From Philippines back to Belgium: Rediscovering…

Joenaes · 2011-01-02T21:47:54Z

Kumusta!! As you all might know we (JQ, GRY, Waraiotoko, Ivan and me) are going to Philippines this year. We leave on the 16th of January (except for Ivan&Marek) to enjoy live in Cebu. Why are we going there? - Nice weather - Nice beaches - Low cost of living - Good base to start other Asian trips (Macau, HK, Singapore, Indonesia, Japan, China, Thailand are all 'pretty' close) What are we going to do? - Play lots of poker - Analyse together - Travel/gamble to neighbouring countries - Keeping ourselves healthy with sports and good food (cook) - Party Our goal? Simple. We want to have an accumulated profit of 1 mirrion after 1 year. It will take a lot of heart and commitment, a lot of work and analysis but we will get there! This blog will be about our life in PI. You can follow our poker/travel/sport/life/visitors progress in this one. In the next posts everyone will briefly give an introduction of his poker career so far and his overall goals for the future. Unity makes strength Crew members!!! WaraiOtoko Hey everyone! Guess it's time to introduce myself after joining PI crew. :) I'm Marek, 24yo Slovak player, currently living/studying in Brno, Czech Rep. I'm half way through reaching Master's degree in computer science, specialized in security. Even though I "only" need to finish last 2-3 exams, I still have to write a thesis, so about 1 year of hard work left. This is where I stand right now and I feel that after 5 years of studying I'm kinda losing drive/motivation for it. Defo dont want to give up on it, just feel that spending hopefully awesome year with PI crew is the right way to clear my head and regain motivation. I started playing poker in mid 2009 with starting capital from PS, obv busting it in my first week :f_biggrin:. However own $50 depo did the trick and after few months of donking on a few dollar sng's I decided to give cash games a try in Jan 2010. It went quite well and since march I've been playing semi-pro on nl100 SH, later nl200. After having a bit of a downer in november, loosing 30bi in 3 days, I decided to mix it up a bit and try FR rush. I've never played FR before, so spent last month or so trying to adjust my philosophy from "no-one ever has anything" to "everyone has quads" &diams;. So far doing good, and I'm really looking forward to analyse with other great players in the house. 2011 Goals: -beat NL midstakes and shoot for highstakes by the end of the year -learn PLO, preferably HU and beat small-to-mid stakes -play more live cash (Macau?) and learn not to bust several bi's to fish &diams; Non-poker goals: -travel a lot; since I really like asian culture and plane tickets are so cheap from PI, so Macau, HK, Japan, Taiwan, Thailand and mby some others be prepared :P -continue to learn Japanese after 2y break, and maybe take on another language (Spanish?) -workout and either swim or run regularly -party and enjoy life -experiment with different sleeping patterns to have time for all these things above &diams;, probably gonna try biphasic sleep of 5-6h with 0.5-1h afternoon nap ZhiCheng Hi, my name is Tomas, i play poker seriously since August09, consider myself pro from July10. The main reason why I am moving to PI is that I really want to work a lot on my game .. and probably there is no better way to do it than cooperating with other players. I am looking forward for long hours of analyzing, sidebetting on volume and other poker related activities. Philippines Plan pokerwise -beat nl200rush by March -mby change site later on and shoot higher? -learn plo n pwn plo hu up to 200... in 2011 -1mil hands -100k profit Dream world: -1,5mil+ hands -150k profit Philippines Plan RLwise: -Work out twice/week -Learn some Mixed Martial Arts(urban ninja style would be my preferance) -Do all kind of sport n own Jonases ass as well as the asses of other members (just had to write that sentence) -Party hard -Enjoy life to fullest -Think abt life and plan my next steps Ivan Will be updated after PS reaction Joenaes Hello I'm Joenaes :). I graduated in Business Economics: Finance in 2010. So after 20 years of school I wanted to change horizons and now I'm here in Cebu. Poker Career: At the end of 2009 I started playing NL200 regularly and in 2010 I managed to get a good income as my first year as a poker professional. I crush NL200 now and beat NL400 at a good rate over a big sample. I'm not fully satisfied though because I didn't make that many improvements this year. From NL200 to NL400 is a big step but I'm sure if I had worked harder, I would have been a lot higher as well. So 2011 will be the year of the big step! My goals for 2011: Poker: - Become a feared PLO specialist - Reach high stakes (PLO1k(+)) - Get SNE - Make $200k How will I do this? - Play 5 hours a day on average - Analyse with my roommates for 1 hour a day - Watch 1 vid a day or use this time to analyse some ...

Joenaes

Joined: 18.07.2008

Posts: 1,196

09.02.2016, 23:23 0

Didnt play much last days, still a bit figuring out what I want to play.
Even though I think spin and gos are probably the most EV, its not that fun to play for me since there is little maneuverability.
Also got a lot of trips planned for the coming weeks. Leaving for a few days of Krakow-Budapest tomorrow :f_drink:

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DeLau

Joined: 10.01.2009

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02.06.2016, 20:01 0

Originally posted by mbml
go play on a new site, stars is shit now

How serious is this? Where are you playing now mbml?

I was playing nl200 zoom about 3 years ago and am thinking of starting up the zoom game again. Better to play elsewhere?

My blog: Road to midstakes!

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Joenaes

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10.02.2026, 08:55 +2

Gm

Do people still use this site?

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taavi1337

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10.02.2026, 11:42 0

I find it good forum where I can post about my life and get help, feedback while not being attacked for posting (such as on Meta). This is my user experience.

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Tomaloc

Joined: 17.01.2011

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10.02.2026, 13:43 +1

Originally posted by Joenaes
Gm

Do people still use this site?

i was asking myself the same thing. :f_biggrin:
it seems that most of the more serious players have moved on, unfortunately. not that i would include myself on that group...

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no money in ZOOM poker in current year, everyone is solid
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Joenaes

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10.02.2026, 16:07 +1

Maybe I will pick up this blog again then haha. I used to play and post a lot back in the 2009-2013 era. Then mostly retired from poker, but been giving it a shot again in the past weeks

Currently playing PLO50 6 card on ggpoker

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VorpalF2F

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10.02.2026, 19:35 0

Originally posted by Joenaes
Currently playing PLO50 6 card on ggpoker

welcome back. PLO 6-card is black magic. Impressive

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From Philippines back to Belgium: Rediscovering poker after 2 years of inactivity.