feed from balloonfight blog 2008-09-05T18:18:31+01:00 text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 balloonfight http://balloonfight.liquidpoker.net Hmm, well I was thinking of doing a blog a while back, but I decided to wait a while. Anyway here's my poker story so far. I started playing in February of this year. I of course knew how to play before then but that was about it. I started studying the game pretty intensely, and after a week of reading a couple of books, a friend from TL gave me $5 on stars and I was off. I started at .02/.04 limit (IE hell). I played some random freeroll and added and extra $3 to my slick $5 roll. I was at $8 and it felt good. fanta[rn] then gave me $10 so I was at $18. I stayed there for a long while basically breaking even at limit for a week or so. I then decided that I would just go to NL after having a fairly decent amount of hands under my belt. At .01/.02 I slowly clawed and climbed my way through building my miniscule roll. When I reached $40ish I got a the SNG bug after reading plenty of sng articles. I played a fair amount of $1 + .20 sngs, finally decided that I didn't really enjoy sngs and went back to cash. Then after another couple weeks of playing I'm where I am right now, $85. My goal is to get to $120 before June 10, when I'll move up to nl5 and keep on grinding. Anyway hopefully I'll keep on slowly moving up and enjoying this game. Shoutouts to all of the LP irc regulars, including fanta[rn], dronebabo, fred, greenbbt, artanis, and rob. Also thanks Hot_bid for the original $5er.