Hi All

Been a 2+2 reader for some time now, but not much of a contributor. Figured it was time to change that.

So I'm 22 Years Old, from the UK. I study Maths at Univeristy in my final year and on track for a 1st Class (4.0 GPA for the yanks). 5ft 7" and 154lbs (lol dwarf). Once I finish university I start a job as a Corporate Tax Advisor and have some money saved to buy a place (hoping poker will give me a bit more).

Been playing poker since I started in school during lunch times at about 16, playing like an absolute fish, telling people how bad they were when they called my bluff with bottom pair etc. (Basically a proper idiot player)
Fortunately for me I learnt a lot of my mistakes before I hit 18 and started playing like at the Casino near me and found the game to be very soft there. Frequented it regularly built up a rather decent roll and then moved away for University at 19.

During my first year of University I didn't actually go in a lot, I just degen'd and played online poker (first year playing) all day every day. At 20 I dropped out of university (what an idiot) and so I cleaned out my bankroll to pay off debts and float my living until I could re-enrol next year at University.
I changed university to stay closer to home so I wouldn't degen as hard! Now University is going well, it's my final year and I'm making the move back to Poker in preparation for finishing university.

Enough about me, lets get on to the challenges I have set myself!

I want to graduate with a 1st Class seeing as i'm currently on track for one. I also want to make use of my gym membership (i'm currently skipping the gym to write this which isn't ideal). Finally I want to grind my way back up to NL200 from NL20.

tl;dr

[]Get a First Class (4.0 GPA)
[]Go to the gym 4 times a week
[]Grind up to NL200

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I'll start with progress seeing as the challenge has already been on, I just hadn't posted yet!

Uni:
Going pretty good, although I do have a piece of cwk due in today that I only started yesterday and still have not yet finished! It'll be fine guys! Still on track for a 1st so far this year just my dissertation seems a mammoth task and I'm scared!

Gym:
Going ****, it started well I went all 4 mornings the first week (3 weeks ago) and since then have only been 3 times total. I'm planning on going this afternoon to make up for the missed morning, need to force myself into it, WILL POWER!

Poker:
I'll make this section a bit longer since it is all about the poker!
I'm playing 6max Cash Games 4-tabling (maybe the odd tournament) and will be playing live occasionally just because I miss it and haven't played since I started back at Uni.

I deposited £150 (~240$), I'm playing in dollars but my bankroll is in pounds just for ease. My BRM is going to be using 10-20BI's at each level up until I reach 0.50/1 at which point I'll aim for over 20 just due to the increased toughness of the game.

I've had HEM for a long time now so you'll be getting graphs and a few hands that I find either interesting or is me being an idiot or a hero. So without further adieu:

Graph

Not going bad at all so far, though I have made some donkey moves...



Was such an idiot in that hand, I have no idea what I was thinking. Villian (21/20/4.0AF)



And again, did I just not look at his stack size?! Villian (34/26/2.3AF)

Some better plays now!:


Think I made good use of the stats I had on him there, Villain was a huge fish (45/10/3.5AF) Just wasn't believing the overpockets.



Think this was a decent semi-bluff. I'm putting the guy on Pockets over the board and figure the call is a bad move since I still need to hit. Shoving gets him off a lot of strong hands but also if he does call I'm not dead in the water.
Villian (21/17/4AF)

That's it for now, I've got to get ready for Uni this afternoon. I'll be keeping this up to date roughly once a week. Hope you enjoy reading.