Welcome to FTR! Introduce yourself here.

I may as well answer my own questions to get this thing started. I'm not new, but what the hell.

Name: Courtney

Age: 21

What do you play and what stakes: Holdem! $100NL right now. I used to play SnGs up to the $55 buyin, but I got bored of them and realized that there's a LOT more money in other games. I play the occasional $33 to $55 MTT when I get sick of donking up cash games (I'm still really new to those) because I really love tournaments and always will.

How long have you been playing: I learned to play holdem almost two years ago when a friend taught me. I started playing online probably 1.5 years ago where I started on PS and played $5.50 SnGs Smile

Where do you mostly play: I play at PS right now, but thinking about other options. I sometimes play on AP or Hollywood, but it's not often because I'm too in love with the PS interface.

Why did you come to FTR: I really loved holdem when I first learned it, and I really wanted to get better. Plus I was looking for information about playing online and the forum was a good resource.

Do you have any goals: Right now I'm playing cash games for income to pay for my rent because I don't start bringing home cash from a business I operate until May. Because of this, I need to withdraw on a regular basis and my bankroll is stagnant. Once I stop withdrawing, I want to start building my bankroll again and hope to get it up to $10k by the end of August. I want to be playing $200NL for sure and maybe dipping my feet in some $400NL.

Well I can already see that this thread is a smashing hit so I figure maybe I'll write some stuff about me (please everyone, hold your applause and questions will be answered at the end).

okok Very Happy

Name: Eric

Age: 21

Games: NLHE ring. I am a 5/10 regular although I have played a very small bit of 10/20 and 25/50 as well. I strongly prefer shorthanded games. I will start playing full ring a bit as well but only because the game that I see myself playing in the future, stars 25/50, is only spread in full ring hyachachach.

I'd like to start playing some other games, omaha and omaha hi/lo probably being on the top of that list.

How long have you been playing: I think I learned about 2 years ago. I have had various stretches of playing and not playing since then. I think I've been playing at a semi-serious level or so for a bit over a year. I think my game has really taken off in the last few months though honestly.

Where do I mostly play?: All PokerStars pretty much. If they don't start spreading heads up cash tables though, I will probably start splitting time with Full Tilt. Rakeback is extra incentive there.

Goals: Lots of them. Suffice it to say, I want to be the best. I might be able to settle for the elite upper echelon, but probably not.

May as well do it:

Name: Christian
Age: 34
What do you play? SH NLHE and MTT's freezeouts only
At what stakes do you play? $25NL & $10-$20 MTT's
How long have you been playing? About 8months now
Where do you mostly play? I have been switching a lot. Will be at Empire soon.
Why did you come to FTR? I honestly can't remember how I got here but I like it Wink

Do you have any goals (and how can we help)? I want to be rolled for $50NL by end of next year and after reaching the final table now on several occasion I would really, really like to win my first MTT.

Name: Cullen

Age: 21

What do you play and what stakes: I play 1/2 limit right now. Im growing a roll hoping to get to 5/10 by my 22nd Bday, May 31st.

How long have you been playing: I started playing when I was 16 at friends' houses. I moved up to playing SNG's, was fairly profitable even playing 22s for a bit. I hadn't played for 2 years but I moved out to Vegas and got that itch again. Ill play up to 8/16 in the casinos.

Where do you mostly play: I have accounts on FTP, UB, PS, Absolute, and Bodog. Right now you can find me playing 1/2 on UB.

Why did you come to FTR: Fucking Google

Do you have any goals: Yup, check my sig out for my "operation". Basically said it earlier, I want to be at 5/10 in about 4.5 months. Should be possible as I need to make about 5k more and I have over 2K in bonuses to clear. Rakeback is great too!!!

Well, I hope some new posters come in here cuz it was my damn idea and all...

Name: Thomas

Age: 22

What do you play and what stakes: NLHE Cash. I have decent success at full ring no-limit cash where i have played up to 600nl, and no-so-much success at shorthanded cash games.

How long have you been playing: Ive played around half a million hands since i started in February 2006, and made somewhere in the realm of $35,000.

Where do you mostly play: I currently play 1/2 and 2/4 full ring on Full Tilt and PokerStars.

Why did you come to FTR: Chance.

Do you have any goals: First goal is to make enough playing professionally to be financially secure. I'm pretty much accomplishing that goal. The other much more difficult goal is to get better and move up.

Name:Jim

Age:31

What do you play and what stakes:I am curently playing 1/2 6 max NL Texas Hold'em.

How long have you been playing:I have been playing online since July totaling 300,000 hands.

Where do you play at:I am currently playing only at Stars, but I am always considering my options.

Why did you come to FTR:It seemed like the winners here where more willing to help than at other sites...

Do you have any goals:My only goal is to make a living at this crazy game.

Name: Mason

Age: 24

What do you play and what stakes: I've swam around in everything, but the only game I have any sort of edge in is NL Holdem. Stars 100NL ring, you can find me in the rock garden. I have played quite a bit of Razz and HORSE, many Holdem SNGs and MTTs (though not my specialty), limited amounts of Omaha Hi and Hi-Lo, Limit Holdem, and very very little 7 card stud and hi-lo.

How long have you been playing: Cards in general I've been playing all my life. And when I say all my life, I mean I learned to count using cards. I used to play Casino Kid with my Papaw on NES, where the only 2 games were 5 card draw and blackjack, and you had to break your opponent headsup at every table.

I'm part of the new-school holdem crowd, started goofing off on freerolls and play money around November of '05.

Where do you mostly play: All Stars right now, trying to amass a ton of FPP.

Why did you come to FTR: Honestly I don't remember, I think it came up under "Texas Hold'em Strategy" or something in google. I stayed for the content Smile

Do you have any goals: I post my goals in my thread, which can be found at http://www.flopturnriver.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=31999&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0

Name Mark

Age 23

What do you play and what stakes Currentlty 200nl to 1knl NL holdem, 10/20 20/40 limit holdem when i find a good game and 200 pot limit omaha or higher when available. I also like 5card draw, but only the limit version. Working on my MTT game, but its very average, as is my SNG play.
I play an irregular live game at a casino about 30 miles away once a week, 10/20 limit holdem, but it normally never gets going as most players dont turn up with the cash to play such games (Britain sucks)

How long have you been playing? I watched a flatmate at uni playing in septetmber of '04 and by June id decided to give it a shot after finding FTR. For that period until June i was a losing player with no Bankroll Management. In september of '05 i cashed my 10k bankroll and paid my uni fees, and very nearly quit as i hadnt seen poker as a long term investment, nor given the first thought to being 'pro'. Glad now i didnt quit.
Fwiw, im quite old school i guess.

Where do you play 3 tables at Bodog, 4 tables at Tribeca and 5 on the boss network. I will from time to time play games on Absolute/stars/party but i dont like the two major names Stars and party simply because they dont give Rakeback. I dont personally have anything against stars, i just think new poker players should be playing in better games, and ive tried pretty much every online room by now.

Why did you come to FTR? I have no idea now, but id guess it was probably because i wanted to figure out how to beat the game and win cash. It certainly took my 6-8months to just breakeven and become a small winner.

Do you have any goals? Tough one. Right now, my bankroll is probably big enough to dictate i give professional play a shot. However, i just left Uni and would like to get a job of decent standing. Poker can always wait a few years while i put together a half decent CV. Saying that, i cannot find a job for heaven nor hell at the moment, so i collect my dole money every 2weeks and basically pay the bills from poker. But im certainly not set-up to be a pro. So really, for now my goal is to find out where i really want to go with poker, because i never thought id make the kinds of money i have made since the summer of '06 and im still not accustomed to it.

Bankroll(Jan'07) $42000

Name Chris

Age 22

What do you play and what stakes $16 Turbo SNG's

How long have you been playing? I learned the basics of how to play in small pickup games in my frat roughly 3 years ago, then shortly after I discovered online and it has been my only "job" ever since.

Where do you play? 4 table $16 Turbo's at Stars for another few months, then after I get some expenses out of the way I'm going to start at $2NL ring and see how I like it in comparison to the turbo's.

Why did you come to FTR Found the site by a random google search, lurked around the forums for a few months and then finally started posting and learning.

Goals As far as poker goes, I never had any intrest in making it pro or playing high stakes games, my only goal was to make online Hold 'Em my sole job during college and make $10+ dollars an hour doing it to cover the bar tabs, keep the GF happy, etc. I've achieved that, and will continue to play for a year or two more until I (hopefully) get into one of my two dream law schools; Penn or NYU.

Name: Adam

Age: 27

What do you play and what stakes: Currently $200NL SH, occassional $400NL, also like playing Omaha hi/lo... bankroll is $14.8K

How long have you been playing: Come March, it will be a full year

Where do you play: PS(3), WPX(2), FT(3)= 8 tabling

Why did you come to FTR: Just browsing the web and came across and loved it ever since

Goals: To continue progressing as a player until i hit 10/20 NL and from there we'll see. Main goal is to graduate with a Masters Degree next year!

Name? Mark

Age? 32

Nationality/location? British, London

Day job? Film and TV agent (I am secretly Jamie Gold, mwahahaha)

What do you play and what stakes? Short-handed no-limit texas hold'em (mainly £50NL), with the occasional $11 SNG and the very occasional MTT for variety.

How long have you been playing? Just under 2 years. Some online friends mentioned getting a friendly game together; I gave it a go and was hooked in seconds. I played SNGs for a few months, then switched to cash where the money's better, the bad beats less devastating and the strategy is much more interesting.

Where do you play? I play on 2 different Crypto rooms, Sun and PokerPlex. I choose these rooms because i) they offer good bonuses and good Rakeback and ii) they have £ tables.

I also have accounts at half a dozen other poker rooms and from time to time (usually at times of day when Crypto is quiet) I'll play 6max at Stars, Party, FT or Boss. I also have an account at PokerRoom (where I originally started) which can be accessed via a java client, which is very handy if you're away from your computer or if you don't want to install software on someone else's machine.

Why did you come to FTR? I can't remember *how* I found it, but as soon as I started reading it I knew it was exactly the right kind of forum for me - busy, friendly, full of existing advice and info and with a very knowledgeable, but still feet-on-the-ground, user base.

Since I joined I've made nearly 2,000 posts and made several proper, off-board friends. I couldn't have asked for more tbh and I hope my contributions give something back to the community.

Do you have any goals? Not in poker Smile

I'd like to keep making money from it - pocket money is fine - and, assuming I keep enjoying it as a hobby, it'd be nice to move up a limit or two and hopefully increase my roll accordingly. But that's it - I think I'm the person on FTR who least harbours a dream to go pro.

Profit from poker (Jan'07)? $10,000

Name: Brian
Age: 35 (seems old around here)
What do you play? $5 sng's and sometimes $10NL at Doyles Room, dreampoker, and absolute
At what stakes do you play? Ooops I just told you.
How long have you been playing? Maybe a year and a half? I've fooled around with poker for a few years...won a 30 to 40 man live tourney last year and have been hooked ever since.
Where do you mostly play? Yea I covered that already too.
Why did you come to FTR? Pretty sure google when searching for "play money forum" even though you didn't have one...I'm still petitioning to get one set up
Do you have any goals (and how can we help)? Get my bankroll to 10 zillion dollars (or like $1000) and get my handicap into the single digits (golf) and get a lot better at life and a little bit better at poker.

Name: Zach

Age: 25

What do you play and what stakes: Currently playing $10nl 6max and starting to take shots at $25nl.

How long have you been playing: Started playing Sngs and MTTs in April of 2006. Had some success at SnG's but decided i liked cash games and started focusing on them full time in December 2006.

Where do you play: PokerStars, Full Tilt, Absolute, and hopefully Party again someday.

Why did you come to FTR: I found FTR while browsing for Poker Strategy on Google and loved it from the beginning.

Goals: Short term goals at the minute are to be playing $25nl full time by February and move up to $50nl by mid March. Long term i want to be able to keep learning and improving my cash game play so that it can provide a nice little side income. Laughing

Name: Victor
Age: 21 in Feb
What do you play? POKER
At what stakes do you play? 400 and 600NL
How long have you been playing? 2-3 years more or less seriously
Where do you mostly play? Party and Stars
Why did you come to FTR? Found the strategy articles when googling, I think. Found the forum much later.
Do you have any goals (and how can we help)? Stop my recent sucking plz

Name: Zach

Age: 30

What do you play and what stakes: NLHE cash games, 100NL full-ring, starting to take stabs at 200NL.

How long have you been playing: Started playing online in March of 2006. Learned poker when I was a wee babe though.

Where do you play: Full Tilt & Stars.

Why did you come to FTR: It was fate. Or Google.

Goals: Short-term: build the BR a little more and move up to 200NL full-time. Long-term: be able to play ~10 hours/week and have a nice side income.

Name:Jim

Age: 42

What do you play and what stakes: Dropped back down to$10NL with shots at $25NL

How long have you been playing: First deposit in March, seriously since June

Where do you mostly play:Full Tilting for the time being, probably back to Crypto when I hit $25nl full time.

Why did you come to FTR: Lucked out on my search for strategy. I checked them all, FTR was the smoothest, easiest read.

Goals: Short term, $25NL, then a $1K BR, to have me and Bode-ist dominate $50NL. Long term, To make a small modest earning, to cushion me to move from the daily grind of 20 years, and take a shot at something new.

About half of the people posting are regulars, so I will too....
Name: Mark

Age: 32

What do you play? NL FR, tried SH but not good at it. Will make another attempt sometime. Don't care for limit so much, but I will play. Occasional tourney. Used to play SNG alot....Love to play live (only done it 5 or 6 times), have played 2/4 through 4/8 limit, 1/3 NL. Want to play 2/5 NL if I can get over the mental hurdle of how much a % of my BR that is....Have made $1000 in the few times I have gone to the casino...easy pickings there.

At what stakes do you play? $100--rolled for $200 but have no winrate to speak of at $100 so I don't feel I can move up right now.

How long have you been playing? I have been playing seriously for about 14 months. Played in the free bar tourneys for a while and the occasional home game, and did okay, so I thought I would KILL real games.....LOL....

Where do you mostly play? Used to play at Ongame, now I play FT/PS/AP. FT mostly now, due to traffic and RB. If PS ever offered RB I would play there more. AP has low traffic base.

Why did you come to FTR? Google and lurking for a while. Loved the fun spirit of the place.....

Do you have any goals (and how can we help)? To stop sucking at $100NL so I can move up.
Play like Fnord LOL.... if I could do that the rest would fall into place.
BR goal for EOY is $10K (currently $4700). This is after I withdraw some portion mid year to pay for my daughter's school, probably somewhere between $1k and $2k. There was a post I read early on about finding your WHY, and this is my WHY--paying for Alyssa's school, hopefully all the way through college. One buyin at a time.
Play more live.
Become a more respected member of the forum.
Be a winner at $200 before the end of the year.
Lifetime goal is to make this a nice supplementary income--it is awesome to have a hobby that pays you!!
Learn!!!!

Name: Sarah

Age: 25

I got started playing in a home game last Christmas on vacation. When I got back I went on a learning spree, reading every poker book in our library's system as well as everything I could find online. That's when I found FTR. I started playing live in a $20 rebuy tournament every week and then phased into limit where I played 3/6 or 4/8 kill.

I started at FT playing 3/6 limit. I played limit exclusively until one day when the ironman freeroll popped up on my screen. I placed 7th and started my love affair w/ Mtts. I cashed out a lot, and then in the summer of '06 I had to cash the rest out to pay for a major car accident. This came at the same time Washington State made playing online a felony, and I decided not to play online anymore.

Easier said than done, though. I'm back, and starting over. I'm also trying to find my niche in the poker world. I started by playing S&Gs, but after a cold streak I'm experimenting with shorthanded NL @ .5/.10

Goals:

My husband is going to Iraq in April. By that time, I want to make enough to take full advantage of the Bonus trail. After he leaves I want to play as a part time job and see how it feels/what my expectation would be as a semi-pro.

Poker Forum

Join Our Poker Community!

Poker Forum Index

Beginners Circle

Welcome to FTR! Introduce yourself here.