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TJtheTJ · 2013-04-17T13:16:09Z

Hola! Old intro is in the spoiler. The intro of this blog was quite outdated. My focus is no longer on MTTs, but rather on Zoom cash games. If you would still like to read the old intro, just check the spoiler! :) As a short warning, it's quite a wall of text, but most of it still applies :f_biggrin: To keep a long story short, in this blog I track my progress through the cash game stakes. I started playing NL10 SH Zoom in the beginning of August, after having played a lot of MTTs before that with decent success (>$10k total profit playing only low stakes MTTs!), and occasionally playing some cash games at NL5. I recently moved up though, and am currently playing NL25 SH Zoom. I will occasionally mention things other than poker. For example, I play a lot of volleyball every week, so if anything interesting happens in that area I might leave a short message about it. Also, I still love playing MTTs. So if I ever get the chance to or feel like playing MTTs one day for a change, I'll be sure to update here as well. In case you want to start reading from the point where I really started to focus seriously on cash games, I'll save you the trouble of reading through tons of posts. Here's where I start the cash game run (link to post): For real this time! - Tino's MTT + CG blog [Shotting NL25 Zoom] Thanks for reading my blog! :f_thumbsup: SpoilerAlright, time for a blog! I have had a blog before, which was mostly on cash games and I pretty much neglected it after a quit poker for a while, but this one focus on the format I love the most: MTTs! If you read my previous blog... Here's another wall of text :coolface: About Me So a quick little introduction. I'm a 19 year old guy from the Netherlands, turning 20 next August. I'm currently both jobless and studyless (is that even a word?), so I have a lot of free time on my hands, which I can now invest in poker! I plan on studying Sports, Management & Organization next year, because I have a passion for sports. Unfortunately though, a huge amount of people has registered for this study, meaning it's very possible that I won't be able to enter purely randomly. Yes, they will likely just have to tell random people that they can't enter, because there wasn't any sort of selection procedure otherwise. Let's just hope it's not me! I had a simple job in a supermarket, giving me a well above average income for people my age. However, I lost that job a little over a month ago, because they could not afford to extend my contract any longer. And as you are probably well aware, jobs aren't exactly easy to come by these days, especially for me. For the simple jobs companies would rather hire younger people because they're cheaper, and better jobs require me to have more experience... which I don't have because I'm 19 :facepalm: However, (hopefully) PokerStrategy comes to the rescue! I'm going to send an application to become a freelance community supporter here pretty soon. I'm still waiting for Ingrid to answer an email I sent with a couple of questions though, so I'll wait patiently. Hopefully I can get this job though, because I really want a job. Though just relaxing, playing poker etc. is fun for a short while, I just want to work! Aside of that, like I said, I have a big passion for sports. Personally I'm a volleyball player, and play at a decent level. I also train a youth team full of 12 year olds, which is really fun to do. :) Next year I'll probably train a somewhat older team (age 16-17), which is going to be a bit more of a challenge, but I'm really looking forward to it. Oh, and if you read my previous blog and wonder if I'm still injured... I'm not! Thankfully :) So much for a "quick little" introduction :facepalm: I never seem to be able to keep things short. Poker The moment I turned 18 I starter to play poker, really. Wasn't any good at it, but managed to learn a bit with PokerStrategy pretty quickly. Used poor BRM, and managed to ship a $4 tournament for ~$2200. Not bad. Got some more pretty decent result, including a final table finish in a MicroMillions event for ~$4000, and also final tabled a $16 tournament ($1 satellite) for ~$3600. Those are all my big cashes, really, and I have lifetime winnings of a little over ~$10k, but that's mostly because of those results. I generally immediately cashed out those winnings. I took it relatively seriously from the start, but never serious enough to really use good BRM. I pretty much just went after the big tournaments with big guarantees and tried to get a good result in them. Which worked out pretty well :f_biggrin: Of course I wasn't playing $50 tournaments, but I didn't really mind playing some $11 tournaments with a $400 bankroll for example. Then I took a little break, and decided to give cash games a shot, and created a blog about it. However, cash ...

TJtheTJ

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30.03.2014, 23:51 0

Indeed!

Played a nice MTT session tonight with some good results. Played 22 tournaments with 6 cashes. Managed to get an 11th place in a $5.10 hyper for $75 and also got a deep run in the Sunday Storm. Got 538th for a pretty good $117.76. Sucks I couldn't get further, but I guess I can't complain too much about getting 538th/39k runners!

Overall I made a nice $170 profit tonight so that's a nice bankroll boost!

Now to go finish that 15k hand challenge ♠_evil:

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FFRRAANNKKIIEE

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31.03.2014, 00:51 0

Niiice, gg T

Also gl with completing the zoom volume challenge

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Rihard4a

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31.03.2014, 10:25 0

Ship me my $15, you know you won't complete it. :f_cool: :coolface:

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31.03.2014, 10:52 0

Yes I will, thanks for the support :coolface:

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31.03.2014, 10:56 0

You're welcome! :coolface:

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31.03.2014, 12:47 0

Tino, grindgrindgrind ♦

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TJtheTJ

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31.03.2014, 13:56 0

On it ♦

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31.03.2014, 16:24 0

Selfie:

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31.03.2014, 16:29 0

Originally posted by TinoLaan
Indeed!

Played a nice MTT session tonight with some good results. Played 22 tournaments with 6 cashes. Managed to get an 11th place in a $5.10 hyper for $75 and also got a deep run in the Sunday Storm. Got 538th for a pretty good $117.76. Sucks I couldn't get further, but I guess I can't complain too much about getting 538th/39k runners!

Overall I made a nice $170 profit tonight so that's a nice bankroll boost!

Now to go finish that 15k hand challenge ♠_evil:

No truck of beer? :f_cry:

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31.03.2014, 17:01 0

Nope sorry Ras

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31.03.2014, 21:07 0

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TJtheTJ

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31.03.2014, 23:46 0

Dealt with the pressure well :f_cool:

Managed to finish this little challenge with half an hour to spare! I was a bit behind schedule so when I started grinding again at 8:15 tonight or so I still needed to play 2.5k hands. Easy game, 2.5 hours is easily doable.

Turns out I had some weird filter on my HM2 and I actually needed 3.5k hands still, oops :rolleyes:

So for the last 90 minutes or so I added 2 tables of NL10 zoom as well, I honestly don't think I would've made it otherwise. Could handle 6tabling reasonably well though, much to my own surprise. Sick 3 hour session with 3.5k hands played as a result :f_cool:

Couldn't keep up the sick heater unfortunately, went on a bit of a downswing (well deserved after my sick run tbh lol) after that but then managed to recover again.

Overall up 13 BI for NL25 with this challenge and a pretty nice 9bb/100 winrate. Sadly the 18bb/100 winrate I had after 9k hands wasn't sustainable :f_biggrin: