Shad

Thought it would be a good idea to do this to motivate myself and keep track of my progress. I'm not going to bore you with an epic life story, but rather I'm going to bore you SHITLESS with my recent NL25 exploits~

Mini life story (poker only):
Sep 2007: Decided I wanted to learn poker at some point as I love games in general.
Nov 2007: Learned the rules of poker, played mass Ladbrokes MTT freerolls.
Dec 2007-June 2008: Fucked around with a lot of mtts on stars, played cash tables on and off (motioned to start playing properly but never did), no real effort made and not enough money to actually invest (always cashed out winnings). Played first live game in casino at 3am pissed, and went bust (£60 stack) on 2nd live hand ever with JJ on 2J3 rainbow board (donk with 56 called my all in check raise n/c).

July 2008: Moved to a new flat and got internet connection on the 23rd July. Haven't played poker for ages and decided the time had come to make a real effort and see if I can do anything in this game. So I deposited $600 (in order to gain the full 2X reload bonus that is running).

I decided I would play a few mtts before I started seriously playing cash tables and managed to take 5th in my first donkament back to instantly boost my roll by $230. I embarked on some NL10 before realising NL25 wasn't much different and I could afford to roll myself for it.

Over the last 8 days of July I have played 12k hands (3-4 tabling), which is fairly decent considering I have a full time job at the moment aswell. The first 7k hands did not go well, I think this was down to not having played for a long time and almost a relearning period.

I spent time analysing my hands in Hold'em Manager (which OWNS btw) and quickly corrected my playstyle realising that I had spewed $300+ with super loose calls and way over-aggressive play. The last 5k hands went a LOT better, I haven't spewed or even felt a hint of tilt.

On July 31st I needed just over 200FPPs to earn SilverStar so I put in a 5hr~ session (+6BIS +2nd Royal Flush :D) straight after work to get there just in time for the August deadline.

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Future: Now I'm going to withdraw my roll back to $500 and freeroll NL25 hoping to learn and earn as much as possible as I progress (hopefully) to NL50. Planning to spend a lot of time playing as I LOVE poker.

Hi to Yaffie and Critterer who I saw at the NL25 tables...

... and thank you to sniderstyle and ggplz for their help.

GL all.

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