This is not happend

I can't believe what I saw today. I was playing a 6max satellite for Sunday Storm at Pokerstars. First hand of the game a guy called "scared83off" took one really bad call from T9o and a third player called with 83o! I'm still laughing. He called with the hand that scared the opener! Still can't believe how small is the possibility to see this.

Life is full of Rakeback

Funny title isn't it? It is just the truth. Life is full of rake and rakeback as poker. You can call it reward if you like, instead of rakeback. Think that you are going to buy some things at the super market. You use the card you have for the points. You collect points on every payment you make. Then after some ammount of points, you take some money back to buy again from the supermarket. It's like a reward because you chose this super market. This is like rakeback at poker.

The same applies at many stores and services, like gas stations, like bank accounts, e-wallets etc. Even in people relationships in some way. You help someone, and maybe he will help you back if you need something. In life you never take what you give or a standard percent though. At all the other things, it's your job to search and find the best options that suits most to you.

Your Winnings Are Your Money

After 2,5 years of playing poker, after 2 million hands, the same mistake again and again. It's like sometimes I'm afraid to win. If I win 3 or 4 Buy Ins early in the day, I'm willing to lose the winnings so easy. It's like the fishy thinking "It's not my money, I'm playing with the winnings". No! the winnings are now your money and if you gamble with winnings you gamble with your money so your are a gambler.

I'm sure that everybody thought this way sometime in his poker career. You have to think that everytime you sit down and play, your bankroll is changing. Don't think how much your bankroll was yesterday. Thinking that way is a great way to burn your profits and your winrate.

Each time you sit your ass down to play, the variables are different. Maybe it's not quite different, but it's different. You have to think each time you play individually. I'm talking only for bankroll management here. Poker is one long session and the results comes after big samples so you can't think individually about your results for every session for sure.

Just think about your bankroll when you sit to play and not if your are winning or loosing today. Trust me. It doesn't matter. It can only harm your game.

Brand New Poker Challenge Update

Hi there again, I just updated my progress to my poker goal at my 2+2 poker forum thread.

Seems like things are starting work. I hope I will continue the good quality of playing.

I have a goal to achive and I'm not giving up.

Good luck at tables!

Kamikaze Poker Challenge #1 - derek58

Hi there! Here is my ladder challenge. While I'm trying to move up to nl25, I created a side challenge for fun and I call it Kamikaze Challenge. I began with 10$ at nl2 and rules are that everytime I won one BI for the next stake I move up. It's for times I want to relax and do something different. More info at the description and my 2+2 thread!