Hey guys I decided to start up a blog. In this first post I will tell a little about myself and my history as a poker player. I started playing poker with my buddies in home games in a bout 2003. I was completely awful, but then again so were they. I played only live for about a year mainly just with my buddies and by the end of that year I was probably the biggest or second biggest winner in a group of maybe 15 people who played with us a lot. With one of my other buddies I decided to give online a shot. We knew nothing about online poker but we threw $100 on partypoker and shared an account. We played mostly $5+1 SNG's and were broke within a month. I didn't play online for a few months after that as I wasn't even 18 and couldn't open my own account. When I turned 18 in the spring of 04 I opened my own account and deposited $500 of money that I had made from playing with my buddies or working at a restaurant called Perkins. I played NL25 strictly and after a few months of playing like a total nit(think 12/8) I had built it up to over $3k. I then moved up to NL50 still playing full ring which was more popular at that time, I killed that for another 3k in less that a month and moved up to NL100 where I would stay for about 6 months. This is where things really started to get rolling. I joined 2+2 and FTR and in the ensuing 6 months I made over 18k winning 8ptbb/100 and nl 100. I was elated and thought I was the man. I was still only playing 12/8 straight up nit and killing it. Keep in mind that at the time the games were incredibly soft. The highest game at the time was NL200 so I moved up to NL200. I absolutely destroyed it I make 20k in a matter of a few months and talked a lot of crap at the tables of the likes of PokerJedi, Kristelita/Alikings and other regs at the time. Then Party made a big change in the games. The games went from 50bb stacks to 100bb stacks and they opened up games all they way up to NL1000. I started playing nl600 right away but absolutely could not win. I broke even for a few months trying to figure out how to beat 100bb stacks. For some reason my 12/8 style that had killed 50bb stacks was not winning....so I studied. I cashed out about 20k of my roll leaving myself with a 20k roll and decided to learn to beat 100bb stacks. I started with my 20k roll at nl600 and for the longest time was barely beating the games. I maybe made 5k in the next 3 months. Then I decided to play an MTT one night. Something that I had never done before. I played a 10k guaranteed on Empire that night and won it. I was like hmm that was easy so I started playing MTT's for a while. I ran very well and ended up winning a ton of MTT's including a super tuesday on Party for 32k and before I knew it I had a 100k roll. I then started my next phase of poker and moved almost strictly to SNG's. I jumped right into 200+15 sngs and studied a ton. I read a lot on the STT forum on 2+2. I played 1000 of them with a 6% ROI and made a lot off them and rake back which at the time I was getting like 32% on eurobet. A skin of party poker. For about the next 6 months I strictly played SNG's and made about another 50-75k. I then had about a 150k roll. I grew bored with pushbotting SNG's and decided to hear back to cash. I studied MSNL and HSNL hands on 2+2 a ton for the next few months to figure out just what 100bb stacks changed in the game. After several months I was getting the hang of it and mostly 6-8 tabling nl600 and killing it for 6ptbb/100. I did this for the next year or so until party kicked off US players. I then moved much of my play to Bodog under the screen name Gambool and absolutely destroyed the games. This has led me to where I am today. Playing anything from 3/6-10/20 on Bodog and a few games on some other sites. I mostly 3-6 table and am doing very well for myself. I am currently in School and plan on going to Law School after undergrad. I am taking my sweet time taking only 12 credits per semester as I am in no rush to graduate since I probably make more now then I will then. Well thats my story hope you enjoyed it. Hopefully if I don't get too lazy I will post on here from time to time.
GL,
Gambool
2 comments:
Nice blog. I ran into you on bodog today, I was observing one of your tables.
Well, sounds like poker is treating you pretty good. I've been playing for about 8 months, putting time and energy into learning the game and hopefully I'll make some big scores like yourself.
Anyways, not sure if there's anything I can really comment on at this point, but if I see anything, I'll drop my two cents in.
Jared "pokerforcash.blogspot.com"
Thanks for reading. I wish you luck in your pursuit of moving up in stakes.
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