Convince me to stake you (#2)

[Teh1337zor]

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i have 18000+ posts

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stake this man

[elstunar]

i'll repost this again from the original thread that bakes made, and greg, just imagine in the first part that "bakes" is your name and it applies to you then

[TheProdigy]

Interested..am a winning player but would like to use this as a learning experience and a chance to improve and move up.

[TheWorstPlayer]

I am a bankroll nit and therefore need more money to play 10/20 comfortably. Having never won a pot there over a relatively small sample, I'm sure that I am a decent winner at those stakes. Stake me for fun and profit.

Edit: Oh yea, it's annoying to just grind a bankroll because I can only play like 3-5 hours/week. But obviously that's what the current plan is...

[Zire]

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im playing NL10, but i LOVE taking shots at NL100 after a bad session! also I play too high donkaments from time to time.

[/ QUOTE ]Great Brag, I think your getting staked!

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[catcher193]

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i have 18000+ posts

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that is soo gross.

[BadMoFu]

Ok, since it doesnt look like a joke I thought I might take a shot at this. Here is a bit about myself:

I am 21, was gambling since I was like 15 or maybe even less. I was really mentally sick (hooked on gambling that is) and was losing insane amounts of money by age 19. Sports and casino mostly. And I always was a pretty smart guy, high IQ, natural math talent and stuff. But I had trouble with controlling myself when it came to wagering money...

Then I started playing poker. Call me not modest or w/e but I think I had a natural talent for the game, since I never read anything about poker and was winning money in it pretty much since the day I made my first deposit. That is, skillwise - I had no problem, but I had real trouble with money management. So, everytime I took a more-or-less sick beat, or a couple of beats in a row (lets say when it came to the point where I really felt that my beats where mathimatically so inprobable that I might be cursed or something), I was moving to higher stakes to chase losses, and, btw, I was beating those stakes, which sometimes resulted huge 5-figure upswings, but eventually lead myself to busto every time, just because the stakes got higher and higher, and sooner or later I was getting beats and findind myself out of roll...

The only way up for me was to have a hot upswing (not necessarily running good, just not running bad was fine enough) which would last at least long enough until I got to the point where I have 10+ buy-inns for the highest stakes available, so I couldn't move up any higher if I started to run bad. And I almost had it once - when after being busto once again (I was getting busto and rubusto for 10k+ every monts) I deposited $50 to Poker Srats and ran it up to $28000 in 4 days. I was moving up every time I had 3-4 buy-inns for the next level. And then, on 25/50NL, highest available stakes at that time, I lost 4 giant pots, 3 of which I put my money way ahead. But I did manage to cashout $10k of that money to pay off all the debt I accumulated. I was studying and working full-time at that time, and I owed almost 10k to credit cards, Half of my minuscule income was absorbed by interest... Life really sucked back then.

So, 2 years passed, and every time I got bust again, I was getting smarter and smarter. Last year or so, even thoy I continued to go bust pretty much every month, I didnt work and kept some of my winnings to pay for my stuff. So I was makingg money, but not as much as I could if I have used proper BR management.

So, the final point happened 3 month ago, when I went busto really bad, lost all my roll, like 13k, and 7k of instacredit, all in 1 day. After that, I went to Fallswiev casino with $200 borrowed cash to grind it back, and on my last day, 6 days later, after I turned it into $3k, I got robbed, for all my money, my camera (Cannon SD950) and my sellphone (raser).

So after that I desided to change every aspect of my life. I was a really heavy smoker, up to 1.5 packs a day was normal for me. I quit that [censored] for good. And thet was NOT easy. Then I thought that if I could quit that, I could pretty much start playing smart poker, and finally start making real money, even if it doesnt happend as fast as I want it to. First I needed to get out of debt. So I asked my friend to help me. He is a PertyPoker 2/4NL regular. He helped my by letting me play from his acct with his money for a 50% stake of winnings, until I get out of debt. It took me almost 2 month to do it (64k hands), I had some really bad downswings, some of them reaching 21 buy-inns, but I made it. I cleared my debt and got 1k in extra moneys. And in process, I learned a lot extra stuff ablout poker. I learned how to deal with downswings so big, that I never could imagine they were possible. I somehow sharpened my LAG-sLAG style of play, since I was constantly discussing hands with my TAG-sLAG friend, and I got a feel of the real volume of hands I should put in to see any results.

So after that I started playing on my own, starting at 1/2NL. It was middle June. In 17k hands I played in June I made around $4k. In July I decided to start playing full-time, at least 50k hands per month (more when I get a bigger screen), broken into even amount of hands each day, to make my winning and losing sessions last the same amounts of hands, thus - making me totally not oriented to result. And I am doing a great job so far. I am 100% surtain I will make it far if I will keep playing this game with adequate BR management, which I will. I do have 20 buy-inns for 2/4NL now and I'm still not moving up! I just got a real feel for the game, and I love it.

So at this point, I am sertain I can beat medium stakes, and I am almost sertain I can beat high-stakes. But I am not getting in there until I get an adecuate roll, which might take a while. And since games get tougher and tougher, I would like to be there asap, thats why I am writing this enormous post, I thought if some1 could stake me for it it would be pretty much perfect...

I started a blog 2 month ago to track my progress, I can link you to it by PM if you are interested, and if you are really interested we can discuss any further stuff (like graphs, stats, my game, etc) in msn/icq/skype.

Staking me will defenetly be +EV for you!

P.S. Sorry for my English, it sucks I know.

My e-mail (also msn) is mr.bager@mail.ru
Alternative: mr.bager@gmail.com
Or ICQ: 40-400-555.

BadMoFu

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Been playing nearly 4 years. Started as a MTT guy along with most people. Have had about 10 4 figure scores thoughout. Have been playing low level sngs consistently for over 1500 games with an around 15% roi. Would love to learn to grind 4-8 tables of low limit cash (up to .50/$1). Am a winner in those games over small (10k hands) sample. Ill timed cashout coupled with brutal sng downswing has basically busto'd me until I redeposit, but moreso than the stake, the coaching/advice would be the biggest thing for me.
Pokertracker is on laptop but does not include many hands since its a relatively new laptop, will post graphs if necessary once on it. Sng stats are HojoMofo on fulltilt.

Basically, I am better than the average player, I just need to learn to grind effectively, and would love any pointers on how to improve my game.

p.s. love you long time. sucky sucky 5 dolla

[shortline99]

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i have 18000+ posts

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stake this man

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hi five

(i do play nl200 and i'm bored, so money is always nice)

[mbillie1]

shortline also has a pretty sweet avatar lol