When life gives you lemons... make lemonade GL man.

haha that is assuming i keep on winning at poker tho ^^

but yeah same here, i have pretty traditional values and family as well as good friends means alot to me, and when they cant comprehend it or support it it hurts, and u feel very underappreciated especially because poker is hard work, its not easy money at all, its just accessible without qualifications but you do need insane amounts of dedication and hard work to excell in it and make a much better then avg wage consistently while none of the people close to you see it this way and dont support you or congratulate you on for example having a sick volume month or something like that... its hard

ive seen some of your latest strat posts and i think ur pretty clever ohly if ud like feel free to add me on skype for sure, its a few posts up in this thread (my skype that is)

on that hand to expand a little bit further;
i dont think u are necessairly wrong
but what i tried to do in this video was give my opinion about some frequent spots with a limited amount of reads, i think assuming this villain is supernit is maybe a bit too quick also i have no history with villain in the vid, so i can really only speculate a bit about his tendencies from an observed perspective which i think is less valuable then an in game perspective.

Hence i recommended limping and jamming also, because when limping i think post flop play and STPR will be way easier to handle then if you minraise and get flatted and in a 15 min beginner 30$ video i just tried to give the possible lines that not only wield good expectation but on top of that make Hero's life easier, thats why in general id advice limping or jamming here, but you could be right, however i dont remember villain right now out of the top of my head :P but you arguing for minraise/folding being a good option as well definately sounds reasonable given this;

"but if he is for example 3betting 20%, flatting 20% and folding 60% we show a profit of 0.3BB+potequity in comparison to folding. if we win 25% of the pot on average when called we already win our small blind back. i pulled the numbers out of nowhere, but it's my impression of villain, maybe my assumptions are wrong?"

While i dont think ur assumptions are wrong per se (i really just dont remember been a while since i made the vid) i think it might be early to determine this so precisely right now after only like 20 hands tops, and hard to realise this so quickly for a 30$ reg as well
hence i suggested the basic "longterm profit guaranteed" lines here.
Basically i think advocating minraise fold as the best option is too early to tell (too little hands) and too complex for a free beginner video, because i would need to do some maths on it for sure before id be convinced it is the optimal move here.

So i just chopped it up to as a guideline, in general jamming or limping here will both be better then folding and vs the general population at 30s much much better then folding.

but maybe in some cases minraise/folding is best as you argue, but hard to say here really, too short a sample imo. and i dont like advocating things im not 100% certain off they will work also didnt want to confuse too many people with my first video by going pretty advanced

Im sure if more vids come, which will be longer in length i will touch on more advanced subjects and more alternate lines or extreme cases being more reads-based.

thank you so much, you convinced me that my assumptions after 20 hands or so cannot be accurate enough. i also like the "longterm profit guarenteed" term in this case. just one hand and it got me thinking hell of alot and surely i learned something again

thanks for the big compliment coming from you, since you are basically where i want to be pokerwise

Broke and in makeup?

haha np, happy i could help ^^

grind dubstep song of the day im listening too ;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3ot-LMuPgs&NR=1

Been there, really sucks to play in these conditions :/ But luckily my family is finally supportive (they ignoring what I'm doing, which is like a support) expect for my grandmother obv.
Now you really need to win some money and find your own place.

Geez, tell your family to stop being such nits! Good luck in getting that sorted

Hah i just realised im a professional poker player :O

Now that im unemployed and not in university

and poker still my only source of income

I guess im a pro pokerplayer ^^

hmmm i feel like i had to post alot but i forgot what tbh ;o

so just gonna update here and go to bed im pretty tired to be honest

ran good again, played good as well

didnt play high volume because i was stressed out because of family and what nots...


DAY 8;


Up for the day; 2144,88$
Up for the challenge; 8743,6$

Money tilll goal; 241.256,4$

I know ive talked a bit about doing a weekly evaluation i think im gonna make it bi-weekly to get in more notable samplesizes

Overall i can say after 8 days im very happy so far; up bout 1.1K/day which is really good and deffo better then pace for this challenge, however have run pretty hot the last few days, and am a bit worried what will happen when it comes down

On a sidenote almost out of makeup with stakers, so soon i might start earning money again !

Stay tuned and best of luck all

JTS

Make that 250k and show your family that you're the shizzle!

With 8k you can move out to your own place imo

you probably mentioned that before, but how many tables are you usually playing?

plz ready trough the thread carefully!

i dont have 8K

i was over 10K in makeup when starting this thread due to a mean downswing


so this +8K (while i have won 8K) all goes to makeup !

For Clarity;

A) I am on a staking deal !
B) I started off my staking deal losing hard because of a mean downswing
C) I was at the worst point 16K in makeup!

For those that dont know what Makeup is;



so you see, in this thread im keeping track of how much $$ im winning since the first day i made this thread, but so far all that money has been going to makeup/to the roll, so in other words i cant cash out the 8K i won because it was "in debted" to my staker

So since the start of my thread yes i have won 8K+ but i cant cash any of this out and all this money goes directly to my staker!

So my real life bank account remains at 50euros



At ohly ; 2-4 on rare occassions when some fishreg challenges me to 6 i sometimes tend to accept ^^
but on the normal grind i usually load up between 2-4 and when i have 4 i keep accepting the fish hoping to end up having 2 tables of fish for an hour or so , which is the sweet spot in sts imo

gl!

and this concerns you:
+ don't forget, no more players to players transfers to .com; so no more chopping or sending money to your stackers through stars.

Does that mean he can only play vs Belgium players when this is through?

no, tourneys and sng will always be global.

not only that, but stars basically pays the belgian poker tax itself and doesn't increase the rake.

in your opinion is this a good thing? also, any word on the vip system? ive read a bit about it, but seen things being paradoxal and diff reports here and there and got a bit confused

some opinions ranging from wow this is great news for us, to wow fml no vip system or something like that

and going for SNE vip rewards are fairly important too me needless to say :P

WOW that sounds rough

btw shini i think u misread something


seems like player 2 player will be possible...

yeah sorry, I read "are not" rather than "are now"

great if they fix vip system; like, say, allow to buy sng tickets.

I mean at worst you can just grind hypers sng satties with FPPs; would rather not obv; esp as big ones only run in good numbers on weekends or before series I think.

feels like the way i see it, if i make SNE in 2012 on pokerstars.be

which is likely because Ive made 40K vpps this month on stars, and will soon start playing stakes 2-5 times as high as i am playing now
(200-500$ STs) (((more about this in later updates)))

I will be somewhat paying for everyones taxes in belgium lol because of me missing out on 120K value while most smaller grinders (dont take this offencively)
will maybe miss out on 1-10K of value in rakeback but will be happy to not have to pay taxes which might be a bigger % then 10K rakeback

for me 120K rakeback (sne) is obv HUGE since i grind hypers where edge is so low, i feel seriously wronged and feel like stars is just turning its back on its loyal, high volume, high stakes grinders.

Then again, from a company point of view it makes more sense to keep the vast majority of customers happy then the few outliners.

Move to Malta

eh; you might even have to pay income taxes if you're a pro and make that much money.
I mean, even hookers have to pay taxes ^_^ and there's nothing in the law that says that poker will be tax free for professional players...
so yeah; maybe you should move to UK or Malta...