You play league? role and rank?

Jungle or run it down

Think I peaked masters elo a few years back (before the changes)

If you guys play pm me your sn

All I do is smurf these days and just play with friends. I peaked d2 -> d1 promos. I main support and play Sona usually.

Lol, I peeked at Platinum 2 before it changed.. Playing mid Twisted fate or Fizz... Elise jungle as second option.

And I wish you best of luck at 50nl/100nl and beyond. I know you belong with the big boys.

well ****. looks like we just need Top and ADC now and we got our 2p2 flex team

naw not really, I'm more of a starcraft guy, I used League as an example because well, everyone knows it lolol

I played C&C Red Alert 2 when I was younger which is another RTS. Multiple HOF, rank 1 solo, rank 1 clan, wrote some guides.

Kind of interesting a lot of successful poker players often were successful in RTS games.

I find a lot of similarities from my grind up in LoL and the Poker grind. And I have also come across quite a few stories about poker players being ex-LoL players, most recently the MOPP guest Mr Builderman IIRC

Mental is eerily similar. I held on to my elo like I am doing with my bankroll. Not gonna explain the whole thing but basically had a perfect storm... transferred my account from EUW to NA (EUW>NA imo) but my mmr didn't reset, only my ranking did. So I was able to go basically right from Gold 1 to mid Diamond but my MMR was insane the entire time (I was winning 30LP in diamond matches and still only losing 9, skipping ranks etc with >70% wr). But when I hit D3 or so and started to have to grind Masters MMR games it became too much of a grind so I just stopped altogether. Ended up decaying to Plat and never tried to grind ranked again. Basically would lose a game (not really lose anything like LP or anything) but I absolutely hated losing and it would feel like the world was ending if I would have lost my ranking from losses. Decay is whatever though lol

Realistically I was probably peak D4 if I had to play a conventional jungler... I had found out about RatIRL before he became popular so I was also able to abuse Twitch jungle for a few years (but I was a monster on Lee Sin too)

I had a friend who was grinding poker at the time I was grinding League and he was trying to convince me to play Poker. I often wonder what would have been if I would have been able to give up League back then. Game was addicting to me, worse than cigarettes.

yeah kind of a natural transition, there are a bunch of Magic the gathering players and chess players who have done quite well in poker too, it requires a lot of the same skill set

I did compete at a decently high level too, was playing broodwar initially and in 2005 made 2nd place in WCG Canada to make it to the WCG finals in singapore, was also grandmaster in SC2 during wings of liberty

I don't think I can compete anymore though being at the top in these games is incredibly time consuming

Uri and Barak shoutout for the Magic crowd

Yeah man just play 50 and 100 immediately and game select.

Before you know it you'll be at 1k.

I think it's time, I'm going to close and end this blog.

I'm very thankful for a few things I was able to take away from being around here. I'm not going to list them all. If you were one of the people who inspired me or did something for me then I have expressed my gratitude in some way at some point. And there were quite a few of you.

I just want to go focus on myself instead of spend, what adds up to, an hour or more here per day. Same goes for discord groups. Kind of sucks that poker ends up seeming like a very lone wolf activity. I'm not sure where I will end up, maybe I quit poker in a year because I went broke shotting 100nl and said **** it all.

I don't care to post my graphs anymore because it forces me into a results heavy mindset and I don't want that. I don't care to post HHs either as the feedback is so all over the place and typically not good advice considering so much information is missing that I'm not going to post. So what does that leave? Me crying about bad variance or downswing or life? What's the point?

I started this blog to document navigating through uNL. I did a pretty piss poor job of updating it anyway. Point is, I have beaten uNL without any doubt and it's time for me to move on. I have a lot I need to focus on if I want to keep moving up and keep poker a thing in my life. If anyone wants to stay in touch you can PM me and/or I'll ship you my Discord tag

GG and good luck on your grind, thanks for reading.