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ToT)MidiaN(  United Kingdom. Aug 22 2009 01:50. Posts 5070 | | |
Today I played the longest session of poker that I've played this month ~1k hands for about ~1k profit, which is nice but not the main reason for my happiness. First of all, I was simply happy that I actually played a longer session for once, and that it was at $5/$10. My HEM stats have been set to "This Month" for the entire month and I'm really happy that I've only played $3/$6 and $5/$10 and not pissed around at $.5/$1 or $1/$2 like I did in previous months. Anyway I changed "This Month" to "All Hands" and saw that I've reached a milestone of winnings on PokerStars:
BB/100 = ptbb/100, I didn't like the bb/100 stat since I'm so used to seeing winrates in ptbb/100. In the past months I cared too much about my stats on PTR and played too much at lower stakes trying to make my stats pretty, but I should've never cared simply because these are the only stats that matter. I've already crushed $.5/$1 and $1/$2 in the past (The stats used to look much better than they do now =[ ) and I should only care about playing for the maximum success and profit. This is only Stars and a few FTP hands.
Here are the stats just for this month:
As long as I keep this up it'll be the 2nd 5 digit month in a row, the first time that's happened (If it happens) in quite a while due to inactivity this year and playing too many low stakes in the past months. If I can continue focused, put in a lot of hands and only play at reasonable stakes then I should still be able to salvage a decent year. At the moment I'm probably up about 25k or something for the year which is pitiful considering I made about 10 times that last year. I still have a few months left though and if I play a lot and play well I can still make the kind of profit I was hoping for when this year started. I'm not sure I can force myself to do it alone though, I don't talk poker to people anymore or hang around with poker players and self motivation has always been a problem for me. Perhaps I'll try and go to some live tournaments when I'm back in England in November, maybe visit some poker players too and try to get more involved with the poker community in general. I definitely have to do something, but this is a nice start and this blog post itself may help me, just as a reference point, I can look back on this, see that my lifetime stats are perfectly fine and I don't need to worry about proving myself or looking perfect in every possible database when they clearly lack a lot of hands and information and are thus not even worth bothering about.
I only wanted to write about poker today, I'm happy with how this month has gone in terms of results and in terms of stakes played, I just need to continue this momentum and start playing more. I guess that's all I needed to write for now.
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failsafe United States. Aug 22 2009 01:54. Posts 1040 | | |
even if we convert it to BB/100 it's still only a 1/5th of your 200BB+ winrate in the previous post, but i guess that's cool |
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Chobo1 Thailand. Aug 22 2009 02:40. Posts 287 | | |
nice 25/50 stats :D
I also have motivation difficulties :/ |
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LemOn[5thF] Czech Republic. Aug 22 2009 03:27. Posts 15163 | | |
Wow I love how you are gradually opening up as you move up  |
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nice milestone
how long did it take you to play 700k hands? |
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Uptown . Aug 22 2009 03:44. Posts 3557 | | |
congrats Jamie |
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moonk379 United States. Aug 22 2009 03:44. Posts 355 | | |
wow hella good stats good sht man |
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fenner Australia. Aug 22 2009 04:07. Posts 2188 | | |
You are the best player on this site without a doubt |
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Etherone Canada. Aug 22 2009 04:37. Posts 753 | | |
| | On August 22 2009 03:07 fenner wrote:
You are the best player on this site without a doubt |
Raszi ?
Wish you the best of luck in finding determination, you sure as hell don't need luck on the tables ^ ^.
although you should be at blizzcon 
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ToT)MidiaN( United Kingdom. Aug 22 2009 04:44. Posts 5070 | | |
lol there's at LEAST 20 people who have made more money than me on this site. don't think fenner was being serious, or if he was he's a fanboy <3 |
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ToT)MidiaN( United Kingdom. Aug 22 2009 04:52. Posts 5070 | | |
| | On August 22 2009 02:40 Luna_Bluffgood wrote:
nice milestone
how long did it take you to play 700k hands? |
This is over about 3 years, I've played more hands than this if you include other sites. I've got quite a lot of hands missing from Full Tilt and Prima and then a few from each of UB, Crypto, iPoker, Party and Betfair. I've probably played about 1.1~1.2 million hands lifetime across all sites. I would love to be able to get all my hand histories from all those sites, but I don't think it's possible unfortunately. |
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OjKa United Kingdom. Aug 22 2009 05:54. Posts 210 | | |
midian you're a fucking beast
will you be picking up sc2?
i'd love to see a vod of you playing poker, i think you had one a long time ago that you posted here that i watched |
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Critterer United Kingdom. Aug 22 2009 06:45. Posts 5337 | | | |
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ggplz Sweden. Aug 22 2009 07:11. Posts 16784 | | |
gogo midian <3
hope things are good |
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trukpoker Australia. Aug 22 2009 07:25. Posts 901 | | |
It is inspiring to see graphs like this. You played 16/9 at nl 25 making 4 bb/100 over 100k hands and worked to the top. Makes me think all the effort will pay off eventually. Kudos to you midian. |
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CruiseR Poland. Aug 22 2009 08:11. Posts 682 | | |
wow, MidiaN is my hero ;o i played like 1mil hands too in my lifetime and still grinding nl50/nl100 ;x |
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Rekrul United States. Aug 22 2009 08:54. Posts 3338 | | |
I INSPIRED YOU
THX FOR PAYING EXTRA 100 BTW LOL |
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KwarK United Kingdom. Aug 22 2009 08:56. Posts 1019 | | |
When are you coming back to the UK? I'm a northerner now. |
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