So i've decided i want to fool around with poker and see how far i can take it, and if i can take it far enough to use it as a source of income worldwide, no matter where i am. I've always thought of my self as an above average player and i love to gamble.
I was introduced to poker in the summer of 2005 by my friends much older room mate, he was also the first person to bring me to a "poker house" for a $60 dollar 2 table SNG (this was all new for me, i felt very intimidated everyone was at least 27+ , i was only 18) i was short stack in the final table, went All in with Ace-rag,lost.
Every since then i've been playing friendly home games with friends, some of them played online and introduced me to that. I deposited 50 and lost it all in two days playing .25/.50 way out of my range game wise and bankroll. After that i final tabled a 2500 man Free roll for 9th place ($100) but i lost it all again in .25/.50, i thought it was rigged and quit lol decided to continue with the home games.
Recently i met a long time friend of mine from Starcraft Brood War in real life, turns out he plays online for a living and is making roughly 100k a year. (WOW!)I was also aware a lot of ex-starcraft players had turned to poker and where killing it. Elky, Nazgul, Rekrul. Could there be some sort of similarity between Starcraft and Poker? (i heard about this site from teamliquid.net)
So my Starcraft friend [CF]Canibus , backed me for 50 bucks for the start of my poker career. Went up to 70 after some solid play, but foolishly decided to play drunk coming home from the club (learned i should only play poker sober now, no weed or alcohol) now i'm sitting on 63.
Last night i final tabled a 360 man $2 dollar tourney (what is this telling me ? I've only played about 4 tourney's in my poker career and final tabled two of them, this is making me want to pursue MTT play over Ring)I have to thank Scott Fischman and his book "ONLINE ACE" which I has given me a general strategy of how to play in each of the stages of MTT's and SNG's.
Heres how i lost at the final table.
Submitted by : 100Large
Full Tilt Poker Game #5315002078: $2 + $0.25 Tournament (40300295), Table 5 - 2500/5000 Ante 600 - No Limit Hold'em - 2:58:58 ET - 2008/02/19
Seat 1: Steelie Hunter (131,540)
Seat 3: Hero (12,443)
Seat 4: Superfito (157,913)
Seat 5: megadragon (70,624)
Seat 6: gcadger (44,146)
Seat 7: nikyerus (40,536)
Seat 8: Irish Nickels (46,798)
Steelie Hunter antes 600
Hero antes 600
Superfito antes 600
megadragon antes 600
gcadger antes 600
nikyerus antes 600
Irish Nickels antes 600
Superfito posts the small blind of 2,500
megadragon posts the big blind of 5,000
The button is in seat #3
Holecards(Odds)
Dealt to Hero  
gcadger folds
nikyerus folds
Irish Nickels has 15 seconds left to act
Irish Nickels folds
Steelie Hunter folds
Hero raises to 11,843, and is all in
Superfito folds
megadragon has 15 seconds left to act
megadragon calls 6,843
Hero shows
megadragon shows  
Flop(Odds) (Pot : $30,386.00)
  
Turn(Odds) (Pot : $30,386.00)
River (Pot : $30,386.00)
Hero shows Ace King high
megadragon shows two pair, Sevens and Fours
megadragon wins the pot (30,386) with two pair, Sevens and Fours
Hero stands up
Summary
Total pot 30,386 | Rake 0
Board:
Seat 1: Steelie Hunter folded before the Flop
Seat 3: Hero (button) showed and lost with Ace King high
Seat 4: Superfito (small blind) folded before the Flop
Seat 5: megadragon (big blind) showed and won (30,386) with two pair, Sevens and Fours
Seat 6: gcadger folded before the Flop
Seat 7: nikyerus folded before the Flop
Seat 8: Irish Nickels folded before the Flop
I went to sleep satisfied after.
So here i am, just got home from school and a full night of poker ahead of me, i will post how i did later tonight. I really wanna post graphs and hands like some of the other people have done on there blogs, how do i do that?
P.S. What sort of poker programs should i be using to aid me?
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