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KeanuReaver United States. Oct 11 2007 16:29. Posts 2022

So I had a poker blog with a friend from a while ago, and neither of us used it for about half a year and we both forgot the password. I've decided I'll just do all my bloggings here. In any case, it's a rule you have to start out with your story so here's mine:

I started about 3 years ago, a friend was having a lot of success in poker so he got a bunch of us together to give it a shot. I started with a $50 loan and played the penny tables and went up from there. everything was going fine for a few months and I built up to NL100, then I hit a huge downswing and said fuck this shit and stopped playing.

After a while I decided I'd try again, this time I tried with sngs. Sng's weren't really stressful or difficult persay, but my winrate was tiny and I could never build up the money necessary to meet bills. After a while I once again said fuck this shit and took another long break from poker.

This time I sort of forced myself into poker, my mom was having difficulties meeting her bills and consequently her house was up for foreclosure. I figured the only way we could keep the house is if I somehow managed to win the money in poker. I had about 2 weeks to win the money and I needed to build a $200 br loaned to me from a friend to $2k...good luck eh? Well, the second day in I decided I would take a shot at a $20 tourney, if I could win it we'd have the money. I didn't win, but I did come in second for $1700~ so I was able to get the money for the house without too much work. The funny thing is I am just horrible at tourneys, I've played at least 200 tourneys since starting poker and that score is by far my biggest ever.

After getting the money for the house, I was once again looking at a 3 digit bankroll and the prospect of grinding sngs made me want to puke. Instead, I tried out 6 max limit. While the rake was killer, the competition was unbelievably easy. This marks the moment I was actually able to start making significant amounts of money playing poker and I would often have a 5 digit bankroll. Unfortunately, the swings can be vicious, and often I'd have a weekend where I would lose half my roll only to make it back and then some the very next weekend. The competition also seemed to spike at the 10/20 and 15/30 mark, so after a swing that sent my bankroll from 15k to 3k, I decided once again it was time for a change.

Well, after all that I ended up back at the start, no limit cash games. I started back up late November 06' at NL200 and over the next couple months I would run very hot bringing my bankroll up once again around the 5 digit mark. I would grind NL200 for about 100k hands (8 months given how much I play a month) and end up with a winrate of 6ptbb/100, I felt really proud of it not only because I did well but also because a lot of those 100k hands was me simply learning how to properly play. I got pretty bored with the grind though.

That was around the time the tourney contest started up here on lp.net. I figured that would offer a nice diversion from the grind for a month and maybe in the process I could become a reasonably decent tourney pla<x>yer. No such luck. The whole thing was just disastrous. Not only was I playing badly, but I had terrible luck on the bubble. I ended up stopping all together a couple weeks before the contest was set to end after it became apparent myth's team was unbeatable.

After losing a lot of money in that contest and with a br that offered little hope for moving up higher than NL200 in the near future, going back to the grind seemed even worse than before. So I ended up doing the worst thing imaginable in the world of poker, I decided I would short stack. To save what little dignity I could, I made sure to never leave a table after doubling up and would often play most of a session sitting on a full buyin or more. Ironically, most of my winnings in this short period of time would come when I had 50+ bb's, but even still I really did not want to stunt my growth as a poker pla<x>yer by being a short stacker.

About a month ago I felt I had a strong enough roll to go ahead and grind NL600. So far it's been going great and my bankroll is huge. I'm hoping to get in 100k hands of NL600 by the end of the year so I can accurately assess my winrate and decide what I intend to do from there. I have a lot of plans for the upcoming year and I'll need a whole lot of money to do them with, so right now my biggest leak that I need to fix is simply getting my lazy ass on the computer and putting in a good # of hours each day.

-Mehdi

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shaneomac United States. Oct 11 2007 16:40. Posts 4245

lol @ getting my lazy ass ON the computer . GL man i remember when you were regarded as one of the best NL200 players a while ago.

WilsWils Canada. Oct 11 2007 17:21. Posts 285

enjoyed story ^_^

someday i hope to luckbox my tourney win to rebuild br fast ;;

WilsWils Canada. Oct 11 2007 17:23. Posts 285

enjoyed story ^_^

someday i hope to luckbox my tourney win to rebuild br fast ;;

Fox . Oct 12 2007 12:40. Posts 3110

Yeah he barely plays mostly cuz he's too busy stealing luck from other people.

you luckstealer.