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jumped into NL25 for the first time today on stars...took my BR from 60 to 125 in ~ 2 hours. Ring games is where its at!

i've reached a BR of $20k+. i play shorthanded cash games. in january. in march my BR was $2k

My first MTT final table last night!! It was off peak hours so it wasnt a very big one tho! I came 3/110 in a $5.50 R&A on iPoker.

It payed $121.50!!

I win a few thays ago 25 nl at 3d poker!

Played a $2 180-person SnG on FTP, won it! $97 baby! Smile

This is a "more luck than skill" story, I'm sure. JUST started studying Hold'em (Lee Jones, mostly, with Ed Miller to follow) and haven't progressed beyond play money (while trying to figure out how and where to deposit as a U.S. player). Went on a cruise on Carnival. I checked out their website to see if they dealt any Hold'em and all they mentioned was Caribbean Stud (blech). Once onboard I discovered they had one table of PokerPro dealing Hold'em (automated dealer so basically a cross between online and b&m). Then I looked at the stakes: $3/$6, too rich for my blood as a rookie. "Let's see, 50BB, $300, too much." Then my wife said "You should try it, we can afford it, and here's $100." Well, I guess I can afford to lose that much--once--and I'd regret not trying, so I watched the game for a while. Ten seats, 7 or 8 people seeing most flops, and not that much raising. Hell, that's like a play money table with real money. So I bought in for $200 (nobody had much more than that on the table) and told myself "Those are chips, just play."

After a couple of rounds of folding trash I felt "I belong at this table, they aren't really better players." Anyway, the first session I was up $50, the second session I was up $149, and I cashed out my original stake. The third session my concentration wasn't as good (nothing to do with the earlier cocktails...really) Smile

and I ended up with a 3-session net of +$108.

Now one key to that was that I stayed disciplined (probably weak-tight)against players who were there to gamble rather than to play good poker, but the *real* key was that I never had a really good hand that turned out to be the second-best hand. So beginner's luck had a lot to do with it, but I now have $108 as an initial online BR and I'll probably start out at $0.05/$0.10 fixed limit. Wish me luck and skill!

I hope next week I'll leave NL10 for good.

On June 16 I started with $100 playing NL10 6-max at PS, won $500 in a month, jumped to NL25, lost 10 buy-ins (sigh), moved down to NL10 and built back until $500 then cashed it out.

Since then I've moved to Everest and now my BR is 800+ but I'm still playing a mix of NL10 and NL25. I've got another $25 Bonus to go at Everest and after I finish there I'll be moving to Ongame network for more Bonus whoring.

A big thank you to the regular advisers at Beginner's Circle forum for answering my noob questions and reviewing my HH's. Very Happy

Stuck $100 into Full Tilt 5 weeks ago

Bankroll just broke $500 so Im well pleased, started at the $2 sitgo's
now playing $10 games

Biggest win was a $10 45 player sitgo which paid $170 Very Happy

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I learned how to upload an avatar to FTR. Now I'm trying to figure out to get 'it to display Smile

Woot!

1st out of 200, Party $6 Limit - $240
4th out of 500, Party $6 NL - 165

Consecutive tourneys too.

*high five*

*HIGH FIVE*

1/577, 6$ NL on Party Poker, $692.80 Very Happy

6/742 Party Poker $6 R/A $509.80

Completed my first operation... wheeeeee!! Built BR from $1,000 to $1,200 while moving from Limit to NL. Now I will move to $25NL and make many more monies. Sweet! Shocked

Live tourney this weekend at the Trump Taj (the Capital Area Poker Championship). Bought in for $100, won the tourney, took home $1200.

I do so much better in live games than online that I'm thinking of switching over to playing exclusively live poker. The only downside of that is that I wouldn't get to play as often, so we'll see.

Mostly this seems to be tourney winnins, but I doubled my roll on Full Tilt today and had to post somewhere.

Started with 155, ended at 325. The 10NL tables have been pwnd.

Not really sure if this counts but yesterday I made the decision to get back in the game. Grinding out Freerolls online for a while until I can build up some type of BR.

A.

I've got my proudest achievement in poker so far (and I just achieved it 5 minutes ago)

So, I look around to play some poker but I don't feel like grinding so I say, why not give a tourney or sit n go a shot, so I buy into that 10 table sit n go which I bought in for 3 dollars expecting to et nothing back but just try and improve my game and then I end up winning some big hands and somehow I manage to win it.

So, for now my sit n go record = 100%

pretty impressive eh? I'm thinki' I should give there a little more of a shot maybe

o, btw prize money was 15 dollars which is alright, I was more happy with actually winning it though

Long time lurker, first time poster

PokerStars $11 180-player MTT Sit -and-Go. First place for $594!!

First time playing a real MTT (not freeroll) and I won! I'd really like to post the trimmed hand history for any advice/criticism but I'm not sure if I should make a thread in the Beginner forum or the MTT forum? Or maybe just here?

Thanks!

Actually, after looking throughthe hand history, it's embarrassing! I had no business winning that tournament!

I'm keeping the money, though Wink

I have finished 1st in 4 of my last 5 $5.50 S&G's. Started with 40 bucks and am over $280.00 now ( taken about 3 months ). Best stretch of first place finishes ever for me. Looking to hit $350.00 and move up to $11.00 S&G's.

Grinding my up the ladder!!!!

So far I've turned a silly $17 bankroll into $580 playing micro limit. I'm on the brink of my first shot at $1-$2.

Plus

When I left Stars I had about 200 FPPs leftover. On a whim I went back and entered a satellite SNG, and won. Turned that into tourney bucks and went on to win a couple of minor limit SNGs. Now I have another $17 bankroll at Stars, just like 10 months ago when I first started playing. I think it will be a Limit SNG bankroll, just to see how far I can take it, cause it isn't part of my 'real' bankroll.

First major tournie as a grinder. $1.10 R&A event at UB. 1am - 7am and came first. Just under $400!!!!

Once the first hour was up I never went into an AI battle until real late in the tournie. Sucked out only once before the final table - hit trips on the river with 3 tables to go. Once I got to the final table I kept doubling up and became huge chip leader. Caught a flush to get it 3-handed. 2nd place guy was great and I almost feel bad about slowplaying a boat to clean him out. Almost.

10NL here I come!!!!!!!

Bought in fro $200 over a month ago, flipped it to $565, playing .10/.15cash, $5 and $10 sngs and a couple of mtts. Finished fifth in the FTR FTP added tourney. next goal $1k. Lets get that cake.

I came down -$100 from my previous match; however yesterday I ended up $1200 on top!!

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, $0.02 BB (9 handed) Poker-Stars Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com (Format: FlopTurnRiver Cards)

UTG ($2.53)
UTG+1 ($3.98)
MP1 ($1.62)
MP2 ($2.54)
MP3 ($2.99)
Hero ($2.89)
Button ($4.82)
SB ($3.71)
BB ($6.22)

Preflop: Hero is CO with

,

.
UTG calls $0.02, 1 fold, MP1 calls $0.02, 1 fold, MP3 calls $0.02, Hero calls $0.02, 1 fold, SB completes, BB checks.

Flop: ($0.12)

,

(6 players)
SB checks, BB checks, UTG checks, MP1 bets $0.08, MP3 folds, Hero calls $0.08, SB folds, BB raises to $0.24, UTG folds, MP1 calls $0.16, Hero calls $0.16.

Turn: ($0.84)

(3 players)
BB checks, MP1 bets $1.36 (All-In), Hero calls $1.36, BB folds.

River: ($0)

(2 players, 1 all-in)

Final Pot: $3.56

MP1 has Qh 6h (one pair, queens).
Hero has Kc Tc (straight flush, ace high). <--- ROYAL? WTF?
Outcome: Hero wins $3.56.

First royal flush!

Well it wasn't a win, but I finished 56th in the Sunday 100k at PS and won a nice $280 for my 70 frequent player point buy-in. I was in it for over 4 hours, definitely a fun way to spend my Sunday afternoon. I have to say it was honestly the best poker I've played to date. I ended up losing most of my stack with AQo to AKo. I think it's a rule that whenever I get AQ, someone else at the table gets AK.

I made some great reads, I'm finally getting the hang of making reads online. Can't wait until next Sunday!

lol....too embarrased to post this in the other winners circle when the last post was ilikeaces 257K win.

PokerStars Tournament #79285161, No Limit Hold'em
Buy-In: $4.00/$0.40
180 players
Total Prize Pool: $720.00
Tournament started - 2008/03/01 - 14:26:42 (ET)

Dear johncoltrane,

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.
For information about our tournament leader board, see our web site at
http://www.pokerstars.com/poker/tournaments/leader-board/

Congratulations!
Thank you for participating.

lol congrats. post it there anyway Very Happy

congrats man!

Finished 9th in a 2700 man freeroll. I call it a good finish even if it was free. 3 bucks, woo!

Just finished 15th in an 800 person MTT - almost making the final table for the first time ever. Best result in history thus far.

Got knocked out in a 3-way all in between two low pockets (7's and 5's) and my K10s which I raised with in late position. Landed two pair but the one caught a third 7.

Kind of exciting throwing around tens of thousands in chips - really helped my thought pattern when it comes to tourneys though. I realize that these huge stacks are the exact same as the beginning, just larger.

Gonna run these until hopefully i can get a bankroll to run 40 $22 games.

PokerStars Tournament #80382571, No Limit Hold'emBuy-In: $4.00/$0.40
180 playersTotal Prize Pool: $720.00 Tournament started - 2008/03/10 - 11:42:27 (ET)

Dear petrassi,
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.For information about our tournament leader board, see our web site at

Congratulations!
Thank you for participating.

PokerStars Tournament #79925556, No Limit Hold'emBuy-In: $4.00/$0.40
180 playersTotal Prize Pool: $720.00 Tournament started - 2008/03/06 - 18:14:27 (ET)
Dear petrassi,
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.For information about our tournament leader board, see our web site at

Congratulations!
Thank you for participating.

I'm a ring LHE player. I don't play NLHE, and I definitely don't play tourneys, but just for fun I entered a $3.30 R&A MTT at CD Poker last night.

I played fairly well, and had the good fortune to flop a nut flush as the small stack when it was heads up. So I won the tourney and took away $202.50.

That makes my total ROI on MTT play about 1200%, which is hilarious.

PokerStars Tournament #80151994, No Limit Hold'emSuper SatelliteBuy-In: $10.70/$1.00
87 playersTotal Prize Pool: $930.90 Target Tournament #80003264 Buy-In: $215.004 tickets to the target tournament Tournament started - 2008/03/15 - 13:20:00 (ET)

Dear petrassi,
You finished the tournament in 1st place.You qualified to play in Tournament #80003264 and are automatically registered for it. See Tournament #80003264 Lobby for further details. If you choose to unregister from this tournament your account will be creditedwith $215.00 Tournament dollars. Tournament dollars can be used to buy into any tournament.Visit our web site at http://www.pokerstars.com/poker/tournaments/ for more details.

Congratulations!
Thank you for participating.

infanate8, your doing great. keep up the good work.

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so here's my first big win....
Ace of Clubs

"dude"

me
i call big blind $50
dude raises$350
everyone else folds
i call
flop- King of Clubs

i bet $300
dude calls
turn- Queen of Diamonds

dude bets $400
i call
river- Ten of Clubs

dude bets $400
i go all in
dude calls
he shows- Ace of Clubs

i show-

dude's like who the hell calls $300 preflop,with a Q3??!!
i'm like "but they were suited!

donk!

360th in Sunday Hundred (22000+) for $111.

Took seven seats to the Sunday Million this weekend from $3 and $8 turbo rebuys and double shootouts, sending bankroll from $400 to over $1700. Holla! Highly recommend playing these... obviously!

Wow, that is very impressive, mcdonough22. Congrats!

Won my first 8 heads up sit n goes at the 5.25 level. Also the day before I placed 33rd in a 2050 person MTT, which is one of my first tournaments ive played in.

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