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wsop seat + update
This will be a long update so bare with me please.
First of all, I won a seat to the me of wsop together with nolan. Was really cool to win it. As we got deep we started yapping on ventrilo and just cheering for people to get eliminated fast. Lucky for us, we were both always pretty comfortable and never in real danger of getting eliminated towards the end. Was fun.
Right now I am struggling to get a tourist visa for the states. I am living in Brazil this year and I signed up for the interview and the consulate is booked all the way to september. So I am trying the emergency interview thing and have had ps send an email to them to help. I think there is a good chance of working but I'll have to wait and see.
Poker:
I must say I am really happy with how poker is going in the past few momths. It all started towards the end of last year when I decided to leave PS and go to rednines. There were a few major reasons why I left ps and I'd like to comment on them
1) I was pretty bad and just kept making a lot of mistakes from playing too much and plainly just sucking. I had a real bad image amongst the regulars and just felt like I was sorta stuck. I wanted to start over fresh.
2) The software is too good and it makes me want to play thousands of tables, although this might also be due to it being kinda slow. And I find that the more tables I play the worse it gets for everything once i'm in a long session.
3) I don't know if it was my impression but I felt like I would see daily things like KK vs AA all in pf and such. Might be 'standard' but I have noticed that after playing extensively on other sites I never got that feeling of consistently seeing messed up situations. I figure this is due to the player level being higher at ps.
So I started out at 100nl at r9's and just went super well from there and on. By december I was playing regularly 400nl up to 1knl with a nice roll and doing
really well, improving a lot on my hu game and working on 6max as well. I paid off my tuition bills and all the good stuff and graduated university with a bachelors in physics.
So I decided to come back to brazil in beginning 2008 (did univ in states) and just take a year off to travel and do whatever. Mostly because I was/am not certain
what I want to do in life.
Somewhere in the beginning of the year r9's gets closed and I get screwed. I dont remember exact date, but I remember I literally had only 300$ left on PS
on a wednesday and that my best friend from the states was coming down to visit me on saturday. I absolutely felt like I had to show him a great time here so I grinded like crazy and scrapped up like 2k and cashed most of it out to spend that week showing him around.
Afterwards, when he left, I was at ground zero in poker again and just did not feel like having to grind everything all over. A friend of mine staked me,
the first time I was ever staked. We ended up going through 3 stakes before I got off and I'll briefly recap them.
1st stake)
30k hands 50% 50% profits. I finished the stake in a week. Made a bit over 4k in profits and so ended with 2k for myself. Problem is I had a 1k bet I made
with another friend on bw that I lost (this before r9's got closed). We had agreed that I pay him once r9 return money or once I am back on my feet but due to some weird stuff that went on he requested his money asap and I gave it. So i had 1k left and with the tournies I had played during the stake on my profit I ended up having much less than 1k. In honesty at the time figured that r9 issue would be fixed real quick... but that didnt happen.
So we went to the second stake.
2nd stake)
This time the stake went pretty horribly. I forgot to mention he gave 2k$ in all stakes and that I was playing solely ps. At the end of the first week on stake 1 I was actually up 7.5k and just started getting demolished from playing so much. I was running bad/playing bad and that continued on this second stake. I ended up losing 1200$ and felt pretty miserable as I really wanted to make money for the staker and for me.
Took a few days break and he and I decided a 3rd try. I decided to leave ps yet once again and go to another site with rb.
3rd stake)
I started off bad but managed to pick it up and in about 10 days I was up a bit over 4k$ in cash profits. I forgot to mention that somewhere along the lines I had won a LAPT seat from the step 2 on my 1st try and so I decided I wanted to start playing tournaments and actually try to win them instead of getting sick of playing after 2-3 hours and donating. I ended up during the 3rd stake final tabling this 15k$ gtd tourney 3 days in a row, winning one of them.
At the end of the stake I had like 9k$ from tournament profits alone, so I knew this time I was in a very good state to be on my own.
I gave him his money and started again on my own roll. Began with 200nl and grinded up. About less than 2 months later, today, I now am back to r9 era playing anywhere from 2/4 to 5/10 (depending on table selection and amount of tables available). Have the biggest br I have ever had online and things in poker are going well.
2 sundays ago I final tabled the 150k gtd on cake poker together with lurped from LP (who btw i found to be super good) and I ended up getting 2nd place for like 21k. And now this past sunday the 12.5k package from ps to me wsop. I'm up this month ~50k which is my best month so far.
I feel I owe ton of credit for the small acomplishments I have to LP. A lot towards people that helped me either in positive feedback or in plainly saying "hey u suck" which just motivated me to do better. I have been working on my weaknesses in the game and feel I am much better now although I realize there is ton of improvements yet to be made. I try to pay back all the love from here by helping the beginners over at the brazilian lp which seems to be slowly growing.
And thats that! I plan on travelling a bunch this year that I have free. Been already to argentina and a couple places in Brazil but I look forward to going to Chile, some other places in Brazil, and asia for my 1st time.
anyways thanks for reading, here is a pic I took at the LAPT with greg raymer and chris moneymaker (im next to Greg). Peace  .
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lachlan Australia. Jun 11 2008 16:49. Posts 6991 | | |
n1, definitely good turnaround from being busto to making 50k this month!
how much did u lose on rednines?
and arent u a little scared that Cake will go the same way? |
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ya i sure am, i now have my roll split in 3 different sites and try to keep some on neteller too |
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eightfourO United States. Jun 11 2008 20:41. Posts 820 | | |
Hey i hope everything goes well with the passport and what not, i hate it when all that government stuff prevents people from doing what they want. Good luck at the ME man!! |
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H_ New Zealand. Jun 11 2008 21:55. Posts 159 | | |
Good to hear a success story for once. Nice month! |
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TianYuan  Korea (South). Jun 12 2008 01:21. Posts 6817 | | | |
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