out my rolls from my Stars and FTP accounts a while ago, but I guess I randomly got some sort of bonus on both accounts because I had exactly $100 sitting in them.
I decide to go and two table NL50 HU. This guy sits with me: http://www.pokertableratings.com/stars-player-search/Mr_Yalc
Some other guy sits at my other table and about the fourth hand in with Mr Yalc, I get K9cc in vs his A3cc on J87ccc and get stacked. I auto-reload back to $7.85 because he took half my roll.
He sits out and asks me to "pls reload". I tell him sorry man it's all I got. So he quits me.
I don't care how my business is doing, I have never felt more busto in poker.
In any case, the other guy quits me and I start 3 tabling with $10, and I quintuple all of those so now I have $170. Maybe I'll record this progress and see how far I can get it before busto-ing.
My story and transitioning out of poker
edzwoo, Dec 17 2010
Hey guys,
Just thought I'd share what's been going on recently with me since I haven't been playing as much recently. This might be a little bit of a read, but I think it'll be interesting to most of you. I'm also just kinda bored so I might throw in some random irrelevant details.
I've been meaning to write all this out because of this thread: http://www.liquidpoker.net/poker-forum/935296/Your_poker_goals__.html
It just got me thinking, how many of you guys had a plan after poker, if any?
I started playing poker when I was 18, and like most of you I played NL2 with a small starting bankroll (mine was a random free $5 Stars promotion). Signed up for LP and pretty much went through what most of you are doing or have done with posting countless threads/getting yelled at by TalentedTom/thinking about poker in the shower. After about a year or so I was playing finally playing NL100. Not really enough of a sample size, but I was winning at like 5ptbb over the first 100k hands or so I played and a had a lot of 10bi+ days. Probably was a massive heater, but I do think the games were a bit easier, or whatever I was doing was working really well against the player pool.
Anyway around this time I ended up dropping out of school. Before you guys say that's really stupid, I totally agree with you; dropping out just to play poker is pretty stupid. Actually, I just use poker as an excuse of why I dropped to make it easier to explain to non-poker players. In reality, I'm a pretty terrible student without the discipline to study or do homework. I'm pretty sure it would've happened if you substituted a random video game that made me no money with poker as well.
Rent is cheap here in Champaign. It's about $420 a month to live in a nice apartment. Overall, my living expenses usually amounted to about 1k a month. I'm a pretty frugal guy and I don't drink, so other than ordering food pretty much every day it doesn't take much for me to be pretty content. So in terms of actually surviving, I never really had a problem. I guess I did have the luxury of my family supporting me in case something happened or my bankroll got low, but I never had to resort to that.
So now it's the summer of last year now, and I got 3 other roommates and we subleased a pretty sweet apartment right in the middle of all the stores and bars for like $200/month/bedroom (hilariously good deal). Life was pretty good, but one problem that kinda irked me is I had no future. I'm sure a lot of you guys share this same situation, which is kinda the reason I'm writing all this. Since I didn't get a degree, I can't really get a job. Since I'm not getting a job, I'm also not really networking with new people either. To top it off, the biggest problem was my initial reason I dropped out of school, which is the lack of motivation.
See, when I was playing NL2, I had these aspirations to get to NL100 and NL200 and be financially independent. I did these calculations where I was like, "Woah if I played X hours a day, I will be making Y per year". So I'd play like 3-4 hours a day at the micros so I could move up faster. The major flaw is it wasn't the money that drove me, but the desire to live off of poker. Once I actually got there, I started playing like an hour every other day. Since I only really needed 10bi at NL100 a month to support my lifestyle, I usually would quit and just chill for the month after I made like $1500~. My biggest miscalculation was I wouldn't have the motivation to make money beyond what I simply needed. So yeah, just a quick warning to those of you that are grinding the microstakes and have very modest goals like I did.
Anyway, I had to think of what I was going to do with my life, cause I certainly wasn't going to live on school campus ordering the same double gyro plate everyday. I want to get married in the future with a nice house and stuff, and $1500 a month wasn't going to cut it. Of course, going back to school and getting a legit job came into mind, but I quickly realized I still had lack of motivation for that. Also, it kinda came to mind that the reward for getting a degree is usually being able to get a 9 to 5 job. If I can't even wake up for a 2pm class or turn in a homework assignment on time, I'd probably either be miserable or get snap-fired.
It didn't really take me very long to realize that as an online poker player I just want to sit at my computer, click buttons and make money. So with that I stumbled across internet marketing and eCommerce. Basically just running an internet business. So for about the past year or so, I've been studying a ton about internet marketing just like I did with poker when I was at the micros. And believe me when I say this, having poker experience really gave me a huge advantage. People without that background have to learn things like not being results oriented, handling tilt, understanding variance, bankroll management, etc. It took me some time to realize this, but everything made so much more sense when approached with a poker mindset.
So as you all probably know, Jason and I decided to start a little niche business about 6 months ago and split it 50/50. I've known Jason since high school, and we've actually both taken advantage of a ton of random arbitrage opportunities when we were just broke kids. The difference between us though is I hate doing something if it isn't efficient or boring, but Jason can just straight up go for something and grind it like mad. Dunno if any of you guys saw one of his really old blog posts but check this out: http://www.liquidpoker.net/blog/viewblog.php?id=824133. 16000 feedback isn't so easy to get.
Well with the holidays here, we're on a pretty sick heater with our sales, but even so we've been making enough to both be financially independent (and better than what I was making in poker). If you want a little bit of an idea of where we're at, we can probably pull off over 1 million in revenue (not profit) next year assuming we don't grow at all. We're actually growing ridiculously fast, so I think it's going to be MUCH bigger than that. There's definitely no lack of motivation on my end because even with all the work involved, it's a really awesome feeling at the end of the day.
One thing I would love to see is a Liquid forum for internet marketing. A lot of the forums for internet marketing are basically like twoplustwo; like 80%+ of the information is basically just fish giving advice, so as a newbie it's impossible to know what is good info and bad. I know for a fact I still have a hard time differentiating the good and bad advice. I was also wondering if I wrote some sort of eBook bridging poker into internet marketing, how many of you guys would be interested in it?
Uh
edzwoo, Nov 29 2010
Dad: Hey Eddie, before you go back to Champaign let me give you your mail that was sent here.
Me: Dad, how long have you had this jury summons for me?
Dad: A long time lol
c-c-c-ombo meal
edzwoo, Oct 19 2010
I think I figured it out
edzwoo, Oct 19 2010
So I've been struggling a lot for the last 2 months or so, and even strayed away from playing my normal loose game to mass tabling nitting it up playing 14/11 or so. That didn't work so I did a lot of studying on trends of bigger winners and stuff.
October 17th is when I made these applications, and I'm on the first solid winning streak I've had in two months. I'll post a graph at the end of the month and I think there will be a noticeable difference.
Obviously there isn't much you can conclude from a sample of say 60k hands which is what I'll have, but there are specific spots you can filter out that actually converge very fast. I've also been doing a little bit of Holdem Manager analysis and there is noticeable difference in redline and such in my play as well. It seems previous very consistent trends in my postflop and preflop play have made big shifts.
Might be a pre-mature claim but I think I may have upped my winrate by at least 2ptbb.
My low peak was this month was -20bi or so, and I am predicting by the end of the month my graph will look like a giant checkmark. Keep me accountable on this!
Hit the peak of SC2 and poker
edzwoo, Sep 19 2010
So I was grinding the SC2 ladder and I got paired up with this person.
Uptown bullied me into blogging this sorry no BM intended <3<3<3 
Y SO CEREUS
edzwoo, Sep 04 2010
Don't really have much to comment on. The tables are almost always really good, and they also have 4 handed tables which can be pretty fun when you get a fish.
NL400 Rush Poker
edzwoo, Aug 17 2010
omgomgomg
that is all
Horrible Downswing
edzwoo, Aug 02 2010
Just lost 6 games in a row. First three were close, last three were all against protoss, and every single one used this build:
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=140629
FFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU I need to get better at scouting and reacting. What's the likelihood of me getting the boot out of diamond league?
Feel bad for the staker
edzwoo, Jul 15 2010
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