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shaw67193 United States. Mar 21 2007 03:14. Posts 465

here's my story.

my name's greg. i'm 20 years old. in my sophomore year at the college of new jersey. i've been playing poker for maybe 3-4 years. i got into online poker when i was like 17. i only really knew the basics of the game. i lost like $200 before i started making money. i had read a bit of doyle, hellmuth, but i didn't really grasp all the concepts of winning poker. for a while i donked my way to success, winning and coming in 2nd in like 4-5 $10-$30 mtts during my senior year of hs. one win was for like $2200 and i was pumped. i spent the summer hitting and running for min-buyin double ups at the UB 2-4 tables. although this is where i eventually went broke, i also developed a lot of confidence in my poker feel; i made some sick sick reads in addition to funamentally poor plays. i remember one weekend a friend and i ran $30 up to $900 that we cashed out sunday night. sick. but i was still a donkey.

i ended up losing a lot. like nearly everything. too much slowplaying, overplaying marginal hands pref, overall donkishness. still, though, poker was my job through hs. then college happened.

without the homegame i became poor as hell. i didn't want to work, so i tried toying with online poker again. i got $1 on stars from a buddy. i won a 3.5k person .10 +$50added tourney. that was mad sick. my game was getting fundamentally better at this point, but even that couldn't prepare me for the next ~6 months of poker.

i found 2 cool guys that lived in my freshman dorm that had a biweekly game on campus. like $10 double-chip-value. i was up a little at first, then one night i set up this LAG player perfectly and got 1-outed for like $80 pot (40 real money). then the next night i got 1-outed again for like $60 pot (30irl).

what felt like forever, i would run into ridiculous badbeats and drawouts. online, too. just absolute redonkalips plays getting paid off by 5-, 3-, 2-outers. it was really a sight to behold. to this day, i still maintain that i get outdrawn the most out of anyone i know. yeah, it sounds like whiny bitchiness, but i don't care. anyone who plays with me regularly will agree.

i got a shitty job at the bookstore at some point. then i got a slightly less shittier job that i still earn some money at occassionally. i hate work :/

so i lose a bunch of online money ($25 here, $50 there) and irl buyins for a while. every once in a while i'd run up to like $200, but there was always something i'd need money for so i'd end up cashing out. until about 2 months ago, i'd really been getting fed up with the beats. like obvi i was playing +ev, i know i wasn't playing perfect at any point, put certainly not losing poker. but without a set br, it was hard to see longterm results. being broke all the time sucked.

so the last ~8 weeks or so, i've been really reevaluating my game. and trying to learn to live with beats a little bit better. i've been pumped to get a br so i can witness + longterm effects rather than badbeat, gg br. i've learned so much about proper br management in the past year, i feel like i've already won something. or some gay shit like that.

i realized liquid is > anysite when it comes to poker discussion. so i've been lurking here a lot more lately. maybe 1 week ago, i started checking out the blogs and found a 200nl video by saki. i was like a little kid watching his first pr0n movie download over dialup. i watched it immediately, and i was blown away...

it was so easy. i was like omfg i could do that. between that and reading about other bloggers' success, i've just been so motivated and ready to stop donking.

so today, i got my friend to transfer $50 on loan at ftp to start grinding (like legit grinding) for the first time in my poker career. again, i have the fine ballas at lp to thank, bc i saw the free ftp bonus thread and was like hey, free $100 bonus, hence transferage.

after some good beats irl, i felt good and jumped on ftp to play $10nl. i found out how +ev multitabling is. i think it singlehandedly fixed my biggest leak, boredom. after ~3hrs, i finished at $79.50 and cleared $8 in bonus. i might go back on for a bit before bed to clear $10 so i can see it in my br.

so right now i feel great.

goals right now:
grind like a fiend
get enough of a br to afford the tracker...i have a spreadsheat to track data but it's pretty much worthless
learn how to use the hand deal so i can put up hands for review/brag/bitch.

guess that's it pokerwise for now.

stealtheblind on aim, drop me a line whenever.

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YO MAN YOU GOTTA LEARN THE HUSTLE MAN I KNOW HOW YOU FEEL AND IM LIKE YO I GOTTA STAY MOTIVATED CAUSE THESE COWARDS NEED TO GET STOMPED BOTTOM LINE -nolan

Last edit: 21/03/2007 05:16

Farcas_Vlad New Zealand. Mar 21 2007 04:49. Posts 326

i wish you luck:D

hope you become a good player :D

ALL IN

acdawg712 United States. May 01 2007 15:26. Posts 2639

I had a similar story. I was a losing player for a while, but joining liquid has helped. My play has improved a lot. But the most important thing about online poker is to bankroll management. One should have 25 max buyins for ring table level. Ever since I have started following that, I have gained a decent amount of money. I can definitely feel a huge difference between playing with 10 and 25+ buyins.

phil hellmuth is genuinely a stupid person and he does not understand poker very well at all - [vital]myth