Too much gold.. My Degen story...
So I started out as a sucessful web designer and was bored to ****, I have always had a massive urge to gambol it up, when I got my first CC i found myself playing 50$ spider like game on will hill, i won like 400$ in the first day and thought I had a system and was the dogs bolloks. Cut story short, busto and jobless cause I insta quit. I then decide poker is a skill game so thats where im heading. I cant be fkd to read up all the books, so I deposit 1k and google highest varience poker game and decide to play that, if its highest varience, skill cant be as imp. I start playing some 500$ hyper turbo sats to the 1k super tuesday on stars w/Jorj95 obv and run like god, roll upto 9k, awesome I think. Ive got the hang of this. I calm down a bunch.
Later that year ive been messing around with some live pokers with mixed results, but my gf is giving me the whole, you lost a gucci watch tonight, wtf speech, so I shut her up and buy her a laptop as a gift because she was a broke eastern european anyway and didnt have a laptop (you can see where this is going) So ive started showing some more stable results but still have <degen inside syndrome> so im playing a bunch of 26$ 45man sngs on FTP and run like god, make about 2.5k in a week and go on a 1.5k not upswing and get miffed, I have about 9k in the bank and things have been pretty uneventful, the gf is giving me the whole gaaaaamblor speech so I decide to be balla while at her place and try to win big @ NL2k 6max on stars (lol wp me) I just sit at a random table and Elky was there so him being the pro, he is obv bluffing me all the time in my eyes. We get into a 3betting wars and this time I have 56o and no f way im letting this go, if I ran 56 into KK, then fml but im going with it. Board comes down Q85 and i think, GIN! AK missed and im going to rep a set anyway so *** him. He leads, i raise, he calls. Turn x. he check/calls. I turn to the gf and say: look at this drawing fish. Riv x. He checks, I jam for 2/3 pot and he snaps off w/TT. Her laptop goes right off the balcony and I storm off in rage. Im single.
So I decide to fly to Madrid to play poker there cause there were some tourneys running and thought a break would be nice. (doing the odd job on the side for extra food and titty money) I sign into a 200e tourney the day before the event I planned to play and people started rebuying for 100e (Weird i know) Turns out its a 200e tourney with 1k stacks and 100e for rebuys with stupid structure, but fk it, i can ball, im in for 1.1k and dont cash. Head over to the cash tables where the queue was massive but there was space at 2/5, that will do me nicely, (sidenote, in madrid the cash tables are played in a counter clockwise direction, wtf i know) and I go on a heater and all the old men are fish there anyway and left with 6k. On the way back to my hotel I ask the taxi driver for a hooker and some smoke and he hooks me up, I finally meet this hooker and omfg I would have rather fked roadkill if it was still warm. I pass but have to pay something anyway, so I look up whores in madrid and find that I have to goto a street called grand via. I find a good looking romanian girl who proceeds to rape me for 700e but I got my jollies off so w/e. Time to head back home..
There are some 1/2k events running along with the action the IPT and GSOP bring, good time as any to get in. I spike 3rd in a GSOP event and head straight to roulette and proceed to lose a bunch of it, with BR decreasing rapidly now I turn up at some 500e KO event and there is some loud mouthed italian there who is acting all bigshot (turns out he was bigshot, he had a sick ferrari outside the casino but w/e) I couldnt let this slide cause the dealer was ultra fit, so I tell him that the first hand we are getting it in blind, he agrees. I obv open jam blind and he thinks about folding, I call him a puta which I dont even think is italian and he huffs and then calls, I win w/Q high and he leaves angry. I bust like 40mins later and join him at the cash tables. He rapes me for 4k but it was just varience, if i won it would be skill obv. I go home and throw my floor fan out of the window just because.
I take it easy for a few months after that, a few weeks ago I start trying the slow grind thing and its going well, running 6bb/100 over 140k hands. Tonight I run into some **** who decides to flop the nuts vs my set at nl200 and go on ape tilt for no reason. I decide im going to teach him a lesson and lose 1k to the table and none to him, I proceed to open shove almost 90% of hands for the next 60 hands. I run 830bbs above ev and am up almost 6 buyins.
The bitch still thinks I owe her a laptop fwiw.