Introduction..

I have played poker since February 2006. I started playing on the play money section on Pacific Poker, after hearing about my friends success. After learning the ABC of poker, i deposited about $30, and took it up to just over $100 on cash tables only. I cashed this out as i got bored of the Pacific site. The next site i decided to play on was William Hill (Crpto?). I put about £10 on the site. I won a couple of small sit and go tournaments. By end of June, i had won about £400 worth on multi tournaments, with a couple of first places in a £2.25, and a £5.50 multi included in that. I then cashed most of this out, and lost the rest, and explored a new poker site, party poker. I play on this from July to August, and finished about even, so i was still in a reasonable amount of profit for a new player.

When i went back to university i just decided to play a small amount on William Hill again, and a site with freerolls on, which my friend (moorman1) told me about.. - FullOnPoker. They had a daily dishout each evening, and i won a couple of these and just used this money to muck around with and eventually lost it each time. I was perhaps about £50 down from September to December.

Moorman then told me to play on Victor Chandler (student poker), which i did. They had many freerolls each week for students at university. I then won two of these in my second week of trying, each for $200. Before this, i also won a 700 player 60c buyin torno, haha, for a nice $90 at the time..

These wins gave me a bit more confidence, and gained about another $400-500 on multis on VC. My university housemate, Henry (bragunn) then wanted to make a joint account so we could share the buy in and play in higher stake multis. This turned out to be a good move. We deposited about $50 each accross a couple of poker sites..which we lost. We then took a more go at it, but put about $50 between us on VC. We made a schedule of the Friday tournos on the old network to take up all of the $50, a few low stake buy ins, and one large buy in.

It didnt start too well, and were just left in the 3.5K gtd tourno. Think it was a $24 buyin, with about 220 runners. The internet went down for 30 mins (Tiscali), so we were quite pissed off, and we returned to a hand of AK soooooted, and a raise and a caller before us i think, and we shoved, and ended up tripling up. We ended up taking the tourno down for about $1.8K ($900 each). Not bad. We took out this, and lost the original deposit. We then put the min deposit $50 on Pokerstars between us, and on our last $22, we wented one of their 180 player sngs. Down to the last couple, i got moorman to help, and heads up, there was a hand a can remember...

We had KJ, he had QQ, i raised, he re raised, i called...flop A J X. He bet, and moorman told me to fold, i said fck it, im shoving, i shoved, he folded QQ..he thought i had the ace, and then took it down for $1080.

I then hit a barren spell, and probably lost about $300 over the next 3 months, and did shit in the semi final of the VC student qualifier, and missed out on a top 18 place. I then watched videos on pokerxfactor courtesy of moorman to help my game. I then took a month off for exams, and on mine and henrys joint account, we entered a sunday freeroll on full on, prizepool of $250. I think this was $75 for first place, but we ended up getting third for $20 i think. I was going to bed and Henry decided to play in a $5 "maui" sit and go, which he won...and shouted out, but wasnt too bothered. He then started another, and wanted me to help, so i did. We won the second one, and the third. If you win five in a row, you win the jackpot (min $15K, increasing at $3.5k each it is not won).

We then decided to enter two at once. We won one, when the other was down to heads up..and the guy shoved when we had nut flush, on the turn. He had two pair...him hitting a full house on the river i am not sure what would have happened. Luckily he did not. Shame the jackpot was only $15k at the time...

Uni finished, and me and Henry put down $700 between us of this money, after cashing out the rest. We put it on pokerstars (bad move). Had an incredible run of being screwed over. We went down to about $100, and Henry came about 5th in a 2400 player multi for about $700 to take us to about $1000. We then lost this but continiously getting screwed over, and perhaps some tiliting. I also won a million seat, which i cashed out and also lost. It is for this reason i am making a blog - need to improve my poker bankroll management, as i have many times taken $10-15 to $150-200 and then lost it. I did however, come joint first in a deal on partypoker for $950 each in a $22 multi, and cashed out around $300 more on VC/fullon. But, i need to improve my bankroll management, and stop tilting, as i could have won a lot more, and i think a blog is a good way to do this..

I do not have that much time to play as im working full time as an auditor in luxembourg, but i hope to generate a little amount of income from poker, and cos it is fun. I do not have internet where i am at the moment, but when i do i will update this blog everyday i play. I have started with $30 on pokerstars (ahh). I have built this up to about $140 so far just on small sit and gos so far, and will see how far it goes..

A rule i will set myself - no buyins greater than $15 until/if bankroll surpasses $500.

My aim - $3500 balance on pokerstars account. I have not set a time scale yet, as i do not know how much i will be playing with work, and exams..Wish me luck, i will need it, as it is jokerstars..