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started learning 6-max at 5nl seven weeks ago.
Crushed 10nl, 25nl and 50nl. Moving to 100nl now.

1st in a 180 man for $108
3rd in a 180 man for $42.84

$2 turbos but they were back to back

seems like a lot of successfull bankrolls hope i will be as succesfull as you guys

$2.20 6max 1698 players
2nd place for $399.04

i spent the last week back down to 5NL to try out my newfangled 3betting as a bluff knowledge and was frustrated to have a winrate of like 1.7BB/100 over 8,000 hands. i felt like i was losing it (and was very frustrated that i can't find any of the HH's i wanted to put up for review).

anyway i finally moved back up to 10NL and within 1.2k hands i was up 4 buy-ins. i can't imagine my winrate's gonna stay over 10BB/100 for very long, but it got my confidence back

Originally Posted by surviva316

i spent the last week back down to 5NL to try out my newfangled 3betting as a bluff knowledge

your fold equity is pretty low at 5nl, so 3betting as a bluff will be much less successful. imo it isnt really useful to start 3beting as a bluff until 25nl

4/588 on a 5$+.50$ tournament on FT for $257.25.

I should have gone on to win this thing, but got the beat stick in my face instead.

Big win soon. I can FEEL IT.

Originally Posted by JKDS

Originally Posted by surviva316

i spent the last week back down to 5NL to try out my newfangled 3betting as a bluff knowledge

your fold equity is pretty low at 5nl, so 3betting as a bluff will be much less successful. imo it isnt really useful to start 3beting as a bluff until 25nl

it's opponent dependent but it's been very useful at 10NL 6max. it gives me a huge edge over TAgg regs who simply don't know how to adjust.

anyway, i just put in another 1k hands today and was up another 4 buy-ins (20BB/100)...BALLIN'

I made $1000 this week.

Ship!

Six week to turn my $250 (10NL) into over $1k and nicely settled at 25NL in just 6 weeks.

Yay me!



EDIT: Just saw post above now. M2M is my hero !

nh popcorn I just won your roll in a week and I play the same stakes as you.

lol donkaments...

I came 5th out of 3500 in a $5.50 turbo at PS ($900)

Came 1st in a live casino £23+5 mini tourn (£240+£40 bounty)

I'm broke though now lol

All I ever win is freerolls. Not much to brag about, but at least I win something.

Last week won my first s&g in Titan Poker. It has been an incredible experience. I wish that all people and me can repeat this.

Originally Posted by Irisheyes

I'll start us off since I'm here.

Yesterday I made just over $2000 in one day playing cash games. Thats the most I ever made in one day apart from a MTT win.

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ALL BAD BEATS from all forms of poker. Cheese and whine inside.

any one out there help a lil guy get his bank roll back up

don't play too many MTT's but my winrate has been like 4BB/100 this month in cash so i decided to play a few. just got fourth in a 450 person 3+.30 knockout with 9 knockouts (.50 per person). i was in second and got knocked out by the donk chip leader.

I thought this was for begginers profits but your's seem to be so good

$2.20 4099 Players
4th Place for $410

I'm kinda new here.... but was pleased with results of a few of FTR games I've played so far...

Hey fellow Grinders:

Was playing on Tower Gaming last night...easiest money I've ever made.

Was dealt AA - Looking like I might take down another pot so I lead out with a $5 bet, Instantly I am Re-raised to $15. I push back with a quick all-in (somewhere around $80 if I remember right) The raiser snap called me his last $40, and I am thinking "here comes a AA vs.KK HU" Lo and behold he has K3, I almost fell out of my chair laughing...Of course how online goes he caught a K on the flop but wasnt so lucky with the turn and river. Easiest $55 bucks I ever made.

Just started playing online poker last month. Set a goal of going from $0 to $100 (hopefully within 4 months).

Over the past 3 weeks, built up my bankroll to $2.06. Still some way to go, hopefully will get there eventually.


ET

1st in a $1 1 table SnG on Cake:

this weeks results (Tues all $1 SnG)

3rd
2nd
3rd
1st

oh yeah..you can see my name on that SS that goober put up for the FTR25...but not ITM

June 10th I deposited $25 and cleared a $27.50 bonus and after 2 months of grinding my way up to $25 NL DON sit-n-goes...I reach the $1850 mark...I gave $50 DON's a shot but competition was too rough and my roll took a $500 hit in a week...
I now decided to give cash games a shot today and am up one buy in only 100 hands. Haha, just excited to make a transition to cash seems how I have PLENTY of time to play poker and could potentially make more $ in ring games ( HOPEFULLY). My roll is currently at $1300 after 2 months of play...(most I've ever won since playing serious), and I'm at .10/.20 ($20) on Cake. I feel I'm rolled enough to play $50NL...but cash games are foreign to me, so I will stick to .10/.20 for a week or so until I feel more comfortable.

Set a goal for myself of grinding up from 0 to $1000 before i graduate from college, and i won $61.50 by getting first out of 6360 in a pokerstars freeroll! Yay good stard

moved up to 200nl.
lost a bunch of buyins almost straight away, but ground it back and now sitting at breakeven over first 10k hands.
meh start, want things to get a lot better.

I actually posted on the forum after lurking for ages and hanging out in the IRC room.

My biggest in person tourney was a 1800 person tourney that I won. It took a little over 18 hours to finish 1st and I was exausted, but it was awesome. I won 5000 dollars and a paid entry in to a $500,000 online tournament at Hollywood Poker. I finished in the money in that tourney.

My biggest online win was at Pokerstars. I won a Daily Eighty Grand Game and then played in the tourney where I finished well enough to get myself a good stake.

My best experiance was playing in Vegas. It is a great atmosphere.

hehe :P

i play 1 week, i just played pokerstars juno freeroll, was on 29 place out of 72 , had bout 52k, and i understand i did the wrong thing, but i'm very sleepy its 5:21 , and i did all-in an lost, i cant say it was on purpose, but i was ready to leave.

i just won 0.80$ :P

congrat me with first 0.80$ : )))

didnt have much ambition t win more ()

Hope there will be more freerolls that i can participate in.

hi

hi

For some reason I am never able to register for the Daily Eighty grand. I click on the space where the register button will appear I click it then I get the dreaded you are place in a queue then Sorry tournament full. Any ideas?

i came 2nd in the sky poker open recently and won £2600 which i had to share with 2 friends who bank rolled the entrance fee. £16

I would not have won anything without the help of the pokergods on more than one occasion -- we all know they exist and they got me qyuite a few double ups when i needed them

Thank you pokergods............

Tournament: EPT Live Freeroll

23.764 players

I came in 3 place and won $146,75

Good morning to all and I'm seeing post and I'm running asustao he was happy for a few cents yesterday to win a couple of freerolls jejejejeje but everything arrived.
A greeting and luck.

Good morning to all, today is not that pro, and given that it will be a good day of poker to see if there is some luck with the cards.
A jugarrrr.

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PokerStars Tournament #xxxxxxxx, No Limit Hold'em
Buy-In: $30.00/$3.00 USD
901 players
Total Prize Pool: $27030.00 USD

Congratulations on your finish in tournament #xxxxxx! You agreed to a deal at the final table to adjust the payouts as follows:

Player Official Payout New Payout
donkface USD 3,595.00 USD 4,400.00
d0zer USD 4,946.50 USD 4,141.50

Since I'm new here, I won my first MTT month or so ago. 700 people, 250$ for 1st. It was great coming to the final table and then ending up heads up but being huge short stack only to completely dominate my opponent and take the first place.

Won several 90 man 2$ SNGs as well. Winning tourneys sure feel good.

Good to time which was not due to an operation and had to start yesterday but I played a tournament and becomes only 6 and I took $ 7.50. It is not much but I did illusion.
A greeting.

lol babelfish is awesome. a greeting to you as well.

Just passed the double-up mark on my initial $50 deposit at Stars. With job/family it has taken some time but my future progress will be way faster.

I gotta say I've read a few books but nothing has sunk in as quickly as the discussion/HH's found here. Just watched Stacks' micro video series as well. Highly recommended.

Was down to $3.xx on ftp and grinded it back up to $24.xx . I just kept jumping up levels and stopped after i lost a couple $ hand. Figured my luck was gonna go bad so get away before the "Always" 3 outer hits...

Originally Posted by Milleneumfalcn

For some reason I am never able to register for the Daily Eighty grand. I click on the space where the register button will appear I click it then I get the dreaded you are place in a queue then Sorry tournament full. Any ideas?

You prolly mean the sat freeroll to the daily 80 grand. It fills up in like 5 seconds, so no wonder you have problems registring.

Moved to Ops Post

I am giving myself a pat on the back for playing 19,000 hands at 2nl for a winrate of 12ptbb per 100 and moving to 5nl.

This is my first Royal Flush on Full Tilt... small pot... ended up taking 3rd in this event. In live games I've hit 3 so it was a surprise to finally hit one on Full Tilt.



Rock On!

After 12k hands (I know, not a huge sample) and a win rate of 9BB/100 (even after a pretty tough down swing) I moved up to 5NL last week.

I've been playing pretty low volume and don't even have 1000 hands in yet, but it's been a pretty easy transition so far. I've not noticed much of a difference in play between the two levels.

Oh, and my BR passed the $150 mark this week. That was pretty exciting.

Hi,
I was always a winner, I mean my balance was always above a thousand. no matter in reality or in online.
but recently, a kind of curse is on me, it is 5 weeks that I am loosing non-stop! If I have AA some body wins with 58 !!
so I decided to come on this online forum and see what others do and what I am missing.
I always play online at www. zibazi .com

Hi,

After 15k hands of loosing poker my roll was in half. So i started to educate myself and in the next 35k hands i was going at a 3.4 ptbb/100 rate (rakeback not included). Today i doubled my initial bankroll playing only 9-max NL2. I will be moving up to NL5 pretty soon so i'm all happy about it and wanted to share it

Buy-In: $10.00/$0.80 USD
10 players
Total Prize Pool: $100.00 USD
Tournament started 2009/11/27 11:27:29 ET


Dear mrhappy333,

You finished the tournament in 1st place

Buy-In: $10.00/$0.80 USD
10 players
Total Prize Pool: $100.00 USD
Tournament started 2009/11/25 19:11:50 ET


Dear mrhappy333,

You finished the tournament in 1st place

Buy-In: $10.00/$0.80 USD
10 players
Total Prize Pool: $100.00 USD
Tournament started 2009/11/27 13:49:00 ET


Dear mrhappy333,

You finished the tournament in 1st place

im not big player buy i did win back to back qualifiers at poker stars 1 in pl omaha and 1 in stud 8 felt real good

4 in a row.

Buy-In: $10.00/$0.80 USD
10 players
Total Prize Pool: $100.00 USD
Tournament started 2009/11/28 13:52:32 ET


Dear mrhappy333,

You finished the tournament in 1st place.

Finally rolled for NL5 got 30 buyins

skrizy i think at 20 buy ins is a good time to filter in one or two higher limit game tables. it makes the transition smooth as when you hit 30 bi you are comfortable with the flow.

Are the Heads Up double or nothings even worth playing? Any amount just for example 50 BR 2Double or Nothings worth it to start playing to build a bankroll? sorry if this is not the right forums just alot of SnG's posted on this forum

i guess i made like 50 dolars whitout made any kind of deposit only whit freerolls

Won one of the big Sunday tourneys. yep, you guessed right, the 0.10$ buy-in.

Stars $2.20 6-Max MTT Donkament
2nd Place out of 2276 Entrants: +$521

Thank You FTR!!

Played my 2nd tournament today (freeroll). Had a starting pool of almost 1,000 people. Thanks to everyones help and advice on this site about getting started playing poker, I managed this..

You finished the tournament in 172nd place. A USD 0.65 award has been credited to your Real Money account. Congratulations! Thank you for participating.

Thankyou FTR!

Had my first Royal Flush today on Bodog. The best part I actually got paid off for it. $5 SNG, still currently playing will come back and edit with results.

OKay, been done for a while but just getting back to post results. Finished 2nd in this SNG. Got donked by 10-2o. Guy bluffed huge and I held KK. All-in he calls and hits 10 on flop 2 on river. Was still nice to get my first Royal flush.

You finished the tournament in 99th place. A USD 1.10 award has been credited to your Real Money account. Congratulations! Thank you for participating.

Still not enough to retire, damn

I won't keep posting these unless I improve on a previous result but just had my highest finish yet.

You finished the tournament in 23rd place. A USD 3.50 award has been credited to your Real Money account

I qualified for the Midnight Madness on Full Tilt by winning a 90FPP tourney and then managed to finish 206 out of 2776 to win $19.86. First time I have made it into this tourney, made for a late night/early morning.

Dear chatzilla,

Congratulations! You have released the final installment of your deposit bonus. Your PokerStars account has been credited in the amount of USD 50.00 for this bonus.

Be sure to keep an eye out for future bonuses by regularly checking the PokerStars news.


Thanks for participating in the PokerStars First Deposit 2009, and we'll see you at the tables.

The PokerStars Cashier


!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Aaaand now I'm rolled for 10nl

Dam most heres bank roll is really BIG!! Im into my second year now of online poker and have lost about or invested $5300.00 and finally on my way up !! Have close to or just above $1000.00 spread out on about 15 different sites now looking to recoup my loses and start making a profit sometime this year...

man some of you guys doing real well... what are you guy's view on starting hands at the casino? My natural tendancy is to play lots of hands and be very aggressive (started out playing lots of sngs - late game strategy) but found I got killed in cash games... have since trimmed my starting hands to like folding kj utg, kt mp etc... found its really helped my results at the casino... and cut the variance heaps too... still quite aggressive though. Really interested to hear what you guys think?

Another point, just been reading Doyle Brunson's super system, where he calls kq,aq and below trouble hands??!?! I love those hands? sure you need a bit of caution... but otherwise you're only playing ak and pairs?

man some of you guys doing real well... what are you guy's view on starting hands at the casino? My natural tendancy is to play lots of hands and be very aggressive (started out playing lots of sngs - late game strategy) but found I got killed in cash games... have since trimmed my starting hands to like folding kj utg, kt mp etc... found its really helped my results at the casino... and cut the variance heaps too... still quite aggressive though. Really interested to hear what you guys think?

Another point, just been reading Doyle Brunson's super system, where he calls kq,aq and below trouble hands??!?! I love those hands? sure you need a bit of caution... but otherwise you're only playing ak and pairs?

man some of you guys doing real well... what are you guy's view on starting hands at the casino? My natural tendancy is to play lots of hands and be very aggressive (started out playing lots of sngs - late game strategy) but found I got killed in cash games... have since trimmed my starting hands to like folding kj utg, kt mp etc... found its really helped my results at the casino... and cut the variance heaps too... still quite aggressive though. Really interested to hear what you guys think?

Another point, just been reading Doyle Brunson's super system, where he calls kq,aq and below trouble hands??!?! I love those hands? sure you need a bit of caution... but otherwise you're only playing ak and pairs?

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