Hello everyone,
I'm a half Dutch Half Indonesian poker nut, hailing from the Netherlands. I've worked various jobs, none that pay well and on top of that things are really slowing down right now. My employer mentioned it should pick up half April, but until then I'm going to spend as much time as I can in playing poker online.
I'm going to aim for normal working hours, roughly 8-10 hours daily, and aiming for 70+ hours weekly.
I allow myself to add €20 to my BR as an investment each month, should I bust.
I want to follow the MSS guide as closely as I can, and also start the beginner course.
My aim is not to become filthy rich, but have at least €10+ per hour (I commonly earn roughly €8,50 an hour with the 0-hour contracts I have. It's not much but pays the bills).
I want to play well enough to receive my bonus from Poker770 (It's a lot of points, so it will be a challenge at the NL2 where I am right now).
I need to move up to a higher stake, NL4 hopefully well before end of April.
For those interested some background:
Spoiler
I learned 5cd poker when I was very young. We had this big cookie jar filled with cents. Every time we played we divided it among us 3+ and play for hours. I usually lost, not very patient and tilting alot 
Plus, I was not gifted with a pokerface and too easy to read.
My stepdad taught us how to improve our poker, because we weren't very good at it. Things kind of turned for the worst and from that moment on poker really wasn't something any of us would mention at a family dinner. In fact any sort of gambling was pretty much forbidden in the house.
My interest in poker re-ignited around 2009, when my husband started playing for fun at Full Tilt Poker and began to watch some ongoing championships on tv.
Then a period of silence due to legality issues of poker in my country and recently I started to become interested again when I watched old Starcraft II tournements on team liquid website - a tournement sponsored by PokerStrategy no less I remembered having signed up on the website and began reading the beginner (basic) lessons.
For now I like to focus on the 2NL and slowly work my way up. I have played a few hundred hands already and I'm basicly still close to the same amount I had - made some silly mistakes, raised too often or too much or didn't want to fold pretty picture cards >.< I'm not bust so that's a good thing and I have learned from my mistakes so I hope things will go better as I carefully move up the ladder.
I also gotten myself some poker books, but never used them until now because of what has happened in our country the last couple of years. The books are:
Small Stakes Hold 'em (Sklansky, Miller, Malmuth)
Hold 'em Poker (for advanced players) (Sklansky, Malmuth)
Winning Low Limit hold 'em (Lee Jones)
Thanks for reading.
Best regards,
Francisca
