Operation: Stack dem hoez!

Yeah so the thread title is gheyaments, but I could not think of anything else to go with my SN. Whatever...

The Past
Alright so it's blogging time.. First a little background. I'm a 20 year old college junior majoring in criminal justice. I was first introduced to poker at the age of 16, when I would donk around in my dad's home games ($10 buyin). I took a liking to the game, and began to hold my own home games till the time I graduated. During that time I began playing around with online poker. Generally it was just for play money, but every once in a while my dad would let me log onto his account and play some low buyin SNGs. Well at 18, I moved off to college and damn near forgot about poker for the time being.

It wasn't until last December, while bored one night I decided to play a few freerolls on UltimateBet for the hell of it. So I did. And won nothing. So I decided to play a few more over the next week or so, and finally hit the jackpot. After 5hours or so of play, I cashed in 2nd place for a whole $7. My bankroll had begun. From December '07 to April '08, I nursed that $7 into ~$400 playing SNGs on UltimateBet (buyins ranging from $1-$11).

At this point, I made a decision. I realized that poker was an investment, and that I had been giving the opportunity to turn that $7 into a way of making money in the future, and began to play/study accordingly. I decided I was through with UB, and made the move to Pokerstars, depositing only $50 of the $400 (ldo bad mistake), to get my feet wet in cash games. That didn't work well, so I reverted back to sngs and got the roll to $340 as of June 4th '08 (following a 4th place in the FTR800). I decided I would give cash a go, and haven't changed back yet.

I started 10nl June 4th with a $340 roll. July 3rd I made the jump to 25nl with a $700 roll, after two failed attempts to move up. I spent a little less than a month at 25nl before making the jump to 50nl with a $1500 roll. From August till September that is where I was grindin'. At the tail end of August, I hit the $3k BR benchmark I had set, so I took my stab at 100nl on Stars. And that's where I can be found as of now. A very low stakes donk just looking to improve and make some money in the process.

The Present
As stated, right now I'm grinding 100nl on Stars. My BR right now is ~$5600, after coming off my best month last month after starting this little journey ($3k). Although I have moved through all previous stakes in approximately a month, things will be different with 100nl. I obviously realize my roll needs to be padded a little more. That coupled with the fact that I am unemployed, and will hopefully withdraw $1k per month to live on, has determined that my stay at 100nl will be a little more prolonged. This is perfectly fine with me. As a college student $1k per month is more than enough to get by on (kinda sad isnt it?). And I know at this present time I am nowhere close to possessing the skill set I need before moving to 200nl.

The Future
I've set forth a few goals for myself this month in an attempt to become more accountable. Here's the list I have as of now:

60k or more hands (I am seriously lacking in amount of hands played. Best month so far is only 40k)
$3k profits (meh.. I realize there is a possibility of downswings etc, and that it might not be best to set a monetary goal. However, it doesn't hurt to shoot for something, and I figure matching my best month to date isn't a terrible place to start)
Re-read NLHET&P, and at least one new poker book (PNL?)
Prepare for 200nl


So that's what we have to work with for now. That's my entire poker story. Where I've been, where I'm at, and where I hope to go. I'll try to keep up to date with a day-by-day summary of how many hands played, money won/lost, and all the other basic bullshit everyone does. So if you are still with me here, then enjoy. And please offer any advice, comments, critiques, criticisms, flames, and anything else you want. It will keep me in line and on the right track. Peace for now.

So I guess "Operation: Get Better than Kingnat" is more of a sub-operation now? Also, I'll be on you to make sure you get those hands in. :P

I realized that I have a ways to go to catch Kingnat. Fucker is at 200nl now... And I only run good some of the time, so it will be hard to defeat him.

Current monthly Summary
Oct 1st - 1158 hands...-$181
Oct 3rd - 133 hands...+$52
Oct 4th - 4575 hands...+$432
Oct 5th - 4067 hands...+$563
Oct 6th - 3020 hands... +$19

Total = 12953 hands...+$886.

Well stax, you know this will be one of the very few blog things I follow. GL in the future, and Nice on the past.

only 1450736 more hands til 100k profit !

Originally Posted by XxStacksxX

Although I have moved through all previous stakes in approximately a month, things will be different with 100nl. I obviously realize my roll needs to be padded a little more. That coupled with the fact that I am unemployed, and will hopefully withdraw $1k per month to live on, has determined that my stay at 100nl will be a little more prolonged. This is perfectly fine with me. As a college student $1k per month is more than enough to get by on (kinda sad isnt it?). A

this is all so cool! a month per stake, decent roll, pulling out money, supporting yourself through poker. Nice. Have you thought about getting the Full Tilt free $600? could be worth doing...

Originally Posted by fat-b

only 1450736 more hands til 100k profit !

you forget about rakeback and bonuses

you the man staxx

go get em

good to see you on an operation stacks. i'll be keeping up with you as we're in the same neck of the woods (clarksville, tn here)

meh... not bad....

not bad for a thinking player

op is gay

Originally Posted by daven

Have you thought about getting the Full Tilt free $600? could be worth doing...

I haven't tried that bonus out yet.. It may be something I will go for in the near future.

Originally Posted by reDZill4

op is gay

lub you too red!

Summary
Oct 7th - 873 hands...+$141
Total - 13826 hands...+$1027
(9k fpps from the Platinum $650 bonus)

Didn't get to get in nearly as many hands as I intended to. My internet kinda gayed up on me today and I could barely play, so I ended up like 4 tabling tha man hands (gay!). It's whatever though. Hopefully I can get some in tomorrow, and if my internet is still gay tomorrow I'll be heading to the library on campus thursday to get in my hands, and grinding my ass off this weekend to make up for the hands.

stack dem hoes!! awesome!

For Fucks Sake.. I played absolutely HORRIBLE today... The results could have been a lot worse I suppose. Just sucks to be out of internet for a few days itching to play the entire time, then first shot back play bad. I'll hopefully play better tomorrow.

Summary
Today - ~2200 hands...-$246
Total - 16270 hands...+$782

Step 1. Get better internet
Step 2. Play pokar
Step 3. Profit

(Step 4. Update blog)

Luls your sooo right jinxx!

Quick update: (Step 1) The internet at my apartment blows terribly. It's through my apartment, so there is some shitty contract that says I can't switch ISPs, so instead I tried to upgrade my internet with the current ISP; however, that fell through as well because, well they "only offer us the basic internet package"! "WTF???!?? Bitch I need the internet".. "Sorry"... "SHIT!"

So I'm looking into getting internet through my cellphone provider, but not sure how well that is gonna work out. Good news is apparently, my current ISP is bringing something new in in the next two weeks that should speed everything up. However, given I am sharing the network with like 1k+ other peeps, I doubt it will help too fucking much.

So I have been unable to play during the week for the most part, which leads to step 2. The 60k+ hands for the month probably won't happen. Right now I have:

39200 hands
$2711 profit
3.45ptbb/100

I may be able to get the other 20k if I get all my schoolwork out of the way and get to work this weekend.


As a side note, I am only Platinum star. I have around 60k vpps to go till SuperNova, and until this week had intended to give my best go at getting SN. However, if I can't play during the week this is gonna be super difficult. If the internet gets sorted out by November or so, I feel I'll have a pretty decent shot. If not, better luck next year imo.

LESS EXCUSES MORE GRINDING IMO

Originally Posted by Bbickes

LESS EXCUSES MORE GRINDING IMO

Yes sir.. I will try.

I got up early this morning and went my campus library to grind. If that isn't ballin' I don't know what is. So my small morning session turned out to be quite nice.

October 23th
973 hands
$345
17.73ptbb/100

October Totals
40172 hands
$3056
3.79ptbb/100

Originally Posted by BBickes

LESS EXCUSES MORE GRINDING IMO

What he said ^.

Just think of all that dough you'd have if you played more hands. Plus, you'd be that much closer to Supernova.