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d.Apollo United Kingdom. Sep 22 2008 03:19. Posts 741

Hey guys.. thought about updating this, haven't done since the end August... well lets gogogo!

In this blog, just going to update you with how things are going for me in poker and how real life events effect your own poker mindset.

I have the worst month in terms of real life that you could imagine... Going through a extremely rough patch with my girlfriend at the start of the month which dragged out until last tuesday where we then spilt up. Everyday inbetween I felt horrible and it effected my poker mindset. Like many have said, run bad in reallife, run bad on the tables. ToTMidian stayed at my place again at the start of the month and we both played lots of poker during the day and went out drinking/socializing during the evening! A good week in that aspect as he is a good friend.
We watched many CR/othersite videos, both high/low stakes for both our benefits. He talked me through his own mind set when playing and what he saw of my playing. Even he could see I was just simply running horribly bad, losing some sick winning %+ hands... Nothing I could do.. went on a crazy, downswing, highest peak was $410 down to around $95 playing 10nl and dropped into 5nl.

After dropping down to $95, I rebuilt again, up to around $375... but having no job/income I had to withdraw $300 to pay for my new football boots and my football expensives for this season... I was forced to withdraw which REALLY sucked.. but thats my fault for not doing something about money before hand. I recently applied for part time bar work to support me while I build my bankroll/consider what I am going to do with my life...

Having been AGAIN dropped down into <$100 on my bankroll, around $75. I rebuilt again from 5nl and I am currently sitting on $205 on my roll. 5nl was destroyed fairly easily and then I went back into 10nl. Here is my graph/stats since I started rebuilding from $75 as my new roll.

This is 5nl/10nl combined and here are my stats for both games below.

I think my gaming is now completly out the window.... which is a shock for me as I thought I would be playing games for quite some time, but the lack of income and value in playing games that aren't SC/WC3 sucks, and even then you need to be playing at the top level at those to make decent money. Having won worldcybergames and samsung european championship for cnc3 I went into playing starcraft hoping I could take my skills into that game and possibly look at a professional path for sc2... I brought starcraft and went from 0games to iccup C- in about 4-5weeks which was quite decent, took me forever to get my first win though, think I went like 0-80 before I even won ONE game vs complete noobs

from there things got better

I then realized that there isn't any value in learning a new game because it takes so long to get THE BEST at it... so I stopped playing starcraft and thats how I got into poker again...

Found it quite tough getting over my girlfriend, we were together for around 4months. Luckily I started to realize that there ARE more and better girls out there, went to house party last night and met this really amazing girl and thinks started to brighten up again...

To conclude this blog entry, real life is tough... gotta keep ya head up otherwise you lose important things and start to sprial out of control. I almost completey lost a lot more this month than just my girlfriend!!! Including my bankroll if I wasn't careful. Things are back on the up and I hope some people can relate to this blog.

OVERNOUT

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Silver_nz New Zealand. Sep 22 2008 03:25. Posts 5647

gl, you're one crazy enthusiastic guy, I'm sure you're going to blast through all this like its nothing.

Sanai United States. Sep 22 2008 03:25. Posts 643

Good luck dude and stay strong!

P.S. You took a buy-in off me in NL5 a couple weeks ago, but I remembered the ID so just thought I'd drop by and wish you luck in life

fenner Australia. Sep 22 2008 04:39. Posts 2188

yeah gl man, im sure i'll see you at 25nl soon and soon fly past me, especially with midians help.

NewBornBaby United States. Sep 22 2008 07:08. Posts 413

gl man! i dont know you balance it all but it's great to see that you are managing! let the money flowssss.

One for tha money, Two for tha show. Clap yo hands, If you gotta bankroll

Roto United States. Sep 22 2008 11:19. Posts 264

you should have stole the boots instead of withdrawing

AKA Rotodyne on Teamliquid

failsafe United States. Sep 22 2008 12:23. Posts 1040

you're the luckiest guy in the world to know tot)midian personally

roflcopter United States. Sep 22 2008 12:57. Posts 620

yeah, with that determination you'll fly through everything. girls suck, but you're right, there are always plenty more.

KwarK_uK: and if that was a bluff you deserved the pot for ballerness

100Large Canada. Sep 22 2008 13:14. Posts 359

dont let a girl get you down, there are plenty out there. Most will disappoint you.

i really want the coke and the money but ill settle for your necklace