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recap of my 1st year playing poker

Like many of you I was an ex-Starcraft player my akas were iG.Reaver / V_DrOp)Reaver / MgZ)Li / gNs.I-Light

I started playing on the stars playmoney tables in January and quickly reached 1 million playchips which I sold for $10. At the time I had no concept of bankroll management and was pretty clueless about the game. I started off playing nl5 with my $10 and almost went busto but thankfully I won a sng with my last few dollars which allowed me to continue. After my near busto experience I took my newly acquired $16 to nl2 and never looked back.

In January I went from nl2 to nl25 playing nearly 100k hands of FR and by the end of the month I was 18 tabling with no PT or hud because I didn't know what they were at the time. In early February I took a failed shot at nl50 and went back to nl25 but this time played 6max instead. I quickly rebuilt my roll and took another shot at nl50 with decent success. During this time I got PT + Hud and since I just started playing 6max I only played 6 tables. For some reason I slacked off during the months of February and March playing less than 20k hands each month.

April was I guess what you'd call a breakthrough month for me. I started the month at nl50 and ran really well throughout the month ending at nl200. After the heater in April a downswing was inevitable. I had a slightly losing month in May and breakeven month in June. During that time I had moved between nl100 and nl200 several times and was getting pretty frustrated.

In early July I had been winning at 6max and decided to give HU a try. I've never played HU before so I figured I would start at the lowest stakes. I played nl50 and nl100 HU for about a day before I got bored and decided to play 1/2. During July I played a ton of HU and did fairly well unless the last few days of the month. on July 28th I played a marathon session lasting over 25 hours and the end result was me losing around 20 buyins.

I took the next day or two off and got myself back on track and continued to play 1/2 HU in August. I was doing quite well throughout the month but again I crash and burned at the end of the month. One night I had trouble sleeping and woke up at around 5am and decided to play a session. Now I had been taking shots at 2/4 HU with no success but hey this was as good a time as any to play some 2/4 right? wrong. I played from 5am till about 1pm and dropped a total of 6k (4k at 2/4 and 2k at 1/2) due to massive tilt after running badly. Right after I got enough sense to quit the session I tilt cashed out almost 1/2 my roll leaving 10k to play 1/2 and excluded myself so I wouldn't play the next day.

The rebuilding went nicely in September and by the end I was playing some 2/4 HU again. October was a lazy month for me playing less than 20k hands and not winning much. November I tried playing more hands and mixed in some 6max also with HU playing only 2/4. Everything was going pretty well till I had a little downswing of about 25 or so buyins which slowed me down. I ended the month with only 33k hands and I was up but only a small amount. During November I also cashed out almost 9k for no apparent reason.

December again I started slow and played very few hands I'm guessing about 12k for the first half of the month but ran pretty well. I then decided I would start playing more hands but unfortunately the last week has been bad. During the last 4 days I lost quite a bit at 2/4 HU and 6max that puts me in the red for 2/4 HU lifetime (according to my PT but I only have hands from last few days of September-Now) and basically breakeven for the month. Today I tried again to play 2/4 HU but like the last few days due to what I'm guessing to be a combination of bad play induced by running bad and being card dead for the most part I lost 6 buyins in about 2k hands. I decided from now on I was going to play 6max and put in a ton of hands. I was fed up with having to wait so long for games only to get hit and run after a few hands which I'm sure has caused me to tilt and play badly against the next few opponents that sat. After a little break I sat down and 11 tabled 6max for a little over 3k hands and did fairly well.

Now for the future

Since it is now Winter break I have a few weeks off from school and I'm planning to put in a ton of hands everyday at 2/4 6max.
I have pretty high hopes for myself next year and I hope I can continue to put in a lot of hands like I did today and when I first started in January.

I'm also pretty sure I'm missing something since I've been losing at 2/4 HU and cashed out about 16-17k yet I still have over 20k on stars.

If anyone is playing similar stakes as me and would like to talk about hands / help motivate each other feel free to pm me your msn

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hand 24-28k is the last 3 days

ok well I admit I haven't been playing so well HU lately but variance is kinda of kicking me in the ass so I think I'm gonna stop playing HU for a while

playing HU at 2/4+ on stars is pretty frustrating since its so much waiting for games and then getting hit and run after waiting for 30+ minutes is kind of tilting

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My trial expired today and I need pt3 but it seems like I cant pay with stars money anyone have a registration code or something?

I can only pay through stars

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I haven't played any tournaments in such a long time but today instead of cash I will be playing donkaments

whoever is playing donkaments today that want to discuss "strategy" or have last longer bets pm me your msn

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started with $360 a few days ago playing 1/2 HU

all hands so far:



all the losing came from today most from running bad and some from bad play I guess

I'll probably just keep playing 1/2 HU on ftp and if I go busto back to stars I go

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need 2.3k

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transferred $365 from stars to ftp with Night and playing nl200 HU on FTP lol

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maybe?

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played bad tilted went apeshit and started doing other retarded shit

Insanely retarded plays resulting from tilting honestly I had no idea what the fuck went through my head when playing these hands
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/578251
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/578253
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/578254

Other hands vs this guy
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/578116
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/578104
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/578107

at least I had enough sense to quit after the QQ hand I'm pretty sure my face was red after that

finished down like 7 buyins to him and didn't even win a single allin pot vs him but hey at least I lost it to someone who'll donate it back

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I'm down like 15-16 buyins at 2/4 since last monday haven't had a winning session since then just a few breakeven + rest losing

since last monday



this is today

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