Hi everybody.
First off, this is a great community to be a part of. I first registered here during the poker boom back in 2008 or so, and subsequently have played a couple of short periods of a few months of poker. However, when I set my mind to doing something, I go all-out and will burn myself out and lose interest. My reason for starting this thread/challenge is to put some accountability and a reminder for myself to continue to play poker on a consistent basis. If I want to be good at this game, I must be consistent and not tire myself out and then crash and burn.
I'm a 35-year-old software engineer from Finland. My income is above average but so are my living expenses, so I don't envision myself quitting work for poker anytime soon, however much I would like it. I've played with the idea of supporting myself only playing poker, but I don't consider myself equipped to evaluate that prospect. It does not feel that out there but then again, the less you know the more confident you are about your own abilities. I guess I'll see.
I picked up poker again about a week ago. Began to read forums and first fired up 888Poker where I have an old account and had some money left. I found the client was not as smooth as I remember, and the player pool was no too big, so I signed up to PokerStars (logged in with my old FullTilt account which now is part of PS). I deposited $20 and began to play $2NL ZOOM tables. I think I'm quite comfortable beating the opposition in these tables. I noticed myself making a lot of mistakes, but I was in profit about $14 after roughly 10k hands.
Because of an impulsive decision (was not happy about the way I had played over those hands) I purged my PokerTracker database and started from a clean slate. This is my graph since yesterday:
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I'm running quite hot in comparison to my real skills based on the graph. Downswings are to be expected, so I will deal with them as they come.
I've also got some SNG tickets from PS as welcoming rewards, which I've not put into that great use as I've just ran through the turbos. Nevertheless, I did win a few bucks in those games.
Starting bankroll: $20
Bankroll now: $95.88
My plan which I'm publicly committing to here is to play at least 1k hands per day for at least 30 days. That is around the time that it takes to create a habit, so I hope playing poker will become a habit for me.
VS
