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Originally Posted by Schwatt
How did you get into poker?
How long have you been playing?
A brief summary of moving up stakes (# hands at each limit/months/what sites, etc)
I got into poker through ESPN, and me and like 8 or 9 friends started playing like once a week for 5 dollar buyin games for a while. note that i had never watched a hand of poker until i did so with a couple friends (didnt have cable tv, or much interest to be honest). flash forward a couple months, and my one friend tells me theres a much better way to play internet poker than at yahoo games, and its pokerstars, and you can play FOR FREE! wahoo, and i was a play money specialist, and it probably looked sad from the outside but whatevs it was all for fun. eventually, my one friend got another kid who had a credit card to put 50 bucks on his account, of which i bought 20 dollars from, and i built that original roll to about $1600, of which 600 was from 5 and 10 dollar 9man sitngos, and about a grand was from a luckbox tourney score. the news spread like wildfire throughout school, and i started selling pokerstars money at 110% of the price to people in my highschool (i even sold about 200 dollars to my gym teacher) and i was seriously like a drug dealer with it, its pretty hilarious. i went bust a few times because a couple times i would go on tilt and cash out to 100 dollars, but ive never been in the red from poker in my life. so i guess ive been playing since sophomore year of high school (so over 4 years now), but i consider myself to have been playing poker seriously for less than a year. the rest of high school, and through all of freshman year of college, i played very sparingly, with no desire to get better because i was having fun and winning what i thought was good money.
i turned to cash games in late august of last year and i havent looked back since. i played like 150k hands of 100nl, and by like sept/oct i was at 200nl. i played basically breakeven poker (winrate of like 1.1ptbb) of probably like 300k hands before moving up on a whim in december of last year, when i had my best month ive ever had winning like 34k. ive been at midstakes ever since, and as of late ive hardly been playing 2/4, about 90-95 percent of my hands have been at 3/6 and 5/10. im not quite sure howmany midstakes hands ive logged, its probably in excess of 700k
ive played 99.9% of my hands at pokerstars