DREAMCAT Crushing/Rebuilding roll

Recap of week 2. Started off strong with grinding out 25h hours first 3 days. And then my plan was to study C# and play poker on either friday or saturday. Didn't go exactly as planned.... I went on a couple of dates and then out drinking both friday/sat... ♠_mad: So basically no studying done, which I'll get done now this week instead. I won like €1400 in the sunday grind yesterday which was nice and well needed (gotta pay the rent etc, haha). Not counting that into my bankroll challenge as it's on other sites and as I withdrew it. A great week life-wise, but a bit angry at myself for not doing what I was aiming to get done. Ah well, there's no time like the pres---.,,,. tomorrow? Or what's the saying?

Here goes the failed/done-list for week 2:

I feel you could elaborate on that:

I went on a couple of dates

Whats your strategy for those type of HU's ?

Originally posted by SvenBe
I feel you could elaborate on that:

I went on a couple of dates

Whats your strategy for those type of HU's ?

Obv it's pretty villain dependent, but my normal style going in is LAG I'd say ♠_biggrin: Last week was a couple of girls I've been seeing before and one first-date as well! This week I've already managed to get in one first-date (last night). I'm on a roll, for sure.

Easter week! We have a tradition with some of my crew that we drink bacon drinks on the Friday, all in the honor of Jesus Christ obviously. I'm usually the one hosting and same goes this year! What it means more or less is that we get together, mix the cheapest vodka drinks we can, fry up bacon, put in glass (preferably while hot and not quite done - it's to remember Jesus suffering), drink, go out, wake up, have regrets.

So until then I'll try to do stuff I need to do! I'll do my best to stay sober on Saturday, so that I can be fresh on Sunday for the MTT-grind.

Gonna go easier on the weekly goals for this reason and also b/c I want a week where I can cross it all off, to gain momentum.

Goals week 3:

Gonna hit the casino for first time in a long while on Wednesday! Day 1c of a small 2-day MTT. Best of luck to me!

Man that looks so disgusting. but have fun!

Made it through today's tourney at the casino. Day 2 is on Monday! Have a bit over avg and gonna ship, obviously.

Honestly, I would love to try this

Nice blog. So excuse my ignorance.... but being a Brit...

What stakes are you playing? In your currency and how much is this in UK or $?
What is your current bb/100 ? (you seem to be doing very well, but just trying to understand it)
How many hours a day are you playing?

OK interrogation over haha

Originally posted by InHansFootsteps
Nice blog. So excuse my ignorance.... but being a Brit...

What stakes are you playing? In your currency and how much is this in UK or $?
What is your current bb/100 ? (you seem to be doing very well, but just trying to understand it)
How many hours a day are you playing?

OK interrogation over haha

You're excused, haha. :f_love::f_love:

Im playing NL500SEK (Swedish Kronor) right now, which is like NL€60. I'm soon back to where I usually play, which is NL€120-ish (NL1000SEK).

Since I started this blog and NL500SEK my bb/100 is 9.11, which I think/hope will increase to about 11-12 when enough hands are played. I'll try to get in like 25-30h cash game/week during these 3 months that I've set aside for the blog. Usually I think it's around 20h/ week.

Week 3 done. A lot of dating, too little poker. Sums it up pretty well! Drank/went out both friday+saturday too which I told my self I shouldn't. It was great fun though! This week I'll compensate with trying to stay sober every day and get in a lot of poker! Gonna kick of the week with playing day 2 (final day) of the live tournament I played last week. Starts in a couple of hours and I'm gonna win it, for sure.

List from week 3:

Weekly goals for week 4:

The weekend is here! I've already turned down a date, two drinking proposals and now I'm gonna reg up a bunch of tourneys to play beside the cash game. Got a chili stew on the stove and a great feeling. NOT GOING OUT TONIGHT, BASTA.

Also finally today moving back to NL1000Sek, gonna hop down if I drop 2-3 BIs though, mostly because I cba.

Broke even in cash games last night, managed to win ~1 BI from tourneys though! More important, stayed home! Going for same tonight, no drinking, just grind my ass off. Looking forward to a sunday grind not being hungover!

Fourth week has passed! Great week overall. I decided that I wanted to get back on track poker wise, so I postponed the studying for at least this week. A lot of focus on poker, played a good 50 hours of cash game. Managed to stay sober for the whole week (starting to sound like a borderline alcoholic, haha...), which simply put feels great. Really nice to book a solid plus as well, to embed being sober as a good thing. I also moved back to my normal hunting ground, NL1000sek, which was really nice. I've missed the guys there (not). Realized that the difference I've mentioned before between NL500sek and NL1000sek is very real, way softer on the lower one and it sure attracts more fish. But that being said my hourly will be higher on NL1000sek and my plan is to actually continue climbing - once and for all. Why I haven't done this before is cause I've never built a roll big enough to play higher (too lazy). It's really the same guys all the way up to NL5000sek, but obv the swings will increase and thus a bigger roll is needed.

The to-do-list done/fail for week 4:

I've finished my (first) challenge on the Get Rich or Die Tryin' - The Bankroll Challenge!
Turned €1000 into €5000 over four weeks. :f_biggrin::f_biggrin::f_biggrin:

Here's graphs for the 4 weeks of play:
Cash graph:

Tourney's:

As you might see I've actually won more than €4k but I've done a couple of withdrawals along the way which I've not counted towards the challenge goal.

Week five! This week I might just keep on putting in a lot of volume as I've got no drive towards studying right now. Have a few plans for the nights of the week so I'll see how it ends up. Here's the to do list for this week!

Week 5 to-do:

Gonna try out a new poker room other than my usual Svenska Spel. Just did a deposit on Titan for €1500 and the aim is to grind through at least three months there, to clear the bonus+take use of the gemstone promotion. Gonna do this as a Get Rich or Die Tryin' challenge as well!
Starting roll:€1500
Goal:€10000.

Week 5 has passed and it consisted of me (poker-wise) learning the meta/paradigm of titan poker, mostly. It differs quite a bit from the site I usually play, so I gotta adapt some.

Here's the to-do list from last week:

Here's the new to-do list for week 6:

Start with duolingo

Week 6 has passed. Got in a fair bunch of poker and finaltabled two mid-ish tourneys, no major score but fun to reach that far though. I'll ship one soon! Cash game wise nothing major either, slight loss on both main site and titan, but covered it up and then some with the tourneys

Also got published with a small interview here on pokerstrategy ♠_biggrin: Here's link to that

The week 6

Did party abit too much this week, drank 4 nights where one of them where the classic all nighter black out. I'm gonna take a leave from alcohol for a while, speculating on going for it permanent. Sure, it's amazingly fun and I truly enjoy it in the moment. But on the other hand it might simply put just not be worth it. When going through last year or so party-wise it hasn't really given me anything. If I wouldn't party I'd still see girls, still hang out with friends, but I would've gotten like 2+ extra days per week. And just be nice to my body in general. And drinking less when drinking is easier said than done. Might try it a bit harder in a while, but first a well deserved break!

Wow, full tilt has an own youtube channel with all the old PAD in HD. WOW. And there is a cash game week I've missed. WTF! Haha, I must have seen the rest a dozen times.

Entertaining read.
GLHF