This workplace indeed puts into the winning mode because there are:

1. A mouse rug with a winning graph ,
2. 'Morshinska' mineral water, which is the absolute nuts (at least in terms of the taste).

GL at mastering HUNL!

whats your primary source of income right now if i may ask?

Poker. I was making ~$1.5k when I was playing 50NL on a regular basis, but since I want more I've decided to tighten my belt for the next few months and concentrate on a HU.

God bless you for the first post.
God bless Ukraine.

Strange statement! If you were crushing 50 NL for 1,5K a month??? I dont get this whole start over thing at micro limits.
Im not trying to disrespect you, but all youre answers dont ad up?
If i was beating 50NL for that amount i would quit my dayjob and start grinding seriously and try shots @ 100NL.

Read the first post.

Again.

Something went wrong, I lost my game and started losing money. With all the cashing out I dropped down to $1k net worth. When I figured my bankroll was terribly small I found Gordon's offer and decided to give it a shot.

If I keep playing 50NL, in a year I will be at the same place I am right now.

Gordon offers me a chance to be somewhere else, somewhere higher. My ambitions say: "GO FOR IT".

This is my graph from last december when everything was great:

So at the moment you basically have no income and are living at your moms place? Like you stated in one of youre posts.

When will you be moving up in stakes? And will you remain at HU?

I have no income and I rent a place. Have a few months paid left and few bucks for food.

I will keep playing 4NL for a week or so because it's summertime and ppl have vacations. As soon as I figure it all out I will move up to 50NLHU.

is the 33% VPIP in HU?

Geez, can you read? It was back in December 2012 when I was playing 6max...

When i lived in Ukraine i had to get used to Morshinska as well, but then it got me addicted

Day 9.
Today my mom finally came to visit, so I had to take a break from playing.

Breaks are very useful to sort out all the new info and lower the tilt.

In the next 10 to 12 days I will be semi-passive because it's summertime. So I won't be hard on myself, will play 4NL and if it goes well I might even try something higher!

wow I thought Gordon always picked hard workers, well see how this challenge goes with a slacker

Day 12.
Little by little I play with different guys, try to adjust and punish them for being so passive (common problem for ppl at 4NL).

Yesterday I went to the zoo. Animals FTW!


Today is a first day of the biggest Dota2 tournament — The International. Since I play Dota2 myself (not that often tho), I'm gonna follow the action.

Cool thread best of luck learning and improving. Sweet pics from the zoo!

Day 13.
Today I was pissed on. For the first time since the beginning of my short HU-career I couldn't handle my opponent and found myself in a raging tilt. And it took only 132 hands! After reviewing them, I can say that I just was a scared little girl god knows why. Should've pressured him more...

Question: what to do against someone with 30%+ 3bet? First thoughts — lower my steal and widen my 3bet-calling range and/or 4betting range.



Steal 74%, but I thought I could call any two suited cards against a minraise. It was almost at the very beginning but I'd already check/raised and barreled him off at QXXs board (he folded on a river). Effective stack is 67BBs. Was it a mistake to shove there?
IPoker, $0.02/$0.04 No Limit Hold'em Cash, 2 Players
Poker Tools Powered By Holdem Manager - The Ultimate Poker Software Suite.

Hero (BB): $4.67 (116.8 bb)
SB: $2.66 (66.5 bb)

Preflop: Hero is BB with T 5
SB raises to $0.08, Hero calls $0.04

Flop: ($0.16) 2 4 8 (2 players)
Hero checks, SB bets $0.08, Hero raises to $0.24, SB raises to $0.61, Hero raises to $4.59 and is all-in

What the f*** did I just look at in the first post?

haha, love this post.

Thread's hilarious

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If not, get one

Day 19.

If you're having a black screen instead of the video in my post above, please watch it directly from the Youtube. I don't know why but seems like it lags.

LOL

Also, thread needs more Gordon

Hi Disa, good luck with your goals.

This is way off topic and probably a little lol to discuss in a 2+2 pgc thread so feel free to ignore but you were the first person I thought off to ask/confirm when I heard about Ukrainian banks offering 15% interest rates for 3 month certificates of deposit and 18% for 1 year CDs with a national inflation rate of only 0.6%.

If you are so inclined, can you confirm/deny this? I've heard from a trusted source that foreigners can deposit into these accounts. Sounds too good to be true. What would someone need to be concerned with if one wanted to do this? I know currency exchange rates are a risk factor but that is crazy for US savers (have to go back to the mega-inflation early 80's for rates like that). Just wanted to ask.

Again, sorry for the derail.

Alas, as far as I've read, Ukrainian bank accounts can be held only by permanent residents, or temporary ones until they leave Ukraine. To become a permanent resident, you have to do business, or find a job, or enter a university, or marry a citizen, or have a child with a citizen, etc. there. Otherwise you'll be allowed to hold an account only while you're inside Ukraine, so not more than for 90 days within any 180-day period. But you can find a trustworthy resident to put your money into an account in his/her name.

There indeed are 4-month CDs in hryvnyas in Ukraine with interest rates up to 24.5% (annualised), and even 18-month CDs with floating rates up to 33% in Belarusian rubles in their home country (a very rare currency outside of it) - but those currencies are less liquid (there are fewer transactions with them worldwide) and thus more volatile than the dollar.

The Ukrainian economy is doing deflational wonders right now but there were many years with 2-digit inflation rates. As far as Belarus, as the extreme case, the two devaluations of 2011 when the BYR/USD x-rate grew from 3100 to 8600 are still not forgotten, and there are rumours about further devaluation right now as the export problems have gone nowhere since then

Plus in poor countries there are many bad debts, so there's some probability of a bank crisis. Deposits are protected up to a certain amount ($18750 in UA), but getting that money back from the state is a hassle (much like getting FTP funds from the DOJ).

Also, think about travel expenses.