I need a fresh view of this...

Hey guys, got some interesting news for you guys today! I've been grinding microstakes now for quite a while, and reasonably successfully but it just hasn't been fun, I busted my online BR yesterday (which isn't that bigger deal) playing some 50nl which may have cost me but was actually FUN! I was beating the table quite nicely for a few hours and then this happened:

https://www.pokertableratings.com/hand-history/stars/40049822298/5247770757

Right now I'm going to take some time off online poker, I need to find a way of making this fun again for me, the last few months of grinding has not been that great, it's not the grinding I mind, but the insignificant rewards from the hours I've put in. I'm considering depositing a larger amount of my bankroll online and moving up the limits that way, or just avoiding cash games for a while and becoming and sng / tournament player, those aspects of my game are the weakest and could use some work! Either way I'll be keeping this blog up while I'm on this break and will carry on studying poker until I feel fresh enough to get back on!

News from Maxime

Hi guys,

Here it is, my first blogpost for TiltProofPoker. I finally managed to find the time to write a little. Let me introduce myself to those who don’t know me jet.

My name is Maxime and I’m of Belgian nationality. I’m 20 summers joung, and I plan on staying 20 too ;-).

I started playing poker in september 09 and I joined the guys on pokerstars about a month ago. Since then I’ve been a busy girl and I’ve racked up 52.000 hands at the cashgame tables.

I played different stakes at PokerStars:

At 2nl I played 23K hands with 7.8BB/100 or 75$ profit. I run steady at this limit.

At 5nl I managed to get over 40$ in 20K hands but a bad run of another 7K hands changed it back into 14$.

At 25nl I took a shot playing 1600k hands at this limit. Won some big pots but lost some more medium ones, turning this session into a – 20$ session. I find the level of aggression to be higher at this level then the lower ones.

While I played I got some bonusmoney to, I cleared the 10$ stellar bonus, and got 40$. Overall I turned my 90$ deposit into 195$ at the moment.

The main goal of this month was to get Silverstar status and I got that jesterday!! So the rest of this mont I wil play for the FPP’s and bonusmoney, and I’l also try some tourneys.

Next month I plan on getting goldstar playing mainly 5nl and 2nl, I should play +- 150K hands to achieve this.

Not too bad for my first post, I’ll keep you guys up to date.

Kinds regards, Maxime xxx

The SNG challenge

Hey guys, a challenge has just been thrown down between me, Craig and Andy, $10 starting BR and it's anything goes underneath the SNG tab on Pokerstars. Rake paid isn't included in the buy-in to keep it and once you've bust out, thats it!

The general consensus is that we'll all be broke before the first night but we'll keep you updated!

Back on the felt

Hey guys, after a (rather long) weekend of drinking and merrymaking I'm back at the felt with a fresh enthusiasm to play, I guess a few days rest every few weeks does wonders for your motivation and staying power!

Not much to report in the way of poker over the last few days for me, took down an sng or two on FTP on the train home but otherwise I'm looking to my fellow players to give you some interesting news, I'll relay it to you when I hear from them!

Hello again everyone, sorry for the lack of updates but I'm currently in London celebrating my birthday so my personal poker is taking a few days off!

However, to fill you in on some news from Andy! He played a $50 70 runner live tournament last night and ended up being railed by none other than his flat mate with 40 people left, Andy's AQs no match for his flat mates KK. Not disheartened he returned home and fired up an online session winning $30 on the cash tables and 1/2c stakes and taking down a $3 Omaha hi/lo sng for $15, not a bad way to finish the day!

Once life returns to normal I'll get back to playing more online and updating the blog more often, until then I plan to play a tournament or two up in London over the weekend and I'll see you on the other side!

When you run bad, redeposit withdraw winnings, whack up the number of tables and this is the result!

My best ever single day of 1/2c NL 9-max:

Swings and roundabouts

Craig and I had a bit of a role reversal today, Craig racking up a successful day on the felt, and I, very nearly busting myself through tiredness and stupidity.

Since withdrawing 85% of my bankroll at the end of December I was pretty sure I'd have another month like December, assuming in my head I could 'beat' the 1/2c games and would have $100 in my account pretty sharpish, but it was not to be. After a shocking January and a poor start to February the situation was dire, at times I dipped below $10 and alarms were going off, lights were flashing etc etc etc. One of these days came yesterday, and my sheer desire not to redeposit despite being well in the black overall can put me on tilt without having seen a card yet.

Luckily having people around me to calm me down, talk through my game a little I went back to my hand histories and started to look for my big leaks when I'm multitabling. A few hours I was back on the tables having made some (secret) adjustments to my game and pulled myself out of the hole I'd myself into and finished on a slightly healthier $20. Crisis adverted, for now.

£2000 giveaway, 1861/7870

£250 second chance, 1563/4314

Craig on the other hand had a much better day than the day before and racked up 4 $10 PLO Double or Nothing victories for a tasty $40 profit and then had a great run in the £2000 giveaway to start plugging the holes in his BR left on Tuesday!

£2000 Giveaway, 193/7870 - $2.84

Andy had an interesting first day with us at Tilt Proof Poker, getting emotionally scarred early on by a story including the himalayas, nudity, whisky, chequers and a monsoon in no particular order he managed to pull his game together despite this early setback to produce a solid days poker. He ended the day $4 up at $49, at one point dropping as low as $39, showing good resilience to keep going through the downswing to finish strongly. He lost a little in PLO hi/lo tourneys but cashed in the £2k freeroll for a second day in a row (despite missing the add-on period both days) and has vowed to limit himself to only 1 tourney a day excluding freerolls while he builds his bankroll.