[JudgeRW]

I started playing around January this year. I go in spurts mostly though. I'll play for about a week straight, then wont play for two weeks, then I'll play a couple days, take a week off, then play for two weeks. I started with a whopping $50 (which my wife made me take out as soon as I hit $150).

I slowly worked that starting $50 into the $300 bankroll I "needed" to play at the .5/1. level (took about two months). Over the next month I battled to break $400. Kept getting to like $402 or something, then I'd lose $20, get it back, lose $30, get it back, lose $10. It was fun [img]/images/graemlins/mad.gif[/img] Then I went on a crazy rush over a weekend and went from about $410 to just over $500. My intent had always been to play at least 10k hands at .5/1. and to get the full $600 before I moved up to 1/2. However (in retrospect, stupidly) I decided that I was ready.

It took me approx. 8 hours of playing to get back down to $250. Played another couple hours the next day, down to $180 So, I took off about a week, moved back down to .5/1. and am settled back in to get all the way to the $600 goal this time (don't think I'll have the 10k hands issue [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img] ) Anyway, that's my story, and man do I LOVE this game.

Here's my stats:

.5/1. - 8800 hands, 6.07 BB/100
1/2 - 600 hands, -14.60 BB/100