This time last year....

[splashthap0t]

last year had a sick heater in august/september winning about 75k when i sucked at tnys(obv bought house in lv, new house back home, bmw 650i and used benz) This year am stuck with 6500 in bills a month, all my cash sitting in a diving real estate market, & grinding lower limit tnys with skills about 3x better than last september....hmm whats wrong with that picture? [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

[rothko]

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a year ago I was starting my sophomore year of college after a ridiculously successful first 8 months of the year in poker and enjoying life immensely. I then proceeded to not play poker for the next year, and now I'm starting my junior year of college after not playing poker for a year (well, sorta) and enjoying life immensely. here's to the next year of even less poker!

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funkii, what's the story behind you quitting poker if you were crushing?

[auc hincloss]

Last year: regularly cashing in live donkaments at the local brick and mortar, building up a 4 figure bankroll.

This year: still beating the local donkaments, travelling within the uk for live donkaments, built up a high 5 figure roll which i subsequentally have now dropped all on deposit for a new place and am near completely busto. I have switched to grinding 2-5 live cash games, and am rebuilding the roll, getting back to mid 4 fig's and doing alright. switched online sites and have moved to Stars, seems to be where all the action is!

[Pupkin]

Broke a year ago, broke today. Make another one of these next year.

[JDalla]

damn I shoulda been moving up. My br was like 100K last year and now its like 150K and I've barely moved up, have no fame and no live tournies, wtf.

[ilushan]

In August 2006 I started playing on Stars with $70 bankroll after being busto playing online BJ like a degenerate.
I thought that poker = NL holdem. I didn't know who ajunglen & gobboboy were.

Now I'm a commentator for WSOP broadcasts on Russian TV. I'm the editor-in-chief of the Russian version of Poker Europa magazine and I will be in charge for the Russian version of the CardPlayer magazine.

I won three small live tournaments and had some big results (for my bankroll) online. Three days ago I finished 10th in WCOOP-4 (triple draw) - well, I was a huge CL when 16 players remain [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

I wrote a big article about online-poker for the special supplement to the biggest Russian newspaper. There is a big piece about gobbo and ajunglen there [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

It was a big year. Enough bragging. Thanks, 2+2!

[MrTimCaum]

about this time last year, I had a 30k roll but would quickly lose the majority of it in a gross mtt run where I couldn't cash to save my life along with a 15 or so buyin downswing at 2/4nl on ftp. i had crushed 2/4 on fortune all summer, but when they closed to US customers, I figured FTP games were just as soft, but they weren't and I got crushed. was teetering on the edge of busto-ness when I luckboxed my way into a sick backing/coaching deal for pretty much any online tournament I wanted to play except for the 100r's and up.


now: still backed for donkaments, although not by the same person as last year, but now I'm playing lots of big live events and anything i want to online. it's also taken a year for me to get my own roll back to where I'm comfortable playing 2/4nl again, where I've been doing very well focusing on heads up, with lots of help from people like ec10, mastr, and aaronbeen

I still haven't had the giant life changing MTT score that pretty much all of my friends have hit this year, but I've been ridiculously close to a few of them (top 10 stack with about 60 left in the PCA, and was at or near the chiplead at some point in all 4 of my WSOP cashes this year, including the main event when I had a monster stack on the bubble). I've made huge strides in my tournament game even in the last 2-3 months and I feel like it's only a matter of time before I take down a really big one.

[mrTEA]

Grinding 2/4 w/ a 10k roll.

[benneh]

putting the last bit of my poker winnings/bankroll (about 4k) to my last full year of undergrad (still have 1 quarter left here). sad sad times.

currently rebuilding my roll though! woo!

[Nicok7]

Good thread
This time last year my bankroll hit 100k for the first time. I left sit n goes for cash games. I also wa about to start the blog teamrobusto.com and to go on the live tournament circuit.