How did you get to where you currently are?
 

Hi guys.

I'd posted this over in the mid/high limit holdem board, and it went over well enough that I decided to post it here.

If anyone would like to share some stories about how they got to their current stakes, what it felt like along the way, obstacles they've faced, bankroll management issues, or anything like that, please share them with us here.

I hope you guys enjoy it as much as people enjoyed the other thread.

Just in case you want to read the other thread, which is obviously about limit, here's a (link).

Edit: If this thread goes anywhere, I'll post a link to it in the small stakes NLHE forum.

Re: How did you get to where you currently are?
 

a brief summary..
1st month- me and 2 friends deposit $50 and play with shared bankroll (so my investment was 16$ actually). bankroll grows a lot playing 5$buyin NL then later 25$ buyin NL and we decide to split up.
2nd month played NL50$
3rd month played NL100$
4th month played NL100+a little NL200
5-6th month 5 tabling NL200
7th " went back to NL100 to massive multitable (15-20 tabling)
8th " still multitabling
9th-13th " stop multi, start playing 6-max NL400 on 5 tables.
14th month-17th month started playing 5 table NL1000
Currently - still NL1000, now 6 or 7 tabling.

read a total of 14 books
ex- broodwar and speedchess player
before starting to play and making 1st deposit, I read a lot of teamliquid.net forums for poker tips, and flopturnriver.com helped also.

things that most marked carreer was winning 50k at promotion at stars, and losing heads-up at the final table on a WSOP satellite, where winner got buyin at main event + expenses (13k value) and 2nd place got 0$. worst bubble ever.

Re: How did you get to where you currently are?
 

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a brief summary..
1st month- me and 2 friends deposit $50 and play with shared bankroll (so my investment was 16$ actually). bankroll grows a lot playing 5$buyin NL then later 25$ buyin NL and we decide to split up.
2nd month played NL50$
3rd month played NL100$
4th month played NL100+a little NL200
5-6th month 5 tabling NL200
7th " went back to NL100 to massive multitable (15-20 tabling)
8th " still multitabling
9th-13th " stop multi, start playing 6-max NL400 on 5 tables.
14th month-17th month started playing 5 table NL1000
Currently - still NL1000, now 6 or 7 tabling.

read a total of 14 books
ex- broodwar and speedchess player
before starting to play and making 1st deposit, I read a lot of teamliquid.net forums for poker tips, and flopturnriver.com helped also.

things that most marked carreer was winning 50k at promotion at stars, and losing heads-up at the final table on a WSOP satellite, where winner got buyin at main event + expenses (13k value) and 2nd place got 0$. worst bubble ever.

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Wow great post. Good OP question. I would love to see more of people's answers.

Re: How did you get to where you currently are?
 

I go all-in a lot.

Re: How did you get to where you currently are?
 

I started playing online in like may of 04, on a friends account.

played 1/2 6 max (limit) for a while, then played 2/4 full tables until i had about 1k (didnt know much about bankrolls back then). At one point that summer i got down to $25 and put it all on $25 NL. Luckily I got a few buyins and eventually got it back to 1k.

Started playin 2/4 and 100 NL and ended up with ~3k for the summer. Then in August I played mostly 5/10 6max limit and 100 dollar buy in for a loooong time.

When i was up to about 8k in decemberish i took a few shots at 15/30, with mixed results. I made a lot in the beginning, and thought that was gonna be it. Then, the infamous 15/30 downswing hit me for about 9k, leaving me with only about 5k to take back to 5/10 6 max and 100 NL.

Played a bunch of 5/10 6max and some live 5/5 NL at fwoods in the spring, again with mixed (mostly good, but nothing spectacular) results.

Then came the summer, when i started to take it a lot more seriously, finally getting PT and gametime, and rakeback. I played a lot of 5/10 for the first few weeks, ran well, and then moved upo to 10/20 6 max and some SH 15/30 on stars. Did pretty well in those games, and also ended up playing some 400 NL after reading a post in MHNL about how soft the games were.

I ran well for the latter half of the summer at 10/20 and 400 NL, and was able to move up. Now I play anywhere from 20/40 to 50/100 but my main game for the last two months has been the 1k NL 6max. Beginning to play some 10/20 NL, but my god its boring playing 10 handed.

Re: How did you get to where you currently are?
 

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I go all-in a lot.

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Me too, and I play limit. [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

Re: How did you get to where you currently are?
 

Thanks for the responses, guys!

Re: How did you get to where you currently are?
 

KKF staked me cause he thinks I'm cute. Now I have a lot of money.

Re: How did you get to where you currently are?
 

I can't believe I took you off ignore to read that... I feel cheated.

Re: How did you get to where you currently are?
 

Intersting post. My question is this: if you're a food NL player why would you go play limit where the variance is a lot higher and your relative edge is less since you really can't make a lot of moves (until you get to really higher limits) where all they gotta is call one more bet? Long-winded question but one I've been wrestling wth for quite some time and would greatly appreciate a response.

Kirk