<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7376835846435549638</id><updated>2011-07-30T19:43:29.211-07:00</updated><title type='text'>My way to the nosebleeds</title><subtitle type='html'>A cash game pokerplayer moving up (or not?)</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://tobinq.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7376835846435549638/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tobinq.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Tobin</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16923116955754285766</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>2</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7376835846435549638.post-5669409113615533892</id><published>2010-06-21T10:18:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-07-14T10:41:14.184-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Halfyear 2010 report</title><content type='html'>Hi everyone,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Been a while since I updated so here we go. Despite having put in a lot of volume (~200k hands wich is alot for me) 2010 has been pretty avarage money and PTBB wise. Overall I'm up $8k for this year wich is pretty dissapointing and not even close to what I expected when I set my goals for this year.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Overall I have a feeling that the 'games' are getting harder, certainly compared to last year. I'm still playing 100NL en 200NL, hugely overolled I might add (300+ buy ins), so the nosebleeds are still a loooooooooooooooooooong way to go.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I could move up easily bankrollwise but I don't think I have an edge just yet (400Nl+) over the small sample I've played at these stakes. I'm your typical lazy small stakes poker player i.e. I should be working a lot harder at improving my game.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Just for fun I decided to look at an old PT Database containing hands of all the stakes I've played in my 'pokercareer'. Current 100NL en 200NL hands are not included because I started a new DB last year.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://i26.tinypic.com/nl8m85.jpg"&gt;Here's a graph&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://i50.tinypic.com/2iuq3aa.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://i25.tinypic.com/2h7mbth.jpg"&gt;And per stakes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And a blogsaver :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cNqVILDWedQ/TDh79rCufqI/AAAAAAAAAAU/A_7Z6sj9clk/s1600/1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cNqVILDWedQ/TDh79rCufqI/AAAAAAAAAAU/A_7Z6sj9clk/s400/1.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5492276045034716834" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bye bye&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7376835846435549638-5669409113615533892?l=tobinq.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://tobinq.blogspot.com/feeds/5669409113615533892/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://tobinq.blogspot.com/2010/06/halfyear-2010-report.html#comment-form' title='0 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7376835846435549638/posts/default/5669409113615533892'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7376835846435549638/posts/default/5669409113615533892'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tobinq.blogspot.com/2010/06/halfyear-2010-report.html' title='Halfyear 2010 report'/><author><name>Tobin</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16923116955754285766</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cNqVILDWedQ/TDh79rCufqI/AAAAAAAAAAU/A_7Z6sj9clk/s72-c/1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7376835846435549638.post-289301690975908051</id><published>2009-10-29T03:33:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-04-19T07:32:30.032-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Ladies and gentlemen : my first official post</title><content type='html'>So I finally decided to set up a little blog to track my poker progress. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What do you need to know?. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm a 30 year old Belgian living in a small village of about 12k peeps. During the day I work as a 'product manager' for a company making and distributing frozen food. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;My pokerstory:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Started playing poker in 2005 when the pokerhype just began trying to luckbox in the FPP freerolls on a small independent site called Bugsyclub Poker. Managed to ITM myself a couple of time for 27FPP's wich were worth $0.27 or something like that. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Might not mean much now but at that time it felt a little baller as I wanted to play for real money desperatly without depositing a dime myself.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And that's where it all started and I never looked back since then. I've never had to deposit anything myself. Kept playing on that site untill last year when it went belly up. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Managed to get my money off thanks to stars (about 6k at the time starting from 2NL to 200NL) and it was a blessing in the sky. Since that day I started taking poker  more seriously as I HAD to play to be able to cashout. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Overall 2009 was pretty good moneywise for me considering I'm not a mega-grinder (about 30kish hands per month). think I netted about a $16k year.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anyway this was my first post and hopefully not my last,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Regards Tobin&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7376835846435549638-289301690975908051?l=tobinq.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://tobinq.blogspot.com/feeds/289301690975908051/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://tobinq.blogspot.com/2009/10/ladies-and-gentlemen-my-first-official.html#comment-form' title='0 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7376835846435549638/posts/default/289301690975908051'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7376835846435549638/posts/default/289301690975908051'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tobinq.blogspot.com/2009/10/ladies-and-gentlemen-my-first-official.html' title='Ladies and gentlemen : my first official post'/><author><name>Tobin</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16923116955754285766</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
