My own One Hundred Thousand Dollars in US Currency or from 98c to100k$

[Black winter day]

I started playing in May 05.Deposited 25$ a few times, each time losing it slower.On my 4th deposit i broke through and reached a 1000$.I was very pleased - wow, i won 1000$ on the internetz gambling.Since i was clueless back then, about both poker and bankroll management, i started playing Nl200, buying for 100+.For example, if my br was 975.75c, i bought in for 125.75c (1tabling, of course).I remember one brutal hand, about which was my 1st 2+2 post, i limped with Q6s (what if i flop a flush, LDO!) and flop was QQ9.Checked around (obviously, i slowplayed my trips!) and turn was a 6.I bet like 5$, button called.On the blank river i shoved the rest of my 150$ stack in and he had Q9.

So, obviously, i went down really quickly.800,500, 600, 300.Finally, i tilted off the last 300$ at Nl600.I remember those hands till today.AQ vs AJ ai pf, A flopped, J on the river.I shoved the rest in with KQ, same guy with 9T called me and flopped trips.I was broke.That was on June 27th, 2005.

After getting out of shock i found out, that i had 98cents left on my account and some action points.I started playing 2/4cents NL and playing freerolls for points.Meanwhile, i ordered a few books from Amazon (HoH1, TOP, T. J. Cloutier's book etc) and started reading SSNL.

I steadily grinded smallest stakes, winning a few bucks a day.Then i moved to Nl10 and won a little bit there as well.My br was 180$, when i travelled abroad for a month or so.Played a little bit there from some internet places and won 200$!
Few days after i got back, i played a big action points freeroll and won my only MTT so far, 1st out of 281 players.That more than doubled my br



I bought PT, then PAhud and started playing Nl25, then moved up to 50, then added another table, etc etc etc.
I became a bankroll nit and moved only when i had about 100 BI for the next level to minimize my chances of ever going broke again.I also registered in Cardrunners and later Stox.

At the end of 05 my br was 3k and i was finally ready to try Nl100.

Near the end of last year, when i reached 25k, i quit my job, that payed about 1k a month and decided to concentrate on poker.In late november i graduated from SSNL to MSNL and moved to Nl400, which i am basically playing till now (Nl500 on Crypto, actually).Last year i made 50k.

I cashed out about half my roll and the games are tough currently so i am in no hurry to move up.
And today i finally reached 100000$ earned from poker overall.



1st PT database, when i was playing low limits



2nd PT database



PT screenshot of 2nd database



So, to sum it all up together with some donkaments, non PT sites, RB, bonuses etc, today i crossed the 100k mark, having less than a dollar about 2 years ago.Wooohoooo!