One year ago today..........(Ramble/Brag Post)

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Has anyone sat back and looked at how much about how there play has changed in a year?

Well it was pretty close to a year ago

I had just bought my first computer and ventured into the world of online poker....

Party Poker of course was the 1st place I played and bled like a stuck pig all over the site

I played huge tourneys and multitables a ton, NL all the way

I had no concept of hand values other than PP and face cards were good.

I only sat at full games and was scared to play shorthanded

Regularly threw money away, couldnt wait for pay day so I could deposit more


In a year this has all changed

Many thousands of hands and painful lessons later

I now have accounts at 7 sites, no longer depend on a pay check for poker money

I primarily play limit poker, I love shorthanded play, rarely play a multitable tourney and have adequate bankroll
and play as high as 30 60

Not to mention poker has financed and turned a profit on a trip to vegas and atl city

This is a large amount of ground to cover in a year....

Im sure others have had better results, just wanted to share mine

Anyone else made a dramatic change in there game over the last year?

[daryn]

16 months ago i had $0 to my name

[GrannyMae]

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16 months ago i had $0 to my name

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how much you got now?

please tell

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16 months ago i had $0 to my name

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And that has changed how.................? /images/graemlins/cool.gif

[MyTurn2Raise]

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16 months ago i had $0 to my name

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I now have $10,000 in credit card debt

[ripped]

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16 months ago i had $0 to my name

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I now have $10,000 in credit card debt

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well the guy with the viper was my new idol but [censored].. after seeing this you are truly my new all time idol..

gg

[daryn]

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16 months ago i had $0 to my name

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how much you got now?

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"not enough"

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16 months ago i had $0 to my name

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Really? is this true?

[Sponger15SB]

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16 months ago i had $0 to my name

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Really? is this true?

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Link (http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=mediumholdem&Number=366915 5&Forum=f28,f1,f6,f30,f24,f7,f8,f10,f2,f4,f3,f21,f 5,f25,f9,f22,f23,f11,f12,f13,f14,f35,f37,f34,f26,f 15,f16,f17,f18,f19,f31,f27,f33,f32,f20&Words=2%2F4 &Searchpage=0&Limit=25&Main=3660099&Search=true&wh ere=bodysub&Name=2756&daterange=1&newerval=&newert ype=&olderval=&oldertype=&bodyprev=#Post3669155)

[smurfitup]

a year ago i was playing 2-4 and got ecstatic when i won a mtt for 1300.. now i play games where i can win or lose that amount in 10 minutes.. yay

[lefty rosen]

Hey Darren did your running buddy Eugenneel tap out too?..... /images/graemlins/grin.gif /images/graemlins/blush.gif /images/graemlins/confused.gif /images/graemlins/smile.gif

[SwordFish]

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Hey Darren did your running buddy Eugenneel tap out too?

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He made a post looking for groupies the other night when he was playing 200/400 against Hellmouth on UB. Link (http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=3794204&an=0&page=8#Post 3794204)



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[SammyKid11]

A year ago I only had a Mac, thus played only at pokerroom.com -- I'd deposited 500 dollars, win for a while, then eventually lose it away for a while...in actuality I was maybe a break-even player online (I still did well live against the drunkies at my card club in Dallas and at the riverboats in Shreveport, but...nowhere near good enough to say I was doing anything more than having fun at a slightly profitable hobby).

Actually, all of that would be true of me about 9 months ago. Today, I am still a crappy poker player in relation to where I want to be...but 9 months ago I would have considered someone like me to be an F'ing genius poker player.

I do make a respectable living at poker now, so I'm pretty happy...though I seriously need to keep improving.

[tigerite]

I don't have complete records from then but I think I was 1-tabling the $55s with nothing like an adequate bankroll, of around $1k at the very most a year ago, in fact I might even have still be on the $22s.. had no idea of concepts like ICM or really what on Earth I was doing for the most part.

[Baulucky]

I can attest to this. Very well done.

Anyone that can pull a BR bootstrap like that is worthy of recognition.

[RollaJ]

A year ago today was my last day of work at my real job, Id say things have changed a lot

[Python49]

Hmm... what's changed in 6 months? Well $50 used to seem like alot of money to me. Now anything less than 1k seems kinda small.

[daryn]

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Hey Darren did your running buddy Eugenneel tap out too?..... /images/graemlins/grin.gif /images/graemlins/blush.gif /images/graemlins/confused.gif /images/graemlins/smile.gif

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actually i borrowed $600 from him when i was bust and that's how i came back.

[MadMat]

A year ago today I had never played a hand of poker in my life, I was talked into depositing £10 into getminted poker by a friend and started playing 50p MTTs and 5p/10p limit

A year later I'm showing a first year profit of around $7k, and have accounts on about 35 different sites

I wish I had the focus to stick to one game and become good enough at it to move up, but I get bored playing the same thing all the time and flit between holdem, 7CS, S&G, limit, PL and NL, the only constant is every hand goes towards a bonus somewhere ;-)

Mat

[4thstreetpete]

A year ago I was playing 5/10 trying to make it to the party 15/30 games. I've definately improved immensely as a player although there's so much I still need to learn. I just got HEPFAP.

[Brock Landers]

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and have accounts on about 35 different sites





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you need to sign up for more sites

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and have accounts on about 35 different sites





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you need to sign up for more sites

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Certainly do, I reckon I'll hit 50 sometime in the next 3 or 4 months ;-)

The vast majority of those are one shot whore the sign-up bonus deals, I only go back for more if they offer a reload at 10x raked or better!

Mat

[NLfool]

a year ago I made in 6 months what it takes the average american 5 years to make. I then foolishly thought I was too good and making thousands of dollars a day was easy.

Unfortunately I fell into some pitfalls of gambling, playing baccarat, BJ, paigow, and worst of all sports betting and strip clubs. I guess the casinos call it the pit for a reason. Actually had a lot of winning day but my losing days were Big. Lost everything.

Started at 3/6 6max built up my roll to play 20/40 in a month. Promptly lost most it at Pinnacle sports

Repeated the cycle at 3/6 6 max and 200 or 400 NL. Built up my roll to play 10/20. Going to uninstall and cancel any sites that have BJ, or sports betting and I plan on concentrating on poker and finding a job. Not so much for monetary reasons but a lot of free time gets me in trouble and poker gets really boring after almost 3 years of full time play.

[Pokeraddict]

A year ago I was a prop for a small-medium sized poker room. Now I webmaster a big portal and hardly have time to play at all. A year can change a lot of things.