Hello fellow pokerplayers. My name is Gijs. I'm Dutch, 22 years of age and started playing poker around 2007 (had a summer job selling icecream at the time). Poker used to be 'hot' on my highschool, and during our lunchbreaks, we would often(secretly, as it wasn't allowed obviously) play for a couple euro's. It wasn't long before I started playing online. In the beginning just for playmoney, but obviously this didn't feel quite the same as our secret live games, playing for a lunchbox full of pocket change, hidden under the table (thuglife) :f_biggrin:. I didn't really want to make a deposit either, so I started to look for alternatives, which quickly lead me to here. I created an account on Partypoker and pretty much donked around a bit, believe I lost my roll in the end and therefore decided to make a small deposit on FullTilt, with which I started to play the rush games, which then were still relatively new and I believe exclusive to FullTilt.
I was playing pretty much breakeven here I guess, but thanks to some luckboxing in the $1 rushtourneys, I built my roll up to around $300 pretty quickly and started playing 10NL, had to move down, played too agressive as a result and had to move down again, after which I was kind of done with it. By this time I left highscool, and went to university and kind of forgot about poker. I played some hands every once in a while, but most of the time primarily for shits 'n giggles. Actually taking poker seriously and find out how far I could come if I would really give it my best shot never really left my mind. However, there just wasn't the time and opportunity for this, whilst living in a noisy and crowded studentflat where the booze is infinitely available.
About two months ago now, I was somehow triggered to randomply play some hands again, but this time kind of stuck to it. I had about $10 left and started playing NLHE 6max rush. Soon, I wasn't able to reload whilst playing on 2 tables, but eventually managed to turn it around and grind it back up. Took two failed shots at NL5, where I lost 8 BI in under 3k hands and am currently still clinging around $70, slowly grinding my roll back op...
NL2 graph (first 20k hands are missing)
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NL5 graph 
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In about half a year, I expect to graduate from uni and untill then I have a reasonable amount of time available to play poker. After years of playing for fun every now and then, I now intend to give poker a real shot and see where I can get in 6 months. I haven't really set any money goals, as I believe this will make me focus on making money, instead of improving my pokerskill. And I believe that, in order to make money, I would be better off getting a job ♦. I would like to succesfully, and properly rolled, play at NL25 in 6 months.
I intend to use a somewhat nitty bankrollmanagement, in order to move down the stakes as little as possible.
To achieve my goal, I have set some sidegoals. I think they are realistic and not that hard to maintain for a 6 month period. I will often be doing a lot more than my minimum, but I intend to keep my goals realistic when my motivation drops. I expect this to take me 12-15 hours each week.
Poker goals:
Play 30k hands each month
Take 5 minute breaks each hour, or when slightly tilting
Stick to 5 BI stoploss
Evaluate hands for atleast 15 minutes after playing a session, using Equilab.
Call less riverbets with marginal hands
Study goals:
Watch 2 video's a week
- W34z3l's 6max walktrough (post homework 2 thread)
- Double2's 10 tips to get out of the micro's
- Suggestions for other good vids are very welcome!
Post 5 hands a week to forums
Respond to 10 hands a week on forums
Blog goals:
at least 2 updates a week
weekly graph
fun hands
Show hands in which I failed (tilted) miserably --> show them to the world, and punish myself for my fishyness and impatience 
perhaps some personal stuff; hobby's etc. (fishing, cooking, annual hiking trip)
Other poker related goals:
find a way to get gold status (fulltilt and stars are untracked)
investigate how I like other clients where I can still create a tracked account
decide if I want to buy PT4 or HM2 (currently testrunning both)
set up (or steal) an amazing HUD
At first, this blog will probably not stand out amidst the overwhelming amount of 6max rush/zoom/speed blogs that are available. I guess my main goal with this blog right now is just to keep myself entertained and motivated, drag myself out of the grind every now and then. Hopefully after a while it will start to stand out and be worth a read. I'll do my very best!
That's it for now. Stay tuned for upgrades.
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