How long were you playing poker before you started to show...

[silvershade]

Took me about 3 weeks, basically once i figured that I needed to be aggressive as well as tight I started to win.

[bjarne]

How long is not the issue, questions is how many hands.

After 10k hands I started to believe I was winning.
Still, everytime I hit a downswing of more than 80BB
I get my doubts though.....

Edit: Still, my bankroll is higher than my original deposit but who knows, maybe I've just had more lucky streaks than bad streaks....

Oh, cruel variance!!!

[BottlesOf]

Not sure I agree. It obviously depends how you define consistent. I haven't had a losing month in.....I dunno a very long time. I'd call that consistent profits.

[Indiana]

Took around 6 months. I dont play 100 hrs a week or anything like most, but I studied lots of books and easily have made over 50K in this game in the last 1.5 yrs. The biggest factor in improving my game was playing in the WSOP. The level of competition there is much higher than anything I have seen, and I dont know why so many people claim that the field is weak in the ME.

Indy

[bambam16]

Took me about seven months. Read a few books before I started (I'm embarrased to admit it, but Ken Warren's book first, then Lee Jones' cleared up a lot of questions), and then got ahold of the free $10 at Royal Vegas. Worked it up to about $100 before losing it all. Deposited $50 at Stars and broke even for about six months at .25/.50 limit (had no concept of bankroll management). Then got the free $10 at Pacific and never looked back. Biggest thing for me to consistently show profit was working on BR management.

[Uppercut]

I started playing online in June 2003. July 2003 was my first profitable month. Since then, I have had 2 unprofitable months.

[J. Sawyer]

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