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DaveGrigo Czech Republic. Oct 31 2007 15:51. Posts 15

Hey guys, my name is David. I'm 21 year old student from Czech Rep. Frankly I don't know how to start this very first post of another mindless boring poker blog. I can only tell you a little bit about me, my poker intentions and so on. Let’s get started.

Poker and me

I've always known there's card game called Poker, propably because I've seen Five-card draw in some movie. It didn't interest me at all. Anyway I'm interested in webdesign and one day I found this webdesign portofolio. I clicked on some image thumbnail and immediately saw this green-white website. It was a poker website. I think you're getting the picture. :D I learned little more about poker and it looked pretty interesting.

Long story short. Spring 07 - I started playing on i4poker with 5 euro from promotion. I played only freerolls, grinded it up to $30 and went to play NL10 FR (lowest stakes on Boss Media network). I built my bankroll up to $100 (now I know it was pretty lucky run).

So I had $100 and decided why not give tournament try. I chose $3000 guaranteed with $20+$2 buy-in. Weird thing is I was aware of my poor bankroll managment and yet I ignored everything I learned. However I finished second for $900. The luck of newbie, I suppose.

I moved up to NL25 and lost about $400, won about $200. It was upside down. Pretty wild sessions. I don't think it was a total donk play, I was just willing to sacrifice my whole stack on a coin-flip situations (ok it was a donk play) and of course sometimes it worked, sometimes it didn’t.

After few months of no progess I've decided I should either quit or dramatically change my approach. So I moved my bankroll to Stars, bought Poker tracker, signed up for cardrunners and lp.net. As for the poker - the main focus is to play as many hands as I can, discuss and analyze my play.

This whole thing will be some kind of log. Every sunday I'll write weekly review – basically I'll summarize my mistakes, founded leaks, improvements etc. Don't expect any whining or hot-run posts. Just this reviews.

Poker and university

Right now university is priority number one. I study electrical engineering and it requires a lot of home preparation and so on. That's why I can't play as many hands as I want to. I've always consider poker as a hobby and I still do. Maybe one day it will be my second source of income.

My goals

November:
- play 20k hands
- discuss hand on forums
- exploit leaks, improve my game (well I guess this is permanent one for everybody)

long term:
- build bankroll up to $4000 before the end of summer semester (7 months from now) and start playing NL100

My game on Stars

I've been playing on Stars for few days something like 13/10/3 (FR NL25), but it's small sample. It's pretty nitty, but I can't imagine myself playing 15/13 or more. I don't know what's optimal for these stakes.

I also can't decide between 9-max and 6-max. I feel much more comfortable on 9-max. So far I played FR only. I don't know how could switching to 6-max possibly influence my game and progress.

If you read the whole post I owe you an apology for boring story and my czenglish. First summary comming up on Sunday. Stay tuned.

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wilddamon New Zealand. Oct 31 2007 17:54. Posts 158

Hi! So you're an electrical engineer too, eh?
Good luck for the poker!