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Ok, so this is a little auto biography of my life up to now. I'm 22 years old and first learned the game from a friend. I laid down a flush and didn't know i had a flush and that cost me $5. I don't remember if he actually took it since he just taught me how to play that hand. Anyways, since then i gradually played more and more. The asians in my school really liked hold'em too and so we started playing regularly that summer at a friends club house. That's probably what did it for me. We had regular games of .25/.50 where we'd get up to a couple hundred in the pot. Some kids went a little crazy and since my town is fairly rich, some kids had literally hundreds of dollars to throw away in a .25/.50 game. Needless to say it was a great game and we all learned from each other that summer. We'd play up to 2x a day, get some Wendy's and discuss hands and then play again at night.
After that summer I went up to AC at the end of September. I remember i made the drive by myself with 100 bucks because i just wanted to play some cards and there was no where else i could play. So i drove down to the Taj which i got stuck in my head as the place where the action is at (Rounders). I remember my first hand being KJ and hitting the flop. I was stunned by the amount of tables and ppl playing. The game had $5 red chips and it was so new to me, even going up to the cashier and buying in and the lady asking how i wanted my chips. I had no idea what to respond with and just said i'm playing 1/2. I didn't have a fake ID at that point so i had an excuse made up that I had forgotten my ID in my car. Luckily i was in the game with no problem.
I played for what seemed like a couple hours, finally losing my hundo and i remember feeling a huge rush of emotions. For one, i wanted to take out another hundred cause i knew i could beat these shmo's. The 2nd thing was that this was the most i had ever lost at one time. The drive back home was long but would be followed by many more to come.
The next year i played a little bit during my senior year, couple times a month and made a few trips to Turning Stone and experienced playing 1/2 legally. They had $100 max tables so that seemed to fit my small stakes needs. The players weren't that good i remember and i knew i could definitely learn with this game. Throughout the year I also made a couple more AC trips with a friend and by the end of my senior year i knew that poker was the oxygen for my bloodstream.
I think that summer I played a lot in the city at a place called Straddle on 3rd ave(midtown). I played 1/2 and made a poker friend who played 2/5 and really knew what he was doing. He used to play 80/160 at Borgata and was a big gambler, which resulted in big swings and eventually going broke. I knew i didn't have any vices such as gambling on sports or table games so as long as i sticked to poker i thought i had a good chance. After that summer i had learned even more and was more determined to keep growing as a poker player. I had gone broke plenty but always found a way to rebuild and take shots and keep myself in action.
I was balancing going to classes at Rutgers (nwk) and playing poker when i could. I had still been categorized as Undecided in school and realized that this just wasn't for me. I had taken physics, calculus, and business classes all of which i passed but had no interest in. Then after my last semester i registered for some new psychology classes. I was kind of interested in this but at the same time my obsession with poker overrode my academics and i thought it was time to really put in some hours and see where this would go.
Everyone hated this decision but for me it was my only real option. Get out of class while i'm still not pot committed.
So i promised my mom i would work and save up money but quickly i began taking shots and playing in AC. I ended up going broke and found a job working at an architectural firm doing some office help and deliveries. The job wasn't bad and after 2 weeks i had about $400 and went to Turning Stone. I stayed with a friend who lives upstate and for 3 weeks i'd make drives to the casino. I didn't end up coming back to that job and instead kept playing in the city. I was doing well at first. I remember taking a shot at this club called Genoa, it was 5-5 and was the biggest game i've played in. They had 1500-300 buy in and 2k after midnight. There was probably around 20k on the table. I played that game for 3 days and had 3 winning sessions each of about $1k. I ended up paying back some debt that i owed to friends, my credit card bills and some money for rent to my mom since her rule was that i couldn't live for free and still had a 2kish bankroll.
This went on til the Fall of '08. I had been playing in new york and AC about 3-7 days a week, and had been winning enough to cover my monthly expenses (credit card + rent). I was successful in paying that but then i hit a downswing at the end of September that went on until January '09. For 2 months straight i couldn't win. Finally in December i began to break even and in Jan. had a couple winning sessions but ended up going broke and staying there. The downswing was a very harsh hit from reality and I went into debt with my friends, couldn't pay rent to my mom, and began making minimum payments on my credit card.
Then in February I got a job for 2 weeks working at CVS. The manager was a nazi and I couldn't handle it there. I remember going to AC with my paycheck and being determined to go on a run. I think i began doing okay but once again I was down to the felt. I played the 100+20 7pm at Borgata with my last $120 and finished +$1150, we chopped $8k 7ways.
With that money i paid back some expenses and debt but still had so much more to pay. I was down to $400 and tried again 2 weeks later in the same tournament. Finished $1080 after we chopped again 7 ways.
I also had a decent run from cash games (1-2 and 2-5 mostly) but eventually lost everything which was like $1300 2 Friday's ago. I took that hit really bad and realized I can't continue putting cash on the line that could be used to pay back the people who put me in their in the first place.
So right now i'm taking some time off of playing and working at Pizzeta doing deliveries for lunch and dinner. The hours aren't consistant and its not great money at all for now. Maybe i'll get better hours soon or can move up to a waiter but overall the job isn't bad. I'd much rather work at this job even if it may pay slightly less than a job which makes me miserable.
I'm still confident in my abilities and know that soon i'll be back at the tables. The competition is really not that tough now-a-days and i find live to be much easier than online- Dollar to Stakes wise. (5/10 live much easier than 5/10 online). I still have huge ambitions to learn more about this game and get better as a player. The only reason why people don't make it is because they're not good at losing, by that i mean they're not in control of their emotions. If you can't handle losing then you don't deserve to have it good when you're winning. That's just my basic philosophy.
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Wow, that's a harsh story. Hope you'll comeback soon m8. GL! |
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Achoo Canada. Apr 20 2009 07:58. Posts 1454 | | |
Sad. Wake up and go back to school or end up like a bum, gl in your choice. |
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Steal City United States. Apr 20 2009 12:36. Posts 2537 | | |
lol no offense dude, but you're not a good poker player you might have a tiny edge but that means tons of volatility and not enough money to live off of, certainly not well. You should learn things about bankroll management and there's no reason you should have ever started playing higher than the 100$ buy ins. Also, you should simply be playing 1c 2c online. If you have a strong edge you will get to the stakes you belong at fast enough. It took me about a month last year to turn 1000 play chips into 5 or 6K playing on a 20Buy in rule (1 mil play chips sells for 8$) which is volatility free at those stakes if you have my edge. I've done that many times before. It's not because I went broke, it's because I dropped down are relearned discipline wayyyyyyyyy before i was close to being broke. If you can't start from scratch and/or you don't have the discipline to do that then poker is not for you. |
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Thanks for your comment steal city. The only thing i have to say really is who the $#@ are you to tell me what is or what isn't for me. Do you know what determination i have? You have no idea even though you may think you know. I am a guy that thrives on optimism. Hope of possibly things going my way and you are pretty much everything opposite of that. Why even bother commenting? You're like a critic with nothing good to say. |
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Nothing good to say?
He just gave you guidelines for good bankroll management |
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