Right, seems like everyone is starting one of those so I thought I got to start one myself.

I am Rednaxela747 on Stars and at 38 possibly the oldest person playing 1knl on Stars as a reg. But a bit about my background. After completing my PhD in Math London I had a successful career in investment banking. During that time I played a tiny bit of poker but as a fish. I rember going to Vegas in 2010 and sitting down at what I thought was a fixed limit holdem table only to discover it was a no limit table (which I never played before). I also could not remember whether a flush or a straight was better. Anyway, I stayed seated as was embarressed to stand up. Needless to say I lost my buy-in within 15 minutes. Though I started to do some reading straightaway, and I somehow managed to win some turbo donkament there on the day of my departure.

Did not play much poker after for a long time but in the middle of 2011 I decided I wanted to try and see if can become a poker pro (as my job was coming to an end by the end of the year) and do something that I thought I would enjoy. I started doing some reading straightaway and played some NL10FR on Stars at the start (1 tabling like a boss of course). By the end of the year when I went pro I was beating NL200FR on up to 14 tables. On 9 Aug 12 I made the best decision of my poker career which was to move to NL 200 6max. Less than a month later I was playing NL400 6max and added FR back to my game selection. Shortly after I was playing NL600 and by the beginning of December I was also playing NL1k and dropped NL400 mostly. I never had a losing month since starting out and I never looked back on my decision.

Here is my graph since going pro until today (pre rakeback and excluding tourneys and live winning):




Goals for the year:

- Make $250k from online poker
- Play the WSOP Main Event

Good Luck!

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BTW, if you still had can you post your graph for the first year before going pro?

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go go go!

Thanks. Here is requested graph of my results before going pro. Please note that I only started playing cash NL online in July 2011. Only NL cash I played before were the glorious 15min in Vegas, everything else was playing tourneys as a donk:

Do the stars on the graph indicate a changing of limits? Gl.

Unfortunately not. Not sure how do it to be honest. Also sometimes I mixed limits.

gl mate!

gl man! save me some of your main event please aslong as the MU isnt too high

#teamUK

glglgl

u play live in Londo n anywhere?

Thanks everyone.

Ha Jpe, how do you know I live in London? Do I know you or did you just assume because I did my phd there? Played a bit at the Vic last year (and a couple of times in other places), but have not been in ages

gl xela!

what are these stars on the graph ?

GL

posting in grandpas thread. glglgl sir, think 500k goal is more realistic though

gl @ taking all the monies this year xela

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gl mate

Good luck Alex! Goal looks tightish for you.

Thanks everyone.

Stars mean point of interest, eg. 100k, 500k, 1mln hands

This goal is so everyone is surprised when you're battling regs at 200/400 by the end of the year, right?

subbed and gl sir

good luck, what are your winrates for the different stakes your play?

Such a sicko, GL buddy, although as everyone else has said this is a total lock.

Great progress thru the ranks Xela

Will be watching

GL mate

Ha, I am 100% sure I won't battle 0Human0 and Sauce at the nosebleeds by the end of the year for many reasons. Also not sure I should be flattered or insulted by everyone thinking that I will crush my goal. If I reach 250k this would still be double what I made last year which I think would be a good and realistic results. Obviously will take it if I make more

Kind of tough to answer that as I moved up/improved, etc. Give me a timeframe and I am happy to post results by stake.

And thanks again everyone for following and supporting me.

Time for a year to date post. Started out coming from a heater end of last year. Then had a couple mixed days at the start of the year followed by my worst day ever last Friday @ -$7.8k (when I don't even think I played that bad), followed by my third best day ever at $6.8$ on Saturday and followed by my best day ever on Sunday @ $7.5k (and by far the best in terms of EV as ran at about EV).

Then on Monday played some really horrible poker, especially in the last 2 hours when I probably played my worst session in months. One reason might have been that I did not have a day off in ages, so took yesterday off and had a sick good session this morning (in terms of how well I played, not how much I made).

Results YTD: