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napoleono Romania. Jan 01 2014 05:21. Posts 771 | | |
It's been one hell of a year!
At the start of 2013, it has been only a couple of months since I moved to the capital of Romania, Bucharest, to be employed for the first time and do a masters programme. Had 3 months of experience and the auditing season just begun. Its been some of the hardest months of my life till now, working 55-60 hours/week (I think I've even blogged about it at one point), then taking courses in the weekend and having exams every 3 weeks. Everything went okayish in the end and managed to get a decent average at uni, top 3 out of 35, so this year I don't have to pay tuition (yay 1.5k euros saved). Then summer came around and we've been preparing for the wedding, while working semi-light - I was content at how things were going at this point of the year. However, the nasty surgery intervened, so I had some stress just a couple days before the wedding. Looking back at it, it was the perfect moment to get it out, as I hadn't had any problems ever since, I can eat, drink anything without having to worry about feeling super sick and not being able to sleep at night.
Autumn came around and having more free time, got me back into poker again - but this time I've started playing MTTs and studying quite some. I can finally say I had my first year of poker where I ended up in the green. Have played quite a lot, but the lack of a big score cut back my motivation, but I still play every now and then. I figure I should learn much more and hopefully I can put more effort into this in the new year.
Pokerstars MTTs graph:
FTP graph:
888 cash:
I have some cash played at PS and FTP as well, up around 50-80 bucks. I've played whenever a spotted a huge spewer at the MTTs and followed him to cash tables (bumhunting, I guess?). I also luckboxed a huge 900 bb pot against a PS pro in a zoom promo, which brought me 130$. All in all a pretty good year. I started with a 15$ deposit in October and grinded it up to 1100 at max, atm sitting around 920 - for the last month it's been quite a rollercoaster ride, ups and downs, but still fun. 
Also I've been to my first ever LAN event, dreamhack bucharest - so much more fun than expected!
Me and the handsome Artosis:
The even sexier Apollo:
People playing starcraft:
kt.Flash and SK boss:
Too bad for these 2 pals in the pic, but the other were so goddamn busy all the time - too much awesomeness for 1 pic though (Grubby and Day9):
Hyun, a fashion role-model :D
Marriage is effing awesome - its just a whole another level when you find THAT girl. I hope all of you can experience this feeling one day.
My goals for 2014 is to have an even better year than this one - it will be REAL hard as some of my coworkers left the company, so we are less people for almost the same amount of work, also I'm finishing my masters degree so I have to prepare a graduation paper till July, but hopefully all will be OK and will get over it. As for poker, I will have less time in the first half of the year because of the above mentioned reasons, but I really hope I'll manage to skill-up my play and finally ship that 1k+ tourney.
Thanks guys for being awesome, I feel like during 2013, I've managed to somewhat become a part of this community, even if it's not a numerous one, but still with mostly awesome people, whose success gives me motivation to try harder. Special mention goes to Mortensen for staking me for some tourneys above my bankroll, hopefully we will be back even stronger in 2014! 
Have a super awesome year guys and keep crushing!
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drone666 Brasil. Jan 01 2014 07:12. Posts 1821 | | |
congrats, and awesome pictures |
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Raidern Brasil. Jan 01 2014 08:18. Posts 4243 | | |
quite sure apollo used to post on lp
that was a long time ago thou |
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LemOn[5thF] Czech Republic. Jan 01 2014 08:34. Posts 15163 | | |
| | On January 01 2014 07:18 Raidern wrote:
quite sure apollo used to post on lp
that was a long time ago thou |
yeah we were pals back in the day on Skype :D |
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napoleono Romania. Jan 01 2014 08:45. Posts 771 | | |
He is good friends with tot.midian I think, he may have more info on that perhaps.  |
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ToT)MidiaN(  United Kingdom. Jan 01 2014 12:27. Posts 5070 | | |
Yeah I was the one who got Apollo into poker. He quit quite a long time ago though. He commentates SC2 games nowadays and makes a decent amount of money at it. I think he's currently back at home in the UK as he came back for the holidays, he'll be here for a few more days and then moves back to Cologne which is where he lives nowadays with whichever other SC2 guys he lives with (Unsure who exactly)
Looking at those photos and recognising everyone, it's weird to see most people haven't really changed except for Day9. Guy has put some on some weight ;/ |
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napoleono Romania. Jan 01 2014 12:38. Posts 771 | | |
Kaelaris for sure and maybe even Tod. |
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julep Australia. Jan 01 2014 14:55. Posts 1274 | | | |
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napoleono Romania. Jan 01 2014 14:57. Posts 771 | | |
I already posted some in the wedding blog. |
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Trav94 Canada. Jan 03 2014 03:27. Posts 1785 | | |
Pics bring back a lot of good memories from my Starcraft days. Nice blog. |
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PuertoRican United States. Jan 03 2014 04:46. Posts 13050 | | |
Nice year-end blog. Hopefully you continue to run good in poker and eventually get into sports betting, that way we can chat more in the MMA threads~ |
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