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emcast United Kingdom. Oct 11 2009 11:21. Posts 1

i have grinded low stakes to mid stakes poker seriously for 3-4 years now on mostly microgaming software and recently set myself a challenge to grind from $600 and see if i can finally make it to high stakes. So here i will start my first blog on my way to the top!!

Firstly i decided to change sites and change alias to start a fresh i deposited 600 dollars and started playing 1/2nl short stacked. my strategy here was to slow play my big hands ( hoping not to get busted ) and play fairly tight although with position in mind always trying to steal blinds with min raises and reraise agressive players with resonable starting hands. i find that this seems to work as regulars do not want to get involved with shortstakers when they have average holdings.

i have started writing this blog after just over 2 months of play, below shows my EV

summary for last 2 months

1. i have taken afew shots at 3/6
2. not played much heads up , which i belive is one of my strengths, will hopefully progress to more when i get my roll up
3. once i got my roll up to 2k i started 6 tabling with full buy in

anyways i will continue this more in depth, with afew interesting hands and plays , i will hopefully try and give a day/weekly update

cheers

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Thall Switzerland. Oct 11 2009 12:23. Posts 355

wow, pretty impressive ! good luck on your way to the top

Last edit: 11/10/2009 12:23

joshua3m Poland. Oct 11 2009 13:34. Posts 39

emcast, really good result, gl mate.

craimeariver Germany. Oct 11 2009 14:00. Posts 28

okay maybe im pretty stupid and blind or too stoned but how did you handle a -1200$ swing at the beginning with a 600$ br?
other then that , pretty impressive! ;D

requiem United States. Oct 11 2009 15:31. Posts 148

nl200 with 2K seems kind of scary =o 10 bi?

emcast United Kingdom. Oct 11 2009 16:03. Posts 1

hey cheers for the comments dudes, yeah my first 5k or so hands were from when i opened the account back in january , and when i imported into pokertracker they were picked up ( sorry about confusion)

the reason for only going with 2k and multi tabling was, that i hate shortstacking tables. basically going for broke!!