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Last night I won $200 at Doyles Room at the FTR freeroll and at the same time was playing a 1K freeroll at dream poker and placed 25th out of 6000. Beating 5975 people only got me $3 but I really play for the competition more than the money so it felt pretty good. Closest I've ever been to a final table on one of those freerolls.

Ok... I started playing poker 2 months ago. Today I played a $2 rebuy tournament at Everest.

Well I managed to get first place! Very Happy

And I would not have gone to that place without reading all articles on this board.

I started 2 months ago with $95 BR... now I have around 1350$.

Many thanks go to all of you!
Greetz,
C_S

YAY!

Just came 2nd in a $10 6-player table donkament. I'm normally a $20NL cash player but just felt like a break.

It took a fair amount of luck to be honest, I had to win 3 coinflips, got it in as a 3/1 dog once and hit my lower card (It was a dominated situation), and only got a 4/1 bad beat once..

It's just a pity that I got my money in good headsup and lost.. Meh, it's just a 60/40.. Seeing as I got my money in good I feel like I pretty much won that, despite me winning that 60/40 would just mean I had a 2/1 advantage. Donkaments are crazy shit.

Oh yeah, the final hand for the hell of it...

2500/5000 blinds

Villain - 105k
Me - 55k

Villain raises to 25000
Hero Pushes
Villain calls

Villain shows King of Clubs

Hero shows Ace of Diamonds

Flop:

Turn:

River:

I won $330.

In one day strictly following the 19 hand strategy I went from my initial $20 deposited at AP to $105 a few minutes ago. I am fairly new to the game, a few months, and decided to follow that strategy simply for building a bankroll from very little. Working great so far.

Not very impressive I know but it is simply one small milestone on my way to much larger ones hopefully.

prolly the toughest hand i've played in recent memory.

ever have one of those days? you know the kind where ALL your semi-bluffs get picked off? where all your sets get sucked out on? when you try to drive a villain out of the pot, and they seem to be "floating" on you? you know, the kind of day where everything that can go wrong...does?

well, this was one of those. VILLAIN WAS VERY PASSIVE POST FLOP, from what i had seen. a lot of calling, no raising. so, that just added to the "degree of difficulty" in pushing here, as i cannot call his raise here, it is push over the top or fold due to the stack sizes. when called, i figured to be behind, but i pushed in the first place figuring i was ahead.

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, $0.25 BB (9 handed) Hand History Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com (Format: FlopTurnRiver)

SB ($22.75)
BB ($38.95)
UTG ($22.45)
UTG+1 ($8.90)
MP1 ($12.45)
MP2 ($21.65)
MP3 ($24.95)
Hero ($19.35)
Button ($10.65)

Preflop: Hero is CO with Q

, K

.
2 folds, MP1 calls $0.25, 2 folds, Hero raises to $1, 3 folds, MP1 calls $0.75.

Flop: ($2.35) J

, K

, 4

(2 players)
MP1 checks, Hero bets $1.5, MP1 calls $1.50.

Turn: ($5.35) Q

(2 players)
MP1 checks, Hero bets $2.5, MP1 raises to $5.5, Hero raises to $16.85, MP1 calls $4.45 (All-In).

River: ($32.15) 5

(2 players, 1 all-in)

Final Pot: $32.15

just thought i'd take a minute and gloat a bit.

results: he showed KJ. thanks for the call on the flop, and the chance to catch my top two...sucker.

Wow...forget cash games, looks like tournament Hold'em is my forte. In 5 SnG's the last few days I have won a 100k qualifier and 3 $10 buy in SnG's.

I only started playing online a little before my last post in this thread and had only played a couple of live games with friends prior. This site and Harrington on Holdem have become my hold'em bible.

I posted this elsewhere but as of this weekend I have made a profit of $10,000 playing online poker. BIG SMILEY FACE Smile

(and I still consider myself a beginner, fwiw)

Normally SNG player but thought I would give low buy in MTT a go and after reading chardrians guide, fired up a $2 rebuy NL HE on AP and ended up winning it - $290, felt like I'd won the WSOP final table!!!

Was a real rollercoaster ride tho, got lucky when i was getting short stacked about 2 hours in - two hands running my pp's flopped quads so i quadrupled up in 2 hands. Got to final table as shortie, all in on TT first hand, 3 callers, luckily they held up for me. From there it was just a case of being patient while all around committed hari kiri until the HU!

Chardrians guide was invaluable for me here, so a big thanks to him for posting it!

Yay! My BR finally hit $1k!
I'm ready to conquer NL50.

Your ganna luagh but I have actually played 2 freerolls t DV8Poker which is a skin on UltimateBet and came in 3rd place for $9.75 which in turn I',m building on it playing in the $1.10 Sit&Go's and have built it to $50.00 my plan is to build to $100.00 then move up to the $5.00 sit and go's then build to $300.00
and go up to the to the $10.00 sit and go's and then build to 1500 and go up to the 30.00 sit and go's and then $2500 for the $50 sit and go's and then $ 5000 for the $100 sit and go's I feel if I have 50 buy-in's then I should be ok once I reached a comfort zone and win consitent at the top sit & go level then I will spread my bankroll into some MTT's and Ring games that's is my plan and I never plan on having to deposit a dime to do this I feel I have the skill to do this becuase I have logged a bunch of time as alive player and have saw many situation in tournament's sit and go's as well as live ring games.

I will let you know my prograss

oops: double post.
note to self......learn how to use forum.

*Last edited by paws on Wed, 21 Feb 2007, 11:04am; edited 3 times in total*

I've been playing Poker for a month and started playing SnG tournaments ten days ago.

Initial Bankroll: 25$ at Pacific Poker
SnG levels: 1$+10c (triple up), 2.50$+30c (5 seated), 5$+50c (5 and 10 seated), progressing to 10$+1$ now, two-tabling.

Tournaments: 77
ITM: ~55%
ROI: 36%
Profit: 127$

I'm a microstakes player (10NL) and rarely play tourneys, so this is a big deal for me.

PokerStars freeroll, 10 FPPs. Total 4812 players and I finished 5th. Prize was about $7-8, which is not a big deal to me, but I was just happy to play that deep and make final table.

Blinds went up so fast (turbo), and I don't know the advisable strategy for dealing with that, but I resisted the all-in mentality that nearly everyone else was showing as blinds became imposing. If I had at least 5-6 times the BB in the middle stages, I felt like I could wait a bit, having basically 4-5 orbits to catch a good hand (better than A or K with low kicker that so many were all in with) and then I was able to stack off quite a few players with good hands. Even on final table, I was short stacked I waited for others to go all in and get knocked out, while I still had 3-5 times BB (which by then was 100,000), and that got me up to 5th.

I don't usually have time to play MTT's, but boy was that fun!

wp Deacon and paws!

Just come third out of 1114 in a $6 party donk a ment. Winner was awesome mind, anyone know him guy's a machine, $403.08 not bad for the evening's work. Any thoughts on this hand, the one I ultimately blew and is it just me or is the difference between 1st and 3rd astronomical $800 odd quid.

#Game No : 5707578495
***** Hand History for Game 5707578495 *****
NL Texas Hold'em Trny:31945128 Level:19 Blinds-Antes(15000/30000 -700) - Saturday, February 24, 20:32:01 ET 2007
Table Regular (928191) Table #1 (Real Money)
Seat 7 is the button
Total number of players : 3
Seat 2: pinkfloyd110 ( $965273 )
Seat 10: Ace_Spectre ( $473644 )
Seat 7: Jahouwe ( $1903083 )
Trny:31945128 Level:19
Blinds-Antes(15000/30000 -700)
pinkfloyd110 posts ante [700].
Jahouwe posts ante [700].
Ace_Spectre posts ante [700].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Ace_Spectre [ Qd Kd ]
pinkfloyd110: same to u Smile

Jahouwe folds
Ace_Spectre raises [75000]
pinkfloyd110 calls [60000]
** Dealing Flop ** [ 6s, 2h, 7h ]
Ace_Spectre bets [120000]
pinkfloyd110 raises [270000]
Ace_Spectre is all-In [262944]
pinkfloyd110 calls [112944]
** Dealing Turn ** [ Js ]
** Dealing River ** [ Jd ]
pinkfloyd110 shows [ 8s, Ah ]a pair of Jacks.
Ace_Spectre shows [ Qd, Kd ]a pair of Jacks.
pinkfloyd110 wins 947988 chips from the main pot with a pair of Jacks with Ace kicker.
Player Ace_Spectre finished in 3 place and received $403.82
gg

my first second place ever in a small sit-n-go (i'm seeing some progress in my play)
my first time to play seriously in the money
it's not about the money it's about the play itself

PokerStars Tournament #43970713, No Limit Hold'em
Buy-In: $1.00/$0.20
45 players
Total Prize Pool: $45.00
Tournament started - 2007/02/26 - 12:42:06 (ET)

Dear q8moh87,

You finished the tournament in 2nd place.
A $10.00 award has been credited to your Real Money account.

You earned 52.03 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.

I'm not really a beginner as such but I have probably only played 40 MTTs ever, and this is my highest placing to date (and I bust after pushing while ahead fwiw):

PokerStars Tournament #44306987, No Limit Hold'em
Buy-In: $10.00/$1.00
180 players
Total Prize Pool: $1800.00
Tournament started - 2007/03/02 - 15:21:51 (ET)

Dear efil4elbmow,

You finished the tournament in 4th place.
A $144.00 award has been credited to your Real Money account.

I won a $3 turbo at Full Tilt last night for $290. Took 3 hours and I was behind 4 to 1 when heads up play started.

Fun stuff.

Finally back to the $22 sngs after not playing them for several months due to having to cash out large amounts of my br. Im now up to around $800 after winning the $225 in the $750 freeroll on AP about 3 and a half weeks ago.

Meh, broke the $1000 mark again after a good run at the 22s.

Working my way up, two Sundays ago, got 3rd in a 2.50+.25 2000+ person tourn and last night 2nd on a 4$ 180 sng. $405 and $145 respectivley. Played about 8 in between those games and mostly lost to bad beats. I am pretty happy with my gameplay.

Hi, another Eurofish here.

Playing HE for two months now, just playing for pocket money and trying to learn.

Original BuyIn round 60$ (plus 50$ for Miller and Sklansky Wink

), lost 30$ picking here and there, decided to play the lowest FRlimit tables seriously (thats 02/04 at PS) until I beat them. Done that and with 32$ I started the .05/.10 FR limit tables. Actually around 38$, my sessions end up around -10BB/100 to 20BB/100. Feels like winning atm, and winning through improving thats why I dare to post it here.

Expect me to burn some of my weeks earnings at one of the gauntlets just as a way to thank you for all the valuable info I found here.

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