Hello,

My name is Paul, im 23 yo and i used to play nl50-nl100 about a year ago, but didnt play poker since i had to withdraw all my BR to buy a car

id like to start a blog about my road from 0 dollars to WSOP 2014,
which i actually started in December.

My story:

Long story short, I started playing on FullTilt with the std 1000 play chips in December, turned it into 12 million in about 2 weeks playing 1/2 - 3000/6000, sold it to some dumbass who was buying playchips for $50, transferred it to PokerStars right after New Year and started playing NL5 zoom.

From there i moved up to NL25, which im currently playing atm

Goals:

Get a BR big enough to be able to play in WSOP 2014 $1500 NLHE event, covering the BI, flight ticket, accomodation and other expenses (going with my girlfriend), which should add up to ~ $3500

I will be playing NL25, maybe some NL50 if it doesnt go fast enough

The WSOP $1500 NLHE "Millionaire Maker" is scheduled to start on May 31st, so when i hit that goal, im going, (and winning obv)

Ur welcome to follow me on my journey to see if i succeed or fail

Even if noone looks here, ill still be updating so i can track my progress


some graphs, cuz they are cool:

play chips


nl5-50 bb


nl5-50 $


and current balance:



cya on May 31st

graphs not working, dunnno why, will try again:

play chips



mix of nl5-nl50 (bb)



mix of nl5-nl50 ($)



[X] rungood
[ ] sample


acct balance




came home drunk last night, felt it was a good idea to play some nl100, so i fired up 3 zoom tables @ 2:30 am.
BRM at its finest, barely had 5 BI's for the limit. At one point i was even playing shortstacked on one of the tables,
due to my whole BR being on the tables, but luckily i avoided disaster and ended up ~$310 in the black. these arent shown in graph and winnings,
cause i have the microstakes version of PT4 which doesnt track hands above nl50




progress

GL, I know you can do it.

GL. how much is a bankroll big enough to play that?

thx, i sure hope so

not rly sure what u mean

for a proper BRM it would be around 200k+ probably
this is just my one time shot though, trying to make enough to be able to play
i think of it as a vacation worth $3500 + i can play WSOP which is rly cool

Week 1/14

didnt play much last week, basically b/e in CG's.... only put in ~ 5k hands on NL25 cause i was lazy, won like $140, then spewed it off when i was drunk on a crazy nl50 session

decided to play 2 tournaments yesterday though

1) $11 Freezeout, $3k GTD

finished around 40th place for $52

2) $8.80 6max 500 players CAP $3k GTD

which i won for a cool $800 :P

last hand:

PokerStars - $8+$0.80|10000/20000 Ante 2500 NL (6 max) - Holdem - 2 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

Hero (BB): 61.68 BB
SB: 13.32 BB (VPIP: 32.12, PFR: 16.05, 3Bet Preflop: 4.23, Hands: 172)

2 players post ante of 0.13 BB, SB posts SB 0.5 BB, Hero posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.75 BB) Hero has K Q

SB raises to 13.19 BB and is all-in, Hero calls 12.19 BB

Flop: (26.64 BB, 2 players) T Q 2

Turn: (26.64 BB, 2 players) 7

River: (26.64 BB, 2 players) 9

Hero shows K Q (One Pair, Queens) (Pre 63%, Flop 96%, Turn 100%)
SB shows 5 4 (High Card, Queen) (Pre 37%, Flop 4%, Turn 0%)
Hero wins 26.64 BB


no money on nl10, everyone solid:

PokerStars - $0.10 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BTN: 244.9 BB (VPIP: 0.00, PFR: 0.00, 3Bet Preflop: -, Hands: 2)
SB: 54.8 BB (VPIP: 50.00, PFR: 50.00, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 3)
Hero (BB): 110.5 BB
UTG: 86.6 BB (VPIP: 12.50, PFR: 12.50, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 8)
MP: 95.4 BB
CO: 114.3 BB (VPIP: 0.00, PFR: 0.00, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 4)

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, Hero posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has T T

fold, fold, fold, BTN raises to 3 BB, fold, Hero raises to 11 BB, BTN calls 8 BB

Flop: (22.5 BB, 2 players) 2 3 5
Hero bets 14 BB, BTN calls 14 BB

Turn: (50.5 BB, 2 players) 9
Hero checks, BTN bets 47 BB, Hero raises to 85.5 BB and is all-in, BTN calls 38.5 BB

River: (221.5 BB, 2 players) 4

Hero shows T T (One Pair, Tens) (Pre 56%, Flop 71%, Turn 86%)
BTN shows Q K (High Card, King) (Pre 44%, Flop 29%, Turn 14%)
Hero wins 211.5 BB



all in all, last week i was +$722

which is obv a very good BR boost and gets me 1 step closer to WSOP

next week goals:
[x] volume
[ ] drunk sesions
[x] volume!
[x] volume!!! at least 20k hands


acct balance:



progress:

Allright, i just seriously cannot take this crap anymore..... after few days off from poker i started playing 3 days ago.... nl25 again, br @ $1600

and since then.... BOOM!
i honestly havent won one hand, one single hand, one single big pot, nothing.... nothing at all in last 8000 hands

the whole nl25 zoom, especially today (Friday) is a fu.king fishfest, the players are just horrible, so horrible


all the bluffs get called, the calling frequecncies of fish are just over the roof, i had this
mastermind yesteday who x/c, x/c, x/c me down OOP with 44 on JT8 K6 (had AX obv)

but obv vbets never ever ever get called when im betting river AA on Q72o23 they just apparently somehow find it in themselves to fold that freaking Qx

their 100% flop floating range somehow always binks the turn, just today ive seen this genius float Q7 on AT3r, find the old 3outter ott and obv suck it out on my KT (guy c'd back turn and river obv)

i seriously have no recollecion of anyone jamming into my AA pre, KK cracked around 5 times of course and to top it off

today i was CO w/KK 140 deep
MP huge fish opens, i flat cause i have 3 LAGtards behind me with stats of ~ 67/54/31 over like 50-100 hands. So the BU lagtard behind me squeezes obv, as he'd do with around 50% of his range, fish folds, i back4b, he jams i call, AA.... nh, gg, FO please...



crap like this all day long, i seriously doubt my flopped flushes/straights ever won

PokerStars - $0.25 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BTN: $44.66 (VPIP: 12.00, PFR: 10.00, 3Bet Preflop: 5.56, Hands: 51)
Hero (SB): $30.70
BB: $25.00 (VPIP: 24.81, PFR: 18.05, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 134)
UTG: $42.29 (VPIP: 20.55, PFR: 13.70, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 74)
MP: $26.70 (VPIP: 40.74, PFR: 25.93, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 29)
CO: $25.00 (VPIP: 18.24, PFR: 15.29, 3Bet Preflop: 6.58, Hands: 172)

Hero posts SB $0.10, BB posts BB $0.25

Pre Flop: (pot: $0.35) Hero has K T

fold, fold, CO raises to $0.62, BTN calls $0.62, Hero raises to $2.60, fold, CO calls $1.98, fold

Flop: ($6.07, 2 players) J A Q
Hero bets $4.00, CO calls $4.00

Turn: ($14.07, 2 players) A
Hero checks, CO bets $5.00, Hero calls $5.00

River: ($24.07, 2 players) J
Hero checks, CO bets $13.40 and is all-in, fold

CO wins $22.99

i already wanted to fold the turn against this nit with his, oh, wait for it... AQ obv, although tilt isnt a good friend really... gg nit, gg... should have gone with the std fish c/overjam flop line instead


next piece of gold was some drunken dude on NL50 who 3b jammed A6 for 90bb vs my AK, flopped quads, np.


the last flip i've won was last saturday i think


i just cant take this crap anymore, i lost (along with some NL50 losses) around 15 BI's in 8k hands against a combination of imbeciles and 14/11 supernova 6 tabling nitregs

and my BR is $1100

not running so bad ev-wise, but like... how can i say this ..... situationally, just everything is screwing me over


cant even think about poker, cause im insta tilted, een now, this is just unbearable, give me pls some advice, pls

sorry for the whinery but i just gotta vent off somehow


gg Hero, gg



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