Hey PG&C,

hope you all had a great start to 2016. This year will be very interesting for me both in my private life and as a poker player. I am graduating from Uni in August and will eventually have to decide whether to get a real job or try and make it as a pro.

I am doing this thread for several reasons:

1) Motivate myself to grind a lot and get better
2) I dont want a ****ing real job
3) Keep track of my results and help decide if going pro is worth it

So who am I???

I am 26 years old and have been playing poker since 2006. I started with micro SNGs and eventually made it to the higher stakes MTTs. I also play a lot of NL 6max mainly zoom on stars. I never played full time, mainly because I was busy doing stuff for school. However I would consider myself a semi-pro for the last 3 years or so.
I am finishing Uni in August and all thats left in order to graduate is to finish writing my master's thesis. While doing that for the next 8 months I will have plenty of time to grind.


As the title of this thread anounces I will try and make $100k profit after rakeback combining both my MTT and cash game earnings. I managed to go well beyond that target last year so I am hoping to make it happen again in 2016. As profit counts everything that I win online or in a live tournament or cash game. When I decide to sell action the winnings/loss will still count for the challenge. I will use sharkscope to track my MTT results and HEM2 for cash games.

Goals for 2016:
[ ] play at least 4 live tournaments with a buy in of 1k or higher
[ ] play at least 2 EPT main events
[ ] 100k profit
[ ] win a COOP title (obv very likely)
[ ] quit smoking

the order of the goals above represents the likelyhood of me achieving the goal. Me quitting smoking seems to be the least likely one atm.

Since 2016 already started...and it started well:

Where are we right now?

NL online: +$1639.14



MTTs online: +$19.201



Live Cash/MTT: $0

Fun hand to kick off this thread

Poker Stars $1/$2 No Limit Hold'em - 6 players

BTN: $494.91
SB: $434.00
Hero (BB): $282.32
UTG: $77.15
MP: $572.26
CO: $200.00

Pre Flop: ($3.00) Hero is BB with 2 6
3 folds, BTN raises to $4.50, 1 fold, Hero raises to $18, BTN calls $13.50

Flop: ($37.00) 2 Q 8 (2 players)
Hero bets $17.67, BTN calls $17.67

Turn: ($72.34) 3 (2 players)
Hero bets $39.77, BTN calls $39.77

River: ($151.88) 5 (2 players)
Hero checks, BTN bets $100,

sick run, 24k in 11 days? I'm at 240$ or something

bring it on, dude.

Sick way to win today! GL with your goals

Sexy start Subbed

GLGL! Subbed!

GL OP will follow

Subbed. Is that play standard at those stakes? I'm still at 10NL.

Gl good sir!

haha no thats not very standard. Hope that is clear lol. was just smashing buttons

played a few k hands zoom today and will likely take the rest of the week off until saturday.

Dont really have any interesting hands from todays session.
This may be the most interesting one, but only because of what he decides to c/r the flop with.

BTN: $562.27
SB: $322.92
BB: $172.00
UTG: $326.99
Hero (MP): $201.00
CO: $224.10

Pre Flop: ($3.00) Hero is MP with J A
1 fold, Hero raises to $5, 3 folds, BB calls $3

Flop: ($11.00) 4 6 2 (2 players)
BB checks, Hero bets $3.46, BB raises to $9.90, Hero calls $6.44

Turn: ($30.80) 7 (2 players)
BB bets $16.17, Hero calls $16.17

River: ($63.14) T (2 players)
BB bets $46.46, Hero raises to $169.93 all in, BB calls $94.47 all in

20% freeroll in my next sunday million to the one that guesses villains hand right over the next 15 posts. (including the suit)


NL online YTD: +$3169.28

98hh

Subbed, gl!

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72d?

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89cc

72cc

5d8c

subbed gl! What were the tourney binks?

5th whale, 6th Galactic highroller +1 EPT Main Ticket

53cc or kqhh

98hh is super obv

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Subbed GL OP

35hh