I been lurking here for month's learning about poker before I actually played besides the play money games which as I expected are nothing like the real cash games. Anyways I made my 1st deposit 2 weeks ago of 200$ on bodog which was 216$ after western Union. I did bankroll management that I learned from this forum started at NL10 until I hit 550$ which I hit in about 4 days then I moved to NL 25 and got up to 750$ when I decided to do a 20+2 buy in tourny which I ended up winning for 2400$ 1st place. So after this win I started playing NL100 I kept losing buy-ins went from 3,000$ to 2000$ at 1 point coudnt hit a flop and if I did someone hit a bigger hand. I began to lose my confidence but I didnt feel that I was playing bad or just unlucky 2 a extent. Took a break for 2 days and came to the conclusion that I can beat this game.

So I began playing and came across the most rewarding hand that I have experienced in my short poker career, I was in Middle postion with Suited Q/J I raised to 4$ and the bigblind reraised it to 8$ so it was 4$ for me to call.
I decided I wanted to see a flop since we both had 140bb and this was a good hand that I could flop a monster or make a monster 2 stack him.

Flop Came Q/Q/A rainbow, I started 2 lick my chop's and said please have A/k, he checks I bet 12$ he calls, turn was 4, I beT 20$ he pushes all in and for some reason I felt he had A/A, typed in the chat box " This is the biggest laydown Im ever gonna make please show me your hand" and I folded and he promptly showed me A/A I was so fucking happy.


From that point on I built my bankroll to its current peak of 3200$.

So you won $350 playing NL10 in 4 days?

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haha I cant believe you folded that.

Seriously you should never fold that.

Welcome though.

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He played tight, for 2 hours and I didnt think he would make a move on me when we both deep stack and im showing great strength.

welcome to the forums.

Welcome. Instead of playing based on how much money you have, solely, just play NL25 as long as you have $700 for a set amount of hands like 25k hands. Switching games too much is high variance when you're treating it like a video game i.e. "I beat Level I, so now I play Level II until I beat it."

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That's a really good point, never thought about it like that. Ill think about it hard 2 leave the nl100 games just because I like the way I focus and people actually play like it's a real game.

Welcome to the forums.


I've been basically doing the same thing as you (lurking), except I joined thinking I knew everything to know about poker then. Been playing on and off since then but now I'm playing a lot and will probably post here more to get advice/criticism.