TheDefiniteArticle's 2015: First class degree, first class poker player
01-02-2015
, 01:32 PM
Find my former PGCs here:
http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/17...eight-1319991/
forumserver.twoplustwo.com/174/poker-goals-challenges/trading-lbs-s-2014-thedefinitearticle-1402967/
As you can see, in April 2013, I thought I was much better at poker than I was. I still suck relative to a lot of 2p2ers but I suck less than I did now. Part of what helped me was moving from my former stake at which I'd broken even/was a 1-2bb winner at 25NL and 50NL zoom to a stake with coaching. I had two main problems with my game which are now mostly patched - firstly, my preflop game was lacking in a way which I didn't realise; and secondly, I was overly relying on unexploitability maths in spots where there were many big exploitable adjustments that I was missing.
I made Supernova last year, but at significant cost - in a last minute scramble for VPPs (I had 38k to go at the start of December), and because I'd been doing decently well at 100 zoom, my backer and I agreed that I would mix in some 200 zoom on December 30 and 31:
That actually put a significant dent in my yearly results:
With that said, I'm very happy with my 100NL zoom results so far and I'll be hoping to take another shot at 200 in late January/early February:
My plans for this year depend a lot on what happens after I finish uni. I'm looking for a 2017 training contract at a law firm, with a training contract sponsored by the firm, starting in 2016. If that happens, and poker results hold up, I'm likely to take a year out to play poker and travel. If I don't have an offer, I'm going to get a job to strengthen my CV and reapply the next year - assuming I don't get a 2.2 or worse, the primary weakness of my CV at the moment is that I have precious little paid employment experience - and for this reason, office-based work would be ideal.
Goals from 2014 (easier one/hopeful/pipe dream):
Profit (pre-chop with staker): $2500/$5000/$10000 [around 8k including rb]
Number of hands: 360k/500k/700k
Limit: 50NL/100NL/200NL
Weight: 15st/14st/13st [18st]
Expected degree classification: 2.1/first [sort of on the border between the two]
Goals for 2015:
Get a training contract
Get a first
Assuming I don't play for a living at any point (will add goals if I do):
400k hands
Post-rb profit: 10k/15k/20k
Limit with a winrate of at least 0.5bb/100 pre-RB: 200NL/500NL/higher
I'm also going to be mixing in some volume on softer sites.
GL in 2015 everyone!
http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/17...eight-1319991/
forumserver.twoplustwo.com/174/poker-goals-challenges/trading-lbs-s-2014-thedefinitearticle-1402967/
As you can see, in April 2013, I thought I was much better at poker than I was. I still suck relative to a lot of 2p2ers but I suck less than I did now. Part of what helped me was moving from my former stake at which I'd broken even/was a 1-2bb winner at 25NL and 50NL zoom to a stake with coaching. I had two main problems with my game which are now mostly patched - firstly, my preflop game was lacking in a way which I didn't realise; and secondly, I was overly relying on unexploitability maths in spots where there were many big exploitable adjustments that I was missing.
I made Supernova last year, but at significant cost - in a last minute scramble for VPPs (I had 38k to go at the start of December), and because I'd been doing decently well at 100 zoom, my backer and I agreed that I would mix in some 200 zoom on December 30 and 31:
That actually put a significant dent in my yearly results:
With that said, I'm very happy with my 100NL zoom results so far and I'll be hoping to take another shot at 200 in late January/early February:
My plans for this year depend a lot on what happens after I finish uni. I'm looking for a 2017 training contract at a law firm, with a training contract sponsored by the firm, starting in 2016. If that happens, and poker results hold up, I'm likely to take a year out to play poker and travel. If I don't have an offer, I'm going to get a job to strengthen my CV and reapply the next year - assuming I don't get a 2.2 or worse, the primary weakness of my CV at the moment is that I have precious little paid employment experience - and for this reason, office-based work would be ideal.
Goals from 2014 (easier one/hopeful/pipe dream):
Profit (pre-chop with staker): $2500/$5000/$10000 [around 8k including rb]
Number of hands: 360k/500k/700k
Limit: 50NL/100NL/200NL
Weight: 15st/14st/13st [18st]
Expected degree classification: 2.1/first [sort of on the border between the two]
Goals for 2015:
Get a training contract
Get a first
Assuming I don't play for a living at any point (will add goals if I do):
400k hands
Post-rb profit: 10k/15k/20k
Limit with a winrate of at least 0.5bb/100 pre-RB: 200NL/500NL/higher
I'm also going to be mixing in some volume on softer sites.
GL in 2015 everyone!
01-02-2015
, 01:38 PM
01-02-2015
, 01:40 PM
01-02-2015
, 01:57 PM
Cheers.
I don't know what an articling student is - if my guess that it's a student who submits papers to journals, either as the primary part of their course or for fun, then no. The short answer to the latter question is practice law - though the stuff I've enjoyed studying most that you're likely to work with as a commercial solicitor is intellectual property and competition law, the training contract's structure will give me a chance to see a number of divisions because clearly, studying the prominent issues among academics doesn't necessarily reflect one's day-to-day experience, especially given the solicitor role traditionally contains little to no advocacy work.
Ultimately, while I don't play poker for the money, it is still a motivator. If I didn't enjoy playing poker recreationally I'd stop, despite the fact that it's nice supplementary income, even being staked. The same goes for producing training videos and coaching - I love doing those things, hence actively pursuing them, and it's a nice bonus that I can earn money for them.
There aren't big differences in the number of fish, the main thing is that the regs get gradually less ******ed and at 200, it seems most regs are starting to think about their sizing on a more complex level, and the main 50NL/100NL thing of regs overfolding in a whole bunch of spots and just playing really poorly range-wise tends to have addressed itself somewhat. This is a limited impression though.
There aren't big differences in the number of fish, the main thing is that the regs get gradually less ******ed and at 200, it seems most regs are starting to think about their sizing on a more complex level, and the main 50NL/100NL thing of regs overfolding in a whole bunch of spots and just playing really poorly range-wise tends to have addressed itself somewhat. This is a limited impression though.
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