Old time online-pro getting back to online poker after long break
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Old time online-pro getting back to online poker after long break

OP
1 post · member since May 2025
1yr ago

MY STORY:
Im 35 y.o.. i have been playing poker for living since i was 18 y.o. basically.
Started grinding online and then changed to live games.
My poker life has been like a rollercoaster the entire time, i had times when i played with comfortable roll 10/20 live games and then i had to climb back from 1/2 games again. I would say that my BR managment wasnt my primary weapon :p
Anyways i have been playing for living almost 17years now and i never ever had a job. Eventhough i had huge financial swings i always managed to get by more than okay ,i could tell a lot of stories from "degen stories" section

POKER LIFE:
Started playing poker in high school and slowly entered few private games making some pocket money on a side during high school.
When i turned 18 i started going to local casino for regular daily tournaments and around 6 months after i won 3-day tournament for around 6k€ - that started my cash game career.
Between 2008 and 2021 i was mixing playing live games up to NL2K around Europe/Usa and playing online always smaller games up to NL200 max, i stopped playing online after covid ,because the games in my casino/private games were so frickin good that it wasnt worth playing online at all.
Now the situation in last 12months changed a lot - my local casino is kinda dead during winter and the good action is only around 4months out of the year.
Private games are either too small (NL200) or too big (NL5k-10k).
I used to travel to play live games twice a year for 1-1,5 month always somewhere to Usa or within Europe, but to be honest nowadays im too lazy and too comfortable to travel for poker.
Also getting older i figure that i dont want to spend all nights playing in casinos and sleeping during the day.
So i decided that i want to start focusing more on online poker and give myself time to end of 2025 and see how it goes.
I will be probably playing some live games during summer in casino also ,but im going to focus the rest of this year to online poker.
Im aware of that i wont be a millionare playing poker anymore ,that ship already sailed (stupid me in 2008-2009 chasing girls and getting drunk instead of grinding online during golden era) ,but that doesnt mean i cant make good living out of poker still.

ABOUT THIS BLOG:
My goal with this blog is to get into community of online players nowadays and to keep posting results once a week,talk about hands ,post some graphs etc.
I have few investments and one side businnes outside of poker that keeps me busy around 30-40hours a month and pays off day to day expenses and rent ,so i wont be in need to cashout money from online poker.
Its been almost 3years since the last time i really grinded online poker so lets see if i still have it in me.

WHAT?WHERE?HOW?:
Well i will be focusing on GGpoker 9max ante deep games - starting on NL50(0.5) i was told by few of my friends who have been grinding the ante games that all those games are played 3x bigger, so i guess somewhere around NL150 ? dont know we will see.
Im aware of the rake on GG and also that to be a solid winner at GG you have to take in consideration all those promotions , so i will keep every promotion separated in each section and i will keep statistics of every dollar im gonna make and where.
I have few friends who are making 10-15bb/100 on NL100 ante games after all the promotions - so i guess with some studies/volume/lower stake i hope to have 15-20bb/100 including all promos maybe? lets see

BANKROLL:
This part im not very concerned about as i got big enough roll for live games also income from my business.
Reason why im not starting higher than nl50 is that i didnt play for longer period of time and i want to start lower to build habits and see how to games are.
I will deposit 1500usd to GG to start with if needed i can reload anytime.
When i reach 5000usd in profit i will probably shot take NL100 and see how it goes.

HOW MANY HOURS A WEEK/MONTH YOU WILL DEDICATE TO POKER?
I have all the time in the world available (my GF would disagree) so the plan is to play/study a lot, i will post my schedule here regularly,but im planning to play 120-150h a month + studying.
I got hobby thats big time-consumer and thats golf , so lets see how that goes together ..
My plan is to play during happy hour always and then 2 sessions during the day , one afternoon and one in the evening.
My plan is to post results once a week , i have been always very much into not looking at your results for few days always ( R.I.P. Leatherass- treat your poker like a business book )
I will try to play 5-6days a week

CURRENT GOAL:
Get comfortable playing every day
Make 20k usd in next 100 days including all promos starting from today

Thx for reading and wish me some run good
Matad0r

01 May 2025 at 03:22 PM
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gl bro 😉

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MY STORY:
Im 35 y.o.. i have been playing poker for living since i was 18 y.o. basically.
Started grinding online and then changed to live games.
My poker life has been like a rollercoaster the entire time, i had times when i played with comfortable roll 10/20 live games and then i had to climb back from 1/2 games again. I would say that my BR managment wasnt my primary weapon :p
Anyways i have been playing for living almost 17years now and i never ever had a job. Eventhough i had huge financial swings i always managed to get by more than okay ,i could tell a lot of stories from "degen stories" section

POKER LIFE:
Started playing poker in high school and slowly entered few private games making some pocket money on a side during high school.
When i turned 18 i started going to local casino for regular daily tournaments and around 6 months after i won 3-day tournament for around 6k€ - that started my cash game career.
Between 2008 and 2021 i was mixing playing live games up to NL2K around Europe/Usa and playing online always smaller games up to NL200 max, i stopped playing online after covid ,because the games in my casino/private games were so frickin good that it wasnt worth playing online at all.
Now the situation in last 12months changed a lot - my local casino is kinda dead during winter and the good action is only around 4months out of the year.
Private games are either too small (NL200) or too big (NL5k-10k).
I used to travel to play live games twice a year for 1-1,5 month always somewhere to Usa or within Europe, but to be honest nowadays im too lazy and too comfortable to travel for poker.
Also getting older i figure that i dont want to spend all nights playing in casinos and sleeping during the day.
So i decided that i want to start focusing more on online poker and give myself time to end of 2025 and see how it goes.
I will be probably playing some live games during summer in casino also ,but im going to focus the rest of this year to online poker.
Im aware of that i wont be a millionare playing poker anymore ,that ship already sailed (stupid me in 2008-2009 chasing girls and getting drunk instead of grinding online during golden era) ,but that doesnt mean i cant make good living out of poker still.

ABOUT THIS BLOG:
My goal with this blog is to get into community of online players nowadays and to keep posting results once a week,talk about hands ,post some graphs etc.
I have few investments and one side businnes outside of poker that keeps me busy around 30-40hours a month and pays off day to day expenses and rent ,so i wont be in need to cashout money from online poker.
Its been almost 3years since the last time i really grinded online poker so lets see if i still have it in me.

WHAT?WHERE?HOW?:
Well i will be focusing on GGpoker 9max ante deep games - starting on NL50(0.5) i was told by few of my friends who have been grinding the ante games that all those games are played 3x bigger, so i guess somewhere around NL150 ? dont know we will see.
Im aware of the rake on GG and also that to be a solid winner at GG you have to take in consideration all those promotions , so i will keep every promotion separated in each section and i will keep statistics of every dollar im gonna make and where.
I have few friends who are making 10-15bb/100 on NL100 ante games after all the promotions - so i guess with some studies/volume/lower stake i hope to have 15-20bb/100 including all promos maybe? lets see

BANKROLL:
This part im not very concerned about as i got big enough roll for live games also income from my business.
Reason why im not starting higher than nl50 is that i didnt play for longer period of time and i want to start lower to build habits and see how to games are.
I will deposit 1500usd to GG to start with if needed i can reload anytime.
When i reach 5000usd in profit i will probably shot take NL100 and see how it goes.

HOW MANY HOURS A WEEK/MONTH YOU WILL DEDICATE TO POKER?
I have all the time in the world available (my GF would disagree) so the plan is to play/study a lot, i will post my schedule here regularly,but im planning to play 120-150h a month + studying.
I got hobby thats big time-consumer and thats golf , so lets see how that goes together ..
My plan is to play during happy hour always and then 2 sessions during the day , one afternoon and one in the evening.
My plan is to post results once a week , i have been always very much into not looking at your results for few days always ( R.I.P. Leatherass- treat your poker like a business book )
I will try to play 5-6days a week

CURRENT GOAL:
Get comfortable playing every day
Make 20k usd in next 100 days including all promos starting from today

Thx for reading and wish me some run good
Matad0r...