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$15.000 in May 2014

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WHAT UP

My name is Thomas and I am a professional poker player playing mid-stakes cash games. Last time since I had a very profitable month was over 4 months ago (December +$20k) and I decided to start this challenge for myself because my game turned sloppy and I have been halfass-ing every month until now.

I'm playing mainly 200 400 with little 600 here and there and I want to make at least $15k profit at the tables this month. I will be playing almost every single day hopefully, maybe 2-3 days off when games are really shitty.

I don't have time to give much more details right now but if the challenge goes well I plan to start a blog here on EN community and I will write then my full poker background and whatever else you guys are interested in.

I will try to update this thread after every session with a graph, some hands and also some short thoughts I had that day about poker.

good luck to everybody


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Lazza61
Joined: 23.03.2011

Hey Thomas,

Welcome to the English blogs :)

I'm going to make 2 predictions right now.

1) You will achieve your target. _biggrin:
2) this will become your blog.

Looking forward to some awesome updates

Laz


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FFRRAANNKKIIEE
Joined: 30.12.2010

Hey Thomas,

Nice to have you here, let's we all hope you succeed in achieving your target this month so we can enjoy your blog afterwards as well.

Waiting for some updates with nice hands and graphs :)

Best of luck,
Fran


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Hey Thomas. I`m rooting for you. Let positive variance be with you! :P


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Thanks for the reply guys

I had a really nice upswing towards the end.

EV USD won: +$2530
EV bb/100: +14.6

session cliffs: able to make 3 good hero-folds in a row while down-money for the day
session downfall: starting to watch pranks on youtube while playing

I really regret not focusing for about 2 hours on the session and watching stupid bullshit on youtube even if I had only 4 tables, I started to lose money in spots where I shouldn't and not take advantage of a lot of situations. Tomorrow hopefully everything will go perfect - play a bunch of hands while being focused on long hour sessions.


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RainbowPonny
Joined: 19.10.2010

Will follow this! Get your ass off youtube (I know its hard) and get the job done :)


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1st week

I've been running hot at 400 and mediocre at 200 and overall I won a lot of $ but volume is terrible. I had a bunch of people coming around the house these days and couldn't put much volume in, plan to put in some 3-4k hand sessions soon as I feel I have been on A-game a lot.


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1/3 of the month update.

volume is terrible, terrible terrible
I've been running very hot at $$ won and lucky to win a big chunk of the BIs at highest stakes played, EV winrate is good.

I really really need to up my volume, I had only one big session of 3600 hands and the rest were 2000-2500 with 2 days break. I plan on getting in some 5k hand sesh soon, would be great to do that tomorrow actually.

I will go thru a dozen marked hands and make another post soon with whatever interesting spots I had.


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cutegoldfish
Joined: 19.11.2009

Hi Thomas,

Just wondering what site are you playing on? And where did you learn from?

Thanks
Xavierfok


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hello

right now I am between sites, have not decided where to stay yet.

if challenge is successful I will take shots at nl1k and stay at stars/party as most of the action is there.

I worked a lot on my game and used every tool possible to learn - videos, HH revs, coaching etc.


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1/2 of May

running hot atm, challenge will not be consider done only if I make the $15k in EV dollars

volume still terrible but not bad, planning to play at least 55k hands this month

I haven't played last 4 days because I got sick as fuck, planning to start playing tomorrow at least nl200 tables if nothing else. During these 4 days I haven't done anything related to poker which is very bad on my part, I shouldn't at least analysed some hands or do some DB review with all this time I had on my hands but instead I played a bunch of dota2 matches and watched stupid bs on youtube :(

I got an idea to order a new bigger monitor setup yesterday and today they already arrived and I have them running.

sorry for the bad pics, my phone camera is really shitty and lighting here is bad also.


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FFRRAANNKKIIEE
Joined: 30.12.2010

Great results sir, gogoogogo :)


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Dota players all over the place! :f_biggrin:

Glglgl!


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had my best session ever this night

surprisingly it didn't feel as good as last time I had best days.... I hope I break it again soon


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AriGold1980
Joined: 22.05.2010

GG man !! Hope you start playing nl1k regulary .


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I didn't play 1k that session actually, just recently I started


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last weeek of the month
I plan on putting in another 20k hands. Volume is not bad until now considering I was sick and couldn't play for 5-6 days, also I had a new setup coming in that I had to deal with(new monitors and desk, other shit).

I dropped 200 completely so now I expect some more serious swings in $$


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Varune
Joined: 24.04.2009

Subbed!

Do you table select or do you play anyone?


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I used to table select at 200 because there are much more tables going on and can get a lot of action but at higher stakes you pretty much have to play any table with fish that you get because there aren't many going on and you end up with very low $/hr because of low hands/hr.


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