Introduction + Summer Goa

Hi, I'm Mike and I live in Toronto. I'm soon to be 24 and just finished Uni so I have plenty of spare time for poker.

I've been a long time LP lurker but finally decided to make an account to start posting hands and keep track of my own progress in my blog.

Background

Started online poker last summer during my vacation time between 3rd and 4th year of uni. Having read DF's theory of poker and countless articles, I learned the very basics of poker like preflop hand range, position, odds, implied odds etc... I was ready to deposit and start crushing the microstake games.

I deposited 350 onto PS and started on NL25 FR (not the greatest bankroll management but FR was suppose to be low variance). First 3 weeks I ran like absolute shit, over 25-30k i was only down 2 BI but I really couldnt win any big hands.

At the time I never even considered that I was running bad... found plenty of mistakes (improper value betting, hands that I should have folded) but on the whole I was playing ok and should have been a marginal winner. I was discouraged and other things came up so I just gave up on poker.

Fast foward to Jan 2008, my winter vacation. Having nothing to do and remembering that I still had money on PS, decided to take one last shot. I set myself a goal of 15BI @ NL10 in the 1.5week time and if i didnt make it.. poker and I were never meant to be and I would just quit forever.

I was initially down 4 BI in the first 1k hands but I stuck with it and by the end of the 1.5weeks, I was up 13BI and had a bankroll of 480. I didnt reach my goal but it felt great to be able to win regardless of the stake.

I've been slowly grinding poker since and reached $1200 and moved to NL50 by early April but stopped completely for a month because of exams and final year design project.

After school ended, I decided to move $600 over to FTP for its juicy deposit bonus. Worst decision of my life... FTP is fucking rigged. Ive never seen so many runner runner suckouts in my life.
I turned the $600 to 1.8k but I was only a 0.7ptbb winner over 100k hands on this rigged site.

I've lost all my confidence thanks to FTP. Am I the 4ptbb PS player or the 0.7ptbb FTP player. I just dont know atm...

Now I'm back to PS playing NL25 FR again grinding and trying to regain my confidence.

Lifetime Graphs

PS graph


FTP graph


Summer Goals

1. Be a consistent NL100 winner.

2. Gradually switch to 6 Max because I feel I autopilot FR too often and I think 6Max would really improve my game. Plus I'm sick of dealing with these 10/4/2 nitring set miners.

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