Ok so I finally am sitting down and getting this done. My first blog. My first blog post. Very exciting stuff. This blog will focus heavily on poker. I love poker. It keeps me sharp, it gives me hope. A brief history of what I have been doing since I started playing. I started on PartyPoker in 2006 I'm guessing just dabbling in sng's and maybe some mtt's. This was so long ago I can't recall exactly but I was terrible. I'm sure of that. I often think about what it might have been like had I found 2p2 or had the wherewithal to seek help in my game. I'm pretty sure it never even occurred to me how profitable poker could be or was at the time with the right knowledge.
Fast forward a year or so later and US players were no longer allowed to play on party. I migrated over to pokerstars and fulltilt with everyone else. I just kept doing my thing. Head in the sand. Totally oblivious to the good times that were being had by competent players with a will to succeed. Fast forward to mid 2009 I began to take things alot more seriously. I was constantly on 2p2 and pocketfives looking for my niche. My little corner of the poker world where I could possible learn to be the best and make some good money also. This is when I stumbled across table ninja and things were off and running. I think it was a thread about boku that prompted my curiosity about multi-tabling. Before this I was just tiling no more than 9 games at a time. With table ninja I could do up to 30.
I played 8500 45's in the last few months of 2009. 15% ROI $2.87 ABI. I also played 1700+ 180's in 2009 with a 40% ROI and $4.04 ABI.
With the huge increase in volume I was finally able to make money. At this point in time I really wish I would have seeked to improve my game because it was flawed everywhere. So many leaks to be plugged and I just didn't realize it. Eventually I hit a huge downswing caused by bad luck and suboptimal play. During this downer which started early Jan 2010 I developed some very bad habits which I was blind to. After months of losing I decided to call it quits and take an extended break.
Poker was never in danger of disappearing from my life. I just needed to take a step back and reassess the situation. I was losing money, plain and simple. Several months later I started playing on full tilt again after dabbling on and off with mtt's there for a couple years. This time I was after the 90 man ko's. I did well in these and it resulted in me playing more mtt's which culminated in a double deuce run I will never forget. 10th place AA<KK on xxxxK for 1/9 going into final table. 10th: $1400, 1st: $31,000. I was devastated. I could not function properly for days. After a couple weeks I finally lost it all back in mtt's well outside my roll.
After a couple weeks I found my way back to the 45's on stars and have been grinding there ever since. In the past month my game has improved dramatically. I still have alot to learn and push myself to study and try to get better everyday as well as play. I have a feeling I am going to be grinding 45's for a while and hopefully 180's soon. My goal eventually will be to play mtt's both live and online.
Well I intended this to be brief but it got long quick. I had no idea what to except with this being my first blog post and all. Ok, well I guess that is it for now. I played 120 games today and ran very poorly. Very disappointed at the moment because I tried to play all $6/45's today and had to start mixing in $3's at about the 60 game mark. Lost a little under $200 today. Oh well I will be playing again tomorrow morning, so I am looking forward to that. Good Luck Everybody! Peace.
