About me:
My name is Edgars. Im 22 y/o student from Latvia. Im studying Electronics. Its graduating year at University for me, but seems that I wont pass everything this year. In free time I mostly play poker or just relax with my friends.
Poker:
I found out about poker in first year of University. At first I was like: "no, no. Thats gambling, thats bad." But when I played for the first time, it looked like its a nice game, but I shouldnt play it for real money and until that Im ok. 2 years ago, in summer I found out about poker a little more and it turned out its not all about gambling.
Somewhere in 2009 September I found PokerStrategy.com, got 50$ and in the first 40 min I made like 28$ with SSS. Of course I was on heater, but I didnt knew about variance anything. I though that Im that good, that I dont need to stick to starting hand chart and you can imagine what happened there ♦
Till about 2010 April I was just busting some free starting rolls just like that and made few 10$ deposits too. But then I told to myself that I wont deposit anymore and will play freerolls till I get starting $. About in 2010 August I won 12$ from freeroll at Poker Stars. And then my journey began.
Won 1$ tournament for 110$ and about week after that 266$ at another 1$ for 5th place. In December I won 2.2$ 6-max tournament for 1.1k and started to play some 180's turbos and normals. In December I was up like 1.7k which was huge for me. January 2011 was the month I was introduced to variance big time (about 600$ downswing) but I managed to make BE month anyways.
Then I started to grind cash games 6-max mostly. Took everything out except 110$. In 35 days my Bankroll was 950$ and started NL25. Then I got quite sick downswing (about 30BI in 20k hands).
After that I just wanted to play some tournaments just to relax from cash games. Managed to get 2 FT's in 3 days (1k+ fields) but.. I failed at final tables. Played like week more and then I did came my turn. I finished in top 3 at Daily 40k for 5k$. It was 3-way chop. so now.. Im back at cash games, since I got back to regular 600$ downswing which I kinda deserved I guess ♦ In April I broke my volume record - played 140 hours (That may be the reason Im not doing that good at University ♦ ).
Now I deposited 800eur into 24h poker like week ago and have playing there like 4 days at NL20 eur now. And here is the graph so far:
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So Im in green now and thats good. ![]()
Short term Goals:
[ ] 50k Hands in May
[ ] Update blog at least once a week
[ ] Study more poker
[ ] Do as much as I can at University
[ ] Shot at NL50
Long term goals
[ ] Go pro
[ ] NL100 by the end of summer
[ ] NL200 by the end of this year
[ ] Buy something nice from poker earnings
The aim of this blog should be to start improve my game more and stay to my goals. Any ideas how should be my playing time vs study poker time ratio? At the moment its like 15:1. I dont think its even close to enough...
And some thread savers as requested. ![]()
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P.S. sorry about my english
I hope it will improve in time





