Grinding for a pipe dream (NL50->)

Hey,

Thought I should start a blog here just to keep some documentation on my poker journey and share my experiences.

So who am I?

Nickname: AroundEven
Why AroundEven?: Back in the days I was working for a poker site in Malta. This was during the time everyone was speculating about who Isildur1 was. We had a poker player there who was Swedish and hadnÂ’t logged in for a long while but still had around 12k on his account just lying there.

I was always curious about who that person was and saw his name and started googling his name and saw a lot of speculation about him being Isildur1.

When it then was revealed that it was in fact him, I thought it was cool to use his nickname he had on that site, which was AroundEven.

Country: Sweden
Playing level: NL50
Background: Been playing poker for a long time as a recreational player, going to Vegas for month and so on, but never taken it really seriouslyÂ… until now 😀

Pipe dream: To reach 200NL and crush it there enough to one day quit my job.

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I have had some small achievements like ending up second in the national online championship side event and winning some tournaments, but now I have decided to try to beat the levels of cash game.

I now started out on the microstakes at GG, but was getting crushed. I thought, wow, this is going to be really hard.

Then I moved over to a Swedish site and some higher levels and there I started crushing it after studying a lot, did the from the ground up course, the CORE 2.0 and read POP 1-2 and started to really analyze my leaks.

After that I moved back to GG and started playing NL25 and things were starting to go better.

My plan was always to start with NL50 but I wanted to try just a little bit at lower levels for small samples to see how it went.

The last week I have tried to play when I get the chance and have been going on a real upswing and now it is time to try NL50 with a bankroll of 30BI.

Here is my recent sessions at NL25:

I been running hot, but also been playing pretty good and having some luck when I have had bad days. Win rate is around 43bb/100 hands, so definitely a hot run!

Hope you guys will follow my journey! Would love to find more people to talk poker to!