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PplusAD Germany. Mar 17 2010 20:17. Posts 7182

Since i semi broked in march playing 6max cashgames i decided to do some boku87 style grind.

currently i have 1,7K left in my poker account and 500€ in bank account T_T
thats all money i posses right now.

So how did money melt ?

1.) i moved out from my parents to live with my girlfriend in a new appartement.
that allone cost me like 2000€ in the first month for provision, security and furniture

after that i had to pay lots of stuff like monthly apartment rent, food , train tickets , and stuff
going out from time to time i spend an average of 650-700€ a month total.
This is not really too much but its quite a difference to living with your parents where u spend like 200€ on partying and rest is for free ^^

my original plan in the first months was to pay stuff from rakeback and like 3-4 BI of poker income.
worked out okayish the first months ...
some month i made a small profit , some months a small deficit.
However then i got to do some serious universty tests and had no time for poker.
-> big deficit month moneywise.
Then after tests are done i sit down and try to grind shit out at NL50 -> 18,5 BI downswing FML !

result of that was allready mentioned earlier

currently i have 1,7K left in my poker account and 500€ in bank account T_T
thats all money i posses right now.

Since this is nowhere near comfortable BR to play Nl50 when u have to pay stuff i had to move down to NL25 the last days.

Allthough i decided to need some break and do some microstakes SNGS

Within the last 3 days i played ~ 200SNGS ~ 14h

of the following stuff

2$ HU 4man
6$ HU 2man
2$ SNG 18man
2$ sng 27man
6$ SNG 18man
some occasional 11$ HU 2man

Overall result so far + 140$ -> 10$/H grind

YAY
gonna continue this for a while and see how it develops
if i keep this 10$/h its still enough to pay for things ( considering 3h a day 30days a month -> 700€ ~ breakeven life)

Well looking back at my poker carrer i failed in many many ways ....
considering i was at Nl200 at one point having 3K income weeks or 1K days at NL100 HU and stuff its really fucked up how i did not improve.

on the other hand i am quite happy overall with my life and since u cant be good at everything seems poker is just something i really suck.
2 years of effort and i am still only a semi breakeven Nl100 6max and HU player

LOLZ

Good luck all

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U see what i did there with A8 ? He 4 bets and there we go insta jam A8 : ---booooom -- . hahahaha ( Krantz)

Last edit: 17/03/2010 20:25

Acckerman United States. Mar 17 2010 21:41. Posts 725

GL man, nl25 is impossible

terrybunny19240 United States. Mar 17 2010 22:15. Posts 13829

best of luck.. we both have similar amounts of money to live and grind off of at the moment lol.

whamm! Albania. Mar 17 2010 22:51. Posts 11625

as long as you're truly still happy with things.
good you dont let poker affect your life too much. some people can be so lucky haha
gl

YoMeR United States. Mar 17 2010 23:19. Posts 12438

damn. gl sir. over spending def owns me so hard at times.

eZ Life.

MayZerG United Kingdom. Mar 17 2010 23:57. Posts 2123

stick to 1 thing, changing from cash to SNG, and playing a WIDE VARIETY is NOT going to help your game, stick to 9 mans, 45 mans, 180 mans, or all headsup, not a combo of everything.

5.3 hours of work a day for 3 days, is too low, this is your job now, where any other job is usually 8 hours a day, your slacking in that department.

best of luck to you, this post is meant to get you focused, not insult you, so hopefully you took it as good advice

I like to hold all the nuts - CrownRoyal

Exhilarate United States. Mar 18 2010 01:09. Posts 5453

good luck, when i lived with my gf in an apartment i went out to eat too much and that owned my credit card bill

DustySwedeDude Sweden. Apr 04 2010 21:52. Posts 8623

Hi, hit me up with a PM if you want to talk about hands (cash game though, SNG crap is for people who actually can do math) or whatever. Do you do any BJJ for your MMA-stuff still? Also, I don't think I've seen you on msn for a while, changed it?