Financial independance through poker. FINALLY!!!

Just played 700 hands with NL50 reg 2tabling, it started pretty bad when I got owned versus his rivered backdoor flush, then lost another BI, but after that I got angry(not tilted ♦) and crushed him by taking 2.5BI from his bankroll, so it's pretty nice

Got some hands from this session

This one he played imo really bad

Known players:
[tg]Position_Stack:hands/vp$ip/RaisePreflop/AF/WTS/ORL/BBvsSteal/W$SD;Hero$74,8:///////;BB$50,5:639/45/31/1.4/41/-/-/49;[/tg]
0,25/0,5 No-Limit Hold'em (2 handed)
Hand recorder used for this poker hand: PokerStrategy.com Elephant 0.102 by www.pokerstrategy.com.

Preflop: Hero is SB with Q♥, Q♠
Hero raises to $1,50, BB raises to $4,50, Hero raises to $12,50, BB calls $8,00.

Flop: ($25,00) 9♣, 5♥, 2♦ (2 players)
BB checks, Hero bets $62,3 (All-In), BB calls $38,00 (All-In), Hero gets uncalled bet back (All-In).

Turn: ($101,00) 6♥
River: ($101,00) T♣ (2 players)

Final Pot: $101,00

Results follow:
Hero shows a pair of queens (Qh Qs)
BB shows (7s 7d)

Hero wins with a pair of queens (Qh Qs)

And this one is pretty funny, total busto, because he had about 1 to 8 odds to call ♦

Known players:
[tg]Position_Stack:hands/vp$ip/RaisePreflop/AF/WTS/ORL/BBvsSteal/W$SD;Hero$130,3:///////;BB$51,8:639/45/31/1.4/41/-/-/49;[/tg]
0,25/0,5 No-Limit Hold'em (2 handed)
Hand recorder used for this poker hand: PokerStrategy.com Elephant 0.102 by www.pokerstrategy.com.

Preflop: Hero is SB with 7♠, 5♦
Hero raises to $1,50, BB calls $1,00.

Flop: ($3,00) 7♥, 5♥, 5♠ (2 players)
BB checks, Hero bets $2, BB calls $2,00.

Turn: ($7,00) 2♥ (2 players)
BB checks, Hero bets $5, BB raises to $15,00, Hero calls $10,00.

River: ($37,00) 2♦ (2 players)
BB bets $23, Hero raises to $111,80 (All-In), BB folds, Hero gets uncalled bet back (All-In).

Final Pot: $83,00

That's it for now, maybe I'll play some hands today, if not then tommorow

see ya boyz and girlz!

3.8/15BI at NL50 so far.

Played one more session about 500hands 2tabling against solid reg, and guess what? yes you're right, I'm up 3BI. I won't post any hands for now, too lazy to check database, will try to do it tommorow

Also watched Big Game Week 6, Episode 1, and really enjoyed that. The battle between Phil Helmuth and Tony G(which is from Lithuania also :P) was so funny, at some episodes couldn't stop laughing ♦

7/15BI at NL50 so far.

Going to follow this! I use to play heads up all the time myself til it fried my brain. Good to see Pitbull aka Mr 305 getting some play time!

Good luck!

Originally posted by tadcka

This one he played imo really bad

actually, u played it really bad

Originally posted by TakeManies
Going to follow this! I use to play heads up all the time myself til it fried my brain. Good to see Pitbull aka Mr 305 getting some play time!

Good luck!

Thanks man

Originally posted by niveaformen

Originally posted by tadcka

This one he played imo really bad

actually, u played it really bad

I won't agree with your opinion till you prove it by giving some arguments It would be nice to hear and I will discuss this hand with pleasure, because I want to find my leaks and don't stop learning

Baby are you down down down down down,
Downnnnnnn, downnnnnnn,
Even if the sky is falling down,
Downnnnn, downnnnn

Graph talks to itself:

Meh, shit happens sometimes, was running so cold, many coolers, rivered sets against me, stuff like KK vs AA, but who cares, it's bored bad beat stories

Now I got to forget everything, and start fighting again with fresh head

This beauty will keep me motivated

Someday tadcka, someday..

-3.8/15BI at NL50 so far

Hello everybody,

Long time no update, played a little bit poker these days, had also short break, which one I guess I really needed

Yesterday watched cool HU video, which one I guess will be huge +EV move in the future. It has opened my eyes and proved again that simplicity is genius. Now I've changed my playing style and will try to play solid ABC poker, withouht fancy moves and we will see how it will develop

I've already played some hands and there's a graph

I will play several hands tommorow and then on Sunday morning I'm flying to Malaga, Spain for 10 days to relax. So it means that will be one more short break, I think +EV too. If I will be able maybe would post some pics later.

So I guess it's enough for now, GL at the tables

Hello again,

Long time no update. Several days ago came back from Malaga. Really enjoyed time spent there, weather was fantastic, sun was shining all days and it was really hot. Visited many interesting places(not churches or something like that ♦). Also was in place where rich people come to chill out, and thought that I want to come back there one day with my own lamborghini ♦

Yeah.. Since then I came back home, played some HU and it was going terrible. With some coolers and bad beats helping, my solid game gone really bad and now I'm not bankrolled enough for HU anymore. So since now I'm moving to NLHE 6max.

So starting with NL10 to gain some confidence and to look how my game looks like there. Will be using 35BI rule and if I loose 5BI at new limit, then I'm moving down.

Some goals for September(meh.. Goodbye summer):

Beat NL10.
Must follow BRM without making any shots higher when not bankrolled.
NO TILTING, because it's ridiculous, how I can become angry because of just a poker.
Keep improving my game(Btw bought HEM so I believe it will be a huge advantage in my game improving).

So we will see how far it will take me Hope everything will be alright, wish me GL

and P.S. Could anyone tell me how to change my own thread topic? thanks

Cheers tadcka.

So played several ABC poker sessions theese 3 days and it has gone pretty nice. The tables at stars are really soft, many fishes giving away their stacks with trash hands. Here is the graph:

Had no interesting hands to post so far, all hands looks clear, of course I did some mistakes, but it's not interesting enough to put them here

Here is some photos from vacation in Malaga

Still don't know how to change thread's name, could anyone help me with that?

Still don't know how to change thread's name, could anyone help me with that?

Edit the first posts name.

Great blog, very entertaining. What made you pick HU play to begin with and why start at NL50?

Hope you had a nice vacation

Originally posted by dydukas

Still don't know how to change thread's name, could anyone help me with that?

Edit the first posts name.

Thanks mate

Originally posted by clandestineAl
Great blog, very entertaining. What made you pick HU play to begin with and why start at NL50?

Hope you had a nice vacation

Yeah, thanks I had great time. And I've chosen HU because it's very fishy at the lowests limits and NL50 is the lowest one at Pokerstars, other smaller limits aren't profitable enough because of rake

Played short session over 1k hands and up 3.5BI. Nothing much intresting, just boring ABC poker, but still managed to do a 1BI mistake.

Little overplayed my hand against solid regular player, tried some fancy plays and commited to pot myself.

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NL Holdem $0.10(BB) Replayer
SB ($10.48)
Hero ($13.37)
UTG ($9.40)
UTG+1 ($9.35)
CO ($10.80)
BTN ($21.90)

Dealt to Hero Q♥ T♦

fold, fold, fold, fold, SB raises to $0.30, Hero calls $0.20

FLOP ($0.60) 6♠ T♥ 2♠

SB bets $0.34, Hero raises to $0.68, SB raises to $1.83, Hero calls $1.15

TURN ($4.26) 6♠ T♥ 2♠ 8♦

SB bets $2.43, Hero raises to $4.86, SB raises to $8.35 (AI), Hero calls $3.49

RIVER ($20.96) 6♠ T♥ 2♠ 8♦ 7♣

SB shows 6♣ T♠
(Pre 27%, Flop 84.6%, Turn 86.4%)

Hero shows Q♥ T♦
(Pre 73%, Flop 15.4%, Turn 13.6%)

SB wins $19.93

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This is a graph of all my journey at NL10 so far, looks pretty nice and I'm running a little above all in EV line which is nice too, but will end soon ♦

Good evening everyone

Today decided to move up limits, because my bankroll lets me to do that and I regained my confidence after fail in HU(I'll be back there soon). Current limit - NL25.

So opened 10 tables and played ~1h session for 1k hands. Cards weren't running for me very well, even if I was down 2 BI for a while, still managed to win 5.6$, of course with some luck(~30$ above EV ).

Nothing more intresting to say, so that's it for now.

See ya,
tadcka

Hello again,

Nothing much intresting, just a short update. Played 900hands and up 35$, hadn't any intresting hands, twice ran into KK with lower pair, but once had rockets against kings, but who cares that Will post my whole graph of NL10 and NL25 later.

Meh.. Tommorow is the last day of summer and then my final year at school will begin. Again boring days in front of books, but I will survive.

Ok, that's enough. Good evening everyone

Hey everyone,

Today I had my first day at school and it was really exhausting, even if we haven't been learning anything much yet. It will be really hard to get used again to new daily routine, especially waking up early. Before I'm going out with my friends, I decided to do some review of last month

So the first days of August was pretty nice and then my epic downswing has started(not only because of bad beats or coolers etc., the main reason was I think tilting and not playing my A game all the time).

After that I went for the vacation to Spain. When I've returned back home, I sucked again at HU tables for the first days.

Then I've decided to try NLHE 6-max, played not so much so far, but it has gone pretty nice. And there is a graph of NL10 and NL25:

At these stakes nothing much needed, you can be winning player just playing solid ABC poker. After some hands at NLHE 6-max I tried again HU. Played some hands at PartyPoker and Pokerstars. And there are graphs:

PartyPoker. Started pretty nice, but later because of some bad luck my green line went down a little bit.

And a graph from PokerStars:

So I hope in the near future I will see better results and everything will be alright.

Now it's time to go. See ya! GL at the tables!

Hello,

Last days were really intresting. At HU was up 1k in 3 days and then down to 200$ again in 2 days. So I've decided to take a break from cash tables and went to MTT. Was playing small buyins, no really deep runs.

And then intresting thing happened. Was playing some satellites for Tourney $. It was going pretty nice. Many WCOOP satellites were running so played them too. One of them was 22$ round 1 to 82$ buyin satellite, when I've won that I couldn't unregister because it was already started when I finished. And after I won that other satellite, I got 215$ to WCOOP-06 215+R turbo tourney, unfortunately I couldn't unregister from it too because it was already running, so I had to play without rebuys, because my BR is too small for that. I was running hot at the begining. When 400 people were left, I was in 18 place at that moment, but I only managed to reach ITM and got 1.2K $ which is pretty nice for my poor BR.

So that's the story - 22$ into 1.2k$.

And I also won small HU 10.5$ BI tourney for 400$

It sucks that I have to go to school, because I can't grind at nights anymore, when the tables are softier. Tommorow going to register to driving school, because I need a license for a drifting with my lamborghini in the near future ♦

Originally posted by tadcka

So that's the story - 22$ into 1.2k$.

And I also won small HU 10.5$ BI tourney for 400$

You write this like if it wasn't a big deal lol. Gj! Very nice blog! However, I was wondering if you grinded your BR up to play NL50 HU? Or did you just deposit money earned from outside of poker?

Originally posted by CHARMANDER06

Originally posted by tadcka

So that's the story - 22$ into 1.2k$.

And I also won small HU 10.5$ BI tourney for 400$

You write this like if it wasn't a big deal lol. Gj! Very nice blog! However, I was wondering if you grinded your BR up to play NL50 HU? Or did you just deposit money earned from outside of poker?

It's not a small prize for me, but i had a little bigger one.

About deposits. Before I've started playing poker, I set up a goal for myself, not to put any money in poker, which is earned outside. I have started growing my BR from 0, by playing freerolls. First ITM was for 3.57$ and I've never busted my BR since then

arggghhhhhhhh........ I want to cry...

Almost busted my BR, was running 25BI down EV line in HU in 3 days, I can't say anything. All draws missed, all draws agains me completed, many runner runners and etc...

Now I have 150$ and 105T$ left.

Now I'm trying to reach 200posts to be able to make an application in staking forum. I really need to rebuilt my bankroll. Going to ask for 875$ stake for NL25 6-max, because I know that I can beat theese limits.

I have a small sample size of NL10 and NL25(don't have bigger, because lost my handhistory some time ago)

If someone is intrested to stake me now, drop me a line and we will discuss all details. I know it looks so weak, but I don't know how to make my application stronger.

GL everyone, I know I will be back!