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OOT will suck a lot more out of you than time. [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

A year ago I found poker on TV. I saw Ferguson and Matusow wearing Full Tilt shirts, so I checked it out. I played a little at the free NL tables, lost my 1st 1000, reloaded and went on to win over 35,000 in a weekend. Poker is easy, right? So I put some cash in, maybe $50, and start to play $10 NL tables. Inside of a week the money's gone. Next payday another $50. Whoosh, gone in a week and a half.

In a chat with Howard Lederer I asked him what book I should read. He tells me to read ToP. Right away I get on Amazon and order ToP and HEPFAP. I figured that if I read ToP I must be advanced, so I got HEPFAP. My loss rate started declining until January when I actually started to be a breakeven player. That was when I switched to limit.

Some time in Feb I started lurking around 2+2. In April, armed with SSHE but still in a downswing, I attacked Paradise, got my granny bonus and left with the money I put in plus another $50 or so. On to Party with $500. Still in a slump at the start, I managed to get out with about $700.

I had left about $10 in Full Tilt and so I added another $90 and started playing .25/50 then .50/1. I withdrew the $90 a week later and still had money to play. I wasn't worried about being under rolled because I had money in Neteller. A month later I took out another $250, leaving about $60 there. That was an insane rush there, only playing about 3000 hands with $300 in profit.

With my new found riches I am doing 1/2 and, if I cant find a decent 1/2 game, .50/1 at Paradise for the AugMill bonus.

I guess I've done ok in the past year, the 1st 6 monts paying tuition, the last 6 collecting from the students.