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Spicy United States. Jan 25 2010 20:25. Posts 1027 | | |
Hello there LP,
I am a former StarCraft player has been playing poker seriously since last July. I picked up poker mainly to see how well I could do and also as a source of supplementary income as a college student (I actually don't plan on cashing out until I graduate unless I immediately NEED the money). By no means do I consider myself a serious grinder but my passion to improve in the game is genuine. I do not have any personal attachment/need of the money in my poker account so am not afraid to lose it for the purpose of learning. I've lurked on LP for quite some time and I thought I'd start a blog to keep track of my progress as well as have a place to record my thoughts.
About Me:
I attend university at USC(freshman) and through playing for our CSL team have met two awesome members of the liquid community LosingID8 and Day9. I'm majoring in Business Administration and am doing well in my studies right now (huge priority over poker). However, this semester is going to be rather easy and I think I can put in a good amount of hands. I'm very comfortable just 4 tabling normal and 2 tabling rush poker and am not planning to ever mass table/robot.
My poker progress:
Started playing SNGs on FTP starting from $120 roll in November of 2008. FTed some $1-$3 tournaments and proceeded to piss a ton of money at 10nl. My roll at that point ended at about $100 and I decided to quit for a while. About six months later, after getting back from a trip to China, I picked up the game again at 5nl FR in July. In August, I switched to 6max for 10nl and built my roll to about $300. After fall semester began, I took a break from hold'em and played a ton of limit stud8 games starting from .5/.10 up to 2/4 and some thousands of hands at 10/25 plo games. Diving into the different games has helped me build my roll to about $900 and has benefited my overall thought process + approach to online poker. I've been playing 25nl since mid-January and my roll currently stands at 1.1k.
My primitive thoughts on the commonly perceived "games are going to be impossible to beat":
Paralleling any sort of major competitive game, poker has gone through evolutions of game play. If we look at how StarCraft has progressed, there have been many times when a certain person/strategy was dominating the scene and left no hope for other gamers. The first thing that comes to mind is the period of sAviOr's dominance and the claims of ZvP imbalance. He had just destroyed Protoss's last hope Nal_rA in the MSL semifinals and was in a position to ezroll Bisu for the gold. What happened? Bisu took an innovative approach to the game and developed a sair/DT strategy that sAviOr could not possibly have expected/practiced against. The same can apply to poker. No longer are the games as easy as the old party poker days, but that only means that the player pool is shifting towards a different type of player (regs who have a solid foundations of how to play tag/lag). The importance of the redline at the mid-high stakes is becoming ever more important, which means that in order to survive you must adapt and have better redlines than the competition while still balancing the blueline. It is in the hands of each individual player to better themselves and develop plays and strategies that can counter the popularized "standard plays."
This concludes my introduction for the LP community and I hope you all accept me with open arms.
If anyone would like to befriend me/become a poker buddy feel free to PM me so we can exchange messenger info.
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welcome and gl with poker cause it is after all the hardest easiest living ever lol |
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Spicy United States. Jan 25 2010 20:58. Posts 1027 | | |
| | On January 25 2010 19:52 Gsr_01_integ wrote:
welcome and gl with poker cause it is after all the hardest easiest living ever lol |
I have no plans of ever playing for a living
It's a challenge/mental stimulant |
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whamm! Albania. Jan 25 2010 21:02. Posts 11625 | | |
prepare yourself coz even if you play for the sheer competition of it, it will sort of take over your life. you will understand what gsr is saying once you've played a couple of years.
coming from a sc background most of us experience similar things when shifting to online poker. good luck in your poker journey and welcome to LP  |
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Spicy United States. Jan 25 2010 21:08. Posts 1027 | | |
| | On January 25 2010 20:02 whamm! wrote:
prepare yourself coz even if you play for the sheer competition of it, it will sort of take over your life. you will understand what gsr is saying once you've played a couple of years.
coming from a sc background most of us experience similar things when shifting to online poker. good luck in your poker journey and welcome to LP |
I've kept that in mind and I'm going to (try to) force myself to moderate the amount I play.
I think school is so much of a +ev option for me. |
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PanoRaMa United States. Jan 25 2010 21:37. Posts 1655 | | | |
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beastmode United States. Jan 26 2010 20:44. Posts 37 | | |
strongly agree with what you said, nice post man. i'm currently playing 50NL looks like I'll be seeing you on the tables maybe |
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beastmode United States. Jan 26 2010 20:44. Posts 37 | | |
strongly agree with what you said, nice post man. i'm currently playing 50NL looks like I'll be seeing you on the tables maybe |
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