Hello guys and girls, first of all let me introduce myself:
My name is Zvonimir, and I live in Sarajevo, which is the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina (which is in southeastern Europe). I am 20 years old and am studying English and literature. I am in my 2nd year, soon to be 3rd..... maybe ♦. I have been playing poker for a few years now and have taken it up somewhat seriously about 7 months ago. It was in December last year that I started with 10 dollars on pokerstars and built it up to a few hundreds playing 45 man sngs. I have played these games before also but really just for fun and a bit of profit. This time i decided to do it for real. So after a while I had some bonus on FTP and transferred my roll there and grinded rush NL micro stakes. I did ok, and after clearing the bonus I went on to play ROD tournaments. In January I finally had a 1k+ month playing 4.4 RODs and I couldn't have been happier. In February , March and April for various reasons I decided to play LH rush games and with the help of pokerstrategy articles and videos and rakeback I made profit each of these months. But at the end of April I had a pretty bad downswing and kind of was sick of LH so I took on my old game again, RODs that is. I made 1400+ in that month and my BR was now at 3500$. And then.......................... Well, I guess you all know what happened. FPT lost its license and my entire bankroll was gone just like that. Months of learning and playing down the drain. So now, I live in hope my roll will be retrieved someday. In the meantime, I have firmly decided to rebuild a roll from scratch using stakes or whatever means necessary. Deposits are out of the question as I am far from rich and do not have any source of income, being a student. So it will have to be from scratch. In July I have already done 2 stakes for 45 man sngs and am in the process of playing the 3rd. These games I am playing now are $3.5 but I have had to withdraw the profit from the first 2 stakes. Now I am up a little bit after a few days of breaking even and the reason I am making this blog is mainly to motivate myself to put in more volume then ever before and play the best I can. Here are some goals I would like to accomplish. I think I am fairly lazy and am spending way too much of my time doing nothing when I could be playing or learning poker or learning for my exams which are at the end of August. As far as poker goes I am not a monster but in the games I am playing I seem to do really well. On FTP my full tracking shows 37% ROi over 1100 games, but it is even higher as there are plenty of games included in it which are $20+ buyins which were all played on points accumulated from grinding cash for a few months. On stars when I isolate only 45 mans (the only game I ever played seriously on that platform) I have 28% over 1500 games at the 1 and 3 levels. So goals now are to be less lazy, play more, study, maybe find someone who could help me improve my game here in the community and rebuild a roll. Since I live in BiH beating the micros alone is enough to have a comfortable life (since good salary here is $800). My somewhat longer term goals are to beat the $15 level of 45mans and maybe higher. I know I am ranting a bit and I'm sure no one will read it but that's ok ♦. I will put some hands here for discussions and will post about all things poker related and maybe some non poker related. Maybe some day I put in a happy post of how I got my FTP roll back. Gl and thanks for reading.

