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#52
10-05-2005, 12:23 AM
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Re: How much was your first deposit for?
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I'm curious as to how the distribution of people who lost several deposits before figuring it out and those who didn't correlates to experience live and in home games. When I started playing holdem, I knew inside and out that I had no real idea what I was doing in that specific game, though I had a lot of general gaming experience. I think that contributed quite a lot to my success. [/ QUOTE ] I lost several deposits before I started winning. I knew absolutely nothing about poker when I started playing online. I would usually drop around $300, take a few months, read a couple web pages, and come back thinking I knew enough to beat the game. I knew I was making progress though as it was taking me longer and longer to to lose my deposits each time. Luckily I bought some books and found 2+2 and now I am here to stay. 
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#53
10-05-2005, 01:38 AM
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Re: How much was your first deposit for?
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.
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#55
10-05-2005, 01:41 AM
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Re: How much was your first deposit for?
$0
Although, technically, I had to deposit $50 (the minimum) in order to register my Neteller Account with Full Tilt when I wanted to withdraw the $500 I won on freerolls and ring games during their beta period. I have never had to play with a cent of my own money.
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#57
10-05-2005, 01:47 AM
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Re: How much was your first deposit for?
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I'm curious as to how the distribution of people who lost several deposits before figuring it out and those who didn't correlates to experience live and in home games. [/ QUOTE ] As stated before, I blew through a bunch of deposits, each one successively slower, so I felt I was making progress (turns out UB also has a FISH boolean flag [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]), so I kept playing. When I first started playing online, I had no prior experience with hold em. Although, I had lots of experience with other poker games like follow the queen, guts, challenge, midnight baseball, etc... While I had a notion that there was more to it than just luck, I hadn't yet developed the knowledge base or intution to win. Luckily, I befriended some other poker players while in law school and they introduced me to some strategy - from there, I began researching online and eventually found 2+2. Now I can't wait until I get my law license and start making big bucks so I have the roll to play at tables where people respect my raises!! [img]/images/graemlins/smirk.gif[/img]
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#58
10-05-2005, 04:34 AM
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Re: How much was your first deposit for?
$20, as Royal Vegas required a deposit before I could cash out the bankroll I built on freerolls and the free $10 they gave you for signing up.
I've officially never gone broke, but I'll be the first to admit that I was on more than one occasion insanely lucky not to do so. Initially I was severely underrolled for my limits, even a modest downswing would have wiped me out. These days I have an extremely conservative playing roll of 1000BB. I also keep six months living expenses in savings at all times on top of my playing roll. Yeah, I'm risk averse.
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#59
10-05-2005, 04:48 AM
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Re: How much was your first deposit for?
$100 on UB. I almost never play there anymore, got a few hundred B$ stacked that may never get cleared......low point
was $60, about three weeks after the deposit. Been pulling money out since about a month after that.
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#60
10-05-2005, 04:49 AM
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Re: How much was your first deposit for?
Wife and I were playing $10-20 live living in Vegas. We had several max buyins($500??) on Planet then moved to Paradise when it opened. On the first or second max credit card buy we took off making $25K in 2-3 months playing $10-20 to $20-40 Limit holdem. Broke even for six months and moved to Party when it opened.
Then Moneymaker <smile> MS Sunshine
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