How did you get to where you currently are?

[JihadOnTheRiver]

lol, ty. put me back on please. i would love to know what i was ignored for. i black out a lot, and i'm guessing 35% of my posts are completely retarded...

ps. i feel priveleged

[aceferret]

Dropped about 1000 playing 5/10 limit 1st month. Spent 100 on a few books. Turned 50 into into 100k in 2 years. Climbed the ranks in both sitngos and nl. Mostly just play 400 nl 3 tables, and occasionally 1000nl when there are some weak players.

Basically by learning to raise more than call, and understanding the power of position.

[MaGi]

Started poker in college, nickle dime quarter [censored]...absolutely crushed that game.
Once I decided I did well there I thought I would try my hand at the big 2/4 games at Canterbury Park, gradually worked my way up to the 8/16 level where I hit a bad beat jackpot for 20k. I kept at that level for some time in live games.

Deposited 250 on Party Poker and played 5/10 short hand games and tournaments. First two tournies I played there I got fifth and second, giving me about a bankroll of 3000 within one week of depositing. Started two, three and eventually four tabling the 10/20 limit games (short hand), and various tournaments still.

Eventually I started playing the big (at the time) party no limit games, 200 and 100, more 100 short handed though. I won a Super Thursday, and several smaller tournaments and built a pretty solid bankroll, so once they added the 1000 NL I played that when I could get it short handed, same with 2000 NL.

Currently you can find me in those games most every day for a good part of the day, and playing whatever tournaments I feel like doing. I also play any of the bigger limit games that get short handed, 30/60 and occassionally 50/100.

Lately, no big tourney wins, some small ones, biggest in the last few months is a 13000 cash (2nd) in a Super Wed. Gonna start playing live more now that I am 21. Had a lil success thus far at Canterbury's fall poker deal, took 7th in the openening event and cashed in another.

Oh, I have never played live at a casino that wasn't Canterbury Park, I really gotta start getting out...

[DavidC]

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lol, ty. put me back on please. i would love to know what i was ignored for. i black out a lot, and i'm guessing 35% of my posts are completely retarded...

ps. i feel priveleged

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Well...

I just saw your post in OOT on posting something good about your life (since a lot of OOTers seem unhappy)... and I have to admit, it was a good post, so damnit, you're back off again... stupid crapshoot.

You're mostly just on there for, I suppose, drunken OOT posts.

I don't know, this deserves a thread of its own, probably in OOT...

I'm not particularly proud that i wrote this in public (about my ignore list). I definitely shouldn't do that. [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

[cero_z]

Hi,

Saw Rounders in college. Went to Barnes & Noble to find a book with the rules of Hold'em. Found one, but the books on blackjack caught my eye. Learned to count cards, played a little blackjack and was lucky. Formed a small team with my friends, won some money, started traveling the midwest looking for better blackjack games.

Took a break from college for unrelated reasons. During our biggest session (up like 5000 to be split 3 ways), found poker on the same boat as the blackjack game. Played 1-4 Stud, got crushed by idiots to the tune of $50 or so. Immediately loved poker, and saw that it was like blackjack, except hard. Went back to B&N, got many books on poker. Read and read and read; luckily found Theory of Poker early on.

Played poker and blackjack, and eventually moved up to the "Big Game" on the aforementioned Iowa riverboat: 5-10 Hold'em (limit--there were no NL cash games then). Played 5-10 Hold'em and believed I could make a living at it. Quit my job. Went broke. Got another job. Quit again to play. Went broke playing. Rinse, repeat. Never went back to school, as my poker self-education showed me what a farce my college education was in comparison.

Moved to VA with my risk-averse girlfriend, combined finances, and planned on leaving gambling behind. Managed a video store. Yearned for poker. Found a very soft local game (10-20 Stud 8). Played a few times, with mixed results. Told my girlfriend I needed to try playing pro again, and that life with me would mean going through that. She was game, and cashed in our savings account the next day, giving me half. We made a plan: Win/Save $10,000, and I may quit the video store at will. A few months of crushing the game later (it only goes about 15 hours/week), I was there. Quit my job, headed to Tunica; did well. Girlfriend warmed to poker as money rolled in and I was happy/ often available. Married girlfriend.

Played 15-20 hours a week of live poker for 2 years, steadily grew the roll. Ventured into online poker seriously, had wild swings, didn't like it much. Somewhere along the way, got very far ahead (gave online up numerous times previously), and now I play exclusively online (1K 6-max, SitnGos, 30-60 limit Hold'em, Omaha 8, Stud 8), except when I travel to tournaments 3 or 4 times per year.

[Alex/Mugaaz]

I find it amazing how so many of the best posters in each forum made some of the worst decisions possible multiple times beforehand.

[AdamBragar]

Played poker with my family growing up. Played poker in highschool with my friends (we actually played NL Hold Em). Freshman-Junior Year of College I played about 3 times total. Senior year, started playing with kids in college and at 2/4 limit at foxwoods. I made 100 dollars on one visit and decided to deposit on Party.

First night, I dropped down to 11 dollars playing 2/4 limit and maybe a sit n go or 2. Somehow, I ran insanely hot after that, and turned that into about 800 dollars in 3 months, thereby convincing myself I was the greatest player alive. I mainly played 5-20 dollar Sit N' Go's and .5/1 NL. I was an absolute rock when I played. Anything above a minraise preflop was very unusual for me. I'd fold pretty much any hand besides 1010-AA (including AK) to ANY raise. I then decided I was going to take about 2 months off before I started work in consulting to just play poker.

I played .5-1 NL on party convinced I would make about 200 dollars per day 1 tabling for 6 hours or so. This did not happen. Or even close. I decided fish sucked out on me too much and I needed to play 1-2 NL. Luckily I cashed 2nd in a multi for 1800 which made me evenish for the summer.

My job was boring, so I found 2+2. My job continued to be boring and I read a lot of 2+2. Deposited some money on UB (I was IHeartBoobies on there) and played some .5/1 NL and then moved up to 1/2 NL. By January, 2005 I had a bankroll for 2-4 NL. I switched back to Party and played tons of 2-4 NL (if you've played 2-4 on Party, 99 percent chance I've played against you). Since my job let me out at 5-5:30 everyday and I had moved to Princeton, NJ for this job and knew no one, I pretty much got home by 6 and played till midnight about 3-4 nights a week. At some point I started doing well for myself and also had some big results playing 2-5, 5-5 and 5-10 live.

This past summer, I decided I hated my job and quit. I moved back to New York City and I now play poker for a living. I will be going to grad school in Fall 06.

I'm not sure I've gotten through an entire poker book. The Harrington books are probably about as close as I've gotten. By far, the most valuable teaching instrument for me has been this forum. I read it, a ton and it has taught me thought proccesses to use when playing that really is the basis for a lot of the strategies described in books.

[BobboFitos]

2 1/2 + yrs ago my friends started playing over the summer. So I started playing. We played 10$ and 20$ buyin games. We thought we were the best alive, period. Luckily I found caro's book of tells right away and immediately could stare into the souls of my friends.

My cousin suggested super/system early on, (he plays alot of poker as well) so I thought I was the next DB having read it. Found online poker november or so of 2003 (I believe) and started playing play money on pokerstars. Was able to sell several million play chips to start a poker br. Combined with a friend, we shared a 10$ roll and played 1cent/2cent nl.

We went on "wild" swings, including going down to 4.44$, before finally we had enough for 5.5 sngs and low limit. I multitabled NL25 and .5/1 limit (on a maybe 150$ roll) for a while.

A different friend found 2p2, suggested it to me, I read ToP and studied the game here. This helped substantially.

We won a 3$ tournament, gave our br a 1k boost, and split it up. I started reading 2p2 heavily and switched from .5-1 limit to just NL. (Which is why Im a limit retard!)

played my way up... Last semester I took off from college to play "professionally" (what a jopke!) in boston. I stayed at tufts w/ friends, multitabled 1-2NL and the like (and played in some boston games) but before the summer began I returned home and realized it's not what I wanted to do.

I still play way too much and read 2p2 way too much, last month was my first losing month, (I have no idea why) and this month seems to be in the same direction! But poker has been sweet on me.

[cero_z]

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I find it amazing how so many of the best posters in each forum made some of the worst decisions possible multiple times beforehand.

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a)I don't know why you would find this surprising.
b)Thanks.
c)Since you were presumably referring to my post, which decisions did you think were bad?

[DavidC]

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I find it amazing how so many of the best posters in each forum made some of the worst decisions possible multiple times beforehand.

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a)I don't know why you would find this surprising.
b)Thanks.
c)Since you were presumably referring to my post, which decisions did you think were bad?

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Hey Cero... a few things:

1) Your post was at the bottom of the list when he made his reply... if he was reading in flat mode, you're going to get your name attached to his response. No biggie.

Also, I'm not surprised about this either.

I mean, no one walks into this game with total knowledge of it, right?

Anyways, thanks again for your responses, guys. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

--Dave.