Put $50 on Stars about a year ago, built it up to like $120 playing $5 sngs because I was just that amazing[ly lucky]. Put $50 on again a couple months later and lost it in about 2 hours playing 25 NL, then put $200 on the same day to get the 20% or whatever tiny bonus it was on Stars and kept playing sit and gos until I learned that nut peddling the 25 NL was even better and it's all been uphill from there.

I learned to play limit at a local casino playing 3-6. I suspect I ran extremely well early on, because other than what I had seen on TV about odds for straights/flushes I basically knew nothing. My poker epiphany was from some random email from FTP where Jennifer Harman taught the ultimate secret to calculating your odds (i.e. number of outs x2). This let me win even bigger against the horrible live players. Unfortunately my live bankroll management was/is crappier than my online management because I buy fancy stuff like hamburgers and unicorns, so that combined with the reality check that winning 5 BB per hour in a live game is not sustainable eventually set in, so I play mostly online.

I found this site when I was looking for some strategy on Omaha 8, because for some ridiculous reason I left the amazingly soft live holdem games to play Omaha 8 instead. Equally soft, but half the speed. Since then I've learned how to play pretty much any game online offered well enough to win by reading almost every post for the past 8 months or so for every game. Unfortunately I somehow find myself playing bad at times for no real reason, throwing in unnecessary bets, etc. I play well enough to be a winner, but not as big a winner as I'd probably be if I played my best with more frequency. Didn't have Poker Tracker and hadn't read a single book until a couple weeks ago. Don't know how I lived without PT now that I do have it. When I'm on my computer that I haven't installed PT on I refuse to play Holdem. The books were all pretty good, but pretty much just reinforced things that I knew, concreting my suspicion that most my losing is just from playing stupid.

And that's how I went from being a lucky winning moron, to a lucky winner to a decent winner to hopefully a bigger winner sometime in the future.