Quote Originally Posted by jyms
Bit of a poker story would be cool. How did you get to where you are now. I am pretty sure I remember you as a beginner at grinderschool, no?

Why are you not on my AIM/MSN/Google
I started online poker back in summer 2007 losing a few $50 deposits. I took 3rd in a $3 dollar tournament which got my roll a small bit of stability. Unfortunately back then I had major tilt issues and went nearly broke flipping with fat-b several times. Sometime around winter 2008 I got a stake from mcatdog for 50nl and my results were insanely poor and frankly I still feel bad about that to this day. Summer 2008 I had a lot of family commitments and weddings that invovled me being without the internet for a long period of time.

I returned to poker in Fall 2008 where I was supposed to attend the University of Illinois. Unfortunately a bad case of strep kept me bed ridden during the first 2 weeks of class and as a result I was told to drop all my classes. During this time I played a lot of poker, mostly focusing on Sit n Goes to build the roll then HU cash once my roll was built. I learned a lot about poker during this time and built my roll for 200nl 6m. I did very well however my tilt was still an issue and I started to bounce between 200nl and 100nl. I've was starting to make real progress but around Oct. 2009 I hit the worst downswing of my career and it lasted a long time. I ran worse than I could imagine, which isn't to say my play was perfect but as I'm sure you know its very difficult to play A+ poker when your mindset isn't the greatest. Rav's post in Gentriuc's blog covers this very well. Anyways with my roll and confidence crushed I decided to give it the last effort in Jan with a renewed focus and mindset and things are going much better.

I can pm you my AIM if you'd like it Jyms.

PLO is funny swig, Like there is a lot of variance but the play there is so poor compared to NLHE it kinda helps even things out.

What is the reason you dont you apply to work at Grinderschool?
Are drangers arms as small as they look in his pictures?
Those are reasons between me and GS.
I dunno about his arms as I haven't like checked him out or anything like that.