I started out here like such a noob. bboy begins

i actually only depositted $60 into partypoker. I remember the first couple days. They were so exciting. Got up to $69, then down to $55, then back to $63, etc. I eventually ran hot and won like $100 in one night. I used to have a screen of me 3 tabling and winning >20bb pots on all 3 tables at once. I was so happy. I pretty much just stayed at .5/1 for a long time. My BR eventually came to around 450-500.

I eventually got tempted and tried higher limits. I tried to 1 table 2/4 and wound up doing well. I tried 3/6 sometimes and did well. I tried 5/10 6max, played extremely aggressive, took down like 1 pot and then left the table. I remember getting extremely nervous when playing the 5/10 game. I won a $118 pot which was the largest of my life on a cold bluff on the river. I was so ecstatic to see that pot go my way. Then I would keep playing. Oooh I hit a set, wow, now a $160 pot. I raised some guy on the turn with my gutshot draw and hit it ont he river. he called me a ?? as party says, and then I moved out of that table. Sometimes I couldn't even click the mouse I was so nervous. This is not how you should play poker.

I remember telling JKo about my 5/10 6max hit and runs and he told me I was fucking stupid. He was very right. I played 5/10 6max for like 3 or 4 days, only like 100 hands a day through numerous hit and runs. I think I went up like $500 or so. My BR just tipped $1,000 after playing the 5/10 game. I then swore to myself that I would not play in another game that I was not properly bankrolled or didnt have the skills for.

I was playing 5/10 again that night. All my bluffs were being called. I was getting outdrawn. I lost like $200-$250 and was MAJORLY affected. How could I do this? I just swore to myself that I would not play underrolled and underskilled again.

I was then playing 10/20 6max. Playing tilted is not the best way to begin this limit. Long story short I lost another $400 or so at 10/20. Yuck. Worst. Day. Ever. From my glory of finally tipping the $1,000 mark to a little less than $400.

After that I went and got a neteller account to start whoring some sites to make my money back. I was extremely afraid of higher limits now. I whored my way at .5/1 all the way up to and over the $1,000 mark again. I think I just played .5/1 and some 1/2 and bonus whored until I was at like $1500. I then gave 2/4 a shot. Keep in mind I was still completely a noob at this point. I was playing like 22/3. I ran really bad at 2/4, combined with a lot of bad play I'm sure, but mostly running really badly and dropped like $450 in 2 days. Ick.

I whored another couple of sites at .5/1 while I regain enough to take another shot at 2/4. At what point do I say to myself, "Hey, how about you actually learn the game instead of thinking you're the best player here?" I hired a mentor to look over all my hand histories and tell me exactly how to play all types of situations. I started at 1/2. I played like 12k hands there and was down like $120. Whats going wrong. Heh, I'm going to go to 2/4 anyway now. The first day of 2/4 I went up $200. I remember saying, wow, 2/4 is EASY now. Well it's easy but it's not EASY. My stats were extrmely rockish at first, like 11/9. They still are pretty tight for full ring, 16/10, but I'm definately getting better. So I pretty much just played 2/4. I think I ran at like 6bb/100 for like 5k hands. Things were going really well. At this point I purchased a second monitor. I own two Dell 2001FP's which are capable of 4 tabling without any ovrlap for party tables. So yeah, 4 tables of 2/4 became really easy. Then 8, 12, 16 tables started to erupt. I grinded 2/4 for quite some time and made some pretty sweet cash doing it. I have like 40k hands at 2/4 at like a 2.5bb/100 winrate. Plus rakeback I was making like $60-$70/hr. Not bad for some young HS punk, right?

I then started to mix in some 3/6 full. I only have like 15k hands there at like a 1.7bb/100 wirnate. After 13k or so hands, I decided to give 5/10 6max a try, because that is what my mentor was playing and he was making over $100/hr 4-6 tabling it. With him personally looking at my hand histories I thought I could become at least a small winning player at that game. Tried it for 3 or 4 days. 2200 hands later at -5.5bb/100 and I was done. Back to grinding 2/4 and 3/6.

Then I started to play the new 3/6 6max tables. I have a very modest winrate on them, ~1bb/100, but it's over a fairly small sample size (35k hands). I decided that I play a lot better now than when I first started 6max, so I gave 5/10 6max a shot a couple of days ago. The first day I ran up $1100. From there it's been pretty breakeven. I think I'm up like 14 or 15 BB's from that first day, but it's much much better than being down. 4.4bb/100 winrate for 5/10 at the moment (knock on wood). Current BR is idk but I have over 700BB's for 5/10 online at the moment. I'm trying to take 4k-5k out each month and invest it into an index fund instead of leaving it all online.

And here we are today.




I feel like I could have made a whole new thread about this, lol.