Hi everyone, (sorry for my bad english, )
My real name is Edgar and I'm a 20 year old math and physics student living in Metz, a town in north east of france (200k people). I like to play poker of course, programming, playing magic(i have MWS), and partying.
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About my poker life:
Januar 2008: I started poker by playing for play money in full tilt poker. After some days, i wanted to earn real money without having to deposit, so i played the 2700 guys 100$ freeroll. After a lot of tries, i was ITM in one of these tourneys and was excited to play for 2 real dollars on one table. I lost these 2 dollars in nearly ten minutes on NL2. I didn't ever read poker articles, so i was a real fish.
March 2008: Then i decided to search for another way of getting money on my account, so i found pokerstrategy, i succeeded to the test after two tries, and was happy to become my starting capital. I played too lot of tables at the same time while I was learning the strategy, and fastly lost my whole bankroll.
May 2008: I didn't want to deposit, cause i didn't want to become addicted of poker. So i decided to forget poker for a while. I just played some freerolls, was paid some times but never came over 50$.
March 2009: After a long period of time, I deposited 10$ on Full tilt, went broke in a week, after growing my bankroll to 50$ (i think bad BRM).
May 2009: (first week) I was really desperated, but once i reconnected to fulltilt, i saw that cause of my 10$ deposit, i was allowed to play a 8000$ guaranteed freeroll. The first 50 places gained 50$, and they were only 200 entrants. I started the tourney at 8pm, and decided to play just this tourney and no other freeroll at the same time. At the beginning of the tourney i just wanted to survive as long as possible to get 50$. When just 50 people were remaining, i decided to get paid at least 100$ (first 9 places). I succeeded in this and i was first on the final table, with twice the number of chips than the second ( thanks to the suckout where i had KK and my opponent AA). The tourney ended at 3:30am, and i was the winner of 1600$. It was unbelievable that i won this tourney. I didn't wanted to lose all this money, so i went sleeping to play with a little of this money the next day.
May 2009: (second week) I started at NL25 in BSS, read and reread the articles. I made 200$ the next week. But then all crushed, after some bad beat and a lot of errors I made, my bankroll was at nearly 1000$, and i thank that i had 1600$ two weeks before.
May 2009: (third week)So i decided to gain the 600$ back. I wanted to do short stack strategy at NL600 (lol what an idea with a 1000$ bankroll) so with 120$. They was a big fish at the table, and i decided to double up and go. But they was this f***ing auto rebuy and i was forced to play with 600$, i couldn't take back the 480$ or i had to leave the table. The fish was big stacked also (600$). After a lot of folded hands, i raised to 18$ with ATs. The fish who was reraising a lot of hand, reraised to 54$. I was in HU against him, and the flop was T42 and gave me a flush draw. He betted to 60$, and i decided to raise to 150$, and he called. On the turn, a 9 who didn't helped my flush draw made him bet to 200$. With 200$ of my money in the pot, i didn't want to fold, and i pushed all in. He had QT and hitted his Q on the river, making me losing about 600$, making my bankroll crush to 400$. After some days, i was bankrupt again, losing 1600$ in less than a month.
START OF THE CHALLENGE FROM 50 to 5000
June 2009:As i went down to 50$, i thank that everything wasn't lost, and decided to read the SSS strategy again. I watched a lot of videos, went to some coachings, and read all the articles. Since then i think i'm a winning player. I reached the 100$ in a couple of days, and made another 100$ in less than a week, just by playing SSS in NL2, than NL5, than NL10, following a good BRM. When i reached the 200$ line, i decided that i was now able to play some MTT (max 180 players), cause the players who played this kind of tourney were really bad for the majority. I did good results, twice i ended first and earned 400$ in some days.
July 2009: (first two weeks)With my 600$ bankroll i wanted to do some bigger tourneys (1000 and more entrants). I played every evening 6 tourneys of less than 10$ buyin. One day i finished 6th out of 4347 of a 5$ buyin tourney and earned 652$, making my bankroll go to more than 1200$.
July 2009: (last two weeks) I was bored of SSS and BSS, so i played a lot of HU cash game (minimum is NL50) with 100BB. The variance of Heads up poker made my bankroll crush under the 1000$ mark, and it crushed down up to 650$, after a semi tilt when i decided to play a NL100 heads up with 100 BB. After this i had a good run on Heads up, and my bankroll was over 1000$ again. Since then i lost a lot playing Heads up again, this lost isn't on the graphs cause pokerstars wasn't saving the file history cause of an update.
August 2009
Today my bankroll is at 705$, i Stopped defenitly playing HU Cash game cause i'm not skilled enough yet to play it and cause i don't have the required bankroll for playing it safely.
Plans and goals:
Short termed plans:
Plan1: For the future, i decided to play MTT of 90 players or less with less than 1% of my bankroll, this mean, from 2$ to 5$ MTT. I gonna play maximum with 100$ at the same time, so maximum 20 tabling. This way i hope to come over the 1000$ mark before the 20th of August, playing 2 sessions per day, so 20*2*15=600 MTT. I started this plan today with 676$, so i need 324$ more. I gained today 37$, so my progress is of 13%
Plan2: I want to buy on the pokerstars shop the 10k FPP composite poker chip so that i can play poker against friends with a good poker chip set. I already have 4900 FPPs, so i need 5100FPPs more to buy this item. I hope to reach the 10000FPP mark before November 1st. I gained 200 FPPs since August 1st, so my progress is of 4%
Long termed plans:
I wanna reach the 5000$ mark by January 1st of 2011, by playing BSS FR and Multi table SNG, with a strict bankroll management of 100BI (in Cash game as in SNG), playing max 20 tables at the same time.
Stats of my hands
I use Holdem Manager to see how I progress over the time.
I currently have 47k hands of Cash game, with an average win of 7.1BB/100 on lot of different stakes (from Nl2 to nL100), and 40k hands of tourneys (SNG+MTT) with a win of 6.2BB/100
My graphs:
Cash game:
Total earning ($)
Total earning (BB)
Tourneys/SNG:
Total earning ($)
Here all my graphs in a single gallery:
udpated 06.08.09
My current bankroll: 700$
My current VIP status(pokerstars): goldstar
My current number of FPP: 5258
VPP this month: 293
Progress of current Plan1: 12% *coming from 676 to 1000$)
Progress of current Plan2: 5% getting 5000 FPPs more (currently 213)
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