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I'm gonna be a micro stake poker winner... one day.

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AgapieGheorghe
Joined: 10.07.2011


Welcome to my blog!

Hi...again ! This is not the first time here, once a year at some point I feel the need or I get motivated to start and play poker again from scratch.

My name is George, 33, from Romania, I live and work in Spain so I will play on Pokerstars.Es and Winamax.ES until new opportunities arise.

I started to play poker in 2011and I was building my first bankroll playing Freerolls on Pokerstars and PartyPoker.
With that bankroll I played poker ( Cash, SNG, Spin´s ) at microstakes for almost 6 years. Never played higher than NL10.

In 2017 when I stopped to play poker I cashed out all the money ( almost 400 Euro ).

In 2018 I started a blog, deposited 50 Euro and I played until I reached 150 euro. I cashed out and I stopped playing again.

Now in 2019 a new story begins.

In the last month I played some freerolls on Pokerstars and Winamax and from there I made again a small bankroll just like I did back in 2011 when I started. Between this 2 platforms I have a bankroll of : 46.87 Euro :f_thumbsup:

_evil:_evil:_evil:I'm gonna be a micro stake poker shark !. _evil:_evil:_evil:

The goals of the blog are :

-to keep a record of my results, including postings graphs, hand reviews, etc..
-development of discipline, tempering, motivation and self-confidence!
-conclusions and other things from what i study.

My final Goal :

- A bankroll of 500+ Euro and a NL10 winning player.

I will play cash games starting from the bottom with NL2 and I will move up when I feel my game is good enough for the next limit .

Thank you for stopping by ! :f_drink:


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brobz
Joined: 22.03.2011

Looks like we have a similar story and started playing around the same time

Good luck on the journey


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AgapieGheorghe
Joined: 10.07.2011

Hey Brobz, thank you for your visit. :f_drink:

Day 1 to 7

Unfortunaly I didn't had the best starting week.

I made some big mistakes but the platform didn't helped me either.
But is ok I am happy with my game especially because I didn't study at all. I just used my old knowledge about the game.

I said in the first post that I will play on two platforms and the interesting thing is that on Pokerstars I see some OLD players.
Dude I mean really old if I look on my database from 5 or 6 years ago I will find them there for sure.
Like... nl2 on Pokerstars is their favourite game in the world. :f_eek:

This next week I will start to study the game again. And I'm sure the results will be much better.

Good luck everyone :f_thumbsup:


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AgapieGheorghe
Joined: 10.07.2011

Day 8 to 14



Second week was a good one for me.
I was running at 23 bb/100 until yesterday when unfortunately I lost 3.50 euro in 40 hands getting my bb/100 down to 16.

The total graph since I started looks so ugly :f_cry::f_cry: But this week I'm gonna make it look pretty for sure :f_thumbsup:

I will also try to play more time, my goal for the week will be 10 hours . I dont care how many hands I will play, I just want to play those 10 hours with my A game.

On Pokerstars there is a promotion that looks like this :

I've won some freerolls entry and some Spin&Go tickets.
From the freerolls you win T$ and with T$ I will always play 0.25 Spin&Go and this week I got lucky and made a nice profit from this promotion +11 Euro . I won 1x 3Euro, 1x 1,5Euro, 4 x1Euro and 5x 0.5Euro.

Spoiler

Goals for this week :

Play 10 hours.
Study Population Exploit Ranges from w34z3l.
Study postflop gameplan.
Watch 2 new poker videos.
Participate to Lemon's choaching.


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Ihuarraquax
Joined: 13.12.2016

Very nice graph in EV. Yellow and green will always meet some day, no big deal. Following.


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AgapieGheorghe
Joined: 10.07.2011

Hey Ihuarraquax, thank you for your visit :f_drink: I just have to keep playing and wait for that day :f_biggrin:

What limit do you play now ? Are you already a NL10 shark ? _evil:


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Zheelvern
Joined: 29.10.2007

Good luck Gheorghe :f_thumbsup: :)


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AgapieGheorghe
Joined: 10.07.2011

Originally posted by Zheelvern
Good luck Gheorghe :f_thumbsup: :)
Thank you :f_drink:

I really need that luck. In the last 3 days I lost 5Bi, every fish seems to destroy me in every pot.
I had to stop yesterday and today from playing because I get tilted when I see how bad they play and how much luck they have. :f_cry::f_cry::f_cry:


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AgapieGheorghe
Joined: 10.07.2011

Day 15 to 21

So it seems I get one good week and then again a bad week. Is a bit sad that in 3 weeks the results on NL2 are so bad.
As I said in the begining of the blog I kinda start to play every year from NL2 up to NL5 or NL10 until I get borred and give up playing for months.
But I never think I had such a bad start. Maybe the NL2 players evolved over the time.

This is my total graph for 21 days since I started to play. Not a nice one, but I still have money in my cashier so I still have a chance to change things around :f_biggrin:


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AgapieGheorghe
Joined: 10.07.2011

Day 22 to 28

I could find some excuses about this week and why I only played 2:46 hours. But to be honest with myself I was just lazzy !!!

I couldn't find the motivation to play, atleast I made a small profit at the cash tables and also I made some more money playing a freeroll where I managed to get ITM and I got 4,52 T€.
With those T€ I played 4 SNG 6 max 1€ and 2 Spins of 0.25€. In the spoiler bellow I will post the screnshot for every win. In total was : 9,61 €

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Here it is the results for for the first 28 days :

My updated Bankroll is : 53.79 Euro this means that I made a profit of 6.92 € in 28 days :deadhappy: .

I hope you guys have better winrates than me. :f_drink:


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AgapieGheorghe
Joined: 10.07.2011

Day 29 to 35

Finnaly I got a good week with a great winrate, unfortunately I only played 3 hours. Hard to motivate myself to play more time.

Maybe now that I'm back on the green side I will start to play more.

So I played 35 days in total and 15.000 hands and ... i'm close to ZERO... so let's start to go UP and make this graph to look like a giraffe :fuckyeah:

Updated Bankroll : 68.12 Euro


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Ihuarraquax
Joined: 13.12.2016

Very nice graph acctually!!!! Your volume is kinda low, so don´t expect swings to fade away so quickly. Being break even for 15k hands that´s completely fine. Being so for 100k hands - that´s frustrating enough :) Holding thumbs buddy.


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AgapieGheorghe
Joined: 10.07.2011

Originally posted by Ihuarraquax
Very nice graph acctually!!!! Your volume is kinda low, so don´t expect swings to fade away so quickly. Being break even for 15k hands that´s completely fine. Being so for 100k hands - that´s frustrating enough :) Holding thumbs buddy.

I didn't post for a while to put in more volume as you said and I was running over EV for a while, so yeah in time I will catch the EV line for sure.
But playing more tables to increase volume is not a good ideea for me right now. I make way more mistakes postflop because i have to act faster.

So from now on the plan is to play only 4 tables, taking notes on everybody and try to exploit their mistakes and hopefully try to fix my own mistakes.

I will also start to update and write here in the blog atleast two times a week. My next post will be about what I need to change on my game and on my schedule to improve.

Day 36 to 47

There is not to much to say about this last 12 k hands. I actualy was on the green side for the first 8 k hands and then I decided I want to play a HUGE volume.. well that didn't workout and I lost 8 buy-ins in the next 3.5 k hands ( I played all this 3,5 k hands in one session ). Yesterday tho I only played 1 normal table and 1 zoom table and I managed to win some money and get back to break even point.

This is my total graph after 27000 hands, this is not like I imagined the things will go when I started the blog.
But is ok as I said I will make some changes in the next week and better results will come soon.


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AgapieGheorghe
Joined: 10.07.2011

I know i said i will post more often from now on but this week i have to work overtime every day of the week and i'm feeling really tired and i prefer to relax when i come home rather than playing poker and study.

So i will take this week off and i will start to play again from Monday 1 July.

Maybe i will use this time to study and organize some stuff related to poker.


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AgapieGheorghe
Joined: 10.07.2011

It doesn't matter whether you are pursuing success in business, sports, arts, poker or life in general.
The bridge between wishing and accomplishing is discipline.

Since i started the blog i have to admit to myself that i made some mistakes. This are my goals posted at the start of the blog :

- 1. to keep a record of my results, including postings graphs, hand reviews, etc..
- 2. development of discipline, tempering, motivation and self-confidence!
- 3. conclusions and other things from what i study.

I only did my first goal since now and i lost track of my other two goals.

Why i did this ?

Well is fun to play poker and post your results but there is no fun when you have to study, to watch videos or when you have to read a strategy article.

I come to conclusion that this is hapening because i have almost no self-dicipline and this is the most important thing that i have to fix.

I also have to bring Balance between Study and Play time and that's why i have to bring the Discipline in my life.

Why do I need goals ? Well Jared Tendler said :

You can hold yourself accountable for not completing it. Measurable goals are a really good way of guiding yourself to reach your vision, looking at your progress and seeing whether or not you are on the right path.

Having this in mind from now on i will post weekly goals every Monday.

First week of July Goals :

- Study 7 hours. 1 hour per day.
- Play 7k hands. 1000 hands per day.
- Update the blog every day of the week with the result of the day.
- On Sunday make a database revision for the whole week.

- Start to read a book that is not related to poker.


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AgapieGheorghe
Joined: 10.07.2011

Day 1 of July Result

What can i say about the first day of July ? Well it sucks when you can't win no pots over 1$ in 1000 hands.

The good thing is that i played 1000 hands as i have to play every day for this week and i also studied for 1:30 h.

I just have to keep it up and do this every day no matter what the results are.


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AgapieGheorghe
Joined: 10.07.2011

Day 2 of July Result

Every day goals :

☑ Play 1000 hands
☑ Study 1 hour
☑ Update the blog


Good start for this week, i folllow my goals of playing every day and study. Let's hope i can maintain this rhythm for the whole month.

But even tho i started to study every day i still do mistakes when i'm playing. Yesterday i lost 2.45 € with 2 hands that i played even tho in my ranges those hands where FOLD. So i have to study more the preflop ranges maybe print them and put them close to me when i'm playing.

Start to read a book that is not related to poker.

I'm also on track with this weekly goal. I'm not sure if i can finish the book until next monday but will be nice if i could read a book every week.

Good luck everyone :f_drink:


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AgapieGheorghe
Joined: 10.07.2011

Week 1 of July update

Goals for the first week :

Study 7 hours. 1 hour per day.
Play 7k hands. 1000 hands per day.
Update the blog every day of the week with the result of the day.
On Sunday make a database revision for the whole week.

Start to read a book that is not related to poker.

I got 4 goals out of 5, not bad :sfishg: In my defense the goal that i missed is the least important, i dont feel that updating here every day with the results helps me in anyway.

I feel that playing 1000 hands per day and 1 hour of study is the way to go for me right now. So this week i will do the same goals except the update blog goal.

I also managed to finish the book that i started this week and i'm really happy about this.

Second week of July Goals :

- Study 7 hours. 1 hour per day.
- Play 7k hands. 1000 hands per day.
- On Sunday make a database revision for the whole week.

- Start to read a book that is not related to poker.


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Ihuarraquax
Joined: 13.12.2016

Nice twist bro!!! How about your new book? What did you choose?


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AgapieGheorghe
Joined: 10.07.2011

Hey Ihuarraquax thank you for your visit :f_drink:

This week i chose a novel from the Romanian literature called Adam and Eve by Liviu Rebreanu.

This novel’s plotline is a male soul seeking its female soulmate throughout seven lives lived on earth from ancient India to modern (early 20th century) Romania.


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