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Mayday Canada. Sep 02 2007 17:59. Posts 31

After grinding the tables at 1/2c blinds on stars for three weeks, I've finally reached my goal of $100 profit!

I actually hit it late last night, but I then started to run crazy bad, getting sucked out like crazy, running into coolers like set vs overset, getting aces busted.. I played for the whole day today, and for the first five hours I just couldn't hit a hand. I kept playing my best though. It was really funny what some people would call with. One guy called giant bets on the flop and turn with air, and hit a two-outer gutshot straight vs my flopped set.

In the end though, solid playing prevailed. The hand that pushed me over $200 the second time was pretty funny.

The FR game I had been on had slowly dropped to three handed. One guy (call him bob) started betting 20-30c every -single- round. I just started folding my marginal hands since he'd just raise. I think he was looking to get busted. Anyways, he raises 30c in one hand, and the other guy at the table shoves all in. Bob calls.. with 8s 6s, and hits an 8 vs the other guy's Js Ts. So Bob is now at around $5 stack. I'm deeper than him at around $7.50.

He continues betting 30c pf every single round, and I keep folding to him. I keep getting shit hands like 72o and 34s etc. Nothing worth pushing. Then I get dealt AJo. He bets, I call. Flop comes 34J, 2 hearts. He bets, I shove, he calls. Jack falls on the turn, 6 on the river. Flush draw completes but I take the pot with trip jacks. Woo!

Now its time to move on to the bigger fishes at $5NL !

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Svenman87 United States. Sep 02 2007 18:13. Posts 4636

grats

hope u crush 5nl

gl and keep us updated

Last edit: 02/09/2007 18:15

ggplz Sweden. Sep 02 2007 18:20. Posts 16784

gl dude
take it slow

if poker is dangerous to them i would rank sports betting as a Kodiak grizzly bear who smells blood after you just threw a javelin into his cub - RaiNKhAN

tokeweed Philippines. Sep 02 2007 18:27. Posts 2149

LOL... this is fun!!!! i remember when i was still playing at 1c/2c last year... i knew i din't have that much of a BR, but playing and learning is just sooooo fun! gl man! ... and have fun while you're trying to build that BR.. don't take it too seriously...

big hand = bong loads

Verbloten Australia. Sep 02 2007 18:35. Posts 1889

yeh I wanna go back to 5NL it's so damn exciting when you are actually building your bankroll. I remember all the milestones but in particular I remember when I hit $1337. I went slightly above and had to lose a dollar or so on purpose so that I could take a screen shot.

Sounds like you are doing well Mayday - hope you have continued success. GL and enjoy!

maniachigh United States. Sep 02 2007 19:30. Posts 2

mayday! ? sup! you remember me from bw "meanface" im maniachigh on stars just starting to build my bk also i'm at 73.00$ by the way what limits should i play at 3.60NL ? when you think its safe to move up to .10 .25

Mayday Canada. Sep 02 2007 20:20. Posts 31

hey maniac -- I'm not the mayday that you know, since I just started using this username. Regarding your bankroll though, I'm using the 20 buy-in rule for playing at any stake.

lachlan Australia. Sep 02 2007 23:42. Posts 6991

hey whats ur name on stars? ive been grinding too ^_^

full ring

Mayday Canada. Sep 02 2007 23:52. Posts 31

jcfantasy88

I really really don't like this name, but I don't think there's a way to change it. I made this account when it was play money and I didn't care what the name was, and then I deposited money and now they dont let me change it -___-;;