Friday, September 03, 2010

Paying it Forward


If you haven't seen the movie pay it forward, it was a decent movie, but what I took from the movie was it had a pretty interesting concept.  basically this d00d conjures the notion of paying a favor not back, but forward--repaying good deeds not with payback, but with new good deeds done to three new people.  Since a really good friend helped me out with my poker and staked me a bankroll to get started, I wanted to pay it forward.

One of my friends is stuck in the same situation as me, no bankroll to get anything going.  His play is good enough to be a winning player at the moment and is always improving, so I wanted to help spyder along the way and show him the mistakes I made the first time, so he don't have to do the same thing and lose his bankroll. I've made 5k from a 50$ deposit in 2005, so with determination and grinding it out it is definitely possible by sticking with the bankroll management rule only spend 5% of your bankroll on any buy-in.  I found out helping and teaching other people how to play poker helps your own game in many ways as well, so we both get something out of it.  



I just got done helping my friend spyd3r try to get a bankroll on a few sites so hopefully all of them will go through.  I've spend the past few days setting up all my stuff onto my pc instead of playing on my laptop, so I have a bigger screen and more powerful and can do so much more with dual screens.   before I was starting to multitable with the tile tabling the poker tables, but that was just to much mouse movement and decided to stack my tables instead.   

The thing is, I already setup all my huds for the smaller table sizes so i had to set them all up again for full screen tables.   I can fit way more stats on there now though, so I'm much more happy now, so I can learn all the stats now and get better at using them when needed when i multitable. The HUDs don't help you play poker, they are more or less little notes to help you out, especially when you are playing more then one table and have to move very quickly from one table to another.  

I have 30 more days to get his bonus and time is getting shorter and shorter, I really want to finish this goal because I don't like to fail. I'm going to spend one more day configuring table ninja which is this program that helps me multi-table much more easier ( it's pretty much a AHK script program) and then I'm going to be super busy playing nothing but poker all day long.  Tomorrow I'm also going to figure out how many bonus points I need to acquire each day in order to get this bonus as well.   I'm way to tired to do it now, plus my schedule is all fugged up.

I know I'm not even close to being pro yet, but I do have a lot of knowledge to share with anyone willing to listen, and I also get trained myself from pros, articles, poker schools, forums and more it's all out there for you to soak your brain up on. The only thing that I am missing and want right now is a poker buddy that I can talk to and relate too.  I haven't found a friend in real life or even online that I can talk to on a regular basis about poker yet, and I've been looking for a few months now.  Sure, I talk to people about poker in chat rooms here and there, but no poker buddy yet.   When I do found someone that is as passionate about it as I am, it will improve my game even more, and I can't wait until that day comes.   I just hope it comes soon!

Monday, August 30, 2010

34 more days left for my Deposit Goal!

I'm trying to achieve a first deposit bonus goal, and was trying to get the most out of it so I did the max deposit, which was 600$ match on your deposit bonus. I have until Oct 3rd, to get this bonus so I have
34 days left to get the full bonus and it takes 185 points to release $11.50 cash into your account. The thing is i'm pretty much am a tournament player, that's where my game is best. I also found out you don't get that many points for playing tournaments compared to how many you get playing cash games.

I figured this is the best time for me to improve on my cash game, but I don't want to loose my whole bankroll trying to get this bonus. Right now I'm runnin bad, down about -$120, and have $34.85 so far from the bonus being released. ( it's released in $11.50 incriments ) I've been trying to take advantage of the bonus hours there are 3 times a day, since you get double in points. I think playing those x2 Bonus Hours are very important if I want to get this full bonus.


Earned: $34.85
Expires: Oct. 03
Days Left: 34 days
Goal: get full $600 bonus


Can it be done?   I also put up a countdown clock, to get me more motivated and to poop my pants when I see I only have a couple weeks left!     Right now I'm converting all of my poker related stuffs over to my main PC, where I have dual monitors and more of everything I need, so I can multi-table a bunch of tables.
 Right now it's way too small and scrunched up doing it on my laptop.   Time to build a War Room!