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Hey there, I am 20 years old and I currently play the micro limits on Pokerstars.
I give myself the chance on becoming a professional pokerplayer until September 2013 and will put most of my time into studying and playing the game to achieve this goal.
I am going to update this blog regulary to keep track of my progress and write about concepts I found important for my development as a player and as a person.

Follow me on my pursuit to become independent as a Poker Pro!

10/27/2012

Introduction: From nerd to grinder

I started playing videogames when I was about 8 years old.
It all started once I was visiting a friend who had the NES in his room.
We were mostly playing outside like all other kids but about once a week, his parents allowed us to play for some time. Mario Bros was our main game and the player versus player part hooked me right away.
From then on, my parents decided to buy a console for me too. I was always looking for player versus player games since the singleplayer games werent interesting enough  to me. At the age of 12, I was playing Warcraft 3. After playing the game for half a year, I was joining a Clan and played on many tournaments: It wasnt officially allowed for me because of my age and the prices but I wasnt able to get into the price money of those tournaments anyway ;) .
This was the first game where I really got into competitive gaming. Then I played various games in between and finally Starcraft 2. I was trying to improve as fast as possible and was joining a lot of teams to increase my learning curve and play tournaments. So I was pretty much your average nerd ;)


The first time I heard of professional poker was in my Starcraft 2 study group. Two members of the group were playing poker for a living for almost 3 years. The concept of beeing your own boss and earning money by playing a competitive game sounded just perfect.
My whole focus transitioned from Starcraft 2 over to Poker.
I started playing poker and lost my first deposit after like two weeks. After my second deposit I employed strict bankroll management and started to really study the game.


Now, 11 months later I am at 25nl and am soon taking shots at 50nl 6max.

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