Poker Face

I have been playing online poker since October 2009. I started to teach myself how to play last year and I started playing for real money. I won a 3rd place at my fraternity's tournament which was $20 ($5 buy in) and I became really into it. I started actively participating at the poker club at the university and met lots of people. I was able to have a network of friends whom I could go to whenever i was having a hard time playing.

How I started off

1. $10 bankroll, staked in $8 for 4 tables at the .01/.02 tables (bad idea for bankroll management) lost almost all of it, realizing that playing for $2 per table was dumb, and i was very new at cash game poker.

2. Deposited $20, started playing $1 normal tables, worked my way up to $40, then started playing for $2 table. I struggled alot and at one point i was below $40. My bro, crazydude893, helped me fix some of my leaks and i shot up from $45 to $104 in 2 weeks, with a $23 session in one day. When i reached $80, i knew i was good at this stakes so i bought in for $3 tables and i shot up crazy.

3. With a bankroll of $103, i started the .025/.05 tables and won a buy in ($5). The next day was perhaps the worst day of my poker career yet. I lost 8 buyins ($40) in less than 2 hours. All my hard earned $40 gone right there. I was tilting hard. I had to go back to NL2 to re-earn my bankroll.

4. The comeback to NL5 was brutal, really brutal. At NL2, i saw a whole new game, really different kinds of plays. It was like you were in an alternate universe. With $70, I went up to $79 then down to $59 and up and down, barely reaching $80 few times. I got myself a poker program that tracks stats of opponents and i was gaining profits.

5. Today, I came back to $100 and took a shot again at NL5. In less than 20 mins and 79 hands ( I play about 2000 hands a day, tabling 10+ tables on NL2), I made $12.50 playing on only 6 tables! I have learnt to tighten up and I see really good results in the future. I have estimated that I will take 2 weeks to beat this stake.

My goal is to beat NL5 on June 13th, cuz my summer school starts the day after.

Shuffle up and deal!