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Hi M2M,
I am very interested in the coaching you are offering and feel as though I meet the criteria you suggested for applicants quite well. My name is Erik and I am a 21 year old student enrolled in my final semester of a 4 year Honors Business Administration program at the Richard Ivey School of Business in London, Ontario. I entered the program hoping to become an Investment Banker but have since lost interest. Through my 4 years in school I have poured about $40,000 into my tuition out of my own pocket with the rest of coming from parental support. I currently have a line of credit with about $6,000 on it with the other $34,000 paid for through various jobs and stock market investments. When I leave University nothing seems more appealing to me then playing poker all day everyday and in December 2009 I set a personal goal for myself to see if I could make a $100 deposit (which I vowed to be my last ever if I did not succeed) into $7,000 by the time I graduate from school in order to do so debt free. If I succeed and feel confident with my skill level I will hold off on getting a job and see where I can go with poker.
I started playing poker when I was 16, playing $5 tourneys with friends. When I was 17 I convinced my Mom to put $50 on Partypoker for me. I remember talking to my dad after my first session where I lost my 40bb stack playing 25NL and wondering how the heck I could ever fold AJ on an A high flop. I dropped that $50 down to a final $5 minimum buy-in at 25NL (the minimum stakes offered then). I remember going all in with QQ pre and doubling up. From there I turned that $5 into over $5,000 through a ton of luck and probably very poor competition. I remember at one point playing 1000NL with a $1,500 roll and $400 stacks; basically I had no clue what I was doing. Anyways the run good eventually ended and I dropped around $1,000 and “quit”. In the next two years or so I slowly but surely blew through that entire sum of money one small deposit at a time. From there I didn’t play poker for a while but then at some point around a year ago I stumbled upon FTR and started reading about Bankroll Management, a concept I had never heard of. I decided I would deposit $200 and play 10NL. I dropped 3 buy-ins over about 5,000 hands and tilted; I brought my roll to a 200NL table and quickly lost it. This was the end of poker for another 10 months or so for me. Then came along November this year. Recruiters were all over my school and I had the tough “what the hell am I doing with my life?” decision and really couldn’t think of much I wanted to do other than move to British Columbia and be a snowboard/mountain bike bum. Then I remembered poker and how much I loved it. I decided without giving it a fair shot, controlling my emotions, and learning everything I possibly could, I could not fully quit. And I needed to fully quit to move on and figure out everything else. Since then I have read No Limit Hold’em Theory and Practice twice and understand all the concepts, I have also spent countless hours reading articles on FTR, 2plus2 and pretty much being obsessed with reading every hand posted on FTR and generating my own opinion (but not posting on hands I feel are above my head).
As far as my results are concerned my roll has gone from $100 to $1750 currently, with a peak of just over $2,000 (including bonuses). My screen names are head_felt on Pokerstars and headfelt on iPoker. At 20NL on iPoker I have made $221.08 in 6,616 hands and on Pokerstars at 25NL I have made $826.45 in 29,173 hands. Between the two sites I am down about $350 at 50NL in around 17,000 hands and am finding it quite a bit more difficult then 25NL; although my all-in expected value is around +$50 (running 8 buy-ins below). Currently I plan on playing 20NL on iPoker for a bit while I work on some things but have no problem taking a shot at 50NL at any time when my bankroll is above $1,500. At $3,500 I want to take a shot at $100nl but it all depends on how I feel I am playing. I currently am very comfortable playing 6-7 tables on my 13inch laptop and have a 24inch monitor ready to go when I log long sessions or if I want to try more tables later on. I play poker as much as I possibly can but try to achieve good grades in case this thing doesn’t work out. Last weekend I played for 35 hours between Friday, Saturday and Sunday but this weekend I likely won’t be able to play at all. Overall in the last 7 weeks I have played about 160 hours so you can get an idea of how often I get to log-on.
I do not have exact goals in terms of what I hope to get out of your coaching. The thing I love about poker is that there is always so much more to learn. Until Kmind mentioned it a few weeks ago I had never even considered 3-betting light, learning a few tips in this area just brought me one step closer to understanding what is happening at the table around me. Then I started learning about squeezing and each of these concepts opens up a brand new dimension to the game. As I begin to understand opponent’s moves and recognize the good players I continually am shocked with how much more I have to learn. It seems like daily I learn something that I do as standard is retarded and there is so much area for improvement. I cannot recognize all these things alone, even by reading every article in existence, so I feel like it would be a great opportunity for me to see what you think of my game. I am sure, especially after reading many of your posts on FTR, that with a little bit of coaching you could offer me insight that will improve my game and my learning exponentially.
Thank you for your consideration.
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Originally Posted by Donachello
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