Who am I?
I’m learning how to play poker and trying to learn to play better. This is where I am collecting thoughts, noting events, and tracking my bankroll, playing levels and emotional reactions.
How/When did I start? I became interested in poker in late spring or so of 2006. By the summer, I was building a play money bankroll online. In November, I won a little real money on some freerolls on a small site, and then between Christmas of 2006 and New Years I finally made the plunge and deposited $50 from a birthday gift on one of the major poker playing sites.
To date, that $50 is the only deposit of non-poker-earned money. I’ve actually cashed $15 or so back out during a transfer from one site to another, so my net investment is less. I’ve bought some poker software and 3 books, but even at that my total bankroll during the summer/fall of 2007 stood at $400, so poker is a self-funding hobby.
Where did this blog originate? This blog began as an email that I sent over and over to myself so I could keep adding to the entries. After losing a few entries because I lost the drafts when I didn’t send them right away I decided to move this to a blog. Every entry in this blog will be entered with the intention of either writing a thought or situation down so that I don’t forget it, or for mulling it over to try to develop more clarification in my own mind.
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Beyond that, I am married, with kids, have a job that keeps me in an office, and a few other hobbies/passions, none of which will get any coverage within the pages of this blog unless there is a connection to poker in some manner.
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I should mention that I have
- played as a short stacker,
- played projects of Sit and Goes,
- played a lot of freerolls,
- played multitable full ring games,
- built bankrolls from freerolls and cashed out,
- played some PLO and Stud,
- played play money
and I mention these different aspects of poker at various times. But unless the post specifically refers to one aspect or another, most posts probably refer to full buy in ring cash games or maybe both cash and tournaments. I think some readers mistakenly assume because I mention short stacking or sit and goes and that’s what they play, they assume that that’s my main game, but by far most of my poker to date has been played at 9 player real money cash tables while buying in for the maximum.
