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Qyvs! Poland. Jan 02 2009 12:54. Posts 190 | | |
New year has to come with some sort of resolutions, therefore I decided to create a blog. I am visiting liquidpoker on a regular basis for quite a while but was never active.
The Introduction
My name is Maciek and I come from Poland. I am 22 and I study Management and Marketing, and Finance & Banking. This year in july/august I will be receiving my bachelor degrees - hopefully, and have no idea what I want to be doing next.
How I started
I started on PartyPoker in june 2007. First I took some kind of quiz and received 50$ for start. I remember I battled hard playing full ring 0.01/0.02$ having little idea of poker. However I managed to get an extra 100$ from PP and I moved to PokerStars.
I played on PokerStars all different games - HU turbo, PLO, cash games, tournaments and everything for little stakes. I got my bankroll up to 700$ from 150$ I deposited and in november I stopped playing due to school.
The break
I had a long break with online poker beacuse of my student exchange in singapore @ the Singapore Management University. It was the best time of my life and I would be a dumbass if I wasted any time on poker then. The exchange lasted until mid April.
After all my exams I decided to travel a bit with my brother who came to Asia and we visited Malaysia, Laos, Thailand and he flew back to Poland. I decided to join my friends in mid May and do a diving course in Borneo,Malaysia - I was very happy to have my first diving experience in Sipadan. It's one of the best spots to dive in the world. Here is a clip on youtube - I love watching it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0LIggNYIkE&feature=related
Live poker
In the end of May I decided to go to Macau. I wanted to check wheter I was able to make money playing live poker. I wasn't feeling very well with my game - especially when the minimum blinds were around 1,5$/3$. I gave myself a stoploss at 600$ so If I lost 2 buy-ins I would go to Hong Kong, and then continue on travelling for next 2 months. I did buy-in with 300$ and I was playing damn scared money. The biggest I have ever played before was NL25 that I was trying to take shots at while failing. First day I was break even, second day I made 20$ - nice!, the third day I won around 1200$. I was playing very well in my opinion and decided to stay in Macau a little longer. I couldn't imagine the money I got in the exchange for chips that day. I was scared that someone will follow me after I walk out of the casino and get robbed or something.
I stayed in Macau around 7 weeks. During that time I had the biggest beats of my life, and a large downswing. Later I just couldn't recover. My game changed and I was constantly losing money, little by little. I lost my confidence, the regulars knew how I played and I didn't adjust my play to theirs at all. I was writing a diary on a daily basis after each session in the casino to have some perspective on how I take beats, wins, how I feel in general. I was there alone, and when you play above your roll it really does affect you.
After 7 weeks I decided to go to the Philipines with a guy I met in Macau. We were supposed to take a break from poker for 10 days and then return to Macau. However, we stayed in the Philipines for more than a month playing poker every day - didn't go with the plan. After that my friend decided to go back to Macau, and I stayed longer in the Philipines to travel and play in Manila.
Back to online
I came home more than two months ago and started playing online once again. I play 10$ DoN's at PS, and lately started with 6.5$ 9-man STT. I made about 40K FPP and 4K$. I would like to move up stakes but I don't think I can, yet. I try to analyze my game, work on it with SNGPower Tools, hand replayer and so on but I still can't get my ROI high enough to say that I beat my stakes for a decent rate. I think that I am better at controlling my tilt, but it still costs me a lot. It's hard to handle losing 10 coin flips in a row.
The thing is that sometimes I play very well, and sometimes I play like crap and I am not focused at all. I think that I am on my A-game 10% of the time which is extremely bad.
2009 score
I managed to take down the 12$ 180 man turbo today. What can I say... you need to be running very well to win one. I was chipleader back an forth as still had 20BB - turbo, eh ?
Here it's the situation that got me huge chip lead @ the end. I was begging for someone to have a hand once I was dealt aces, but an overshove from the chip leader was more than I could hope for!
2009 goals
I don't want to be making any specific goals. All I know is that supernova is a must! Otherwise I will not be able to cash 100K FPP bonus, and since polish currency is extremely weak it would be a mistake to be taking any items from the FPP store.
Good luck to all & have little variance in your game!
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Qyvs! Poland. Jan 02 2009 16:36. Posts 190 | | |
thx! ahahha" bracia siostry" =]
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oh and very nice blog entry.. |
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