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lachlan Australia. Sep 01 2007 15:43. Posts 6991

Ok, here's the history of my poker career.

August 2006: Downloaded an episode of the WSOP 2004 final table, where some lady won it against Eric Seidel. I found it really entertaining and went on to watch a few more episodes where Raymer won the WSOP. Didn't do much else to do with poker though.

Jan 2007: Played poker at a friends house, $10 buy in, for about 5 days in a row during holidays. Ended up with about $50 profit.

February 2007: Downloaded pacific poker, and played a bit on the free money tables. Was ok, didn't get addicted or anything.

March 2007: Started getting into starcraft, pretty late bloomer but it fascinated me. Browsed teamliquid a bit.

May 2007: Saw some li<x>nk to liquidpoker.net, had a look around. Didn't really interest me, didn't understand what it was.

June 2007: Downloaded Poker Stars, and played a bit more on the playmoney tournaments. Thought I was ok at it, seemed to win pretty often.

July 2007: Read a bit more on liquid poker one time when i was bored, and it was amazing to see all these people, such as rekrul, a former starcraft pla<x>yer, winning a WSOP ti<x>tle and stuff. I deposited $30 on party poker, lost it within a few days.

Mid August 2007: Went to a casino, really wanted to try live poker. Bought in for $100 (AUD) and lost it all.

I was pretty drunk and held AJ suited. Flop came out KJT, everoyne bet so i just limped in. Didn't realise it was costing me $5-$10 everytime i limped. Before long i was all-in and miserable that i'd called it.

Turn came a Ten, River came another Ten. At this point i thought i only had a pair of jacks, whereas i actually had a fullhouse, ten's full of jacks.

My mate who is playing next to me turns over AQ, a straight. I just throw my cards into the muck thinking i'm beat. The idiot down the table turns over Jx, same hand i had, and wins a huge pot. Felt like shit for the next week or so, probably not drinking again if i ever play live.

Late August: Have one more try at online poker. I deposit another $30 on partypoker, and $10 on pokerstars. Also get PokerTracker working and try to play really well etc etc.

So after about 10 days of playing on both accounts, things are going pretty well.

Have gone from $25USD --> $60 on PP and $10 to $30 on PS.

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So hopefully i'll just keep this up and try and make my way up to 0.02/0.05c limits soon enough.

Does anyone know what i should have before i make this jump? I read someone said $250...

Anyway wish me luck? ^_^

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Last edit: 01/09/2007 15:44

TianYuan This user is a quality poster

Korea (South). Sep 01 2007 15:59. Posts 6817

100$ seems fine for 0.02/0.05

At least if you buyin for 5$ (which is 100 bb). 20-25 buyins for a level is fine at the lower levels :o

When I started out I played 1cent/2cent buying in for 2$ until I had 125$ (cause I was doing some really strict bankroll management) then I started buying in for 5 at the 2cent5cent tables until I had 250 when I moved up to 5cent/10cent and so on.

Good luck =]

Hm.. Off-suite socks..

Last edit: 01/09/2007 16:21

Verbloten Australia. Sep 01 2007 16:33. Posts 1889

are you aussie too?

There seems to be heaps of aussies on this site nowadays - i'm going to write to Meat or Naz again and see what i can do about getting a southern hemisphere timezone weekly lp.net tourney going - it's bullshit the current one starts at like 5am on a Monday morning...

Verbloten Australia. Sep 01 2007 16:34. Posts 1889

oh and because i like aussie poker players and want to encourage wanton gambling I will pay for your buyin if I can get one going!

lachlan Australia. Sep 01 2007 16:43. Posts 6991

haha yep, im from brisbane. yeah its annoying how its so early in our timezone, still gotta get a little more $ though before i can consider entering, but if ur paying my buyin, wow definitely! :D

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NeillyJQ United States. Sep 01 2007 21:12. Posts 8947

Play at .01/.02 until you hit atleast $300, then move up to .02/.05.

Its good to practice GOOD bankroll management at the lowest levels so it becomes a good habit for later levels.

Most of all, you want to learn how to play all flops well at the pennie tables, so when you move up to the higher microstakes, and then low stakes you can win easily instead of struggling.

Spend all your time for the next months learning to win! Learn to make very good folds too! And build all your instincts. If you do this well, you will run up the limits within a year and you will do things correctly.

Just remember you need to be god damn sure about their tendencies. -Artanis11 http://www.pocketfives.com/profiles/neillyaa/