TheLastNail-life as a poker plr – Page 12

TheLastNail · 2009-05-05T21:42:19Z

hi guys, after couple of weeks of hesitation I finally decided to star my blog. Nice enough date to start finally, I guess. To kick things off I d just introduce myself briefly & talk abt the future most likely content of the blog. I, Who am I? I turned Michael Jordan (23yo) couple of weeks ago, and my current status is that I play poker fulltime for the living. I suspect word "professional" stems from "profession", so I should be a professional poker plr then, right? &diams; :heart: Seems a bit difficult to believe actually when looking at things in my life in retrospect, but I guess I need to somehow identify myself with this.. anyhow, shortly abt my former poker career: the date of my registration here is pretty much the day I learned the rules of the game. (NL, I never played anything else up to some recent tries of PLO for fun) Amusing to mention that I just got to know abt ps from a former schoolmate, who just uttered I ll get 50$ for free in here.. obv I was excited, got it, lost it, without seeing much point in ps in general &diams; .. It was in early August then, when I somehow roamed my way back in here & started to explore video coachings & articles.. to be honest, I only watched Hasenbraten's videos, I still had most of silver content articles unread up to the previous month :) Anyway, I won 1$ at beginner's freeroll at Titan, where I was playing back then & was playing some SnGs with 0.1$ BI .. I made to sth like 20$ in some days with this homemade strategy: I was writing notes for ppl from each SnG on separate sheets & were trying to memorize the pages by colour marks to find ppl I was searching for more quickly.. so basically each time I played I had this 50+ A4 sheets with notes scribbled all over em.. u can imagine now, that playing 1 table at a time wasnt as boring as it was stressful :) Ofc I didnt know one can multitable... and I liked to play as a blonde avatar at Titan, so I guess I got overexcited abt bigscreen tables.. I also didnt know one can write notes directly in the table screen.. Geeez.. this will be loooong.. ok I ll just skip some parts> So now, this will be the 4th month I play poker for living.. In beginning of February I bough a new nb from my first winnings with better modem (i lost several hundreds on disconnections). I was playing NL50 back then, but I somehow felt that I must give this a shot, so I did. Actually, I interrupted studies at univ, but for reasons unrelated to poker (will explain later maybe) in October, so I had not very much to do anyways, esp that my 2y relationship ended :( and I also quit my ambitions as a chess player.. Actually I was only playing poker hiding where I could bcs nobody in my surrounding could really understand it, and I was in terrible depressions, not only from this, but I somehow got through, and later as started to earn more & more $$$, started to get the much needed support from my family. I am living with my father now, and each month I give my family a certain (for em pretty high for Slovak stand. of living) am. of $$$, so that I have better feeling that this is also beneficial for sb else then me & they have good feeling I am in big enough plusses I can afford to promote em. Currently I play NL200FR, but will start NL400 this month, and SH & HU soon... II, What is this blog going to be abt? I d like it to be more abt life and lifestyle it brings me then abt the game itself. So I dont expect to analyse hands here or sth, I feel hand analysis forum is a good enough place for this.. I d be happy to fulfill at least some of these objectives in the blog: 1, inspire sb to pursue poker for living 2, get myself motivated to play more+better 3, have fun with stories of my (other ppls) lives 4, speculate abt the purpose of life ok, this is it for now, 2moro I ll talk abt my pokerrelated goals & achievements sofar, and state some (maybe specific) goals for this month hf, gl. also> any questions, comments warmly awaited :heart: TheLastNail

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25.08.2009, 14:17 0

I mean I seriously have this question for everyone: For those who play only professionally /no other activities as school, other job etc/ .. For how long have u been playing without getting bored and demotivated?

-life is not abt finding urself, it's abt creating urself-

opal99

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25.08.2009, 14:21 0

You CAN'T play without any other activity!! The simple truth...

It doesnt matter whether you go back to school, start some gigolo career or just party each day, you HAVE TO do something else than poker as often as possible.

I'm quite happy with 6 days per month school + some pub visiting + resting few hrs/day atm, but I'm looking for some regular activity too. Poker is fine to earn money, but you need to live somehow to actually enjoy them!

Your mind is software. Program it. Your body is a shell. Change it. Death is a disease. Cure it. Extinction is approaching. Fight it.

Zheelvern

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25.08.2009, 14:34 0

Originally posted by TheLastNail
I mean I seriously have this question for everyone: For those who play only professionally /no other activities as school, other job etc/ .. For how long have u been playing without getting bored and demotivated?

Two weeks.

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swissmoumout

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25.08.2009, 17:42 0

Originally posted by TheLastNailthinking abt buying a big base to start off with.. prolly @ NL100 /200?/

Don't. Datamining is counter-productive for HU; you really want to know how your opponent was playing against you, otherwise stats will be irrelevant. Unless you have two separate DB's, and only use the mining one for table selection..
I was getting HU hands every day, but I cancelled my subscription cause I end up just looking a session stats when I'm playing...

I'd recommend starting at nl100 or lower though. there's a lot less fish at 200, and the regs are quite a bit stronger too. Either way, watch some good videos first and you should be fine (pr1nnyraiding series on DC is very good (except episode1), fwiw)

_Anonymous_

25.08.2009, 19:03 0

Originally posted by TheLastNail

Originally posted by miskokvo
i didnt play for 4-5 days and im different person ♦ ♦ happy,social and little sunburn ♦

exactly my point D vitamin ftw too... how was your exam Miskokvo?

i am thinking deep, and maybe i need some more adrenalin or sth, like playing HU, seen couple of guys who are abs crushing NL2k there with no probs.. thinking abt buying a big base to start off with.. prolly @ NL100 /200?/

but still, school should be fun.

crushing nl2k hu is not easy to say the least

crushing nl200 is pretty fucking easy tho, and you dont need a database for that

Fongie

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25.08.2009, 23:35 0

HU is teh SHIT! But stats suck, what do you need stats playing hu for? Definately think you should try it out, it's great.

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miskokvo

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25.08.2009, 23:58 0

i made it... so i will stick back to school for 1 year i hope... now i need to find good rent in Nitra ... and ako to vypada uteba? ides studovat alebo poker full time?

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26.08.2009, 00:21 0

i am sending a "delegate" to assign me to the year in school.. and then 90% i ll go.. i ll try to play poker as long as it s fun to me, and deffo need that money for my villa.. so i wont stop playing after i have some more, but prolly wont be playing 1k+ too much since dont wont to get swingy.. just decent stable wr is nice also

-life is not abt finding urself, it's abt creating urself-