To introduce myself, some videos of things I like:
Hokay, now poker.
I first played about 6 or 7 years ago, when everyone was playing. I was in highschool and decent-ish. I ran $10 freeroll money to $200, then tilted and lost it all. As I couldn't buy chips (not having a CC), I just quit online poker. When the hype started to fade away, our home games did too and I pretty much just quit playing.
Fast forward to this summer. I used to be a big starcraft (BW and WoL), but had to quit last year due to a wrist injury. I do still follow the scene. I was figuring out what to this summer as I couldn't play games anymore. When the Team Liquid documentary came out, I saw some guy named Liquid`RaSZi donating a bunch of money. I looked up his name, started looking into poker again... and got itchy.
So, I downloaded the PokerStars client and PokerTracker, bought some chips ($20) and started playing again. At 2NL, I thought I still was the shit. I immediately played on 4 tables and started to gangsta bluff the shit out of everyone. I lost a couple of buy-ins and started to reevaluate my game. I also went back to just 2 tables.
I finally started to win a bit. After a small downswing I slightly tilted and went up, 5NL. This actually worked out. I think it's mainly because I took it a bit more serious and started improving my game. I also started playing on 3 and later 4 tables comfortably.
I (again) started playing bigger stakes under rolled. I was quite confident that I could beat it, and I was right. I also was winning there. I'm currently comfortably playing 10NL, 4-6 tabling.
There was a huge leak I had. I would (donk) call rivers I knew I was beat. I'm decent-ish (for this level) at reading hands. I'd doubt my own readings and still call (big) hands I shouldn't. Also, after I did that I'd tilt the fuck out and play worse. When I learned to stop doing that in the last 10kish hands my profits have been improved.
For now, I'm staying at 10NL until I have 20BI for 25NL. I'm close-ish to it (should make it this week), but I'm not rushing it. I'm just doing this for fun and to challenge myself.
How does your graph look if you add in Show All-In EV?
That's a value that shows you how much you would have won if every time you went All-in before the river
you only got as much money as your equity was in the pot at that time.
Well done although you should be prepared for 50 people telling you this is a bad time to start playing poker.
Yeah, I realize it's a bad time to start playing. I don't have any unrealistic dreams of making a gazillion $ from playing, but I do want to see how far I can get to. Shouldn't have stopped 6 years ago... damn temperamental puberty
Last edit: 01/08/2012 10:27
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rS.Wisdom[9] United States. Aug 01 2012 10:46. Posts 1288
very impressive start! keep up the good work. and who cares if it's not going to be life changing money, it feels really damn baller to make money playing a game that you like
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