Hey all,
I've been an member of the community for a few years but have never really taken my online poker seriously. I've won a few tournaments but overall most of my time spent on line is spewing money after work for fun. Online poker is a great way to let off steam ♠_cool:
With that said, I have a child on the way and purchased a house with my wife. There is no point donking around a few bucks here and there when I can take my online poker as serious as I take my live poker.
Anyways this starts a few days back when I went to the casino with one of my good buddies and we played in the $60 dollar tournament. It fielded 71 and long story short I dominated so bad that at the final table the remaining players essentially handed me first place and $1400 so that they could chop the rest amongst themselfs.
At said point my brilliant friend said "Why dont you do this more often" to which I replied, "I have way too many things to do at home to come to the casino more often." Anyways long story short he ended up telling me I should consider playing online seriously instead of just for kicks.
I took some of that money and put it on Stars. I sampled all that was to offer but always know what my real skills are, Heads Up SnGs and MTTs. The problem with MTTs is that its not worth my time to sit down for 8 hrs in a small buyin tournament unless there is other reasons to play. Other reasons would be recognition like winning a series tournament. So that left me with HU SnGs.
But with that said, I dont have a roll to play anything I can make real money at. I have a full time job and as said before a family. I covet my time, its valuable to me. More valuable than grinding out tiny stakes to make tiny profit.
So where does this leave me? Well, I'm rolled for $7 dollar SnGs. That doesn't give me the ability to make the money I want. But what it will let me do is build a base for backing. To be upfront I have never been staked or asked for a stake before. I never planned on being staked either. Like I said, I value my time. Stakers value thier money and they want return on that money. My lifestyle and stakers money never seemed to go hand in hand.
But what if I create blocks of SnGs? An amount that is doable in a few weeks without me feeling pressured? Well this seems to be beneficial to all parties! Now I'm getting somewhere!
Anyways at this point I had to figure out what games I could beat. I started railing $15s, $30s, $60s, $100s. At $100s I noticed some very compotent players, but up until that point I witnessed players i could get reads on within a few hands. This is obviously the key to victories, the ability to recognize and adapt.
The first block will be done on my own money, and this is not ment to be a staking forum. When I decide the staking forum will be made, I will not use this blog, I will post the link to the post.
Blocks will be in groups of 200 SnGs. Hopefully they should take roughly 2 weeks.
My only goal at this point is to play the 200 games and get a base. My midterm goals will be to either have a roll for $15s-$30s or get a stake for those games.
Longterm I am looking for a stake for $60 and up. I see guys like LessThanThree making others and himself good amounts of money. I respect how he runs his blocks and stake. My hope is that I can bring the community another blog and another player that brings money to the members and my family.
I always read lots of blogs and staking forums and such and I notice your a cornerstone of the community.
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