[x] checked everytime i floppped a set regardless of preflop action or board texture

Astronomical win

i played sng's, lol

well played

Started playing in fall of 2004, my last semester of college. Would play $10-20 live sng's with my buddies...won it once and thought I was King Kong. Went out that night to a bar and bumped into another guy who I'd later become great friends with . Somehow we got to talking about poker and it just so happened he was a big cash game player and was about to go to a home game after the bar.

We proceed to get absolutely hammered at the bar, and roll to the home game at about 2am. Its a 2/5 NL with a $200 min buy-in, no max. Of course I buy in for the minimum like a total noob. Keep in mind that I have played maybe 3 times ever, and never played a cash game before and have absolutely no clue what I am doing, and I'm wasted.

I end up booking a $700 dollar win. Raising preflop $25 with A hi every time. Checking the nuts all the way down until I min-raise the river. Calling with 9 hi on the turn because I "didn't think he had it" and spiking a 9 on the river to take down someone's 88. Looking back I am lucky I didnt get my ass kicked the way I was playing. Shockingly, the guy running the game invited me back to play anytime I wanted.

Next day I go to Barnes and Noble and buy Play Poker Like the Pros (this is painfully embarrassing to tell at times). Read that and realized that strong starting hands are important, vowed to play only "top 10 hands" and all that garbage.

Go to the same home game two nights later and book a $900 win. This time I wasn't luckboxing, was just playing super tight and all the guys paid me off because of my ******ed play two nights prior.

Over the next couple weeks I play 3 more times and win 2/3 nights. At this point I have been playing NLHE for less than a month and I have already made close to $3,000.

It's been said before that the worst thing you can do as a poker player is start off by winning. Of course I lost all the $ back over the next few months, but in the process learned how to actually play winning poker.

Sorry post was a bit long but my poker story is a bit different considering I started playing way out of my skill level, bankroll, etc...and somehow it still worked out overall.

DUCY?

Of course I see why now.

Watched the party 200NL (50BB) game in awe that people could win/lose like $200 on a single hand.

I downloaded DB's Super System from a torrent-site (naugthy me, I know...) and read it, eager to improve my pathetic game (still is, btw.)

When I was done, I thought everything seemed so stupid that I thought that someone had taken the original book by Doyle and modifed it, then planted it on the internet in order to create donks, who mistakenly thought that a loose style like that could be profitable...

Edit: I'm sorry, Doyle! I feel bad for stealing your book off the internet. If it is any consolation, I will never be good at poker.

When first started i berated a guy for hitting his flush on the river - because he had hit his 4/1 shot - i thought it was 4/1 because there are 4 suits and he hit the one he needed

shoplifted all three HoH books. if i see action dan live, i'm gonna ship him a $50 for karma reasons.

stars account from 200 to 2k twice. First time resulted in a 62" TV that I put in my college dorm room, second time resulted in me losing it all at 5/10

I always played J6o/J6s because it always flopped two pair or better.

i distinctly remember chk/raising in a spot bc i didnt want to play passively and for no other reason.

stars account from 2k to 50k back down to 0

• made money
• bought a tonne of poker books
• didn't read any of them

When I first started playing poker I was tighter than a nuns ****. Forgive me if this language is deemed offensive, I'm a newbie.

Apparently it was, you get the idea

About a year and half ago, I built up play money roll on aol.com from 500 ---> 500k in the cash games. After rat-holing the low stakes game up to 15k, I moved up to the mid-stakes games (4k buy-in) and played ridiculously tight and fancy because I thought people would be able to read my hand better if I played straight-forwardly and would not play as bad as the low stakes guys. This is when i also looked at the 2k buy-in sit-n-go tournaments as really high stakes and cool. I remember thinking how awesome it would be to have the money to play in one of these because I was obsessed with tournament poker at the time. After I took 2 shots in those and lost, I went into "re-building mode", but glad I got a taste of tournament poker (LOL). I also remembering feeling frustrated when I moved up to the 20k buy-in games and having to move back down in order to recover. Finally I managed to build up to a 100k+ roll and never looked back. I looked at my stats page, and saw that I did all of this in less than 10k hands, which I remember thinking was a lot at the time and "I have to cut back on playing poker!", but that may have also been because I was one-tabling and aol.com has really slow software.

I remember one thought that I had was thinking that betting large amounts was stupid. One, people will never call large bets if you do have a hand. And also, if you are bluffing, you only win like 1/4 the amount compared to the amount you lose if your bluff doesn't work!! (since the pot consists of half your money).

Then, I graduated to the $100 play money MTTs they had(3000+ people would register). I felt really nervous and excited and definitely did not want to make a fool of myself cause this stuff was serious business. I played about 400 of these total very regiously, and the highest I cashed was 11th, 27th, and some others. When I finished 11th, I remember i had about 10BB. I had AQo, I raised to 4x after some guy limped (I remember not shoving because I wanted to get some money from inferior hands and do a stop-and-go). Guy called, flop came... Q98r, I pushed and villain called with JTo. GG me. I was so mad at myself for not pushing preflop and also couldn't believe how he could call 4BB with JTo. I would also tell one of my friends at school how I did in the WSOP Main event qualifier tourneys they had. Man...sad life I had.

Clapped with glee whenever I was dealt AA

only played AA KK QQ AKs for 5 hours at 5-10 limit holdem and still made $200.

I had a game on the back porch and would sometimes go eat dinner inside or something, while the game kept going. Then I found out most of the guys were stealing money out of the bank and losing most of it back to me but, they were making a profit most of the time. One guy, I was told, was stealing the most. So, when I outted him he was upset.



He told his Mom and she called my Mom and complained about her poor kid being subjected to the ills of poker, my Mom questioned her about the ills of stealing money (which he often did out of his Moms purse) and it broke up the game. We were about 10 years old. But, for a while one summer I was the coolest kid in town.

-Top was not foldable
-Open ended straights.....I always called any bet
-Thought anything sooooooted was playable
-Did not know what a continuation bet was....lost a lot there

Me and my friends used to play tons of play money tournaments on pokerpages.com and we'd all sweat each other if one of us made the final table

slow played way too much...lets see, so many bad thing...c/r in spots that made no sense. C-bet way too much. called everytime i made a gutshot lol... i still suck but w.e