16/10/2008 - To the horizon ! *points*
Ever since I started out playing 0,01/0,02$ on stars with my 20$ roll, I wanted to be one of those guys, one of those guys that played the 100$ buyin games..
Sometimes I would just open 2 100NL tables and just watch those ballers(random donks) play, man, I could watch those games forever and dream about the day that I would reach that limit... yeah.. I'd be ballin' out of control.
I'd show those games to friends or my parents and be like "Look at that, isn't that something, those guys.. man I'm gonna get there one day". The usual response was something along the lines "so how much do you have now?" and I'd proudly respond "50$ !!! started with 20 !!!!" and they would just crack a smile and say something like "haha... yeah.. those guys are crazy" and start talking about something else.
They tought that it was impossible, yes, it sounds too easy, you'd have to be a freaking genius to be able to beat poker in the longterm.. it's either that or a degen gambling addict that ends up gambling away everything.
I'd grind 20k and decide wether I would move up or just.. grind another 20k, yup, life would be easy.
I even tought this while I still played 50NL.
Well, I finally got there and am beating the limit, I had a little trouble adjusting but made some adjustments in my game, learned to live with the variance. Learned things the hard way.
It's the same as every other limit actually...
I am not "ballin' out of control".
I am not a genius nor am I a degen gambling addict.
Nope.
I am still the same fish in this big ocean.
Once I reached my goal, the dream I had been working so god damn hard for, I actually had one of those "allright, that's great... what's next?" just like the end of "The Trueman Show".
I have decided that I'm not going to grind 20K... I will take it to the next level, I am going to brutally rape 100NL and move up to 400/600NL ASAP ! (I will become a motherfucking genius and will be ballin' out of control !!!)
To achieve my goals even faster I have decided to hire a mighty fine coach and am planning on moving up to 200NL next month or the month after.
Cya guys at the tables :)
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27/7/2008 - bad run, tilt
A while back I was playing 40NL and felt like I had a decent edge but didn't run/play too well, decided to move back to 20NL, grind 20BI and move back up to 40NL, forgood...
So, grinded the 20BI, moved up to 40NL and that's where the shit started... for over 3k hands, I did not hit a flop more then 10 times.. this alone does not make me tilt, this combined with my own bad plays and spew sure as hell does.. so yeah made some bad plays, lost arround 3BI wich isn't the end of the world but it did feel like it because I was playing the entire day not hitting the deck at all...
So well, I got sick of it and decided to play 1BI of 100NL HUHU, same story, think I played arround 30 to 45 minutes, sucked out once for a 50BB pot, I won most non showdown pots I think .. well .. it was close but villain just hit the deck pretty hard while I .. well .. I got dealt KQo twice and that's about it, not much I could do and he ate my stack little by little. Overall, I think I did really well, I picked up alot of things and managed to exploit them reasonable well.. I enjoyed the match and it really calmed me down, I think I should move to HUHU later.
Gonna take it easy till september because I have alot of important stuff comming up, next time I post it'll be about how I completely rape 50NL. Hopefully.
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16/7/2008 - A little update.
Aaahhh.. the summer months, fine weather, no worries, friends, .... urgh yeah they suck.
You know what bothers me alot? That you can't even cross the streets without having to worry not to piss someone off or to worry about not getting into a fight.
I've had a calm and nice holliday so far but really have been frustrated lately about the fact that I always seem to get into trouble without asking for it.
Take a 2 weeks ago for example, the end of the exams, we planned a day out to wallibi with some friends, we were like 3 guys and 2 girls.
We were waiting in line way too long for a way too stupid attraction, but hey, that's what wallibi is like.
We had the luck to stand infront of an entire group (8 people or more) of guys who were shouting, singing songs and bugging other people.
Suddenly the biggest guy of their group starts touching me on my head and is just .. well .. completely having a blast laughing with me.
What can I do? I'm 1m75, I don't speak french and those fucks sure as hell won't speak english and well, we are like 3 guys against 8.. exactly nothing.. we just stand there, 1 hour, getting verbally abused and basicly being fucked over.
1 week ago me and my girlfriend were going to a bar by bike and were planning a fun evening out.
As we pass the trainstation my girlfriend says she is going to the public bathroom real quick while I wait for her.
Suddenly I get a message "Aaron, could you please get over here?" So I do as I'm told and I see a group of 16 year olds standing in front of the public bathroom discussing who should go in first to rape her... great... so yeah .. I do what I gotta do and basicly just stand between them and my girlfriend (in the doorway of the public bathroom).. so once again.. what can I do except for being verbally abused, I mean.. I can fuck up 2 of them .. maybe 3 before they all jump me and fuck me up real good.. god knows what they will do afterwards.. so yeah ..
2 days ago I'm riding my bike from my girlfriend's place to my place and some 16 y/o dude is sitting in a convertable acting tough and once again saying stuff as I ride by.. I didn't quite hear what he said and normally I just ignore this but really.. I was so so pissed off and took it all out on my family afterwards..
I swear to freaking god that the next motherfucker acting like some kind of gangster is gonna end up in hospital no matter what it takes.
Phew, really had to get that off my chest... On to the pokerz
My 20NL challenge isn't going the way it should be going and it really looks like I won't be make it.
The behind this whole challenge was because I was having a 10BI downswing and I just decided that the slacking had to end and that I had to grind my ass off and fix my leaks.
Little did I know that within 5k hands I would find myself down another 8 BI.
I figured it would be pretty pointless to keep putting in the amount of hands that I was and that I should get back to 4tabling and start fixing some of the leaks that had entered my game.
So basicly, that's what I have been doing, I have been talking alot of poker with different people, have been watching alot of deucescracked vids and have been reviewing my own hands.
All of this in combination with 6 exams comming up in august made it a bit tough to play as much hands as I would have liked to.
I don't really pay too much attention to my stats, I just try to exploit my opponents and play basic ABC poker but if you see something that I should really look out for then please tell me.
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7/7/2008 - Not a great start...
Allright, day1 of my super "win 50 BI" plan didn't go the way I expected it to go.
The high hopes I had when I started this morning were quickly crushed by some badass coolers.
I knew it before I started this challenge and I know it even more right now, the hard thing about this challenge is not going to be running good or bad or the hours I might have to put in, man, that's the easy shit, the real challenge is self control.
I didn't realise it at the time but slowly I started playing more aggressive and started getting myself in spots where I normally don't end up. Mainly playing big pots with smallpot hands.
Anyway I ended the morning session when I reached the 2k hands mark and found myself down 5BI allready.
I figured it would be pretty pointless to keep on playing because I had that feeling in my stomach, you know, that feeling, you want to win money, fast, faster,now.
I took a break from the poker tables and focussed on some things that need some attention aswell (girlfriend, studies, shower).
The evening session went alot better, relaxing in the afternoon was a great idea, it's too bad I couldn't put in the hours that I really wanted to put in, unibet + fucked internet = very fucked situation.
Decided to check the hands I played today for spewy plays and spots I could play better, I think I played pretty good overall but I found about 515BB's wasted on spewy play (morning session), I didn't even realise I was tilting that badly.
These BB's aren't all lost or won but spewy play is spewy play.
Hands: 2682
Total: -60€
Overall, I'm still pretty confident that I can make my goal, I think I played pretty good today and controlled myself better then I usually do.
Gonna upload graphs/stats when I reach 20K hands.
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5/7/2008 - To flee from this hell called microstakes.
Where should I start?
I've been playing poker for about 6 months now, I've had alot of fun and learned alot of things but the point is that I'm not moving forward, I've been playing the living hell called microstakes since I first started out.
I'm pretty sure I that could have been a winning 100NL player by now but nooo..
My entire poker carreer, if you could even call it that, exists out of playing good /getting overconfident /taking some beats /bad period where I play bad and run bad / back to where I started.
Don't get me wrong, I take some money out of my bankroll on a monthly basis to make this adventure not completely pointless and I'm a winner but if I didn't spew that much I would have been a much bigger winner.
Anyway, to motivate myself, I have come up with a super plan that only an evil mind like myself could come up with.
1) Create a blog at pokerblog.be *success*
2) Win 50BI this month at 20NL
3) Write about it in blog and update it on daily basis
4) Moniez
5) Move up
5) Make alot of pokerbuddies to talk poker with
6) Repeat process till 100NL
I'm pretty sure I can do it if I'm motivated.
Wish me luck and cya arround.
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