My poker career ~~ – Page 8

_Anonymous_ · 2007-07-13T14:34:12Z

I guess i ll make a start since noone else has done it so far. I first played poker online like a little less than 2 years ago i think , on pokerstars along with some of my greek friends from warcraft 3. At first i was playing with play money , then i received some donations &diams; from my friends and i moved to the uber microlimit tables with 1$ at each table. To top it off , i was playing SH without having any clue that it is actually harder than FR. I was thinking , there are less players here , so i have more of a chance to win a hand. I also was never raising any hands preflop including aces. So it is fair to say i was a total fish. I obviously lost my money soon after , when i decided to make a 50$ deposit. That was soon gone too (thx to tilting if i remember on tables where my bankroll wasnt close to enough , but i had no clue about BRM either) and i deposited another 50$ &diams; which lasted at least a month or so , but again i lost it X(. Then i decided i was not ever going to make any money by playing poker and i totally quit it. I probably lost over 150$ on pokerstars including my 100$ that i deposited and all the donations from my friends. So on early december last year i read on a gaming site forum about pokerstrategy giving 50$ for free to everyone to start their poker careers. So i decided to register since i wouldnt risk any more money. The original poster of that thread was proud that he got the 50$ , reached 120$ and then cashed it out , but that seemed dumb to me. I think i am quite lucky i didnt receive a security check because i doubt i would have bothered to do all the steps necessary to prove i deserve the starting money. Anyway on the 24th of April i posted this here , which was summing up my progress till then: "So yesterday my bankroll for the first time reached the 1000$ mark after 4 months and an insane amount of hands. The first two months i had lots of ups and downs , mainly ups which lasted for like 2-3 weeks and then were destroyed in 1-2 days due to a huge downswing where i would lose 2/3rds or more of my bankroll. Reasons were : I was tilting , i was playing in wrong tables , i thought i learned how to play poker while i was actually sucking , and i was playing SSS way too loose. Anyway after the last and worse downswing where i dropped within a week from 500 to 50$ i decided to start over from the beginning , mixing bigstack tables of nl5$ and shortstack of nl10$. So i ve been moving up slowly but surely and i ve learned to take bad beats more lightly , well i get angry of course but it has stopped affecting my play.Right now i play NL25$BSS and NL50$ SSS. So i hope that this is the first grand of many to follow &diams; I wanna thank the PS admins , coaches and hand evaluators for helping me to start playing and to be able to stand my ground on the micro limit tables " My bankroll has skyrocketed since then as i ve become better and i also started to play on higher limits ( I took a pretty conservative approach on my BRM). While it took me 5 months to reach my first 1K i reached the 2nd in 3 weeks , then the 3rd in 2 more etc. My record was moving up 1K in 3 days , although sadly i havent repeated that &diams;. I also switched like 1 month ago from FR to SH BSS since there is more action and loose play there. I even made my first meaningful cashout. I havent really had any huge downswings ,just a 2 week break even period and ive managed to stay off tilt after badbeats. For what it's worth , my biggest loss in a session was 800$ (wheeeeee - ok maybe i tilted some there :P ) and my biggest winnings was around 500$. Poker is also becoming more fun for me because i begin to understand it a bit more (Of course theres still a huge way to go). Atm i am playing NL200$ SSS up to NL600$ (to be honest its very difficult to find an FR table at NL400$ and NL600$) and NL100$ SH with BSS (more conservative approach here since i ve been playing SH only for a month). Hopefully soon i will be able to play NL1000$ with SSS (I am pondering between building a bankroll for that and cashing out to buy some stuff which would delay my progress for about a month or a bit more). Does anyone experienced have any suggestion on how many stacks would be nice to start playing on NL1000$ with SSS? I dont think anyone will bother to read all that , after all it is -EV for your play :tongue:

DaPhunk

Joined: 01.03.2008

Posts: 2,805

09.09.2008, 04:31 0

How many days will it take you to get from Bronze to Diamond then? Strange seeing you with only gold status at the time of my posting this...

Have fun NL600ing.

Kruppe and DaPhunk; My Blog!

_Anonymous_

09.09.2008, 10:39 0

should take around 9-10 sessions , but diamond status doesnt make any difference to me anyway.
I ve started pretty decent , up 9.5k in 9k hands. I :heart: NL600.

Talic

Joined: 04.01.2008

Posts: 1,846

09.09.2008, 15:22 0

Originally posted by undercover82
should take around 9-10 sessions , but diamond status doesnt make any difference to me anyway.
I ve started pretty decent , up 9.5k in 9k hands. I NL600.

wait, you did make profit 9.5k $ in 9k hands? :baby: or you started with like 10 stacks?

18BB/100 hands on NL600?!

Talic

Joined: 04.01.2008

Posts: 1,846

14.09.2008, 17:14 0

Originally posted by undercover82
should take around 9-10 sessions , but diamond status doesnt make any difference to me anyway.
I ve started pretty decent , up 9.5k in 9k hands. I NL600.

what are your stats by the way. I wanna be like you

Talic

Joined: 04.01.2008

Posts: 1,846

17.10.2008, 18:11 0

UPDATE?

Kruppe

Joined: 20.02.2008

Posts: 2,133

17.10.2008, 19:06 0

indeeeed.

Talic

Joined: 04.01.2008

Posts: 1,846

17.10.2008, 20:41 0

Originally posted by Kruppe
indeeeed.

Hey Kruppe didn't you play in Stargate SG-1? I think the guy's name was Tiel'k ♦

Kruppe

Joined: 20.02.2008

Posts: 2,133

17.10.2008, 22:07 0

Originally posted by Talic

Originally posted by Kruppe
indeeeed.

Hey Kruppe didn't you play in Stargate SG-1? I think the guy's name was Tiel'k ♦

Yes, I am Christopher Judge. How did you know???

sorry for the off-topic post

this is a good blog.

098799

Joined: 23.07.2007

Posts: 1,059

11.01.2009, 14:57 0

update?

vladnz

Joined: 17.01.2007

Posts: 1,325

12.01.2009, 02:17 0

Originally posted by 098799
update?

_Anonymous_

20.01.2009, 06:50 0

update : i am gold member wheeee ♦
I got worn out on november where i played 65k hands to reach that 1.8k bonus (not worth it).
So i took a break and focused on hanging around , doing nothing , and playing games on my consoles.
I also bought a used mazda mx-5 for my girlfriend. It was also the first christmas that i spend at my new home.
So after 1.5 month where i didnt play a single hand , i decided to start grinding some nl600- nl1k. I was reluctant to start playing because i got used to not having to cope with the stress that accompanies poker when it is your job , but my girlfriend was whining at me because i spent a lot of money during this break ♦ .
Results so far : 7k hands , 2.7k euro up.

Talic

Joined: 04.01.2008

Posts: 1,846

20.01.2009, 07:55 0

you're sick man, keep going! write here more often

vladnz

Joined: 17.01.2007

Posts: 1,325

20.01.2009, 08:11 0

u still play at Party right?

post some hands ♦

_Anonymous_

31.01.2009, 06:22 0

Thank you for amazing inspiration I hope you will post few more hands soon

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