Long time no see / Micro Millions V

Hello everybody,

It's been quite a while, since my last blogpost. Decide to stop with the long term backing since my exams were coming up and I really needed the focus. But hey, I'm back!! Lots of personal stuff happened but since this is my poker blog I won't bother you guys with that. So, what's the next thing? Micro Millions V!!!! I'm so stoked to have the best series back for the small bankroll. Since I just graduated from High School I don't have that much money so I really love this series. These are the tournaments that I will be playing:

###	Game	Buy-in	Guarantee	Date	Time
001	NLHE HT R	$0,10	$15K	18-7-2013	18:00CET
003	NLHE 6M	$3,30	$50K	18-7-2013	20:00CET
017	PL Badugi	$3,30	$5K	20-7-2013	10:00CET
019	NLHE 4M	$4,40	$40K	20-7-2013	12:00CET
028	NLHE 6M	$5,50	$40K	21-7-2013	12:00CET
030	NLHE T HU	$3,30	$25K	21-7-2013	17:30CET
031	Stud8	$3,30	$10K	21-7-2013	19:00CET
034	NLHE 6M T SO	$5,50	$20K	22-7-2013	00:30CET
039	8-Game	$3,30	$5K	22-7-2013	14:30CET
040	NLHE 6M T KO	$5,50	$40K	22-7-2013	17:30CET
049	HORSE	$8,80	$15K	23-7-2013	17:30CET
057	NLHE 8M T SO SKO	$8,80	$10K	24-7-2013	14:30CET
066	NLHE	$2,20	$10K	25-7-2013	14:30CET
076	NLHE	$2,20	$20K	26-7-2013	17:30CET
086	NLHE	$1,00	$15K	27-7-2013	17:30CET
095	NLHE HT HU	$2,22	$20K	28-7-2013	17:30CET
098	NLHE ME	$22,00	$1M	28-7-2013	20:30CET
---	---	$84,73	$1,33M	---	---

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March recap.

What's up guys?! Long time no see/speak/read? Been very busy with school and also had to maintain my silver star vip status so was pretty busy. Nevertheless, here is my month recap.

My month started of pretty mellow, didn't play for the first 8 days of March because I had to wait 'till I could purchase HM2. (Only played the WBCOOP in which I managed to win 2x $11 SCOOP ticket in a DRAW event and the 8-game event if I recall that correctly.) When I could I went back grinding and I had 2 special scores this month. The first was my first ever final table in a big MTT, it was in a $1,10 6-max turbo event with 3.627 players in it. I unfortunately busted in 6th because my AK couldn't win from the A9 my opponent held. (Pre flop all-in and the turn brought the 9. Just Bad Luck). I cashed for $63,47 which also is my biggest score yet. A few days later I went on to play the $3,30 6-max MTT and I went fairly deep in that one too. I eventually finished 10th after my AQ lost from my opponents JT. Still I cashed for $61,80 and my bankroll got a pretty nice boost. After that score me and my backer decided I would play $3,50 sng's from now on if I had the buy-in + $250 in my bankroll. (If I had $253,49 or less I would play $1,50 sng's again.)That went pretty well and my bankroll stands currently at a nice $326,47.

What's next?
April has arrived and I've set some new goals for myself. First of all the most important things are making a profit and maintaining my silverstar vip status. Then there is my additional bankroll goal and i've set the bar quite high for myself. First I thought: well, I could probably do $400 this month but no. I'm making it a bit harder for myself, to motivate me even more. My bankroll goal for this month is $500. So, let's just see how things will turn out.

03-04-2013

Goal for amount vpp's: 500
Vpp's needed to be on schedule: 50,00
Vpp's earned this month: 80,92
Goal for bankroll end february: $500+
Bankroll: $326,47,95

WBCOOP!

So, I have to tell you guys what my best Pokerstars moment has been so far. Honestly, for me that’s probably a lot harder than for a Pokerstars pro or a 25 year old player. But Still, if I want to join the World Blogger Championship Of Online Poker I have to share my best moment so let’s think about this for a moment.

I turned 18 in October 2012 so I’m not even 18 for half a year. But now I can play, I can play mtt’s, sng’s and cashgames. I can do what I want to do, and I can do what I’m passionate about. I learned to play poker when I was 14 years old, playing the games with a couple of friends, just for fun. I fell in love with the game and kept playing, everyone moved on and stopped playing but all I wanted to do was play. So when I could, I did. I started playing and playing, people from the forum backed me and I was able to play tournaments I could only dream about playing. And yes, I dreamt about playing $1,10 tournaments, and winning them. I didn’t win a tournament yet, but I’m working on that part of the dream. I now have a long term sit and go backing. I play 6-max single table tournaments ($1,50) and I love it. Friends asked me why I liked playing for change and I think it’s just my passion for the game. I would play 10 hours a day if I could, just playing for play money. You might wonder right now what exactly my best moment is, and I think that was a session I played on the 6th of this month. I played 26 games which was a lot for me then. Now I play like 40 games a day, so still not a lot. There are players out there playing 26 games at the same time, but I couldn’t, so I didn’t. The best moment was finishing the session and seeing I was $24,36 up, which is 25% of my start roll. I love playing and I think that is my best moment. Although when I think about it now, every moment I’m able to play on Pokerstars is a best moment. The best moments I have is when I’m behind my computer screen and I am able to play the most wonderful game in the world.

Fortunately I still have all the time in the world. I’m only 18 years old and yes, there are things out there that will become better moments. Playing the Sunday million is a dream like that, winning my first big mtt is one. Until the time I can play big tournaments, I will be grinding low stakes sng’s and hopefully becoming silverstar this month.

So, this is my entry for the World Blogger Championship Of Online poker. If you would like to join the World Blogger Championship Of Online Poker you can send your 500 word blog to Pokerstars by using there widget on the website.

"Let there be better moments"

A little bit of trouble

What's up guys!

Been offline for a little while. Had some personal issues to deal with and my mindset was totally off. So uhm yeah, we're back now! My mindset is good and so is my play. Now following I will post a short summary of everyday I played since my last update.
18-02-2013
games:46
win/loss:-$13,17
19-02-2013
games:9
win/loss:+$4,72
20-02-2013
games:9
win/loss:-$10,33
21-02-2013
games:18
win/loss:-$1,67
As you can see I just played worse because things going on. Well, today went better!
Today I went for 3 mtt's, a $3,30 and two $2,20's. Unfortunately I only managed to cash in the $3,30 tourney but I finished 76th after losing a 50K pot with AK > AT pfai. Well, too bad, had 11K left and shoved with AT in 88's and didn't manage to hit. Still cashed $11,35 though so no complaining from my side. Played 24 sng's today and played okay, still think there is room for a lot of improvement. The total of my sng's today is +$1,61. So together that's +$5,26. So now i'm back grinding, I hope I can still make silver star. Still have 3 days left so should be an easy game.

In my last blog I was talking about the WBCOOP and I asked pokerstars staff if my blog was old enough to compete and the answer was YES! So tomorrow or the day after I will write a blog as entry and ofcourse post it here. When I get my 10 tickets I'll try to play as much 6-max NLHE events as possible. Also very intrested in Playing the PL 5 card draw, the horse, 8-game and shoot-out/heads-up events. Will keep you guys updated on that as well. Expect my WBCOOP entry and after that a summary of the month February on March the 1st.


25-02-2013

Goal for amount vpp's: 500
Vpp's needed to be on schedule: 446,43
Vpp's earned this month: 425,59
Goal for bankroll end february: $100+
Bankroll: $129,95(got a couple of bonusses)

13-02-2013

What's up guys!? This blog update is going to be a little longer than usual. I'm going to talk about my sessions today and yesterday, I will talk about the WBCOOP and I will talk a little bit strategy-ish.

Sessions
Okay, so first of all, my sessions. 2 days ago I played 8 games after I posted my blog and won $6,22. I was running pretty good but when I woke up yesterday morning I must've hit some sort of switch. Yesterday I played 22 games and lost -$8,85. Not that good. I think my game was just fine, maybe some bad luck? Today I woke up feeling not that good. Called school to say I was sick. In fact, after the winterclash weekend I just had too less sleep. So after a couple extra hours of sleep I thought of playing online and I sat down. After my first 27 games I was up $2,98 and everything was going okay. I also played a $1,10 turbo 6-max mtt and cashed $4,10, so that's also a profit of $3,00. Then I went to the supermarket to buy some groceries for my mother and after dinner I started grinding again. After 23 games I was up just a little. $2,33. Then I took a little break to play guitar and well, it got ugly when I started playing again. I played another 15 games and managed to cash in only 2! A first and a second place finish. After all it could be worse so with a total loss today of -$5,85 I should be 'happy'.

WBCOOP
So, yeah. World Blogging Championships Of Poker return to pokerstars! I would say: "wonderfull!!" but no. Pokerstars tweeted me that your blog should be a month old, and sice my blog was made on february the 4th I may not get in! I'm still going to mail them if I could take part, it's just 4 days. If I'm allowed to play I would play shootout events, 6-max events and HORSE, since that still is my favorite game.

Strategy!!
First of all, I'm just a nit. I'm playing these sng's for a little longer than 2 weeks at the moment so I don't know everything. My game is far from perfect but I'm still sharing some things I found playing these games. First of all, one thing that really caught my eye is players bluffing on the river. Here I have an example of a play I've really seen a lot of times.
we're just a couple of hands in the game so the blinds are still 10/20, we're playing 5 handed and we're in the big blind. Player 1 limps UTG and everybody folds but the small blind, he also limps. So, we go to the flop 3 handed and the board comes 9s4c6s. We hit top pair. Small blind checks and we bet the pot of 60. First limper folds and SB calls. The turn is an ace of diamonds, SB checks and we decide to slow down and check. The river brings the ace of clubs and i'm fairly sure SB doesn't have an ace, so we have the best hand. But now SB takes the lead and bets 1/3rd of the pot, 60 in a 180 pot. I see this play a lot and I think personaly that if he would have a better hand that he would've made a bigger bet. I decide to call and villain shows 64, just a pair of sixes.
So, what do you guys think? Probably not playing tomorrow because I have training with the debate club. Will post another entry on sunday or monday, Have a good weekend!!

13-02-2013

Goal for amount vpp's: 500
Vpp's needed to be on schedule: 232,14
Vpp's earned this month: 317,13
Goal for bankroll end february: $100+
Bankroll: $136,24

11-02-2013

'sup guys! I'm back from winterclash and really enjoyed it. Now i'm back, let's grind again!! Yesterday I started playing but it really wasn't going well. I took a break after 15 games because I was down -$9,04. In the evening I played another 5 games and managed to end the day with just -$6,24 down. Today I played 24 games and won $9,14 and also managed to release a bonus of $10! So that's a profit of $19,14 today! Still, I'm not really statisfied about my games. Of the 202 games I played on this computer I bubbled 40 times. that's around 20% of the time and I think it's still too much! 43 times first and 46 times second is okay, still need to work on my bubble and heads-up game though.

11-02-2013

Goal for amount vpp's: 500
Vpp's needed to be on schedule: 196,43
Vpp's earned this month: 218,57
Goal for bankroll end february: $100+
Bankroll: $144,72

(i'm in here somewhere ;) )

Little update

Today i'm just giving you guys a little update. Out of town at the moment so I will not be able to play poker this weekend. 26 games yesterday and I was running hot! Today I ran like shit but managed to make a little profit from 12 games.

07-02-2013

Goal for amount vpp's: 500
Vpp's needed to be on schedule: 125
Vpp's earned this month: 175,01
Goal for bankroll end february: $100+
Bankroll: $131,82