I have a Mission

That is great. I hope you do it and inspire us all to keep trying.

My games of choice are MTT's online. I am just starting to play cash games again after about 2 months sharping my Poker skills!

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Ive been following ur blog for a while now and its very cool that u keep updating us. I like to see other players approach and the goals they set.
best of luck as ur journy continues and I look forward to it.
take care,
M

Great Post



Good Luck





Please keep me up to date on your progress.

Bankroll Building 101

I am surprised at the many posts asking where to find the freeroll and low cost entry tournaments I play. They are indeed out there. Again, read my post on U.S. Poker rooms.

Now I am going to tease you. There is going to be a Special Kentucky Derby Freeroll with the $5,000 Purse on Sunday. It is password protected but it's out there. Let's see who can find it beside me!


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The Mission has Its Bad Beats Too

Just so you know, my poker isn't always win, win and win. Today I took one on the chin. I went from 25,000 chips and 10th in a tournament with 100 players left to the rail in 3 hands.

1st hand, holding J9 suited. Flop comes JJ9. I smooth call and two other players stay in. Turn comes A. I raise and get re-raised big time. The other player turns over AJ and beats my full house with his.

2nd Hand, K10 suited and the flop comes J74 of spades. I have the flush. I push and 1 player stays in. Turn is nothing but the river is another spade. The other player pushes in and beats me with A3 holding the Ace of Spades, Ouch.

3rd hand, all in with pocket KK, and get beat by an A6 off.

That is the way of Poker. I walked away shacking my head.........but it is all good because "Tomorrow is another Day" and there will be more Poker.

Good to see you are still making progress. So what is your BR @ this point? Had any really bad hits lately?

U.S. Poker Rooms 202B

Many of you have asked where I play and find so many freerolls and tournaments that lead to bigger payout games and can’t seem to find my earlier post on the subject. At the risk of being asked not to post the same subjects more than once I bring you the new, improved and more advance version of U.S. Poker Rooms 101. Here is U.S. Poker Rooms 202B.

So you know where I am coming from, I have a background in computer software and systems. I was partners in a computer software company for 10 years before I sold my interest in 2002. This knowledge and background has given me a health respect and fascination for online poker rooms. Just to be sure I wasn’t missing something, I thoroughly “Road Tested” some 100 plus sites both approved for USA players and some that aren’t. As some of you know there are only a dozen or so distinct software packages for U.S.A sites and many of the rooms have the same games/tournaments which they share in common.

That said, there are differences and variations that make some standout over others. I enjoy and play a lot at the Cake Family of Poker of rooms including Doyle’s Room, Players Poker and 10 or 12 others. Most recently a medium size room that I have enjoyed, PokerWorld moved to the Cake Platform. Lock Poker is also a new room on the Cake network and The Greek Sports Book has added The Greek Poker through Cake. I happen to like Players and Doyle’s the best of this group for their Tournaments. Players has a 5 or 6 freeroll tournaments that qualify you to play in a weekend tournament and win a $13,000 all expenses paid trip to the WSOP. The total purse is about $17,000. Hurry, time is running down. Doyle’s and Cake have daily tournament that qualify you for a weekend $1,000 freeroll. Pretty good stuff.

I play a fair amount at Poker Stars, Ultimate Bet (which I prefer over its twin Absolute Poker), Timeless/Minted poker along with Carbon/Wass/PDC Poker rooms. They are all very good. For some reason I put Bodog Poker at or near the top of my list. It has its quirks and you either like it or hate it but I like the way the tables are displayed. The configuration allows you to play multiple tournaments (which I am doing most of the time now) and know right where you are at a quick glance. Bodog is easy to use, is well supported and has good cash games and tournament for all levels.

With all that said I don’t have just one favorite. All the sites I mentioned have great incentives and freerolls so I often go where the best Games are being played.

Unlike the some of the problems experienced in the sports book industry, Poker Rooms are well equipped to handle cash-outs in a variety of ways and there are new and easier methods coming along everyday. Obviously they have some small print you have to read if you have received bonuses and freebies, but getting your money to and from the online Poker rooms is typically pretty painless.

So what’s stopping you; get out and play somewhere new. It will do you and your game a world of good!


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Bankroll Statis

Thanks to a late evening 19th place finish my net backroll at this point is just over $1,000.

Wednesday – May 18th Update - Building a Bankroll from $0 to $10,000 by Aug 1

In keeping with the pattern that was emerged it is Wednesday and time for the mid-week update on “The Mission”.

First a few announcements. I have been trying to keep blogs up-to-date in about 7 different places and it wasn’t working. This weekend I figured out how I was going to go forward from here on. I have established the primary blog for the bankroll Mission on Google. That web address is:


http://crazybear007-pokerbankroll.blogspot.com/


No advertising or anything like that, just the facts. Thanks to the internet and the fantastic tools that are available I will be able to write it using Windows Live Writer. If you don’t have it get it! It is a tool included when you sign-up for a hotmail account, or Windows Live account which has replaced Hotmail. It is like word and it allows you to connect and publish to multiple accounts with one click; amazing stuff. I am also putting together a website for another business enterprise so once that is up the blog will most likely be posted there.

Part II of my announcement is that besides the auto-post locations I am only going to keep posting manually here at Cardschat and one other site. There has been such good response here that I want to keep that energy going!

Now on too Poker. For about the last week the cards have been running cold until last night. Over the weekend I played in some pretty big payout tournaments; 1 that totaled $17,000, another for $5000 and 2 or $1000 and $500 respectively. I went deep in two but was only able to cash less than $10 each time. The dry spell continued until last night when I final got some cards and finished 9th in a tournament that paid me just under $50.
I am trying to pick one or two sites having wsop qualifiers to see if I can win my way in. If any of you have found good qualifying tournaments please let me know.

The weekend will be full of Poker and Websites, so that is it for now. LOL to all at the tables and in Life!


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May 6th Update

Sorry folks, I got ahead of myself and put the wrong date on my earlier post. It should read May 6th!! See you at the tables.
:joyman: :deal:

I'm thinking you should step up to the big leagues of buy-in tourneys. With a 1k bankroll you could be playing$20 buy-ins which if you play aswell in them as you are now, then you can start getting decent payouts. Just a thought and maybe you already are.

Good luck, it's quite inspiring

hope everything is going well and your still on track..

I wish I could hit a good freeroll so i could start doing the same. I have yet to hit a good one yet. I did a good one last year, but my bankroll management sucked, and after taking it all the way to 500 dollars, I went broke in 2 hours. Keep up the BR management. Sometimes it can be hard, but never let tilt catch you.

Best of luck to you!

Park You Ego at the Door

So many people have said that my Mission has been inspiring to them which I think is great. That type of feedback inspires me to keep going and keep talking about my ups and downs.

Last night was one of those aah how dumb nights at the table. I was playing in a qualifying tournament for a WSOP prize tournament. I was hitting cards and with 200 players left I was 10th in chips. All I had to do is finish in the top 50 to qualify. Then I let my egression get the best of me. There was a Player that re-raised EVERY time I put chips in the pot. I thought he was just making moves and I would teach him a lesson. Less than 15 minutes later I was the one on that busted out.

What’s the moral of the story? I knew that I probably could have folded my way to my seat for the real money. Instead I played stupid poker that bordered on TILT. If you want to be success you have to keep your goals in focus or you end up on the rail like I did last night!

Time for Some Buyin Tournaments!

Some of you have suggested that I start playing in some buy-in tournaments. I have been holding off on doing that because I have been busy design a couple of websites. Thanks to you I also realized that I was avoiding taking that step because: 1. of the impact it would have if I went on a losing streak and 2. I didn’t feel I was ready. But I was BORN Imredee. I’m going to get off my butt and butt and push my insecurities aside and Just Do It!

I’m sure you will hear the good, the bad and the ugly in future installments!


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Wow imredee, you are a star. I will keep following you to check what you are up to.....sounds like you are a winner! What is your FT username so I can come watch you in action sometime...if you dont mind?

KingCurtis said:

these are becoming very popular

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You are right, very popular, but remember that every day we have budding poker players...like me

As I pointed out in another thread I am doing a bankroll building excercise but without the pressure of $10 or $20k attached to it. I just wanna play BIG....and win that one that will allow me to do the things I wanna do...thats my main aim!

Playing in $$$ cartainly has its advantages here in SA.

imredee said:

So many people have said that my Mission has been inspiring to them which I think is great. That type of feedback inspires me to keep going and keep talking about my ups and downs.

Last night was one of those aah how dumb nights at the table. I was playing in a qualifying tournament for a WSOP prize tournament. I was hitting cards and with 200 players left I was 10th in chips. All I had to do is finish in the top 50 to qualify. Then I let my egression get the best of me. There was a Player that re-raised EVERY time I put chips in the pot. I thought he was just making moves and I would teach him a lesson. Less than 15 minutes later I was the one on that busted out.

What’s the moral of the story? I knew that I probably could have folded my way to my seat for the real money. Instead I played stupid poker that bordered on TILT. If you want to be success you have to keep your goals in focus or you end up on the rail like I did last night!

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Just a suggestion and I havent read all the posts in depth so pls excuse me if I talk poop...have you considered starting a blog with your experiences...sounds very mcuh like blog material to me and something that we can all learn from?

As I said, just a question cos there are a lot of blogs out there with a lot of writing but never really tell you anything. Especially people like myself who would like to follow progress such as yours, there are blogs, but who wants to follow the progress of a person from another forum/site that you have not actually communicated with. Look at the FT bloggers, 99% of the time they are not playing at FT, yet they are punting it? Just doesnt work for me!

I rate you should become a blogger!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

No luck so far. played a few freerolls myself, nothing. Im hoping to start participating int he locall cardchat freerolls. Great way to make money, since not too many players, and the 200 dollars is a great ammount of money for a freeroll. Special thanks to cardschat for making it possible.

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No luck so far. played a few freerolls myself, nothing. Im hoping to start participating int he locall cardchat freerolls. Great way to make money, since not too many players, and the 200 dollars is a great ammount of money for a freeroll. Special thanks to cardschat for making it possible.

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I'm actually looking forward to those freerolls myself. It looks like a few more are playing each week, so the legitimate participation appears to be spot on, save for the few password thieves I've been reading about.

I like these kinds of threads. Sure there are a bunch of them...but theres no need to put imredee down for making one. These kinds of threads should be very inspiring to all of us. I didn't read all of the posts on this thread, but it sounds like hes doing fairly well. Its all about encouragement here folks!! Keep it up Imredee!!

(Having the goal be by August will be a little rough...but good luck! Don't get discouraged if it takes you a few extra months. As long as your making money its a good thing!!)

Hello your mission sounds great . I do good often in making final table to win a prize. My problem is I play too many tourneys at a time and lose too much of my cash stack. Thanks for the tips. I have learned from this post and others. That is one of the reasons I love cardschat it is a place to learn and laugh...good luck at the tables everyone. Tina

Awesome, so what's your bankroll up to now? I tried to read all your posts to get any last numbers, but I seemed to have missed it. Are there are freerolls that you play on Full Tilt? That's where I play mostly.

Awesome! So what's your bankroll update now? By the way, do you play any freerolls on Full Tilt? That's where I play normally and I can't seem to find that many.