Full House
Join Date: May 2006
Location: New Zealand
Posts: 1,009
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It’s now almost exactly 2 months since I really started to take playing Poker seriously and started to build a bankroll. I think I have learnt an awful lot and perhaps the most important thing I did learn was to stay focused and try no to tilt. I used to play SNG’s and MTT’s and when I crashed out I went to cash games, played full ring or shorthanded and as soon as I lost a stack I went back to SNG’s and so forth. I never became good at anything and was at best stagnating. Now if I loose a big pot I think about it, analyze why I lost and try to learn from it.
I still can hardly believe that by the beginning of this year I was still at $10NL and now play $50NL quite comfortably. My BR is over $1500 which means that I added approx $500/month so far. My longterm goal now is to play $200NL 6-max by the end of the year and hopefully be able to buy a proper laptop + 19” LCD monitor so I can play more than 2 tables at once. I think that I can handle 4x 6-max tables as long as I can see them all on the screen without overlap. That’s why I liked Pokerstars so much because I could play 2 cash tables plus 1 MTT table (with PT & PAHUD running) without slowing my laptop down to a crawl. Resizable tables are a godsend for people with archaic equipment.
I finished the $50 bonus on Golden Riviera in less than 1k hands and I got the bonus credited to my account within 10 hours of sending them an e-mail (as instructed). I am not particularly fond of the Prima design but at least it’s very fast and it’s quite common to sit at tables playing +100 hands/hour. However, I have experienced a new type of player – the aggressive Swede (little wannabee Cocco Bill’s). Table selection was very important on Prima as often I found myself being the LAG with 21/12 whilst my opponents were often as low as 11% VPIP. I have never lost a stack on Prima but I lost a few medium/small ones. All in all I made about a whopping $27 in 1k hands but also cleared the bonus so I’m happy.
Currently I am playing $50NL 6-max at Eurobet where I clear a $200 bonus plus Rakeback. Playing on the Ongame network can be both rewarding and frustrating. Last night I played 200 hands for +$90. If a turned boat wouldn’t have been beaten by a higher rivered boat I would have been $130 but you can’t win them all. I also meant to post some hands but I play just straightforward poker that I might have to delve a little bit deeper to find some interesting hands.
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