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Reidak

09-25-2006, 12:57 AM Post subject: The 6 month reveue

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Well its been 6 months since I deposited my $100 into pokerstars. Its been really fun since then.

I started off playing the $1.10 sng's, probably 100 before I decided to try out the $3 turbos. At the time I was all about 'the expereince'. I doubled my money in about a month and a half just grinding those. During that time however I felt that I became a much better player.

After that phase I moved up to the $5 Sngs, at the time I thought the 5 dollars was quite a bit since i only had aroud 220ish. I fooled around there, trying out the 18's and the 27's, after having a terrible time with the 45's.

Basically 3,4 months or so passed since I had began and i only had like $250. I was glad I still had my money but I felt it was time for me to really step it up. I think it was around that time when I found FTR. I read alot and tried to make comments on hands. I really didn't think that i was learning all that much, but I noticed I was winning more and more.

few weeks later I'm down to 200 after reaching an all time high of $450. I lost over 100 in a day and it was killing me. I felt like shit and I was really doubting my game, thought I mightve just been getting lucky un until that point.

A few days later the break came. It was around 11 at night, on a monday or sometihng and I wasn't sleepy. $5 turbo tourney, about 1500 people entered. I ended up winning it in a 3 way chop that gave me $1400. I didn't beleive it. Before that (about 10, 15 mtt's) I had never placed better than a few spots ITM. I think i got 90th once. Point is i had just won this huge tourney and It was just unreal. I mean $1400 american on a $5 investment? I was just bored.

After that I cashed out $1200 (I wanted things) and I had around 500 ish, sold 150 to friends. So that left me with around 350. I played $10 sng's (1 table) and got up to about $550, after which ive now moved up to the $22 Sit n gos. Now ive got around $650 and its been on the up n up.

Its funny cuz Ill now lose 100 and i wont lose a second of sleep.

Anyways just felt like writing that. Maybe inspire some of those people who are stuggling right now and are doubting themselves.

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taipan168

09-25-2006, 02:22 AM

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Nice post Jishu, I remember reading your post on your MTT win, congratulations!

I've actually been wondering whether I should step up myself. I started with a $20 loan from a friend which I ground up to $100 at the $0.01/$0.02 NL microstakes tables. Once I hit $100 I moved to the $5.50 normals SNGs and ground that up to $330 then moved to the $11 normals. I then discovered the $6.50 turbos, ran hot and in combination with some b0nuses I hit $800 bankroll and started playing the $16 turbos, got slapped in the face back to $700 then moved back down to the $6.50s.

That was 300-350 tourneys ago. Since then my BR has gone up and down but mostly just stuck around the $650-750 mark. It is very frustrating because the $6.50 and $11 players are just so bad that I should be able to crush those games but I seem to run into variance (suckouts, shortstack pushes that run into monster hands, etc.) that means my BR doesn't go up. I do feel I'm good enough to do OK at the $16s/$22s but am worried about moving up because I don't want to go busto (say if my current bad run continues).

Given I can replace my BR pretty easily I wonder whether I should just move up and see how I fare. It is a matter of pride for me however that I've never needed to deposit any more money (apart from to take advantage of the odd reload b0nus).

Thoughts?

Reidak

09-25-2006, 03:22 AM

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Thanks for the grats

And theres a suprising amount of bad players on the $22 sit n go's (on stars too), the swings can be a bit mean but if you stick to your guns and your willing to lose more than you probably ever have before then go for it. Plus, you only live once.

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