One year ago today..........(Ramble/Brag Post) - Page 2

lefty rosen · #11 10-30-2005, 11:07 PM

Hey Darren did your running buddy Eugenneel tap out too?..... [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/blush.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

SwordFish · #12 10-31-2005, 04:59 AM

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Hey Darren did your running buddy Eugenneel tap out too?

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He made a post looking for groupies the other night when he was playing 200/400 against Hellmouth on UB. Link

SF

SammyKid11 · #13 10-31-2005, 06:58 AM

A year ago I only had a Mac, thus played only at pokerroom.com -- I'd deposited 500 dollars, win for a while, then eventually lose it away for a while...in actuality I was maybe a break-even player online (I still did well live against the drunkies at my card club in Dallas and at the riverboats in Shreveport, but...nowhere near good enough to say I was doing anything more than having fun at a slightly profitable hobby).

Actually, all of that would be true of me about 9 months ago. Today, I am still a crappy poker player in relation to where I want to be...but 9 months ago I would have considered someone like me to be an F'ing genius poker player.

I do make a respectable living at poker now, so I'm pretty happy...though I seriously need to keep improving.

tigerite · #14 10-31-2005, 07:26 AM

I don't have complete records from then but I think I was 1-tabling the $55s with nothing like an adequate bankroll, of around $1k at the very most a year ago, in fact I might even have still be on the $22s.. had no idea of concepts like ICM or really what on Earth I was doing for the most part.

Baulucky · #15 10-31-2005, 08:07 AM

I can attest to this. Very well done.

Anyone that can pull a BR bootstrap like that is worthy of recognition.

RollaJ · #16 10-31-2005, 08:29 AM

A year ago today was my last day of work at my real job, Id say things have changed a lot

Python49 · #17 10-31-2005, 09:34 AM

Hmm... what's changed in 6 months? Well $50 used to seem like alot of money to me. Now anything less than 1k seems kinda small.

daryn · #18 10-31-2005, 01:05 PM

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Hey Darren did your running buddy Eugenneel tap out too?..... [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/blush.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

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actually i borrowed $600 from him when i was bust and that's how i came back.

MadMat · #19 10-31-2005, 01:06 PM

A year ago today I had never played a hand of poker in my life, I was talked into depositing £10 into getminted poker by a friend and started playing 50p MTTs and 5p/10p limit

A year later I'm showing a first year profit of around $7k, and have accounts on about 35 different sites

I wish I had the focus to stick to one game and become good enough at it to move up, but I get bored playing the same thing all the time and flit between holdem, 7CS, S&G, limit, PL and NL, the only constant is every hand goes towards a bonus somewhere ;-)

Mat

4thstreetpete · #20 10-31-2005, 01:46 PM

A year ago I was playing 5/10 trying to make it to the party 15/30 games. I've definately improved immensely as a player although there's so much I still need to learn. I just got HEPFAP.