Hi guys,
I am JonathanSnow, 22 years old, and a fascinated pokerplayer. Four years ago i started playing poker, after i saw some TV-ads about poker after some televised tournaments. Then i donked around for quite some while, until i realised that there MIGHT be a strategy behind this game :DAfter i found out that poker isn't just a simple game but a game more complex than chess, i started thinking about poker nearly every day and tried to solve some problems i had in understanding the game. Let me say it this way: i am not done yet, not even close ;)
Since 2010 i have played poker semiprofessionally to finance my university studies in economics and business. I first started with the short-stack-strategy promoted by Pokerstrategy and luckily i instantly experienced a big upswing. In retrospect thats goob, because otherwise i might have quitted the game early on! With this upswing i moved up the stakes, starting from NL0,05/0,10 in Febuary to NL5/10(NL1k) in Dezember. I was playing at Everest Poker that time, and due to missing traffic i was bound to grind out all NL100 to NL1000 tables to get my 12 tables. While grinding out solid 5 to 10k each month on those extremly soft tables back then , i also started focusing on improving my game and skill. I spent about half the time grinding and studying, that seemed a good balance back then. Today i know that i would have made more money overall if i used that time just practicing on the tables while turning in big $$$$$.
But what i learned back then was, that you need really study poker everyday to keep up with the competition. So if you ever wanna play NL200+ and higher, you just need a sick determination to the game , and really put in a good work ethic otherwise you will just never come across NL50 limits.
Today i am grinding at Americas Card Room, and you can see me at the Tables NL100 to NL1000 sitting there, playing every fish that comes to my 6max games :D
What can you expect from this Blog?
Intresting pokerhands, graphs with sick swings :p , strategy content, some funny reallife stories and maybe some funny content you haven't seen on reddit maybe!So long,
JonathanSnow
Sent here from Reddit, I'm looking forward to your posts, and I'd love to see an equal amount of strategy as well as the reality of playing online poker for a living - stresses, worries, triumphs, saving techniques.
ReplyDeleteYes, that's the plan. Thank you for the encouragement!
ReplyDeleteI love the blog man. I totally agree with everything you say here. I think we can also say with certainty that if we quit thinking in terms of "winning and losing," and instead play the game with the intent of making the absolute best decision in every spot, we will have a HUGE advantage over our opponents who aren't thinking this way.
ReplyDeleteThank you Nicholas!
ReplyDeleteIn theory it sounds soooo easy, the problem is to really think this way, not just trying. But like everything related with poker it is a process, a kinda slow one ;)
Good luck at the tables