Can you say... blog?

Ok well this is going to be blog I will try to update weekly. It will be a place for me to type out my goals, thoughts, rants, etc. as I take on the task of grinding the lowest stakes of online poker. I have no idea whether anyone will read this or not, but if you do feel free to leave a comment.


A Little About Myself

I am currently 22 years old, and have been playing poker recreationally for about 5 years. It started with homegames with several friends, nothing too serious just something to do and have a few drinks. Really none of us knew what we were doing, out of the 10 or so people that would play.

I have never played online until I seen some ads either online or on the television for PartyPoker. I installed it and messed around with play money for a while. The game interested me from the start and I started looking online for strategies and other info on the game. I ran across a few forums in which I liked from the start and started reading as many posts as I could. Most of the things I read I had no idea what I was reading yet I kept reading. I tried to use some of the concepts I read while playing playmoney but still had no idea what I was doing.

I started getting better and spent many hours reading, I moved to full tilt after hearing that there was free entry into tournaments that paid out in real money. I played these nightly for a while but never made anything significant. I continued to play with playchips and started doing good. I made my way up to 100k and before I knew it I was at 20m or so. I felt like a pro and decided I should deposit some real money, well, $50 was real to a young kid making min. wage at a fast food joint.

I put the money on and within seconds I had $50 on my online poker account. It was time to make thousands... That was the idea at least. I jumped into a 10NL table (the lowest stakes on FTP at the time) and started playing. I started doing good, made several buy-ins and felt great. Then all hell broke loose, before I knew it I was down to $25 in a day. I got my ass handed to me and I knew it, so I went back to studying as much as possible.

Eventually I found my way to $1 and $2 sit and go tables and found they were similar to my regular homegames. I read as much as I could about them and started playing a few of those every day for quite a long time and over several months made it to about $80 or so. Then I had to move and lost access to the internet for about a year so I ended up cashing out most of my money.

I have just recently been playing and made my way from about $10 to about $25 playing micro single table tournaments. I have now taken an interest in cash games and have finally invested in PokerTracker 3. I plan on seriously attempting to put in as much volume as possible starting at 2NL and working my way up.

I am by no means a good player, there are many leaks in my game that I try to work on constantly. I will post goals and starting bankroll in the next post, as well as the bankroll management plan I will attempt to stick too, at least until I reach 10NL or 25NL.