So, this'll be my first blog here..
So, I will try and make an introduction here, but it's possible this may become a wall of boredom similar to A Brief History In Time, as I'm not quite sure what to say and might end up rambling about irrelevant crap.
For this section, there will be a TL;DR at the bottom.
For some time now(about 13 months, based on my creation date here), I've been playing, getting decent at what I do, getting bored, swapping game/format to something more interesting. Aswell as playing on several different platforms, trying crap out.
Depositing, clearing a little of the bonus, getting bored, swapping to another site, repeating.(Or losing what I deposited, and moving on, in some cases.
Of course I've been bouncing around more since Black Friday than before, as I was quite content with the offers of games and software on FTP.
So in late July I believe, I started playing on Stars, where I had never deposited, because I'm not tracked to PokerStrategy, which I have care somewhat about. Played some NL, not much, did ok (Only about 3000 hands, but up like 6BI), moved to some PLO10, did ok, ups and downs, as they are in PLO.
August I played almost exclusively MTTs and MTsngs on Stars, did decently, but still at a loss, in the long run. Also got scammed for a bit in the middle of the last two, so BR took a hit there.
September, I moved to PP for some cashgame grindage, deposited and played PLO25 with an agressive BRM, because they don't have lower, went quite well, then hit a downswing, was down to like 4BI, so started grinding NL10 to build some BR back up, and it went amazingly well, NL10 on PP is incredibly soft I noticed. But then I took a brief break from playing for a week or so.
2nd of October, I moved half the BR to Stars and withdrew half, as I needed the money.
Played lots of PLO10 in October so far on Stars, with varying results.
TL;DR: I keep getting bored and change what I play lots, which ends being not serious.
So, yesterday, I was in a discussion with some people, but most prominently our dear Pleno1, who suggested I should become a RBPro.
Now, this may not be the eventual goal, even if NL50 15 tabling would bring in more money than my current job does, meaning I could leave this horrible hellhole, one might want to be a winning player, not a BE player. But there's long yet to go before there!
During the discussion, I became repetitive saying "But I don't have lots to deposit, since I live in Latvia and salaries are crap, so I can't even start RBPoring on NL25, and I Have no real sample for anything, as I seem to swap too often." Here's where Patrick gave me the advice that I really knew myself, but haven't actually ever done. "Make a 6month plan on how to get there then."
So, this blog will be my way of keeping track of how well I am able to dedicate myself to the goal.
Goals will begin to be, since I know I can beat NL10, Build a roll on NL, and create a sufficient sample to use as reference, I'm thinking 75-125k hands somewhere.
If I feel comfortable enough with myself, I will take shots on NL25, and depending on how these go, will eventually try to move up here.
Once on NL25, build a sufficient NL25 sample, again thinking in the ranges of 75-125k hands, as a winning player.
IF all this goes well, I will attempt to find someone to help and guide me before I move up to NL50, and possibly also, because of the money involved, apply for a stake once I have the foundation to do it on, with lower limits. But those are details I won't need to worry about for quite some time.
This will however also be a general blog, where I may post pictures of my dogs, bitch about life in general, talk about absurd things that go on in moderator chats and bother Ingrid for pictures of Kira.
If no one cares to follow, I will update anyway, as the main purpose of this blog is for me to create a structure to my game, and therefore I believe I will be doing this better with a blog, so I need to formulate what I think.
Regards
Richard
So off we go:
Starting first session today, NL10, 9 tables across 2 platforms:
Starting BR$225(A bit short, but who cares? Close enough to 25bi)
Session 1:
So, the slight BR problem is almost sorted.(I was over at one point, but of course had to drop.)
I left the session with only one out of 9 tables not turning a profit, so I'm very satisfied with that part.
Hands: 786
VPIP/PFR/3b: 15.5/10.6/6.2
Profit: 209.6bb
EV$Dif: 21 bb under EV
