... dear, how are you today?
Me name is David, I have 21 years old, live in Lima, Peru. And I'm obsessed (in a good way) with the poker.
I wanted to start this blog for two reasons:
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I love writing - I hope this helps some who want to go my way, because it is not easy, and less conventional.
Early Between January and February of this year 2007.
I found online poker by a fellow friend of a game called Starcraft: Broodwar computer. Pokerstrategy told me about, and how only by registering a that page, I brought you $ 50 absolutely free (!) to get started in this business of poker.
(Obviously at first I found it hard to believe, but over time I realized what a great business this is!.)
The page where I started is called Partypoker, and my motivation to start learning play poker were many ex-players of Starcraft: Broodwar to date gained a lot of money in online poker, and I'm not talking about hundreds or thousands of dollars or even a $ 50 000 dollars (which may seem far money here ...) I'm talking about millions of dollars.
(I thought: This is the opportunity of my life, and never hesitate to use it. Amazingly this did not end in a "how naive I was" like most such stories ...)
However, despite the help they gave me pokerstrategy to win at the tables, I did not find that nosequé, which was that those who earned win and the losers lose.
(No doubt poker has little to do with luck.) My bankroll
however increased to $ 100 masomenos in a few days, the $ 50 initial, but decided to withdraw $ 50, and lost the $ 50 with which I was ... seemed the end of the race.
But I came around $ 30 more per affiliations (in short, I paid 10 ~ $ 15 for every friend that affiliate @ pokerstrategy to give him the same $ 50 as I am). And those other not lost.
studied hard the game, I spent hours just reading about the game. the possible moves, the type of bets and hands, looking for videos to help me. And soon was earning what the time was good money at the tables and NL5 NL10 $ $ (Average of $ 100 to $ 50 per day ...).
quickly started playing NL25 $ tables, and my first big challenge was coming ....
BANKRUPTCY I was frustrated I did not win much in NL25 $, I thought my game was not bad (actually, it was bad), and one day I lost more than $ 100 in those tables (not really a big deal, as my bankroll was then $ 700 approx), but the tilt (out of control, anger) hit me hard and got to $ 400 to $ NL200 2 tables (these tables were completely out of my reach), and 2 hands lost all $ 400 .. .
This was devastating. And it was the first time that poker directly affected my life, I had a fight with my parents (they did not know he had lost so much money) and I got very depressed that day. However
the next day ... with a bankroll of $ 200, I decided to get "serious" and started playing NL25 table $ (fully underolled, ie without the bankroll enough to actually play these tables), but remember that my game had not really improved, so I lost, and I kept losing ... until my bankroll was seen as before, $ 40.
was then that I realized that if I did not do something it was likely that my career ended right there, and a great disappointment. My girlfriend Laura, who knew what had happened, fortunately was able to calm me and make me concentrate on what matters:
- it had made a serious mistake in playing NL200 $ tables, and was 100% my fault.
- that became $ 30 at $ 800 before, and with $ 40 could do even more! ;)
now if I decided to get serious
, that I remember well was almost ending in March 2007.
Slow but sure Grindi (I played a lot) $ NL5 tables and when my bankroll reached $ 100 I started playing NL10 those of $, after that when my bankroll was over $ 500 I started playing again $ NL25 tables. This time I was as fatal as before, comes to about $ 900 bankroll, and decided it was time to start with what would be the total BOOM, my bankroll that catapulted through the air. This friend called: rakeback.
(the rake or commission is what you give to the casino every time you play a hand, for example if you play a pot of $ 200 total, $ 100 $ 100 yours and another person, the casino will take $ 3 of that boat, then you will not win the $ 200, only $ 197. However, with the rake, a weekend or month you return to either 35% ~ 60% of that commission, so for each pot played and paid $ 3 rake, the casino will refund $ 1.5. And this is priceless).
Pokerstars and NoiQPoker
I removed all my money from PartyPoker, and decided to leave all my winnings in the bank for some reason (I was not satisfied with my game, and feared losing the money earned). So I deposited only $ 70 at PokerStars, and begin to grind NL10 tables $ is said!.
This time the road was much shorter, soon came to be over $ 1000 bankroll playing NL25 $ when I got to $ 400. I used about $ 200 as an affiliate of CardRunners and pokerzion pages (pages which will help improve your game, either with video or coaching) and used $ 600 for deposit in NoiQPoker, where I would first rakeback.
NOIQ, NOIQ and NOIQ! No doubt these were the most beautiful times of my career. NOIQ started playing NL20 table $ (since they had not, nor is there $ NL25 tables for some reason ...) and quickly got $ 700 ~ $ 800 bankroll and I jumped at the $ 50NL tables, my game was significantly improved (though looking from where I am, still very very bad) and earned an average of $ 150 a day, besides the weekly rakeback paid me $ 200 ~ $ 300 every Friday.
Everything was booming and when I got $ 3000 bankroll I decided it was time to test the NL100 tables $ ...
However it was something desperate in the beginning I lost one or 2 buy-ins (100 $ or 200 U.S. dollars). And I just went back to NL50 $ and recovering ... I finally decided it was better to wait to have $ 4000 to test the $ NL100 tables. And it was.
Everything went well, and not realizing what was happening ... derrepente I found almost $ 10 000 of bankroll (the rakeback I help a lot too, between $ 600 and $ 1000 per week).
This was between June and July 2007, started playing NL200 tables $ (though in fear ... as I looked a LOT of money ...), but I did not do anything wrong, and I realized I had advantage over most other players.
The truth was amazing the first time I won $ 1,000 + in one day, almost a dream.
And so it was to be almost $ 30 000 in bankroll ...
Great idea! was almost ready to start NL400 tables $ ... But I decided to get a coach to do so, and improve my game more. The person that helped me was D_Zoo, your rate was 30% of my earnings, up to $ 20 000, I mean they had to pay $ 5000 in total, when I won $ 20 000. I found a good rate, since most of the other coaches at least 35% charged.
The truth was the best I could have done, made me understand many things I know, or knew but did not understand 100%, like with the situations in which bluff, when double or triple meter bet with air, etc. This month
D_Zoo on my side was the best month I've had (and now, although I play higher than $ NL400 ... I do not play as many hours as before.)
masomenos won $ 27,000 (including the rake), and I realized I was halfway in my career, I was and am very happy to have achieved so many goals, all thanks to hard work and dedication, as all in life.
Last two months
November We do not earn that much as he wanted, I felt it was "bad luck" but with rakeback and all I could finish more than $ 10 000 above, but with an incredible bonus:
won an entry to an EPT (European Poker Tour tournament in Europe.) So in February of 2008 I'm going there! To Dinarmarca to compete in a tournament (all paid) of a buy-in of 7200 euros. This is a truly unique opportunity, and I am preparing hard for this tournament: Even going to the casinos of Lima to improve my game live and also putting money in different rooms to try on different types of tournaments and players.
December We go where I now my bankroll is masomenos between $ 80k and $ 90k, and I'm playing much even the tables of NL400 $, but also of $ NL600 and NL1000 some $ from time to time, I always keep raising limits and not stop until the maximum which can play and win either NL500000 NL5000 $ o $. This month I
masomenos above $ 12 000, but I played a lot less than all the previous months, I think I played holidays! ... In other months I made 70 000 hands, this month, we're 24 ... And just go for the 20 000 hands, so it's a good month too. He has been great on the tables of NL600 $.
next month if I play a lot more that in this, I am more motivated (although from 4 to January 10 I will make a trip to Arequipa with my girlfriend). I decided once and for all to reach 6 figures before February bankroll (my tournament EFA), and there will not stop until I get the 7 ... which is one of my goals.
obv also try to get the best possible position in the EFA, and that if my computations are correct the first win there since 000 + 300 euros, which is absolutely nothing wrong!.
I think that's all for now (it's a summary!, Hehe), try to update this blog every day or couple of days if possible, so you never have to read so much lol. We
see!
