My glorious adventures

Okay my adventures are not glorious..except this one time with a paintball grenade. However let me explain myself. I am a 25 yr old college male from Cincinnati Ohio. I drink but do not smoke pot. I started playing online poker for real money just on a whim because I was bored. I have been playing for about three months now. At first I deposited 20 dollars here and there with ups and downs like any new idiot player. I then discovered a little program called calculatem pro and a few used books that help me establish an ABC type game. So at that point the deposits lasted longer. Finally I found cards chat, moshman, and PT3. I am now a winning poker player with over 500 games logged on bodog.

This month I have played over 100 3.30 10 handed sit n gos with....tada an ROI of 37.94. Overall I am running a 5% ROI. My current April ITM is 44.44. I have had swings and such like everyone else but I am beginning to feel I have got to a point where I will be producing more then I am consuming financial in the online world of texas holdem. FYI.. February was a positive month where I took 20 and turned it into 100. March was a low positive ROI. April has been a huge boost to my confidence. I will continue to study hard. I will continue to poop and read moshman. I will continue to find every edge possible in this game until some jackass named isildur(LOTR rip..how unoriginal) becomes some stupid asshole named isildur.

I digress..

Currently the world of bodog is becoming to short sighted of my goals. I plan on moving to fulltilt or pokerstars in the next month or two in order to expand my multitabling and to play a larger pool of fish. Not to mention they have a whole different sng structure that I plan on trying out.

Any suggestions on a site? I need rakeback. It will increase my ROI dramatically. From what I understand fulltilt can be rakedback at 27% or so. So if Im paying .30 per game with 500 games logged that equals out to 40.5 dollars. Which is a huge bankroll boost to my 300 dollar account.

Current goals:

Continue the transition from 3.30 10 man to 6.60 10 man
Master 6.60 10 man and move to fulltilt
Increase from 2 table max to 4 table max
Work on more practice sessions with SNgWHIZ
Review CChat HH and post more HH.

Maybes: Find a coach or get coached for free ???
Stop being full of myself
Stop yelling in the chatbox when my KK loses to A2
Purchase a better computer(more tables better database speed)

Ifs:
Quit my job
Become good enough to coach
provide useful advice to new players


Hope you enjoyed my random post

If anyone wants to come party poker it up in the Nati just hit me up and we can drink play poker, bar hop, disc golf, paintball( ex pro) street hockey, shag some fly balls, double team..cough..ice cream...cough.. or help me cheer for the reds!! Peace out my gangstas

FYI I didnt bother to read through this twice..so just go to hell if you cant figure it out!

I have always been intrigued by your SN here at CC. A bit of a disappointment to find out, not only do you not smoke pot, but are a guy as well.....

But seriously, good luck with your endeavors. You can get rakeback at tilt, and there are many ways to d it with. I wont endorse any method here, as CC is not the place to do that. But google is your friend here.

Good luck.

To your goals:

1. Current:
You will need years (IMO) to master any game. It is a great goal, but understand that you will want many more games than you currently have played under your belt to have a decent size to even begin to understand what you need to work on next.

SnGwiz is a VERY hard program to use correctly. IMO reviewing your game wit it is a bad idea. It is a good tool to use for the correct situations, but unless you are really good at guessing opponents ranges, SNGwiz can be as harmful as it is good. Doing practice sessions with it is also a risky thing. (Dont get me wrong, its a great tool, just I dont think it is a great toll for GAME analysis, but rather HAND analysis in specific situations)

Multi tabling is a process, and you should always be keeping an eye on your ROI and adding tables as you continue, and over the course of 1000's of games, you will soon start to see the trend and know when you are ready to add more.

2. The maybes.
Coaching: Look at some training sites. Drag the bar offers a free trial through CC. A coach is a good idea, but really only good if you have LOTS of experience and can realy utilize the info. Otherwise a coach will just charge you a lot of money to teach you stuff you can learn for free or for a subscription fee to a training site.(They cost, and that is fine, so be at the point where you are ready to have a coach)
+1 to all of your other maybe points

3. Ifs:
Unless you hate your job, and have another one, I would not quit.

Look at any coaching site with successful coaches, and see what they did before becoming a coach. Nothing wrong with this goal, as long as you plan on playing winning poker for many years as a pro, or at least a high volume semi.pro, first.

Always give advice, if you think you know what your doing. If your advice is wrong, you will get responses saying why, a great way to improve your own game. Giving bad advice will get you flamed by a lot of posters, but will also reveal some of your own leaks to you.

Anyway, here I am giving advice, and I am anything but a pro, so that is a goal that is quickly achieved

Good luck.

Thanks for the post!!

Just to explain my name...

I started reading all of these poker books and some of them kept talking about online table image. I thought that a pot smoking woman would be taken less seriously them a guy named Mr.Lawgrad or IdontdrinkwhenIplay. I dont know if it changes anyones perception of me at a table in a negative or positive way but I have always convinced myself that if variables are to change I want to be the one manipultaing them. Another way I do this is by jabbering crazy things in the chat box frequently. Even while playing with 2 or 3 tables.

Anyways just a random "tool" I picked up from a book that may do nothing lol.

If I ever change my name to another site it will be screamingfemininetiltbaby

I have never personally played Bodog so I can t speak to the level of play. From my own experiance I mostly have played UB and have always liked the level of play there as there are many fish and break even players and only a few very good players who you get to know and can play acordingly.

I started playing full tilt a few months ago and yes there are a lot more games but the level of play IMO is a lot better than UB (I would imagine it is the same for Bodog). I would advise not to expect the same level of profitability as you currently have at bodog right away. You are going to need to adjust a little...

I would suggest keeping your BR in bodog and starting a new one at FT. This way you can keep playing bodog where you know you have been successfull and can tranistion your game to FT.

I think your Current goals and your Maybe goals are all good things you should work towards. I cant speak much to coaching or SnGWhiz as I am not familure with the program and do not have a coach (considering it in the next year if my BR will support it).

If your ultimate goal is to play full time there is a lot of warnings that people will tell you and would be wise to listen to (there are a few good discussions here on CC). I say keep the faith if it is what you want but listen to the advice as if it were easy everyone would do it.

Anyway Good luck and I look forward to reading your HH and advice (even though you dont smoke pot).

Good luck with your poker venture.
Full tilt does offer rakeback through a few sites, while pokerstars does not, they do have a rewards program, however I am not sure how good it is compared to rakeback. I know you need to play alot of volume.
imo your screen name is brilliant. I had you pegged for a chick stoner.

Not to hijack this thread and turn it into a poker site debate but I started my first poker account on the merge network. I ended up losing two min deposits there and I also heard rumors about the site. So I remembered all those bodog commercials back in the day and joined up there. I currently have a friend who plays at UB and FT. Both of which seem to be full of fish when I watch him play.


Anyways if your at all curious I played 3-4 6.50 turbos last night and didnt place in any of them. I reviewed all of my plays towards high and mid level blinds and I simply lost my hands to "variance" ie I lose winning hands some times to weaker hands. In fact a few of the regulars I was playing against were laughing at me for my bad luck even though they are the ones who got lucky. I think the biggest hand thats killing me is my KK which in the past 5 possessions has ended up being a 3bet shove. One of which ran into pocket AA(fine it happens) and the other one I remember was a shove on a loose aggressive who played a5s and ended up flopping his full house. Kind of a disappointing evening but it happens.