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Old 04-03-2007, 03:30 PM
HOWMANY HOWMANY is offline
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Default Re: How did you get where you current are?

I have class soon so this is going to be typed quickly and hard to read. Start with 50 a couple years ago, go broke, do it again go broke, do it again and play 25/50 cents Razz on FTP like a nit and eventually 25/50 cents-1/2 pretty much all the games like a nit until I have about 800. Be a pretty terrible losing player at 2/4-3/6 live, discover 2+2 when trying to learn about Omaha 8.

Learn how to play poker about 15 months ago when I get PT/PAHUD and like a million 2+2 books and play 1/2 6max LHE till I had 1800, move up to 3/6. Move up to 5/10 when I have about 4500 run good at first till I have about 6k at which point I start playing 8/16 live as well. Run terrible in a shot at 10/20 and 15/30 Stud 8 and move back down to 3/6. Win it all back at 3/6 LHE and run good live and lose/breakeven for 50k hands 5/10 online until I have about 10k but am playing the same games. Stop running awful online until I have about 8k online and 6k live and am playing 20/40 live and 10/20 online, LHE mostly but a decent amount of HORSE/Stud 8 also. Apocalypse september losing Party and immediately losing about 3500 which is pretty substantial when your roll is like 14k. Move down to 2/4-5/10 to rebuild confidence online, no time to play live because of school. Stars adds 2-7 I win like every day I play which isn't that many at 5/10-10/20 because everyone is awful and I probably ran well, I then have about 13k live after winter break and some 2/5 NL and about 12k online. After winter break start playing 40/80 live miraculously run good for once when I move up and win like 33k in 160 hours or so. Of course things don't work out quite as great as they sound because I also lost 6k at 75/150 failed shot and 10k HU 50/100 as well as a small 6k downswing online that took me from a sad 13k to 7k that I am barely recovering from since I don't play much online.

No clue how many dollars I actually have, somewhere in the 40-45k range, which is not a lot, but plenty for the games I play now which is 40/80 live, 5/10 LHE online and sometimes 30/60 Stud 8 when one specific fish is playing. I sort of want to start playing online again, so probably 10/20 online soon and a lot more 30 Stud 8. If it weren't for 2+2 I'm pretty sure I'd be broke and have no clue how to play. While it pisses me off that I feel like I fail miserably every time I take a shot and it results in me staying where I am for longer than I should, I'm pretty sure I ran REALLY well when I first started playing 3/6 online and I can't really complain about how well 40/80 has gone for me, so it's not too bad.
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