Intro to Slinger

I'm Peter Szucs (pronounced either Sooks or Sooch, whichever you like - it's Hungarian), aka TheSlinger on FTP (formerly on Pokerstars). I'm 18, and I'm currently majoring in history at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario Canada.

Posted this on the CP forums, and I think it serves as a good intro to me.

First introduced to poker when I was 14 (I'm 18 now). Played for play money for literally years, which looking back was pretty valuable actually - hundreds of thousands of hands of experience without risking a penny.

For whatever reason when I tried to deposit $ online it never worked, no matter which method I tried. So I found pschipsource.com and sold $4m play chips for $44.

Umm... started off playing $1 SNGs, dropped down to like $22, finished 5th in one of those $40 180s and shot up to a massive like $70 or whatever it was. Slowly climbed from $70 to ~$220ish with a downswing in between. Had a huge, massive day where I won over $500 in one night, including 2nd in an $11+1 180 turbo for $394 or something like that. (Terrible bankroll management FTW!).

Ran a little better than break even for a little bit, then took 1st in an 11+1 turbo for whatever that is. $590ish. Bankroll something like $1300-$1400 at this time, around May. Switch over to cash for the first time in my life and drop to $400. Not sure exactly how this happened, but a mix of 25NL and SNGs got me back up to ~$750-$800 eventually. I decided this was more than enough to play 50NL, and promptly went on a heater that took me to ~$1200. This ended around July.

July/August were pretty terrible. I spent far too much time playing HORSE and LHE. Over this time PT says that from July 1st-August 28th I was +$953 at various NL levels. However, because I was spewing terribly at other games, I was roughly break even over this time. Near the end of August I went on a $600 downswing (in limit) which sent me down to the $8xx or $9xx range. I self-excluded for a week, and when I came back I played exclusively NLHE - squeaked in a $385 profit at the end of August, started September with roughly $1300. This was the start of my big heater. I killed 6-max 50NL for 9.34 BB/100 over 11k hands for a $1020 profit, and I took my first profitable shots at 100NL. I did lose money at some HU and LHE - for the numbers to work out, I must have also lost a few hundred at HORSE in this time, although I don't remember it. Somewhere at this point I started experimenting with PLO at the 25 and 50 levels, with some success, some disaster. At around mid-September my roll was $1753.42, and I know that precisely because it was at this time that I transferred it to FTP.

I played 100NL for a short time on FTP, up 5.5 buy-ins over 1773 hands. Those are the only 1773 I would play at 100NL. At this time my PLO game was maturing, and I ran like God at the beginning. PTOmaha puts me at 32.1 BB/100 over 3153 hands at 100PLO - that's a 2k profit. This shot me up into the $3500-$4000 range, so I decided to skip right up to 200NL and PLO. I've been pretty much break even in HE on FTP (-0.02 BB/100, but rakeback puts me in the green), but I continued to kill the PLO games. (ed. note: +0.38 at time of posting). Now A recent downswing has hurt my stats, but for a time I was running steadily at 10 BB/100 - and PLO rakeback is much more than that of HE, because the average pot is about twice as big.

PLO shot me up to ~$5k, and that's where I got a $2.3k score in one of the Big Doubles. Since then, I've had 2 separate $3k downswings in about 2 weeks, with a high point of $8.2k and a low point of $3.9k. Over that time I've been a loser in PLO (PLO variance >>> NL variance), but I'm up $1.1k in HE and I've been running good in tourneys to keep me afloat. BR currently sits at $6720.84 with $336.43 in unpaid rakeback. I'll be playing 200NL, 200PLO and tourneys ranging from roughly $25-$75 in buyins.

Absolutely must, must, must stay away from limit poker. For no good reason I went and spewed $500 and FLO8 and probably a similar amount at Stud. If FTP had an option to exclude yourself from specific games, I'd do it.

Cliff Notes:
1) Terrible bankroll management.
2) Run like God at critical times.
3) Move away from lolriggedjokerstars.
4) Play in the games I'm actually good at.

I think that I should definitely have gone broke at some point during that.