[Closed] My 600$ deposit is going to be +EV (An SNG Blog)

CHARMANDER06 · 2011-06-13T16:30:49Z

Hey guys, First and foremost I would like to welcome anyone who has come to read my first poker blog. I have waited several months to write this blog which is the first official step to the beginning of my poker career. I will start by introducing myself. I just turned 18 a few months ago and I am a student from Quebec, Canada. In September I will be starting my last year of school before University. I’m currently in a science program. Hence, I find the whole mathematical aspect of poker very interesting. Also, for those who are interested, I used to be on the national swimming team when I was 15 I was one of the best swimmers in Canada in my age group at the time. This made my travel a shitload because of all of the competitions and training camps. It is needless to say that I’m a fairly competitive guy. However I injured myself which forced me to quit. Anyways now to get to the poker part! I started playing poker about two years ago with my friends in SnG home games with a buy in of 5 to 10$ that we would organize once every few weeks. I found this site and subscribed about a year ago. Like most people, I quickly busted my first 50$ on FT because of a major lack of BRM. It didn’t really bother me because SC2 was being released shortly after anyways. Indeed, I played a lot of SC2 when it was first released. I achieved rank 1 in my diamond league and then quickly got bored because of a lack of personal objectives to achieve. That being said, I have always played lots of video games and I have always been able to achieve top ranks in my servers like in WC3 and WoW for example. Anyways, shortly after getting bored of SC2, I was offered a free 50$ at Party poker. This was in about 6 months ago, but I took a break of a few months. I decided that I would play this 50$ more seriously and I did indeed! I started practicing ICM with the ICM trainer. I would play it for like 1hour every day. This incredibly increased my ROI. Thus, after about 500 games I ran my 50$ up to 150$ by playing the 3$ SNGs. I chose to play the 3$ (and practice improper BRM, but still better than before) instead of the 1$ SnGs because the rake on the 1$ was insanely high. However, at that point, my end of semester exams started; hence I had a lot less time. During my exams, I decided that once school was over I would write this blog (step 1) and then would deposit 600$ into FT and start playing the 6$ turbo SnGs. Once I took this decision I decided to take a shot at the 6$ SnGs at Partypoker with my 150$ BR. I knew this was bad BRM but I considered the 150$ as a freeroll basically (not saying im regretting this like the 1497124 posts in these forums of ppl blowing their BR because of bad BRM). I saw it as If I lose it all, oh well… Im starting with a fresh new BR in like 7 weeks anyways so why not play tryout the 6$ SnGs. It did not go so well, my BR dropped to 80$ and I lost another 20$ playing cash games. Playing poker during exams is very –EV because technically I was not even supposed to be playing (studying more would have been better). After my exams, I went on a Euro trip with my girlfriend for 3weeks. This is why step 1 had to wait for so long hehe. Yeah so the trip was awesome I visited most of Belgium, Amsterdam (omg), London, Koln ( a city in Germany) and ended in Paris. And now here I am today in front my computer writing my blog that I have been waiting to write for so long. I have not deposited the 600$ yet because I have several steps of preparation to do first. I still have 60$ on Partypoker that I will be playing with in order to warm up before depositing on FT. Once I feel ready ( about 80 games I believe) I will withdraw it and spend it all on poker investments (software, books, etc..). Graph of time spent on Party Poker THE PREPERATION &spades;_cool: (This is the list of things that need to be done before I make my first deposit. Serious list is serious!!) [X] WRITE THIS BLOG[(42/80)] Play atleast 80 3$ FR SNG Turbos at PP with my remaining BR (going to finish off the remaining games playing 2$ SnGs on FT with my deposit)[X] Get HEM manager and set it up (Currently only tracking VPIP, Preflop raise, Agr Factor and Hands)[X] Get the trial version of SNG wiz [X] Talk my friends into reading my blog[(4.5k/10K)] 10k Hands in ICM[ ] Reread for a 3rd time: Sit and Go Strategy by Moshman (+take notes to help remember important aspects) (decided to focus on watching the silver videos instead)[X] Reread Kill Everyone by Lee Nelson[21/15] 15 Hands evaluated[(2/10)] Learn how to use SNG wiz and go over 10 games with it (will be going over more games once deposit is done)[ ] Buy and Read Elements of Poker or/and a book by David Sklansky (Decided to focus on watching silver videos instead)[X] Change my CPU workstation to be more ergonomic (desk and possibly chair) (figured out something temporary) THE PLAN 300 hands of ICM before each session2 hour sessions max (need to stay focused)2 Hands posted in evaluation thread per sessionRevie...

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_Anonymous_

20.06.2011, 23:09 0

Good luck Da Costa, I'll follow your blog

CHARMANDER06

Joined: 06.08.2010

Posts: 301

21.06.2011, 18:15 0

Hey guys,

Quick update.

I have not gotten my deposit done yet. Still waiting for CC to arrive hehe. In the mean while, I got a free 50$ capital on Willy Hill. I have been playing the 1$SnGs there and wow they are very soft!!

Laggsy

Joined: 04.09.2010

Posts: 301

04.07.2011, 02:26 0

Did you lose ur $600 already?? lol

Youtube: Laggsy's Poker Videos

I read ur blog, now u read mine

CHARMANDER06

Joined: 06.08.2010

Posts: 301

05.07.2011, 15:56 0

FT is down =.=