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Buy her something nice and tell her that even respectable middle-aged professors play poker without ending up living up in a cardboard box under a railway bridge. Yet......
She will love that "Yet..." 
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Originally posted by jbpatzer
Buy her something nice and tell her that even respectable middle-aged professors play poker without ending up living up in a cardboard box under a railway bridge. Yet......
LMAO! Funny! 
Damn man !
How did she found out you play for real money????
To be honest I really dont know what to say about it.
Proving that to someone who has bad experience's with that can be really hard.
Buying her something nice and making her smile can help for sure.
Maybe even shoving her your winrates and explain how you ve built your BR and got all those books from would make things bit less complicated.
You can also remind her that you are good student, have a decent girlfriend and live life like normal man - unlike your friend Sin overhere 
I bet if you expalin her your looks on poker in the way you explained to me the other day , she will be much more receptive to it.
You are a smart kid, so I bet you know all of this stuff, but to remind you.
Try to smooth things niceley, be honest and humble
.Shes your mother afterall.
I wish you all the best and let us know how it goes.
EXCELLENT NEWS!!!!
I have been one week out of the tables with my familypoker problem that some of you know! In addition my life is going to change extremely after nest monday because I have decide to study State Opposition to work in the Public Ministry Department of Spain so I am going to have enough guts to study 8 hours per day echonomy and law for 3 years...but I think I can manage with this!This is a excellent new because I know at middle term what I am going to do with my future (study, well not study...EAT books)
And the other excellent new is that I have shown to my mother that if I want I can be one week or more without playing poker so I am not addicted to it. (I have been playing Age of Empires 2 and Counter STrike instead of poker so I dont know what is worse LOL) And one hour ago having the dinner (chinese food, I just love it)
I talked with her and asked her if she is still worried about me and poker, and that I have been enough serious to demonstrate that if she wants I can be without playing but it wasnt really logical because if I am a gambler I could play when she is out. She confirmed to me that I am not as senseless as she thought when she scared at the beginning ( this things happen to me because I didnt say the truth about real money since the beginning) and then following your advices I have a new challenge, I offered her that if she allows me to play a lot until next monday that I start my Academy, I will spend with her in a little trip of 2 nights my benefits from Tuesday to Thursday! If I dont win, that could happen, we will go to the cheapest hotel that I could find with the rest of my bankroll!!
Because of this I have to give up my last challenge, winning 1200$ in 30 days until September 13th from a Bankroll of 3600. I counted it now and its 4546 but a little misleading because its with the rakeback and in the challenge I said I would try without rakeback... 
And like I said, my life change after next week, I would have to study 8 or 9 hours per day and I am not going to play poker everday as usual because I wont have neither time nor strength. I wont be Diamond until 3 or 4 years when I hope I pass my Exam and I could come here with a good job. I wont give up poker but I will not play more than 1 or 2 days per week in little sessions. Life I am playing in middle stakes I suppose I will have Silver Status, I dont know if Gold but it doesnt really matter because I wont have time to be watching videos.
I want to THANK everybody who gave to me encourage these days, specially to Sin who cared a lot about me (when you and rorrls will come to SH? only God knows xD) and all you said was correct, with the good explainings and the truth we can solve any social problem that we have, in this case poker and family.
See you soon! lets see how much I can earn until monday LOL
Good bye and see you later!
A lot of day without updating my blog because I didnt have good results and because I have been thinking a lot of about my life. In conclusion, I give up playing poker for a few YEARS.
My reasons are 2:
First one, I dont see myself being a proffesional pokerplayer and I need to improve my skills to success in the proffesional workplace. I have started in a spanish academy where I need to study economy and law for 8 or 9 hours 6 days per week and I have been trying to do it while I still have girlfriend, footballteam and poker and its impossible. I tryed to play less poker than I used to but its very difficult because the downs are longer and poker is a game of updating so I should study more if I want to be a good player and I havent got enought time.
The second reason is that in Spain poker is going to be regulated next october 2011 like in Italy and France so I prefer to wait for it and see what happens instead of wasting a lot of time this year to see if its possible to continue playing online poker. I have cashedout my 4700 $ and I will save them to play in live ;). I will go to the casino once every two months more or less and will update my blog with my results.
I hope to pass my exams in 2 or 3 years so I could have the rest of my life to do my hobbies (poker of course is one of them) but with my future secured in a decent job.
I want to thank every people who posted in my blog, specially Sin and Rorrlsh. We chat in skype guys.
Thank you everybody, and GOOD LUCK POSTFLOP
I bet am gonna see you again sometime soon!
At least I hope so.
Can I convince you to leave your girlfriend, and play poker, and football instead ?
I promise am gonna get you some nice teen ass, when I come to visit you in Madrid instead.
Big cash out of 5500 €, leaving only 500 $ of bank. I have a new job in a big company and I dont have enough time to play as poker as I used to. But the thing is that I missed it and I could play on weekends. I bought a car with my savings and the 5500 (its not a Cadillac, just a Chevrolet Aveo 1.4 but good enough xD)
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Now Rorrlsh has a good idea of something like a training group and I want to improve my game so I join to it. I have played a lot in Christmas and a little in January and I have 2700 € of bank.
I will study a lot and play a little for one month.
Lets kill the fishes!
I know you know nothing about basketball but still here is something to help you vs Variance
Hola colega!
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Hope all goes graet with your studies matey!
Ciao,
AKM
I bet am gonna see you again sometime soon!
Told ya motherfucker
Its nice to see ya back, we can sweat tonight after 10 pm if u like.
I will be at home then.
let me know.
cheers
I am glad you are happy Sin xD. We will have those sweat sessions in March dont worry.
AKM, I live in Madrid and I work 5 days at week so I cant go to that tournament but if you go to Madrid some day let me know and we go together to the Torrelodones Casino (I live in Torrelodones in fact)
About my poker progress, the variance continues punching me so I am going to study for 2 weeks without playing one hand. The more you study the more than variance cant affect you.
See u guys
SIT AND GO vs SSS vs BSS
Spring, sweet spring!
Its April and I have time to play!
I had 700 $ in March 22th and I have now 1511$. I have been playing SnG superturbo, SSS and BSS SH. The variance owes me 800$ but its something I am getting used to... (in my last cash out, leaving the 700$ it owed me 4000 € ♠)
I have been thinking these days that I should choose one type of game and mining it as much as I can... so I am going to do something maybe useful for those who dont know kind of strategy to play. I know a little of everything but I am a shark at nothing so this is my plan:
Its going to be simple, not easy.
1) I will start with the SNG SH superturbo.
I will play 1000 sits as soon as I am able to.
They will be of 10,5 $.
150 buyins of bankroll.
Playing 6 tables at the same time.
If I have only 100 buyings in a downswing Í would play the 5,3$. (Mercy God! )
I calculated that with a ROI of 2% it would be 10500$*0,02= 210 $ Plus the rakeback 24% * 0.5*1000= 120.
This makes a total benefit estimated of 370 $.
Some of you maybe think that 2% its a bad ROI but you have to know that a superturbo lasts 5 times faster than a Turbo SNG so if you could have a ROI of a 2% in a ST, its the same to 10% in a Turbo SnG (which is an incredible ROI)
2) Then, when I had played the 1000 sits, I will count the number of hands in total, I wont play for a week and I will study SSS strategy. Then I will play the number of hands that I played in the SNG and I could take a big sample of my game. The same with the BSS.
Then if I am still alive and my bankroll has not boosted in a damn tilt, I will choose my strategy until November. In November the spanish Government is going to regulate the poker in Spain and it would be imposible to have positive winrates because of the big taxes.
I will post graphs every 100 Sit and Goes!
See U!
Perfect! I did my homework and I played 200 Sit and Goes Superturbo.
Like I said in my last post if I achieved a ROI of 2% would be incredible and I did it! And even more... here are the results....
Its very easy to have good results with this kind of sits but you have to be very patient... the tilt must be your friend and variance your mother (and I should start to read English books to improve my expression LOL)
200 sits and a ROI of more than 3 % in 7,5 hours. 12,5 $ per hour if we have rakeback.
If somebody has any question about how to play this sits just tell me...!
regards!
I cant believe how good this SitandGoes are going, I have completed 33% of my goal and I have transcend the benefits I expected with the 100%. I know its variance and because of this is funnier to me.
I will try to finish the 1000 sits in 2 weeks.
byE!