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shyguy03533
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02-25-2009, 08:30 PM
Post subject: Discouraged...
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3-of-a-Kind
Join Date: Feb 2009
Posts: 59
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Could I hear some actual true stories of people who grinded up from .05/.10 cents to much higher stakes??
I just had a huge 200$ downswing, playing .10/.25 cent, and have to move back down to .05/.10... 
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GatorJH
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4-of-a-Kind
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: HotLanta
Posts: 3,179
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didn't nutsinho start out at $10NL?
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Poker is easy, it's winning at poker that's hard.
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I started at 0.05/0.10 but I am not much higher lol
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dranger7070
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4-of-a-Kind
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Wake up in the mornin feelin' like P. Diddy
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Nah iopq you're only at 100nl which is 10x what you started at. You must REALLY suck! 
I'm sure there have been more than a couple people dude. Be thankful you can start out as high as you are. I started out with $10 at 2nl and have ground my roll up to ~$100 and have just started playing 5nl.
But then again I'm a sick human being with no sense of wasted time  . I'm hoping to be up to 10nl-25nl by May.
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Ragnar4
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Full House
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Billings, Montana
Posts: 1,284
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I've taken 40 bucks to 170. 2nl to 5nl. I'm a damn success story in the making.
I fully intend to have a book and a movie deal by the time I'm 40. Played by the virile Hugh Jackman.
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The older I get, the more I start wondering; Just what in the hell is going on here? 
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LuckySlevin
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Full House
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: Live Poker Room
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xxstacksxx started of at 10nl with about $300 back in June of last year
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I started 10nl June 4th with a $340 roll. July 3rd I made the jump to 25nl with a $700 roll, after two failed attempts to move up. I spent a little less than a month at 25nl before making the jump to 50nl with a $1500 roll. From August till September that is where I was grindin'. At the tail end of August, I hit the $3k BR benchmark I had set, so I took my stab at 100nl on Stars. And that's where I can be found as of now. A very low stakes donk just looking to improve and make some money in the process.
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Since then he's grinded up to 17k, I'm sure there are many others who have done it that I haven't heard of, just happened to remember stacks bio It can be done man. If it couldn't I doubt there'd be half as many people in the forum puttng their time and energy into poker.
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settecba
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Flush
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: stealing blinds from UTG
Posts: 326
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Originally Posted by Ragnar4
I've taken 40 bucks to 170. 2nl to 5nl. I'm a damn success story in the making.
I fully intend to have a book and a movie deal by the time I'm 40. Played by the virile Hugh Jackman.
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LOL 
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2ndline.4thstreet
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Straight
Join Date: Feb 2009
Posts: 120
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WE all start low and work our way up. Most of us anyway. Its how we learn. Keep plugging.
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Micro2Macro
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Moderator
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: http://three-pair.com/
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Originally Posted by LuckySlevin
xxstacksxx started of at 10nl with about $300 back in June of last year
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I started 10nl June 4th with a $340 roll. July 3rd I made the jump to 25nl with a $700 roll, after two failed attempts to move up. I spent a little less than a month at 25nl before making the jump to 50nl with a $1500 roll. From August till September that is where I was grindin'. At the tail end of August, I hit the $3k BR benchmark I had set, so I took my stab at 100nl on Stars. And that's where I can be found as of now. A very low stakes donk just looking to improve and make some money in the process.
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Since then he's grinded up to 17k, I'm sure there are many others who have done it that I haven't heard of, just happened to remember stacks bio It can be done man. If it couldn't I doubt there'd be half as many people in the forum puttng their time and energy into poker. |
Stacks has what it takes to reach the balla stakes IMO. (This opinion is based on the quality of his posts, but TBH I have never seen him play, he could just be a bot for all we know)
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AFchung
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Full House
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: UCLA
Posts: 1,179
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i started with $5 and at 2 NL and currently i'm at 25NL (albeit struggling a little bit)
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Sir Pawnalot
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Full House
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Norway
Posts: 668
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Started with 1cent-2 cent limit. Got to 100 NL playing a couple of hours a day on 1 table for a year.
Never had a downswing in any of my operations, 5 altogether, of more than 5 buy ins.
Never went more than 10 days without my bankroll reaching a new summit in any operation on any site.
Never realized how arrogant I was.
Never knew how socially retarded I was before getting a diagnose.
Starting to improve my behavior.
Stopped playing poker (almost) in order to help others.
Trying to make the world a better place.
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A foolish man learns nothing from his mistakes.
A smart man learns only from his own mistakes.
A wise man learns from his own mistakes, and those of the smart man and the fool.
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dev
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4-of-a-Kind
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: swonging and swonging
Posts: 1,550
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http://www.flopturnriver.com/phpBB2/...ht-t68464.html
This is me a year ago... My roll never drops below 4g and I send myself a $2000 check every month.
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Check out my self-deprecation here!
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Fnord
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Moderator
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: I'll Do You Like A Truck
Posts: 19,333
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I started at Party Poker 25c/50c $25-buy-in full ring.
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TonyB73
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Flush
Join Date: Mar 2008
Posts: 414
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Hardly a success story yet, but I've made some progress.
Started with $50 playing 2NL on Stars about a year ago. Now about 80K hands later I'm playing 50NL with a BR of around $1,350.
That includes three downswings of 10 buy-ins or more - one at 5NL, another at 20NL and the third at 50NL earlier this month (in fact not sure I'm out of that one yet ...)
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kettleofish
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Flush
Join Date: May 2007
Location: Helllllo Richard
Posts: 333
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In the last few days of 2008 i spunked away $1100 of my $1800 roll playing $50NL HU and 2-4HUL08 (loooooooooooooool). In Jan and Feb i've rebuilt with 25NL and 50NL and my roll currently sits at $2300, so i wouldn't let a little downswong discourage u to much.
I guess the moral here is don't accept any HU4ROLLZ challenges in a game u don't really know how to play
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