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#91
10-14-2005, 11:03 PM
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Re: How did you get where you current are?
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[ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] well i think it helps that i dont play for a living and losing 1/3 of my roll over a few days isn't hugely detrimental to me. [/ QUOTE ] ahh, the bruiser school of thought. if you could only run as good as he! [/ QUOTE ] lol so you haven't heard the stories? [/ QUOTE ] ? 
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#92
10-14-2005, 11:15 PM
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Re: How did you get where you current are?
Wow.
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#93
10-15-2005, 12:26 AM
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Re: How did you get where you current are?
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Could you please let me know more about this structure? Is it a $10/$20 blinds NLHE game with a $10 ante? Where does the $40 come in? [/ QUOTE ] There were three blinds. One $10 on the button, and a normal $10 and $20 blind. It was $40 to open. Minimum $1000 buyin, no cap.
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#94
10-15-2005, 12:55 AM
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Re: How did you get where you current are?
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[ QUOTE ] Could you please let me know more about this structure? Is it a $10/$20 blinds NLHE game with a $10 ante? Where does the $40 come in? [/ QUOTE ] There were three blinds. One $10 on the button, and a normal $10 and $20 blind. It was $40 to open. Minimum $1000 buyin, no cap. [/ QUOTE ] Holy crap, ACTION!
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#95
10-15-2005, 01:34 AM
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Re: How did you get where you current are?
Started playing online a little more than a year ago. I sucked and lost a few hundred. Eventually, I took about half of my $200 paycheck (earning $7 an hour making food, I'm in college.) Won a $20 Pokeroom tourney, ran good at small buy in NL, then ran good at 2/4, had a roll fo 2k, quit my job, and I have never looked back.
Ran well in tournaments early this year, won a ME seat, spent two weeks in Vegas and lost tons of money playing blackjack (very stupid,) but ran very well last month showing over 15k in profit in tournaments. Over this time I have ran at about 1.5bb/100 at limits from 3/6 to 10/20, where I now play shorthanded across a wide variety of sites with a roll of about 20k. As long as I don't find out I suck by next spring, I will probably be playing full time when I graduate.
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#96
10-15-2005, 01:52 AM
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Re: How did you get where you current are?
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spent two weeks in Vegas and lost tons of money playing blackjack (very stupid,) [/ QUOTE ] Not necessarily... but true if you weren't counting / were a bad counter. [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img] Sorry to hear that, dude. --Dave.
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#97
10-15-2005, 02:33 AM
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Re: How did you get where you current are?
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[ QUOTE ] I quit my odd going nowhere job and took my beat up car to Toronto where there was a myriad of local club games to chose from. I was alone, for the first time in my entire life. [/ QUOTE ] Firstly, thank you very much for your response. It was great reading. However, I have a question here... All the clubs that I've heard about in Toronto have horrible rake... enough that they may even kill the game in the long term. How did you manage to survive doing this? Did you find decent clubs with awesome games? Did you find clubs with decent rake? Did you just run super-hot? Also, did you do anything to instigate those thugs towards fighting you, or was it just that they were pissed about losing money? --Dave. Edit: This story sounds incredible, in the literal sense of the word, but it IS possible. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] I'm also curious about where/if you showered, etc, when you were living in your car... [/ QUOTE ] Yes the rake was horrendous and very tough to overcome. The games were, of course, legendary for being the loosest most silly games on the planet. Picture the craziest Party 15 game you've ever been in or heard of and that was what it was like nearly every night there. I just played ludicrously tight, ate the free meals there(hate noodles now), and took what I called a Gambler's Shower every day(wash up in sink in bathroom). Ya so there weren't exactly girls jumping all over me, lol, not that I came in contact with any girls who weren't named Fung or Wang. If I had a super night I would get a room somewhere but not too often. I didn't instigate the thugs, but I know the night it happened one of them lost the most money I've ever seen in a 5-10 game....$3100! Needless to say he was pretty surly, seeing as myself and the rake took most of it. Glad you enjoyed the story.
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#98
10-15-2005, 02:35 AM
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Re: How did you get where you current are?
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[ QUOTE ] This is kinda funny cause I'm extemely drunk right now. I honestly don't talk about how I got into poker much but I guess when you've had a few drinks it doesn't matter much. I worked a LOT of odd jobs. I worked at a grocery store nightshift stocking shelves, as a security guard at creepy hotels, as a blackjack/baccarat dealer at a casino. None of those seemed to feel right. I always felt different amongst the crowd of employees. My thinking has always been very outside the box. When I discovered the world of poker in about 1999 I emersed myself in it. I really enjoyed the complexity of the game and felt it to be kind of like a chess game with a social atmosphere. I continued to work and play every few nights in house games, usually around 5-10 limit. I did quite well. I made notes on players and on my progress, feeling very content not just financially but emotionally. My paychecks would become a fuel for me to ignite my pashion for the game. Eventually I realized that working in a regular job was not for me. It was around this time that I was diagnosed with manic depression. My ups and downs were quite ridiculous. I jockied from medication to medication hoping desperately that I would find the right one to aleviate my insanity. I would take time off work to play poker and -EV table games such as blackjack and baccarat. I blew paycheck after paycheck after paycheck. I would say that within a years time I could probably buy a porsche with what I spent gambling. Only one game stood out from the others in terms of mental satisfaction and profitability...poker. Eventually I quit those horrendously unprofitable house edge games and realized that if I really put my mind to work and focussed on getting better, I could maybe make a living in poker. When I first told my parents, "I'de really like to attempt to make some kind of living playing this game." they looked at me with strange eyes. I felt like an outcast, like I had put a spell of shame upon them. I quit my odd going nowhere job and took my beat up car to Toronto where there was a myriad of local club games to chose from. I was alone, for the first time in my entire life. The first night was filled with fear. I only had a couple thousand with me and the game was full of mean ugly street thugs who cared not about me or my needs or aspirations. From this day forward I would come in here at 7pm and play til dawn playing tight unimaginative poker. I would sleep in my car for 7 months straight, reading The Theory Of Poker and Hold 'em Poker For Advanced Players under flashlight. Man it was cold and lonely. Only my thirst for knowledge and profits kept me going. I still look back and laugh at the most insane night ever when I hit a HOT run playing 10-20 and won 3700 in about 3 hours. I was followed out to my car by two angry players and had to thwart them off using my boot knife(very very scary and adrenaline pumping to the max). I worked my meager bankroll up to enough to finally rent a room in a house outside of Toronto. It really wasn't much, but a far cry better than the back seat of my 88' Cavalier. I got a cheapo computer and dabbled a little with online poker. At first I thought, 'What a scam! This can't be legit!' I blasted through a good portion of my roll in some games on paradise and ub. One night after surfing through some porn I noticed an banner for a poker site that need Props. Hmmm this could be interesting. I won't go into extreme detail of the sites I have propped for but to cut a long story short, I was evenutally staked by the manager of the prop program. He gave me 1k to play with and I got half profits and prop pay for my efforts for three months. Not bad seeing as I was near broke. I worked HARD. Played alllllll night and slept allllll day. After three months I had turned that 1k into about 21k playing 3-6 and 5-10. I got half of that and went out on my own. From 0 dollars I have worked it into buying a condo, a new car and a healthy bankroll for mid/high limits. I DO NOT take any of this for granted nor should anyone in a similar situation. Kind of a rags to riches story(though not quite rich, lol). I found the right medication that keeps me balanced and happy and mentally sound. It had been a very rough road to travel. With all of this came sacrifices, such as a real social life and acquiring knowledge of the world around me. Do I have any regrets? No. Would I do it all over again? Of course. I don't answer to anyone. I am my own boss. I am my own master. The knowledge that I have gained within a few short years is worth a lifetime of laboring punching clocks with the commoners. We are all worm-feed from birth, why not take some chances before we are put to rest? Thanks for reading. [/ QUOTE ] Would like to hear more please. When I worked as a dealer here in Toronto, I heard a lot of these stories of people who tried to make a living off poker. This of course was way before it went online. [/ QUOTE ] Oh cool, you work in one of the old Charity's? Man I bet you got some stories to tell yourself.
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#99
10-15-2005, 03:15 AM
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Re: How did you get where you current are?
I didn't grind anything. I crushed local micro-limit home games with my friends and some local high school kids years ago when i was in high school. When i started playing 10/20 i would go bust/ work and win a little/ win some more/ go bust/ win/ basically up and down for a couple years (passing money between the same 4 or five players in a group that could play, while we were supported by a group of about 7 or 8 that would consistently lose). Meanwhile I read a ton and posted a little on here ,but mainly just lurked. Since i turned 21 three months ago i'm up close 13k (party thanks to a tournament 2nd place) playing 10/20 15/30 and the tournament at Trump indiana (final table both times trying). So now I go to school full time and play the rest of the time, and it's going well. going back to vegas in december hopefully i can see some of you guys out there when i go
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#100
10-15-2005, 11:31 AM
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Re: How did you get where you current are?
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[ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] well i think it helps that i dont play for a living and losing 1/3 of my roll over a few days isn't hugely detrimental to me. [/ QUOTE ] ahh, the bruiser school of thought. if you could only run as good as he! [/ QUOTE ] lol so you haven't heard the stories? [/ QUOTE ] ? [/ QUOTE ] i run as hot as the sun. although i dont know how hot bruiser ran.
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