Pinowww’s blog! Still alive and kicking

Pinowww · 2011-03-13T13:10:49Z

Hi everybody, My name is Remco de Vries, but most of you might know as Pinowww, either online or from the forums. I live in Holland, I am 22 years old and born and raised in Krimpen aan den IJssel, a small small town just under Rotterdam. At the moment of me writing this I am searching for an apartment in Rotterdam to live there for the next couple of years with a couple of friends. My Pokerstars avatar: (awesome :P) But the face that my friends and family know me from: The photo above was taken at the PCA 2011 in which I was playing (no notable results :P). I believe I might be one of the few poker players that actually sets an alarm clock every morning at 7:45 to be able to have a somewhat normal sleep rithm as I do consider poker to be my job. I am playing mostly from 9 until 6 for an average of 50 hours a week. In general I do not play in the evenings and also in weekends alot less. I am also still in college. Currently I am in my fifth year of college studying mechanical engineering at the University in Delft. But I am only in my second year of mechanical engineering so I am not really moving at a fast pace. I am doing like atleast one exam per block (four blocks in one year in two semesters), but never more than two, while an average student does like three or four exams per block meaning I am studying at like halve to one thirds of the pace a normal student studies. But as long as I do not drop out I will get my bachelor sooner or later. I do believe it is important to always have something to fall back on, but I do not have any plans to get my master after my bachelor. I work out pretty much daily before I start playing poker and see good food as the best thing on earth. This life style is pretty much social suicide so i spend most of my nights amongst other people in the gym, at thaiboxing, kyokushinkai karate, with friends or just go drinking somewhere with some people I know. I am starting to associate the computer more and more with work which means I am getting less and less relaxation out of it. If people ask me where I see myself in the future, because college is moving so slow and I am getting older and I do not pick up any working experience I can only answer; I am happy with how my life is now. I am doing what I love, I am loving what I do and I am making good money. Is that not what everybody wants in the end in a job? But you do give up a lot of things you do get in a normal job. Social interaction with other people is my biggest concern. And a big number two is that you are not getting the feeling you really do alot for the society in return. This job has still not been really accepted in society and it does not really help society in a major way. And I do expect that pretty much every professional player will put some question marks if what he doing, is right sooner or later and if it is not better to go do something else. But there are also two major things that can compensate a lot of this: 1. The more I would earn, the more freedoms I would give up for is. At the same time it also creates a lot more freedom and you can always plan your time the way you want. And if you miss start to miss the social interaction to much, you got all the time in the world to do what you want, so you can always look it up. And just as with everything else, things just won't happen on their own if you are not going after it. Poker also was not a given talent to me at birth, it takes a long time and a lot of dedication to really get good at is. 2. Somewhere playing poker will also have some sort of purpose in the society, otherwise it would not excist. Yes, you are some sort of parasite, living of other bad players, but there are a lot of other jobs that pretty much do not have a real purpose in the society as well, that are accepted. Now you all know the person behind the screenname :). I wish everyone a lot of succes on the tables and something I sincerely mean a lot more; a lot of luck and happiness with everything you do. In the end playing poker is just a way a making money, losing money or just for pure entertainment. And the amount of money anyone has should not be a reflection of how happy anyone really is ;).

_Anonymous_

02.05.2011, 16:25 0

So sick! Congrats and keep the big scores coming. ♦

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02.05.2011, 16:37 0

Biggest Baller in tha house

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Pinowww

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02.05.2011, 18:54 0

thx everyone

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02.05.2011, 19:02 0

epic winning sir. vnh vwp

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fusionpk

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03.05.2011, 13:29 0

oh hi pinowww your on tv ♦
http://www.pokerstars.tv/poker-video-9215-online-poker-show-sunday-million-may-1st-2011.html?channel_id=96

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03.05.2011, 16:23 0

Just watched it lol. Sick chip lead, Vsegris was in god mode though.

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Pinowww

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03.05.2011, 17:18 0

Running another 10 stacks under EV on PLO1k today

Why is PLO1k so fing hard to beat

Btw, gonna watch the link myself now

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04.05.2011, 19:41 0

well done pinowww..ur my hero :f_biggrin: 216$/minute for 10hour play... gl

be the change u wanna see in the world

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anthonygazar

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05.05.2011, 20:08 0

Hello, I am a player of PLO in the French-speaking section of pokerstrategy, and I need you as well as all the players of omaha ♦. I need a maximum of vote for my blog omaha, it can make me win to has 150 euro,
I puts you the link, by thanking you
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Yoghi

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05.05.2011, 20:15 0

Will you spend the €150 on English lessons?

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anthonygazar

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05.05.2011, 20:20 0

Originally posted by Yoghi
Will you spend the €150 on English lessons?

N1 ♦
plz one time!

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05.05.2011, 22:34 0

Originally posted by anthonygazar

Originally posted by Yoghi
Will you spend the £150 on English lessons?

N1 ♦
plz one time!

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06.05.2011, 12:25 0

Originally posted by TobyCS

Originally posted by anthonygazar

Originally posted by Yoghi
Will you spend the £150 on English lessons?

N1 ♦
plz one time!

FYP

Toby knows that you can only pay for English lessons in GBP and only in England. Obvious.

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08.05.2011, 14:44 0

Originally posted by fusionpk
oh hi pinowww your on tv ♦
http://www.pokerstars.tv/poker-video-9215-online-poker-show-sunday-million-may-1st-2011.html?channel_id=96

looool.... pineaaaaauuu ♦ how should it sound??

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08.05.2011, 14:51 0

Are you planning to play SCOOP today, if so, wich stakes? glgl.

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Pinowww

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08.05.2011, 15:02 0

Originally posted by b0b01111

Originally posted by fusionpk
oh hi pinowww your on tv ♦
http://www.pokerstars.tv/poker-video-9215-online-poker-show-sunday-million-may-1st-2011.html?channel_id=96

looool.... pineaaaaauuu ♦ how should it sound??

It is pronounced as Peeno (Pee-no)

Originally posted by intercect
Are you planning to play SCOOP today, if so, wich stakes? glgl.

Let the grind begin, SCOOP 2011 is upon us
Planning to play all SCOOP events today

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Pinowww

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09.05.2011, 21:17 0

The 6handed 500$ rebuy is possibly one of the hardest tournaments I have played yet. Almost no bad players and there just goes so much thought in every hand. I can really enjoy that, a really welcome change to braindead clicking in some mediocre tournaments.

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Pinowww

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09.05.2011, 21:39 0

it still seems to be extremely hard to win a flip, resulting in a lot of bustouts before I get in the money

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