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KoeBawlt Canada. May 22 2012 23:24. Posts 378

Hey all, this is my first blog post so I'll make it long, give my background, and put in a bit of an effort.

I started playing poker with my family. It was just an around the dinner table affair, we had a poker set and none of us were any good. I saw the WSOP ME stuff on TV and I thought it was pretty cool, but I was still completely clueless about poker. The hands and poker speak would go in one ear and out the other. All I could see was who had the best hand and I'd think exactly what the announcers said (after they said it of course). I think a couple years ago my friends and I would play some SnGs for a bit of cash. None of us were good at all but it was still lots of fun. The poker was mostly something to do while drinking and smoking.

I heard more and more snippets from the poker community. A lot came from TL and rekrul's posts there. I think I remember reading about Isildur or someone else running a few million under EV. It blew my mind how much money was being played for and also the fact that lady luck could fuck with someone that much. Eventually I started to watch Poker After Dark and High Stakes poker a bit, and learnt more about online poker. I looked into depositing on PS but decided against as I was 18 at the time. That was a couple summers ago.

I forgot about playing poker for most of the year after that, but last summer I had my interest reignited. I don't know what it was, I think it was EVE Poker (EVE is an mmo renowned for its spergy players. One or some of these spergy players made a browser client where you can play for the game's currency, ISK). Everyone on there was fucking terrible and I yo-yo'd my account for a few days until I busted (because I was fucking terrible as well). Around that time I started to browse LP and 2p2. I figured with the beginner guides on both sites I had enough to make it online, so I put 15$ on PS and grinded that down to $0. I got frustrated, said fuckit and gave up... for a week when I couldn't help myself but play the play money games on PS.

I enjoyed the shit out of those. I think it was just because I liked to play poker, and I liked to win, and everyone on the playmoney tables were bleeding their playmoney welfare cheques away. After a while I decided I should play for money again, so I deposited another 25$ on PS around October. This time it stuck around for a while and I'd grind and make my account yo-yo between 20$ and 50$. I hit 90$ some time in November I think but spewed it back down to 20$. Up until around March this was the state of online poker for me. I'd yo-yo around slowly getting VPPs and mostly wasting time and putting aside school work (not a good idea tbh).

This took a turn sometime in March. My game had gotten a lot better than it was before (it's still shit tho) and I would slowly make $$ from microstakers fishier than myself. One night I came home drunk and played PLO and made like 40$ or something. The next day I decided to get HEM2 and since things have been looking nice

I'd play PLO every once in a while again and I think I've given back all I won playing drunk, and I'll also play when I'm bored or tired. It takes a decent chunk out of my balance that I'm working to only play when I want to play my A-game, not just see some cards.

So, to my milestone. I started playing today with about $170 in my balance. I ran good for a couple hundred hands and had about $185.

I told myself I'm not getting up until I hit 200$. A couple hundred hands more and I'm at 199.15$. Sooooo close. Then two gross hands happen in quick succession and I'm back down to 190$. I did not give up and I played and played until I was finally at 200$. Here's my graph for the day:

And my graph for lifetime with HEM:

I know it's super bad to be results oriented and think about how much money you have in your balance, but it's nice to see $200 sitting in my balance when I've been so used to double digits for a long time. I also know these winrates aren't that sustainable and I've ran like a horse on crack

I'm still learning though and while I feel good when I win hands, I feel better if I felt like I made the right decision (especially if I win the hand).

Cliffs:
-At some point in time I started playing poker due to various circumstances
-I bought HEM2
-I hit $200 in my balance for the first time
-I've ran very well over a ~25k hand sample

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PuertoRican United States. May 23 2012 00:07. Posts 13127

Looks good so far, but my poker opinion doesn't matter.

Keep up the good work~

p.s. All poker newbs are told to never think about money in your BR, just focus and play. Worrying about your money will make you play scared, which makes you not play at your best.

Rekrul is a newb

KoeBawlt Canada. May 23 2012 00:11. Posts 378

Ty. I've greatly improved in terms of being play oriented instead of results oriented. Months back I would go tilty after a suckout or a bad run of cards, now it takes a few suckouts or a longer bad run of cards :D

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SolarM Germany. May 23 2012 03:38. Posts 533

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