[Catt]

A year ago I was just rediscovering poker (having not played at all in many years and never having "studied" it). After much farting around I started playing seriously at the end of December after much reading and much lurking at 2+2. Played about 500 hands of .50/1 in trying to clear a Party deposit bonus when I got frsutrated that too few hands were being raked and decided to play 1/2 instead. Luckily ran well, eventually moved to 2/4. Played a bunch of 2/4. I managed a 200+ BB downswing towards the end of my stint at 2/4 just as I felt I had datamined 3/6 enough and observed it enough to think I could beat the game. The downswing was painful but I really felt I was playing pretty well so moved to 3/6 anyway. Ran well at 3/6. Played some 5/10 and then decided to make the jump to 6-max. Spent 30,000 hands at 5/10 6-max essentially breakeven while I learned the game. Haven't "learned" it sufficiently yet, but am doing OK and hope to move to 10/20 6-max sometime before the end of the year when I feel comfortable enough to do so. Nice thing looking back is that I deposited a total of $1K in the beginning and now have a decent roll for for 10/20 from a combo of running well, rakeback, and some minimal bonus chasing.