Hey Everybody! This is TheKingOfCasablanca. (not really the king :P)
Anyways, I am a member at PokerStrategy since a long time and i have interduce myself at the swedish comunity (I live in Sweden but not from sweden). But just because I am not very good at swedish (neither english) so i decided to start reading articles in english and it seems like it is working good by now :).
PS: the numbers I write in $ is about. it is not exact. And I hope you will understand What I write... If you wonder about anything go ahead and ask.
Now some info about me.
Who is TheKingOfCasablanca?
They call me Kalle here in Sweden and i am 22 years old. I have been playing poker now for like a year and a half.
Why did I start playing Poker and when?
I had friends who were playing poker and were talking too much about it, and that ppl could make real money from it, and they wanted me to try it so I gave it a shot in summer 2009 with my first deposit of 25$ at a swedish website called (Svenska Spel).
What happened since I started playing poker?
First off, when I made the deposit at Svenska Spel, I didnt have any idea about the BRM. so I started playing and in about 2 hours I made the 25$ to +70$. /new players luck/. I ate and came back to play and lost the whole BR. and all I was thinking about.. That was a bad beat... thats the only thing I WANTED to blame it on. not thinking that full house was better then my nutflush... But anyways, I liked poker so much so I decided I could play like 1hour aday if i have money otherwise i make deposit 1time a month and hoping it will be the last deposit.. what happened I lost it again. question is why? the answer is: BR! I didnt respect it.. I just played like with 5BI max. and I lost it in like a week... and then in September 2009 ( 3months of giving out money at poker). I found PokerStratgy... I believed I watched a video at youtube and found a link there to PokerStrategy. First I became a memeber and then decided to try the quiz without reading any article... I filed... so i tried it later (I dont remember exactly when i tried it again) but anyways I had to read BRM articles , BSS articles (CG) MTT articles. which i need to learn.
I was playing freerolls in the internet winning at freerolls , losing it at cash game... untill November 2009.
I was invited to a home game tournament (I dont know if i can call it a home game) anyways friends from work wanted to play a tournament BI: about 80$ with rake (550kr swedish kron). I played with them and won the first price ( 7000kr = 1000$). it was crazy... I bought a laptop with the money and made a deposit of 150$ at pokerstars... and lost it later because I couldnt just play one game, today I play MTT, later I play Omaha then jump to NLHE.... I was mixing games wich made me lose it...
now in every month since November 2009, I play a live tournament. the thing is since November 2009 I won the first place 6 times, was in 2ed or 3ed 2 and was knocked out4times before the money. anyways that makes me +at least 6000$ from playing live . BI to tournments 80$ then i play cash game NL200. and players who play are between 24 to 30 players. 3 ITM. ( not like auckland at titan). with 3ITM makes the players who reach money win so much. anyways thats not the subject...
Now as I said I am +6000$ live but losing and still losing at internet... now I play with a huge BR and still losing... I dont know what I am doing wrong. That's why I decided to stop playing poker at internet for a while and try to learn Poker. I like poker and I play it because it is funny. I just don't want it to be an expansive hobby, if you understand what i mean :).
What I am planing to do now::
I will
- not play poker for a while.
- Try to read at least one article aday so many times so I deeply understand it and could explain it for others...
- watch my hand history and post hands that i have some wondering about here.
- try to write here after every poker session I play with results and graphs.
- make a deposit of 500$ at anywebsite and play with +100BI (to the game I will decide i will continue playing...) so playing MTT between 1$-5$ and try to learn poker from the ground..
- Do my best to find a way to stop tilting which is not that easy.
Now That I wrote so much I need to bring this to an end. I hope that you understand anything of what I wrote here ( The reasen that I didnt make blogg at swedish comunity was because I don't trust my swedish...)
some info about my BR:
PokerStars : 55,86$
888 Poker : 103,13$ (after wining 4$ from a freeroll i played it up to 103,13 mexing between MTT and PLOH)
Titan Poker: 45$
I have more accounts at diffent sites But I prefer PokerStars and 888Poker (too bad that Holdem Manager doesnt work at 888Poker).
Tools I am using: Holdem manager.
I don't know if the idea about playing at 1 website with 100BI is good or not. but I maybe get any suggestions from you guys :).
Thanks for your time