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Drowsy United States. Sep 19 2007 14:57. Posts 112 | | |
Well, it feels great to be back on stars nl10 after the 3 month hellhole that was ftp 25 and 50nl. I got started in poker after Jamie, my broodwar hero, directed me to a copy of No Limit Hold'em, Theory and Practice in December. It wasn't until late feburary and a great deal of studying and reading that I actually deposited 45$ on stars. Immediately applying what I'd learned from Grot's guide, forum advice, and T&P I managed to eat my way through stars nl2,5,10,25, playing full ring supernitty at like 13/10/4.5, and sometimes experimenting with 6 max, which I had been told was far more profitable, but my play was pretty static. I wasn't getting much better, nor were my winrates anything to boast about.
The shit really hit the fan and halted my poker progress around May. I switched to 6 max fully, did still pretty well on stars doing a mix of 25nl and 10nl until I had 600$. I decided to transfer my roll to full tilt for rakeback and the bonus and then things went south(and I didn't get the fucking rakeback because I'd already made a fucking account). I managed to donk off 5 buyins at 25nl over the course of a week, dropped to 10nl, struggled for a couple thousand hands, went back up to 25nl, dropped AGAIN, took an entire 2 weeks to grind my way to 650$ where I began playing 25nl again. As you might have guessed, I was doing really really badly at these stakes at full tilt, but I eventually pulled out a sad winrate of less than 2.5/100 bot of them and moved on up to 50, completely unprepared. There I struggled still more, moving up and down 25 and 50 a bunch of times and acheived a convincing winrate of .30ptbb/100 at 50nl over a pretty small 20k or so sample, and that was the end of my summer vacation.
I'd had a part-time job over the summer as a security guard at a waterpark, which I quit just before transferring to full tilt(lol). My mom was really pissed at this, especially considering I'd missed the due date to apply for the next semester's FAFSA loans. So at the end of the summer, she demanded I hand over part of my roll to pay part of my housing bill for university. Fortunately this convinced her I actually was making a comparable wage to my old job so she stopped viewing me as a degenerate, which was good, and I only had to pay 700 out of the 1800 bill, and this left me with 330ish$ to do what I pleased with, and 400$ from my job for college incidentals. So I took out the remaining 330 from ftp, put it on stars just in time for the reload bonus, and got started re-grinding my br yesterday!
So I'm in college, and only studying for 12 credits, the bare minimum to be considered full time student. This gives me plenty of time to play poker. 10nl is hideously easy on stars, I really think I can beat it at over 12/100 at least, on full tilt it was somewhat challenging oddly enough. I recall all the microstakes games on stars to be waaaayyyyy easier than the ones on full tilt to be honest, but I guess I'll test that out by how long it takes me to get from 10 to 50, since it took something like 130k hands on ftp and I couldn't even beat 50nl there. My only real goal in poker is to make enough money to pay off my student loans, if I manage to get out of college and have a full wallet, then all the better of course. I'm close to dead set that I'll be studying for an 8 year degree so this is gonna be a huge sum to be paying.
I know this blog entry was a boring block of text, hopefully I'll have something more interesting to bitch about in the next one.
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morph1 Sierra Leone. Sep 19 2007 15:16. Posts 2352 | | | |
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rgfdxm United States. Sep 19 2007 16:04. Posts 1514 | | |
An 8 year degree? Why? What are you studying? |
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Drowsy United States. Sep 19 2007 16:18. Posts 112 | | |
| | On September 19 2007 15:04 rgfdxm wrote:
An 8 year degree? Why? What are you studying? |
Economics, still considering law school though.
| | On September 19 2007 17:17 jgallardo wrote:
If you're going to be playing at .05/.10NL, why not just play SNGs...and probably earn more money/hr? |
Because I might die of boredom if I play sngs, 6 max is quite enjoyable most of the time. |
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jgallardo United States. Sep 19 2007 18:17. Posts 44 | | |
If you're going to be playing at .05/.10NL, why not just play SNGs...and probably earn more money/hr? |
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I'm right there with you on the 8-year degree and the using poker to pay for it. A little behind you though, still sitting at NL2. It's only been like 6k hands though, I'll be out of there soon. |
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