No matter how much you try you can't dodge variance. I tried and tried and tried but at the end 50% of my BR was gone. This streak was spread over 2 days.
Running into 2 outers time after time, even 1 outers against me were not rare.
I evaluated my plays and didn't see anything wrong. Shit happens I guess. So back to square 1.
Good luck at the tables,
Dremeber
Starting to enjoy poker again. Can even cope with the bad beats again. Maybe the switching point is that I now have a goal. A real goal, something where I can work to. It will take me ages to collect the money to buy one of the LCDs in the previous post but it really gives me the motivation I need.
Started again on Titan, with some decent result. The BR isn't growing as fast as I was hoping for, but at least it is growing. Had some really bad beats during the bubble today otherwise my BR would have been above the $100 mark. But it will come, I'm confident that it will. I will keep playing on Titan until my bonus period ends. After then we will see. Probably I will be switching to FT.
If you also want to start playing on Titan poker then visit pokernetonline. These guys are giving away No deposit bonuses for the biggest fishpound on the net.
Good luck,
Dremeber
Maybe I have found a new goal to play for. It is getting time to replace our tele. When I bought it was state of the art but now it starts having difficulties when starting up. Shutting down without intervention. So the search for a new tele has started. And immediately ended.
At the moment there are only 2 options left:
Option 1: the 42 inch LG scarlet LCD.
Option 2: The samsung 40 inch 6 series:
At the moment other bills have a much higher importance level. So why not try to gather some of it via poker. I think I need to win around $1500 to buy it completly but when I reached that profit they probably will not build this TV anymore.
But hey we can give it a shot and see how much we have cleared at the end of this year.
At the moment my BR is:
Titan Poker: $57.35
Unibet Poker: 29.95 EURO
Online account 1: $85
Online account 2: $50
Unibet Sportsbook: 9 EURO
In total this makes: 38,95 EURO and $192.35. But cause I will have to pay my TV in EUROs, it is 161,2 EUROs. Lots of money needed :) O man, dreams.
Good luck,
Dremeber
A few days ago I had to deposit 50$ to Titan so that I can transfer some money to a friend. Played quickly some SNGs with a mixing results.
Today I logged on again to play one or two SNGs during the EC final and I noticed that for some reason or another I was entitled for a deposit bonus. The maximum bonus which I can clear is $35. Sweet :) but, and there is always a but. With the $5 sng you only build up 8,5 titan points per SNG. And to clear a block of $5 you need 600 points. Meaning 71 SNG to clear $5. Lol. Strange how these deposit bonus are always so hard to clear for low limit players. I have until the 20th of September to clear as much as possible, which will probably only $5.
I won one SNG today, bringing my BR back above my deposit amount. Wooot.
We will see how things will develop from here.
Good luck at the tables,
Dremeber
Because I didn’t delete the blog, I feel kind of obliged to write an update now and then. And this is a now moment.
Like I wrote in my previous post I’m currently only playing cash tables at the moment. Playing cash tables gives me more freedom about my play time. It is much easier to stop when I want or to join a cash table then starting an SNG. A few days ago my BR was crushed from 40€ to 8€, this due to unmotivated play during SNGs resulting in a streak of no Cashes!
I now proudly can announce that my current BR just broke the 50€ barrier. Apparently the combination of watching the European championships and playing 1 NL20 table is the ideal combination. To bad that I discovered this too late!
Also the level of play helps and this was a surprise to me. There is a big difference between the level at Pokerstars and Unibet Poker. To be short. The best to describe my game is “as tight as Spandex”! So the others should know/understand that if I raise or re-raise that my monster is made of is very close with almost an unlimited number of outs. But no, the fishes here keep funding the post, which obviously will be mine. I can’t complain about this.
Another strange thing is my buy-in. The first time I bought in for 8€, cause that was all that was left in my BR. But I still buy myself in for 8€. How strange is that. It is even worse when I buy-in again after a break. I only buy-in for the profit I made during the previous session, assuring break even for the day. It seems that the other players give you much less respect with a lower buy-in than when you would buy-in for the maximum amount. Luckily I can profit from this at the moment. The downside of course is that you don’t get maximum value out of your monsters. But I can life with this. As long as my BR is growing, doesn’t matter how fast, and I’m enjoying the game, it is fine for me. I also try to stick to the rule that when I doubled my buy-in I’m gone.
I also started to update/clean up the Amatuer poker bloglisting. I’m removing all the dead blogs on there and blocking the ones which doesn’t have a link back to the bloglisting. It sounds harse but the rules are clear! I’m now half way. I finished this task already with the Sportsbetting bloglisting (http://sportsbetting.onbloglist.com). On the other side, I’m gentle enough to inform the people if they have placed a link on their blog but without their referral ID.
On the sportsbetting side, I’m still making a profit during this European Championship. Mainly due to one correct score bet. 2 days ago I was close to another correct score but Cech had others ideas about this.
You can find my bets in advance on my sportsbetting blog (http://dremeber-mybets.blogspot.com). Hey, I even created a widget for that blog. You can find it in the left side bar, feel free to post it on your blog. It goes without saying that I’m happy to return the favour.
Good luck at the green felts,
Dremeber
Hi all,
Thx for the comments. I made me decide not to delete the blog from the internet. The main reason is that like somebody posted, it would be much easier to kick start this blog in stead of creating a new one when I feel like blogging again. I love the layout of my blog and it took me some time to get it how I wanted it. So it would be a shame to erase this effort. Thanks for opening my eyes.
Played some poker in the past few days. Had deposit 40euros on unibet poker, the place where I started. Due to still a lack of motivation this had dropped to 8 euros. This evening I doubled it, so the way up has started. So again a lesson learned. DONT PLAY WHEN YOU DONT FEEL LIKE PLAYING. It seems that when I'm playing while I shouldn't I can't care if I win or loose a hand.
So, I decided to the few time I will play, I try some cash games. This way I can leave at any time I want, which isn't the case with SNGs.
Cheerios,
Dremeber
Because it will be my last post on this blog it will be rather long one cause I want to end in style! So if you don’t have to time or aren’t interested in the long version the short version is that I will stop blogging and that this blog will be erased from cyberspace on the first of June!
Why?
As you could have guessed based on the frequency of my posts I will stop this blog. I lost the motivation to keep this blog alive. I’m glad to see that other people still find the drive to keep their blog going, some more than several years. Even better some of these blogs are really good!. A standard I would never achieve. It is also good to see that a lot of bloggers really improved their poker abilities. Even some of these fishes are giving it a shot at the pro level. Good luck guys!
Let’s be honest this blog will not be missed. Maybe I will regret my decision within a few weeks/months but I doubt it. I don’t even have the motivation to write this post but I don’t want to end with a meaningless post. I preferred to go out with explaining my reasoning behind my decision and to make it clear that there is no use to visit this blog again cause it will not be updated anymore. Even better it will be vaporised from cyberspace.
My poker career!
Like if there was any!
If I look back at my poker career so far. I think that the following sentence sums it up: In the beginning a fish, more than a year later still a fish equals always a fish.
My progress, if there is/was any, is going slowly. My results and play are still in rollercoaster phase. Resulting in the fact that I can’t move up SNG levels, which was my goal. Like every fish I did have some nice results, probably more based on luck then on ability. These results were good enough to stick around in the online poker community and isn’t this the intention of the online poker rooms to keep the fishes a board cause without fishes no shark. And no shark means a lot less income for them!
The problem is that if I really want to move up levels I need do some homework and poker study but pfff nope, no can do. So what is the use then of blogging about my poker experience.
I guess the final drop which killed my motivation is the current loosing streak at Stars. I know that part of the game is that you loose some races and you win some races but it really gets frustrated when you always are loosing them while you move was correct.
However I still want to thanks some of the RTR member for trying to lift my level and giving me advice. Also I want to thank MrPink for our never ending email discussions!
Maybe my biggest mistake is that I saw and still see poker as a way to spend some free hours. Besides this I was also to focussed on short time results (maybe one of the biggest mistakes in poker). On the other hand if short time results indicate that you suck there is no use in finding proof for this in long time results.
I did find out that poker reflects my life a little bit. A lot of ups and downs. And just like with most things in life I don’t excel in it nor underachieve in it.
Will poker still have a place in my life?
I think it will. I just won’t blog about it anymore and the playing hours will decrease even more. At the moment I still have $180 in my stars account and $114 in my online poker account. There is no use in cashing this due to the weak dollar and also I don’t want it. The plan is to secure another $100 from my stars account cause a tilt session is quickly approaching. This way I still have a nice BR stacked away for a fresh start at another room some day. The remaining $ at stars will be used at the $6 SNGs. So it can end quickly or last for ever. We will see.
All, thx for reading my blog and all the luck in life and at the poker table,
Dremeber
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