donc's manly blog

Hello friends, this is my first blog attempt thanks for joining me. My poker story starts with play money in 2006, I was up to around 4 or 5 million. I then found out you could actually sell play chips for real money(still baffles me). I got $12.50 per million and my real money journey began and ended that same night after playing 5nl and getting down to $24 I decided to go to 25nl and proceeded to get it all in with a flush draw and then busto!

I had gotten my first taste of real money and it was pretty exciting although I was crushed going busto. A few months later after playing play money and working on my game there(lol bad idea) I deposited $50 of my own money! I knew this time I could beat the game. I played some 5.50 sit and go's cause I had made most of my play money playing big sit and go's. This time I lasted three days before going busto. Real money games seemed like such a huge barrier that I couldn't overcome. I didn't lose hope though. A few months after that I decided to try one last time with another $50. This time things went well. I started beating 5.50 sit and go's on stars. I adjusted to real money finally and got my roll up to about $520 grinding 5.50 sng's mainly. I cashed out $500 and my account sat there with $20 in it for about 2 years.

Fast forward to about 4 months ago. I come back to play some. Try my hand at 5.50 sng's again since that was my cash cow before. Variance hits me pretty hard and I'm only rolled for 3 games with $20! I place first with my last buy-in to put me around $23. Then I get all the way down to $2. What is my option? 5nl here I come!!! I find this super aggressive player and get it in good against him and double up through him twice, and bust him once more. I'm at $13 and I call it a night. I start reading up on poker online. I remember looking at lp.net back in 2006 a few times and come back here and take a look around again, it's a nice poker community I think. I grind my $13 up to around $60 pretty fast at 5nl. Then I jump on to .02/.05 and do well. Then I try 10nl and barely get 2.5 bb/100!(it's cursed!) I get my roll to $250 and take a shot at 25PL, put in 23k hands there for 8.30 bb/100! It went very well. Their are many more people that play NL over PL so I feel like I need to switch to 25NL so when I move up their will be more tables to play. I've put in 25k hands at 25NL and am just beating it for 4 bb/100.

Got my roll up to $1400 and took at a shot at 50nl. First night it goes well and I'm up $56. Second night I lose $130 in 5 minutes against a rivered full house, set over set, and a two pair catch on the turn vs my KK. It was brutal but seems pretty standard looking at others hand histories. It was just my turn to get the doomswitch I guess. Been playing 25nl since, slowly building the courage and the roll to take on 50nl again.

I just got Poker Tracker 3 and had poker stars send me my lifetime hand histories. Boy did I make some discoveries! I suck at tournaments/run bad. I'm guessing it's mostly suck though, just take a look at this graph! I've only entered them with money I've won from cash games and sitngo's and just here and there over the years. Looks like I found my biggest leak! No more tourney's for me. I hope you get a good laugh out of this, I sure did.



Cash games have been a different story, thank goodness.



I am really looking to improve my game if anyone has any suggestions. Hope you enjoyed the read and the tourney graph.

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