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short stacked , dealt 99 UTG..K 10 calls...hits 10 on flop... ohhhhh well.

3rd FT of these 4.40s for me (but worst FT finish)

PokerStars Tournament #25473192, No Limit Hold'em
Buy-In: $4.00/$0.40
180 players
Total Prize Pool: $720.00
Tournament started - 2006/05/27 - 17:48:44 (ET)

Dear johncoltrane,

You finished the tournament in 8th place.
A $18.72 award has been credited to your Real Money account.

You earned 77.24 tournament leader points in this tournament.
For information about our tournament leader board, see our web site at
http://www.pokerstars.com/tlb_tournament_rankings.html

Congratulations!
Thank you for participating.

First time I've left a table three buyins up Smile

Today I reached the 1000$ mark. Actually I probably have an extra 100$ lying around in neteller/pokerstars that should be in my roll, but I decided to start fresh at 500$ a few weeks ago and keep proper records of my bankroll.

Now I have the bankroll to play 50NL (although I cheated and started 50NL yesterday to get started with the Betfred Bonus).

May was my first profitable month. +5.28 BB/100 at $10 NL on Ultimate Bet.

...i´m back from the red at my initial br...

atm constantly finishing in the money at $2.50+.25 and $5+.50 SNG (last night 7 in 10)

My 2nd ITM, 1st FT in 6 $4.40 attempts. My MTT ROI is not %500, woot, woot.

PokerStars Tournament #26397589, No Limit Hold'em
Buy-In: $4.00/$0.40
180 players
Total Prize Pool: $720.00
Tournament started - 2006/06/13 - 14:41:33 (ET)

Dear swiggidy,

You finished the tournament in 1st place.
A $216.00 award has been credited to your Real Money account.

You earned 218.47 tournament leader points in this tournament.

I got pretty lucky late (as focus waned). Check, last two hands...

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t4000 (3 handed) Hand History Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com (Format: FlopTurnRiver)

BB (t77698)
Button (t88672)
Hero (t103630)

Preflop: Hero is SB with Q

, A

.
1 fold, Hero raises to t15000, BB raises to t77498, Hero calls t62498.

Flop: (t155196) A

, 4

, 8

(2 players)

Turn: (t155196) 5

(2 players)

River: (t155196) K

(2 players)

Final Pot: t155196

Results in white below:
BB has Jh Jd (one pair, jacks).
Hero has Qc Ac (one pair, aces).
Outcome: Hero wins t155196.

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t4000 (2 handed) Hand History Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com (Format: FlopTurnRiver)

BB (t88472)
Hero (t181528)

Preflop: Hero is Button with 2

, 8

.
Hero raises to t8000, BB calls t4000.

BB says, "gl"
swiggidy says, "U2"

Flop: (t12200) 8

, T

, 6

(2 players)

swiggidy says, "I am the coin-flip master"

BB bets t12000, Hero raises to t173328, BB calls t68272 (All-In).

Turn: (t265800) 2

(2 players, 1 all-in)

River: (t265800) 7

(2 players, 1 all-in)

Final Pot: t265800

Results in white below:
BB has Th Kd (one pair, tens).
Hero has 2s 8s (two pair, eights and twos).
Outcome: Hero wins t265800.

Final Pot: t265800

Reached 25k today.

ty gg.

Hi,
I started playing NL about 2 week ago, and I really enjoy it. I started playing cash games about 3 or 4 days ago. Right now I have a bank roll of $20 down from $350. It's about what I expected, but I realize now the mistakes I was making were not what I thought. I finally understand what tilt is, and realize that even though I didn't think I was angry, I constantly gave up money after losing a few pots. Anyway, great site and I started playing 6 hand NL sit n go and have done fairly well today.
I've wone 1, 2nd once, lost 2. I've learning to leave tables after I'm up as well. I play on Party Poker in the micro rooms, and now I leave a room whenever I am up, even if it is a negligable amount. It's really helping me learn when to quit.
Ok, I'm babbling so I'll stop writing in a moment. I know I have a lot to learn, I don't think that I have any skill (maybe a slight knack) for this game and I really need to practice and read to get better. I hav ADHD really bad so when I find something I am niterested I dive in as fast sa possible. I'm at the point in the freeroll tournaments where I usually finish at about the 50% mark of entrants, and I see that I really need to work on my patience. Now I'm done, I really like your site and look forward to learning much more about poker. I have one question if anyone can help me out. I'm sure it's been answereed but I'm lazy right now and want to get back to poker. Any reccommomendatons on sites that you can play for free with live people who actually care if they are playing well or not? I've read a few bad reviews of the free money play on Party Poker (the only site I use right now) and would like to find somewhere to practice against people. Excuse my Ramblings and thanks for this great site.

Playing freerolls isn't really a great benchmark to test your skill against. Don't get disheartened because you're busting out in them.

Playing with play money will get you nowhere. Noone takes it seriously. If your bankroll is that low, take it to PokerStars or a different site where they have microstakes, as Party only has 25nl up after a while.

Read the [url=http://www.flopturnriver.com/Bankroll-Management-101.html]Bankroll Management Thread[/url] and go from there. gl sir

Thenk you very much for the advice. I know my biggest problem is that I love jumping into anything I find interest in. I'm using self-control a lot better. Here's how I did today:

managed to finish around 200 out of about 8000 in a free roll (I understand what you mentioned about not using it as a benchmark)

tilted on a $10 10 seat SNG
finished 1,2, and 4th in 3 6 seat $6 SNG's

I'm sticking to the .02 and .05 tables from now on. There are a lot more people with at least mediocre ability in the higher stabkes tables. Oh yeah, I've only been playing in the begginner tables as well, still have a weeks to use them.

My plan now is too read as much as I can, and practice implementing what I learn, before I go back to playing at higher stakes. I do enjoy playing the freerolls though, they are good for a laugh sometimes. Any reccommendations on free software to track my playing history? I read somewhere about a decent free program, just can't remember the name. What I found today is the freeroll tourney's help me learn patience, since they run for extended periods of time. I'm going to buy a book in the next few days as well.

so thanks again, and I'm happy to say my bankroll ($50 deposited yesterday) has gone up to 74 and has only dropped to 64 today. For me ths is better than usual. In no way do I think I understand this game well, and cannot wait to really start learning more.

another cash in the 4.40 180s- 2nd for 144$

Skreeter, you should be looking to play 10,000 plus hands at microlimits before moving up, and even then onlhy if your roll has grown sufficiently. I admire your attitude and your enthusaism, but you need to be absolutely sure you will have the vast reserves of patience and discipline poker unequivocally requires. Poker is played absolutely in the long term - a winnign hand or a winning session means NOTHING in the greater scheme of things.

Just now I played a couple of $25NL tables after nopt playing for 10 days. I lost $40, half of which was a hand where I had 88, hit middle set, managed to get all my oppo's money in by the river which gave him a set of queens and the pot. I patted myself on the back for my strong play and moved on to the next hand. If this doesn't make sense to you, you still have a lot to learn. If it does make sense to you, you still have a lot to learn. This is a game of experience - after 100,000 hands I consider myself a decent beginner.

Good luck with it all and remember, keep learning, listening, reading and experiencing and you might become a winning player. It may sounds patronising but it's god's honest truth.

Came out of my 270 bet initial downswing at limit 6-max!

Yo everybody at Flopturnriver.

Had an exceptionally good day two days ago, so i thought i'd share.

I mostly play $5+1 sit n go's but i decided to enter a $2 buy in tournament at PartyPoker. Not only did i make my first final table appearance, but i CAME FIRST!!! $226 yeah!

I've been playing online for about a month now, and everything i've learnt has been from flopturnriver, and i feel like i'm getting there slowly.

keep up the good work guys, and i'll let you know if i achieve my next goal. I've got a bet with my girlfriend....if i turn $50 into $1000 in 30 days, she performs unspeakable acts on me!! so far it's 5 days, $50 is $369, and i'm feeling good!

Congratulations to all who have gone before, my achievement is pretty modest but I won my first sit and go last night, a $6 buy in on PP! Was nearly out twice but came storming back, I really enjoy the tournament format. Made up a bit for losing 2 buyins at my first attempt at ring play. Even though I had done some reading and thinking and know about starting hands and position, I play horribly post flop. I can protect my top pair from being drawn on or draw myself if the pot odds are favourable but second pair? 2 overs? I don't have a clue what to do haha and I'm hopeless at putting people on hands. This is $25nl on PP and I think it's too much for me at the moment, I guess trying another site with micro stakes would be better for me? Anyway thanks to everyone on this site who has offered their advice, it's helped me a lot!

i finally get to post something in here.

i have bubbled the final table in several MTTs in the last week 11/380, 14/442, and i finally hit one.

5/1372.

THANKS FTR.

PokerStars Tournament #26603767, No Limit Hold'em
Buy-In: $5.00/$0.50
1372 players
Total Prize Pool: $32345.00
Tournament started - 2006/06/21 - 18:30:00 (ET)

Dear Bode-ist,

You finished the tournament in 5th place.
A $1,714.29 award has been credited to your Real Money account.

You earned 284.94 tournament leader points in this tournament.
For information about our tournament leader board, see our web site at
http://www.pokerstars.com/tlb_tournament_rankings.html

Congratulations!
Thank you for participating.

Thanks for the advice, I just can't help myself but jump into something I find interesting as fast as possible. I've calmed down a lot, and have a few books on the way. I find playing in the MTT tournaments, even the freerolls, really helps me learn patience. I managed to finish around 40th in a $1 tourney today on Party Poker. I'm not just dumping money into these sites like I did when I first started playing. I'll update when I start to actually learn something.

Hit 2k today. Even though I'm now officially rolled for 100NL, I'm gonna stay at 50NL as I only have booked 3000 hands there. I'm probably withdrawing some cash from the roll, as very much of it has been from bonuses/referrals and not from "real play". I believe that my roll will grow sufficiently from play alone before I feel ready to move up.

Still, it feels really good to hit the 2k mark Very Happy

.

took my hourly rate above $1, haven´t been tilting for some weeks and worked on my ring game and postflop play, so that i´m able to play $10 NL without getting stacked all the time. and i caught my first royal flush Laughing

check it out:

(hält=call, erhöht=bets/raises, legt ab= folds)

Everest Poker — Details zur Runde
Runden-ID: 361654932
Tisch-ID: -14778246
Spielmodus: Realmoney
Turnier-Tisch: Olympus-5
Spieltyp: Hold'em
Blinds: 1.50/3.00
Einsatz: 3.00/3.00
Währung: USD
Startdatum: 2006-06-16 GMT
Startzeit: 23:54:34 GMT

Sitz-Ordnung:

jacounetfr ist an Platz 1 mit 119.50.
frbaba95 ist an Platz 2 mit 109.50.
XTR1000 ist an Platz 4 mit 197.00.
asg17011976 ist an Platz 5 mit 89.50.
viejozof ist an Platz 6 mit 84.50.

Blinds setzen:

Der Button ist an Platz 4.
asg17011976 setzt das Small Blind von 1.50.
viejozof setzt das Big Blind von 3.00.

Austeilung der Pocketkarten:

jacounetfr: -- --
frbaba95: -- --
XTR1000: Jh Qh
asg17011976: -- --
viejozof: -- --

Pre-Flop:
jacounetfr hält 3.00.
frbaba95 legt ab.
XTR1000 hält 3.00.
asg17011976 hält 1.50.
viejozof checkt.

Flop (10h Kc Kh):
asg17011976 checkt.
viejozof checkt.
jacounetfr erhöht 3.00.
XTR1000 hält 3.00.
asg17011976 legt ab.
viejozof legt ab.

Turn (10h Kc Kh Ah):
jacounetfr erhöht 18.00.
XTR1000 hält 18.00.

Fluss (10h Kc Kh Ah 2c):
jacounetfr erhöht 54.00.
XTR1000 erhöht 173.00.
jacounetfr hält 41.50.

Showdown:
XTR1000 zeigt Jh Qh.
XTR1000 hat 10h Jh Qh Kh Ah.:
jacounetfr zeigt 5h Kd.
jacounetfr hat 10h Kd Kc Kh Ah.: Drei gleiche Karten
jacounetfr ist entfernt.

Pot Zusammenfassung:
77.50 geht zurück an XTR1000 (ungehalten).
Gesamter Pot: 245.00
XTR1000 gewinnt 245.00.
Für diese Runde wurde kein Hausanteil einbehalten.

nice one man

Haha - I won a 5-man SNG on a TV table so not only am I on TV (maybe, some crappy cable channel at 5am) but I am on TV winning! Go me!

(p.s. I don't suppose any sites with TV tables actually let people know if/when their games might be broadcast, do they? I'm sure with global TV schedules they don't, but I'd love to hear how commentators rate my play Smile

)

All those commentators are terrible. They give the worst advice ever on those programs.

What site was this on? Prima or Dream Poker or something?

50, 073 hands
4.78 BB/100

Spread over a few levels, but ~12,000 hands are at NL25 6-max for 7.49 BB/100, which is what I am playing almost exclusively now.
Doing well At Full Tilt after a rollercoaster ride at Stars.

http://www.poker-edge.com/whoami.php?name=beelzeboz0&site=Party

Apparently I need an elbow brace.

Irish, the sng I won was on Poker Syndicate (Boss network), though I did once before play $50NL on Prima which was a TV table (and 8-handed, oddly).

There's a chap who commentates on Poker Night Live with longish, curly greying hair - Mark someone? - who I saw the other night beating Dave "twatfish would be a better nickname" Ulliott in a 7-hour HU match, He seems pretty decent.

1st and 4th finishes at the 4.40 180 on stars...

My first ITM at a 5-table $5 tourney (10 tries)

PokerStars Tournament #27395315, No Limit Hold'em
Buy-In: $5.00/$0.50
45 players
Total Prize Pool: $225.00
Tournament started - 2006/07/01 - 23:27:49 (ET)

Dear swiggidy,

You finished the tournament in 1st place.
A $69.76 award has been credited to your Real Money account.

ello all,

I've only been playing for three days (NL $25).

After 720 hands I'm running at 10.42 BB/Hour and am up two buyings (plus a Bonus $20 from party and free PO2).

Time seems to be my limiting factor given I have a full time job and a girlfriend (you know what I mean).

Thanks again for all who contribute here at FTR.

Little post here

just got back to back wins on the $6+.50 45 person turbo, $77.50 a pop Smile

$155 total, most money ive made in a night not being on my knees Wink

3/405 in a $1 MTT on Prima

$44, my biggest cash yet.

Finished 3/108 in the $1 rebuy tournament later today for $35. That was my second third place finish today. Very Happy

My roll went from $136 to $208 today.

On July 1, 2006 I got 2nd place out of 1800 in a MTT.
And one week before that was my first Final Table. I was out in 7th. Ironicly also in a field of 1800!
But... My first ITM was 4 months ago. Although I think that this was more luck then skill. Not to mention there were 36 payouts and my chip stack landed me in 35!!!. Wink

Well, this isn't much, but I am currently on a 7 SNG ITM roll, with 3 straight 1st place finishes. I've finished ITM 8 out of the past 9 and 11 out of the past 14. I like it.

XTR1000 owns this thread becasue of his avatar.
That is all.

Oh yeah, i thought i post a graph of the perfect upswing.
gg doomswitch.

Love your image cropping skill miffed! Nice graph, though Very Happy

.

Me so bad with computers Sad

I made it to the FT last night! $1 +0 Chip & Chair freezeout at Everest...

man, it feels so good after having a big losing streak in sng´s....

Playing pretty much the ttanaka game but mixing it up a little (I won a pot with 43o), I took down $861 at Foxwoods tonight in 1-2 nl.

woohooo !

Hi everyone at Flopturnriver. I just registered, but Ive been reading and learning as much as I can here for about half a year now. And two nights ago it all finaly paid off ! : )

I was invited to a 5000$ Freeroll Tourny and I thought Id play for the heck of it, not expecting to get very far. Especially because it started at 2 in the morning (over here in Germany at least). Well, I went to my first final table ever and in the end I played untill 6 AM and finished 2 / 1722 ...

#Game No : 4787205293
***** Hand History for Game 4787205293 *****
NL Texas Hold'em Trny:26367609 Level:25 Blinds-Antes(75000/150000-4000) - Sunday, July 23, 00:03:13 ET 2006
Table $5K Tight Poker (775456) Table #1 (Real Money)
...
Player bestHand233 finished in 2 place and received $535
...

Sooo happy : )

Thanks to everyone here at Flopturnriver !

Okay, it's results-oriented, and there are 3 better hands out there, but still; it's not been a great week, so this felt goooood.

** Game ID 872853167 starting - 2006-07-26 09:07:56
** Lord Of The Rings [Hold 'em] (0.25|0.50 No Limit - Cash Game) Real Money

- Villain is CO $52.45
- BTN $34.25
- SB $17.50
- Hero is BB $47.75
- UTG $48.75 [Sitting out]
- UTG + 1 $8.23
- UTG +2 $46.75
- MP1 $7.35
- MP2 $54.94
- MP3 $50.75

** Dealing card to Anosmic: T Diamond

9

Pre-flop
5 folded, Villain called, BTN folded, SB called. Hero checked.

Flop: ($1.50) J Diamond

, 8

, 9

I hear you should get all your chips in for this position. Not sure how though Smile

SB Checked, Hero bets $1.50, Villain calls, SB folds.

Turn: ($4.50) 8 Spade

Anosmic bet - $2.00 Underbetting the turn. Consistent problem. But gives him draw odds I suppose
vinvul called - $2.00

River:($8.50] 7 Diamond

Hero bets $2.00, Villain raises $6.00, Hero raises $14.00, Villain $48.45 and is all-in. Hero calls.

Final pot: $92

Villain mucked, so it's just a guess, either A-flush or boat, I'd wager.

you can't see mucked cards? What PR is this?

Congrats on getting paid off with a straight flush, thats always a good feeling. But man, you need to work on that turn and river betting.

Ah, felt great, was like my first tournament ever, played the FTR gauntlet tonight, figured if I was going start, might as well get a trial by fire.

Made it in 3rd spot out of 35 players. Was a great feeling!

PokerStars Tournament #28785666, No Limit Hold'em
Buy-In: $10.00/$1.00
35 players
Total Prize Pool: $350.00
Tournament started - 2006/07/26 - 22:00:00 (ET)

Dear Wedge7,

You finished the tournament in 3rd place.
A $56.00 award has been credited to your Real Money account.

Congratulations!
Thank you for participating.

Broke the 3k bankroll mark today. Also I started dabbling in 100NL. I think I'm going to move up even though I have some very obvious flaws in my game.

Nice ElKrem! I'm almost that far.
Started with $125 playing 10NL, BR is $225 now. I'm looking forward to play 25NL, maybe when I've got $300. Smile

Two big things happened recently. First $100 pot.

Game #1628491679 - (blinds $0.10/$0.25) No Limit Texas Hold'em - 2006/08/03-21:02:35.8 (CST)
Table "Eleu (5 max)" (real money) -- Seat 1 is the button
Seat 1: AWPer ($54.14 in chips)
Seat 2: yorib ($56.68 in chips)
Seat 3: Saucy152 ($7.23 in chips)
Seat 4: KOSAL ($49.11 in chips)
Seat 5: bdk313 ($13.65 in chips)
yorib : Post Small Blind ($0.10)
Saucy152: Post Big Blind ($0.25)
Dealt to yorib [ Qs ]
Dealt to yorib [ Qd ]
KOSAL : Call ($0.25)
bdk313 : Fold
AWPer : Raise ($0.70)
yorib : Raise ($2)
Saucy152: Fold
KOSAL : Fold
AWPer : Call ($1.40)
*** FLOP *** : [ 5h 7h 4d ]
yorib : Bet ($3)
AWPer : Raise ($7)
yorib : Call ($4)
*** TURN *** : [ 5h 7h 4d ] [ Jd ]
yorib : Check
AWPer : Bet ($12)
yorib : Call ($12)
*** RIVER *** : [ 5h 7h 4d Jd ] [ 6s ]
yorib : Bet ($15)
AWPer : Raise ($33.04)
yorib : Call ($18.04)
*** SUMMARY ***
Pot: $106.78 | Rake: $2
Board: [ 5h 7h 4d Jd 6s ]
AWPer lost $54.14 (showed hand) [ Qh Ah ] (high card ace)
yorib bet $54.14, collected $106.78, net +$52.64 (showed hand) [ Qs Qd ] (a pair of queens)
Saucy152 lost $0.25 (folded)
KOSAL lost $0.25 (folded)
bdk313 didn't bet (folded)

Followed by the requisite "I can't beleive you made the call you idiot."
AWPer said, "ur so bad"
AWPer said, "rofl"
AWPer said, "so many hands had u beat"
AWPer said, "omfg"
AWPer said, "u donkey"
AWPer said, "rofl"

And I hit the $1000 br milestone (just counting Paradise, my primary site), and am comfortably above it.

This is all over the past 4 months starting at $5NL with free money (from instantbankroll) and minimal poker experience. However, I did read a lot of books, and tend to be more mathematically inclined. I'd like to especially thank FTR (beginners forum and short-hand).

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