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K40Cheddar United States. Apr 26 2012 03:17. Posts 2202

Hello liquidpoker,

I've been wanting to blog for some time now but never really got around to it as soon as I wanted to. As a frequent lurker and crappy ROFL thread poster, I've enjoyed the liquidpoker community greatly. I remember back to the days of FTP where I was playing NL 50, posting hands all over the place, learning the game, and enjoying my results. It was a great feeling (assuming you can deal with criticism) to get feedback on your play and improve as a player. Ever since black friday, I felt that a part of me was missing. I needed the thrill of risk. I needed the competition. I needed the mental tests of variance. I needed to push myself to the limit. I spent most of my time reverting back to my studies and various other video games ever since. Recently, I had seen some inspirational graphs in various posts both here and on 2+2. Surely, one does not become a high stakes pro overnight. What motivated me from these graphs and posts was the challenge of succeeding against variance through proper play, volume, and mental resilience. Therefore, I have decided to get back in poker for personal goals and satisfaction.

A little about myself

I am a 21 year old student at the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign). Currently I'm double majoring in Statistics and Economics. My long term goal as a career is to potentially work as an actuary. For those who are unaware, an actuary is a person that works with risk based mathematical management. For instance, an insurance company would be an example of a place where actuaries would work, performing risk analysis to optimally price insurance costs. Other examples include retirement and pension fund planners. I've also been looking into financial career possibilities and things such as investment banking and trading. These are long term goals but of course we never truly know where life will take us.

I'm a competitor. I like to win. I've been playing video games since being a kid and nowadays with the e-sports scene growing I play almost any competitive game I can pick up, although I'm far from being pro level at any specific game. I used to play competitive chess and hold a USCF (United States Chess Federation) rating of 2070. For people that don't know what this means, it means that I rank in the top 5% of chess players in the United States. I stopped playing as often once I hit college, partially due to poker, but also because of a lack of motivation and increased difficulty with schoolwork. I've been playing the trombone for 12 years and currently play in the Marching Illini and various university concert bands. I not a huge athlete anymore but I did high school gymnastics for 4 years and still occasionally perform backflips off of stuff for fun.

I tend to be optimistic. Good things just naturally seem to happen to me. When things go bad, something always turns up to make things better even in situations that seem stressful. Ironically, I enjoy helping other people out and see other people succeed. I find this funny because poker is the exact opposite, as you in no way want to help out your opponents nor do you want to watch them succeed. If I had one goal for myself it would be to reach my absolute potential at everything I do.

Poker

As mentioned in the title and early intro, I have decided that I'm going to go back and give online poker a serious shot. I dabbed around trolling for awhile but the plan now is to put the volume in and get stuff done. Currently, I play on Hero Poker right now. I'm starting from the beginning, back to the pitiful roots of the lowest micros. Here are a few reasons why I decided to do this.

- Although I used to play up to NL 50, I don't know if I can play at that level again after a year.
- Don't want to deposit a large amount upfront for a large bankroll
- Want to beat the stakes one at a time to see if I can still do it
- Don't really care about the money. I care about success.

Anyway BACK TO THE BEGINNING. Here's since I started playing again.

TL;DR

-missed poker. Wanted to come back.
-background on myself
-some brags
-graph since I started playing again

Anyway, thanks for bearing with me. Wanted to get a lot of this stuff off my chest.

GL liquidpoker.

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Silver_nz New Zealand. Apr 26 2012 05:13. Posts 5647

nice blog

julep Australia. Apr 26 2012 05:23. Posts 1274

nice post...why the name k40chedder??

Mariuslol Norway. Apr 26 2012 06:38. Posts 4742

Reminiscence from his time in the adult industry world.

Jas0n United States. Apr 26 2012 07:36. Posts 1866

quit poker, go back to starcraft

edzwoo United States. Apr 26 2012 08:11. Posts 5911

On April 26 2012 06:36 Jas0n wrote:
quit poker, go back to starcraft

Agreed, that's where the cool kids are.

TheTrees United States. Apr 26 2012 09:18. Posts 1592

looks like we're in the same exact boat...if you're trying to join a skype study group for 6max micros shoot me a PM. Have about 6 or 7 2+2ers and always trying to add more people with the same mindset

K40Cheddar United States. Apr 26 2012 12:29. Posts 2202

On April 26 2012 04:23 julep wrote:
nice post...why the name k40chedder??

I don't really remember completely. As a kid I was obsessed with cheese for some reason and put it on everything. Guess I decided to make username related to cheese. The k40 part means absolutely nothing. I just felt like putting it there.

Mariuslol Norway. Apr 26 2012 14:11. Posts 4742

Maybe it's a star named by Keppler, #40 in his catalogue.

GoTuNk Chile. Apr 27 2012 13:16. Posts 2860

I remembered u progressed very fast and then burnout. Not that uncommon, I think if u are wiser now and can keep it cool u can beat micros. Same here btw, I'll be starting again after my last bw tourney :d