[Closed] Vic's cake tales, nl 25 sh rush + nl50 sh ^_^

My mind simply could not understand the reasoning about his allin call. I mean I'd understand if he was trying to bluff me, but there is kinda no fold equity in calling an allin

After this hand I virtually lol-ed in my chair ♦

Cake Poker No-Limit Hold'em, $0.04 BB (6 handed) - Cake-Poker Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com

Button ($3.94)
SB ($3.05)
BB ($8.76)
UTG ($6.54)
Hero (MP) ($4)
CO ($1.83)

Preflop: Hero is MP with A, 10
UTG calls $0.04, Hero bets $0.20, CO calls $0.20, Button calls $0.20, 2 folds, UTG calls $0.16

Flop: ($0.86) 4, 2, 3 (4 players)
UTG checks, Hero bets $0.64, 2 folds, UTG raises to $1.28, Hero raises to $3.80 (All-In), UTG calls $1.88

Turn: ($7.18) Q (2 players, 1 all-in)

River: ($7.18) Q (2 players, 1 all-in)

Total pot: $7.18

Results:

UTG had [Qd 7d] (three of a kind, Queens).
Outcome: UTG won $7.90

Anyway, i'm doing great, watched some more vids, Bankroll is $80 and I have $6 rakeback coming + very close to another $10 release ^_^, I might go up to 6NL soon (yes there is 6NL in cake lol)

Okee removing noobland, because I think I'm actually playing good (for 4nl player :f_biggrin:)

Last few days were good, despite me not winning that much (especially yesterday). I didn't read many articles, but I did watch 3-4 videos and even did a sweat session with a friend of mine so I'm still improving

I also think I'm getting better and better tilt resistances; look @ my graph from yesterday ^^

Looks like I only drop 3BI, but actually everywhere you see a big drop of the blue line it's a bad beat or cooler - like KK3 board I'm with AK, turn gives the other guy a full house with like K5o -_-

I got hit by all kind of stuff today, mainly 9 out flushes, 4 out gutshots, 2 out sets, even a 1 outer chased me off a turned full house (Hero holds K9s from the BU, flop comes 229, I feel ahead, cbet, get called, turn comes 9 so I flop the nuts, pot bet, get called, river comes 2 for villain to show 2 and beat my 9s full with quads ^^)

Soooo I've no idea what kept me playing yesterday, but I did a 3 hour 6table SH session (which is a lot for me, I usually try to do 2 sessions of 2 hours each), but for some reason not sleeping the day before helped me ♦

In this session I ended up generating 1BI in rakeback and unlocking $10 from the bonus (pff still have 80 to go and only till the end of march!! I'm nowhere near :/) so despite all the bad beats that made me wina $1 I actually increased my BR by quite a bunch

I should also talk about 3rd of march. I palyed around 1500 hands then too. I was on fire back then

I just kept getting good cards all day long! At some point I felt like a maniac, because I would get to be pre flop raiser like 5 times in a row in a table and always with a hand! Like AK UTG, then AJ from MP3, then JJ from CO, then AA from BU... wtff I never played so many hands!
It resulted in a few small beats (mainly because like no one respected my raises, but I kept cbetting so I can eventually get more value for my made hands), but getting such good hands preflop eventually gave me too much of an edge

I actually want to say how many good hands I got in those 1500 played ;P

AA - 11 (+$13.42)
AK - 19 (-$2.27)
AQ - 24 (+$2.36)
AJ - 15 (+$4.85)
AT - 24 (-$5.80)
KK - 8 (+$4.51)
KQ - 20 (-$0.77)
QQ - 9 (+$5.09)
JJ - 9 (+$9.37)
TT - 5 (-$1.40)

Oke, enough of the daily stuff
I actually see a cool trend in my play as of lately - the red line is actually positive! I have NO idea what that means, but it makes me happy

I think I improved 2 things in my game, that made that happen and because of those things I get quite a lot more bb/100 than before:

1) I used to be scare to raise marginal hands from CO and BU if there is a limper or two in already. Hands like KJ, QT, 78s... I used to limp suited when there were limpers and fold the other marginals.
Well guess what? Limpers limp because they either have a very small pair or suited connector or air but want to see flop (doh... but I didn't really think about it before...) when I make a good isolation raise I now find that either everyone folds, allowing me to collect more dead money than I used to before, or 1 calls and folds his air to cbet. I guess that's poker ABC, but I was too dumb to do it before

2) Fighting for unraised pots. Now I heard about that concept from one of the free dc vids and I actually got to like it a lot. They really encouraged me to fight for those pots, because as they said (and it turned out to be true ^^) one should pretty much always fight for those pots with ATC, because the same way you don't hit, they might not hit either.
So now I either raise close to 2/3 pot (like .08 in .12 or .10 in .16) on the flop if I'm last to act or if there is only one person left to act after me, or I check the flop if i'm 1st and considering there is usually no aggression I open raise on pretty much ANY turn, unless it gets VERY scary, but that's quite rare.
In the end you only need to win 1 out of 2 times to be +1BB, and you usually get AT LEAST 2 wins from 3 times, which sets you up to +4BB from such an easy thing! And guess what. If you win 1 out of 3 you're only -1BB...

So if any other newbies like me are reading this blog, try this out! I promise at least 1bb/100 increase in your winnings ^^ for me it's much more

I'll wrap this up with a cool story from a table I played yesterday. There was a fish.. not just any fish, but a fish that got ALL his hate against me(for me rivering a set against him, where I cbet, he calls with 2 pair, check-check turn, pot bet river from me, allin from him gg to his 2 pair ^^), so whenever I was to raise, he reraised ATC. This was my best experience in poker so far ever! At first it took me some time to adjust my range a bit, but when I started calling his shoves with 2nd best pair, and see him turn 86o I was just laughing irl ♦ Of course that led to 2 bad beats cause by him, but for those 2 half stacks he got from me, I got 4 full stacks from hum

And of course my graph from march so far:

I think 20k hands for a month is a joke even if I don't play much -_- but lets just keep my challenge that way, and see how many hands can I actually make ^^

Besides poker I'm doing really shitty IRL right now. I didn't go to school the whole week (yea, that's why I'm up so early on a Friday - I woke up like 2 hours before school just so that I have enough time to not say again.. hmm it's too early.. I want to sleep... X() I also missed the last 3 or 4 classes in CISCO which really sucks because I'm paying for it. I have good excuse for 2, being very sick the whole week, but the other 2 - I just overslept or forgot I have it... No idea how will I catch up with the group.
I also fucked up with my exercises - I promised myself I will complete a 2 month program that ONLY featured like 1 hour every Monday, Wednesday and Friday... Why am I so fucking lazy?

I also have very important exams this year, because if I want to attend university I have to take 2 graduating exams at the end of the year (Bulgarian language and English or Maths) + another exam for the university I want to attend (one is 100 questions, 10 questions from 10 topics and the other university is a B+ English IIRC), and I haven't been studying AT ALL the last two weeks

How do I expect to improve as a poker player if I can't even deal with such easy life stuff? I think I will actually make a new long-ish term challenge:

Until my exams are over I have to spend as much time studying as I spend playing poker and that should be no less than 2 hours every day!!!

I really hope I succeed with that, so wish me luck guys!
Off to school now.

Love you, Vic

Okee time for a small update.

First of all I decided to change the format of my blog a little bit. Right now it looks boring... come on, it bores me to read my own writings, how can possibly anyone else enjoy it

That's mainly because being the newbie I am, especially since I got PT3, I got "in love" with the graphs and stats and all, and ended up flooding every post with those!

So from now on I'll do my best to write in a more enjoyable fashion with a lot less graphs and boring stuff

And now the update:
The 1st week of march is being sweet to me so far I just went out of a small downswing and to be honest I really needed one, because it motivated me to improve my play and I improved a huge leak. Well it wasn't really a leak but brought A TON of variance into my game and that's rather unneeded in the sea of variance that micro stakes are I also fixed some other aspects of my game, mainly 3betting and playing in 3bet pots.
(ofc I still don't know how to play AT/AJ/AQ )

The best thing is that I think I manage my tilt pretty well. Ofc I'm disappointed when I loose a BI or 2 against a fish that rivers me, but I take those rather light and they actually motivate me more to take his stack ♦

The hands that can really put me on tilt are the ones that I play bad. For example in the middle of my downswing I went allin 220bb deep with a straight that was only loosing to 1 hand and my opponent had that hand. Thinking back I could easily avoid loosing all my money, and mitigating the loss to around 100bb which would still have sucked, but would've ben better

So basically I don't really tilt, but beat myself (only mentally ) for playing bad. This makes me very angry and I guess I should always stop immediately after such a hand and let my head cool off. The problem is that I'm just not good enough in some spots to avoid playing a hand that looks extremely good (mainly a problem when playing straights and flushes :P). But this really motivates me (when not playing a session) to learn and become a better player ♠_grin:

Oke, being the boring person I am I guess I'm bound to put some numbers:

• BR peaked $140, fell to $110 and right now is $132
• from 03/03/2010 till today (09/03/2010) I have played close to 11 000 - doubling my overall volume without this week
• I've generated around $22 rakeback and am close to releasing the 3rd $10 (sadly I won't get the whole bonus unless I get to NL10 soon and get a decent volume there, but I don't deserve it anyway, I was extremely inconsistent the first 2 months)
• I get more and more notes for people shoving A3o-ish hands against steal raise, or against early bet + call, so I expect that to pay off any time now ♠_biggrin:

On the real life perspective everything turned out cool. I'm just about to head out and do my exercises;
CISCO turned out to be paused so basically I only missed one class ♦
I actually study now. The only day I give myself free reign is Friday afternoon and evening/night. That's the day I can play infinite poker Party, go out with friends and what not. Every other day I study enough so I hope I manage to pass my exams this year (why did I have to pick my most important school year to learn poker :/) but I think for now I'm doing great.

Hmm I should go to study now

Quick update - bad things happening at life

In order to graduate from my school with a title "Software Engineer" I have to not only pass everything, but make a certain assignment I've been given. In my case I have to write a cool browser text based MMO

I did quite some work at the beginning of the year, saw that I'm close to completing it and left it, thinking I have a ton of time... Until yesterday when they said that the deadline is 20th of March and not the end of April

So right now I'm doing all sorts of finishing work, not to mention I haven't even started the design or the documentation...

Anyway what that means is I won't be playing poker in the upcoming days. I was really inspired to clear as much from the bonus as I can, but I guess I'll have to settle with only cleaning 40$ from it (currently cleaned 30$ and will clean another 10 after 20th of march in a week grinding 10k hands NL4... hell it's slow)

So I will keep my poker goals for march and see how I manage with them, but who knows what will happen :/ Stupid school, always getting in my way to the millions :/

Current bankroll: $149.21
2 points away from actually clearing another $10

Looks like it improved but I'm still in the downswing/cooler cycle, so I'm actually loosing a bit here and there, but 21$ rakeback came to save the day (wow rakeback winz you 5BI in a week.. sweet ). I should stop value betting the river lol

Theme of the day:

It's the Rise and Fall
The prize for all
That ain't nice at all
Luck is like a ball
You can't recall or care at all
So better use your brain!

Okeee small progress from last post

I played 2 very short sessions (less than 1h) and through some bad beats and coolers managed to drop 2bi, but clearing the $10 bonus kept me in the greens. I was very mad at myself, because I made my 1st real tilty/desperation/dumb move since I found my formula to not tilt

What happened was that a big fish called my KK with TT all the way to the river, where T came and he stacked me; afterwards he busted my flopped set with backdoor flush. The 3rd time he check/min-raises me on a 89K rainbow board and I decide to go AI with T9s, with mid pair and backdoor straight, backdoor flush draws. Ofc he had AK here and I wasn't as lucky as him, but anyway, lesson learned; I hope that makes me stick to not tilting and not hoping that if a fish is lucky against me I'll be lucky against him too

So after those 2 hellish sessions I find myself around $146 (played some SnGs too, because I opened a MTT freeroll and would have been too bored, but didn't want to play cash games) I decide to forget poker for a bit and focus on my studies (COME ON.. ONLY 3 months left... I can do it!!!), but recently I can't get ANY good sleep.

I've been working on my graduating project at such times, but right now I feel tilted about it because there is a bug that I can't find so I was like.. what the hell lets make a proper poker session.

2 hours later (e.g. right now)... bankroll is up to $170!!!

Feel free to comment on any of these hands played tonight:

nl4 SH - flopped trips, looking for value
nl4 SH - turning a blunder into value
nl4 SH - BU vs. CO, call with AJs?
nl4 SH - JJ, 1 overcard flop vs. big fish
nl4 FR - SB vs. limped BU
nl4 FR - JJ utg, 3way flop

As some of you might have noticed, there are FR hands mixed in!!! Since there weren't enough SH tables around I joined pretty much all SH tables that didn't have more than one SSer (turned out to be 4 of those :P) and decided to just open 2 FR tables for the kicks of it. To be honest I feel quite good about it! FR tables opened alongside SH ones have quite some advantages:

1) They take less focus (at least on the micro limits where you don't need fancy moves to be profitable)
2) my cbets work more often, and when they don't work I'm usually beat, unlike SH where a lot of people are floating on the flop
3) because of 1 and 2, if my standard setup is to play 6SH tables, playing 4SH, 2 FR feels like a piece of cake I feel I can go up to 4sh 4fr tables and probably be at the same pace as my 6sh ones!

ugly image I know, but I felt I should post something to make my question look more "dramatic" :р

Now what I want to ask some more experienced people out there is: can this be profitable in the long run? (as in climbing up the limits, it's obviously profitable on the micros )
Because right now it feels really good, but I'm sure some of you have tried this and can say how it went from personal experience.

In conclusion I will NOT post my progress on the March goals, so your curiosity leads you to checking my blog again on the 1st of April (hmmmm ♦)

Theme of the day:
When you feel weak
When you feel small
I tell you there's a beast
Inside you yet unknown

When times get rough
And you're being played
You ain't gonna flinch
Or run away, cry like a babe

* * *
Well you can do it
There's nothing to it
When all others turn their backs on you
There is still yourself to prove it to

Love you all,
-Vic

Okee time for another update

I decided to pull an all nighter last night and finish my graduation project. Eventually I did a ton of work and decided to reward myself with some pokah, since it's weekend fish time ♦

And... it was a complete disaster. Started right off the bat with -6 bi, all my AAs and KKs got cracked, my QQs ran into better pockets (even lost QQ to Q6 ), my two pair were always against top pair that rivered a better two pair... you know the story

I just want to end my short brag with 3 stats from last night's 1200-ish hands:

AA (dealt 5 times) - Amount Won: -$1.05
KK (dealt 5 times) - Amount Won: -$8.58
AQ (dealt 3 times on Q hi board) - Amount Won: -$5.56

Sooo kind of stupid and pointless to brag about bad luck in a poker forum, but come on, we all feel better after we do it

I've noticed one strange tendency though - KK is the hand I've lost most money with. Either I'm extremely unlucky with it (might be true, sample is about 20k hands) or there is a major leak in the way I play it (more probable). I'll do my best to find someone either on my stakes or 1-2 stakes higher and show him some of my post-flop KK plays to see a different opinion.

I don't want to end the short update negatively, so let's post some good things that happened today:

1) I didn't tilt when time and time again my premium hands got busted by hands I dominate
2) I overcame the initial ownage I received and managed to mitigate it to only -4bi ^^
3) I got motivated to study even more, because I'm obviously not crushing nl4 right now and that means I'M A NEWB
4) I'm getting closer to completing both my IRL goals and my Poker goals - AWESOME ♦

and most importantly - I didn't let poker beatings influence my emotions. I obvioulsy don't feel good dropping 4bi and watching my $ graph bouncing back and forth, always staying close to 150$, but right now I feel happy and am even laughing about the bad plays ppl in Cake make (@4nl)

I'll end this short update with the theme song I have for today:

can't stop me

Sooo big news ♦

I took a shot at 2 tabling nl10 SH a couple of days ago and... I RAN HOT ^_^

In the course of 99 hands (like 40min session before school that day) I managed to take off 2,5 bi from the same guy I bet he was really pissed, but what can I say - he tried to 4bet shove over my QQ with his JTo. I also managed to bad beat him once, but in my defense I had the better hand preflop and had my TPTK on the flop. He turned me with a 9 outer and I rivered him with a 7 outer

To be honest I didn't play any more nl10 SH than this. It felt really scarry There aren't many tables as it is, and all of them are full with regs.

Any advice how to overcome this without loosing my monyez would be appreciated

Besides that, I've been learning FR play. I'm still a big fish there, but for some reason I find playing nl10 FR easier than nl4 SH, so right now I'm mixing it up, opening 2-3 nl10 FR tables and 4-5 nl4 FR. I'm doing moderately good with that, managed to stack myself against AA with AK on a Khi board this morning, but I'm just wrapping up another 1h session and I've made everything back. Needz moar study

I have a big announcement to make tho. After 4th of April (the day my 100$ bonus expires) I won't be playing any poker till mid July I have some very important exams to attend and I want to get my head totally off poker. I might still read some stuff here and there, but I won't be playing. I will withdraw everything I make by then.

On the bright side I will have the thought of total freedom in my horizon afterwards. Since if I manage to get in the uni I want I will have A TON of free time, especially in the 1st year, after those 3-ish months I will dedicate much more time to poker, and hopefully manage to evolve in the poker player I want to be

...and then I'll be like

Still an update or two to go before going away, so don't count me out yet!

Just played my first "big" (at least for meh ♦) set of MTTs1k GTD(27/450), 1.5k GTD(40ish/497) and 5k GTD(out/300ish) R&A

Well... after hours of staring at 3 tables the end result is like +3$ For some reason I was left with the impression that one could actually win some decent money when he gets far in a MTT, but as it turns out, even reaching the final table is nothing.. you have to be top3-4 for your time to be worth it.

I learned a valuable lesson today - stick with my cash games unless I'm extremely bored, no reason to play MTT. Or hmmm maybe I could play MTTs while watching a movie or two? Will figure something out

Besides that little experiment that ended up just loosing my time, lately I'm getting a lot better in FR games! As they require so much less attention than SH ones my standard right now is to play 10 FR tables - usually 7-8 nl4 and 3-2 nl10 ones.

I'm like really close to unlocking another 10$ from the bonus, bringing it to a total of 40; Since bonus expires at 4th of april, I think I'll be doing a monster session soon to see what I can do. As I'm really close to the point when I'll not play poker for 2-3 months, a good ~10 hours of playing in one day will be a nice way to say goodbye

Time to review my goals from last month!

20 095 hands on NL4 [3.36bb/100]; 1342 hands nl10 [29.85bb/100]; Around 200 PLO hands for +1,5bi
To be honest I've achieved what I wanted, but I'm really NOT happy with this small win rate. Sure I play in cake where the rake on the lower limits is monstrous, and half of my winnings come through the 33% rakeback, but still... only 3.36bb/100? Most people beat nl4 with 20bb/100 on a constant basis. I think I'll have a long way to go studying again when I start playing more poker after my exams.
Lesson for myself in 2 months: Study hard! Don't go AI with marginal TPGK-ish hands, the fish throws away it's money as is, no need to stimulate!

To be honest I don't really have a good measure for this, but I feel I didn't throw tilt money away
Generally I played really short sessions, so there wasn't much room for tilt, but if I was to loose a few BIs and feel bad about it I would stop for a bit, think it over, realize it's ok and it doesn't matter that much and continue
Lesson for myself in 2 months: Absolutely no reason to tilt! Nothing good ever comes out of it. Sitting out a few hands before BB comes back to you costs you less than 0.06 per table while it can save you a full BI!

Success
not much to add here
Lesson for myself in 2 months:Study study study! Strange situations will often happen and it's always better to know what to do when they occur!

I watched all videos for nl4-5 + some nl10 and nl25 ones so another success here
Watching different players' play styles in action is always helpful. Sadly there aren't many bottom micro stakes videos (as obviously they aren't needed as much here) but I feel that the higher I go, the more important that learning aspect will become.
Lesson for myself in 2 months:Listen to hasenbraten ♦

Success
I count this as a success, because even tho I didn't post that many hands, I did post ALL hands that seemed strange / difficult for me. The bigger part of "strange" hands that I didn't post I reviewed either myself or with a friend of mine playing same stakes and I figured the correct line without the need of posting here
Lesson for myself in 2 months:Always do session reviews! Cannot anticipate enough on how important this is for a poker player in order to go forward instead of backwards!

Success
Played a few tourneys and am +$ from them; studied some of the articles and understood the concept of ICM (obviously not as good as SnG grinders, but still...). I even played 3 MTTs and even tho I didn't cash anything big, I managed to be ITM in 2 of them
Lesson for myself in 2 months:MTTs are boring! Only play if you're about to watch a movie! SnGs are fun sometimes, but need to be grinded just like cash games for a profit to show - don't waste too much time on those unless you want to switch over as you have bigger edge in CGs

I simply decided to not go there unless I've nothing better to do and have spare 25bgl. I'm not much of a SnG player and even tho I'm probably better than most people out there, the edge isn't bigger enough to compensate the fact that it's only once a week and they play what? 30 hands an hour?

Wooow I didn't think I'll actually make it on all fronts Even tho my goals were quite small, I'm very proud for not slacking and achieving them. Step by step I can always add up, because now I know the most important thing ever - I can trust MYSELF! With that knowledge there is nothing that can stand in my way!

When you feel weak
When you feel small
I tell you theres a beast inside you yet unknown
When times get rough
And you're being played
(You) y' ain't gonna flinch or run away cry like a babe

Now look at you
Wearing a crown
Having achieved now all your dreams in just one go
What did I say?
You got it made
Still pondering on the spiteful things of long ago?
No!
I said that you'd be so surprised seeing what is in for you
Now after all that has been done you know what you can do
listen up...
come along...

Probably the last update for now :/

It's been quite a journey in the past few months and I'm really grateful to Poker Strategy for the presented opportunity!

Thinking back I'm kind of sad that I didn't pick poker more seriously at the first 2 months - I read some articles here and there and was playing 2 tables for like 30 min to an hour on an odd day. Come to think of it, I only played 1 week of poker properly, making around 12k hands in that week with a profit of 4bi + another 5bi worth of rakeback which was awesome But besides that week I'm really not happy with how life was preventing me from playing properly

Nonetheless I had a really good time and poker did consume all the time I was wasting with other crappy games anyway

Yesterday I played some tournaments to end it up with and ofc lady luck had a harsh farewell gift cracking my KK on 588 board against 66, cracking my AA with 78s and giving a guy that shoved 5hands in a row in the HU part of one SnG JJ against my AK and letting him hold

I even played 1 Omaha Hi/Lo micro tourney. It lasted exactly 1 hand, where I lost a 3way pot with 26 outs on the turn if I count correctly:

Converted by Myself

Gold Chip Lover FR SnG PLO/8 Tournament

Dealt to Hero 2♦2♣7♣3♦

UTG calls 20, UTG + 1 folds, UTG + 2 calls 20, MP1 calls 20, MP2 calls 20, MP3 calls 20, CO folds, Hero (BU) calls 20, SB calls 10, BB check

Flop:
4♣T♣A♦

UTG checks, UTG + 2 bets 160, MP1 calls 160, MP2 folds, MP3 raises to 800, Hero raises to 1480 (All-in), UTG folds, UTG + 2 folds, MP1 calls 1320 (All-in), MP3 calls 680 (All-in)

Turn:
4♣T♣A♦J♦

Turn:
4♣T♣A♦J♦9♠

MP1 shows T♠K♥Q♠4♥
MP3 shows 8♦5♠A♣7♥

Counting the outs on the flop I had:
9 outs for Flush
2x-2, 2x-3, 3x-5, 3x-6, 2x-7, 3x-8 = 15 separate non-flush outs for best Lo hand. On the turn I improve with another 9outs for 2nd flush draw (ofc stacking with some of my Lo outs, but still increasing overall outs to at least get money from the pot), so basically I had as monstrous as a draw can get in Lo. Pls someone correct me if I'm wrong, I've never played Omaha Hi-Lo before and that was actually my 1st and last hand (for now) in this game ♦

I guess I can let my inner graph hungry self post some now ^^

Overall graph

I should mention that it doesn't include some hands I played while I was working in that cyber cafe (read 1st post for reference), where I had a huge upswing and downswing afterwards.

This also includes the huge heater I had in nl10, where only in less than 1400 hands I made a 4bi profit

Some stats:
out of those hands above, 23 400 were played on nl4 SH tables, where I had:
VPIP: 18.2
PFR: 15.1
3bet%: 4.9
4Bet range: 2.0
Sqz%: 3.4
WTSD%: 26.4
W$SD$: 46.2
W%WSF: 43.5
AF: 3.98
Agg%: 39.7
Flop CBet%: 85.2 (lol huge leak?)
Flop CBet% Success: 47.1 (guess not for micros :])

In the end I wrap up with a bankroll of:
$205
$50 from PS.com + $40 from starting bonus that I managed to grind with my inconsistent play = $115 made by myself ^__^

Sadly I can't withdraw as I was planning (not to spend, just to make myself not play poker), but I need at least 1000 cake FPPs in order to cashout and from my calculations I should have around 680. But to be honest I'm not sad from that fact - it's even better as it will be another challenge for my patience and determination to have my bankroll right in front of me and actually force myself to not play despite the fact that I really miss playing poker even now - less than a day after I stopped.

But I HAVE to do this step in order to get into a decent university (I only permit myself to play in one or two of the upcoming 20k freerols ♦). But after that... Ooohh after that.. 1st I'll have the rest of the summer totally free for 60k/month hands kind of goals and then I'll be in freshman year where I won't have to study much (with my specialized high school background I know pretty much everything they will be teaching us in the 1st year @ uni)

I'll be returning either on 6th of June or 18th of July (depends if I'm able to get a decent score on the preliminary exams). Expect me to switch entirely to nl10 soon after I come back and when I leave cake, to take shots at nl25 with the first deposit bonus that will boost my BR ♠_cool:

Till then I hope my blog is helpful to some newcomers or allowed some of the old sharks to remember what it was like in the beginning; good luck on the tables, have fun and enjoy life as much as you can!

Signing out, Victor

As promised, I'm BACK IN BLACK, yea baby ^__^

Tomorrow is my last exam evah, but I got a good result on the preliminary (all stacked, I have a score of 678 and last year the worst result to enter was like 530), I also successfully defended my graduation project with an excellent score, also passed the other theoretical exam ^^

Poker-wise I actually started playing at the beginning of this month and boy what a ride it was. I've actually experienced my 2nd ever real downswing, but this time it felt as if I'm totally powerless - I would get it in on the turn with a flush, only to see a set improve to FG. I would c/r a turned straight, only for a two pair to river me. And the worst? It happened just when I decided to move up limits. Right now I think I'm running like 7,5bi below EV on nl10, so I was forced to drop down to nl4, but you know what? Screw variance! I'm loosing right now, but hey, nothing is stopping me from improving and playing more!

At least it happened after a heater