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bro Sweden. Oct 06 2010 21:50. Posts 38 | | |
I got into poker around six years ago, playing homegames and watching WPT/WSOP like most of you bros. Since I was not 18 yet I started playing on free money accounts in fake names, going through the risk of losing my entire bankroll by chipdumping to friends whenever I wanted to withdraw my winnings.
One day this was going to bite me in the arse. I was using another faked account with the $50+$25 free money deal at PartyPoker, finding myself on the final table in a $33 tournament. Somehow I ended up winning this for a $7.5K profit. I tried to chipdump most of it to my friends, some of it getting stuck after getting denied by the support who realized something was up and some of it being lost trying to somehow beat midstakes levels, despite my actual limited knowledge of the game.
Anyhow, I managed to withdraw a couple of thousand which gave me a nice bankroll to start with. I started grinding NL$50-NL$100 on European sites and didn't really win any money in my first year. A big failure considering how easy the games were back then.
It really took me until early 2008 - when I had already moved out from my parents and gotten my own place, paid from poker winnings - until I managed to start beating midstakes. I rushed up in stakes and was at NL$2K at the beginning of August when the worldwide financial crisis started and when the "poker boom" seriously started declining at the same time.
At this time I had already booked myself up with trips abroad for the rest of the year. Starting out by going to Asia and Macau for the Asian Poker Tour, then a stop in South Africa for a tournament in Johannesburg, before going back home again for a couple of weeks and then leaving for a three months trip to Japan.
I continued doing quite well but my economy got crippled by a huge downswing and my baller lifestyle so during 2009 I was mostly playing staked, while still traveling all over the place and not really making any profit from poker, finding myself pretty much busted by the end of the year.
When 2010 started I decided that if I hadn't managed to find my way back from low stakes to NL$1K by the end of August I would stop playing poker full time and dedicate my time for getting a job or studying.
My mission failed and here I am, an almost broke 21 year old with zero education and no real job experience. I was going to start studying this fall but I've been keeping it on hold because of a new project I've been involved with, not wanting to be tied up and be able to leave for whatever this project will need me to do.
At the moment it's still at the stage where time can only tell how it will go and how my life will look like the next upcoming year, so I've just been slacking with some SC2 and hanging out with my bros until now.
Unfortunately slacking won't give me any income whatsoever so to be able to have any sort of freedom in life and do what I feel like doing at the moment I'm back at the poker tables, probably not full time, but kind of part time until something else will come up, just to make sure that I can avoid having to stay in Sweden for another two months of -20°C.
Today's result:
200 games -€30
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bro Sweden. Oct 06 2010 22:53. Posts 38 | | |
FYI I'm gonna stay stubborn with the Japanese titles until the error has been fixed, since I can't change the title of my first blog post so then all my titles might as well look like rants. |
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Uptown . Oct 06 2010 23:59. Posts 3557 | | |
LP doesnt support east asian fonts so I'd give up on that endeavor (look at website feedback for details)
GL man, but IMO it's never too late to get back to your studies. |
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bro Sweden. Oct 07 2010 00:26. Posts 38 | | |
Yeah, alright, I give up then!
Thanks. I'll take up studying again the day I feel like there's simply no choice, like if my other option would be to get a job I wouldn't be satisfied with. Or I if I'm just in the situation kind of where I'm at now where I don't really have anything stopping me from studying. It just feels like I shouldn't even try go back to it if I'm not 100% motivated to do my best to succeed with it, since that haven't worked out with anything in my life before. I'm the kind of guy who have to focus on one main goal in life or I'll just fail with everything. |
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salutary Australia. Oct 07 2010 04:24. Posts 362 | | |
2knl to micros  ( such is life |
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player999 Brasil. Oct 07 2010 11:02. Posts 7978 | | | |
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| Browsing through your hand histories makes me wonder that you might not be aware these games are possibly play money. Have you ever tried to cash out? - Kapol | |
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bro Sweden. Oct 07 2010 11:04. Posts 38 | | |
According to Entraction I'm actually playing medium stakes.  |
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