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kevster
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07-10-2009, 11:46 PM
Post subject: So I finally made $1K.....
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Full House
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It has taken me waaaay too long.
For anyone interested, my main problems have been....
1. My general crappyness
2. Lack of time (work / family / other shit etc.)
3. Lack of focus
Going to aim for $2K by the end of the year. Probably pushing it a little but hey, why not.
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sarbox68
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congrats bro!
finding time to play is the biggest b!tch of all IMHO...
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$2000 by the end of the year? That better be $20,000 with you missing a digit
I mean what kind of a goal is that? That's like 40 BIs at NL25. So you're setting yourself up for a pace of going like 8 BIs a month? So that's 10K hands if you get 4ptbb/100 WITH rakeback. 10K hands a month seems a little on the low side.
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sarbox68
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Originally Posted by iopq
$2000 by the end of the year? That better be $20,000 with you missing a digit
I mean what kind of a goal is that? That's like 40 BIs at NL25. So you're setting yourself up for a pace of going like 8 BIs a month? So that's 10K hands if you get 4ptbb/100 WITH rakeback. 10K hands a month seems a little on the low side. |
I played 147 hands last month.... 
But this thread isn't about me....
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Grats sir. First 1k is always the hardest.
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Originally Posted by iopq
10K hands a month seems a little on the low side.
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Not for people with familes, jobs, mortgages, responsibilities. I'd be lucky get 10K hands in 2 months of play. Maybe this is why I can't get past 25NL. Oh to be young again...
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bjsaust
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Thats awesome Kevster, great stuff! You should be really proud, especially if you couldnt play many hands. I know most people their game goes south if they cant play regularly, so winning while not playing much is even tougher!
iopq, thats just rediculous thing to say, ffs not everyone will have the same amount of time available.
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Just playing to improve.
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Originally Posted by bjsaust
Thats awesome Kevster, great stuff! You should be really proud, especially if you couldnt play many hands. I know most people their game goes south if they cant play regularly, so winning while not playing much is even tougher!
iopq, thats just rediculous thing to say, ffs not everyone will have the same amount of time available.
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I'm kidding about 20K, but if you don't have like 40 minutes a day to dedicate to poker you're probably not really that serious about it
hell, some people watch TV like 3 hours a day
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bjsaust
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I played 10k in April, 7k in May and 15k in June. Sometimes you have time, sometimes you don't.
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Just playing to improve.
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Originally Posted by bjsaust
Thats awesome Kevster, great stuff! You should be really proud, especially if you couldnt play many hands. I know most people their game goes south if they cant play regularly, so winning while not playing much is even tougher!
iopq, thats just rediculous thing to say, ffs not everyone will have the same amount of time available.
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I'm kidding about 20K, but if you don't have like 40 minutes a day to dedicate to poker you're probably not really that serious about it
hell, some people watch TV like 3 hours a day |
Ummm... Not everyone strives to have poker as their main form of income. So not everyone is "serious" about it. If he has time, he has time. If not congratulate him on his accomplishments and move on.
Good Job Kevster.
Also, lol @ you guys wanting to find time to play. I try to make excuses not to .
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kmind
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hi kev 
ps - don't think you are pushing it, go for the gold
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kevster
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Originally Posted by iopq
I'm kidding about 20K, but if you don't have like 40 minutes a day to dedicate to poker you're probably not really that serious about it
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First up, I don't play cash.
Second up, try getting yourself a 20mth old child and seeing how much poker you can squeeze in after a full days work, followed by food, some family time sorting out my website and then thinking about getting up at 7am the next day.
Finally, I'm not that serious about it. I want to do well and improve but I have a healthy income from my full-time job. If I could get to the stage where the few hours of poker I manage a week could mirror that income, then great but meh imo
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kevster
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P.S. Thanks for all the thanks 
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daven
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Originally Posted by kevster
so i finally made 1k
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very, very cool
nice work, congratulations!
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probably one of the most satisfying accomplishments in this game
nh sir
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So next goal is $10K, eh?
Haha, congrats man! It's a great feeling. All that hard work is starting to pay off!
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That's how winners play; we convince the other guy he's making all the right moves.
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'the first one is always the toughest'
play more, well done
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kevster
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Thanks again guys.
Miffed, please to be teaching me how to take BBJ's down.
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Good job youngman. Makes me jelous!
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sarbox68
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Originally Posted by kevster
Second up, try getting yourself a 20mth old child
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I have a 4 month old. HU4KIDZ?????
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FateAver
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congratz
1000$ I think it will take me a year
I begin with 10$ last 3 months and now I have 90$ (120$ is highest now)
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Congrats.
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Originally Posted by XxStacksxX
Ummm... Not everyone strives to have poker as their main form of income. So not everyone is "serious" about it. If he has time, he has time. If not congratulate him on his accomplishments and move on.
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Depends, I guess that's true if you mean 'aiming to go pro in the future' when you say 'serious'. I personally would define 'serious' as 'making a solid effort to improve one's game and move up stakes', although I guess that makes most people on this forum serious by default 
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<JustinSKS> Tha'ts why I fold my 33 to 72o, because 7 high beats, 1 pair, donk.
JR: lets do it JUAN
JR: mono e mono
JR: man to man
JR: HU4ROLLZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
Dealer: juan0984 folds
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surviva316
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i might have to start an intervention thread for nish using the winking emoticon
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revolvingiris
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Congratulations on the 1k!!!! Did you do anything to celebrate?
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nish81
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i might have to start an intervention thread for nish using the winking emoticon
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good luck with that one surviva
ps: your sig always makes me laugh when i read it
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<JustinSKS> Tha'ts why I fold my 33 to 72o, because 7 high beats, 1 pair, donk.
JR: lets do it JUAN
JR: mono e mono
JR: man to man
JR: HU4ROLLZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
Dealer: juan0984 folds
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settecba
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Congrats OP, nice job.
GL with your next goals...
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Originally Posted by ISF
Getting good at poker is like that scene in the matrix where Neo suddenly sees that everyone is just a bunch of structured numbers and then he starts bending those numbers in really weird ways.
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