Bankroll beginnings

[BCage]

I got $50 for free at Party through some bonus code on a website around November 2006. Played 25NL and I got it up to $140 and then down to about $10. I learned quite a bit over that period though.

I then deposited $30 on a Prima site last February, played 5NL and 10NL and began reading and studying the game more. Around April I started to get it a little and moved up from 25NL to 200NL in about 3 months. My roll is now at about $15k and I am taking shots at NL400.

I revisited my Party account with the $10 on it and got that up to $170 [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] Can't imagine I had any problems at those games when I started.

[orange]

played live for most of my poker career. homegames/underground games/etc. i didnt deposit until i was like 18, and this january will be my 2 year anniversary of playing online. read 2p2 intently before i ever played a hand of online poker and i had a semi idea of what was going on. deposited $200 and played on friends acct/made $200 from there so started with $400 and never looked back.

[vetiver]

Played extremely underrolled at 500NL then 1000NL @ pitbullpoker (ever heard of it?), was ok because people were 10x worse than I was, ran it up to 15k over three months and used some of it for FTP roll.

[zaephyr]

Got 50$ on pary last august and played 0.5/1 limit there. Bonus whored a lot. Had huge losing week at the end of february @3/6limit.

I cashed out pretty much all my bankroll and started learning NL10 on party with 300$ roll in march, moved quickly to nl25 where i tilted like [censored] and i think im lifetime looser there.
Moved to nl50 a bit underrolled in the middle of april and crushed it. In the middle of may a had 30bi for nl100 after that i took a lot of unsuccesfull , tilty and spewy shots on nl200.
Had 25+bi downer this month at nl100 so i cashed out large chunk of my bankroll about 2 weeks ago and left about 1500 online. ATM im 11,5ptbb winner at nl50 over 22k hands.

yey me.

[clowntable]

Oh yeah 600$ on FTP a couple of month ago 25NL->50NL->100NL now at 4k or so.

[Mjafish]

I do a lot of cashing out and rebuilding, so my current roll was built from about 2500 on Stars in August or September playing 100NL.. I am now playing 200NL with about 11k, cashing some out along the way.

[Quester]

For those saying it is possible to grind out a living at 1/2, what do you consider to be "a living?" 50k a year? 100k a year? I'd love to hear what those who are actually doing this right now are making.

[dirtylobster]

50k a year should be piece a cake for a solid NL200 winner. I'll let you know when I've played pro for a year.

[dersl]

Got $50 free from Pokerstrategy. Blew that money playing $3 SnGs w/ 20% rake. Got like $5 a few months later for free, started playing NL5 (whole roll at a table ldo) and moved up to NL100 where I'm atm with a solid brm.

[Kimpan]

won $2 on a freeroll, went busto on microlimits (fixed limit).
Won another $3-4, grinded microlimits, never looked back.