Escaping the microstakes – Page 4

PepeLeTvor · 2014-10-17T17:24:43Z

Hey guys. About me : My name is Srdjan, I'm 29y old from Belgrade/Serbia. I finished faculty of Economics/Banking and now I am currently on master studies, finishing my master thesis in auditing, but I don't see my self doing that in future since the hourly is very low and it's hard to get job here as well. Apart from poker I am very active. Swimming 3xweek, exercising 4xweek, eating healthy... Poker background : I started playing poker (learn the rules) in January 2013. Played on Pacifik nl2, then nl6 in March, and in April I started playing nl10 and crushed it 10.6bb/100 in April/March. From then on, my biggest problem started - I was scared of losing money on higher limits. If you know a bit about Serbia, average salary around here is around 350-400€. That's the amount that I could make on micros, and being on cautious side as person I stayed there. From June 2013 till April 2014 I played on different sites micros earning myself that average salary approx. in 4hours a day. In April I started playing on Hive network and until 30.09. I played nl5 mostly, 13 tables at once. I made shots on nl10 since ppl tell me that I have knowledge to beat nl50 easily but it didn't end well. NL5(it says nl4, and the results are in $ and they should be in € but it's due to converter since hud doesn't work and because of that I deleted my nick) : NL10 : In October things started going much better so my results on NL5 and NL10 are like this : I am playing 4 hours every day, which is around 3500-4000 hands, mostly nl5 unfortunately. Poker studying : I am learning every day to play. My favorite coach is A.Jackson from Bluefire since he uses/explains HUD a lot, but I have membership on pretty much all relevant poker studying sites. The thing is only that a lot of good coaches are playing nl50 zoom as lowest limits and that is miles ahead of level needed to beat micros at Hive network. Poker goals : - Work out my mental game issues and move up to higher limits - Continue improving my poker game consistently That's it for now guys. I will do my best to update this thread regularly. If you have any suggestions/comments feel free to post them. Take care, Srdjan

PepeLeTvor

Joined: 16.10.2014

Posts: 54

23.12.2014, 01:22 +2

Update :

It has been a while since I've posted. Results were fine this month and I am happy with them. My hourly is still between 6-7euros with rakeback which is I think maximum I can have on mix nl5-nl10. For higher earnings I will have to break my mental blockage and move up finally to nl25+. It will be tough for sure since I am already earning more than a lot of players on nl25 but still, it is the only way to go.

Finally, I've been playing a lot more in the last week and I am planning to keep it this way. In January, my goal is to play on average 40hours per week. It sounds a lot and it is a lot in fact, since there are days like today when I had to stop after only 1.5 hours because of 7bi stop loss. But still, if I want to be professional poker play, I have to act like it.

Results December (in euros mix nl5/10) :

Results from 1st October 'till today (in euros mix nl5/10) :

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PepeLeTvor

Joined: 16.10.2014

Posts: 54

29.12.2014, 13:53 0

Update :

This will be my final update this year. It was a great one poker related I have to admit. When I started playing poker, 2 years ago, my goal was to make 600 euros per month and this was only a dream back then since I didn't think it will be possible. In the last 3 months I've earned a bit over 2k euros playing mix nl5/nl10. So, mission accomplished, now I am transferring to a bit different goals.

January goals :

1. Play minimum 150 hours

2. Don't look at cashier and/or netwon (ev net won) at all during January

First goal is self explanatory. I've decided to make poker my profession and I have to take it seriously which means putting more hours. Since I have never played more than 110 hours a month, and I will have more than 5 students, so I'll need to set apart time for coaching, this will be very challenging.

Second one is a bit different. I've figured out that I am too much attached to the money I've won during session. If I start session with 400 euros and finish 430euros, next session I start, I don't want to lose those 30 euros I've earned and it's holding be back, so I play less etc. I know all about variance on logical level, but emotions are obviously stronger and since I can't change how I deal with money won/loss it is better to have no idea how much I have won and lost short term. Fortunately I am over rolled so I don't have fear that I will fall under critical 20bis for a limit.

Since these are somewhat different goals, I will update thread only once a week, since I won't be posting any graphs.

Happy New Year and all the best in 2015!

Srdjan

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nmilan84

Joined: 21.07.2010

Posts: 629

16.04.2015, 14:29 0

Hi there fellow countryman,

you had a really nice blog here, why did You stop posting?

Hope You jumped some limits, and are out of micros for good ♠_drink:

GL @ the tables

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