some of the founders of this thread who are good players/well respected/good posters/old timers should start posting more. ive been a member here for a while and i notice this site has been plummeting in quality over the past few months. im thinking of quitting this site altogehter, although that might be a good first step in improving this site lol
but save this site please
I got into poker around six years ago, playing homegames and watching WPT/WSOP like most of you bros. Since I was not 18 yet I started playing on free money accounts in fake names, going through the risk of losing my entire bankroll by chipdumping to friends whenever I wanted to withdraw my winnings.
One day this was going to bite me in the arse. I was using another faked account with the $50+$25 free money deal at PartyPoker, finding myself on the final table in a $33 tournament. Somehow I ended up winning this for a $7.5K profit. I tried to chipdump most of it to my friends, some of it getting stuck after getting denied by the support who realized something was up and some of it being lost trying to somehow beat midstakes levels, despite my actual limited knowledge of the game.
Anyhow, I managed to withdraw a couple of thousand which gave me a nice bankroll to start with. I started grinding NL$50-NL$100 on European sites and didn't really win any money in my first year. A big failure considering how easy the games were back then.
It really took me until early 2008 - when I had already moved out from my parents and gotten my own place, paid from poker winnings - until I managed to start beating midstakes. I rushed up in stakes and was at NL$2K at the beginning of August when the worldwide financial crisis started and when the "poker boom" seriously started declining at the same time.
At this time I had already booked myself up with trips abroad for the rest of the year. Starting out by going to Asia and Macau for the Asian Poker Tour, then a stop in South Africa for a tournament in Johannesburg, before going back home again for a couple of weeks and then leaving for a three months trip to Japan.
I continued doing quite well but my economy got crippled by a huge downswing and my baller lifestyle so during 2009 I was mostly playing staked, while still traveling all over the place and not really making any profit from poker, finding myself pretty much busted by the end of the year.
When 2010 started I decided that if I hadn't managed to find my way back from low stakes to NL$1K by the end of August I would stop playing poker full time and dedicate my time for getting a job or studying.
My mission failed and here I am, an almost broke 21 year old with zero education and no real job experience. I was going to start studying this fall but I've been keeping it on hold because of a new project I've been involved with, not wanting to be tied up and be able to leave for whatever this project will need me to do.
At the moment it's still at the stage where time can only tell how it will go and how my life will look like the next upcoming year, so I've just been slacking with some SC2 and hanging out with my bros until now.
Unfortunately slacking won't give me any income whatsoever so to be able to have any sort of freedom in life and do what I feel like doing at the moment I'm back at the poker tables, probably not full time, but kind of part time until something else will come up, just to make sure that I can avoid having to stay in Sweden for another two months of -20°C.
Stage #384944592 Tourney ID 5775369 Holdem Multi Normal Tournament No Limit 2,000 - 2010-10-06 04:51:05 (ET)
Table: 18 (Real Money) Seat #2 is the dealer
Seat 2 - NEWINNINGS (205,347 in chips)
Seat 5 - DONTBEAHERO (66,653 in chips)
NEWINNINGS - Ante 200
DONTBEAHERO - Ante 200
NEWINNINGS - Posts small blind 1,000
DONTBEAHERO - Posts big blind 2,000
Holecards(Odds) Dealt to DONTBEAHERO
NEWINNINGS - Raises 3,000 to 4,000
DONTBEAHERO - Calls 2,000
DONTBEAHERO - Checks
NEWINNINGS - Bets 8,000
DONTBEAHERO - Raises 24,000 to 24,000
NEWINNINGS - Raises 32,000 to 40,000
DONTBEAHERO - All-In(Raise) 32,453 to 56,453
NEWINNINGS - Calls 16,453
River (Pot : $23.00)
Showdown NEWINNINGS - Shows (Straight, nine to king)
DONTBEAHERO - Shows (Two Pair, kings and twos)
NEWINNINGS Collects 133,306 from main pot
Summary Total Pot(133,306)
Board
Seat 2: NEWINNINGS (dealer) (small blind) won Total (133,306) HI133,306) with Straight, nine to king - ]
Seat 5: DONTBEAHERO (big blind) HI:lost with Two Pair, kings and twos - ]
4BBJPs in 30 Days wtf is going on???by aznricebeast, October 06
Nice going. By being smart enough to park yourself at a Bad Beat Jackpot table, you've won a nice chunk of the latest jackpot that was popped at 23:08:45 on 2010-10-05. Here's a look at the details:
Bad Beat Jackpot: $163,179.31
Players' Share: $45.66
Your Cut: $913.20
OCT off to a good start swung back into the green and popped my 1st BBJP of the month
The long and awaited ambient music #8 has arrived. If you don't enjoy it, then fuck you because this is my blog (not meaning to be rude. Anyways here we go!!!
After have been on a long poker break I started over again from scratch the other day. I was doing my routine check to see if I had left any money in my poker accounts, realizing that I had a lot of VIP points on Entraction. With these I could play 30 €5.50 sit and go tournaments, which I managed to turn into €264.50 and I then had a new little bankroll to play with. Realizing the games were soft and that I could get a pretty sweet deal at this site I decided to give poker a try again.
I've been spending a lot of time in Japan the last three years but it was now almost a year since I got back from my last trip. With a friend of mine heading there on a three months trip this fall I've been wanting to go back more than ever. However, since I haven't been playing poker, instead dedicating most of my time playing SC2 and hanging out with my bros, I won't really be able to afford going back to Japan. Time to hit the grind again.
I'll be playing €5.50 shorthanded turbo sit and go's for a month. My goal for October is to play at least 100 games a day and hopefully keep my ROI on at least 5%, which will give me a profit of about €2,000 this month. With that I'll be looking for booking my flight to Japan then keep on grinding until around the third week of November when I'll be leaving for Tokyo.
My stats so far this month:
1/10 - 49 games +€49
2/10 - 132 games +€34
3/10 - 100 games -€60
4/10 - 100 games +€130
5/10 - 100 games +€40 (2 MTT's -€16.50)
Got some web access at my new place now. Fired up a couple donkaments. Busted in all of 'em, but took 13th in the $11 rebuy for $500. 1st was more than 14k.
that would have been fun.
Oh I also played a few hour session last night vs this total retard head up. He ran well, and at the beginning I couldn't get value from two pairs because the board ran out bad everytime. He took like 10 stacks off me, but I eventually got it all back and squeezed out a 4 buyin profit.
I think he called me down one time with an open ender on the river.
-losing weight and stopped heavy smoking which is the only thing good lately
-getting tired of learning, relearning shit, unlearning it again
-not doing too great atm, but kept losses to minimum since last month over -500 only haha
-playing a ton of cs: source and bw to avoid thinking it's rigged and shit lol
-have 80kvpp left before 200kmilesone , worst volume in my life this year, winnings are small too
-next year hopefully i can move to another site and stick with it (other sites seem to suck so much with software, games not too different too at lowstakes)
-my blogposts from now on will be cliffs mode , too lazy even to construct a story
this means i am a bit behind pace atm but considering i run absolute apeshit except for my last 10 sngs where i made +75$ ^^
i think i am on a good way.
Goal is to grind out 900sngs this month and profit ~ 900$ while getting Goldstar.
I also used stars responsible gambling for table buy in limit
One of my biggest leaks has always been the greed to move up
Let's talk long term life EV.
Let's forget about the non-monetary factors like free-time and stresslessness for now (undoubtedly huge factors in one's decision making, of course)
What's your best bet?
Is it poker?
Is it law?
Is it engineering?
Is it a start up?
Is it finance?
Is it day trading?
Is it in sales?
In my case, I'm fairly confident I could make 100k/year at poker if I truly put my mind into it and I had to depend on it by grinding the hell out of PLO100.
However, my other options have so much more potential that it seems foolish (note: in my case) to devote myself to poker beyond mild entertainment purposes.
Top Lawyers can charge $600/hour. So can independent business consultants. Executives at tech companies with 500 employees are compensated at roughly $300k-$500k per annum. A graduate of a top MBA program makes $100k-$150k his/her first year out of school. Learning how to minimize your tax exposure can often net you a greater hourly rate than actually grinding poker.
Our +EV choices will be different.
For me, it entails investment, business and marketing.
For my friend, it is music.
For another friend, it is finance / futures trading.
The event was absolutely amazing. After the closing ceremony, there was a huge raffle for some pretty sick prizes. I won a HORI Real Arcade Pro.Ex Tekken 6 design joystick :D.
Haven't blogged in ages since I've been so busy with school. Been getting some awesome coaching/advice from acckerman, jas0n, and edzwoo. It's really helping me fix some huge leaks in my game. Isolating limpers has been a massive improvement for me, as I used to always be scared to isolate without a premium hand. I've opened up my range a lot more (playing around 15/13.5 full ring) but have been very disciplined in giving up at the right moments and double barreling when necessary. It's nice to be running well and playing a lot better than I was. I feel like my hand reading is improving and can continue to improve as well.
Results since some sweat sessions with these guys...
The biggest change has to simply be the hand analysis that is in my play now, rather than having to determine what type of player they are on the fly with limited info. I can observe, take advantage of other players weaknesses appropriately, and my decisions can be much more thought out and tailored to my opponent.
I really hope I am not getting my hopes up with my improved play to just come crashing down, but this time I think I have finally found the monster leak I had playing online. I could run bad for a while(lets not hope though) and be content with my play. As long as I know I should be winning, I am content
P.S. Thinking about switching to UB for a little bit once my full tilt bonus clears, anyone have any experience there on the amount/quality of games there are at NL10? Advice plx!
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