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Python817 Canada. Dec 21 2008 00:18. Posts 2733 | | |
recap of my 1st year playing poker
Like many of you I was an ex-Starcraft player my akas were iG.Reaver / V_DrOp)Reaver / MgZ)Li / gNs.I-Light
I started playing on the stars playmoney tables in January and quickly reached 1 million playchips which I sold for $10. At the time I had no concept of bankroll management and was pretty clueless about the game. I started off playing nl5 with my $10 and almost went busto but thankfully I won a sng with my last few dollars which allowed me to continue. After my near busto experience I took my newly acquired $16 to nl2 and never looked back.
In January I went from nl2 to nl25 playing nearly 100k hands of FR and by the end of the month I was 18 tabling with no PT or hud because I didn't know what they were at the time. In early February I took a failed shot at nl50 and went back to nl25 but this time played 6max instead. I quickly rebuilt my roll and took another shot at nl50 with decent success. During this time I got PT + Hud and since I just started playing 6max I only played 6 tables. For some reason I slacked off during the months of February and March playing less than 20k hands each month.
April was I guess what you'd call a breakthrough month for me. I started the month at nl50 and ran really well throughout the month ending at nl200. After the heater in April a downswing was inevitable. I had a slightly losing month in May and breakeven month in June. During that time I had moved between nl100 and nl200 several times and was getting pretty frustrated.
In early July I had been winning at 6max and decided to give HU a try. I've never played HU before so I figured I would start at the lowest stakes. I played nl50 and nl100 HU for about a day before I got bored and decided to play 1/2. During July I played a ton of HU and did fairly well unless the last few days of the month. on July 28th I played a marathon session lasting over 25 hours and the end result was me losing around 20 buyins.
I took the next day or two off and got myself back on track and continued to play 1/2 HU in August. I was doing quite well throughout the month but again I crash and burned at the end of the month. One night I had trouble sleeping and woke up at around 5am and decided to play a session. Now I had been taking shots at 2/4 HU with no success but hey this was as good a time as any to play some 2/4 right? wrong. I played from 5am till about 1pm and dropped a total of 6k (4k at 2/4 and 2k at 1/2) due to massive tilt after running badly. Right after I got enough sense to quit the session I tilt cashed out almost 1/2 my roll leaving 10k to play 1/2 and excluded myself so I wouldn't play the next day.
The rebuilding went nicely in September and by the end I was playing some 2/4 HU again. October was a lazy month for me playing less than 20k hands and not winning much. November I tried playing more hands and mixed in some 6max also with HU playing only 2/4. Everything was going pretty well till I had a little downswing of about 25 or so buyins which slowed me down. I ended the month with only 33k hands and I was up but only a small amount. During November I also cashed out almost 9k for no apparent reason.
December again I started slow and played very few hands I'm guessing about 12k for the first half of the month but ran pretty well. I then decided I would start playing more hands but unfortunately the last week has been bad. During the last 4 days I lost quite a bit at 2/4 HU and 6max that puts me in the red for 2/4 HU lifetime (according to my PT but I only have hands from last few days of September-Now) and basically breakeven for the month. Today I tried again to play 2/4 HU but like the last few days due to what I'm guessing to be a combination of bad play induced by running bad and being card dead for the most part I lost 6 buyins in about 2k hands. I decided from now on I was going to play 6max and put in a ton of hands. I was fed up with having to wait so long for games only to get hit and run after a few hands which I'm sure has caused me to tilt and play badly against the next few opponents that sat. After a little break I sat down and 11 tabled 6max for a little over 3k hands and did fairly well.
Now for the future
Since it is now Winter break I have a few weeks off from school and I'm planning to put in a ton of hands everyday at 2/4 6max.
I have pretty high hopes for myself next year and I hope I can continue to put in a lot of hands like I did today and when I first started in January.
I'm also pretty sure I'm missing something since I've been losing at 2/4 HU and cashed out about 16-17k yet I still have over 20k on stars.
If anyone is playing similar stakes as me and would like to talk about hands / help motivate each other feel free to pm me your msn
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djforever Canada. Dec 21 2008 00:25. Posts 1510 | | |
from rags to riches man. keep this up. |
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thewh00sel  United States. Dec 21 2008 00:42. Posts 2734 | | |
sick no deposits, do you have one of those white "never deposited" stars next to your name? |
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jase Australia. Dec 21 2008 00:45. Posts 1604 | | |
you're going to bounce back so ez |
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Python817 Canada. Dec 21 2008 00:47. Posts 2733 | | |
| | On December 20 2008 23:42 thewh00sel wrote:
sick no deposits, do you have one of those white "never deposited" stars next to your name? |
nope |
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Roto United States. Dec 21 2008 00:48. Posts 264 | | |
| | On December 20 2008 23:42 thewh00sel wrote:
sick no deposits, do you have one of those white "never deposited" stars next to your name? |
that means they are using the pokerstars.net program |
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RICHI8 United States. Dec 21 2008 00:52. Posts 1341 | | |
I hope my first year can be as good as yours. Keep pluggin away, |
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thewh00sel United States. Dec 21 2008 00:54. Posts 2734 | | |
| | On December 20 2008 23:48 Roto wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 20 2008 23:42 thewh00sel wrote:
sick no deposits, do you have one of those white "never deposited" stars next to your name? |
that means they are using the pokerstars.net program
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oh. lame. someone mustve told me that they were people who never deposited. =[ |
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Ond keso Sweden. Dec 21 2008 09:39. Posts 64 | | |
My first year aswell!
though i played a lot, a lot less then you and i have only reached NL100 =) |
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MiPwnYa Brasil. Dec 21 2008 12:47. Posts 5230 | | |
tl dr but I still like you don't worry |
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Parker417 United States. Dec 21 2008 13:11. Posts 331 | | |
Keep building that bankroll son.. Gl in 09 |
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