The house my girlfriend and I are buying looks like it’s going to be completed 3 weeks early and I’m going to have to end my challenge to concentrate on sorting everything out and moving in. We expected things to get finalised early in January which gave me time complete my challenge and she took a week off work but the searches were finished within 3-4 weeks instead of the 6-7 we expected, now all there is to do is sign a few things, transfer the deposit and clear the mortgage funds, shouldn’t take too long now. Unfortunately my girlfriends in new york for a week on a trip with work friends so that might hold up things but as things stand it seems like it’ll all be finalised in a couple of weeks which coincides with my team online contract ending, I’m then going to take three weeks off for Christmas and time to get moved in before starting on my own in the new year.
I’m really looking forward to next year, pokerstars have given me the go ahead to change my name which I really wanted done because of the negative impact my contract had on my game I felt I needed a fresh start where no one recognised me, it isn’t a decision pokerstars takes lightly and isn’t the norm but given my circumstances they made an exception. I asked for the name change because even though I might not be a member of team online I felt there was still a chance that people at the tables would recognise me and still mess me around, I just want to blend back into society.
My Internet has been really bad for the past 3-4 weeks and it’s put be behind with the number of hands I wanted to play before the end of the year, as of now I just want to try and get in 10k hands a day for the remainder of my contract and try and get my bankroll above $1000 so I can move up to $10NL-$25NL next year.
I’m not sure what I’ll be doing with my blog next year, I kind of just want to go under the radar without all the self promotion. I’ll be making atleast one more blog post with my final graph since I moved back down to $2nl to regrind, it’ll probably be close to 250k hands.
chodien
November 30, 2011 at 8:59 am
hey ! DONT STOP BLOGGINH MAN! ur my motivasion!
btw. what program do u use to get graph and track ur games? what i mean is, how can u see how many hands u have played, how much profit made and make a graph plz amswe =) (sry for bad english xD)
Chipstar1
November 30, 2011 at 9:36 am
Hey man, thx for your kind words, I’ll have to have a think about it.
The program I use is called holdem manager
chodien
November 30, 2011 at 10:32 am
maybe hard for u to play under ur name but is realy fun following u. good that stars let u change ur nick. What about
keep blogging and let us know how u doing,show us some graph, tell us ur goals without telling us ur nick before u get SNE??????? make that as a motivation maybe hehe. would be fun see u get SNE man!
BOOOM SUPERNOVA ELITE
and then tell us that u are Chipstar1, would be fun
btw didnt find holdem manager o.0… post a link if u got time plz…
Chipstar1
November 30, 2011 at 11:29 am
Yeah SNE would be nice but right now thats in the far distance, I’ll be spending most of next year rebuilding my bankroll and moving back up.
Here’s a link to holdem manager http://www.holdemmanager.com/
Arty Smokes
December 5, 2011 at 7:23 am
It sounds like you have good reasons to be optimistic about the new year. I wish you the best of luck in poker and in life.
P.S. For your new screenname, I think “Chipstar2″ has a nice ring to it. No one will ever know!
DjSinya
December 5, 2011 at 3:37 pm
Hi man !
Fun following you !
How is it going with the grind for now? Still grinding Nl2? Why arent you already moving up to Nl10? I can see you have a big enough bankroll..
I’m moving up when my bankroll is 30 Buyins deep..
Chipstar1
December 5, 2011 at 4:11 pm
@Arty Thx man, yeah my girlfriend said that too lol, some how I don’t think that’d work haha, besides a lot of people started to copy my name with a different number after I became team pro so I’m pretty sure it’s already taken.
Chipstar1
December 5, 2011 at 4:15 pm
@DjSinya Yeah still grinding 2nl right now, think I’ll stay there until my contract runs out on the 14th, then I’ll take a few weeks off to sort out my new house and then move up.
DjSinya
December 5, 2011 at 4:31 pm
Ok, well good luck then man !! Good grind ^^
PS : Good thing you change your name.
Vegetera
December 15, 2011 at 4:54 pm
Would be fun w/ some pictures of the new house
arroyo53
December 18, 2011 at 1:41 am
We played at the same table once for like about only 30 hands, still it was a pleasure. I’m from Mexico and I’ve been playing for 5 months and like others say you’re a motivation for a lot of people. I hope everything goes the path you would like and congrats on moving to a new place. I hope you don’t stop blogging because it’s really helpful for a lot of players like me. Greeting man.