My Balla Story (NC)
 

Seeing that the first two pages of the forum are full of content less posts right now I decided I’d add one more.

I’m 18 years old and started playing poker in December of 2003. At that time I was working as a JANITOR at the YMCA here for $7.00. After losing about $100 in .25/.50 home games and $10 freeze out I started to crush these home games although it came at the expense of a lot of my close friends, [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]. I was making around $300 a month, which to a brokeass high school student is a lot of money. The games started to get less frequent as many of my jobless peers went broke, but the weekly games that were spread started to be higher stakes. The most I ever won in one of these home games was $450, which luckily enough was only $50 short of what I needed to pay an lawyer to get a MIP (Minor in Poession), off my record. Eventually, I made enough to quit cleaning toilets and concentrate on school and poker. During the summer of 04, when I was 17, I found a fun way to blow al the poker money I won in town, BLACKJACK! I ended up losing about 2K playing blackjack before my 18th birthday, but at least I learned never to play a table game again(I haven’t in around a year). The home games became less and less frequent and since I blew my whole bankroll playing blackjack I found myself near broke yet again.

Around this time in December 2004, I found the 2+2 forums and I needed 2grand in a hurry. As spring break was only 3 months away and as my parents refused to pay for me getting drunk and hooking up with ran dom hot girls in a forgien country, I needed money fast in order to go with my friends. So I started bonus whoring all the party skins and earned enough money right before the payment was due. After Spring Break I didn’t play much poker until after graduation, was just too busy having fun (PARTYING!!). haha. On June 15th, after graduation I signed up with a rakeback deal on eurobet and deposited $1000 and started 4 tabling the 55s, as the few months prior to this I was playing a few 22s a week and crushing them, with the help of all the regular forum posters here of course..

And I started off on a [censored] heater. Within in a week I had tripled my bankroll and was feeling like quite a balla. From there on out there was no more natty ice or popov at parties, I was only drinking corona and occasionally some hypnotic [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]. Since then I’ve just crushed the 55s. I have no stats because of Eurobet’s shitty hand histories, but I’ve paid about $7,000 in rake since June 15th and have cashed out $10,000 and still have $5,500 in my account, without reloading. I’ve dabbled in the 109s with little success and have recently started to 8 table the 55s and continue to do quite well. I had 1.5k weeklong downing but in the midst of all this success it didn’t even phase me. Being immune to bad beats is imo just as important to success as knowing how to play correctly.
During the same period of time I’ve also made $1500 on Empire since I started 8 Tabling and lost $1200 playing heads up on stars(0-2 in $500 matches). I’ve had minimal success playing 10/20 (-.05BB/100) and 600NL (3BB/100) online over a small sample. I can’t figure out why because I’m aboustly crushing the 10/20 game at the Soaring Eagle casino here for 1.5BB/hour over 100 hours this summer.

I don’t think this post turned out too exciting but all I really wanted to say was thanks. Thanks for sharing your knowledge, opinion and theories about this amazing game and helping me become richer then anyone I know my age [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img].

In case your wondering I’ve spent my money on a 2001FP, a $3000 Laptop, paid for my first semester of college at Michigan State, bought a lot of expensive liquor and some good bud and still have a 10k roll, and plan on still playing 15+ hours a week.

Thanks again, I think this post might of been kind of boring so flame away.

GG NO RE. THAX.

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I liked it...it made me smile.

Wish I had balls when I was in HS. Kudos!

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Hey man. Just noticed this post when I searched for soaring eagle. I go there from time to time.

Just wondering if you have played the 6/12 game there and compare it to 10/20? I have always been able to kill the 6/12. I guess they have NL tables there now too. I haven't been in a while but a buddy of mine was there about 2 weeks ago and said they did.

I am actually transferring from a community college and headed to MSU next year. Right now its about a 3 hour drive for me to get to the casino but what is it from there? like an hour?


maybe with enough work I can ball like you and not drink natty ice and popov

later

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What a great bump.
I only wish that there had been some haters that responded before his forum coming out party at STTF HUC II.

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Haha, I can't tell if those spelling mistakes were intentional or not but they were hilarious. "THAX"

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ship it.

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shipppppppppppppppppppp it.

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FYP

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Yugoslav

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Does anyone else think the use of the term "balla" is hugely wrong in this post?

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I think i was drunk when I posted this [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img].

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That explains a lot. Good times. Hold off on your MySpace page for now, though.

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I think i was drunk when I posted this

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17/18 year old's shouldn't be drunk.
17/18 year old's shouldn't be gambling.
17/18 year old's shouldn't have a such a large roll.
17/18 year old's shouldn't post on gambling sites.
17/18 year old's shouldn't look like their avatar.
17/18 year old's shouldn't go to clubs.
17/18 year old's shouldn't go to casinos.
17/18 year old's shouldn't be so lucky.
17/18 year old's shouldn't lose friends to gaming.
17/18 year old's shouldn't not invest their money NOW.
17/18 year old's shouldn't need a lawyer.
17/18 year old's shouldn't have such wimpy arms.
17/18 year old's shouldn't spend a week in Vegas "alone".
17/18 year old's shouldn't buy booze nor bud.

Good for you that you have survived all of the above up to now. You are a great kid with terrific smarts and mad skillzzz for the game (currently). I like you and have a lot of respect for your poker accomplishments to date.

Just stay in school, PLEASE?

My son will be your age in about 5 years.

I've never been scared of anything in my life prior to now......

OldFartMcSlack

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G2CU, Cock on, rock and roll, i is your fan boy.

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Hey man. Just noticed this post when I searched for soaring eagle. I go there from time to time.

Just wondering if you have played the 6/12 game there and compare it to 10/20? I have always been able to kill the 6/12. I guess they have NL tables there now too. I haven't been in a while but a buddy of mine was there about 2 weeks ago and said they did.

I am actually transferring from a community college and headed to MSU next year. Right now its about a 3 hour drive for me to get to the casino but what is it from there? like an hour?


maybe with enough work I can ball like you and not drink natty ice and popov

later


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I havent been to Soaring in quite a while. Windsor is way closer. Soaring is like an hour to hour and half from MSU. I think. I dont totally remember but its not that bad of a drive.

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Where are you originally from? Im from Brighton if you know where thats at.

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I think i was drunk when I posted this

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17/18 year old's shouldn't be drunk.
17/18 year old's shouldn't be gambling.
17/18 year old's shouldn't have a such a large roll.
17/18 year old's shouldn't post on gambling sites.
17/18 year old's shouldn't look like their avatar.
17/18 year old's shouldn't go to clubs.
17/18 year old's shouldn't go to casinos.
17/18 year old's shouldn't be so lucky.
17/18 year old's shouldn't lose friends to gaming.
17/18 year old's shouldn't not invest their money NOW.
17/18 year old's shouldn't need a lawyer.
17/18 year old's shouldn't have such wimpy arms.
17/18 year old's shouldn't spend a week in Vegas "alone".
17/18 year old's shouldn't buy booze nor bud.

Good for you that you have survived all of the above up to now. You are a great kid with terrific smarts and mad skillzzz for the game (currently). I like you and have a lot of respect for your poker accomplishments to date.

Just stay in school, PLEASE?

My son will be your age in about 5 years.

I've never been scared of anything in my life prior to now......

OldFartMcSlack

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haha slacker [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]. your a dawg. I dropped out of school as soon as I got back from Vegas. I went on a +35k run in 3 days playing the 530s and 215s only to drop out and go on -15k downswing. Bonafone told me this is normal and is called the "dropping out of college cruse". Anyways I think ill make a post later about what I'm going to do with my life and my results over my first close to 1000 SNGs under the new structure, and will eagerly await the flames [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img].

Anyways, maybe I should of took some writing classes in college before i dropped out [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img].

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Hey man. Just noticed this post when I searched for soaring eagle. I go there from time to time.

Just wondering if you have played the 6/12 game there and compare it to 10/20? I have always been able to kill the 6/12. I guess they have NL tables there now too. I haven't been in a while but a buddy of mine was there about 2 weeks ago and said they did.

I am actually transferring from a community college and headed to MSU next year. Right now its about a 3 hour drive for me to get to the casino but what is it from there? like an hour?


maybe with enough work I can ball like you and not drink natty ice and popov

later

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The 10/20 and 15/30 game at the eagle are super loose and passive. I had like 12 winning sessions in a row which is amazing, compare to 1/2 online. Also 1/2 and 2/5 at winsor are good beatable games, mostly just have to play TAG though. The 5/10 game there only runs on saturday and is full of rich super agressive donks, if you want to take a shot its a good game.

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Awesome light hearted post.

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paid for my first semester of college at Michigan State

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You almost had a fanboy until you dropped this one. Senior day and you can't be Illinois at home. Weak dude.

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Where are you originally from? Im from Brighton if you know where thats at.

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I am living in St. Joseph right now. I haven't been to Windsor yet but have heard it is really soft there too.

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I am living in St. Joseph right now. I haven't been to Windsor yet but have heard it is really soft there too.

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Yes their 1/2 NL game is soft. PF raise to $12 with 4 callers. Cant really pull any moves. Just play Tight and aggressive.

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Very Balla IMO.