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Hello, call me Mixer.

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tatkonadjavola
Joined: 11.12.2016

Hey everybody,

I've been playing poker for 2 years now. I've wanted it to be my profession, and I had my ups and downs, many downs. So I am nowhere, but I want to go somewhere. And I see this moment as an opportunity for a new start.

I've been playing cash (from NL5 to NL20) and MTTs (ranging from 1 to 10$) buy-in. I learned, developed skills, but I often played live cash and tourneys, which messed with my online game, I was undisciplined, and I blew my 1600$ bankroll in my ups and downs(I started with 100$, so it was a long journey and was devastating to end up with nothing).

I was in a place in my head where I thought that I was the person who ran worst on this planet. That held me for the last 5 months. Last month I've spent my last 100$ in a live game. First hand against an idiot amateur, who's there just to gamble. In a 0.5/1$ game he raised to 20$ and I re-raised shoved with AKo. Flop came Q high, and he turned over 86o and took down a pot with a pair of 6's. That did it and broke me.

But here I am again, trying to do it one more time. Maybe this time I will be wiser, and hopefully a bit more lucky.

That's it. Peace out


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metalmonkey80
Joined: 15.08.2013

Hello tatkonadjavola,

Welcome to Pokerstrategy.com :welcome:

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Good luck & best regards,

Matt


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Malendes
Joined: 03.04.2011

Hallo Mixer and welcome to the forum. Hope you enjoy your stay at PokerStrategy :f_love:

Where does the nickname Mixer come from? Are you a music producer or are you just fantastic at making smoothies? :f_wink:


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tatkonadjavola
Joined: 11.12.2016

Hello Malendes,

I am a music producer, but nickname comes from my friend(who also plays poker). He always said a true grinder never plays both cash and tourneys, cause those two formats don't mix together well. So he called me Mixer.

No smoothies, I can't even fry an egg properly, let alone any complicated food or drink. :f_biggrin:


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microstraddler
Joined: 05.12.2016

Welcome to the forum! I am happy to see another micro-stakes player here. :)

Maybe this time I will be wiser, and hopefully a bit more lucky.

Try to rely more on the first part and you will do good. ;)

Do you have a plan on how you will deal with discipline this time?

Looking forward to follow your progress.
Cheers!


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Good luck dude!


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tatkonadjavola
Joined: 11.12.2016

Well I plan to have a stop loss this time, and to resect those boundaries I set for myself. Also I will also stop if I get tilted by a badbeat cause I play really bad after I get 2-outed or something like that.

And probably more reading, training videos, maybe some coaching, hand and board analysis etc...


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