Poker Journey

[C8H10N4O2]

Okay, so once I graduate, I'm going to be putting in hours and hours into poker. I'm graduating tomorrow, so this is soon. My ultimate goal is to be properly rolled for $5/$10 NL ($1,000NL). I definitely don't expect this to happen anytime soon whatsoever, but I'm going to be moving through the levels. I'm probably going to start out at $25NL, so it'll take a while, assuming that I can become a winning player at all the different levels. I've spent a fair amount of time playing limits higher than this, but never as "focused" as I am planning on playing now that I won't have school and studying in the way.

At no point, will I jump levels prior to playing 50k+ hands, even if I run hot and hit the next bankroll requirements. This is occurring in order to establish that I am in fact a winning player at each level. I almost think that this won't be an issue, because as I move up limits, so do the required number of buy-ins for each level. Also as the levels go up, so do the required number of hands for the most part. Starting out, I'll be playing 4 tables at a time for 4 hours a morning, 5 days a week minimum. The afternoons, I might hit up some SnG's and stuff, depending on how I feel. I'm also planning on doing an analysis of a series of hands (SnG or if I don't play in an SnG, 100ish hands from a cash table) where I'll explain why I did what I did, and why I thought the other players did what they did. Similar to Gus's book. The reason for this is selfish though as it will force me to take the time to review my own play. We'll see how long I stick to this lol... but I'm looking forward to it. This goal started forming when I saw how crazy soft casino play was at the lower cash limits. I want to get in those games as well, but I am refusing to play when I am not properly rolled for that limit.

[HeyKidMove]

Good luck! Keep us posted.

[Mika Ollila]

Fist of all congratulations on your graduation yesterday.

Please keep us posted with reports on how your poker journey is progressing.

[C8H10N4O2]

Thanks.
Since this is definitely my longterm journey, things probably won't be too exciting, but I will definitely post updates here with how things are going. I haven't started playing yet though because I'm still working on getting unpacked and settled in my new housing. I kind of forgot about all the work of moving when I thought I was going to get to start. So, Wed. will probably be my first day, as hopefully I'll be settled in.

[Mika Ollila]

I'm still working on getting unpacked and settled in my new housing. I kind of forgot about all the work of moving when I thought I was going to get to start.

Moving is truly a pain in the aft regions. The amount of stuff to collect and package is endless; kind of reminds you about just how material you are anyways, for needing all that.

[liladypokerpro]

Best of luck dew! Are you going to keep a blog and keep us posted of events as they happen? Or just post in the forum? Either way, I'm pulling for ya!


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[C8H10N4O2]

I have a blog started up with all the details and everything, but I'm not sure if I'm going to create a blog on rakeback and copy everything over here or not. My blog is much more detailed with things, as that is my primary posting spot, but I may post updates about how things are going weekly or so over here to keep everyone updated. The blog function over here is a little confusing... so I wasn't sure how exactly to set things up and all. I might after I toy around with it

I'm still in the middle of moving and getting my room set up, so I don't have my second monitor and a comfortable place to sit for long periods, so I haven't really done a whole lot. I played 3 hours today however, and in the first 2 hours, I went down a total of 50BB's but came back nearing the end of the two hours to be up 8 BB's. Then I took a small break, and came back and ended 37.5 BB's up, playing $0.05/$0.10, so a pretty slow day. However, I think I want to really start on the $25nl level, but I was dealing with adjusting hold-em manager and trying to get it all tweaked for how I need it to play. I purchased it today, so I had some adjustments to make. For these reasons, I was only 2-tabling as well. I need to get settled before I really start grinding. Hopefully by Thursday, this will be the case.

Moving is truly a pain in the aft regions. The amount of stuff to collect and package is endless; kind of reminds you about just how material you are anyways, for needing all that.

Yeah... I have no idea how I fit so much junk in such a small room. It's shocking... honestly shocking. I have a bigger room where I am now, and I don't think it's all going to fit. But I'm throwing out a ton of stuff.

[C8H10N4O2]

Nothing much to update. I'm up 3 buy-ins, or 300bb's. I haven't played a ton though as I'm still working on sorting all this garbage I have from living in a dorm for 4 years. I'm really hoping that by mid-time this week, I'll be able to commit 4 hours a day to this whole thing. On the plus side, I have my desk and everything set up and ready to go.

[liladypokerpro]

Yard Sale FTW!!!

[RiverstarsVictim]

This may or may not help but rather than going gung ho moving up limits, just gradually move up, ie if you're 4 tabling, open up 1 table the next limit up, you cant run crap forever. Seems to be working for me at the moment. Good luck.

[C8H10N4O2]

I haven't played a ton yet, but I'm 1,009 hands in so far. My room is getting "close" to being finished, at which time I'll be able to put in hours instead of an hour here and there. I've had a lot going on, so time has been crunched, but things are starting to slow down now. I decided to go with $0.05/$0.10 6-max tables 2 at a time for a while. And sometimes I've just loaded up a single table. Not because the money worries me or anything, but I've just been getting all the kinks of Hold'em Manager worked out and everything. I just purchased the tracking software for my journey. I'll be adding more tables when I can start a regularly playing instead of this hit and miss stuff... but as for the results.
Total thus far (last week and on)
1009 hands of $0.05/$0.10.
+325.5BB
9.79 hours
33.3BB/hour.

I also had a big hand AK vs A10 against my buddy. If you've looked at my previous posts about AA, and then the Q8 hand, it's this guy who will be known as "The Villain" from now on. I would be up another 110BB's if my AK had held up to his A10 all in on the flop with A72 showing. I raised pf 4x, he called, I bet 5bb's, he min-reriased me to a total of 10bb's, I reraised him 25bb's total, and he shoved 80+BB's more over the top with literally needing a 10. River=10 and he took down the pot. Not a huge suckout, but 18% would have been nice to beat there since it was worth more than one buy-in. However, I know I'm dealing with him a lot better because it didn't affect me much at all. I left that table, bought into another one, The Villain joined that one, and I took him for a total of just under 50bb's overall for the day so despite the suckoutof more than a buy in, he still lost money to me today lol. I'm starting to be much less intimidated by The Villain for sure.

[Brooklynbum]

Hopefully you're multi-tabling. That's the only way to build BR quickly.

Good luck in your quest.

[C8H10N4O2]

Yep. I haven't been multi-tabling the entire time... and I'm not as concerned about building it "quickly". But once I get a regular schedule set up, I'll be playing 4 tables for the time being pretty regularly. As of right now, I've been 1-3 tabling depending on what all I have going on at the time. I'd like to get it to where I'm playing between 1,400-2,000 hands a day.

[liladypokerpro]

That sounds like a pretty reasonable goal. Wish you luck and continue keeping us posted!

[pnut24]

Hi Dew,

hope its all still going well and to plan,

since you mentioned you were tweaking holdem manager in your previous post what stats are you using on your HUD and finding most usefull at the stakes?

where are you posting your blog at (if your allowed to put it here, is that advertising?? i'll PM you if you get told off )

good luck (and variance!)

P

[C8H10N4O2]

Honestly... I'm using the default hold'em manager stats right now. Most of the tweaking I was doing... was just getting the program to work properly. It took me forever to get it to work on my computer. What sucked, was I had to play a hand to check to see if the settings had fixed the problem or not, so it took me quite a while to get it there. Then when it finally did work, something else was messed up because I have preferred seating on in PS, and I had to get everything lined up where the HUD could actually be usable. After I put in around 5k hands, I'll probably review some things and change a bit of the HUD configuration. I'll just pm you my blog, as I don't want to make anyone mad at this site. Honestly though, I'm still really early in this whole thing, so don't expect much... but when I finally start putting in 1,400-2,000 hands a day, I'm hoping I can make some quality posts and stuff.

[Dasecret]

Do you plan on going to University ? J/K lol anyway congats.Is there a link to your Blog on your poker journey?

[C8H10N4O2]

I have a degree in chemistry with a few minors for kicks. I just graduated college in May. I'm not particularly planning to go back however. If I go back, it'll be for a masters/phd in chemistry, and I'm not sure I'm that committed to the field for that endeaver. I'll pm you the link to the blog if you'd like it. I don't want to post it on here in case the law around here considers it advertising.