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1/20 two table home game w/ points awarded = $190+I knocked out a Bounty player for $25 total = $215!!

I broke the 3k br mark.

I was out stacked three to one, when we started and the hand before that I had busted him for the chip. I knew that Q was seven better than a random hand and I was patterned in tilt. This was the next hand, after I had the chip and lead in Shark Scope he was one of the most important player to lose and had said that it was his first final table .. I patterned he was shoving ATC will tilt. It was a guess, but I have luck and was right.

76th in sunday hundred grand!!

$221.79

that's doubled my roll!

UB 4k guarenteed finished 8th and won $127 YES!!!!!!!!!

Well I haven't won anything or been placed yet but am slowly getting there... I entered a tournament yesterday with 1000 entrants and was placed in the high 90s...

I entered another three today and in the last one I finished 94....

I seem to be bailing out in the 90s

Problem I had this time around was every had more chips than me such a horrible thing, because you never know if they are just forcing your all in because they can, or because they have a nuts hand.

I had about 8k chips everyone else had about 30k, I had AKo UTG and raised to 4x big blind plus 3x big blinds (1200 chips) the guy I was playing called.

Flop came out with A 7 Q

So I've got high pair as there's two aces I'm thinking chances of him having an ace are low, so am thinking he might have a Q plus a highesh kicker.

Anyway he ends up raising by my chips count, I check.

Turn brings out a 8 and river something else, he has Q and 8.

I think I played the right move so have concoled myself with the fact that If I keep playing the right moves I'm going to start my bankroll off eventually with one of these 4$ prizes!

well done mufa and dj!

Update:

Just reached my first milestone in my challenge to turn zero into 20,000 $ (hehe... could take some time)

Well, not really a milestone more a milimetre stone!

I was placed in a tournament that resulted in a cash prize...

There were 500 runners and I finished in the 40's which is consistent with the general pattern at the moment (i'm finishing in the last 9/10's) but falling at that stage. I'm not sure if it's because of my ability level or if i'm just mentally phasing out at that stage. I'll have to work hard to particularly refocus in the later stages.

The reason being. I finished in the 90s in a 1000 runner comp today, and the same yesterday - so I'm not quite sure if that's my ability at the moment or just mental weakness!

Anyway. This is the first tiny weeny step in the right direction! Smile

$20,000? What happened to $100,000? Bigred isn't going to be happy knowing you are stopping at $20K since he wants you to give him some of your moneys when you get to $100K.

haha! well... if 20,000 hasn't devalued by more than 1000% by the time I reach it I will continue onwards and upwards, but this is the first part of the project and I'm sure it will keep me occupied for a couple of years!

I just hope it's as easy as playing with play money, I have 670,000 play money chips on PKR ! (wishful thinking stops here, I know it won't be ;p )

REDBRG - wow congratulations man, must have been a great feeling seeing that last card appear - that's amazing Smile

I read you would have to play for 8 hours a day for a certain number of years to statistically get a royal flush... CONGRATULATIONS!

Well after about 4 months of play I finally broke the 1k milestone today... yay me!

congratulations! the first $1k is always the most difficult to earn.

I just placed 6th in AP's Juicy July Freeroll last Wednesday, my first final table in a tournament after placing 15 the day before & cashed $25.00.

-LincolnSE

Having not been able to play online for what sees like an age due to trying to start my own business i decided to visit my local casino when I was bored 1 night. Entered a £30 (1 add on 1 rebuy) NL tourney with 50 players and won the tourney. won £600.00 wahey Very Happy

was surprised at the amont of donks there. may visit there again soon!!

hopefully get back to playing SnG's again pretty soon. see ya at the tables Wink

$1k BR milestone. This month has gone awesome so far. Started at 10NL w BR of $380, now I've moved up to 25NL and the BR has increased loads, wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee. tyty.

My first MTT final table, and I made it to HU too with a huge lead. I have 250k he has 3k with blinds at 1k/2k.

bankroll is going to more than double up with this 300$ win!!

EDIT : YES, I did it!!!!!

Deposited $50 on 19th May and just hit the $200 mark from grinding 5NL so 10NL here I come! For the record 27k hands at 5.9ptbb/100, I hope I keep running this well Very Happy

Made it to $1K playing 25nl then donked off $250 running bad/tilt taking shots at 50nl.

Decided to take a small break from cash to let tilt pass and play some donkaments.

Monday I finished 14th in Double A for $125.

Tuesday in same tourney I finished 6th for $433. So close.

Bankroll now up to $1250.

Long time lurker, first time poster. Just made the account. I deposited $50 the other day and I've been playing $1.20 SnGs and some MTTs here and there.

PokerStars Tournament #102591632, No Limit Hold'em
Buy-In: $1.00/$0.10
45 players
Total Prize Pool: $45.00
Tournament started - 2008/08/16 - 22:49:29 (ET)

Dear gigabyt,

You finished the tournament in 1st place.
A $14.00 award has been credited to your Real Money account.

You earned 73.58 tournament leader points in this tournament.
For information about our tournament leader board, see our web site at
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Congratulations!
Thank you for participating.

Smile

$14, baby steps!

My first RAZZ mtt win!!

$5.50 razz mtt on Full Tilt:

1/67 for $117.25

I didn't get much from it, but I got my first one. Plus, I got the guy to shove. (LOL)

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, $0.02 BB (8 handed) - Poker-Stars Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com

SB ($2.96)
BB ($0.64)
UTG ($5.58)
UTG+1 ($1.08)
MP1 ($1.93)
MP2 ($4.99)
CO ($4.72)
Hero (Button) ($5.84)

Preflop: Hero is Button with K

, K

1 fold, UTG+1 calls $0.02, 3 folds, Hero raises to $0.08, 1 fold, BB calls $0.06, 1 fold

Flop: ($0.19) J

, 10

, Q

(2 players)
BB checks, Hero bets $0.18, BB raises to $0.36, Hero calls $0.18

Turn: ($0.91) A

(2 players)
BB checks, Hero checks

River: ($0.91) J

(2 players)
BB bets $0.20 (All-In), Hero calls $0.20

Total pot: $1.31 | Rake: $0.05

Zoomed through 50NL 6max at 10ptBB+ and now rolled for 100NL. Gonna take my first 100NL shot this weekend.

Full Tilt $5.50 HORSE

1/119 for $187

My first HORSE mtt win!

withdrew some more $$, still haven't deposited since the $200 about a year ago...

*Am dominating 5NL. Crushing w/o a doubt thanks to FTR/IRC-ftr

Today I won 1k in one hour, 350 hands, my best ever (in 200 NL). Was just going to play a couple of hands before going out to meet friends (which I'll do shortly) with the aim of getting 200 dollars in one hour (my current goal per session), then completely donked out on the 1st hand when I called a 7$ raise with 67 s. The board came up 45 of hearts (my suit, of course) and a king. Of course I bet, he raised, I reraised he even more so and I pushed. And no hearts or the two cards I needed came up (I mean, 8 or 3 of hearts, how hard can it be???)and he had AK. And I was 200 dollars down with donk written all over my face and the notes of everyone watching.

After that things righted itself quickly. I hit my flushes, I had (probably drunk) oppos calling down my over bets on river with str8s when I had the flush, I correctly put a 3-better on QQ or JJ when I had kings and took him down, I got lucky while reraising my set of sixes on a board with two spades, getting reraised and then pushing in the last of his 40 bucks. 5 of spades came up, then 5 of hearts and his flush didnt mean much. And took down a couple of hundred here and there with bluffs where I was (reasonably) sure villain wasn't on a proper hand.

It was one of those glorious nights of poker when you know you ARE the best and make the correct calls (yeah right). Warm fuzzy feeling inside, I'm now happy and content whereas a week ago I was down and out with 1K lost in one night when my aces got cracked twice by sets and nothing worked. So I'm also writing this post to be able to go back at it and remember this one the next time I hit a downslide. Cool

Finally got my my roll up to $100 playing 2nl on PS. Started off with a deposit of $10.

Depositing another $50 now and moving up to 5nl. When I take roll up to $250 will deposit another $100 and move to 10nl

Played in the PokerStars Summer Games Promo - Pot Limit Omaha this week. These are freerolls where in the first game you have to place in the top 50 to get a ticket to the next one. You get $5 for hitting the top 250. First round earlier this week I made it - game froze once you hit the top 50 (I was around 30th).
So today played the round 2, 1400 players, top 140 get $20, top 5 get a seat at the finals. I played the first 2 hours and was in the top 10 for about 30 mins with 500 players left to go. Took an hour to eat supper (sat out) and played with the kids, played a few hands and finally kicked it in at 130th. Woulda been fun to shoot for top 5, but woulda had to spend at least another 2 hrs intent on playing (just wasn't a convenient time).
Best part: I HATE PLO. Razz

Never played it before. Maybe I should give it more thought?.... Nah

@Poker Stars: Little over a month ago i decided to forgo bank roll management temporarily. I was playing $1.00 s&g 9 handed NLH. My BR. was down to only $12.00. Started playing $3.40 9 handed NLH s&g. Now my humble BR. Is $54.00. @Carbon Poker: i entered my first bounty ($11.00 NLH ) I came in first and won little over $50.00.

I started with $100 playing a cash game at Full Tilt and took it up to $600. Sweet...

Broke the $500 BR playing SnGs today.
Started with $6. =)

Deposited $150 over first 3 months playing (a bit over a year ago), in the last few weeks I've passed $2k, then $3k, then made my first withdrawal to pay back poker (not only deposits but software purchases, training sites, books, everything poker related) and make my first poker funded purchase (a new lamp for my home theatre projector).

Its been a good few weeks Smile

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Well as this is the begginers Winners circle.......

PokerStars Tournament #117935601, No Limit Hold'em
Buy-In: $1.00/$0.10
45 players
Total Prize Pool: $45.00
Tournament started - 2008/11/02 - 06:56:53 (ET)

Dear Hotfrog5,

You finished the tournament in 3rd place.
A $7.00 award has been credited to your Real Money account.

You earned 42.48 tournament leader points in this tournament.
For information about our tournament leader board, see our web site at

Not a win, but deepest I've ever gone in a large field mtt. The info on this site has been very helpful (much cheaper than buying books). I make the money often, but never deep. I had a real chance to win the whole thing for the first time ever.

PokerStars Tournament #117555436, No Limit Hold'em
Buy-In: $0.10
3083 players
$50.00 added to the prize pool by PokerStars
Total Prize Pool: $358.30
Tournament started - 2008/11/06 - 10:00:00 (ET)

Dear ,

You finished the tournament in 19th place.
A $0.76 award has been credited to your Real Money account.

You earned 69.30 tournament leader points in this tournament.
For information about our tournament leader board, see our web site at
(don't yet have 10 posts)

Congratulations!
Thank you for participating.

playing 1 table $10 SnG exclusively (after trying everything from $1 to $20.

in the past 2 or 3 weeks, I went from a bankroll of 3 buy ins (started at 10 with the option to put another 10), to 30x.

I had lost a lot of money in the 1st week I started playing online, and now I'm within 15 bucks of breaking even.

So I'm pretty happy Smile

I've kept from having to redeposit. Got down to $22 then won a small $2 MTT for $138. Wife is so happy I didn't ask for more money!

Ok I am totally siked! I just finished a session and I have to say I played some kickass poker. I opened two tables .5/.10 and bought in with $4 each table. I played the smartest most concentrated poker I have in a long time. I made some great folds and perfect reads. I ran like 17/12/4 and got some great value out of the few hands I did play.
I fought of the erge to play marginal hands and some pretty good hands OOP. This was a major step for me as I typically make the basic noobie mistake and get cocky, startingp playing things like suited connectors etc., but not today baby!
I know this would not be a big deal for many of you but I am just really excited that I put together all the things I've been reading for the last couple weeks on FTR. This made for a good session.
In the end I started feeling like it was slipping away so I did the right thing and stepped away. I added 3.5 BI's to my BR and some confidence that if I do the right thing then good things happen in my poker world!
Now the next challenge will be to do it all over again with the same discipline as I did tonight!
Well I'm going to take a shot at a $3 MTT and see if I can get ITM. Wish me luck!!!

Well hot damn the streak continued pretty well for me. I entered a $3 MTT along with 386 others. I played really tight for the first round only playing 3% of the hands. Mid way through the second round I got down to 800ish chips and I believe the blinds were 200. Found the right time and got all my chips in the middle with three callers and bam back in the game.
Continued to play very smart and patient. Picking up good pots when premium hands. Next thing I know I'm in the money and above average chip stack. I knock out a couple more good hands and suddenly it's FT time. I played it very smart as I was short but figured I still hand to be patient. Well I ended up in 5th adding $67.73 to my BR along with several knockouts which were .50 each.
Overall today was a great day and I owe it all to what I've gleamed from the wise men and woman on FTR!

BR started the day at $81.25 ended at $154.23

THANKS

i broke the 400 mark Razz

Finally!! I'm positive.

In the first 10 days I lost about $300, playing everything from low stakes cash tables, to every sng from $1 to $20.

After that I've been playing $10 SnGs exclusively for about a month now, and now I'm positive, with $14.05 in profits. (about 350 total games since the beginning)

Sharkscope shows $-17, but I won a bit in a regular cash table, + the 1st deposit Bonus, and I'm counting that. (I never imagined I'd be playing so much, and I only deposited 25 bucks at first)

Smile

This is tiny compared to what some of you guys achieve, but....

Was finally a winning player after 6 months of playing Single Table SNGs and 27 / 45 man MTTs. Then came the most horrible losing streak. After blowing over half of my bankroll (and going a tiny bit crazy) I took 2 weeks off, relaxed, did other things etc. It slowly started to dawn on me how much I'd been over complicating things, trying to be too clever, too tricky. I'd built my bankroll on playing ABC poker and I realised that that had somehow gone out of the window.

So.....

I just finished my first Micro stakes SNG in 2 weeks. I FORCED myself to play my A Game, as basic and 'simplistic' as that may be. And I won.

Woo!

Won my first SNG last night.

Promptly followed it up by 2 2nd places and another win!

It was at seriously micro stakes, but still, the first step on the long road Very Happy

My accomplishments this week:
1. Doubled my bankroll in two days (around $300 to over $600).
2. Made my first cash out ($500) to pay the rent.
3. Played my first serious sessions of ring games and had two very good sessions.
4. Nearly doubled my newly-decreased bankroll in one day ($130 to $230).

I've had a pretty big week. I deposited $50 back in early October, and in a month's time, I took it up to almost $700. After that I had a pretty bad, up-and-down run (bad cards, bad beats, bad play) that took my bankroll back below $300.

1. This week I have been playing much better and having some luck. I played in like 6 or 7 of the $11 27-man SNGs on Stars, winning 2, finishing 2nd once, and getting in the money another time. Between that, winning a $16 9-man turbo (once my 'roll was over $500 again), and doing well at 0.50/1 LO8, I got my bankroll back up to a healthy $630.

2. I've been playing poker pretty much full time over the last month and a half, not working any other jobs, living off some money that I had saved up. That money just ran out this month, but I was able to cash out $500 to pay the rent this month. This is a huge milestone for me... turning $50 into an amount of money that I can live off of, while still having some left to continue playing.

3. Since my cash out took my bankroll dangerously low, too low to continue playing the $11 27-man tourneys, I turned to mostly ring games today to get it back up. I had worked up to 0.50/1 LO8 before my cashout so that was mainly what I played, but I also mixed in a couple $11 9-man SNGs (very cautiously) and a game of 0.02/0.05 NLHE. I lost my SNGs, but my cash game winnings were enough to bring today's winnings to about $100. So today was my first really good session of cash game poker... I might just be a convert.

4. Winning that $100 while not playing too underrolled meant that I nearly doubled my money again, for the second time in half a week. Getting back over $200 after cashing out leaves me feeling very comfortable and a lot less worried about being forced to drop down in stakes. I can pretty safely move up to 0.05/0.10 NLHE now with my sites set on 0.10/0.20, and it won't be long before I can move up in LO8 stakes as well.

So overall I'm up $633 (from $50) in less than 2 months, along with a $50 deposit Bonus. My next goal is to get up to about $1500 (hopefully within a month and a half) so that I can take out $600 to start a FT account and another $600 to pay January's bills while still leaving me with some money at Stars. We'll see how realistic that is...

Started a roll with play money, converted it into 12$ real money. Now, Im at 25 nl and almost 700$, not a single reload whatsoever Very Happy

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